- Title Information
- Title
- Dorothy Allen Hill, class of 1930
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Dorothy Allen Hilll, class of 1930
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Hill, Dorothy Allen
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Conover, Elizabeth
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1982-12-09
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- In this interview, Dorothy Allen Hill starts by discussing her aunt, Mary Hill who
graduated from Pembroke in 1904 and her father's early insistence that she attend
Pembroke. She recalls mandatory chapel; making friends; smoking cigarettes on campus;
mentorship by senior class members; teas; working part-time at a local department store; Dean
Morriss; President Barbour; the gym requirement; fashion; dormitory rooms; campus traditions;
her favorite professors; and the definition of "a lady." She states that at Pembroke, everyone
was familiar, had common ambitions, and there was a lack of hostility between dorm and city
girls. She recalls that education was a privilege; everyone took it seriously. Still, there
was nothing vocational about her coursework and she thought she was lucky to find work as a
teacher during the Depression. She discusses the merger; and her regrets at the loss of
Pembroke\u2019s identity.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="class year")
- 1930
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Dorothy Allen Hill
received her both a Bachelor's degree (1930) and a Master\u2019s degree (1958) in English
from Brown University. She taught English at East Providence High School, then worked at Brown
University's John Hay Library from 1965-1974. She volunteered at the Providence Athenaeum
and was active in the Handicraft Club of Providence. She lived in Rumford, RI for many years,
and summered in Charlestown, RI. She died April 1, 2005.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1930s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics and Coursework
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- City Girls
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Clothing and Fashion
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Gender Expectations
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Great Depression
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Physical Education
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Religion
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Social Life
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)