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L: He says, "I have just got to leave, just got to leave." I says,
"Why, Jack?" He said, "Well, I just can't agree with him. We
can't get together at all on courses." I-said, "Jack don't
leave. Dr. Britsol is retiring next year and you're in line
to become head of the department. Then you can run it the
way you want to run it." Then later on, someone told me that
Emily White had built that house with her own money because
she wanted Jack so have some stability and stay wherever she
liked it. She knew that Jack would like to stay in a place for
a year or two and then would get disenchanted and want to go
somewhere else. Jack did settle down and was very happy there,
I think.
P: Yes indeed.
L: I'm very fond of Jack's widow.
P: Emily is a very happy woman today.
L: Yes, that's what I understand, and I am the godfather of Morgan.
P: Oh, really?
L: Yes.
P: Emily is doing interviewing for us on the same Oral History Project.
L: Is she?
P: She's been interviewing some of the women associated with the
university and ladies who became well-known in Gainesville so
she's one of our volunteers and doing an excellent job.
L: That's interesting.
P: Tell me about the war years on campus.
L: Well, you remember the situation when you were there. Pearl
Harbor Day.
P: Just for the record, I got a BA in June of '41, had an assistantship
or a fellowship and worked under Dr. Leake and stayed until
June of 1942, and then I had my Master's degree and left.