Chiefly documents Lucile Griffin Leonard's education at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in the late 1930s and early 1940s and her service as a hospital dietitian with the U.S. Army in Africa and Italy during World War II. Leonard comments at length about her experiences at the Woman's College. She describes working to pay for her tuition; social life, including the Civic Music Program, movies, and dating; curfews and dating rules; sleeping on the porches of Kirkland Hall; the dairy farm; the daisy chain tradition; and working in the home economics cafeteria. She also recalls memorable professors, including Miss Stancil, Margaret Edwards, Dean Harriet Elliott, and Katherine Taylor." Topics related to the Leonard's military service focus on her time with the army in Africa and Italy. Leonard remembers telling her mother she was going overseas; her living conditions and social life on the Louis Pasteur; meeting a boy from home in Casablanca; helping the Post Office while waiting for orders in Casablanca; the destruction of Bizerte, Tunisia; working in a tent hospital; working in a French hospital in Naples; rationing food in the army; social life overseas, including playing softball, plane rides, USO shows, dances, and trips to Switzerland and Rome; flying in a B-17; work schedules at Camp Butner and overseas; and her fears and lack of fear while in the army. She also provides opinions about President Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt and her uncertainty about Harry Truman. " Leonard also discusses the advantages of her military service, including increased independence; her opinion of women in combat positions; and the Women in Military Service for America (WIMSA) memorial.