Maxine Rockoff and Robin Sparkman
Recorded
October 8, 2020
Archived
October 7, 2020
42:55 minutes
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Id:
ddv000258
Description
Maxine Rockoff (82) talks with her friend and StoryCorps CEO, Robin Sparkman (51), about her life and career. She recalls getting her PhD, working in biomedical computing, becoming a mother, and her accomplishment of wiring settlement houses in New York City.Subject Log / Time Code
MR talks about her upbringing and her college education.
MR remembers meeting her husband in college and getting married after knowing each other for two weeks.
MR talks about defending her dissertation to get her PhD while she was pregnant.
MR talks about her involvement with biomedical computing.
MR reflects on moving to Connecticut and what her life felt like there.
MR reflects on her role as a mother to her children.
MR talks about role models and her friends from college who she has kept in touch with.
MR discusses her relationship with her granddaughter, who currently lives with her.
MR talks about what she is most proud of: wiring settlement houses in New York City.
Participants
- Maxine Rockoff
- Robin Sparkman