{"id":1424,"date":"2018-09-13T13:51:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/?post_type=insights&#038;p=1424"},"modified":"2018-09-13T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T17:51:50","slug":"a-memory-interviewing-charlie-pell","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"https:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/insights\/a-memory-interviewing-charlie-pell\/","title":{"rendered":"Fond Memory: Interviewing Charlie Pell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donald McMullen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>B.S. Journalism 1979<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have a few favorite memories of my years (1977-79) in the College of Journalism, but I&#8217;ll never forget taking a photography class my senior year and having to develop film and produce photos in an old locker room that served as the dark room.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure the present-day students don&#8217;t realize the old College of Journalism was in the side of football stadium, with the ceilings of the hallways outside of classrooms lined with pipes and such.<\/p>\n<p>And another lasting memory for me was in my last quarter, the Summer of 1979, when I was the sports editor of the<em> Independent Florida Alligator<\/em>. Charley Pell had been hired as the new football coach for the Gators, and I set up an interview to write a profile. Needless to say, he was an imposing figure coming from Clemson. Sitting face to face with Pell in his office and discussing how he was going to make UF a power in the Southeastern Conference (UF had never won an SEC title at that point) was a bit intimidating. But he did begin the evolution of UF into an SEC power (after an 0-10-1 start), and 37 years later I&#8217;m still editing and designing sports sections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/insights\/a-memory-interviewing-charlie-pell\/\"> Read more <i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1426,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","insights","type-insights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"insights_gallery":"","intro_paragraph":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/insights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights\/1424\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jou.ufl.edu\/going-greater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}