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

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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.

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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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Executives of Inouguroted or ToHahotM cn Jcroory I, I9»5. Governor Milord F.llmcre CokWH look cs r the t«o4mh p of the Store government ot o tit when the notcn »os emergng Iran o second World Wor. No mon is bencr a«Mied to serve the best interests of fkedo in the period of gro»o political ond sociol problems wh h I«m oheod A Tcmesseon, like Prescient Tiger!, Caldwell hos hod ccnsidcroWe logoi ond legislative experience. Educoted m Tennessee. Misvsvpp. ond Virgimo. Governor Caldwol was odnutted to the Tennessee bar n 1922 ond to the Ffcndo bor n 1925 He served os prosecufng attorney ond canty ottorney for Scnto Rons Canty ond, loter, os ottemey fer the City of Mltcn He wos a member of the 192? ond 1930 sesvens of the FIctkJo legislature He was efected four times to Congress os o fepresentotnr cf the third Flordo U tt t, vttvrq both on the Committee «n Fcre-gn Affo-rs ond the Committee on A( yoprot ns In 1938 he wos o delegate to the Interport errenrory Uncn ot The Hogue, ond 1) 1939 o member cf the Conference of the Interporliomentory Union ot Osk , Nfcrwoy, In privote life Gaemcr Caldwell res-des with his fomly ot their plontoticn tome He wood' neor ToHahossee.