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...Florida Presbyterian began as a dream in the head of William Kadel, pastor of Orlando's First Presbyterian Church. Assigned by the Board of Christian Education of the Southern Presbyterian to study the feasibility of starting a new denominational college, he had to ignore some discouraging history: no Presbyterian college had been founded since 1904, and the trend has been to cut loose from churches...
...Judge Values. With the help of Psychologist John Bevan, who left his associate professorship at Davidson, Kadel got 281 acres of seashore land from the city of St. Petersburg. Two fund-raising drives in St. Petersburg netted $4,000,000; the Presbyterians chipped in with $3,300,000. Florida Presbyterian opened in 1960, now has 810 students and a campus of functional modern buildings worth $14 million...
Premium on Maturity. Another innovation, mandatory for all students at Florida Presbyterian and already adopted by such established colleges as Bard, Colgate and Colby, is the "winter semester" of open-end independent study. Spliced in between the two regular semesters, it gives the students a month each year to pursue a sweep of projects ranging from the study of nonthermal radio emissions of Jupiter and digging up the Mayan past in Yucatán to working with migrant workers in Florida's orange groves...
...Florida Presbyterian has done away with such college conventional musts as compulsory class attendance and grading. Instead, whenever students feel ready, they take two weeks of grueling comprehensives required for graduation. For guidance purposes only, they are given H for honors, S for satisfactory, U for unsatisfactory...
Visser 't Hooft delivered his valedictory as he prepared to turn over the duties and prerogatives of his office to the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, 60, the strong-willed U.S. Presbyterian who has been preparing for his new job by studying French at the University of Grenoble. Visser 't Hooft, 66, will remain as a consultant, writing his memoirs on the unity movement, which he says he will "try to make a little more readable than most of the literature on the subject...