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Elsie Barbara Anderson, class of 1947

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Year:: 1988
Contributor:: Anderson, Elsie Barbara (interviewee); Gaudette, Jennifer H. (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1940s; Academics; Family; Pembroke College Traditions; Pembroke-Brown Merger; Professors; Social Life

Abstract:: Elsie Anderson Lewis discusses her family's Swedish origins as well as their American experiences. She describes her nursing education and training, including her scholarship, courses at Pembroke, Brown professors, and her Biology instructor Virginia Granger. Mrs. Lewis also discusses the differences between Brown men and Pembroke women, the advantages of attending a women's college, social life and campus activities, and Pembroke traditions. She describes her dismay about he Pembroke-Brown merger and relates her experiences as a working mother. Note: The audio for this interview is occasionally of poor quality. Please also refer to the transcript.
Notes:: Class year: 1947; Biographical note: Elsie Barbara Anderson Lewis was born in 1925 in Providence, RI to Frida Nisson Anderson, a cook, and Ossian Anderson, a machinist, both natives of Sweden. Her sister Doris Anderson Landau '49 also attended Pembroke College. Prior to matriculating at Pembroke, Elsie attended Aldrich High School in Warwick, RI, and the University of Rhode Island (1942-1943). At Pembroke, she studied nursing in a joint program with the Rhode Island Hospital School of Nursing (1943-1947), earning a bachelor's degree and professional diploma. In 1950, she married William J.

"Elsie Barbara Anderson, class of 1947" (1988). Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:582611/

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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