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Some Stuff I Wrote (2001) H. Morris Williams

I worked at the Seminole Pharmacy a long time and loved every minute of it. As I grew older, I
became the one to send the new employees all over town looking for sky hooks and things. And they

always took the joke in as good nature as I had.
Of course all this happened a long time ago and all those stores have long since changed

ownership or closed but the happy memory is still vividly within me about the day my little legs
took me all over the Lake City of my youth, looking for sky hooks and such.

Lake City’s Bay a Avenue

February 8,1994

Baya Avenue was named after Joseph Baya, one of a group of men in Lake City who gave

112 acres of land to establish the Florida Agriculture College in Lake City - where the V. A. Hospital
is now located The college was later moved to Gainesville, in 1904, and consolidated with the
state-funded East Florida Seminary to become the University of Florida. Recently, Joseph Baya’s

nephew, 93 year old Miami attorney, George J. “Duke” Baya, bequeathed $500,000 to establish a
perpetual endowment to support outstanding teaching and research at the University of Florida

College of Law. The “Baya Fund” will establish an eminent scholar chair or professorship, maybe
both, using matching state funds. “Duke” Baya graduated from the University of Florida Law School

in 1925 and has long espoused the idea that private money should supplement public money in
support of public education.

A B-AAA-D CRIME ... A goat at our kindergarten center zoo recently lifted a two-way
radio from the back pocket of an employee and chewed the antenna, causing $14 damage. The

humorously written report described the incident this way, “The goat immediately left the scene of
the crime and had to be found. Officials investigated and decided not to file charges against the

animal. But further investigation revealed the goat had a prior criminal record. While with his
former owner, the goat chewed a rope he had been tied with, escaped and then ate thirty-five dollars
worth of turnips and other vegetables.”

Even with this criminal record, the goat is a great favorite among the kindergarten children

and has been a model animal at the school. Therefore, the goat will be placed on probation and kept
under surveillance to prevent further violations. Noooo kiiid-ding!

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