Hilda Burton Fountain (1908-2012) graduated in 1929 from the North Carolina College for Women, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She worked as a substitute teacher, social worker, and for the North Carolina Welfare Department. Hilda Burton Fountain discusses her time at the North Carolina College for Women, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She recalls transportation, college rules and regulations, and campus life during the late 1920s. Fountain mentions Professors Harriett Elliott, John Paul Givler, A.C. Hall, Anne Elder Ketchin, and Marjorie Mendenhall; Counselor Lillian Killingsworth; and Presidents Julius Foust and Walter Clinton Jackson. She describes graduating and marrying right before the stock market crashed in 1929 and the Great Depression ensued. Fountain talks about being the tenant selection supervisor at the Daniel Brooks Homes and Clara Cox Homes in High Point, North Carolina and being a probation officer with the North Carolina Welfare Department.
