1. Acknowledgements; 2. Foreword; 3. Linguistics, through the Kitchen Door (by McDavid, Jr., Raven I.); 4. A Reconstruction (by Hoenigswald, Henry M.); 5. The Tale of a Theoretical and Applied Linguistic Psychologist (by Carroll, John B.); 6. On Becoming and Being a Linguist (by Moulton, William G.); 7. How Many Revolutions Can a Linguist Live through? (by Hill, Archibald A.); 8. Autobiographic Sketch: Early Years in America (by Malkiel, Yakov); 9. Preserving the Heritage (by Hockett, Charles F.); 10. A Report for the Archives of Linguistics (by Allen, Harold B.); 11. American Linguistics: A Western View (by Bright, William); 12. On the Making of a Linguist (by Haugen, Einar); 13. Indo-European Studies: "Voila, c'est la difficulte" (by Lane, George S.); 14. My Work in the Language Field (by Cassidy, Frederic G.); 15. A Lifetime in Applied Linguistics: Some Thoughts (by McMillan, James B.); 16. Linguistics at Wisconsin (1937-41) and at Texas (1949- ): A Retrospective View (by Lehmann, Winfred P.); 17. A Sketch of How I Came to Be in Linguistics (by Householder, Fred W.); 18. In Five-Year Patterns (by Hymes, Dell H.); 19. Master List of References; 20. Index of Persons