Days of Grace (27 page)

About two years old, around 1945, Richmond

With my tennis trophies at home, 1955

With my schoolmates Ralph Williams (top left), Fredi Savage (seated left), and Elaine Terry at Maggie Walker High School, Richmond, around 1958
Scott L. Henderson

Talking tennis at Brook Field Park with my friends Aubrey Taylor (left) and Roy Smith, around 1960
Scott L. Henderson

With my brother, Johnnie, and my father, Arthur Ashe, Sr., in 1963 at the NCAA tournament in Princeton, New Jersey

Returning home from Los Angeles to Richmond, around 1964
Scott L. Henderson

At my party for Margie and Stan Smith before the U.S. Open, 1974
Jessica Burstein

At commencement exercises, Princeton University, 1982, when I received an honorary doctorate
John W. H. Simpson

As Davis Cup captain with John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors in Bucharest, Rumania, 1984
Russ Adams

With Billie Jean King, preparing to cover Wimbledon for television, 1984
HBO Photo

With John McEnroe, U.S. vs. Sweden, Davis Cup, 1984
Russ Adams

With Donald Dell (left), John McEnroe, Sr., Gloria Kramer (Mrs. Jack Kramer), and President Ronald Reagan on the White House lawn, 1981
The White House

With my father (far left) and my stepmother, Lorene Kimbrough Ashe, and Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder at the governor’s birthday celebration, January 23, 1988
Office of the Governor of Virginia