George F. Baughman

George F. Baughman (1915–2004) was the first president of New College of Florida, a vice president of the University of Florida as well as of New York University and treasurer and a rear admiral in the United States Naval Reserve.

George Fechtig Baughman was born July 15, 1915, in Tampa, Florida at home and was educated at the University of Florida from which he received a BS in 1937 and an LLB in 1939. The LLB was replaced by a JD in the 1960s. While an undergraduate at Florida, Baughman became a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. He worked at a bank in Washington, D.C. He also met his future wife, Hazel Zoerner, who also worked at a bank in Washington, DC, but returned to the University of Florida in 1941 to become associate professor of Business Law and Insurance. While in Washington, he was able to complete his MA at George Washington University.

During World War II, Baughman was a naval officer and served as officer-in-charge of Navy Lend Lease Supply. He remained in the naval reserve after the war and later retired as a Rear Admiral. During this time he and Hazel had two children, Sharon Ruth, born on May 27, 1944, and some three years later, Mary Gaye.

In 1946, George Baughman returned to the University of Florida where he held the position of vice president of business affairs until 1955, when he left to become business manager of New York University. He had reached the rank of vice president and treasurer of NYU when he left in 1961 to go to Sarasota to lead the Congregational Christian Church's project to create an experimental honors college of national importance.

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