Hilman Thomas Watkins (1925 - ) graduated in 1947 with a degree in secretarial administration from Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Watkins talks about campus rules and regulations, college laundry service, dorm life, Saturday classes, and the everlasting friendships she made. She mentions campus traditions such as the Daisy Chain, Rat Day, and Tuesday Chapel. Watkins also discusses being a marshal during her junior and senior years, her duties as chief marshal, how marshals were selected by the four societies, and how they were involved in important functions on campus, such as graduation. She recalls administrators Walter Clinton Jackson, Barbara Parish, and Katherine Taylor; faculty members Richard Bardolph and Josephine Hege; and residence hall counselor Lillian Cunningham. Watkins also remembers the large number of soldiers stationed in Greensboro during World War II and the impact that the War had on her and the college; such as clothing, food, and gasoline rationing.
