Scope and Contents Adams talks about growing up in North Dakota and attending college and working as a librarian in New York City. He describes campus life from1945 through the late sixties, the building of Jackson Library and his sponsorship of the Outing Club. He discusses the administrations of Chancellors Edward Kidder Graham, Jr., Walter Clinton Jackson, James Sharbrough Ferguson and Otis Arnold Singletary; the controversy arising from loaning books to students from North Carolina Agricultural &...

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Subjects: Working for Harriet Elliott, aspects of campus life during the Great Depression, Commercial Program, building and financing of the Alumnae House, being fired by Katherine Taylor, Chancellor Edward Kidder Graham, Jr. controversy, working for Mereb Mossman, Chancellor James S. Ferguson, Alumni Association/Chancellor William E. Moran controversy.

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The majority of files include transcripts of interviews. However, a small number of files include notes rather than transcriptions or memoranda explaining why no transcription was done. Box 10 is comprised of compact disks and floppy disks containing digital files of transcripts.

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Anderton discusses her counseling and teaching experiences and the changes in makeup of the student body during her tenure. She describes her scientific research and collection of science department photographs. Subjects: Research in cytogenetics, chromosome and tissue culture, veteran of the WAVES.

Scope and Contents Andris describes the administrative styles of Mereb Mossman, Stan Jones, and Elisabeth Zinser, the responsibilities of the office of academic affairs and how it evolved over the years and the allocation of funds among schools in the University of North Carolina System. She explains the transition from a mostly-female to mostly-male faculty, the involvement of faculty in the academic program over the years and the advent of computer use on campus. She also describes the one-year Commercial...

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Transcription taken from recording with poor fidelity. Subjects: Started teaching at age forty-five, life on campus during WWII.

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Contains notes from the interview. Subjects: Commercial program (should have been separate from a four year university... it took away from the quality of WC), and life on campus during the Great Depression.

Scope and Contents Bardolph recalls activities that cultivated a sense of community at Woman's College and the transition to The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He describes the transition to a coeducational university, the strictures in North Carolina that prevented racial integration after the Brown v. Board of Education decision and his belief that faculty were left out of the decision-making process on campus. He talks about the...

Scope and Contents Barkley describes his work establishing a psychology lab at Woman's College and relates the close mindedness, fearful atmosphere and lack of research he found on the campus. He tells of the tenure of several key figures including Julius Foust, Frank Porter Graham, and Harriet Elliott. He describes the college being coeducational during the Depression, recalls the pacifist movement of the 1930s and explains the impact of WWII on campus. He also describes counseling students on life decisions,...

Scope and Contents Barkley recalls the activities on Tate Street in the early seventies, drug use among students and community members and the easement of restrictions for students living on campus. She discusses sociological attitudes, her role as a student senator and the tearing down of established university institutions during her time as a student. She speaks to the rift between the Alumni Association and university administration and gives her predictions for the future of UNCG. Subjects: Coeducation,...

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Memo explains that the poor sound quality on the recording made it impossible to transcribe.