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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

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
Full Record

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