R: Yes.

P: You left the Hippodrome?

R: Exactly. And almost immediately, we were too small.

P: So the Hippodrome really was the first facility.

R: Correct.

P: Because you had the administrative offices long before you had the classes.

R: About a year and half, I would guess, maybe two [years].

P: That is two campuses, or two [facilities].

R: Then, about that time, I was too busy and I resigned from the board.

P: Oh, you did?

R: Now this was after we were up and running and started and everything was going
 pretty good.

P: And when you left the board, they just had the one campus, the Buchholz campus?

R: I think so. We might have been in negotiation for the Hotel Thomas during that
 period.

P: Which is now the Thomas Center in northeast Gainesville.

R: That is right. I think that this [arrangement] might have been either under way, or
 just consummated, or something like that. That was the next move, into that facility.

P: What other sites has it [Santa Fe Community College] had before it moved out to
 where it is now?

R: We then leased a major warehouse out on 23rd Avenue.

P: Now, you use the word "we," were you not off the board by this time?

R: Sam, that is just habit, [but] yes, I was.

P: So that comes after you leave?

R: In fact, I am not sure that that might have come after I came back. [It was] in 1967
 when I stepped down.


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