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of Florida. I don't know exactly where you want to start today
in terms of chronology, but I'll leave that up to you.
L: We'll start then with my return to Florida. I came in 1937 to
teach in the summer school, to take Manning Dauer's place while
he spent the summer in Europe. He invited me to come and
during the summer two things very significant in my life happened.
There was an opening in the General College for another instructor
and it was offered to me. Before it was offered to me I had become
engaged to Myra, my wife. I was working on my notes for the first
class of the summer school of 1937 and was having breakfast
at the Old College Inn, and a lady walked in and said to me,
"Well, hello Angus, I heard you were going to be back this summer."
I looked up and I couldn't identify her and I can't remember
even meeting her before, but she was a teacher from Tampa. She
said, "It's rather crowded in here. Do you mind if we join you
at your breakfast table?" I was alone andI said, "No, not at all,"
but Ididn't welcome it because I wanted to go over my notes a
little bit more. However, when I looked up and saw her guest,
well, I said yea, to be sure. It was Myra, and she was there
for summer school. She graduated from the Florida State College
for Women and was there taking some courses in English.
P: Angus, this was in June of 1937.
L: '37, yes.
P: I think we've got a little bit of this information on the earlier
tape, but I wasn't sure that I had the time set on it, so I'm
glad to get that information. You said there were two important
events that happened to you in '37?
L: Yes. One was that I was offered this position at the university
and I decided to take it.
P: And the other was meeting Myra.
L: And the other was meeting Myra. And at the very first morning--
I tease Myra a lot about this and tell it to others, she's accustomed
to my teasing now about things like that. I was having coffee,
and I didn't drink coffee with any cream or sugar in those days--
black coffee. When they delivered her coffee she said, "Could
I have an extra one of those little containers of cream?" I says,
"Here take this, I'm not going to use it." She said, "Good, good.
I hope I eat like this with you a lot of mornings."