Susan Graber, class of 1971 Susan Graber Slusky, class of 1971 Graber, Susan interviewee Kroll, Janet interviewer mixed material 1985-11-08 eng 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. 1971 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. 1970s Academics Activism Administration Dormitories Employment Gender Expectations Pembroke-Brown Merger Professors Sexism Social Life Vietnam War oral histories (literary works)