Florida Southern College - Interlachen Yearbook (Lakeland, FL)

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CORNING F. TOLLE Dean of Men A.B. . . . the rise cf a Tolle from rat to alumni secretary, to Dean of Men on Southern ' s campus - . . eight years a member cf the Florida Methodist Conference . . lournal- ist . former editor, Interlachen and Southern . . . bronzed reddish cheeks . . . court |ester . . . boisterous laugh suddenly subdued by new responsibilities . . . Don Quixote in a Dodge . . . calls by name half the people in Florida . . . DANA F. ROBINSON Deon of Women AB,MA. ... a Virginian shore ... an old home . . . gentle people . . . gcydens . . . piles of books . she loves them . . . college peo- ple, social and church work ... in Who ' s Who among American Women . . . lec- turer . . . friendly . . . interested in stu- dents . . . highly analytical . . . candidate for Ph D ... an intellectual . . . makes deaning on art . . . COOPERATIVE OWEEN SUMNER Library Science AB, BLS. ... at heart, a clubwoman . . . being dis- trict director of the state Business and Professional Women ' s club is her hobby . . . worked at the University of Chicago Library School toward Ph D. . . Honor Walk . . . understanding . . . patient . . . modest . efficient . . . neat in appearance . . . makes more noise in the library than the students . . her greatest piece of work was in building the library up to meet require- ments . . . ESTHER WHITMORE Assistant Librarian AB . . . think of roastin ' ears and chicken . . . a fire ... an open book . . . music . . . piano . . . voices ... a group of young people from the church . . . laughter . . . filer among book stacks LAURA LONG Dietician BS . . . We thank thee for our daily bread (pudding) . . . level-headed, steady, quiet Laura Long . . . she keeps dinner lines moving like clock work . . avoids haste ... is sincere, dependable ... is witty with friends . . . president of the Profes- sional and Business Women ' s Club of Lake- land . . . menu collector . . . dreams of further study in diatetics . . . %♦•♦•

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RAY V. SOWERS Sociology A.B. . . . pioneer in the study of family relation- ships - . . likes travel . . . reading . . garden. ng . . . often a speaker before state conventions . . . interested in youth prob ' ems . . . served in the marines during the World War ... in local diplomatic service . . . sociologist . . has spoken be- fore nearly every club in the state GORDON HALSTEAD Sociology A.B.MA . . former member of staff of American Student Christian movement . . . National Secretary of YMCA . . . delegate tc World Youth Peace Congress in Holland . . Universal Religious Peace Conference in Switzerland . . . Social Director of Chris- tian Colleges in Lucknow, India . . cour- teous . . . straightforward . . a practical turn of mind ... he brought visional edu- cation to the campus . . associated with Frederick B. Fisher at Michigan State, and with E. Stanley Jones in India . . . Leave of absence. ELIZABETH S. JACKSON Sociology A.B. .a lady of vivacious efficiency . . . active in YWCA work . president, Flor- ida Federation of Woman ' s Clubs gardens . sails . . swims . . . hiked through Glacier Park . . . member Florida State Board of Public Welfare . . traveled abroad and in Cuba . . she combines a warrior ' s instincts with a disposition for social service and welfare work . . . SOCIAL SCIENCE CARL A ANDERSON Business Administration BS . . graduate of Florida Southern . . . amateur photographer . likes gardening, fish ng scion of Swedish line obdu- rate . . neophyte bursar . . . keenly ana- lytical . . . strides purposefully about the campus with a professional greeting for everyone . . . LAURA NEIL LEONARD Typing, Shorthand BS. . . former student who became assistant to the bursar , . . shares her typing lectures with the German class next door . , one, two, three, shift . . . neat . . . efficient pianist . . . faithful practicer . . . with skill in technique and performance worthy of New York . . . C BRYAN Soil Chemistry BS, MS, PhD former professor of agronomy and soils at the University of Florida , . head of Citrus Bureau founded here in 1939. . . interpreter of soil needs to the growers . . . advocates establishment of a quality stan- dard for the interior of citrus fruit . . . ♦• ■♦• . . -

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W. A. MYERS Chaplain AB,DD ... his is a minister with laughter . . . started forty years ago in Tennessee . . . likes poetry and football ... is anxious to acquiese . . . now college chaplain . . . former national chaplain of the veterans of the Spanish-American War . . . assured speaker ... a preacher of the horse and buggy tempo . . . rich years in service of the church have given him an understand- ing of humanity. MRS J JOHNSON Assistant Dean of Women . . candlelight ... a home . . . girls and boys finding sympathetic understanding . . . serenity and laughter . . . gracious . . . beloved . . . one person for whom the col- lege men will do anything she asks of them. COOPERATIVE RUTH McAFEE Assistant Registrar A.B. ... a girl with a hoop skirt on an old cameo . . . Mona Lisa face . . . she wants to help others . . . likes olives, green or ripe . . . plays a piano . . . collects and illustrates poems . . . wrinkles her nose . . . is domestic . . . should be Rachel instead o f Ruth . . . likes statistics . . . registering students . . . has et ceteras. MRS EVA WEBB Secretary to the President . . member of Spivey clan . . . telephones ringing . . . typewriters clicking . . ap- pointments . . . waiting petitioners . . . rush . . . letters going out, letters coming in ... a college at her finger tips . . . efficient . . . calm . . . quick . . . cutting her way through the maze of secretarial red tape . . . -• H MORRISON WILLIAMS Manager of Book Store . , . high class soda jerker . . . from the land of fast horses and beautiful women — Kentucky . . . fisherman . . bird hunter . . book seller and check-casher . . . Willie tc everybody a Southern tradi tion. ♦