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 no matter what they say right now. And as it turned outhat' true because most of

 the students did go to Santa Fe and as you probably recognize Santa Fe gets the.

 majority of the students who continue on !i.>i -i S beyond high school here in

 Alachua, Starke, and Bradford Counties at the present time. A few years helped the
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 colleges to overcome some of this lack of credibility because when the first Z or 3

 students finish and go on, if they care to go on, or they go into jobs or whatever

 they do, they become your major supporters at that point on. The credibility with

 the universities is another kind of problem because the universities are in the saddle,

 they can say we o) accept your credits or we will accept your credits. In our

 instance in Florida, we were very fortunate in some of the leadership as I pointed
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 out earlier with the universities Mg1 Wb-,the presidential empathy for the idea.

 One other person that I would really mention in connection with this is the registrar

 at the University of Florida, Dick Johnsoht1/ Dick had the reputation around the

 country as being a real tough cookie and as a result of that though he had a great

 deal of credibility all over the country among the Registrar's Association. Dick

 was also the kind of a man who respected scholarship and who respected organization

 and when he had followed through on our plan for Florida's development, he became a

 very strong convince adherent to the program. Of course he had had some good

 experience with graduates of Palm Beach Junior College since 1935, he had good

 experience with graduates of St. Petersburg Junior College since the early 1930s as

 well and he had more recently had good positive experience with Pensacola Junior

 College and Tacoa Junior College so he was not unfamiliar with junior college trans-

 fers, however as we began to develop new institutions it was necessary for them to

 have some sort of accreditation or recognition in order to assure graduates that they

 would have some place to go without difficulty and it was important that the University

 of Florida grant this sort of recognition. So in discussing this with Mr. Johnson

 why he said why certain we'll acceptVthe University of Florida and he cleared it

 through the powers that be here at the university. Then he did one more thing which