Susannah Thomas Watson (1918-2003) graduated in 1939 with a degree in English from Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Watson describes student social life, town students, the International Relations Club, the Student Government Association, the YWCA, and the influence that faculty had on students. She discusses administrators Harriet Elliott, Walter Clinton Jackson, Mereb Mossman, Barbara Parrish, and Wilmina Rowland. She comments on the Chancellor Edward Kidder Graham, Jr. controversy and the issues between the Alumni Association and Chancellor William E. Moran. Watson also talks about the Great Depression, the events of the late 1930s and the threat of war in Europe, coeducation, race relations, and her involvement in the Alumni Association Board and Alumni Magazine Editorial Board.
