Jeannette Dean (1928- ) attended the Curry Laboratory School at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), from 1935-44. She was employed by the institution as an administrative assistant at the Curry School and in the School of Education. Dean describes the Curry School from the perspective of a student and an employee, campus changes from the 1940s to the 1980s, faculty life and the relationship of the institution and the Greensboro community. She talks about Curry School, School of Education and UNCG faculty and administrators, coeducation, the civil rights era and forced busing due to integration. She discusses her work experience, life during World War II in Greensboro, why people chose to work at the institution and its sense of community.
