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reason why we behaved as we did is that we learned that
this morning you decided you'd take the petition and then
dismiss it in the summertime when we were all gone
and said there was nothing to it." He didn't say a word.
He knew that somebody had leaked the news to us and we
knew what had happened.
About a month later I was standing in front of the Kappa
Sigma house and Jimmy White went by University Avenue. He
saw me, went down the street, turned around and came in,
and said, "We're going to have a hearing of the Board
of Control next weekend, and I want you to be present with
your charges." I said, "Mr. White, we've already decided
to let the administration to handle it-the thing that's
come up--and the Board of Control is going to consider it.
I am not involved in this any longer, so I won't be there."
Well, he went on. He resigned after the meeting of the
Board Control. Dr. Murphree asked Everett Yon tAssistant
Professor of Military Science and Tactics], who was one of
the ROTC men here on campus, to become the athletic director.
I knew Everett and I liked him.
His sister, who worked for the athletic department for years
later on, I've forgotten her first name right now, told me
one time that when her brother went to the athletic director's
office, he found things in such a mess with the financial records
all messed up that he locked up the door and went over to
Language Hall and said, "Dr. Murphree, I'm not going back
into that office until you go with me. I just won't attempt
to do anything until you go with me." He says, "Well, we're
having commencement now, and I don't have time to do anything
about it, but right after commencement we'll go over and
we'll go over the records." They did and they took a bookkeeper
or somebody, and they found, not necessarily a shortage, they
don't know what it was, but unaccounted for funds in the
amount of $17,000. Well now, this was a lot of money
in 1927, and it was never reported. Years later, I got the
auditor's report from the University of Florida here in
Tallahassee. I knew the auditor, a man named Ballow, who didn't
know much about accounting, he was a bookkeeper. It was
a political job! at the time, and the audit for that year
told about what a wonderful institution it was and how
well it kept their records. But what is the girl's name,
Yon. .