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Rosalyn Oldham began her high-school career the first year of integration: “1971 was the last all-black class at Dudley…,” said Oldham. “We got better equipment to do schoolwork with once the integration came.” Oldham, who works with Sodexho-Marriott at Guilford College, was born in Greensboro. Oldham recalls the Greensboro of her childhood as very different from the Greensboro of today. “The Greensboro Transit has really changed over the years,” said Oldham. “They have more routes and it is more convenient for people. We have also have way more shopping centers than when I grew up.” Oldham has seen a lot of growth and positive change in the city in the past 20 or 30 years. “Now the community is much larger,” said Oldham. “There is more housing and apartments for low-income people than in the past. More minorities are taking higher education than in the past. Blacks have better jobs offered now, better opportunities, and better funding for us.” Oldham, a recent grandmother, remembers going to the movies as a child and sitting upstairs while the white people sat downstairs. “When black students started going to Gillespie Park School, all the white people left to other schools. There were only three white people on my street.” Before coming to work at Guilford, Oldham worked at Burlington Industries, a textile company in Greensboro, for five years. “I worked a lot of temporary jobs after that,” explained Oldham. “Then I worked at AMP Incorporated inspecting electronic computer chips for about ten years, and I got laid-off.” Oldham was originally hired at Guilford as a Business Service Technician and began working with Guilford Dining on Aug 19, 2001. “This is the first time I’ve worked in a cafeteria,” said OldhamOldham appreciates the encouragement and help she has received at Guilford. “The workers and the students are more courteous of teaching you how to learn other jobs,” said Oldham. “I’ve learned to be more friendly and courteous because at Guilford everybody is one person.”Hopefully, others in the Guilford community will be able to learn as much from Rosalyn as she has learned from them.