Mary Lewis Harris Reed (1876-1977) graduated in 1894 from the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Reed discusses the academic life, the social life, the original faculty and administration of the school, and her relationships with the eight women who graduated with her. She talks about student teaching, her teaching career, and her music interest. Reed recalls President Charles Duncan McIver, Lady Principal Sue May Kirkland, and the commencement speech of William Jennings Bryan. The interviewer's notes include a description of the school in 1892 by Virginia Terrell Lathrop (Class of 1923), a list of the faculty, and the 1894 commencement program.