Dorothy Myrtle Kay Fishbein, Class of 1945: interview Side 1

Overview

Year:: 1988
Contributor:: Kay Fishbein, Dorothy Myrtle, 1921- (interviewee); Herchner, Leigh E. (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: College teachers; Occupations; World War, 1939-1945
Extent:: 1 mp3; 32:13

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Abstract:: Interview with Dorothy Kay Fishbein, class of 1945, conducted on May 9, 1988 by Leigh Hercher, class of 1991, at Kays home in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. In this segment of the interview, Kay describes her early life in Boston; how she came to be a student at Pembroke after beginning her college education at Simmons College; working in the childrens goods store run by her family while attending Pembroke as a day student; her courses and professors at Pembroke; and the effects of World War II on campus and American culture more generally.

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"Dorothy Myrtle Kay Fishbein, Class of 1945: interview Side 1 " (1988). Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:581238/

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Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

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 …
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