Santina Lee Siena, class of 1973

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Year:: 1988
Contributor:: Siena, Santina Lee (interviewee); Sweeney, Linda (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1970s; Dormitories; Employment; Pembroke-Brown Merger

Abstract:: This interview begins with a discussion of Santina Siena's life before college and her reasons for choosing to attend Pembroke College. She describes the dormitories that she lived in, the requirements at Pembroke, and the dramatic changes in relationships between men and women during her four years of college. She also discusses becoming a doctor and the lasting friendships she has sustained with her classmates. In Part 2, she reflects on Brown following the Pembroke-Brown merger and revisions to the curriculum.
Notes:: Class year: 1973; Biographical note: Santina Lee Siena was born in Newark, New Jersey. She graduated from Columbia High School in 1969, and after completing a concentration Biology at Brown, enrolled directly in Cornell Medical School. She returned to Providence to practice medicine, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology.

"Santina Lee Siena, class of 1973" (1988). Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:583370/

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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