University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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Contents ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY CLASSES LAW SENIORS JUNIORS SOPHOMORES FRESHMEN FEATURES SPORTS AND INTRAMURALS ACTIVITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS HALL OF FAME THE CAMPUS, 1943-44 FRATERNITIES IN MEMORIAM

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MR. H. P. ADAIR Choirmon of the Stole Boord of Control Dedication , This, the thirty-sixth volume of the University of Florida Seminole, is respectfully dedicated to Mr. Henry Porterfield Adoir, Chairman of the State Boord of Control, who during his connection with the Board hos given unstmtingly of his time, h«s energy, ond his greot ability to odvance the welforc of the University m on exceptionally trying period in its history1

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University cAdministration. Running a university in wartime is the severest test of its Administrative structure Perhops no other situotion is so opt to discover the smollest modequoc es ond to cost them into high relief Certomly no other situation so consistently ottocks the troditions end usoges wh h form the spiritual core of university life, that core which it is the Administrator's task to develop ond perpetuote from student generation to student generation Since the beginning of the Second World Wor, the University of Florida, like universities or»d colleges throughout the country, hos foced its severest test A seemingly endless senes of problems hos come to the desk of President John J Tigert, to the desks of the Deons, ond to the Business ond Faculty offices Problems of reduced enrollment, of empty dormitories and harassed frotermt»es, of o foiling athletic program ond o drastically curtailed curriculum—these hove been the Administration's constont concern, but there hove been other problems, too, involving the liberol, progressive troditicn of Florida education ond the momtenonce of vital Student Body Government It is o fine thing to be oble to say that the University is meeting ond weothermg its crisis, but it is a finer thing to know that its leoders seek o solution to eoch problem that is o step forward os well Since the beginning of the Second World Wor, the University of Florida has moved forward, or»d it is to the University Administration President Tigert, the Board of Control, the Business Staff, and the Deons ond Foculty that the credit ond our thonks belong.