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P: Did you teach any of the SATC students?
L: Oh, yes.
P: What were you teaching them?
L: I think pretty much the same courses. I can remember some of
my students had to find out what it was. Well, as a matter
of fact, I have some of my: student records here in my desk.
I think I taught the same courses, C-1 state government.
P: There were some civilian students on campus.
L: Yes, a few.
P: The faculty was also depleted, wasn't it?
L: Yes. Quite a few of them went off into the service and were
forming other things as I was, you see. Dean Matherly
recommended me for the job with the State Board of Health.
He was a well-known figure in Florida at that time, and they
needed somebody to set up a program under the federal act which
required states to have such a program. So I took the summer
off in '41, went to Washington for a training period, and then
came back and set up a classification and pay system for the state
health agencies. There were about 600 or 700 employees on the
State Board of Health and about 100 employees on the Crippled
Children's Commission, which were separate entities at that time.
The Crippled Children's Commission was here in Tallahassee, and
one or two weekends out of the year I had to come up here and
maybe I got leave for a time or two to come up here during the
week. Then, during the summer I would come up and spend several
days during the week setting up records, classifying positions,
giving tests of various kinds, recruiting nurses and doctors,
laboratory technicians, sanitary officers, now they call them
sanitarians, for the county health departments, which were under
the state health department at that time.
P: Now the war ended in 1945, and you stayed on in Gainesville for
another year.
L: Yes, in 1946, under Caldwell, they decided to put all the merit
systems together. Elmer Hinkley was director of the welfare system.
Jim Chase, in the School of Business, was director of a separate