Description
- Abstract:
- Joyce begins her interview by discussing the experiences and people that led her to apply and attend Pembroke, such as going to boarding school, having a high achieving family, rejection from Radcliffe, and her fear of swimming. She contrasts her experience at boarding school with her arrival to Pembroke, discussing the stereotypical “Penny Pembrokers,” encountering racism for the first time, and being shocked into silence. She explains the extent to which gender and racial issues were not identified; the suppression she felt; friendship; the support of the Protestant Ministry; how—as horrible as it was—that suppression prepared her for the real world. She goes on to describe the professors and experiences that pushed her to major in American Civilization; her archival and history work; her love of Providence; activities and work study; Brown’s reputation as a drinking school. Still, it was at Pembroke that Joyce decided she wanted to be a social worker. She speaks to her path to social work; what it meant to assimilate; living in an essentially female world; and the lack of social and political discourse. She ends with a discussion of feeling like a survivor; having her self-esteem undermined; her financial naiveté; going back to school; the beginnings of her career.
- Notes:
- Class year: 1963
- Biographical note: Joyce Richardson was raised in Washington, D.C. She attended a competitive boarding school on a scholarship from the National Scholarship Fund for Negro Students, before joining the Pembroke Class of 1963. There, she studied American Civilization and participated in the Newman Club, Baseball team, and Catholic Interracial Council. After graduation, she completed graduate studies in social work in order to supplement her career in the field
Citation
"Joyce Loretta Richardson, class of 1963"
(1995).
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:649967/
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Joyce Loretta Richardson, class of 1963 Part 1
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Joyce Loretta Richardson, class of 1963 Part 2
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Joyce Loretta Richardson, class of 1963 Part 2
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Joyce Loretta Richardson, class of 1963
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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 …...