R: And then there were still a couple of classes I had to take, so I took them while I
 was there. That meant I did finish the classwork.

P: It sounds like everything except the dissertation.

R: Yes.

P: So being the assistant dean, did you carry the "Dean" title?

R: The title was Assistant to the Dean, rather than Assistant Dean. I did go to
 meetings for Don from time to time and things like that. But most of the time I
 spent working on administrative details which the dean's office has to deal with,
 responding to requests for information and that sort of thing. And I did help
 students where I could, talk to students where I could, tell them where to go to get
 the answers.

P: Did you want to get back into teaching? The fact that you did not, was this a result
 of your own desire?

R: No. It was a result of Clem [Donovan] saying, "This job will pay more than I can
 pay you if you come back." I think if I had gone back on the faculty it would have
 been [a salary] $6,200 and [as] the assistant to the dean [I] was [making] $6,800.

P: I see.

R: That was how that came to pass, really.

P: But you had always enjoyed teaching.

R: Oh, yes, very much. I always enjoyed teaching. I really did.

P: Where did the Robertsons live now that you have returned to Gainesville?

R: We bought a little house, Sam, out about Thirty-Sixth Street, or Thirty-Eighth Street,
 or Terrace, or something like that [North-West]. Somebody was very rapidly building
 a lot of houses out there, and there were a number of faculty living out there
 already, and we bought a little house out there.

P: You had reestablished your contacts with people like the Richardsons and so on?

R: Yes.

P: So [with] your social life, you just moved back into that circuit once again.

R: Right.


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