Interview List

Following is a list of women who have been interviewed for the Worcester Women's Oral History Project. Many transcripts are accessible by clicking on the highlighted names. All transcripts are accessible in a repository at the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute.

  • If you are willing to be interviewed, please contact info [at] wwhp [dot] org.
  • If you have been interviwed and don't see your photograph here and would like to share it, please email it to info [at] wwhp [dot] org or send a hard copy to:

    Worcester Women's History Project
    30 Elm Street
    Worcester, MA 01609
Name Interview Date Note
Gloria Abramoff 10/22/2007 Former Owner and Operator of Tatnuck Bookseller
Claudia J. Aitken 10/24/2005 School psychologist;Created Peace Busters Mediation Program
Mercy Akpan 11/11/2005 Minister, born in Nigeria
Mary Aleksiewicz 10/26/2005 Vice President of Nursing, Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital
Mary Lou Anderson 03/23/2009 College Dean and Professor
Thea Aschkenase 02/20/2009 Auschwitz survivor, Worcester State College graduate, Commonwealth Corps volunteer
Barbara Trayers Athy 04/23/2006 Director of Marketing and Communication, Abby’s House
Mary Ann Azanza 03/30/2009 Provincial Superior of the Assumption Sisters in the United States
Kay Bassett 10/23/2007 Technical Manager; Chair, Red Cross; Wife of President of Clark University
Rosamond Riley Bennet 10/23/2006 Member, Unitarian Universalist Church on Main Street; Volunteer for Planned Parenthood
Sande Bishop 11/06/2006 Medical Historian;Columnist for "Worcester Medicine"
Cynthia Bizzaro 11/11/2005 Born in Worcester, Music Teacher and Pianist
Donna Bouchard 11/29/2006 Works at Paper and Oil Company
Jacqueline Brennan 11/20/2006 Physical and Occupational Therapist;College Professor
Suzanne M. Buglione 10/26/2005 College Professor, Business Owner, Community Volunteer
Anita Burdick 10/28/2005 Office Administrator, Business Owner, Mother of Three
Nancy Caruso 10/18/2006 Worcester Public School Teacher
Julie Cerqueira 04/27/2006 Student, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Peace Corps Volunteer
Shirley Coleman 10/19/2005 Lived in Worcester's Indian Hill neighborhood for forty-one years
Donna Connolly 11/11/2009 Director, Worcester Educational Talent Search, Colleges of Worcester Consortium
Lori Connolly 02/28/2009 Occupational Therapist, Member of Central Mass Families Organizing for Change
Claire Constantin 03/06/2008 Retired Government Worker, Volunteer at the Deaf Senior Center and the Rape Crisis Center
Tracy Cooney 11/30/2006 Worcester Public School Teacher
Dolores Courtmanche 11/12/2008 Reporter for the Worcester Telegram and Gazette; President of WISE at Assumption College
Mildred Cummings 04/05/2008 Registered Nurse;President,Episcobal Church Women's Group
Elizabeth D'Errico 03/13/2009 Norton teletype operator, registered nurse, mother
Anne A. Dealy 05/05/2008 Police Department Employee;Member of Senior Center and Women's Guild
Elizabeth Dean 10/19/2007 Director, International Center; Worcester League of Women Voters
Margery Dearborn 11/21/2006 Founder, Preservation Worcester
Melanie Demarais 04/02/2008 College Development Officer;President, Worcester League of Women Voters
Carolyn Dik 10/23/2007 Former President of League of Women Voters; Member of U.S. Judicial Nominating Committee under President Jimmy Carter
Carol Donnelly 11/19/2006 College Professor
Patricia Donovan 04/04/2006 1960s Activist
Charlyne Dore 11/07/2006 Customer Service Representative
Maureen Ryan Doyle 11/19/2008 Freelance Writer, Property Manager, Member of the First Class of Women at Assumption College
Elaine Ducharme 03/27/2007 Director, Deaf Blind Contact Center
Annette Dudek 02/23/2009 Graduate Student, Social Worker
Bozena Dudek 11/10/2005 Polish immigrant; Lived in Worcester for thirty years
Katie Dutch 10/16/2006 College Student
Evalyn Dyer 12/08/2008 Homemaker, Mother of Six; Raised in a Convent
Guillerma Ellisondo 04/13/2006 Argentine immigrant; Professor of Spanish, Worcester State College
Gail England 04/18/2006 Grew up in Worcester; Probation Department, Juvenile Court
Patricia Eppinger 11/11/2008 College Teacher, Volunteer at United Way Women’s Initiative, Ecotarium, Hanover Theater renovation, mother of three
Phyllis Estus 10/22/2007 Political activist, church choir director, college administrator
Lauren Farina 10/03/2006 Program Coordinator, Dismas House
Judy Freedman Fask 12/04/2008 College Professor of Deaf Studies, College of the Holy Cross; Sign Language Interpreter, Mother of Five
Ann Louise Flynn 03/21/2006 College administrator, Assistant Vice President of United Way. Community Volunteer
Rebecca Freedman 01/18/2007 Mother Grandmother, Army Nurse
Aida Gautier 11/20/2005 Born in Puerto Rico; Plumbley Village Nursing Assistant/Outreach Social Worker
Louise Gleason 11/13/2006 Nurse at Worcester State Hospital, Department of Mental Health, and UMASS Medical