VIRES A Pu b l i ca t i o n of t h e F l o r i d a S ta te U n i ve rs i ty A l u m n i Asso c i a t i o n
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KEEPER OF HISTORY A Longtime Locker Room Staple Tells the Story of Florida State Football Through His Unique Collection
LIFE ON THE FINAL FRONTIER FSU Space Explorers Look Back on an Era of Greatness
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The Moment Friday, November 18, 2011 8:58 p.m. Megan Thompson puts the "wow" in Pow Wow as she reacts to being crowned FSU's 2011 Homecoming Princess. The Orlando native, majoring in public relations, shares her joy with Lakeland's Alex Yarbrough, a business management senior who won the title of Chief. Photo by Chadwick Morris
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VIRES is the first torch in the university seal and represents strength of all kinds: physical, mental and moral.
Cover: Former Florida State equipment manager Jimmie Callaway’s National Championship rings are showcased in the shadow of the jersey worn by Charlie Ward (B.S. ’93) during the 1994 Orange Bowl. Read Callaway’s story on page 28. Photo by Mark Wallheiser
Spread: The Alumni Center serves as a gathering place for association members on the eve of every home football game, allowing alumni, friends and fans to wax nostalgic with each other. For more on the Alumni Association’s Open House events, see page 57. Photo by Paige Southard 2 Vires
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Catching Up With ... Around Campus Ten Questions Association News Research & Science Class Notes In Memoriam Parting Shot
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The Manager's Museum
A Football Fixture Places the History of FSU Athletics on Display
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Securing a Strong Foundation
An Upstart Organization Supports Florida State Through Real Estate
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Seminole State of Mind
Homecoming 2011
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Profiles of Power Players Who Got Their Start at FSU
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THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Executive Committee Laurel R. Moredock, Chair Scott F. Atwell, Association President Allen D. Durham, Chair-Elect Gordon J. Sprague, Vice Chair S. Dale Greene, Treasurer Karema Tyms-Harris, Secretary Jeffrey L. Hill, Immediate Past Chair Tom Jennings, Vice President of University Advancement L. Carl Adams Ruth Ruggles Akers Samuel S. Ambrose James J. Bloomfield Flecia S. Braswell David Brobst Blythe Carpenter Kyle Doney John E. Doughney IV Sandra Dunbar Richard Erickson Don Glisson Marion Taormina Hargett Alanna Holman Thomas V. Hynes Connie Jenkins-Pye Betty Lou Joanos Craig T. Lynch Joda Lynn Katie Patronis Steve Pattison Tamara Wells Pigott Michael J. Raymond James A. Riscigno Susan Sarna Raymond R. Schroeder Delores O. Spearman Cindy Davis Sullivan
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Dear Members, One of the most important responsibilities of an alumni association is to recognize the accomplishments of its graduates, and this fall we enjoyed celebrating alumni success at both the Circle of Gold induction ceremony (page 56) and the Homecoming Awards Breakfast (page 39). Now there’s more.
