Early years and family in the Midwest, exposure to music, University of Iowa, and move to Berkeley; early years of the Committee for Arts and Lectures (CAL): first chairmen, committee members, performance locations; discusses William Popper, Baldwin Woods, Albert Elkus, Donald Coney, Travis Bogard; operas in the Greek Theater, Kurt Herbert Adler; choosing the artists, working with artists' managers, Western Alliance, Intercampus Cultural Exchange; new performance spaces, dedication concerts at Zellerbach Hall, Hertz Hall; reminiscences of the Joffrey Ballet, Juilliard Quarter, Lotte Lehman, Sol Hurok, Jacques Barzun, Griller Quartet, Myra Hess, Ernst Bloch, Ravi Shankar, Alvin Ailey, Beaux Arts Trio, Rostropovich, others; expanded committee, jazz performances, San Francisco Symphony; management issues: programs, ushers, qualities of arts managers, critics, performers' needs. Appended list of CAL members; songs, poems and letters by Travis Bogard and Betty Connors; awards and honors to Connors.