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L: All right.
P: You left the university in 1946?
L: Yes.
P: You decided that you had had enough of academic life at
that point and you were ready to move into something else.
L: Yes.
P: I don't know that we got all of that on the tape and I would like
you to tell me chronologically your life; what you have been doing
from '46 to the president time.
L: All right. In May of '41, I was asked if I would, with a leave
of absence from the university, prepare the classification and pay
plan for the health agencies in Florida, which was required by
federal law.
P: I think you touched on that a little bit.
L: Yes, so I did supposedly half-time work. .
P: During the war.
L: .but it was about 3/4 time. I taught almost a full load and
also worked for the state. Incidentally, in going to see Dean
Little, I was in the General College at the time, to tell him
about it, and what they were offering me, he said, "Yes, we've
already had a protest from someone that you can't be allowed to
make any more money than if you were a full-time teacher." So
Dean Little and I reached an agreement, perfect and satisfactory.
He already knew what he was going to recommend and it was all
right with me. A lot of people didn't like Dean Little, but I
found out he was a very straight-forward person, at least dealing
with me. I don't know who it was, but somebody in the department
protested against my appointment and didn't want me to earn
salaries from both sources. But I didn't want to get paid more.
I felt the same way. I knew if I was not going to teach full
time, I would not be paid full time. But I did teach full time.
I carried a full-time class load during most of those years,
and for two or three years I spend almost every weekend away from
home.
P: I think that you told me that, doing this work on the health
project.