Ybor City Tape

Wilson interview

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 I had run for superintendent in '48 and been defeated and

 the man that was elected : had studied all his life for the

 Catholic priesthood. And when he

 got ready to, I guess, to into that he came to Tampa and I

 cam back home and I put the rest with it. I said he had

 an opportunity to indulge in some of the finer things in

 life and he got married. And Started teaching school with

 me at started teaching, I think, then became principal,

 then became superintendent for a one full-year term.

M: How'would you compare Ybor during the twenty years that you

 knew it off and on? Looking at it over ....

 W: Well, I'd say that we made more progress there, there was more

 progress made, and I say "we," I was in it most of the time

 after that ten-year span in there between '31-'32 and I

 went back there in '41. My wife was still there some as a

 home ec. teacher. That's where I met her.

 M: Your wife taught at Ybor?

 W: Yeah. She was a home ec. teacher. Came to Ybor her first

 year of teaching and my second year of teaching; my third

 year of teaching. Oh, hell, I was at Claremont, then I

 came to ... yeah, it was my second year in the Tampa system.

 And then I left the next year and went to Largo.

 M: When did gshg start teaching in ...?

 W: In 1930. Or '31, I dnn't remember which.

 M: As a home ec. teacher?