Description
- Abstract:
- Isabel Ross Abbot begins with her parents' lives in Nova Scotia before she was born. In Part 1, she also discusses the family's move to Providence, Rhode Island and her childhood there, including attending elementary school and happy memories of Christmas and sledding down the hills of Providence. In Part 2, Isabel speaks about her middle and high school education at Rochambeau Avenue School and Hope High School, respectively; her impressions of World War I, including her brothers' enlistment; the employment she maintained to pay for her Pembroke tuition; and the first courses that she took there. In Part 3, Isabel discusses student activities that she participated in while at Pembroke; graduation from the college; dating and marriage; her first job teaching at Providence's Technical High School; her Masters education at Brown University; and beginning graduate school at Bryn Mawr. In Part 4, Isabel continues to talk about her graduate school experience at Bryn Mawr, including receiving a prestigious fellowship from the American Association for University Women. This interview was conducted on four different days
- Notes:
- Class year: 1922
- Biographical note: Isabel Ross Abbott was born on January 12, 1901 in Providence, Rhode Island, to parents of Scottish and English origins. She attended Rochambeau Avenue School and Hope High School. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor's in Arts degree from Brown in 1922, and received a Master's the following year. She taught at Providence Technical High School from 1923-1925. She attended graduate school at Bryn Mawr College, from which she graduated with a PhD in 1937. She was honored with many awards and fellowships throughout her lifetime and served on a wide variety of academic committees.
Citation
"Isabel Ross Abbott, class of 1922"
(1987).
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:698994/
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Isabel Ross, class of 1922 Part 1
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Isabel Ross, class of 1922 Part 1
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Isabel Ross, class of 1922 Part 2
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Isabel Ross, class of 1922 Part 2
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Isabel Ross, class of 1922 Part 3
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Isabel Ross, class of 1922 Part 3
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Isabel Ross, class of 1922 Part 4
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Isabel Ross, class of 1922 Part 4
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Isabel Ross, class of 1922
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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 …...