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Dr. Graham discusses his background; interest in science; mentors; research of toxic chemicals; studies at Duke; leaving Duke in 1967; return to Duke in 1970; Dr. Thomas Kinney; differences between Dr. Kinney and Dr. Wiley Forbus; problems that Dr. Forbus left in Department of Pathology; ways Dr. Kinney attempted to solve these problems; his own scientific career; history of his laboratory's work on hexane; support group of male friends including Andrew Puckett; second support group of male friends primarily from Duke: Michael McLeod, Andrew Wechsler, Michael Hamilton, Ervin Thompson, Redford Williams, and Bob Phillips; with Peter Keese, beginning support groups for students; desiring to be dean of medical education so that he could build support infrastructures for students; history of the deanship; Dr. Keith Brodie's appointment of Dr. Charles Putman as dean; Dr. Anlyan's leadership; entering the deanship position; increasing advisory dean system; Dr. Andrew Puckett as associate dean; staffing of dean's office; patient presentations, ethics lectures, and community building as part of curriculum; Dr. Ralph Snyderman's evaluation of his system of deanship; his own evaluation of his system of deanship; his system of evaluating students; power that dean's office has held throughout its history at Duke; Dr. Brodie's view of deanship position; impact of Dr. Snyderman on deanship position; his own views of the chancellorship and deanship being the same or separate positions; evaluation of his young age as dean; curriculum changes.

Contains materials from Graham's membership on the Planning and Implementation Committee relating to curriculum at Duke University's School of Medicine and department of pathology. Types of materials include correspondence, meeting minutes, transparencies, slides, agendas, and reports. Materials date from 1987 to 1992.