Carol Rita (Frenier) Dannenberg states that she was the one in her family who had big aspirations. She discusses her decision to attend Pembroke; dating life; student/professor relationships; her involvement with student government; the tension over curfews and Dean Pierrel; the lack of role models on campus; being involved in the Peace Corps during summer break; working in DC after graduation, meeting her husband; working as a teacher in Brookline; getting her graduate degree and opening an advertising agency in Boston with her husband. Dannenberg discusses at length a birth control scandal in 1965 that she was involved in and her relationship with the Brown Daily Herald and M. Charles Bakst, its editor.
Notes:
Class year: 1966
Biographical note: Carol Rita (Frenier) Dannenberg was born in Arlington, Massachusetts and attended public school with her three sisters and brother until she moved to Providence to attend Pembroke College. After concentrating in American Civilization and History, Dannenberg moved to Washington DC where she worked for the US Government in the Poverty Program. After three years, in DC she moved back to Boston where she taught high school social studies for eight years. She received a graduate degree from the Cambridge branch of Goddard College, where she developed a passion for film. At the time of the interview, she and her husband had been running an advertising agency together for about ten years.
This collection contains oral history interviews with alumnae of Brown University, which admitted its first women students in 1891. The Women's College at Brown was renamed Pembroke College in 1928, and in 1971, Pembroke College merged with the Men's College …
