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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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Description:: In the first part of the interview, Anna discusses early life on her family’s farm and the decision to attend Pembroke despite wanting to get …
Year:: 1987
Contributor:: Hass, Anna Rena (interviewee); Tavon, Joyce (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: Academics; Activism; Administration; City girls; Civil Rights; Clothing and fashion; Dating; Dormitories; Employment; Family; Gender expectations; Great Depression; Marriage; Minority students; Politics; Providence; Race relations; Social life; Vietnam War; 1910s
Collection:: Brown University Library; Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women; Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

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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

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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

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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

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Description:: Appleton begins the interview recalling the defining decision made by Pembroke Dean Lida Shaw King to abolish all sororities on campus. She then describes the …
Year:: 1981
Contributor:: Appleton, Marguerite (interviewee); Raab, Barbara (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1910s; Athletics; Deans; Employment; Family; Fraternities; Pembroke traditions; Physical education; Social life; Sororities
Collection:: Brown University Library; Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women; Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

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Description:: In Part 1, Ruth speaks about being the youngest of six children, her close relationship with her oldest brother, gathering garnets at Diamond Hill with …
Contributor:: Cooke, Ruth Elizabeth (interviewee); Raab, Barbara (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: Academics; 1910s; Athletics; Administration; Dating; Deans; Dormitories; Family; Pembroke Traditions; Physical Education; Professors; Providence; Social Life
Collection:: Brown University Library; Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women; Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

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Description:: In this interview, Sarah discusses the proliferation of theatre at Brown and in the greater Providence community. She tells us of the Talma Theatre, The …
Contributor:: Minchin, Sarah Elizabeth (interviewee); Easton, Harold H. (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1910s; Gender expectations; Marriage; Professors; Sexism; Theatre
Collection:: Brown University Library; Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women; Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

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