- Title Information
- Title
- Lillian Shoushan Berberian, class of 1957
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Lillian Shoushan Berberian Klanian, class of 1957
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Berberian, Lillian Shoushan
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Gates, Michael
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1988-05-12
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- This interview concentrates on Lillian's family life and her experiences as a
commuter student. She explains that her parents expected her to live at home while she
attended Pembroke, and she describes her days on campus as "an outsider." She reminisces
about life-long friendships with other city girls (they had celebrated their 30th reunion
together shortly before this interview). Lillian discusses Brown's fraternities and the
changes that have taken place to the campus with the interviewer, Michael Gates '91. This
leads to a conversation about her Armenian parents, their history, language, and behavioral
expectations, and also about the interviewer's Polish family. Lillian participated in
International Club and volunteered at Nickerson House. She recounts her early teaching career,
meeting her husband through the Armenian community, choosing to stay at home with her
children, and returning to teaching in 1979 as a substitute. She and Michael end the interview
by addressing three topics: the rigor of their college experience, minority students, and,
finally, Lillian's daughter's impression of Brown as she awaited acceptance.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1957
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Lillian Shoushan
Berberian Klainian was born in Providence in 1935 to Agavne and Misak Berberian, Armenian
natives who were proprietors of several small neighborhood businesses, including a grocery
store and theatre. Lillian's mother had immigrated with her parents; her father's died in a
massacre in Turkey. She describes her neighborhood as an ethnic neighborhood. Lillian taught
school after graduating from Brown in 1957 with an AB in Sociology.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1950s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Children
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- City Girls
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Family
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Gender Expectations
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Marriage
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Minority Students
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Physical Education
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Race Relations
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)