Description
- Abstract:
- Margaret Mary Porter Dolan begins her 1988 interview discussing her family background and her motivation for both going to college and choosing Brown. She reflects on what is was like to attend college during the Depression years, and while President Roosevelt came to office and the beginnings of WWII were forming in Europe. She considers her freshman year, required courses, and her classes, telling vivid stories of professors. Margaret speaks on the then archaic social and academic rules for Pembroke students, and her extracurricular activities on campus. In part 2, Margaret speaks on her life after college, including her teaching career, marriage, and children. She considers her class's views on the Pembroke/Brown Merger, and how the merger affected the alumni clubs. She ends by reflecting on the values of her class of 1939.
- Notes:
- Class year: 1939
- Biographical note: Margaret Porter was born in Providence in 1918. Her mother was a housewife, and her father was a janitor during the Great Depression. She attended Classical High School and obtained a scholarship to Brown University. She majored in Literature at Pembroke, and during her time there was the Chairman of the Sophomore Masque, Class President, President of the Question Club, and worked on the Pembroke Record. After her graduation in 1939, Margaret began teaching in the Providence School system. She also taught typing at night school, and was a home teacher for children who were too sick to attend school. In 1944, she married a WWII pilot. They had six children. When Margaret's youngest child began kindergarten, she resumed teaching at Gorton Junior High School, where she taught until her retirement in 1986. Upon her retirement, Margaret maintained involvement in teaching, working on a literacy program, volunteering for Meals on Wheels, and holding positions among her Pembroke Alumnae class.
Citation
"Margaret Mary Porter, class of 1939"
(1988).
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:708768/
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Margaret Mary Porter, class of 1939 Part 1
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Margaret Mary Porter, class of 1939 Part 1
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Margaret Mary Porter, class of 1939 Part 2
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Margaret Mary Porter, class of 1939 Part 2
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Margaret Mary Porter, class of 1939
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Collection:
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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 …...