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You served under four presidents?

Five. I still consider serving. I do so much for the university now, I feel like I am serving under Dr. Adams too.

And you have…

So I count him.

And you have served on the Arch Foundation for him…

Yeah, right.

And you have served along countless outstanding faculty and staff and known innumerable students. Talk to us about some of the interesting personalities that you have known, and certainly I think Dean Bill Tate, Dean William Tate…somebody you have to…

Oh, yeah and Dr. Stanford. And all the…you know I have worked for four presidents on the job, and all of them are great people. Earl Leonard who was vice president for Coca Cola, Tom Cousins who was chair of the foundation, the University Foundation, I guess that was the title then when this whole thing with Dr. Davison and the Kemp affair…what he did to bring us through that. We had a big thing for Dr. Davison and they gave him a car. It had to be in the gymnasium and it was full of people from all over the state. He did that and helped heal, begin the healing after that. Then Pierre Howard, who was a vice president (lieutenant governor), big tennis player here. Buddy Darden, who was a US congressman…

The past president of the Board of Regents was a student here that I worked closely with. He headed up the senate I think. Let's see…who else? Of course, Dean Rusk — the opportunity to know a man of that stature and meet him on the campus every morning as I walked into the office. Dr. Aderhold was a real giant, one of the early presidents of a southern institution and kind of began, particularly in agriculture, made agriculture a science at this institution. It is still the biggest industry in the state. People don't think about that being the case, and we don't hear as much about it, agriculture now, but he was the one that built that agricultural scholarship at this institution in his tenure here. So, and then there are lots of students now that are in the legislature that are going to move right on up. I can see it already.

Who are "The rising hope of our land…"

Yeah, "he rising hope of our land". Our next lieutenant governor, well twenty-five governors, I guess maybe twenty-six counting Governor Perdue, who was a veterinary graduate. I believe he is the twenty-fifth governor that were graduates of the University, which is something, and we have got, let's see, Taylor (Mark Taylor, foreseer lieutenant governor), and(Cathy Cox, former Georgia secretary of state) Cox are both graduates of the University, so we are going to have if we are lucky, another graduate. I'll not get into politics.