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   <mods:titleInfo>
      <mods:title>Isabel Ross Abbott, class of 1922</mods:title>
   </mods:titleInfo>
   <mods:titleInfo type="alternative" displayLabel="Pembroke title">
      <mods:title>Isabel Ross Abbott, class of 1922</mods:title>
   </mods:titleInfo>
   <mods:name type="personal">
      <mods:namePart>Abbott, Isabel Ross</mods:namePart>
      <mods:role>
         <mods:roleTerm type="text" authority="marcrelator">interviewee</mods:roleTerm>
      </mods:role>
   </mods:name>
   <mods:name type="personal">
      <mods:namePart>Foster, Nancy E.</mods:namePart>
      <mods:role>
         <mods:roleTerm type="text" authority="marcrelator">interviewer</mods:roleTerm>
      </mods:role>
   </mods:name>
   <mods:typeOfResource>mixed material</mods:typeOfResource>
   <mods:originInfo>
      <mods:dateCreated keyDate="yes" encoding="w3cdtf">1987-09-26</mods:dateCreated>
   </mods:originInfo>
   <mods:language>
      <mods:languageTerm type="code" authority="iso639-2b">eng</mods:languageTerm>
   </mods:language>
   <mods: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</mods:abstract>
   <mods:note type="biographical/historical" displayLabel="Class year">1922</mods:note>
   <mods:note type="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.</mods:note>
   <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>1920s</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>
   <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>Academics</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>
   <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>Family</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>
   <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>Providence</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>
   <mods:subject authority="local">
      <mods:topic>Student activities</mods:topic>
   </mods:subject>

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