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" the University got a lot of help from the Lakeland Community. A lot of people live there that worked at the university, but there's just abundance of community
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"The community was set up so that everybody knew everybody. It was a village. And actually you could go into anybody's home and get fed, so you never go without food… It was an open-door policy."

Photograph of Edward Dory

J. Chesley Mack is seated second from the left in this 1957 photograph of the College Park Town Council. He served as a member of that legislative body from 1945 until 1957. Mack was one of the first in Lakeland to complete a course of higher…