Title Information
Title
Rose Beatrice Miller, class of 1931
Title Information: Alternative (displayLabel="Pembroke title")
Title
Rose Beatrice Miller Roitman, class of 1931
Name: Personal
Name Part
Miller, Rose Beatrice
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
interviewee
Name: Personal
Name Part
Rothman, Rebecca G.
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
interviewer
Type of Resource
mixed material
Origin Information
Date Created (keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
1982-12-07
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
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.
Note: biographical/historical (displayLabel="Class year")
1931
Note: biographical/historical (displayLabel="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
Subject (Local)
Topic
1930s
Subject (Local)
Topic
Academics
Subject (Local)
Topic
Administration
Subject (Local)
Topic
Birth Control
Subject (Local)
Topic
City Girls
Subject (Local)
Topic
Employment
Subject (Local)
Topic
Great Depression
Subject (Local)
Topic
Professors
Genre (aat) (authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
oral histories (literary works)