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Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (2009) H. Morris Williams, Dr. Kevin M. McCarthy
A professor of languages at FAC, Rev. Dr. C.V. Waugh,
wrote a song in 1894 entitled “Florida, My Florida,” which the state
legislature adopted in 1913 as the state song. Praised as having both
metric and patriotic merit of the kind calculated to inspire love for
home and native state, and sung to the tune of “Maryland, My
Maryland,” it would keep its place of honor until the legislature
substituted for it Stephen Foster’s 1851 “Old Folks at Home,” better
known as “Way Down Upon the Swanee River,” as the state song in
1935.
1894 was a significant year in the evolution of FAC since the
school at that time began accepting female students, and fifty-four
enrolled, far more than was expected. 1894 also saw the first female
professor, Helen Ingram, professor of English and History.
The faculty of FAC had several women professors
in the mid-1890s.
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