Elizabeth Uzzell Griffin (1917-2006) graduated in 1938 from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She was an art major and received the Alumni Distinguished Service Award in 1988. Griffin describes being a member of the first graduating class of art majors and influential members of the art department faculty. She talks about student life during the Great Depression, campus traditions at the women's institution and the academic reputation of the college. She discusses serving on the Judicial Board and the controversy between Chancellor William Moran and the Alumni Association in the early 1990s.