Ybor City Tape

Wilson interview

 32


 that. So I said, "Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll

 go over there and straighten it out under one condition:

 that I have unanimous approval by the school board, a you as

 superintendent and your staff that I get to the backing.

 The first time that I don't get it I'm going to walk out.

 And so he took it back to the school board. And one of

 the guys on the school board had never been very friendly to-

 ward me, he says, "I don't like the short S.O.B .ut he runs

 a good school." So he went along with it. So I went to

 Plant in '55 and was there six years until '61, and then I

 went to the county office. I became president of the Florida

 Education Association in '61-'62.

M: Well, congratulations. You're the first k ex-president I've

 met.

W: I've been involved with it, I've been on the board of trustees

 retirement system since '45, fifteen consecutive years through

 five governors. And I had helped design the original retirement

 plan and I was, back years ago.

M: Did you know anybody ?

W: Before, oh, yeah, I knew all those people in there. I was on

 the board for some time, then I was chairman of the retirement

 committee for about twelve years and I wrote most of the

 present retirement laws after Plan A and B. I wrote C, D

 and E. 'Course I worked with two or three other people in