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Joan Caryll Hoost, class of 1960

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Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Hoost, Joan Caryll (interviewee); Korwin, Wendy (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1960s; Dormitories; Pembroke-Brown Merger; Racial Segregation; Social Life; Student Activities

Abstract:: In this interview recorded the week of her 55th reunion, Joan McMaster describes her experiences at Pembroke College and her work as an advocate for women's causes. She shares stories about Freshman Week and her participation in the PDQs (Pembroke Double Quartet); teaching fourth grade in Greensboro, North Carolina after graduation; the Brown Alumnae Club of Kent County, RI; and several different efforts share memories of Pembroke College with younger students. Part 2 is a brief coda to the interview, in which Joan describes the Pembroke tribute garden, a project established by Pat Hogan Shea '30.
Notes:: Class year: 1960; Biographical note: Joan Hoost McMaster was born in New York in 1939 and attended Sayville High School before entering Pembroke College in 1956. She graduated with a degree in American Civilization and spent several years as a teacher in New York and North Carolina before returning to live in Rhode Island, where Joan and her husband raised their three children and where she continues to reside. She has held leadership positions in the Junior League of Rhode Island, the Brown Alumnae Club of Kent County, and the Rhode Island chapter of the AAUW, among others.

"Joan Caryll Hoost, class of 1960" (2015). Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:592614/

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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