- Title Information
- Title
- Susan A. Semenoff, class of 1968
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Susan A. Semenoff, class of 1968
- Name
- Name Part
- Semenoff, Susan A.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name
- Name Part
- Hyun, Julia J.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1988-03-31
- Issuance
- monographic
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- Susan begins by talking about her family, her choice to attend Pembroke, and the challenge of the academics once she arrived. She discusses her various classes and the tumultuous atmosphere at Brown/Pembroke in the sixties (The Vietnam War, the changing attitude towards women, and what inspired her to become president of the Student Government Association). Susan also discusses at length the social life on campus. After mentioning her professional life, career, and husband, she elaborates on the social issues on campus during the sixties, including the formation of the McGrath Committee, an illegal abortion in one of the dorm rooms, and the polarizing relationship between administration and students. She ends by talking about her role models at Pembroke, the reunions, and various protests in which she participated.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1968
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Both of Susan Semonoff\u2019s parents were from Providence and went to Brown/Pembroke. Susan grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and decided to apply to Pembroke. She majored in American Civilization and was president of the Student Government Association during her time at Pembroke. Just after graduating, Susan married her husband and became a banker at Industrial National Bank (now Fleet Bank). She lived in Providence for two years while her husband finished at Brown in the medical program and then they moved to Boston where her husband finished out his medical degrees. In 1984, they moved to San Francisco and Susan changed her job from banker to working in finance for medical centers.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1960s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Activism
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Administration
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Brown Daily Herald
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Deans
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dormitories
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Gender expectations
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Marriage
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Pembroke traditions
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Physical education
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Politics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Segregation
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Sexism
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Social life
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Vietnam War
- Genre (aat)
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- oral histories (literary works)