Adelaide Fortune Holderness (1913-2013) was a history major and member of the Class of 1934 at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and received an honorary degree in 1975. She was president of the Alumni Association and member of the Board of Governors of the Consolidated University of North Carolina System. Holderness describes her life as a town student, working in the offices of Dr. Walter Clinton Jackson and Dean Harriet Elliott and her presidency of the Alumni Association. She remembers friendships made with faculty, the administrations of Chancellors Walter Clinton Jackson, Otis Singletary, Edward Kidder Graham Jr., James Ferguson, Gordon Blackwell and William Moran and Dean Katherine Taylor. She talks about her love of the Alumni House, its d'cor and purpose, and her time on the Board of Governors when the Consolidated University of North Carolina System was instituted. She recalls coeducation, integration, the changes they brought to the college and the controversy between the Alumni Association and Chancellor Moran regarding funding and the Alumni Association's relationship with the Development Office. Mrs. Holderness died in 2013, approximately one month before her 101st birthday.
