Oral history interview with Lucy Horne Leath

Oral history interview with Lucy Horne Leath

2/28/91

Lucy Horne Leath (1926- ) was a home economics major and member of the Class of 1947 at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Leath talks about her background, campus life during World War II, the close-knit residential community of the College, academic life and her student activities. She remembers faculty such as Bess Rosa, Louise Alexander, Mereb Mossman, George Wilson and Lyda Gordon Shivers and turning down a summer babysitting position with prominent North Carolina legislator and president of the Home Economics Foundation, Sue Ramsey Johnston Ferguson, Class of 1918. She discusses the impact of death during World War II, especially the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She describes how coeducation and commuting students affected the academic standing of the institution and her love for Woman's College and how her education led her to learn to think independently. She talks about her disappointment when Governor James Martin did not allow members of an alumni train trip to Raleigh not tour the Governor's Mansion.

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

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https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/oh%3A303