Description
- Abstract:
- In this interview, Elaine Barbara Frank '39, the daughter of a Providence-born father and Lithuanian-born mother, describes herself as a "City Girl" and discusses her decision to attend Pembroke College as a transfer student from LaSalle Junior College. She details her involvement in various dramatic societies at Hope High School, Pembroke, and throughout Rhode Island. Frank also recalls her Pembroke gym teacher, "Miss Rudd," and Dean Margaret Shove Morriss, as well as coeducational and single-sex classes on both the Pembroke and Brown campuses. In addition to her reminiscences of life on campus, Frank also discusses her life as a teacher at the Meeting Street School, Henry Barnard Laboratory School, and Rhode Island College.
- Notes:
- Class year: 1939
- Biographical note: Elaine Lieberman grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and attended Hope High School. She graduated from LaSalle Junior College and transferred to Pembroke where she received her A.B. in English Literature in 1939. She was an assistant professor in English at Brown from 1944-1945 and later obtained a master's degree in education from Boston University. She began working as a speech therapist at Meeting Street School while doing the same at Henry Barnard Laboratory School, and working as an assistant professor at Rhode Island College. Meeting Street School eventually hired her full time and she stayed there for 25 years. Frank was the mother of three, grandmother of seven, and great grandmother of eight. She died on September 23, 2016 at the age of 99.
Citation
"Elaine Barbara Frank, class of 1939"
(2005).
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:712987/
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Elaine (Frank) Lieberman, class of 1939
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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 …...