Julius Wayne Reitz was an American agricultural economist, professor and university president. Reitz was a native of Kansas, and earned bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in his chosen field.
University of Florida President J. Wayne Reitz, circa 1955.
A Florida Blue Key event - with Stephen C. O'Connell, John F. Kennedy, George Smathers, and J. Wayne Reitz Florida Blue Key banquet in 1957.
The history of the University of Florida is firmly tied to the history of public education in the state of Florida. The University of Florida originated as several distinct institutions that were cons
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An artist's rendering of the University of Florida's Gainesville campus in 1916, looking from the northeast.
Buckman Hall was completed in 1906, and is currently used as a residence hall. It was named for state representative Henry Holland Buckman, the principal author of the Buckman Act, which consolidated Florida's public institutions of higher education in 1905.
Andrew Sledd, the first president of the University of Florida (1905–1909). During his presidency, the university was officially known as the "University of the State of Florida"
Campus statue of Albert A. Murphree, the second president of the University of Florida (1909–1927). Murphree organized many of the university's constituent colleges and schools.