Cynthia Burdick, class of 1965

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Year:: 1988
Contributor:: Burdick, Cynthia (interviewee); Rai, Samantha (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1960s; Academics; Administration; Dating; Gender expectations; Sexism; Marriage

Abstract:: In this interview, Cynthia Burdick Patterson describes her upbringing; her freshman year at Bryn Mawr College; her marriage and transferring to Pembroke; married life in college and its effects on her social life; meeting fellow students through field hockey; and her support of academic requirements. She then discusses her life after Pembroke, raising a family, her volunteer work, and the social perceptions of gender expectations and marriage.
Notes:: Class year: 1965; Biographical note: Cynthia Burdick Patterson was born on February 26, 1942 in Wilmington, Delaware. After completing her senior year at The Westover School, she attended Bryn Mawr College before earning her AB from Brown University and later studied for her MBA at the University of Rhode Island. She served as Director of Development for the Lincoln School and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, and as a trustee of the Gordon School, the Women & Infants Hospital of RI, and the Providence Athenaeum.

"Cynthia Burdick, class of 1965" (1988). Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:705188/

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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