Mary Manley, class of 1933

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Abstract:: In this interview, Mary Manley Eaton '33, discusses her family's decision for her to attend Pembroke College despite entering at the beginning of the Great Depression. She mentions life as a City Girl and the assumed superiority of the girls who lived in the dorms and specifically recalls required courses and her decision to major in history. She reminisces about participating in the Elizabethans and being able to attend parties at her boyfriend's fraternity as well as the dynamics of dating at the time. Eaton generally remarks on the Sophomore Masque and crowning the May Queen. In addition to remembering the expectations of women during this time, she provides details about life, college, and work during the Depression throughout the interview
Notes:: Class year: 1933; Biographical note: Mary Manley Eaton grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, one of five children. She began studying at Pembroke College in 1929 and graduated with an A.B in history in 1933. After graduation, she attended secretarial school and worked for the YWCA, the Progress Governmental Research Bureau, and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, where she worked until she had her first child. Eaton married at the age of 25 and had four children.

"Mary Manley, class of 1933" (1982). Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:712474/

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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