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M: They came to class? Don't do that anymore. Were they more
serious or were they about the same?
T: They're writing skills were better, composition.
M: They've said that they've lost that now, and they're trying to
get back to teaching basics.
T: They had to write a paper, either they took more pride in it,
or they had better skills in doing it, or they felt they'd
better do it better.
M: Were students really involved in activities outside the classroom,
like on-campus activities?
T: My girls were just beginning to come around that time and more
of the girls were involved in sororities than in a lot of other
things. Many of the girls who were active were involved in the
sorority activities.
M: What do you mean by "my girls"?
T: Well, the girls that I got to know.
M: You got to know your advisees and people like that?
T: At that time still you see, in the 40,s, iFlorida was just going
to requiring a degree. There were a lot of older teachers,
who. .
M: What do you mean, requiring a degree? You could teach at Florida
without a degree?
T: For two years. Most of them were teaching on two years.
M: So sometimes the students had more education than the teachers.
Did it work out that way?
T: No, not at the university, but in the public schools.
M: Oh, I see.
T: A lot of the teachers had only two years and during the '40's
and early '50's they were completing their degrees. I had a
class for years on Saturday. It was a four credit course,
nine to one, and. .