P: The other two are not married? Douglas and Nancy?

R: No. They are not. We thought that one time Doug was about to get married, but
 something happened. You cannot control those things.

P: Where is Doug now?

R: Douglas is here now, Sam. He is the building inspector for the city of Sanibel
 [Florida].

P: And what about Nancy?

R: Nancy is in Tampa.

P: What does she do?

R: Well, Nancy got an A.A. [Associate in Arts] degree from Santa Fe Community
 College, and then she got an A.S. [Associate in Science] degree from Santa Fe
 Community College in environmental science. That has served her very well. She
 has a nice job with a subsidiary of the Corning Glass [Company] in the
 environmental field. She worked for the best known firm in that business in
 Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] for about ten years. I forget their name. I will think of
 it later. [Roy Weston Co., Inc.] Then she decided to come back to Florida, came
 to Tampa, and based on that experience she had in Philadelphia, she very quickly
 got a job and two or three nice promotions.

P: So you have at least two-thirds of your family relatively close by to visit and see.

R: And it easy to get to Chicago.

P: It is easy to get to Chicago from here. All right, let us get back to your career now.
 You have your M.A. from the University of Missouri, and you are ready for a real
 job now.

R: Based on the experience I had teaching those two classes, I thought I would like to
 teach. So I looked at the journals, et cetera, and I wound up with three job offers:
 a small, private college in Pennsylvania, Franklin and Marshall [College], the
 University of Minnesota, Duluth branch, the coldest place in America, and the
 University of Florida.

P: You thought about that Monroe, Louisiana.

R: So Mary made a very easy decision. She said, "Let us see what we can do about the
 Florida job." I sent all my credentials in. So Walter [Jeffries] Matherly [dean of the
 College of Business Administration at the University of Florida], then, said,"I am
 going to be in Kansas City."


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