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Robert Gates attended Indiana University as an undergraduate from 1938 to 1942 and then received his law degree in 1949. He began practicing law but remained involved with university life, serving as a trustee for twenty-one years and as president of the Union Board. Gates discusses the challenges of funding and maintaining state schools, the development of programs, and the impact that the nineteen sixties had on Indiana University's campus.

Robert Lucas received his BA from Indiana University in 1943. After serving during World War II, he returned to Bloomington in 1946 in order to attend law school. Lucas discusses what life was like on campus after World War II. He then details his continued involvement with the University and what the groups to which he belonged accomplished during his tenure. Lucas was Union Board President, on the board of trustees, a member of the Higher Education Commission and the Indiana University Foundation, and the President of the Indiana University Alumni Association.