FOR MEMBERS OF THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 1030 West Tennessee Street Tallahassee, FL 32304 850.644.2761 | alumni.fsu.edu
PUBLISHER: Scott Atwell
EDITOR: Lauren Pasqualone
DESIGNER: Jessica Rosenthal STAFF CONTRIBUTORS: Barbara Ash Suzanne Barwick Jennifer Brown Doug Carlson Jenn Mauck Leslie Mille Christi Morgan Gail Robbins University Communications ALUMNI ASSOCIATION STAFF: Administration & Operations David Overstreet, Director Kathleen Harvey Helm Jenn Mauck Marketing & Communications Lauren Pasqualone, Assistant Director Tony Archer Louise Bradshaw Jessica Rosenthal
This spring, your alumni association will introduce a new recognition designed to shine the spotlight on young graduates, defined as those under the age of 30. Named for Florida’s 37th governor and FSU’s Alumnus of the 20th Century, The Reubin O’D. Askew Young Alumni Award will be presented to as many as six recipients each year. Psychologists tell us the millennial generation (to which this group belongs) craves consistent feedback. By establishing the Askew award, Florida State adds a new opportunity for saying, “Thanks for making us proud.” Nearly two years ago we established the FSU Alumni Association Legacy Scholarships, the only program on campus providing awards for children, grandchildren and siblings of Florida State graduates. Proceeds from a Nov. 11 gala auction (page 50) helped us race past our goal of a $250,000 endowment. With a projected total on the north side of $300,000, we expect to award up to ten scholarships each year (both in state and out of state). This is one of the most important ways your association keeps alumni and friends connected to FSU. Your membership makes it possible. A shout of thanks is due to all of our Seminole Clubs who hosted fans at away game locations this season. We’re proud to help maintain a network of more than 80 clubs whose volunteers stand ready to help their alma mater in every way possible. Thank you! Finally, Seminoles at Sea (page 59) did it again, attracting more than 300 Noles for a game-watching cruise to the Bahamas. You can’t beat sun, sand and Seminoles. I hope you will join us in 2012. Happy New Year! In Seminole Spirit,
Membership & Business Development Ellen Cole, Director Valerie Colvin Programs & Outreach Mandi Young, Senior Director Ryanne Aviña Tom Block Sue Fulford Joe Mahshie Whitney Powers
Scott Atwell President and CEO, FSU Alumni Association
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JEFF SHAARA (B.S. ’74) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR By Scott Atwell He’s become America’s wartime time-traveler, taking the reader on a journey through epic battlefields ranging from the American Revolution to World War II. Jeff Shaara pens historical fiction, and this writer is as true to the characters as he is to the setting.
The son — an FSU criminology graduate who had never written before — volunteered. The movie treatment turned into a best-selling book titled Gods and Generals. The rest is, well, history: 11 books and three more on the way.
“These are the stories as the characters themselves might have told them,” says Shaara. “What I enjoy writing about is the average Joe suddenly rising up, the ordinary man in an extraordinary circumstance. Every war story has this.”
“I had wanted to move from World War II logically enough forward to Korea — and I intend to do that down the road — but I got interrupted by what we’re living now, which is the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War.”
Now, 59-year-old Shaara is coming full circle, returning to the war that christened his calling. FSU creative writing professor Michael Shaara never lived to see commercial success of the Civil War novel that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1975. It was Gettysburg, Ted Turner’s miniseries, that catapulted The Killer Angels into literary legend, and the younger Shaara into an unexpected writing career in 1996.
The new trilogy, which begins with a novel about Shiloh, will unfold over the next three years with release dates corresponding to their historic anniversary. A Blaze of Glory is due out this spring.
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“Ted Turner’s people called and said they wanted to make more movies and that it would be great to take the same characters from my father’s book and go before and after. But they needed a story to start with.”
“You wouldn’t believe the mail I get from people who say they are tired of hearing about Robert E. Lee and Virginia,” says Shaara, who recently moved back to Tallahassee. “A whole lot of war was fought in other places that no one ever talks about.” Visit him online at www.jeffshaara.com.
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AROUND CAMPUS Top: The Library and Learning Center provides FSU Panama City students with high-quality online library and research resources and spectacular waterfront views. Bottom Left: Ken Shaw, dean of the new College of Applied Studies, is also the dean of the FSU Panama City campus. Bottom right: Located along the shores of North Bay, FSU Panama City’s Holley Academic Center is the hub of academic activity for the campus, offering students state-of-the-art classrooms, academic laboratories, an online library and learning center and great meeting and gathering spaces for student activities.
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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ESTABLISHES NEWEST ACADEMIC COLLEGE In July 2010, The Florida State University Board of Trustees approved the establishment of a new academic college. As one of the 16 academic colleges and schools that make up The Florida State University, the College of Applied Studies is the first to make its home at FSU Panama City. Ken Shaw, dean of FSU Panama City, also serves as dean of the College of Applied Studies. “The new college opens up a world of opportunities for students and the campus,” says Shaw, “making it possible for FSU Panama City to develop and offer new degree and certificate programs that will have the greatest impact upon meeting work force needs within Northwest Florida. The new programs offered by the College of Applied Studies will position the campus for long-term growth through a more streamlined academic approval process.”
