[FHStoday] Comment

[lewis n. wynne]

From: "Margo Pope" <mpope@aug.com> 
To: "lewis n. wynne"
<wynne@metrolink.net> 
Subject: Re: [FHStoday] Re: comment 
Date: Mon, 27
Nov 2000 15:08:48 -0500 
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NICK: perhaps some of Florida's historians might want to contribute items 
periodically to add to the list. 
As for the repeatedness of this, it is a quick and easy way to get some of 
Florida's history into the mindset.
I think this should be in every Florida newspaper. We certainly run The AP 
list daily at The Record and it is repeats except for the 10 and 5 years 
ago.
Mike Gannon has lamented for years that the state university system does not 
require the Florida History course that he and Dr. Proctor so ably have 
taught as an elective. I think about that even more as my Florida-born son 
has to take the madated-Ga. History course before he graduates from Ga. 
Southern University next spring. Fortunately, he grew up in St. Augustine 
where you cannot escape the history of the first settlement, etc.
The point of the above is that if the Today in Florida History is widely 
circulated, it can become a mini history course for the millions in this 
state who have come in the last 10 years and don't know about our past and 
aren't likely to encounter Gannon, Proctor or a university elective history 
course.
Well, that's enough for now. 
Thanks again for all your efforts. MARGO POPE 
Senior Writer, The St. Augustine Record.