Marian K. Solleder (1926- ) began her career at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), formerly the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, as associate professor in the Department of Public Health Education in 1966. She served as professor and head of the department and assistant dean of the School of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, retiring in 1988. Solleder remembers her part in the development of bachelor's and master's degrees in school health education and community health education and programs in teenage pregnancy, child health, chronic disease and education. She talks about department and university faculty; such as Ethel Martus, Gail Hennis, Celeste Ulrich and Bobbie White; the School Health Education Study of the early 1960s; and memories of Chancellor James S. Ferguson and administrator Mereb Mossman. Solleder discusses the advantages of a smaller institution, her committee work, coeducation, integration, and Vietnam War protests. She describes the effects of emphasis on research and publishing on faculty, the strength of alumni support, the advantages of graduate programs and the importance of working with fine colleagues.
