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G: you exactly to look that direction in those days. So I really can't say how it

 happened, but that was the particular decision. I had a friend who wanted to drag me

 out to the University of New Mexico when we left high school where he was determined

 to go to study archeology.

W: Who was that?

G: Name was William Albertson, but after he entered the armed services, during World

 War II, I don't know whatever happened to his interest. He never developed into an

 archeologist anyway, as far as I know. But that was another little stimulation, and

 then I guess the final thing was in, at the University of Florida. I entered there

 We had to declare, it was general college, but you had to declare what your field

 was going to be so I naturally I said architecture to please my father and had no real

 intention of following that, but by the time I was in my sophomore year, I had taken a

 course in sociology under John McLaughlin who was in the sociology department there.

 McLaughlin had worked some with LlJyd Warner in some of the deep south studies of

 the cultural anthropology. While it still wasn't clear to me that, as clear as it was

 later, that really you had to be an anthropologist to be an archeologist. I was

 beginning to catch on a little bit to that idea and McLaughlin just felt that there was

 only one place that I should even consider going and that was the University of Chicago.

 And I guess he had quite a bit of influence on my making that decision, cause I still

 had sort of been thinking about sliding off after the second year out to New Mexico.

W: So you were only going to really spend just two years at Florida?

G: Two years at Florida. Yeah, that was my plan from the very beginning. The two years of

 the general college.

W: When did you enter Florida?

G: Nineteen, the fall of 1937.

W: Thirty-seven. You graduated from high school in '36? Or '37?

G: Thirty-seven, yeah. tVWaL- /_ J UV\ which was a class of forty-one and so,

 as I say, McLaughlin had that influence on me. Then another thing that happened was that