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D: Well, he must have been.
R: A charismatic man?
D: He may have been a better pastor than a preacher, I really don't know.
R: But in any case he had too many parishioners.
D: Yes he did. When he went to St.Petersburg in 1937, he was sixty and he
thought that he was going to retire. He went to a tiny church and it
started growing and it got to be a big, big church even though he was...
R: of course was growing too.
D: It was not the first church, but a little church, but it grew so fast.
It was the Fith Avenue Baptist Church.
R: In St. Pete. Now, by that time you were in college.
D: By that time I was married and gone.
R: Tell us about going to college. The name of the college was...
D: Coker College, in Hartsville, South Carolina. -A small women's college.
R: Was it strict?
D: Very.
R: Did you have to wear uniforms?
D: No. Nothing like that. We had to wear an evening dress to dates and concerts
on the weekends. We were expected to change our clothes for dinner at night.
R: You went to college in what year?
D: In twenty-six.
R: At what age?
D: I was seventeen. I majored in mathematics, minored in biology, and took piano
for four years. I had a busy time.
R: That was the same year I went to college at the women's college in Mississippi
and we had to wear uniforms. So I know that some colleges had to wear uniforms
in the South in those days.
D: They didn't at Tallahassee.
R: They didn't at that time at Tallahassee? Well, I guess you're lucky. How did
you feel about the college? Did you like it? You went because of the scholar-
ship, but did you like it when you got there?
D: I did not. My sister loved it.
R: Your sister had gone there ahead of you?