The College of Applied Studies provides an academic home for expansion in developing courses and programs that range across disciplines. The college will have the ability to determine areas of study that are essential to the Northwest Florida community and work force and to develop programs that will equip students with the knowledge, skills and experience they need to meet a wide range of problems. Three programs within the College of Applied Studies have been approved and began admitting students for the first time in fall 2011: the Bachelor of Science in public safety and security, the Bachelor of Science in recreation and leisure services administration and the online graduate certificate in event management. The innovative public safety and security degree program is available on campus or online and currently offers two major options: police science and law enforcement operations. A law enforcement intelligence major will be added in fall 2012, and the crime scene investigation major will be added in fall 2013.
AROUND CAMPUS It isn’t often that a scholar’s work is so well known that it is cited in a comic strip, but that is what happened to K. Anders Ericsson, Conradi Eminent Scholar and professor of psychology at Florida State. His research, which asserts that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to master a skill, was referenced in the Sunday, Sept. 11 edition of FoxTrot (right).
CELLS ARE CRAWLING ALL OVER OUR BODIES, BUT HOW? For 35 years, FSU cell biologist Tom Roberts has studied the means by which millions of amorphous single cells propel themselves throughout the human body. The cells don’t give up their secrets easily, though. Take them out of the body and put them under a microscope, and the crawling changes or stops. Now Roberts and his team have found a novel way around uncooperative human cells. In a landmark study, the researchers used worm sperm, which is similar to a human cell, to replicate cell motility on a microscope slide. “Understanding how cells crawl is a big deal,” Roberts said. “The first line of defense against invading microorganisms, the remodeling of bones, healing wounds in the skin and reconnecting of neuronal circuits during regeneration of the nervous system — all depend on the capacity of specialized cells to crawl. “On the downside, the ability of tumor cells to crawl around is a contributing factor in the metastasis of malignancies,” he said. “But we believe our achievements in this latest round of basic research could eventually aid in the development of therapies that target cell motility in order to interfere with or block the metastasis of cancer.”
The new study will be unique in two key ways. “First, while in the past scientists had to sacrifice the fish to gather age, reproductive and predatory information, at FSU we’ve developed a non-destructive means of obtaining the data that spares its life,” said Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory scientist Christopher C. Koenig (Ph.D. ’75), who will lead the project with colleagues at the University of South Florida and the University of Florida. “Second, those new, non-lethal data-gathering methods allow us to actively engage commercial and recreational fishermen in the scientific process. We will train the fisherman to obtain scientific samples and to tag and release the fish.”
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For Roberts and his team, the next move will be to determine if what they’ve learned about worm sperm also applies to more conventional crawling cells, including tumor cells.
FSU marine biologists are collecting new data on the once severely overfished Atlantic goliath grouper, a native species that is making a comeback in the southeastern United States after a 21-year moratorium on its capture while remaining endangered everywhere else in the world. The three-year study will determine what conditions and behaviors are supporting the goliath grouper’s population recovery in the waters along Florida’s coasts. The findings will be crucial in setting policy on the management and conservation of the species.
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BIOLOGISTS FISH FOR REASONS BEHIND ENDANGERED GROUPER’S COMEBACK
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AROUND CAMPUS to honor College of Business alumni of the past 10 years who have made significant professional and personal achievements since graduation. “This College of Business recognition is a real honor for me,” Murphy said. “FSU provided a solid foundation both inside and outside the classroom that has allowed me to succeed thus far in my career, and I’m grateful for that and proud to be affiliated with the college. I enjoy contributing as an alumnus and look forward to helping even more in the future.” Brian Murphy
Tim R. Holcomb
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STUDENTS SHOW OFF ENTREPRENEURIAL IDEAS DURING EWEEK The Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship at Florida State University’s College of Business gave FSU students an opportunity to see what it takes to be a successful businessperson during Entrepreneurship Week, or eWeek, in September. The eWeek concept reflects the university’s ongoing transformation into “The Entrepreneurial University.” “Students can be incredibly creative and innovative, and eWeek gives them insight into what it takes to be an entrepreneur and help contribute to the growth of our economy,” said Tim R. Holcomb, The Jim Moran Institute’s executive director and the university’s Jim Moran Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship. During eWeek, students participated in an array of fun and educational activities, as well as challenging competitions that allowed them to network with members of the business community who were willing to share their secrets to success.
