Anna Joyce Reardon (1910-2003) began her career at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, as an instructor in the Department of Physics in 1941. She served as department head from 1942-65 and retired in 1975. Reardon discusses living arrangements of single faculty in the forties, the effects of World War II on campus, her coeducational summer school physics classes, the physics faculty and department heads and her relationship with Dean Mereb Mossman and Chancellor Walter Clinton Jackson. She describes becoming head of the department almost as soon as she arrived because the men faculty were serving in the war effort. She talks about the physics curriculum, which included x-ray technology and the audiovisual and photography programs, and the career successes of the physics graduates. She recalls designing the photography laboratory, the university sermon program, teaching in an aviation program and the student science lecture, where she brought Joseph Shea, director of NASA's [National Aeronautic and Space Administration, United States government agency] manned space program, to campus.
