Eleanor Burges Green papers, 1906-1948. [1906-1948]

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Eleanor Burges Green papers, 1906-1948. [1906-1948]

These papers contain correspondence relating to Eleanor Burges Green's support of Pembroke College, her role in organizing a memorial service to Dean Lida Shaw King who died in 1932, and the publication and distribution of two books paying tribute to Dean King. Additional materials include a draft of a Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women resolution and correspondence with the Association of Collegiate Alumnae.

0.25 linear ft. (1/2 Hollinger document case)

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Green, Eleanor Burges, 1870-1954.

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Eleanor Burges Green was born March 3, 1870 in Providence, the daughter of Judge Arnold and Cornelia (Burges) Green. Her brother Theodore Francis Green was governor of Rhode Island (Eleanor served as his first lady) and a United States Senator. Eleanor graduated from Wellesley College in 1892. She worked as a volunteer nurse at Rhode Island Hospital and Newport Hospital and was a leading force in founding the Providence District Nursing Association. Eleanor was a member of the Rhode Island Socie...

Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women.

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King, Lida Shaw, 1868-1932.

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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...