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L: I think I can remember seeing Ruth at an aunt's home
one time. We were trying to play chewing gum on the
piano and Rujtl could play chewing gum on the piano.
P: Now where did you go to high school, Angus?
L: In Bay County.
P: And you were graduated when?
L: In 1923.
P: What kind of a high school was operating in Bay County
at the time? It had to be relatively small. .
L: Yes it was, it had all classes from primary to high
school. I graduated with the class of 1923, and there
were twenty-three of us in the class. The year before
there were twelve; the year before that there were six,
so the enrollment doubled for several years. I graduated
in 1923 with a class of twenty-three.
P: What brought you to the University of Florida?
L: A tradition among the old Scotish settlers, and they had
been above us too, but among the Scots they've always had
a tradition that the children should be educated. My father,
I started to tell you a few minutes ago, after the
death of his first wife, went to a school called Kentucky
University in Louisville, Kentucky. It was a business school,
and he was given a diploma. I think that Kentucky University
was a forerunner of the University of Louisville. I haven't
traced it but people have told me that it might have been so.
[Later-I have traced it; it was a part of old Transylvania
College, a great institution in its day.] So, in the education
of his day as a businessman, he was a fairly well-educated man.
He had graduated from a university, but he got his degree in
one year. Now he may have been given credit for other studies
somewhere else in the old State Normal School in De Funiak
Springs. So, he wanted us to go to college.
My older brother didn't go and I never did really know why
he didn't go. My father once told me he was going to send
him to the University of Florida, but for some reason he