The Boca Raton Tribune Yo u r C l o s e s t N e i g h b o r
Number 576 • Year XI
East /West Boca Raton, Highland Beach, Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach, FL
August 12 - August 18, 2022
COMMUNITY see page 5
Former Boca Raton Mayor Passes Away at 77 A Pillar of Boca Raton Community Patricia Carpenter Passes Away
COMMUNITY see page 8
Boynton Beach to Flush Water Lines with Chlorine
SPORTS see page 18
Sailfish Add Ryan Montgomery as Men’s Basketball Assistant
Susan Slade Whelchel, 77, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on August 5, 2022 after battling Alzheimer’s Disease. She was born the youngest daughter on August 13, 1944 to Flora and Tom Slade in Baxley, Georgia. Her siblings (predeceased) were Tom Slade, Joanne Sawyer, and Flo O’Brien. She soon moved to Starke, Florida where she graduated from Bradford County High School. She graduated from Jacksonville University with a degree in political science and did post graduate work at Florida Atlantic University and Nova Southeastern University. While in Jacksonville, she met her husband, John Whelchel and married in 1968. Continued on Page 4
FAU Names New Dean of Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Florida Atlantic University has announced Valery Forbes, Ph.D., as its new dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, effective Aug. 10. Forbes will spearhead FAU’s second largest college, which has a student body of more than 8,500, and education and research programs in biological sciences, chemistry and biochemistry, environmental science, exercise science and health promotion, geosciences, marine science and oceanography, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, psychology, and urban and regional planning. Forbes brings more than 25 years of experience as a robust, enterprising researcher and academic leader with international experience that pairs well with FAU’s already thriving scientific community. As the former dean of the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Forbes oversaw a $100 million budget, secured partnerships with government and industry, grew enrollments while maintaining high admissions standards, and launched a Dean’s Undergraduate Research Program. She also successfully advocated for UMN to join the University of California Partnership for Faculty Diversity, a pipeline program to attract high quality and diverse postdocs and facilitate their transition. Continued on Page 13
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