Darnell discusses growing up in the West and Midwest before coming to Woman's College from the Eastman School of Music. He talks about the strength of the college's undergraduate program and the Arts Forum. He recalls Chancellors Walter Clinton Jackson and Edward Kidder Graham Jr.; the controversy over Chancellor Graham's policies; School of Music deans H. Hugh Altvater, George Welton Marquis and Arthur R. Tollefson and administrators Katherine Taylor and Mereb Mossman. He expresses his views of the university as it became a coeducational and integrated, the upheaval of the sixties and the changes in students over the years. Subjects: Dean Altvater, Randall Jarrell, Robert Watson, Gregory Ivy, Arts Forum Program, the exciting atmosphere on campus, music programs, Chancellor Graham's beautiful writing, Chancellor Graham's task of weeding out the older faculty and the controversy, Welton Marquis, Christmas concerts at Aycock Auditorium, Chancellor Jackson, Katherine Taylor, Mereb Mossman, the Arts Festival with people like Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg and Robert Penn Warren participating, discussions about music, poetry and lectures, coeducation, integration.