Title Information
Title
Sarah Gertrude Mazick, class of 1928
Title Information: Alternative (displayLabel="Pembroke title")
Title
Sarah Gertrude Mazick Saklad, class of 1928
Name: Personal
Name Part
Mazick, Sarah Gertrude
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
interviewee
Name: Personal
Name Part
Livingston, Sandra
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
interviewer
Type of Resource
mixed material
Origin Information
Date Created (keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
1982-04-12
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
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.
Note: biographical/historical (displayLabel="Class year")
1928
Note: biographical/historical (displayLabel="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.
Subject (Local)
Topic
1920s
Subject (Local)
Topic
Academics
Subject (Local)
Topic
City Girls
Subject (Local)
Topic
Employment
Subject (Local)
Topic
Great Depression
Subject (Local)
Topic
World War I
Genre (aat) (authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
oral histories (literary works)