New Book, In Her Shoes, Is Launched and WWOHP Celebrates Tenth Anniversary

February 23, 2016

An overflow crowd of 140 people spilled out of the Saxe Room of the Worcester Public library on December 1 to hear readings from the new book, In Her Shoes: A Compilation of Inspiring Stories from the First Decade of the Worcester Women’s Oral History Project. Co-authors and Co-Chairpersons of the Project, Charlene L. Martin and Maureen Ryan Doyle, read three selections from each of the book’s chapters, answered questions from the audience, and signed books for those in attendance. 

About the Authors of In Her Shoes: A Compilation of Inspiring Stories from the First Decade of the Worcester Women’s Oral History Project

February 23, 2016

Maureen Ryan Doyle has worked as a freelance writer for many years and is also the owner of a small property management company in Central Massachusetts. She was the winner of Good Housekeeping Magazine’s New Traditionalist writing competition. Maureen earned her BA degree in history from Assumption College where she was a member of the first under-graduate class of women. She received the Outstanding Alumnus/Alumna Award from Assumption in 2013. She has pursued graduate study at Emerson College in Boston and Oglethorpe University in Atlanta.

Oral History Interview

February 12, 2015

State Senator Harriette L. Chandler is the first woman from Worcester to be elected to the Massachusetts State Senate and has also served on the Worcester School Committee and the Massa-chusetts House of Representatives. She earned her undergraduate degree from Wellesley Col-lege in 1959, a Ph.D. from Clark University in 1973, and an M.B.A. from Simmons Graduate School of Management in 1983. She is married to Atty. Burton Chandler and has three children and four grandchildren.

Dr. Carl Keyes to Speak at WWOHP December Event

December 3, 2014

The Worcester Women’s Oral History Project is pleased to host a presentation by Dr. Carl Keyes of Assumption College on December 3 at 5:30 p.m. at the Worcester Public Library. Dr. Keyes’ lecture is entitled Under-graduates Doing History: Integrating Oral History Projects into Humanities Courses. In this presentation Dr. Keyes will discuss the value under-graduate students in humanities courses derive from not only conducting oral history interviews, but also from the preparation of transcriptions and other documents for deposit in an archive.

WWOHP Interview with Barbara Kohin

February 13, 2014

When I first came to Worcester it was [challenging]. The colleges didn’t hire women. I sent my resume to WPI, Holy Cross, Assumption. I mean Clark was accepting women, but my husband already worked there so that didn’t work. I sent my resumes around and they didn’t even answer. They didn’t respond or acknowledge. I remember, I thought I’d call up WPI and talk to the Physics guy and he said, “Well, we do have an opening for a Molecular Physicist” and I said ‘I am a molecular physicist!’ And he said, “Really?” I never got an interview. So I did get a job finally, at Worcester State.

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