Beverly begins the interview telling of her both her parents’ self-made careers—her father’s opening of an iron foundry and her mother’s self-education. A first-generation college student and only child, Beverly became valedictorian of her high school and then attended Pembroke. She describes her two-year experience as a City Girl, Pembroke’s regulations and “gracious living” practices, and organizing a dormitory for commuting students. Initially intending on majoring in math, she recounts her mid-college switch to English literature and the following satisfaction with her bold decision. She reflects on the Pembroke-Brown merger, May Day, Ivy Day, graduation ceremonies, and the pressures and challenges of writing a graduation speech as the senior class president. In Part 2, she discusses advising; the importance of Convocation and chapel; her involvement in volunteer and political work in Seekonk, Mass.; and her feelings about having attended Brown.
Notes:
Class year: 1952
Biographical note: Beverly begins the interview telling of her both her parents\u2019 self-made careers\u2014her father\u2019s opening of an iron foundry and her mother\u2019s self-education. A first-generation college student and only child, Beverly became valedictorian of her high school and then attended Pembroke. She describes her two-year experience as a City Girl, Pembroke\u2019s regulations and \u201cgracious living\u201d practices, and organizing a dormitory for commuting students. Initially intending on majoring in math, she recounts her mid-college switch to English literature and the following satisfaction with her bold decision. She reflects on the Pembroke-Brown merger, May Day, Ivy Day, graduation ceremonies, and the pressures and challenges of writing a graduation speech as the senior class president. In Part 2, she discusses advising; the importance of Convocation and chapel; her involvement in volunteer and political work in Seekonk, Mass.; and her feelings about having attended Brown
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 …
