- Title Information
- Title
- Elizabeth Pretzer, class of 1944
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Elizabeth Pretzer Rall, class of 1944
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Pretzer, Elizabeth
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Schechter, Claudia
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 2013-08-07
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- At the start of this interview, Elizabeth Pretzer Rall describes what it was like
to attend Pembroke College while living at home with her family in Providence. She explains
her decision to major in Geology and remembers some of the geology field trips she took as an
undergraduate. Later, she discusses earning her Ph.D., balancing her work life with the
demands of three children, and moving to Texas to research the Midland Texas Basin. Towards
the end of her interview, she transitions back to discussing Pembroke and contrasts her
wartime college experience with Brown today. She concludes by stressing the importance of
following one's passion, as well as the influence of having academic parents.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1944
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Elizabeth Pretzer was
born in Cleveland, Ohio on April 10, 1922. Her family was highly educated, with both her
mother and father possessing graduate degrees. Elizabeth's family moved to Providence, where
she attended Hope High School, and later, Pembroke College. She majored in Geology and minored
in Social Work, graduating a year early due to Brown's accelerated wartime curriculum.
Elizabeth earned her Master's in Geology from Columbia University and her Ph.D. from
University of Illinois.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1940s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- City Girls
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Family
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Marriage
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Social Life
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- World War II
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)