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BUSINESS PROFESSOR IS THE EXPERT ON HORRIBLE BOSSES Virtually anyone who stays in the work force long enough will eventually have a really lousy boss. Those supervisors should count themselves lucky, then, that their long-suffering employees do not resolve to have them murdered, as three fed-up friends attempt to do in the black comedy Horrible Bosses, which hit theaters in July.
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS NAMES FIRST RECENT ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER
That’s not to say that all is well in America’s workplaces, says Wayne Hochwarter (Ph.D. ’93), the Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration at Florida State. His recent survey of more than 400 mid-level employees from a variety of industries revealed just how poisoned the supervisor-employee relationship has become.
Brian Murphy (B.S. ’00, B.S. ’00), president and CEO of international consulting and recruiting firm ReliaQuest, was presented with the College of Business’s first Recent Alumni Achievement Award at its Leadership and Scholarship Awards Dinner on Thursday, Nov. 17. The award was established in 2011
Hochwarter’s study also noted that workers enduring negative circumstances are stressed both at work and at home, are less willing to exert effort for the company good, experience sleep disturbances, report declining levels of self-worth and suffer from a variety of additional quality-of-life maladies.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to The Florida State University and the University of Florida to coordinate 92 institutions in 45 states working to digitize the nation’s biological collections. FSU’s Center for Information Management and Scientific Communication will work with the University of Florida to create software and databases the nationwide participants will use to transfer and store the data.
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The Warrick Dunn Family Foundation, in collaboration with the FSU School of Library & Information Studies, presented home libraries to two single-parent families in July. The presentation of books and other educational materials is the culmination of a pilot project partnering the foundation with the university, from which football legend Warrick Dunn (B.S. ’97) graduated.
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UNIVERSITY TO TAKE PART IN $10 MILLION PROJECT TO DIGITIZE NATION’S BIOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
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FSU AND WARRICK DUNN FAMILY FOUNDATION PRESENT HOME LIBRARIES TO SINGLEPARENT FAMILIES
“We will be a facilitating hub,” said center director Greg Riccardi (B.S. ’74). “This project puts us in the center of U.S. efforts to digitize collections for biodiversity research.”
The collaboration was the brainchild of Nancy Everhart (Ph.D. ’90), an associate professor, director of the Partnerships Advancing Library Media Center and immediate past president of the American Association of School Librarians. Doctoral students from the center went to the two families’ homes and conducted extensive interviews with the children to determine their reading interests and preferences. Follett Library Resources provided the digital and printed materials for the libraries.
The information in the Integrated Digitized Biocollections, or iDigBio, will include field notes, photographs, 3-D images and information on associated organisms, geographic distribution, environmental habitat and specimen DNA samples. Available to anyone online, the data will help researchers identify gaps in scientific knowledge and could assist government agencies and others making decisions related to climate change, conservation, invasive species, biodiversity and other biological issues.
Below: A jubilant Jakyah Daniels eyes the brand-new books presented to her family by FSU and the Warrick Dunn Family Foundation.
The libraries were presented to the families of Latashee Daniels and Wannessia Jefferson, beneficiaries of the foundation’s Homes for the Holidays program, which furnishes Habitat for Humanity-built homes for single-parent families who move in near the holidays. Although the pilot program focused on families in Tallahassee, the foundation hopes to expand and replicate the university collaboration in other communities in Florida, Georgia and Louisiana. “The collaboration with FSU enhances our Homes for the Holidays program for single parents and their children,” said Jennifer Maxwell, executive director of the foundation. “Increasing literacy within our recipient families will create lasting change for future generations.” Vires 11
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COLLEGE INDUCTS HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2011 The Alumni and Friends of Criminology Hall of Fame demonstrates how much one can achieve with a criminology degree from the nation’s top program and showcases the range of fields the college’s alumni pursue after graduation. Tom Blomberg, dean of the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, honored the 2011 inductees at a recognition dinner on Sept. 15.
