"I came to the campus of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia late in the summer of 1976. Although I didn’t know it at the time, I was woefully unprepared to cope with the rigorous academic curriculum. I struggled. I worked harder than I had ever worked in my life, both as a student and as a football player. There were some successes and some setbacks. But, those struggles produced results. In four short years, I was transformed. I grew from a mediocre high school student into one who would go on to compete successfully as a graduate student in engineering at Georgia Tech and in business at Harvard. At Randolph-Macon, my life was touched and changed in profound ways by my professors, my coaches, the college staff, my classmates, and my teammates. I arrived at the college as a country boy from a small town, more at home and much happier on a backhoe or a tractor than in a classroom. I left a liberally educated man. This memoir tells the story of that transformation." - Doug White