Carol Canner papers (AMS-1U-2019.002)

Biographical/Historical Note

Carol Canner was born in Boston, MA on May 11, 1937. She grew up in Newton, Massachusetts where she graduated from Newton High School in 1955. She attended Pembroke College, the women's college in Brown University, and graduated in 1959 with an A.B. in English literature. Canner went on to obtain an M.A.T. from Harvard University in 1960, and an M.S.W. from the University of Connecticut in 1967. She married her husband, Atle Gjelsvik, in 1960 and together they had two children, Erik and Annie. Canner retired as the Assistant Director of Head Start of Rockland County, New York, and moved to North Kingstown, Rhode Island.

In 2017, Canner donated an oral history to the Pembroke Center Oral History Project. It is available online at https://www.brown.edu/initiatives/pembroke-oral-histories/interview/carol-canner-class-1959.