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T: Well, it isn't only that more women, I wouldn't say they were
were staying in teaching, but in any line of work. When you look
at the labor market .
M: More women are in it now than ever before.
T: And my statement that more families needed two people working.
M: That's true. Gainesville utilizes the middle school-concept. Were
you at the university when that came about? Transferring a
junior high then to the concept of middle school?
T: Yes.
M: Did you have anything to do with starting that?
T: I had nothing to do with it.
M: What do you feel about the middle school?
T: I'm going to pass on that one too.
M: Better watch what I say, I might say something that I shouldn't
say.
T: I don't know enough about it. I respect Dr. Paul George who is
in middle school in the College of Education. I respect him in his
ideas, but I really don't know enough. .
M: That much about it.
T: Uh huh.
M: So what year did you retire from-the university?
T: June 8, 1978.
M: That was just three months ago. You haven't even been retired that
long. You still hear from a lot of your students though.
T: Oh, yes.
M: From the ones you've had way back in the beginning.
T: I've had a stack of letters even this summer. One from a
girl in Japan
M: Well, then you've been busy. You haven't really retired.