- Title Information
- Title
- Zelda Fisher, class of 1936
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Zelda Fisher Gourse, class of 1936
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Fisher, Zelda
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Oster, Sasha
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1988-05-13
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- Zelda Fisher Gourse starts by describing her decision to enter Pembroke, Dean
Margaret Shove Morriss, and her favorite professors. She and the interviewer discuss travel
in Israel and Ms. Gourse's daughter, author Leslie Gourse; annual student events like
Sophomore Masque and Junior Prom; her older sister's decision to return to college; being
elected SGA President ("why not a Jewish girl?"); and other campus activities. Gourse then
describes her marriage and her career as a librarian at Bristol Community College. She ends
the interview with an account of the Elizabethan club and the Erasmians. Note: The interviewer
indicates that the tape failed to capture the final 10 minutes of the
interview
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1936
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Harva Zelda Fisher
Gourse, known by "Zelda," was born in Providence to Harry and Ida (Zurier) Fisher. Zelda's
father was a Russian émigré with a grammar school education who became a real estate developer
in Providence; her mother was an emigrant but schooled in the Providence schools. After
studying Economics at Brown, Zelda received her Master's in Library Science From URI in 1966.
She was the coordinator of library services at Bristol Community College in Fall River,
Mass., until her retirement in 1978.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1930s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Administration
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Children
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Fraternities
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Gender Expectations
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Great Depression
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Marriage
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Pembroke College Traditions
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Professors
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Religion
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Social Life
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Student Activities
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)