- Title Information
- Title
- Teresa Elizabeth Gagnon, class of 1939
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Teresa Elizabeth Gagnon Mellone, class of 1939
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Gagnon, Teresa Elizabeth
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Lamoree, Karen
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1988-11-29
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- Teresa Gagnon Mellone begins this interview by discussing her early experiences at
Pembroke, including freshman orientation week and the embarrasing experience of taking posture
photographs. In Part 1, she also talks about the academic curriculum at Pembroke, her passion
for languages, and the strict physical education requirement. In Part 2, she talks about the
interactions between men and women, dress codes and rules on campus, dorm girls vs. city
girls, her passion for teaching, and the positive female influences found in college. In Part
3, Teresa discusses Pembroke traditions like Ivy Day and May Day, life in Germany with husband
and family, and her teaching career abroad. She continues to talk about teaching in Germany in
Part 4. In Part 5, she remembers teaching elementary school and getting her Masters in the US
upon her return from Europe. In Part 6, Teresa shares her opinion on the state of
children's education at the time of the interview and then discusses her involvement as an
alumna. She concludes the interview by speaking of her children and
grandchildren.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1939
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Teresa Elizabeth
Gagnon was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, to a French father and an Italian mother.
She graduated from Pembroke College in 1939, and returned to Brown to pursue a Master's
in 1958, which she earned in 1962. Between her degrees, Teresa spent many years
teaching elementary school in Germany, while her husband was stationed there with the army.
After her return to the United States, she devoted the rest of her career to teaching at
Primrose Hill School in Barrington, Rhode Island.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1930s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- City Girls
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Family
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Physical Education
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Posture Pictures
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Travel
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)