- Title Information
- Title
- Helen Hoff, class of 1923
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Helen Hoff Peterson, class of 1923
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Hoff, Helen
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Baker, Dorcy
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1987-10-27
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- Helen Hoff Peterson begins her interview by discussing her childhood education in
New Jersey and her family background. She explains that a high school superintendent convinced
her to apply to Pembroke, making her the first person in her town to attend college. She
discusses her experiences in various academic departments and her extracurricular involvement,
which centered around the Christian Association. After an unhappy stint teaching, she went on
to work for the Young Women's Christian Association. Helen describes her favorite teachers at
Pembroke as well as her graduate studies at Ohio State University.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1923
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Helen Hoff Peterson
grew up in a small town between New Brunswick and Princeton, New Jersey. She was the eldest of
ten children and came from an old New Jersey agricultural family. She attended elementary
school in a one-room schoolhouse and then commuted by train to high school, where the school
superintendent convinced her to apply to college. She began Pembroke in 1919, the first from
her town to go to college. At Pembroke College, she studied European History. After marrying
in 1928, she obtained her Master's in American History from Ohio State University.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1920s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Family
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Great Depression
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Professors
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Student Activities
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)