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Above: FSU's traveling pupils walk along a cliff during an excursion to the Red Canyon, located in southern Israel near the Egyptian border. Inset: The students pose in front of Jerusalem while visiting criminology researchers at Hebrew University's Mt. Scopus campus. 12 Vires
Retired Col. Curtis Earp Jr. (B.S. ’60, M.S. ’69), a Vietnam War veteran, began his 28-year service with the Army after graduating with his bachelor’s in criminology. After his military service, Earp led the Georgia Department of Public Safety, Georgia State Patrol and the Florida Marine Patrol.
CRIMINOLOGY PROGRAM TRAVELS TO ISRAEL In the summer of 2011, the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice led Florida State’s first international program in Israel. The inaugural program took 30 students to Kibbutz Tzuba for six weeks of coursework, guided excursions and discussion. Students began each week in the classroom with courses in Israeli culture and topical criminology issues such as international terrorism. The classroom then expanded across the deserts, mountains and beaches of Israel as students took guided tours that introduced them to the history, diverse peoples and centuries-old conflicts that define the country. Students heard from Israelis and Palestinians with a wide variety of ideologies, met with the Jerusalem police tasked with monitoring the sacred sites of three major world religions and explored ancient archaeological sites. Designed as a safe and educational opportunity for students to explore the wonders and history of Israel while learning about present-day conflict, Florida State’s study abroad program to Israel is the only one offered from the United States. Learn more at www.FSUIsrael.com.
James Murdaugh (B.S.W. ’74, M.S. ’76, Ph.D. ’05) became president of Tallahassee Community College in October 2010 after leading the Pat Thomas Law Enforcement Academy and TCC Florida Public Safety Institute. Murdaugh previously spent more than 20 years working in criminal justice and served 30 years in the Air Force Reserve, retiring as a lieutenant colonel with active duty in both Gulf wars. Jeffrey Shaara (B.S. ’74) is a New York Times bestselling author 10 times over. Shaara is the only author to have received the American Library Association’s Boyd Award for Excellence in Military Fiction twice.
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FSU AIMS TO BE THE MOST VETERAN-FRIENDLY CAMPUS IN NATION
INAUGURAL FILM FESTIVAL KICKS OFF WITH ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY
Florida State University President Eric Barron (B.S. ’73) and the Florida State chapter of the Collegiate Veterans Association recently announced several new initiatives that will help the university in its efforts to become the most veteran-friendly public university in the nation.
On Veterans Day, The Florida State University hosted the maiden Student Veteran Film Festival — the first of its kind in the nation — with the screening of a powerful new documentary, Hell and Back Again.
Director Danfung Dennis, executive producer Karol Martesko-Fenster and Harris and his wife, Ashley, attended the screening at FSU’s Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. An audience of nearly 1,000 people also viewed the documentary, which won both a Grand Jury Award for Documentary and a Cinematography Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Plans are under way to build a 35,000-square-foot building located on Jefferson Street near the Varsity Way roundabout. The proposal calls for bringing the Florida State Veterans Center, ROTC offices and a World War II museum together in one facility to promote collaboration. In the meantime, the Pearl Tyner House at the Alumni Association complex will serve as the center’s temporary home. “This beautiful house has served as the home to eight Florida State University presidents and as a welcome center for our alumni,” Barron said. “Now it will continue its special service to this institution as a home and a welcoming place for our student-veterans.”
A major goal of the Student Veteran Film Festival is to raise awareness of student-veterans’ issues and to support the establishment of the FSU Veterans Center. The screening of Hell and Back Again, whose proceeds will directly benefit the center, set the stage for what will become a multi-film festival in future years.
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The new initiatives include establishing the Florida State Veterans Center. The center will serve as the focal point for all campus veteran resources, such as academic advising, orientation and transition programming, personal and rehabilitative support services and assistance with Veterans Affairs educational benefits and certification.
