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P: What was Myra doing in Gainesville that summer?
L: She was taking courses graduate courses in English. She
graduated. She'd been teaching; she was at that time teaching
at the Hillsborough High School in Tampa.
P: I see. So she was back for summer school.
L: She wasn't back--this was her first experience in summer school.
P: Well, why did she know you then?
L: She didn't know me, it was the other woman that knew me and Myra
was with the other woman.
P: I see.
L: The other woman was a teacher in Tampa and she had seen me in
Gainesville years and years before.
P: Meanwhile, Sadie had. .
L: I found out in 1936 when I came home that she had married a boy who
was the son of Dean Salley up here. He was a graduate of Emory
School of Medicine, and was practicing medicine down in Miami. That
ended that.
P: Now you came to teach in summer school.
L: Yes.
P: What motivated you to stay on in the fall quarter?
L: Well, becoming engaged to Myra, and I heard there was a job in
the General College. I've forgotten now to whom I applied, it
may have been Dean [Walter J.] Matherly. Or it may have been
Professor [Winston W.] Little--I'm not sure if he ever got a
doctor's degree, well, a doctor's degree from the faculty,
sometimes the students conferred a degree. Dean Little
was not a very popular administrator, but I liked him. He would
look you right in the face and tell you what he thought, and some
people didn't like that. But I liked Dean Little, and we got
along very well together. But, Ed Price told me that when I
was recommended for an appointment someone objected because