- Title Information
- Title
- Ethel Mary Humphrey, class of 1928
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Ethel Mary Humphrey Anderson, class of 1929
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Humphrey, Ethel Mary
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Patchin, Oona
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1982-04-20
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- In Part 1 of her interview, Ethel Humphrey Anderson discusses the circumstances
that led her to attend Brown University; academics and student relationships with the deans;
her involvement in the Press Club and drama productions; coeducation; attitudes surrounding
the name change to Pembroke College; and social interactions between men and women, including
drinking during Prohibition. In Part 2, she talks about her smoking habits in the 1920s;
students who wished to get married; the one African American student she remembers; effects of
the Great Depression and the WPA; her marriage and family life; and the greater benefits of
her education. Note: the final six minutes of this interview have been damaged and are
virtually inaudible.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1929
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Ethel Humphrey
Anderson was born in Providence, RI on November 25, 1907 to John and Isabelle (Donahue)
Humphrey. She attended Classical High School and Pembroke College, graduating in 1929, Phi
Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. She later received a Master's degree in English from Brown. In
1933, she married George K. Anderson, a professor of English at Brown, and was president of
the Ladies of the Faculty. She was also active in the First Unitarian Church of Providence,
the League of Women Voters, Children's Friend, and several other
organizations.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1920s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Administration
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Great Depression
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Marriage
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Student Activities
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)