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T: Oh, I dated one a lot longer than that.
M: Oh really? Your husband, is he from Gainesville originally?
T: Yes.
M: And his family is all from around Gainesville?
T: Uh huh.
M: So that's why you're still in Gainesville, I guess?
T: Uh huh.
T: She was thirty in August.
M: What is she doing?
T: She is a nurse in the surgical intensive care unit at the
VA hospital.
M: What influence, if any, would you say the College of Education
has on the university? Do you consider it to be one of the
strongest in the university? This would be as you've looked
as it through the years.
T: I think I'm going to pass on that one.
M: You were here since the early '30s then and went through: the
traumas of the '60s, I guess, and saw how that changed with the
Vietnam War. Were there any problems here at Florida, do you
remember, admitting blacks to the College of Education?
T: I cannot say that there were in terms of the College of Education.
I had one girl, early, who, I don't recall her grade in the
couse. It evidently wasn't very high because she said that I
recognized her answers because she was black.
M: You recognized her answers because she was black. That was the only
reason why?
T: The only reason I could find fault with hers over some other students.
M: What year was that, do you remember?
T: Oh, I have no idea. And I don't remember the girl, I can just
remember her sitting back there.