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W: high school at that time? I imagine it was pretty interesting. Smaller than it is

 today, of course.

G: Oh, yes. And actually, on the peninsula, we had what I've always considered to be one

 of my great stimuli and advantages, n the high school there, Sea Breeze High School,

 at that time the supervising principal of all the schools on the peninsula side was

 a man named Rupert J. Longstreet, who was, in addition to being our supervising

 principal, the editor of the Florida Naturalists of the Florida Audubon Society and

 a very avid birder, a fellow of the American Association through the Advancement

 of Science. A man with several different types of university degrees and who really

 ran a very interesting school. Of course he had the advantage of drawing on students

 who pven during those depression years were going to have some opportunity to get an

 education. Of our graduating class of somewhere in the high thirties or low forties

 in number, over two thirds of us, closer to three quarters, went right on that year

 into college. This was, of course, in the depth of the depression, so it was a rather

 unusual high school, and as a matter of fact, I've since read that some of the other

 schoolmen of the Volusia County used to tell Rupert Longstreet, "you're not running a

 high school over there. You're running a junior college." And I guess, in some respects

 that's true.

W: Well, it must have been pretty difficult on the funding. Were most of the students

 getting extra grant money or getting scholarships somewhere?

G: You mean of the ones that went on to college?

W: Yeah, I mean, in the midst of the depression
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G: No, the peninsula in Datena Beach didn't get as hard hit as some of the other areas.

 There were many families over there that had sources of income where they were able to

 send the kids off to college, but another thing about that high school experience is tha

 the library was small, of course, but I read Crobr's Anthropology in my high school

 libraryand this was just not too many years after the Dayton trial and a lot of other

 similar mess, but Longstreet had that type of stuff in his school and it's said that