David C. Duncan writes an autobiographical sketch beginning with his parents' emigration from Scotland to Churchville, New York, in 1889. He describes farm life, early schooling, high school, the lack of playmates, pets, a trip to Scotland and England in 1904, a reception for his friend and cousin Floyd R. Newman in April 1970, meeting, dating, and marrying Mildred Webb, his first graduate assistantship at Purdue University, and their arrival at Penn State in mid-January 1918.