Now celebrating its 100th anniversary, Vanderbilt Magazine (the alumni magazine of the university) included a first-person essay I wrote on my experiences with Perry Wallace and the launch of Strong Inside, dating back to 1989 when I first interviewed Wallace for a Black History course at Vanderbilt. The article begins and ends with a scene at the Nashville Public Library, when more than 400 people, including many members of Wallace’s Vanderbilt Class of 1970, turned out to welcome him back to Nashville.