Katherine Perkins, class of 1932

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Contributor:: Perkins, Katherine (interviewee); Campbell, Heather Gaye (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1930s; Academics; Athletics; Employment; Great Depression; Pembroke College Traditions; Professors

Abstract:: In this interview, Katherine Perkins talks about her family and her upbringing in East Providence and how she came to attend Pembroke College. She discusses her travel as a day student to campus, the courses she took, extracurricular activities, the one black woman in her class, and the Great Depression. Katherine describes her first career as a social worker and her later work as a French teacher at East Providence High School. At the end of the interview she discusses her activities in retirement, including the Brown Street Series and the Pembroke Club.
Notes:: Class year: 1932; Biographical note: Katherine Perkins was born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. After attending school in East Providence, she entered Pembroke in 1928, taking the trolley car to campus for her classes. She worked in the East Providence Library and as a social worker before becoming a French teacher at East Providence High School, where she taught for 35 years. She died on November 27, 2005 at age 94.

"Katherine Perkins, class of 1932" Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:583367/

Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

This collection contains oral history interviews with alumnae of Brown University, which admitted its first women students in 1891. The Women's College at Brown was renamed Pembroke College in 1928, and in 1971, Pembroke College merged with the Men's College …
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