Guide to the Margaret (Ellickson) Senturia papers, 1957-1969


John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Published in 2021

Collection Overview

Title: Margaret (Ellickson) Senturia papers
Date range: 1957-1969
Creator: Margaret (Ellickson) Senturia
Extent: .5 Linear Feet
(1 half-file box)
Abstract: This collection consists of correspondence sent to and from Margaret (Ellickson) Senturia, class of 1961, during her time at Pembroke College in Brown University and shortly after. Correspondents include Pembroke classmates and a boyfriend. Topics include travel, affording tuition, Pembroke courses, employment and family life. This collection also includes a personal reflection of her time on campus. Materials date from 1957 to 1969.
Language of materials: English
Repository: John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Collection number: MS.2021.003

Scope & content

This collection consists of correspondence sent to and from Margaret (Ellickson) Senturia, class of 1961, during her time at Pembroke College in Brown University and shortly after. Correspondents include Pembroke classmates and a boyfriend. Topics include travel, affording tuition, Pembroke courses, employment and family life. This collection also includes a personal reflection of her time on campus. Materials date from 1957 to 1969 and are arranged into 1 series.

Access Points

Subject Organizations Subject Topics

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into 1 series.

Biographical/Historical Note

The following biographical note was written by Margaret (Ellickson) Senturia in November, 2019. It is recorded here in the first person.

Born September 7, 1939, I grew up in Washington, DC, where my father was an economist at the Department of Agriculture and my mother was Director of Research at the Congress of Industrial Organizations and an advocate for women's issues. I attended the public schools and also received a thorough political education at home.

At Pembroke I majored in math because it came easily to me and I finished the course work quickly. My boyfriend for my first years at Brown, Bowen Tucker, was a math major. I became increasingly interested in history. A couple of months before graduation I met Tedd Dickerman, a PhD student in history at Brown and married him on June 2, 1962. I had begun graduate work in history, which I continued to the point of beginning a dissertation on the history of science in colonial America. I took part in the women's liberation movement and grew increasing interested in personal relationships.

My son (Sam Dickerman) was born in 1969. In 1971 I divorced Tedd and moved to Boston, where I got a degree in clinical social work from Boston University in 1974. I worked as an individual, group, and family therapist and was elected president of the Society for Family Therapy and Research.

To learn more about influencing organizations, I went to MIT's Sloan School as a fellow, graduating in 1985, and became a management consultant and trainer, working with Fortune 100 companies and government agencies on total quality management. Before my retirement in 2000, I returned to human services for several years to apply what I had learned in the corporate world.

In 1992 I married Steve Senturia.

Since retirement I've been active in local politics and in the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement. I enjoy reading, babysitting my grandchildren, gardening, hiking, writing poetry and memoirs, and traveling with my husband.

Access & Use

Access to the collection: There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested.
Use of the materials: All researchers seeking to publish materials from the collections of the John Hay Library are requested to complete a Notice of Intent to Publish, prior to reproducing, quoting, or otherwise publishing any portion or extract from this collection. Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Preferred citation: Margaret (Ellickson) Senturia, MS.2021.003, Box [#], Folder [#], Pembroke Center Archives, John Hay Library, Brown University.
Contact information: John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
Acquisition: Gift of Margaret (Ellickson) Senturia in 2019.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Finding aid prepared by Amanda Knox and Mary Murphy, on behalf of the Pembroke Center for the Teaching and Research on Women and the Brown University Library.
Encoding: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2021-04-22.
Descriptive rules: Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
Sponsor: Curatorial work and processing provided by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women on behalf of the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive, Brown University Library.

Additional Information

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Related Materials

See also Margaret (Ellickson) Senturia's oral history given in 2011 at her 50th class reunion: https://www.brown.edu/initiatives/pembroke-oral-histories/interview/50th-reunion-class-1961 The Pembroke Center Oral History collection also includes physical materials from this interview (OH.1S.2013.002).

Inventory

Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 1 1957: correspondence from Barbara Morrison
 1957
Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 2 1957: personal reflection on Pembroke College and academics
 1957
Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 3 1958: correspondence with Bowen Tucker
 1958
Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 4 1959-1967: correspondence from Anne Jacobson
 1959 - 1967
Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 5 1959: correspondence from Jane Palches and Rosemary von Elling
 1959
Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 6 1959: correspondence with Bowen Tucker (1 of 2)
 1959
Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 7 1959: correspondence with Bowen Tucker (2 of 2)
 1959
Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 8 1960: correspondence from Bowen Tucker and Dilys Winn
 1960
Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 9 1960: correspondence with Bowen Tucker
 1960
Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 10 1961: correspondence from Debarah Unruh, Peter and Jane Palches, and Theresa Taft
 1961
Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 11 1962: correspondence from Katherine Pollak Ellickson, Senturia's mother
 1962
Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 12 1963: correspondence from Dilys Winn, Gael Dickerman, Jane Palches, and Libby Mohrs
 1963
Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 13 1964: correspondence from Alan and Joan Coppers, Deboral Unruh, John Chafee, Jane Palches, Libby Mohrs, and Susan Penny
 1964
Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 14 n.d.: correspondence from Dilys Winn, Jane Palches, and Theresa Taft
 n.d.
Box [31236104062735] 1, Folder 15 n.d.: correspondence from Elizabeth F. Diggs
 n.d.