- Title Information
- Title
- Elizabeth Young Jeffers, class of 1924
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Elizabeth Young (Jeffers) Winsor, class of 1924
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Young, Elizabeth
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Quinn, Betsy V.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1986-12-01
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- Elizabeth Young Winsor begins the interview by discussing her family and the
history of careers in education within her family. In Part 1, she talks about her courses at
Brown; her disapproval of the Pembroke-Brown merger; extra-curricular activities including
being class president, a member of the glee club, and a member of the pyramid squad; and other
women's colleges of the time. In Part 2, she discusses the three different deans she knew
during her time at Pembroke, her first jobs, and the Alumnae Association, in which she was
actively involved at the time of her interview. In Part 3, the interviewer and Elizabeth look
at her senior year yearbook and she recollects the Pembroke tradition of Wednesday night
formal dinners, the dormitories at Pembroke, and flapper fashions of the
period
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1924
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Elizabeth "Betty"
Young was born on November 1, 1902 to Herrick Young (Class of 1887) and Suzy Howell. After
attending Classical High School in Providence, Betty went on to the Women's College at
Brown University, from which she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1924 with a major in English and
a minor in Biology. She was class President her senior year and later became active in the
Alumnae Association, helping to establish the Alumnae Fund. Betty was also the mother of two
Brown alumni, Betsy Jeffers, 1954 and John Jeffers, 1956.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1920s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Clothing and Fashion
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dormitories
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Family
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Social Life
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)