Pembroke Afternoon Reading Group records Pembroke Afternoon Reading Group records 1927-1991
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Pembroke College (Brown University)
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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 Annma...
Brown University.
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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...
Pembroke Afternoon Reading Group.
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In 1927, Mary Florence (Rafter) McCusker and Isabel (McMurty) Voigt founded a small group for fellow members of the Brown Alumnae Club of Providence. The group's name became the Pembroke Afternoon Reading Group (PARG) when the Brown Alumnae Club's name was changed to the Pembroke College Club of Providence. Although loosely affiliated with the Alumnae Club, PARG led an independent existence. PARG's by-laws state that its aims were "sociability, sewing, reading, and handi...
