Clarice d'Almeida Pitta, class of 1933

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Year:: 1986
Contributor:: Pitta, Clarice d'Almeida (interviewee); Rauch, J. F. (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1930s; Academics; Great Depression; Social life

Abstract:: Clarice d'Almeida Pitta begins the interview by discussing her family background and the circumstances that led her to attend Pembroke College. In Part 1, she also addresses the effects of Great Depression on life at Brown, her ambitions to study medicine, pursuing a career as a woman, and drinking at Brown during Prohibition. In Part 2, Clarice talks about her academic interests and the various struggles she and her husband faced with the Great Depression. The discussion in Part 3 covers a wide variety of topics, from the social pressures Clarice faced during her time at Pembroke to the state of modern youth and modes of public transportation. Clarice concludes the interview in Part 4 with some anecdotes about her friends and personal experiences.
Notes:: Class year: 1933; Biographical note: Clarice Pitta Chapman was born on April 6, 1910 to John Carlos Pitta and Anne D’Almeida. Clarice began at Pembroke in 1929 at the onset of the Great Depression, which greatly affected her undergraduate experience. After she graduated from Brown in 1933 with degrees in Latin and English, she struggled to find employment during the difficult economic times. She and her husband eventually settled in California..

"Clarice d'Almeida Pitta, class of 1933" (1986). Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:699006/

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 …
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