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Items (21-40) out of 53 results
- Description:
- In Part 1, Edna discusses her family background; preparing for Pembroke at Classical High School; entering Pembroke as a freshman surrounded by mature veterans who …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Graham, Edna Frances (interviewee)
- Seiple, Amy (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Athletics
- Children
- City Girls
- Dating
- Employment
- Family
- Feminism
- Gender Expectations
- Marriage
- Pembroke Traditions
- Physical Education
- Social Life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Eleanor McElroy, class of 1937, begins by describing her family and educational background, emphasizing the liberal minded nature of her single mother …
- Year:
- 1986
- Contributor:
- McElroy, Eleanor Rosalie (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1930s
- Dating
- Great Depression
- City Girls
- Employment
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Emily Tunkel, Brown University class of 2019, discusses their time at Brown and shares their experiences living through the COVID-19 global pandemic. …
- Contributor:
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Tunkel, Emily (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- COVID-19
- Dating
- Non-binary students
- Providence
- 2010s
- Local ID:
- bdr:728125
- bdr728125
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Gail begins part 1 by discussing her sheltered upbringing in a very religious household, and her desire to attend a school where she could feel …
- Year:
- 1995
- Contributor:
- Mitchell, Gail Yvonne (interviewee)
- Byrd, Derria Monique (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1970s
- Academics
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Fraternities
- Integration
- Pembroke/Brown merger
- Race relations
- Social life
- Vietnam War
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In Part 1, Gloria begins by describing her relationship to her father, an immigrant cement business owner, her role as a “typical Italian daughter,” and …
- Year:
- 1985
- Contributor:
- Del Papa, Gloria elizabeth (interviewee)
- Fenimore, Carol (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- Academics
- Athletics
- City Girls
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Family
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Minority students
- Pembroke College traditions
- Physical Education
- Posture Pictures
- Professors
- Social life
- Student activities
- World War II
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Grace McAuslan discusses her family life, dress codes, Pembroke student government, the Brown-Pembroke merger, Pembroke traditions, and the lack of discussion surrounding politics, the women's …
- Year:
- 1982
- Contributor:
- McAuslan, Grace Amelia (interviewee)
- Hackelman, Daniel (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1920s
- Academics
- Administration
- City Girls
- Dating
- Deans
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Gender expectations
- Great Depression
- Minority students
- Pembroke traditions
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Presidents of Brown University
- Politics
- Professors
- Providence
- Social life
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In Part 1 of this interview, Helen Elizabeth Butts Correll discusses her memories and feelings towards mandatory chapel services at Pembroke, the seperation of male …
- Year:
- 1992
- Contributor:
- Butts, Helen Elizabeth (interviewee)
- Renda, Mary (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1920s
- Academics
- Administration
- Dating
- Gender Expectations
- Sexism
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Helen Thayer Paxton grew up in North Smithfield, Rhode Island. She remembers Pembroke as a place of "gracious living," including maids to clean the dorm …
- Year:
- 1990
- Contributor:
- Thayer, Helen Julia (interviewee)
- Raab, Barbara (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1920s
- Athletics
- Children
- Clothing and fashion
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Fraternities
- Pembroke traditions
- Providence
- Social life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Hilda Calabro discusses attending Pembroke College as a "city girl," World War II and its effect on her education at Pembroke, and …
- Year:
- 1985
- Contributor:
- Calabro, Hilda Antoinette (interviewee)
- Kroll, Janet (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- Administration
- City Girls
- Dating
- Gender Expectations
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Ingrid Winther Scobie's interview expresses the nuanced frustration women experience as a result of gender expectations that limit them and suppress their full potential. She …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Winther, Ingrid Ellen (interviewee)
- Bruce, Ashley (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Academics
- Activism
- Administration
- Children
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Pembroke traditions
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Physical education
- Professors
- Sexism
- Social life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Laremont begins by explaining the academic initiative and activist spirit that brought her to Brown. There, she fondly remembers a “feeling of …
- Year:
- 1994
- Contributor:
- Pinkney, Javette Damorra (interviewee)
- Byrd, Derria Monique (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1980s
- Academics
- Activism
- Administration
- Brown Daily Herald
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Minority students
- Race relations
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Jean McKaye Tanner '45, discusses life on campus during World War II. Edwards was engaged to be married while at Pembroke and …
- Year:
- 2005
- Contributor:
- Tanner, Jean McKaye (interviewee)
- Lancaster, Jane (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- City girls
- Dating
- Marriage
- World War II
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In Part 1, Katherine begins by discussing daily life at Pembroke. For her, this meant commuting to campus and becoming used to the regimented life …
- Year:
- 1982
- Contributor:
- Hazard, Katherine May (interviewee)
- Aschheim, Deborah (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- Academics
- Athletics
- Children
- Clothing and fashion
- Dating
- Deans
- Employment
- Family
- Feminism
- Minority students
- Pembroke traditions
- Chapel
- Dances
- Pembroke/Brown merger
- Professors
- Sororities
- 1930s
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Katherine describes her early life in North Carolina; coming from a rural town with little emphasis on education; her initial hardship adjusting to life at …
- Year:
- 1985
- Contributor:
- Faulkner, Katherine Virginia (interviewee)
- Gollag, Suzanne (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1930s
- Activism
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Feminism
- Gender Expectations
- Marriage
- Sexism
- Social Life
- Student Activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Kristie Miller begins her interview discussing the controversy surrounding her decision to attend college. Her mother, a supporter of Joseph McCarthy, always discouraged her academic …
- Year:
- 2006
- Contributor:
- Miller, Kristie (interviewee)
- Marmon, Jesse (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Academics
- Birth control
- Brown Daily Herald
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Gender expectations
- Pembroke traditions
- Posture pictures
- Professors
- Student Activities
- Vietnam War
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this dual interview, Presel and Beals speak extensively about their classes at Pembroke, the different professors they had. They discuss social life at the …
- Year:
- 1981
- Contributor:
- Presel, Rose (interviewee)
- Beals, Lilian Dorothy (interviewee)
- Raab, Barbara (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1910s
- Academics
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Marriage
- Pembroke College Traditions
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Lorraine Estelle Adler, Brown University class of 1945, discusses her experience as a student during the war years and also touches upon …
- Contributor:
- Adler, Lorraine Estelle (interviewee)
- Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (document genres)
- Subject:
- Academics
- COVID-19
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Gender Expectations
- Marriage
- Pembroke College Traditions
- Politics
- Providence
- September 11, 2001
- Social Life
- World War II
- 1940s
- Local ID:
- bdr:728113
- bdr728113
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In part 1 of her interview, Lucile Wawzonek Thompson discusses changing attitudes towards formal gender divisions on campus during the Pembroke/Brown merger. She begins by …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Wawzonek, Lucile Kay (interviewee)
- Krawiec, Rebecca (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1970s
- 1968 Walkout
- Academics
- Activism
- Athletics
- Birth control
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Feminism
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Pembroke traditions
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Physical education
- Posture pictures
- Professors
- Providence
- Social life
- Sexism
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- 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 …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Porter, Margaret Mary (interviewee)
- Hyun, Julia J. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1930s
- Academics
- Administration
- Dating
- Employment
- Family
- Gender expectations
- Great Depression
- Marriage
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Physical education
- Professors
- Social life
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In her oral history, Margot discusses her family background and their influence on her choice of college and her major. She describes her nerve-wracking first …
- Year:
- 1987
- Contributor:
- Landman, Margot (interviewee)
- Rodine, Kirsten (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1970s
- Academics
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Feminism
- Marriage
- Politics
- Professors
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection