- Title Information
- Title
- Gail Yvonne Mitchell, class of 1973
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Gail Yvonne Mitchell, class of 1973
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Mitchell, Gail Yvonne
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Byrd, Derria Monique
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1995-03-27
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- Gail begins part 1 by discussing her sheltered upbringing in a very religious household, and her desire to attend a school where she could feel independent from that sheltered household and how that influenced her decision to attend Brown. Gail talks about working as a student assistant over the summer, and about living at Pembroke and in the dormitories there. In parts 1 & 2 Gail talks about work and social life, including work study and attending sports games. She discusses the separate racial social circles at Brown and talks about her own interracial dormitory. She talks about panty-raids and the stereotypes of fraternities at Brown at the time. Gail talks about the pressures against interracial dating, the effects of the Pembroke/Brown merger, and the economic divide between students at Brown. Gail discusses her course of study and what she would have liked to include. In part 3 Gail talks about how the Draft affected her friends, and about her work at Brown in Admissions. She talks about her experience as a student at Columbia and the racism that was present there, and the work she did in law firms while a student and afterwards. Gail finishes up by discussing friendships and dating between other schools in New England and Brown, and talks about working over the summers in Pennsylvania, Boston and Maine.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1973
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Gail was born in Sharon, PA on February 4th, 1951. She received her A.B. from Brown University and her J.D. from Columbia School of Law. She began her career in admissions at Brown, and moved on to working in legislation mostly based out of New York, and she has volunteered as a fundraiser and mentor at various youth associations in NY.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1970s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dating
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dormitories
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Fraternities
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Integration
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Pembroke/Brown merger
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Race relations
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Social life
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Vietnam War
- Genre (aat)
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- oral histories (literary works)