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"Life would never be the same again"

Year:: 1989
Contributor:: Comiskey, Breana (interviewer); Potter, Nancy (interviewee)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Collection:: What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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"True Blue" to Her Bomber Pilot Husband

Year:: 1989
Contributor:: Elliott, Kristen (interviewer); Taft, Florence (interviewee)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Collection:: What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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"What did you do in the war, Grandma?"

Year:: 1989
Contributor:: O'Grady, Katherine (interviewee); O'Grady, Kathy (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Collection:: What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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A Coed's Life in War Time

Year:: 1989
Contributor:: Hearn, Kay (interviewee); Richman, Cassie (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Collection:: What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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A Family Joins the War Effort

Year:: 1989
Contributor:: Hodges, Erika (interviewer); Wilderhain, Mary (interviewee)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Collection:: What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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A Farm Girl Plays Professional Baseball

Year:: 1989
Contributor:: Briggs, Wilma (interviewee); Tyler, Ben (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Collection:: What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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A Journalist Joins the War Effort From London

Year:: 1989
Contributor:: Martin, Faith Mcnulty (interviewee); Tyler, Ben (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Collection:: What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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A Letter Every Night

Year:: 1989
Contributor:: Bitgood, Edna (interviewee); Gould, Hannah (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Collection:: What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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A Pacifist in a Time of War

Year:: 1989
Contributor:: Gould, Hannah (interviewer); Higgins, Rachel (interviewee)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Collection:: What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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A Psychiatric Nurse in the Philippines

Year:: 1989
Contributor:: O'Grady, Kathy (interviewer); Votta, Lucile Spooner (interviewee)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Collection:: What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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A School Teacher Minds the Home Front

Year:: 1989
Contributor:: Keenan, Aileen (interviewer); Osley, Helen (interviewee)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Collection:: What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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A Teenage Volunteer, Too Young to Join the WACS

Year:: 1989
Contributor:: Hughes, Eileen (interviewee); Kaufman, Ellie (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Collection:: What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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A Woman in a "Man's War"

Year:: 1989
Contributor:: Chasm, Genevieve (interviewee); Smith, Andy (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Collection:: What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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A Young Girl Joins the Army

Year:: 1989
Contributor:: Melish, Tara (interviewer); Ott, Catherine (interviewee)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Collection:: What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?

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Afua Hassan, class of 1981 and Wanda Moore, class of 1982

Description:: In this interview recorded during the 2018 Black Alumni Reunion, Afua Hassan and Wanda Moore discuss their time at Brown University, the effect their education …
Contributor:: Hassan, Afua (interviewee); Moore, Wanda (interviewee); Murphy, Mary (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: Black Students; Children; Group Interview; Midwifery; Racism; Students of Color; 1980s, Reunions
Local ID:: bdr:728091; bdr728091
Collection:: Brown University Library; Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women; Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

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Agnes Doody interview

Contributor:: Chapin, Christopher (interviewer); Doody, Agnes (interviewee)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: Doody, Agnes; AWOL; Cold War; Cuban Missile Crisis; DI, drill instructor; Ed Sullivan Show; George C. Wallace; John F. Kennedy; Lyndon B. Johnson; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Peace Corps; ROTC; Red Scare; Richard M. Nixon; Robert F. Kennedy; Spiro Agnew; The Beatles; Vietnam; boycott; civil rights; commune; counter-culture; deferment; draft; draft dodging; enlist; hippie; radical; sit-in
Local ID:: bdr:1161158; bdr1161158
Collection:: The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968

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Alice Elizabeth O'Connor, class of 1928

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Description:: Alice Chmielewski begins by discussing her life growing up in East Providence and assuming guardianship of her brothers and sisters after the early deaths of …
Year:: 1982
Contributor:: O'Connor, Alice Elizabeth (interviewee); Linn, Karen E. (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1920s; Academics; Administration; Athletics; Children; City Girls; Employment; Professors; Social Life
Collection:: Brown University Library; Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women; Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

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Alice Mary Clark, class of 1946

Description:: Part 1 begins with Alice Clark Donahue's recollections of her first impressions of Pembroke College, her involvement as a speech teacher, and being an assistant …
Year:: 1989
Contributor:: Clark, Alice Mary (interviewee); Lamoree, Karen (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1940s; Activism; Employment; Feminism; Gender Expectations; World War II
Collection:: Brown University Library; Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women; Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

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Alison Palmer, class of 1953

Description:: In part 1 of this interview, Alison discusses her childhood, her decision to attend Pembroke, and the Pembroke experience. In part 2 she discusses hazing …
Year:: 1988
Contributor:: Palmer, Alison (interviewee); Lamoree, Karen M. (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1950s; Academics; Athletics; Dating; Employment; Gender expectations; Great Depression; Minority students; Pembroke traditions; Pembroke/Brown merger; Physical education; Politics; Posture pictures; Professors; Sexism; Vietnam War
Collection:: Brown University Library; Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women; Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

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Alita Dorothy Bosworth and Rowena Albro Sherman, class of 1914

Description:: In Part 1 of this interview, Alita Bosworth Cameron and Rowena Sherman Allen discuss how they came to attend Brown University; restrictions and expectations of …
Year:: 1990
Contributor:: Bosworth, Alita Dorothy (interviewee); Sherman, Rowena Albro (interviewee); Raab, Barbara (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1910s; Athletics; City girls; Clothing and fashion; Dating; Deans; Dormitories; Fraternities; Gender expectations; Marriage; Pembroke traditions; Physical education; Professors; Sororities; Student activities
Collection:: Brown University Library; Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women; Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

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