Conceived in 1963, at the height of America’s fascination with the space program and less than an hour from Florida’s Space Coast, the school began as Florida Technological University, a vast and remote tract of wild palmettos and swampland that held the promise of a cutting-edge “Space University.”
Florida Tech found itself growing along with the surrounding communinity in size, prominence, and power into a diverse institution that no one in those early years could have envisioned. Renamed the University of Central Florida in 1979 to better reflect its broad cirriculum and its strong marriage with the region, the school has blossomed into the prototype for the modern metropolitan university.
Nathan Holic is a Pi Kappa Phi alumnus from the Eta Psi Chapter at University of Central Florida and holds a master’s of fine arts in creative writing. This book was made possible not only by the collections of the university archieves, but also by the four decades of alumni who have contributed their own personal materials.
ISBN-10: 0-7385-6768-X
ISBN-10: 0-7385-6768-X