Interview with Lydia Messmer: oral history.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Constance E. (Constance Elizabeth), Sister, 1904-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Pennsylvania--Students.

University of Pennsylvania.

University of Pennsylvania--Evaluation.

University of Pennsylvania--Alumni.

University of Pennsylvania--History--20th century.

Career development--Canada--Toronto.

Career development.

Gerontology--Study and teaching--Michigan.

Gerontology.

Religious communities--Canada--Toronto.

Religious communities.

Women--Canada--Toronto--Religious life.

Women.

Episcopal Church--Clergy.

Episcopal Church.

Physical Description:

2 videotapes (1 U-matic tape and 1 VHS): accompanying material in the manuscript section of the collection.

Contained In:

University of Pennsylvania. School of Arts and Sciences. Computing Facilities and Services. Multimedia Educational Technology Services. Records, 1969-1991

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania, c[1987].

Biography/History:

Sister Constance E. Murphy graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Education in 1928. She became affiliated with the St. John's Convent in Toronto, Canada, in 1936.

Summary:

Sister Murphy reviewed her experience as a student at the University of Pennsylvania, discussed why she chose the University and why she later on chose Episcopal sisterhood over teaching, and then recalled her participation in the fiftieth reunion of her class in 1978 and her experience of studying gerontology at the University of Michigan in 1972. In addition, she discussed how she kept active despite her advanced age and talked a little about her family.

Notes:

Produced by the Multimedia Educational Technology Services, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1346384280