- 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)