Edith P. Pitts Papers 1934-1973

University of Florida

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The original campus plans for the University of Florida at Gainesville were developed by the firm of Edwards & Walter. Edwards & Walter were contracted to design and layout the campus buildings in 1905. Additional plans were developed by the firm's successor, Edward and Sayward. In 1925, Rudolph Weaver, Director of the University's School of Architecture, assumed the position of Architect for the Board of Control and was responsible for campus planning throughout the state. ...

Pitts, Edith P.

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Edith Patti Pitts was administrative assistant to the University President during the tenures of James J. Tigert, J. Hillis Miller, and J. Wayne Reitz. She was hired by Tigert shortly after his arrival here. Prior to then, Pitts had served as an administrative aide to Senator Claude Pepper. She retired from the University in 1957 and joined the staff of Congressman D.R. "Billy" Mathews. She returned to Gainesville after Mathews retired. From the guide to the Edith P. Pit...

Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1899-1953

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Tigert, John James, 1882-1965

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John James Tigert was born February 11, 1882, the third child of John James Tigert III (1857?-1906) and Amelia McTyeire Tigert. Amelia Tigert was the daughter of Bishop Holland Nimmons McTyeire, first president of the Board of Trust of Vanderbilt University. Her mother, Amelia Townsend McTyeire, was a cousin of Cornelius Vanderbilt. John James Tigert III was a member of Vanderbilt's faculty and a bishop in the Methodist Church. John J. Tigert received his secondary educa...

Reitz, J. Wayne (Julius Wayne)

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J. Wayne Reitz was fifth president of the University of Florida. J. (Julius) Wayne Reitz was born on December 31, 1908 in Olathe, Kansas. In 1930, after being editor of the university's yearbook, freshmen class president, student body president, and winner of the Rocky Mountain Oratory Award, he received his Bachelor's degree from Colorado State University. He worked as an extension economist, first at Colorado State, and then with the University of Illinois, where in 19...