- Title Information
- Title
- Rose Roberta Traurig, class of 1928
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Rose Roberta Traurig, class of 1928
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Traurig, Rose Roberta
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Gillmar, Dian
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1986-05-20
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- Rose Traurig starts her interview by stating that she has a long story to tell.
She describes her family, from Waterbury, Connecticut, and the high value they placed on
education. At Brown, Rose's first dorm was Angell House, and she talks about entertaining
guests there on weekends. She mentions that while she and her family never distinguished
between Jews and Christians, Jewish girls were never invited to the parties held by the men.
There were no sororities, but Rose had a tight group of friends: Joan Aschiem (Biel) and
Eleanor Post. Joan was the first of the class to marry and her daughter was the class baby.
Rose discusses the relationship Dean Margaret Morriss had with the students. She tells a
memorable story about having to make up four years of her gym requirement in one semester and
talks about the coeducational experience at Brown. Rose majored in Sociology and was employed
at Lord and Taylor after graduation until the Great Depression, when she was brought into the
family business (Waterbury Title Company) In Part 2, Rose talks about her Spanish class with
Professor Johnson. She returns to the subject of her family and says that while they all knew
how to enjoy life, her father also taught all of of his children the importance of being
charitable. She explains that she doesn't visit the Brown Campus anymore because she
doesn't like change.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1928
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Rose Roberta Traurig
was born May 3, 1905 in Waterbury, CT to William Tobias and Nettie Raydner Traurig, the
youngest of seven children. After graduating from Brown in 1928, she worked as a buyer at Lord
and Taylor in New York. At the onset of the Great Depression, Rose returned home and worked
with her family in the Waterbury Title Company until retirement. Rose Traurig passed away
November 30, 1993.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1920s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dormitories
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Fraternities
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Great Depression
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Physical Education
- 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)