Brenda Meadows Cooper (1942- ) obtained her undergraduate and master's degrees at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) and returned to the university in 1968 as assistant director of alumni affairs. She became associate director of alumni affairs, then director of alumni affairs and secretary of the alumnae association in 1990. She retired in 1995. Cooper has a unique perspective as she has been an undergraduate student, a graduate student and an employee of UNCG. She recalls the history of the alumni association, from her work as a student employee to the mission of the office'education, information, student recruitment and raising money. She discusses the causes and outcome of the rift between the alumni association and university administration in the early '90s. She talks about the resignation of Chancellor Edward Kidder Graham Jr, the integration and coeducation of Woman's College and tells anecdotes about former students and faculty and the history of the institution.
