- Title Information
- Title
- Alice Elizabeth O'Connor, class of 1928
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Alice Elizabeth O'Connor Chmielewski, class of 1928
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- O'Connor, Alice Elizabeth
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Linn, Karen E.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1982-04-21
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- Alice Chmielewski begins by discussing her life growing up in East Providence and
assuming guardianship of her brothers and sisters after the early deaths of her parents. In
Part 1, she also talks about changing careers to become a social worker, the state of public
welfare services and her work for the Rhode Island Department of Children, her marriage and
children, and earning a Master's degree later in life. Alice recounts several aspects of her
life as a student at Brown, including the different social experiences of boarders and day
students, the separation of the Women's and Men's Colleges, her memories of Dean Morriss and
an inspiring female professor, gym class uniforms, social events, dancing the Charleston,
Chapel and singing, and her thoughts on the Women's College's name change and the later
Pembroke-Brown merger. In Part 2 Alice discusses following the rules of the Women's College,
changing her goals after graduation, and her decision to pursue a graduate
degree.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1928
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Alice Elizabeth
O'Connor Chmielewski was born in Providence in 1906, the oldest of six children to parents of
Irish descent. Alice attended Hope High School before entering Brown and graduated with an AB
in history in 1928. She worked briefly as a teacher before becoming a social worker, and later
attended graduate school at Boston University. She passed away on January 30,
1998.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1920s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Administration
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Athletics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Children
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- City Girls
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Professors
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Social Life
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)