Memories is a memoir of a southern boy's early life and education through medical school. The book spans the years from 1938 through 1964. Childhood in Raleigh, N.C. . . . Saturday mornings as a museum rat in the Natural History Museum . . . Boy Scouts and eating dust at the 1953 National Jamboree . . . Two summers as an instructor at a Girl Scout Camp . . . Needham Broughton High School . . . Dodging the freshmen football players at Cobb Dorm in UNC . . . A year at the University of Gottingen in Germany . . . Slogging through Duke Medical School . . . Unlucky in love . . . A religious metamorphosis . . ."