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L: We set it up downtown.
P: In Gainesville?
L: In Gainesville.
P: The Seagle Building?
L: No, it was not a university building. It was hardly this big,
with a desk right here and a secretary and I had a desk over
here.
P: I hope we'll be able to transfer that verbal description.
L: Well, there were two desks in the room and I occupied one and
my secretary occupied another. I spent practically every
weekend of the war years in Jacksonville; leaving the campus
Friday noon or Friday afternoon and working Saturday and
sometimes Sundaymorning in Jacksonville, and then coming
back to Gainesville. Then the next week the same way.
P: On the train?
L: No, by bus.
P: Now you taught on the campus even with the declining enrollment.
L: Yes.
P: The pressures for teaching, perhaps, were declining also.
L: Oh, yes. There were very few students there in '42 and then
they had the SATC, I believe it was --Student Army Training
Corps, or something like that.
P: All right, I'k like to know about that.
L: Kenneth Williams, whom I had known in college, a Tallahassee-
Monticello boy, came down from the University of Georgia to be
director of the SATC in Tallahassee. His wife, Selma Reynolds
of Ocala, was a friend of my wife, and Kenneth was a friend
of mine, so we saw a lot of them during the war years. He'd