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Arthur Gentile is a botanist who ended up being a professor and administrator at Indiana University-Kokomo, where he served as vice-chancellor and acting chancellor. He discusses the future of Indiana University-Kokomo, financial problems and concerns, teaching versus research, and important qualities of a university president.

Dr. Charlotte Gerrard was born in Stamford, CT on March 10, 1928. In 1965 she was hired as a French professor and continued in the position until her retirement. She discusses cultural changes she obserrved in her time at the university, her teaching philsophosies and research areas, and the development of the Strasbourg study abroad program. Further she discusses the community that developed among faculty in the department and her high and low moments teaching.

George Getz, born on January 4, 1908, discusses his involvement with the Arthur R. Metz Foundation which led to a place on the Indiana University Foundation Board. He speaks of how Herman B Wells and Bill Armstrong urged him to participate in the Indiana University Foundation, and tells of some of the general changes the foundation has undergone since he first became active on the board in 1964.