Oral history interview with Frances Cooper-Marshall Donovan, 1985.

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Oral history interview with Frances Cooper-Marshall Donovan, 1985.

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Transcript (draft and edited version) of an oral history interview by Phoebe Barnes records Donovan's childhood and early schooling, years at Brookline High, experience at Radcliffe College as a student on scholarship; her work experience at Radcliffe during and after college; relationship with Radcliffe deans and presidents including Bernice Brown Cronkhite, Ada Comstock, and Mary Bunting; her work at the Radcliffe appointment bureau, finding jobs for Radcliffe graduates and doing vocational training; her perspective on the Harvard/Radcliffe relationship; her experience organizing volunteers at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and memories of different hospital administrators encountered there. Also includes correspondence between Donovan and Barnes. Audiotape is shelved separately as 87-T10.

.25 linear ft.Transcript: 77 p.

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Frances Cooper-Marshall Donovan was born in London in 1906 to Emma Watson and Raphael Cooper-Marshall. She attended school in London and Jamaica, and was enrolled in Brookline High School in 1921, while her father was in the United States on business. She studied government at Radcliffe College (A.B. 1928, A.M. 1932) where she was Class Marshall, president of student government, and president of the debating team. In 1931 she married James Donovan, a classmate from Brookline High and chemical en...