Mrs. Beverly Bownes on Education and Employment
- Title:
- Mrs. Beverly Bownes on Education and Employment
- Creator:
- Beverly Bowens; Vanessa Saric
- Date Created:
- 2001-03-31
- Description:
- Beverly Bowens was born in Portland, Maine, in 1934, and grew up on Munjoy Hill. She had one older brother. Her father was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin; her mother’s family had been in Portland for generations. She graduated from Portland High School, attended Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, and then moved to New York City to attend Teacher’s College at Columbia University; as of this interview, she had a bachelor’s degree in nursing, a master’s degree in nursing administration, and a master’s degree in institutional education. She married a surgeon and they had one daughter; her husband died when their daughter was eighteen months old. As of this interview, she had two grandchildren. She had a long career in nursing.
- Subjects:
- Education Employment Family
- Location:
- Portland, ME
- Latitude:
- 43.65830234
- Longitude:
- -70.25811361
- Source:
- Univeristy of Southern Maine, Saric, Vanessa and Bowens, Beverly (2001). Home Is Where I Make It Oral History Project. 2.
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Digital Commons URL:
- https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/aa_hiwimi/2/
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Mrs. Beverly Bownes on Education and Employment", We Exist Series 5, Digital Projects - University of Southern Maine Libraries & Learning
- Reference Link:
- acg-floating-204-197-4-76.acg.maine.edu/weexist5/items/we5_060.html
Rights
- Rights:
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/