Ybor City Tape

Wilson interveiw

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W: He wasn't exactly, I call him'John L. Lewis the second." He

 looked a lot like him, had big, bushy eyebrows.

M: What was his name?

W: Randolph McGlocklin. He was the one who studied for the

 Catholic priesthood, Jesuit priesthood. He went to Catholic

 schools her, then he went to the University of St. Louis,

 I believe, which is a Catholic school.

M: I was going to ask if he had any connections here with the

 private Catholic schools he went through.

W: He had support from them, but he didn't have any connections

 except that he'd gone through them.

M: Well, I guess that's about it then.

W: I think the greatest pleasure, the greatest satisfaction I got

 of any principalship was the Ybor principalship. These kids

 would come up and say they wished you were their daddy and

 a lot of things like that. Made the difference.
 they
M: Did 1. have problems like they do these days with families?

W: They had every.kind of problem you could think of back in those

 days.

M: '' YOu mean, no father in the family ...

W: This or that or everything else. I remember very well that
 with
 an Italian woman cam up to school one day / a big old, long

 butcher knife. And she was speaking Spanish to my secretary.

 And she said, "Where is he? Where is he?" And she finally