In November 1953 I was invited to visit FSU, then only about five years old as a university, expanded from FSCW by men, a graduate school, and a School of Business. It seemed logical to open up teaching of Psychology as applied to business and industry.

I joined the staff in January 1954, and organized a series of courses. We fluctuated between semester and quarter schedules. In the quarter sequence, I listed one course in Business Psychology, primarily of leadership; and two of Industrial, one of largely employment and training, the second of organization development and the procuring of management personnel. When we went back to a semester system, I enlarged Business Psychology to a full semester, and contracted Industrial into one semester length--but kept all topics between the two. 

At first, about two-thirds of my students were from the School of Business, and almost all men. Women were rare, but toward the end of my teaching career, I had nearly as many women as men. Also, as the School of Business procured personnel with some psychological training, the numbers from that school declined, although I always had fair numbers who wanted their Psychology from one whose graduate work had been inside Psychology.

As the one person dealing with Industrial, I never tried too strenuously to develop a graduate program. But I had a good number of Master's candidates, and steered them primarily into the Experimental sequence, emphasizing sound research procedures and statistics, but with much of the course work in the School of Business. I always felt very strongly that industrial demands a complete understanding of statistics (comprehension rather than calculation), as individual differences are crucial in employment and promotion, and test scores must be interpreted intelligently, with comprehension of what they are not as well as the positive side.

With the non-industrial character of northern Florida, research and placement are difficult, and with myself the only teacher in the area, I urged students who completed their masters to either seek jobs demanding no more, or going to a University which had a staff in our area. Further, after two degrees at FSU, it seemed essential that a student go elsewhere for further advanced work.