- Title Information
- Title
- Isabel Ross Abbott, class of 1922
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Isabel Ross Abbott, class of 1922
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Abbott, Isabel Ross
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Foster, Nancy E.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1987-09-26
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- 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
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1922
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="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.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1920s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Family
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Providence
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Student activities
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)