- Title Information
- Title
- Virginia Belle Macmillan, class of 1938
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Virginia Belle Macmillan Trescott, class of 1938
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Macmillan, Virginia Belle
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Conover, Elizabeth
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1982-11-25
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- This interview begins with descriptions of Virginia's childhood and family in
Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She recalls her years at Pembroke College, in particular: her role on
the Pembroke Record staff and as President of the Student Government Association; life as a
commuter student; attending college during the Depression; interactions with Brown faculty
members; and student activities, including formal dances, Ivy Day and Scut Week. Virginia also
discusses working at the John Hay Library after college; her job as a business reference
librarian at the Providence Public Library; marriage, motherhood, and returning to full time
work. In Part 2, Virginia briefly discusses her desire to live on campus while at Pembroke and
the pleasant atmosphere of the dorms. She also discusses the changing campus attitudes that
she saw while working at Brown during the 1960s, the rise of coeducation, and the benefits of
having a women's center at Brown today.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1938
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Virginia Belle
Macmillan Trescott was born in Pawtucket, RI in 1916. While a student at Pembroke College, she
served as President of the Student Government Association became a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Virginia earned an AB in Latin from Brown in 1938, summa cum laude. She pursued a long career
as an archivist, curator, and librarian, working first as a business and reference librarian
at the Providence Public Library and later as the long-time curator of the Abraham Lincoln
Collection at the John Hay Library.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1930s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Administration
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- City Girls
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dormitories
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Family
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Great Depression
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Student Activities
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- World War II
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)