Robert A. Darnell (1921- ) began teaching music in 1949 at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He retired in 1994 as emeritus professor in the School of Music. Darnell discusses growing up in the West and Midwest before coming to Woman's College from the Eastman School of Music. He talks about the strength of the college's undergraduate program and the Arts Forum. He recalls Chancellors Walter Clinton Jackson and Edward Kidder Graham Jr.; the controversy over Chancellor Graham's policies; School of Music deans H. Hugh Altvater, George Welton Marquis and Arthur R. Tollefson and administrators Katherine Taylor and Mereb Mossman. He expresses his views of the university as it became a coeducational and integrated, the upheaval of the sixties and the changes in students over the years.
