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Rose Beatrice Miller, class of 1931

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Year:: 1982
Contributor:: Miller, Rose Beatrice (interviewee); Rothman, Rebecca G. (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1930s; Academics; Administration; Birth Control; City Girls; Employment; Great Depression; Professors

Abstract:: In this interview, Rose Miller Roitman discusses the reasons she attended college; her graduate studies and career in bacteriology; Deans Morriss and Mooar; Magel Wilder, her sole female professor at Brown; sex and dating; attending Pembroke as a "city girl"; life during the Depression; and her work with Planned Parenthood.
Notes:: Class year: 1931; Biographical note: Rose Beatrice Miller Roitman was born in 1909 in Central Falls, Rhode Island. She earned her AB magna cum laude in 1931 and her AM in 1932. Rose worked as a bacteriologist for the State of New York and for Truesdale Hospital in Fall River, Massachusetts. She was the first laboratory volunteer at Rhode Island Hospital and a volunteer at Planned Parenthood. With her husband, Aaron Roitman '30, Rose had one son, James, and two daughters, Deborah and Barbara. She died on July 8, 1991

"Rose Beatrice Miller, class of 1931" (1982). Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:583355/

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 …
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