Chappell discusses his background in western North Carolina, his education at Duke University and his tenure and faculty in the English department at UNCG. He describes the inception of the writing program and the establishment of the Greensboro Review. He talks about the administrations of Chancellors James S. Ferguson and William E. Moran and Vice Chancellor Mereb Mossman and names the famous authors and poets who taught at the university. He expresses his views of the university as it became a coeducational institution. Subjects: Joe Bryant (Head of English Department), the writing program, Peter Taylor, Robert Watson, Randall Jarrell, coeducation, Mereb Mossman, Chancellor Ferguson.