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FRANCES BARTLETT KINNE: 1917-2020 JACKSONVILLE
A trailblazer an optimist Daily and Record Friends remember the legendary JU president. “This is like losing an institution.” BY MAX MARBUT ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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Frances Bartlett Kinne will be remembered for her leadership and love of life, and most of all for her infectious optimism. Kinne died May 10 from complications from a stroke. She was 102. “Her tenacious optimism was No. 1,” said Jacksonville University President Tim Cost in an interview May 11 with Jacksonville Daily Record news partner WJXT TV-4. Cost played baseball at JU and graduated in 1981. When he returned to the university as its president in 2013, Kinne was chancellor emerita and an integral part of the continuing development of the institution. “A lot of people talk about servant leadership. Fran was a pioneer. She shattered glass ceilings that no one knew existed,” Cost said. In a message posted on JU’s Facebook page the day Kinne died, Cost recalled his graduation ceremony. Kinne, as JU president, handed him his diploma, then stopped him for a second to say, “Go out in the world and do great things,” Cost said. Kinne had her own take on leading the way to do great things. “Leadership classes are great, but you’ve got to have some experience and you have to have done some stupid things in order to know what you should be doing,” Kinne said two years ago in an interview with the Daily Record that marked her 100th birthday. SEE KINNE, PAGE 2
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Former Jacksonville University President Frances Bartlett Kinne died May 10 at the age of 102. Kinne, who earned her doctorate in music, English literature and philosophy, attends a concert in 2017.
Kinne was named president of JU in 1979, becoming the first female president of a Florida university.
Kinne cuts down the nets after JU won the Sun Belt Conference basketball tournament in 1986.
Nordstrom not closing at Town Center Seattle-based retailer Nordstrom Inc. said by email May 8 that its Jacksonville department store remains in business. “Nordstrom St. Johns Town Center is not part of our store closures,” Nordstrom’s public relations department said. Nordstrom announced May 5 it would close 16 of its 116 full-line stores as it begins a phased reopening of locations closed because of the coronavirus. The St. Johns Town Center store remains closed for COVID-19, according to a recorded response at the Town Center number. Nordstrom opened the store in October 2014.
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