Beverly Nanes Dubrin grew up in Boston with her parents and younger sister. With constant encouragement from her parents to attend university, Beverly decided on Pembroke. She graduated in 1963 with a degree in economics and went on to hold system analyst positions at IBM and Honeywell. She met her husband at a sewing class in Cambridge and they would move to California together a few years later.
Notes:
Class year: 1963
Biographical note: Beverly begins this interview with a discussion of her college selection process, gender expectations, roommates, distribution courses, curfew, honor council, and convocation committee. She goes on to discuss influential professors, married life, and the jobs she held in Boston.
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 …
