This is a gift from Edward and Judith Becker in memory of her beloved Aunt Jessie (February 21, 1913 - October 30, 2005).

Jessie Barker was a remarkable woman, graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University in 1933 at the age of 20. She pursued a career in business at the Providence Journal for 44 years, retiring in 1978 as Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer of the Corporation -- the first woman officer at the Journal. Throughout her long and satisfying life, Jessie was an avid reader, active alumna and loyal supporter of Brown.

Purchased in memory of Jessie Barker, Class of 1933:

» Fashioning socialism : clothing, politics, and consumer culture in East Germany / Judd Stitziel

» The archaeology of identity : approaches to gender, age, status, ethnicity and religion / Margarita Díaz-Andreu ... [et al.]

» Secret ingredients : race, gender, and class at the dinner table / Sherrie A. Inness

» Brazilian folktales / Livia de Almeida and Ana Portella ; edited by Margaret Read MacDonald

» Human ecology in the Wadi al-Hasa : land use and abandonment through the Holocene / J. Brett Hill

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