Cross recalls living in the UNCG neighborhood as a child, the faculty (some of them neighbors) who influenced her, her experience at Curry School and campus life as a town student. She discusses working at Elliott Hall and painting the McIver statue, the move to Division I athletics and her perception of the lessening of the institution's academic reputation. She talks about the arrival of coeducation and integration at UNCG and in Greensboro and the controversy between Chancellor William Moran and the Alumni Association. Subjects: Trolley cars, going out of town on weekends, traditions (class rings, class jackets, daisy chain, and Tuesday chapel), Alumni Association/Chancellor Moran controversy, Barbara Parrish.