Pembroke College (Brown University)

The Pembroke College Seventy-fifth Anniversary Committee was comprised of representatives from the administration, undergraduates, and alumnae. Mary Louise Record served as the chair. The alumnae sub-committee also acted as a committee of the Alumnae Association of Brown University. The 75th Anniversary Committee first met in the fall of 1965. The celebration began in the fall of 1966 with an arts festival that included an Exhibition of the Herbert and Nannette Rothschild Collection at the Annmary Brown Memorial (for the exhibit catalog, request University Archives 1-ZP -B68h). Grace E. Hawk wrote Pembroke College in Brown University: The First Seventy-Five Years, 1891-1966 (University Archives 1-ZP H3) for the anniversary.

From the guide to the Pembroke College Seventy-fifth Anniversary files, 1965-1971, (John Hay Library Special Collections)

Pembroke College and the Butler-Bradley Mental Health Education Center sponsored "Women: Changing Perspective," which originally consisted of five forums featuring speakers and discussions in March 1971. Many of the participants perceived that women's role in society was changing. Discussions, which continued after the forums were over, turned to how the university could respond to these changes, particularly as Pembroke College was about to merge with Brown University, thus leaving women without an institutional "place." Some of the participants developed proposals for the Pembroke Institute, a combination of a women's center and university extension. The Sarah Doyle Womens' Center was founded in 1975.

From the guide to the Pembroke College "Women: Changing Perspectives" forum records, 1964, 1970-1971, (John Hay Library Special Collections)