Elizabeth Yates King (1915-2003) was an English major and member of the Class of 1936 of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She began her freshman year when the institution was named the North Carolina College for Women. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. King discusses campus life as a town student during the Great Depression when men were students and the Works Projects Administration helped build the Alumni House. She talks about student government, campus traditions, the prominence of the concert series and being editor of The Carolinian student newspaper. She recalls the loss of academic standing and the small college atmosphere when the institution became coeducational, but the importance of being part of the Consolidated University of North Carolina. She describes influential faculty and administrators such as Harriet Elliott, Walter Clinton Jackson, and Jane Summerell; her views of the controversy between Chancellor William Moran and the Alumni Association and the move to Division I athletics.
