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- ↑ "about UWF". Pensacola, Florida: University of West Florida. Archived from the original on April 5, 2004.
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- ↑ "UWF - President's Division - Presidents of UWF July 1964 - 2008<". Pensacola, Florida: University of West Florida. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013.
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