PHOTO BY JESSE S. JONES
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T HE L A S T 5 8 Y E A R S O F H A P P Y M EMOR I E S , H A R D W o R K
A N D T HE I R H o P E S F O R F U T U R E G ENE R A T I o N S
BY TYLER FRANCISCHINE
s Jim and Nell Potter, both MD ’63, sip iced tea and chat on their back porch,
training flights at the nearby Naval Air Station Pensacola zoom by, their roars
echoing in the atmosphere. The repeated booming doesn’t interrupt the Potters’
conversation; they’re recalling the first day they met, in 1959, on the UF College of
Medicine campus.
“There was a picnic held for incoming freshmen,” Nell Potter says. “Jim was playing
volleyball and was getting really loud and boisterous. I thought, who in the world is
that with the loud mouth?”
Drs. Jim and Nell Potter appeared
on the first cover of Florida
Physician magazine in fall 1988.
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