Description
- Abstract:
- In this interview, Sarah Mazick Saklad describes working in Providence as a teenager; her desire to attend medical school, against the wishes of her mother; and her memories of World War I, including learning to knit, Armistice Day celebrations, and the influenza epidemic of 1918. She also discusses the lack of financial aid for female students, effects of the Great Depression, and her pre-med coursework at Brown. She remembers Lillian Gilbreth's visit to Chapel, an exchange she had with Dr. J. Walter Wilson, and her affection for Dean Morriss. The end of this interview focuses largely on women in medicine and Saklad's own training and career.
- Notes:
- Class year: 1928
- Biographical note: Sarah Mazick Saklad was born on January 20, 1908 to Rebecca (Resnick) and Max Mazick, both Russian immigrants. She was raised in Providence, RI and attended Classical High School. Her father died when she was 15, and Sarah entered Brown with a three-year scholarship, taking extra courses so that she could graduate. She earned her MD from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1932, and returned to Providence to practice as a psychiatrist. She was the wife of Dr. Elihu Saklad, with whom she had two sons, Mark and James, and a daughter, Brina. She died in 2009 at age 101.
Citation
"Sarah Gertrude Mazick, class of 1928"
(1982).
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:583351/
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Has Parts:
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Susan Gertrude Mazick, class of 1928 Part 1
- Type: Audio
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Susan Gertrude Mazick, class of 1928 Part 1
- Type: Stream
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Susan Gertrude Mazick, class of 1928 Part 2
- Type: Audio
- Order: 2
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Susan Gertrude Mazick, class of 1928 Part 2
- Type: Stream
- Order: 2
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Susan Gertrude Mazick, class of 1928
- Type: Pdf
- Order: 3
Collection:
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Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
This collection contains oral history interviews with alumnae of Brown University, which admitted its first women students in 1891. The Women's College at Brown was renamed Pembroke College in 1928, and in 1971, Pembroke College merged with the Men's College …...