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teacher and we just considered that we wanted a stronger
person. That was when I was on the faculty.
About twenty years ago I was in Miami one night and was
invited to a dinner at the University of Miami. Across the
table from was an attorney named Garland M. Budd. Garland
and I had started out on the Alligator together and I think
he may have signed up for the journalism course. We were in
Professor Halley's class, and I can remember other people
in the class too. After the class, which ended at noon, we
would walk across the campus to the mess hall. The first time
our themes were handed back, Garland went by Professor Halley's
place and picked it up and Professor Halley asked him to stay.
I went out side and waited a few minutes; he didn't come, so
I went on. Garland sort of dropped out of everything and
I didn't see much of him. He didn't write for the Alligator;
he didn't go to Farr Literary Society--he had started out with
me. He just dropped out. I never had a chance to talk to
him until this night in Miami. We agreed to have lunch the
next day, and all Saturday afternoon we talked.
I said, "Garland, did you like Dr. Halley as a professor?"
He said, "You know, I never would have been a lawyer if that
man had come back to the university the next year." My spirits
went down. I thought he was a great teacher and here was a
man, the first member of the class that I had had a chance to
ask that question several years later, and I asked why he answered
as he did. He replied, "I would never had become a lawyer."
I said, "Why was that?" He sayd, "I would have been a writer. When
Dr. Halley handed my theme back, the first time"--and I thought
Dr. Halley was talking about my theme but he was talking
mostly about Garland's. I had mentioned a humorous incident
in my life in my theme and Garland must have mentioned some
in his, because Garland said, "Dr. Halley said to me, 'Mr. Budd, do
you need any money?"' He said, "I sure do." Garland said
he didn't have any money when he went to college. He had enough
to live off of. He said, "Mr Budd, you can write, and if you
would like to do further writing, I'll help you sell your stories."
Garland said, "I made a thousand dollars my first year, selling
stories with help and guidance from Dr. Halley." So it justified
my confidence in Dr. Halley.
P: What happened to Halley after he left the university, do you know?