Koll discusses his Wisconsin childhood, his education at the University of California, Berkeley, and later activity at the Lair of the Bear family camp, and in the Alumni Association as executive director; the Free Speech movement and campus politics; his career as a naval officer during World War II.

Includes interviews with Bob Albo, Noel Helmbrecht, Jane Biedenbach Koll, Loretta Koll, Lynne Koll Martin, and Janor Kingwell Tuck.