Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 189-194). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Seminary, 2006. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes project in ministry report. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-155, 97-104).

Following the Yamasee War of 1715, many of the Yamasee Indians rekindled alliances with the Spanish and returned to La Florida. San Antonio de Pocotalaca (1716 to 1752) was one of three initial Yamasee Indian towns to relocate from South Carolina and settle on the fringes of St. Augustine. In South Carolina, Pocotalaca (referred to there as Pocotaligo) served as the primary upper town of six Yamasee towns and was the political center for conferences and council meetings between Yamasees, their Indian allies, and South Carolina officials. When Pocotalaca relocated to St. Augustine after the Yamasee War, the town and its inhabitants retained their political significance. Having recognized the importance of the town’s Yamasees, their connections to Indian groups in Apalachicola, and how the alliance could be beneficial to the colony, the Spanish treated them accordingly. As a result, Pocotalaca’s Yamasees secured influence and continued to so by bolstering power through their relations with the Spanish. For these reasons, they were able to carve out their own space in St. Augustine where they retained a high level of autonomy, maintained their Yamasee identity, some traditional practices, and many aspects in their material choices.

Torpedograss (Panicum repens) was first observed in Lake Okeechobee in the 1970s and appears to have displaced an estimated 6,400 ha of native plants, such as spikerush (Eleocharis cellulosa), where inundation depths are often less than 50 cm. Two series of studies evaluated substrate exposure and water depth influences on torpedograss establishment and competitiveness. Results revealed that fragments remain buoyant for extended periods and so facilitate dispersal. Once anchored to exposed substrate fragments can readily root and establish. Subsequently, torpedograss thrives when subjected to inundations to 75 cm and survives prolonged exposure to depths greater than 1 m. These findings suggest that fluctuating water levels contribute to torpedograss dispersal and colonization patterns and that low water levels increase marsh area susceptible to invasion. The competition study found that spikerush grown in monoculture produces significantly more biomass when continually inundated to shallow depths (10 to 20 cm) than when subjected to drier conditions (-25 cm) or greater inundations (80 cm). In contrast, torpedograss establishes more readily on exposed substrate (-25 to 0 cm) compared to inundate substrates. During the first growing season biomass production increases as substrate exposure interval increases. However, during the second year, established torpedograss produces more biomass when grown on intermittently wet (0 cm) compared to permanently dry (-25 cm) or intermittently inundated (10 cm) substrates. No difference in production was observed between substrates permanently inundated (10 cm) and any other regime tested. During the first two years of torpedograss invasion, regardless of treatment, spikerush suppresses invasion and torpedograss had little effect on established spikerush, indicating that spikerush-dominated areas are capable of resisting torpedograss invasion. Even so, disturbances that might cause mortality of long hydroperiod species, such as spikerush, may create open gaps in the native vegetation and thus facilitate torpedograss establishment and expansion.

Education has given much attention to problems involved in grouping boys and girls for instruction. This emphasis is evidenced through the considerable space in professional literature which has hen devoted to this problem. Even so, the matter remains an issue in that considerable disagreement persists. However, there seem to be some general principles that have come to be commonly accepted. The writer, in her position of teaching boys and girls, faces this problem continuously. Thus, she has a keen interest in discovering more effective ways of meeting problems involved in grouping boys and girls for instruction. In order to satisfy this interest the writer has chosen her own school situation as a point of study. / Typescript. / "August, 1953." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Virgil E. Strickland, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 30-31).

The public relations program of any school is vitally important to the success of the total program. As practical psychologists, members of the staff must know and apply the principles of successful public relations. If the public is expected to support the school program, it must comprehend the values and share in its development. The following is a report of the program for strengthening the public relations of the Lynn Haven Elementary School. / Typescript. / "August, 1953." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: W. Edwards, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 27-28).

"Education, to which so much importance is attached in our democratic society, is of doubtful value if it does not produce people who can think clearly in quantitative terms about the social problems affecting the nation and themselves. In order to make a satisfactory adjustment to their environment it is necessary for them to obtain a knowledge of the social as well as the technological developments which have taken place in the community. To examine the role that science education in Mainland High School, at Daytona Beach, Florida, can play in accomplishing these objectives is the purpose of this paper"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1953." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: H. W. Dean, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-43).

"This paper presents a survey of the physical health status of twenty-seven first grade boys and girls in the Paxton Elementary School. Keen interest on the part of the writer in this problem has been felt for a number of years. Because of this interest the writer planned and carried out the health study reported here. The central purpose of this study is to gain keener insight into the health needs of first grade pupils in Paxton Elementary School. On the basis of this understanding to plan more effective experiences that will improve the health of these boys and girls"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "July 22, 1952." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: Virgil E. Strickland, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 36-37).

"The purpose of this paper is to provide information which may useful to the Marion County Director of Adult and Vocational Education and to the County School Board in planning future vocational courses, and improving the effectiveness of those now being offered"--Introduction. / "February, 1958." / Typescript. / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: Edward K. Hankin, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 24).

"Campbellton High School is a small school of some two hundred thirty rural pupils in Jackson County, Florida. It is felt that the faculty is well acquainted with the personal feelings and desires of the student body. The members of the faculty know each student by name, and also know something of his family life, ambitions, economic status, and his favorite foods. Yet, with all this knowledge about the students, it is felt that school children do not always reveal their thoughts and ideas of what they think is right or wrong with their school. Since the school is being run for the benefit of the pupils, it seems desirable that the faculty also have this information in order for it to do the job thoroughly"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "January, 1953." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: H. W. Dean, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 102).