Margaret Greene Collection
-
-
Oral history interview with Margaret Greene
-
Primarily documents Margaret "Peg" Greene's interest in physical education; her studies at the Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro); and her experiences as a Red Cross worker in Europe during World War II. Greene discusses playing sports in high school; influential physical education teachers; physical education requirements at the Woman's College (WC); memorable WC professors, including Mary Channing Coleman, Ethel Martus, and Harriet Elliott; basketball games in Rosenthal Gymnasium; awareness of current events in the late 1930s; and her duties as Fayetteville's Director of Recreation, including petitioning local politicians for supplies. " Topics related to the Red Cross include traveling to London via ship and train; rations; being housed in the Bishop's Palace in Norwich in 1943 and 1944; daily bombing raids on Norwich; Eleanor Roosevelt's visit; a strafing attack; seeing the devastation and poverty in France after D-Day; a German U-boat attack in Cherbourg; washing her hair in the toilet in Cherbourg; meeting General George Patton in Luxembourg; living conditions in Europe; V-E Day celebrations in Belgium; her reaction to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death; patriotism during World War II; her gratitude to England; and mixed feelings upon returning to as relatively unscathed America. " Other topics include her career at UNCG, the changes when Woman's College began accepting male students in 1964, and Greene's opinion of women in combat positions.
