University of Tampa - Moroccan Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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... And the great war ended; tragedy, sorrow, but it was soon no all pass. Then in one score and a fortnight, the one whom we Knew as Plant had an idea, and the money was gathered for the beginning of the Tampa Bay Hotel. The hotel was a work of beauty and elegance; soon all the elite came to stay. The hotel was busting with excitement, and all were having the time of their lives; but then came war. The yeaF was eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; those known as Spaniards and those known as Americans met on that treacherous field of bloody wrath known as war. As the war con- tinued the joy of the hotel was broken, for it was the summer- time weather and the guests were going about their usual busi- ness. The mood the day was then broken, it v was announced V that he was w A here, it was yA Teddy Roose ' velt and his L Rough Riders L U 21 1 was SJ never to be tT w 1

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 Teddy had created a new type of excitement that was buzzing around the hotel. The guests were to watch every move that the big man made. The war finally ended and the hotel returned to some assem- blance of normality. With the year 1916 we once again plunged into war, but this time there were to be no Teddys. The Tampa Bay Hotel was keeping up its elite statu when the plunge of the market came in that fatefu year of '29, it can be said that death arrived. , Nineteen hundred and thirty-one, a year that ail £ i men know, for it was the creation of the place kno ty .if as UT. The school added a new life to the city t‘ years progressed, the school as well as the cityibSRa to grow. The downtown area came to be home the wizards of finance, and arawas w l. The passi of two more wars occurred, bj LJT and its home continued to grow . 1 It was November of '63 and a ma came to town. It was the President known as Kennedy, and the city loved him; but one week after tfial joyful visit, the President .wjys sn t dead in cold blood, an we moUrner The boulevard was renaffied f rthe President whom we loved so nji The coming out of the hell in’Vi nam brought turmoil, but,UT.- p home once again survived.: ' It is now a new decade, abjdwe at UT continue to strive for •ouVUttl and our dreams. The city of Tar it continues to grow, helps usOj those voids in our lives whe | need an escape from academics. Therefore, we of the Moroc dedicate this book to UT and the Citt of Tampa. y m 1 ■ V.” W-A