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- University of Florida Historian Carl Van Ness to Retire After Nearly 40 Years of Gator Storytelling
March 22, 2022
GAINESVILLE, Florida, March 22 (TNSPer) -- The University of Florida issued the following news on March 21, 2022:

Carl Van Ness may have been the only fifth-grader ever summoned to the principal's office for spending too much time in the library. Spurning the traditional boys' afterschool role of safety patrol officer, he instead rooted himself among shelves of history books, much to the concern of the school librarian Ms. Cox.

Van Ness didn't know it at . . .

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