Ruth Whalin Cooke (1916- ) is a member of the Class of 1938 of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Cooke recalls dormitory and student life and traditions and how low-cost tuition during the Depression led her and her sisters to the institution. She discusses faculty role models, administrators and chancellors, working at the Columbia University library and her perception of the decrease in prestige of the college after coeducation. Cooke talks about the controversy between Chancellor William Moran and the Alumni Association and the move to Division I athletics.
