- Title Information
- Title
- Gladys Paine, class of 1913
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Gladys Paine Johnson, class of 1913
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Paine, Gladys
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Anton, Barbara J.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1986-04-04
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- Gladys Paine Johnson begins her interview by describing her family and how she
came to Brown in 1909, the first member to attend college. She considers herself lucky to have
lived in the mansion on Benefit Street, where she met Sarah Doyle and made lifelong friends.
Describing her classes and professors, Gladys remembers public speaking with Professor Thomas
Crosby and Deans Lida Shaw King and Margaret Shove Morriss. She majored in math and notes that
she did not receive any career guidance while in school. She briefly describes her
participation in social activities at Brown and ends Part 1 of the interview by recounting
what she sees as her debts to the University. In Part 2, Gladys discusses the social education
she received from her peers, the jobs she held, her travels, and the marriage that made her
"more or less what you call a liberated woman.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1913
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Gladys Paine Johnson
was born in 1891 and grew up in South Hadley, Massachusetts. After studying math at Brown, she
worked as a teacher, the owner of a lunchroom, and the manager of a doctor's office. The
mother of two daughters, Gladys was active in the DAR and served as President of the
Connecticut State Federation of Women's Clubs. She is the author of an autobiography
entitled Gad: Nine Decades of Happy Living and Notions After Ninety.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1910s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dormitories
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Marriage
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Professors
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Social Life
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Travel
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)