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L: Oh, yes, it was very clearly marked. It went back to
Spanish days.
P: And the road from Lake City into Gainesville was clearly
marked?
L: Yes, they were working on the road at that:time and that was
one reason for the delay. I think we had to wait about
an hour somewhere around High Springs. The road equipment let
us by.
P: Where did you stay in Gainesville when you came to this track
meet?
L: In the dormitory. I stayed in old Thomas Hall, visiting a boy
who had graduated from the high school two years before, a
friend of mine. The other boys did the same thing.
P: Can you remember what the campus looked like now when you.
came in the spring of '23 and again in the fall of '24?
L: Well, if you can remember what Laird Camp and West Bay and
Panama City looked like at that time, you can understand
the impression it made on me-it was magnificent. It had,
as I recall, four buildings at the time-and they were other
buildings. Well, there were Buckman and Thomas Halls,
Language Hall was a relatively new building. It's named
something differently now-I believe they named it after Dean
Matherly.
P: No, they named it after Dean Anderson.
L: Dean Anderson, that's right, Anderson Hall. Then the chemistry
building between Buckman and Anderson Hall was a new building.
The law school was there. It was a small building, much
smaller than it later became when you knew it. There was
Peabody Hall, a teacher's college. There was Ag Hall,
agricultural college. They were smaller buildings, but
they looked big to me. And Benton Hall, named after dean
of engineering, later on. You would call them small buildings
but they looked big to me. There was one big, enormous structure
on the campus. The walls were already up, and some of the
scaffolding for the roof was there and that was for the
University Auditorium. It was a great building and in my
mind it still is.