Donald W. Russell (1919-2009) came to Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in 1955 as a full professor in the Department of Education and Counseling. He retired in 1985, but returned as interim dean of the School of Education in 1987-88. Russell talks about his educational and career backgrounds, Curry School and its closure, and faculty assemblies under Miss Jane Summerell. He remembers the chancellors under whom he worked; i.e., Edward Kidder Graham Jr., Gordon Blackwell, Otis Singletary, W. Whatley Pierson, and James Ferguson as well as William Friday, president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina System. Russell describes the inevitability of coeducation; how Reverend James Allen handled problems of integration; the high admissions standards of Woman's College and its worldwide reputation; and women scholars, Ethel Lawther and Naomi Albanese. He discusses the push for the university to become a research institution.
