Scope and Contents Dickieson discusses establishing the orchestra and instrumental music program at the college, the growth of the School of Music, faculty life and the arrival of coeducation and integration. He recalls the administrations of several chancellors, especially Edward Kidder Graham Jr. and the divisiveness his tenure brought to the institution. He discusses his relationships with the deans of the School of Music from Wade Brown to Lawrence Hart and administrators Katherine Taylor and Mereb...

Scope and Contents Craig Dozier recalls the evolution and growth of the geography department, his opinion of the loss of distinction after the institution became coeducational, the Vietnam War protests and the changes that occurred as Woman's College became a large university. He talks about Dean Mereb Mossman and the chancellors he served under: Gordon Blackwell, William Whatley Pierson, Otis Singletary, James Ferguson and William Moran. He discusses the increase of male faculty. Virginia Dozier discusses...

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Subjects: Found UNCG basically living in the "Dark Ages" as it related to its management and planning, a landlocked campus, the building deteriorating, no planning, no existing accounting system, the budget, Chancellor Moran, financial management, future plans, campus improvements.

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Subjects: Building doctoral program from scratch, the beauty of the campus, his high regard for Mereb Mossman, the Psychology Department--growth and changes, Gilbert Gottlieb, Chancellors Ferguson and Moran.

Scope and Contents Edinger discusses the priorities, programs and administrations of the School of Education, especially placing student teachers, and the tenures of chancellors of the university and deans of the School during her career. She describes the establishment of a women's center, the male/female ratio of faculty and the strengths of the female administrators. She talks about the Curry Laboratory School and the introduction of coeducation and integration and their effect on teacher education and...

Scope and Contents Eidenier recalls her role in student government and student campus life and traditions. She discusses the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961, the North Carolina Speaker Ban in 1963, President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 and sociological attitudes as the college became integrated and coeducational. She talks about the strong curriculum of the institution and remembers Chancellor James S. Ferguson and the English faculty, especially Randall Jarrell. Subjects: Living on campus, her...

Scope and Contents Elliott describes her campus life as a town student who lived near campus and had attended Curry School. She remembers her total acceptance of faculty ideas, the women veterans in her class and relations with the few men on campus. She recalls deans of women Katherine Taylor and Harriet Elliott and Chancellor Walter Clinton Jackson. She talks about the controversy between the Alumni Association and Chancellor William Moran and the move to Division I athletics. Subjects: Being a student at...

Scope and Contents Elwell recalls her family's life during the Depression, college life as a town student and favorite faculty. She talks about the makeup of the student body and the years prior to World War II and reminisces about her role as editor of the literary magazine, Coraddi, and fitting in on campus. She discusses writers and actors and plays and movies of the times. Subjects: Being a day student, Mildred Gordon (English Department), Benjamin Kendrick (History...

Scope and Contents Falk describes student life and traditions, student government, campus traditions and influential faculty and administrators, such as Harriet Elliott and Katherine Taylor. She talks about being house president of her dormitory, faculty/student relationships and the effects of the Depression. She discusses the tenure of Chancellor Edward Kidder Graham Jr., the move to Division I athletics and the controversy between Chancellor Moran and the Alumni Association. Subjects: Campus life in the...

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Subjects: Women vs. men as foreign language students, integration, coeducation, faculty salaries, Winfred Barney, Marta Miller, Rene Hardre, the language laboratory, the lack of language requirements, Chancellor Ferguson, the changes in courses over the last twenty-five years.

Scope and Contents Ferguson tells of his years as chief financial officer at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and recalls his reasons for moving to UNCG. He describes characteristics of the students throughout his years here, the ARA Food Services strike in 1969 and the private phone line installed in Chancellor James Ferguson's office. He provides details of campus operations including administration in the sixties, budgeting processes after consolidation, physical development and land acquisitions...

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Subjects: Dorm life, strong academic reputation of school, student life, coeducation, traditions (house meetings, sister classes, rules, curfew, and girls being bused to Chapel Hill for "mixers" on weekends), Amy Charles, Ruth Hege, Chancellor Singletary, Katherine Taylor, women abdicating leadership roles after school became coeducational, Faculty Member's Calendar and Scheduling Committee, low funding at UNCG, Curriculum Committee, changes in the library.

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Subjects: Her first impressions of the school, the high academic reputation, dress code for students and faculty, teaching conditions, lab conditions, faculty meetings, Mereb Mossman, Chancellor Ferguson, coeducation, facility improvements, departmental changes.

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Subjects: Woman's College traditions (rat day, sister classes, class colors, class jackets, daisy chain), rules and regulations covering rooms, dress and smoking, living in dorms with non-southern girls, curfew, dating boys from Chapel Hill, State, Duke or Wake Forest, dances, Vera Largent (History Department), Margaret Hunt (Political Science), Chancellor Singletary, the street demonstrations, Richard Bardolph.

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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.

Scope and Contents Subjects: Attending an all-black high school; choosing UNCG rather than NC A&T (choice of her father) because she wanted to go into medical technology, Richard Bardolph, Eugene Pfaff's influence, taking the entrance exam, the black girls being segregated in Coit Residence Hall, feeling isolated on campus, reaction from white girls to her and other black students, the social and political events of the early 1960s, college traditions (class jackets, Founders Day, rules and regulations...

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Subjects: Influences of Gregory Ivy, the art and design classes, different types of art processes, the bonding of the girls at Woman's College so they became sisters, life on campus, traditions (marshals, daisy chain, and May Queen), pros of going to an all girls school.

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Subjects: Living in the Residential College for three years, campus life, cafeteria food, finishing her course work in three and one-half years.

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Subjects discussed by Guigou: Being a dorm student, life after WWII, the return of war veterans, the start of the Korean War, female veterans, rules on campus, going to Chapel Hill on weekends for "mixers." Subjects discussed by Minton: Being a town student except for one semester, Katherine Taylor, troubles in Europe prior to WWII, rationing during the war, her campus activities, Harriet Elliott, northern students, school's academic reputation, coeducation, integration.