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<mods:title>Rose Beatrice Miller, class of 1931</mods:title>
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<mods:title>Rose Beatrice Miller Roitman, class of 1931</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Miller, Rose Beatrice</mods:namePart>
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<mods:roleTerm type="text" authority="marcrelator">interviewee</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:name type="personal">
<mods:namePart>Rothman, Rebecca G.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:dateCreated keyDate="yes" encoding="w3cdtf">1982-12-07</mods:dateCreated>
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<mods: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.</mods:abstract>
<mods:note type="biographical/historical" displayLabel="Class year">1931</mods:note>
<mods:note type="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</mods:note>
<mods:subject authority="local">
<mods:topic>1930s</mods:topic>
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<mods:subject authority="local">
<mods:topic>Academics</mods:topic>
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<mods:subject authority="local">
<mods:topic>Administration</mods:topic>
</mods:subject>
<mods:subject authority="local">
<mods:topic>Birth Control</mods:topic>
</mods:subject>
<mods:subject authority="local">
<mods:topic>City Girls</mods:topic>
</mods:subject>
<mods:subject authority="local">
<mods:topic>Employment</mods:topic>
</mods:subject>
<mods:subject authority="local">
<mods:topic>Great Depression</mods:topic>
</mods:subject>
<mods:subject authority="local">
<mods:topic>Professors</mods:topic>
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