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Program honoring Stanford University's president Gerhard Casper; persons interviewed include Margaret J. Kimball (University Archivist), Condoleezza Rice (former provost), Provost John Hennessy, Robert Kinnally (Dean of Admissions), Prof. John Etchemendy, David Neuman (University Architect), Thomas Seligman (Director of the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts), Kathleen Sullivan (Dean of the Law School), and Prof. Ramon Saldivar.

In addition to Hennessy's speech, the program also included remarks by Isaac Stein, president of the Board of Trustees, the Rev. Scotty McLennan, dean for religious life, and former university presidents Gerhard Casper, Donald Kennedy and Richard W. Lyman; the reading by English Professor Eavan Boland of a poem by Denise Levertov; and a varied selection of music and performers that included a song, "The Call of the West," composed by Giancarlo Aquilanti, DMA '96, especially for the occasion.

Part 1, "The Founding," covers the origins and building of the university through World War I; highlights include Stanford family history, the first Big Game between Stanford and UC Berkeley, early student life, the rise of tenure, and the 1906 earthquake. Part 2, "The Transformation," covers the development of Stanford as a world-renowned research university; highlights include the administrations of Provost Frederick E. Terman and President J. E. Wallace Sterling, the role of federal funding in the university's expansion, the turmoil of the 1960s, and the growth of new technologies leading to the personal computer revolution.