Graduation announcement and name card: Christopher Gaillard McEwan, University of Florida College of Law, June 8, 1968

An album spread showing the inside of an opened formal folded engraved announcement from the University of Florida College of Law. The small engraved name card ‘Christopher Gaillard McEwan’ is tipped onto the left interior leaf within a blind-stamped (embossed) rectangular frame; the printed announcement of the Spring Graduation Exercises (Saturday evening, June 8, 1968, at six-thirty, Reitz Union Ballroom) appears engraved on the right leaf. Christopher Gaillard McEwan is the son of Mary Ann Walker McEwan and Oswald Beverley McEwan, a grandson of the compiler Amy FitzSimons (Mrs. James Pickens Walker), and the bearer of an ancestral family surname Gaillard as a middle name (the Gaillards came into the FitzSimons line through Susan Milliken Barker, wife of Dr. Christopher FitzSimons 3rd, whose maternal grandmother was Henrietta Catherine Gaillard). Pristine condition; cream stock, black engraving. No handwritten annotations. The people list includes the parents and grandmother as implicit relatives in this piece of family ephemera.

Christopher Gaillard McEwan — Amy FitzSimons’s grandson via her daughter Mary Ann Walker McEwan — graduates from law school at age c. 25 on a Saturday evening in 1968. The middle name “Gaillard” carries forward the family’s Lowcountry Huguenot line: Gaillard entered the FitzSimons inheritance through Susan Milliken Barker (wife of Dr. Christopher FitzSimons 3rd), whose father Samuel Gaillard Barker took his middle name from his own mother Henrietta Catherine Gaillard (1774–1858). The compiler kept the name alive as a given name across the next two generations (cf. Gaillard Stoney FitzSimons “Gaillie,” Amy’s father; Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons, her brother).