Marilyn Lott (1938- ) graduated in 1962 from Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. After graduating, she taught school and worked as a computer programmer for several companies in the Washington, DC area. Lott describes growing up in a Navy family and moving across the country several times during her father's naval career. She discusses her reasons for transferring from George Washington College to Woman's College and compares the academic and social life at both schools. Lott recalls some of the professors at Woman's College such as Richard Bardolph, Barbara Brandon, May Bush, Harry Finestone, Randall Jarrell, and Jordon Kurland. She talks about several of her fellow students including Jean Favors, Bertha Harris, Carolyn Harris, Laura Lingle, Betsy Toth, and Lily Wiley. Lott also recounts her experiences with Deans Mereb Mossman and Katherine Taylor and Chancellors Gordon Blackwell, William Pierson, and Otis Singletary. She describes her participation in the 1960 Greensboro Sit-ins with fellow Woman's College students Ann Dearsley and Eugenia 'Genie' Seaman, receiving hate mail, being expelled from Woman's College for her participation, and her subsequent reinstatement. Lott concludes the interview by recalling her life in Vietnam during the mid '70s and the fall of Saigon when the United States military pulled out of Vietnam in 1975.
