Eula King Vereen (1923-2004) graduated with a Master of Science in Home Economics from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in 1970. She did her undergraduate work in home economics at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, and also studied at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Vereen talks about why she chose to attend UNCG; School of Home Economics Dean Naomi Albanese; her professors: Mary Andrews Dickey, Faye Grant, Rosemary McGee, and Anne Shamburger; and Margaret Ellen Penn who ran the School of Home Economics cafeteria. She explains her master's thesis, which focused on the nutritional value of food consumed by forty North Carolina A&T State University students. Vereen also discusses her time as director of food service at A&T and her transfer to the A&T Home Economics Department. Encouraged to further her studies at UNCG by A&T President Lewis Dowdy, she relates how she became an associate professor in the A&T Home Economics Department.
