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didn't want to give me the information; he wouldn't give it
to me for Jacksonville.
P: So you worked on that and received a second degree?
L: Yes, a master's degree, this time in political science.
P: When was this?
L: My major was in history as an undergraduate, then I got
it in the summer of '28.
P: And then you stayed on the faculty?
L: No, thenI went to Syracuse as a teaching fellow in the School
of Citizenship of Syracuse University of '28 and '29. The next
year I came back to Gainesville. I decided I didn't want to
go back to Syracuse and didn't apply for a fellowship. There
/ were some personal reasons for that. I came back to Gainesville
looking for a job and Bill Carelton, I believe, told me there
was an opening on the political science department staff for
an instructor. It paid 150 dollars a month, or something
like that, and I applied for it and I was appointed.
P: You applied directly to Leake.
L: Dr. Leake. I wrote him a letter from my home. I went home in
Bay County and wrote him a letter.
P: What were you assigned to teach?
L: I taught medieval history and state government. I always enjoyed
teaching state government more than any other government course
at Florida.
P: Let me jump right ahead here because time is moving away from
us and I want to make sure I get a couple of things down here,
although I'm sure we'll have to continue this interview. You
went off on leave the following year, did you not?
L: Yes, to the University of Chicago.
P: And what was that for?
L: Political science.