Description
- Abstract:
- Ruth Bains Hartmann discusses growing up in Providence, her family, and her educational background. She proceeds to describe the academic atmosphere of Pembroke College; extracurricular activities, including Sock and Buskin and the Pembroke Dramatic Society; and Pembroke's institutional individuality, which influenced her to oppose the 1971 merger of Brown and Pembroke. Upon her wartime graduation, Ruth moved to Washington to work in the Office of Strategic Services, which recruited English majors to work on cracking codes. The independence of her life in Washington contrasted with her time at Pembroke, which was fairly regulated, but, she explains, "city girls" had their unique community. She describes Pembroke's campus and its various traditions in detail. In Part 2, Ruth discusses her subsequent career in publishing and freelance writing, her husband, photographer Erich Hartmann, and her support of his work and his archive.
- Notes:
- Class year: 1943
- Biographical note: Ruth Bains Hartmann was born in Providence, Rhode Island. At 15, she graduated from Pawtucket High School and entered Pembroke College, where she studied English and became heavily involved in Sock and Buskin and the Pembroke Dramatic Society. She was elected to the Rhode Island chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and was on the Dean's list.
Citation
"Ruth Ellen Bains, class of 1943"
(2013).
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:583403/
Relations
Has Parts:
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Ruth Ellen Bains, class of 1943 Part 1
- Type: Audio
- Order: 1
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Ruth Ellen Bains, class of 1943 Part 1
- Type: Stream
- Order: 1
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Ruth Ellen Bains, class of 1943 Part 2
- Type: Audio
- Order: 2
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Ruth Ellen Bains, class of 1943 Part 2
- Type: Stream
- Order: 2
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Ruth Ellen Bains, class of 1943
- Type: Pdf
- Order: 3
Collection:
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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 …...