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Items (21-40) out of 75 results
- Description:
- In Part I, Cynthia begins by describing her family background. She talks about the contemporary stigma against a middle class wife with a career\u2014and the …
- Contributor:
- Jenner, Cynthia Lee (interviewer)
- Pichey, Mimi (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Birth control
- Clothing and fashion
- Dating
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Pembroke traditions
- Posture pictures
- Professors
- Religion
- Social life
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview Debbie discusses her early life growing up, the lack of gender discrimination at Brown, acting in New York, raising children, working on …
- Year:
- 2014
- Contributor:
- Greenberg, Deborah (interviewee)
- Santry, Phyllis (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1970s
- Academics
- Dating
- Employment
- Family
- Marriage
- Minority students
- Professors
- Providence
- Race relations
- Segregation
- Social life
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Diane E. Scola's oral history is an example of autonomy and feminist conviction despite gender discrimination. She begins her interview discussing her Italian-American family background, …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Scola, Diane E. (interviewee)
- Cummings, Lisa (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Academics
- Administration
- Children
- City girls
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Famly
- Feminism
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Pembroke traditions
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Professors
- Providence
- Sexism
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In a joint interview, Edna MacDonald and Ruth Peterson, speak on the academic atmosphere at Brown and the heavy constraints placed on women's conduct and …
- Year:
- 1990
- Contributor:
- MacDonald, Edna Ruth (interviewee)
- Peterson, Ruth Dorothea (interviewee)
- Raab, Barbara (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1910s
- Academics
- Gender expectations
- Marriage
- Professors
- Sexism
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Elizabeth Leduc recounts her educational background from undergraduate studies in biology at the University of Vermont, to obtaining her master's degree from …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Leduc, Elizabeth Hortense (interviewee)
- Lamoree, Karen M. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1970s
- Administration
- Employment
- Pembroke-Brown merger
- Professors
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In Part 1, Elizabeth begins by talking about her high-achieving family. Educated at Harvard Dental School, her father was one of only two black dentists …
- Year:
- 1987
- Contributor:
- Jackson, Elizabeth (interviewee)
- Baker, Dorcey (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- Academics
- Activism
- Administration
- Children
- City Girls
- Civil rights
- Deans
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Integration
- Marriage
- Minority students
- Politics
- Professors
- Providence
- Race relations
- Segregation
- Social life
- Student activities
- World War II
- 1940s
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Elsie Anderson Lewis discusses her family's Swedish origins as well as their American experiences. She describes her nursing education and training, including her scholarship, courses …
- Year:
- 1988
- Contributor:
- Anderson, Elsie Barbara (interviewee)
- Gaudette, Jennifer H. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- Academics
- Family
- Pembroke College Traditions
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Professors
- Social Life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Enid Wilson describes her family, her time as a student at Pembroke College, the impact of World War II on Brown's curriculum, and her work …
- Year:
- 2012
- Contributor:
- Wilson, Enid (interviewee)
- Korwin, Wendy (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- Academics
- Administration
- Pembroke College Traditions
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Physical Education
- Professors
- World War II
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Gladys Paine Johnson begins her interview by describing her family and how she came to Brown in 1909, the first member to attend college. She …
- Year:
- 1986
- Contributor:
- Paine, Gladys (interviewee)
- Anton, Barbara J. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1910s
- Academics
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Marriage
- Professors
- Social Life
- Travel
- 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:
- Helen Hoff Peterson begins her interview by discussing her childhood education in New Jersey and her family background. She explains that a high school superintendent …
- Year:
- 1987
- Contributor:
- Hoff, Helen (interviewee)
- Baker, Dorcy (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1920s
- Academics
- Family
- Great Depression
- Professors
- Student Activities
- 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:
- Bill Wood discusses his years working in the Brown Library, beginning as clerical staff and working up to Serials Manager, Head of Media Services, and …
- Year:
- 2014
- Contributor:
- Wood, William (interviewee)
- Bouchard, Karen (interviewer)
- Cournoyer, Carina (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- Books
- BULS
- Clothing and fashion
- Computers
- Dissertations
- Ed Hayslip
- Employee morale
- Hecker Center
- Library memorabilia
- Library renovations
- Library reorganization
- Library spaces
- Media Services
- Professors
- Reference
- Serials
- Softball
- Students
- Technology
- Typewriters
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Rock50 Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Karen Bouchard begins by discussing how she first came to Brown, working in the Art Department's Slide Room as Curatorial Assistant, then Associate Curator. She …
- Year:
- 2014
- Contributor:
- Bouchard, Karen (interviewee)
- Bouchard, Karen (interviewer)
- Cournoyer, Carina (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- Art
- Brooke Hammerle
- Clothing and fashion
- Computers
- Dietrich Neumann
- Digitization
- Disaster kit
- Employee morale
- George Harrison
- Interlibrary Loan
- IRIS
- Kermit Champa
- Kroytype
- Library renovations
- Library spaces
- Norine Duncan
- Peggy Mutter
- Professors
- Reference
- Ringo Starr
- Slides
- Students
- Student workers
- Typewriters
- Visual resources
- VRMS
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Rock50 Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Janice Vanderwater discusses her college education at Barnard College and her path to becoming the first female faculty member of the English …
- Year:
- 1983
- Contributor:
- Vanderwater, Janice (interviewee)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1950s
- Administration
- Employment
- Gender expectations
- Professors
- Theatre
- World War II
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Joyce begins her interview by discussing the experiences and people that led her to apply and attend Pembroke, such as going to boarding school, having …
- Year:
- 1995
- Contributor:
- Richardson, Joyce Loretta (interviewee)
- Byrd, Derria Monique (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1960s
- Academics
- Activism
- Administration
- Athletics
- Deans
- Dormitories
- Employment
- Family
- Fraternities
- Gender expectations
- Integration
- Marriage
- Pembroke traditions
- Student activities
- Physical education
- Professors
- Providence
- Race relations
- Religion
- Segregation
- Sexism
- Social life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Joyce Wetherald Fairchild's interview demystifies the work and operations of the Brown Corporation, where she served as a trustee, committee member, and as an emerita. …
- Year:
- 1992
- Contributor:
- Wetherald, Joyce (interviewee)
- Ferber, Susan J. (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- Administration
- Athletics
- Birth control
- Brown Daily Herald
- City Girls
- Deans
- Feminism
- Gender expectations
- Great Depression
- Pembroke Record
- Pembroke traditions
- Presidents
- Physical education
- Politics
- Professors
- Sexism
- Social life
- Student activities
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- Judith begins the interview by talking about her early life and family. She then talks about her time at Pembroke and the kinds of courses …
- Contributor:
- Charles, Judith Korey (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1940s
- Academics
- Deans
- Dormitories
- Family
- Gender expectations
- Pembroke Record
- Professors
- Sexism
- Social life
- World War II
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
- Description:
- In part 1, Karen begins by discussing her decision to attend Brown, and her determination to succeed. Karen talks about a summer program she attended …
- Year:
- 1994
- Contributor:
- McLaurin, Karen Eulah (interviewee)
- Byrd, Derria Monique (interviewer)
- Genre:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Subject:
- 1970s
- Academics
- Civil rights
- Employment
- Minority students
- Professors
- Race relations
- Social life
- Collection:
- Brown University Library
- Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
- Pembroke Center Oral History Collection