Title Information
Title
Susan Graber, class of 1971
Title Information: Alternative (displayLabel="Pembroke title")
Title
Susan Graber Slusky, class of 1971
Name: Personal
Name Part
Graber, Susan
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
interviewee
Name: Personal
Name Part
Kroll, Janet
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
interviewer
Type of Resource
mixed material
Origin Information
Date Created (keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
1985-11-08
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Abstract
In this interview Susan Graber Slusky discusses her family and the role it played in shaping her academic life. She talks about the reasons she chose Pembroke College and the challenges of being a woman in physics. Susan discusses the popular stereotypes of Pembroke women; the Student Strike during the Vietnam War; the Student Walkout of 1968; the New Curriculum; the Brown/Pembroke merger; working motherhood; and being a woman in a predominately male field.
Note: biographical/historical (displayLabel="Class year")
1971
Note: biographical/historical (displayLabel="Biographical note")
Susan grew up in a suburb on Long Island, New York with her parents and older brother. Knowing she wanted to major in science, she chose Pembroke College, as a coordinate college that offered the benefits of a big university science education with the comfort and security of a small female college. Following Brown, she received a graduate degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in physics from Princeton. She worked at Bell Laboratory doing applied research and development. Susan is married and has three children.
Subject (Local)
Topic
1970s
Subject (Local)
Topic
Subject (Local)
Topic
Academics
Subject (Local)
Topic
Activism
Subject (Local)
Topic
Administration
Subject (Local)
Topic
Dormitories
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Topic
Employment
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Topic
Gender Expectations
Subject (Local)
Topic
Pembroke-Brown Merger
Subject (Local)
Topic
Professors
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Topic
Sexism
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Social Life
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Vietnam War
Genre (aat) (authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
oral histories (literary works)