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Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (2009) H. Morris Williams, Dr. Kevin M. McCarthy
Making plans for the opening of Lake City Junior College
in 1961 were (from left to right in the front row) Senator G.T.
Melton and A.W. Litschgi (Chairman of the Advisory Council
on Education); in the back row (from left to right) were F.W.
(Shorty) Bedenbaugh, Herbert Attaway Jr. (Superintendent of
the Forest Ranger School), and B.H. Galloway (Superintendent
of Public Instruction).
In 1963, after a disastrous fire on campus, workers replaced
many of the wooden buildings with brick, giving the facility a more
permanent look. However, several of the buildings from the World
War II era remained, although unused, until the middle 1970s, when
workers demolished the last one.
Through the 1960s, the school struggled to attract students
and often had fewer than 400.
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