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Married to Duke president William Preston Few, Mary Few speaks about her early life, including her time at Trinity College and time spent with Mary Duke Biddle. She also speaks about her husband's role at Duke University and her later political participation. Contains racist terms.

John Fox speaks about his early life in England and his move to the United States and his eventual move to the South for work, then joining the Duke Power Company.

Bennette Geer talks about his early life, education at Furman University and his career as a professor and later President of Furman University.,He originally met J.B. Duke as a worker at his brother's mill. He talks a lot about his relationship with J.B. Duke and Duke's creation of the Duke Endowment. Part 2 contains racist terms.

Mary Beeler Park Glasson speaks about her early life, her education at Cornell University (where she met her husband, William Henry Glasson), and her life in Durham in the early 1900s when her husband served as a professor at Trinity College/Duke University.

Edward Hansen gives Frank Rounds a tour of the many rooms in J.B. Duke's mansion in New York City, located at Fifth Avenue and 78th St. He also reflects working as a butler for J.B. and his wife Nanaline Duke.