Guide to the Pembroke College, Director of Residence records, 1940-1968

John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Published in 2012

Collection Overview

Title:	Pembroke College, Director of Residence records
Date range:	1940-1968
Creator:	Pembroke College (Brown University). Director of Residence.
Extent:	2.25 Linear feet
Abstract:	The Pembroke College, Director of Residence records contains materials regarding student housing at Pembroke College. The records include materials regarding the budget, dormitory assignments, statistics, student activities, and correspondence to and from Sally McPherson, who was the Director of Residence at Pembroke from 1947 to 1964. The records are dated from 1940 to 1968.
Language of materials:	English
Repository:	John Hay Library , Special Collections
Collection number:	OF.1R.1zp

Scope & content

The Pembroke College, Director of Residence records contains materials related to student housing at Pembroke College before it merged with Brown University. The records are dated from 1940 to 1968 and have been organized into one series:

Series I. Director of Residence records includes materials regarding the housing budget, dormitory assignments, interoffice memoranda, student activities such as "freshmen week", statistics, and correspondence to and from Sally McPherson, who was the Director of Residence at Pembroke from 1947 to 1964.

Access Points

Subject Organizations

• Brown University--Directories.
• Pembroke College (Brown University)--Student housing.
• Pembroke College (Brown University).

Subject Topics

• Student housing

Document Types

• Budgets
• Financial records
• Letters (Correspondence)
• Memorandums
• Office files

Subject Topics

• Education

Arrangement

The Pembroke College, Director of Residence Halls records have been organized into one series: I. Director of Residence records.

Historical note

Pembroke College in Brown University was the name given to the Women’s College in 1928. The first women students had arrived in October 1891, after some years of negotiations. At the end of the academic year, in the spring of 1892, the Corporation voted to open all degrees of the University to women. The next year there were nine sophomores, fourteen freshmen and 22 special students, and the classes were moved into the building at 235 Benefit Street.

It was not until 1896 that the Corporation finally passed its “Legislation Founding the Women’s College in Brown University.” which recognized the women’s college as a department. The first women graduates in 1894 were Mary Emma Woolley and Anne Tillinghast Weeden. The next year eleven graduated, seven with a bachelor of arts degree and four with a bachelor of philosophy, and their names were listed below a dividing line after the male graduates. The courses and examinations taken by the women were the same as those prescribed for the men, and the performance of the women students was often proclaimed to be superior to that of the men.

In 1903 the Women’s College was given its own faculty, composed of all department heads in the University and the faculty members who taught courses for women, to supervise all academic matters except admission and graduation. On October 20, 1917, the Women’s College celebrated its 25th anniversary, which had been postponed from the previous spring because of the threat of war.

Over the years Brown and Pembroke students merged their student organizations, attended coeducational classes, and in 1969 began living in coed dormitories. On July 1, 1971, the offices of the two colleges for admission, financial aid, placement, housing, and counseling were merged in the final act of making Brown a truly coeducational university.

The information above is taken from the Encyclopedia Brunoniana by Martha Mitchell, copyright ©1993 by the Brown University Library. It is used here by permission of the author and the University and may not be copied or further distributed without permission.

Sally McPherson was Director of Residence from 1947 through the spring of 1964.

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:	Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Preferred citation:	Pembroke College, Director of Residence records, OF-1R-1ZP, Brown University Archives.
Contact information:	John Hay Library , Special Collections Box A Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Tel: 401-863-2146 email: hay@brown.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION
Acquisition:	These files were found in the attic of Alumnae Hall in 1989. They were transferred to the Brown University Archives by Christine Dunlap Farnham Archivist Karen Lamoree that year.
Processing information:	These office files were weeded under the direction of Christine Dunlap Farnham archivist Karen Lamoree. Those with "no archival or other values" were destroyed. A complete list of the folder headings of the unweeded, original transfer precedes the first folder of the collection.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID
Author:	Finding aid prepared by Brown University Library staff
Encoding:	This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2012 November 9
Descriptive rules:	Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
Sponsor:	Processing funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

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