Hell and Back Again offers an up-close portrayal of a group of Marines fighting on the front lines in Afghanistan, as well as the difficult road to recovery faced back home by one of those Marines, Sgt. Nathan Harris, after he is wounded in action.
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“With nearly 25 percent of recently-separated-fromthe-military veterans enrolling in college within two years, the need for support and assistance in the transition from military service to college student is obvious,” Barron said. “Although FSU is already recognized as a ‘Military Friendly School,’ we want to do more for our student-veterans, while raising awareness about their educational needs and service to our country among the student body in general.”
Above: A ceremonial ribbon was cut to mark the beginning of the Pearl Tyner House’s latest use. Left to right: Air Force Col. William “Billy” Francis (B.A. ’86), FSU President Eric Barron, FSU Chapter of the Collegiate Veterans Association president Jared Lyon and retired Vice Adm. Gordon Holder (B.M.E. ’68) at the dedication of the Veterans Center’s short-term space. Francis has been named the first director of Florida State’s newly created Veterans Center. Francis has been the commander of the university’s Air Force ROTC program since the summer of 2009. He also is a professor and chairman of the Department of Aerospace Studies. Vires 13
AROUND CAMPUS Traditional assessments often lack context and are too simplified and abstract to suit current education needs, according to Shute, who said they also fail to show what students actually can do with the knowledge and skills acquired in, and often outside of, school. In contrast, well-designed digital games provide meaningful assessment environments, presenting students with scenarios to which they must respond with a wide range of skills. “We need to assess students in relevant, engaging environments,” said Shute, “not just by asking them to fill in bubbles on a prepared test form.”
EDUCATOR WINS GRANT TO EVALUATE FLORIDA’S BRIGHT FUTURES PROGRAM
Valerie Shute
EDUCATION PROFESSOR WINS GRANT TO DEVELOP DIGITAL GAME-BASED ASSESSMENTS When playing digital games, children hone skills such as persistence, creative problem solving and conceptual physics that traditional pen-and-paper assessment methods may not measure.
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Since 1997, the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program has provided academic scholarships to thousands of the state’s highest-achieving high school seniors. Now Shouping Hu, a professor of higher education in FSU’s College of Education, will evaluate the effectiveness of the program using a $780,000, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.
That’s why FSU College of Education Professor Valerie Shute is designing, developing and evaluating stealth assessments and well-disguised educational content that can be embedded in digital games to surreptitiously measure key competencies in children.
“The grant cannot Shouping Hu come at a better time,” Hu said. “As a scholar who has longstanding interest in college access and student success in higher education, this grant will allow me to continue to do cutting-edge research in that direction and examine whether and how a highprofile state program can make a difference in student postsecondary educational opportunities.”
Shute has been awarded a $600,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that should take her already internationally recognized work to the next level. The grant will support a new project led by Shute that will develop ways to extract game-play data from players’ log files and use it to learn more about a child’s competencies and developmental progress.
Bright Futures Scholarships are awarded to Florida high school seniors who have demonstrated “academic merit” and who plan to attend a public college or university within the state. Hu said he is excited to begin evaluating the scholarship program and plans to hire several research assistants over the course of the grant.
“My FSU colleagues, students and I have created stealth assessment mockups, but so far no one has actually built them directly within a digital game, as part of game play,” Shute said. “The new grant will help us to develop three stealth assessments within one game.”
“We are confident that we will be able to generate most rigorous empirical evidence on the efficacy of the Bright Futures program on educational outcomes in individual students, the state and the country as a whole,” he said.
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CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP, DOCTORAL PROGRAM CREATE NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN MATERIALS SCIENCE RESEARCH A new partnership between The Florida State University and Cytec Industries Inc., a global specialty chemicals and materials company, aims to attract and train the best minds in the rapidly growing field of advanced materials science. The company recently created the Cytec Engineered Materials Doctoral Fellowship for Advanced Composite Studies with a gift of more than $212,000 to FSU.
“I’m really excited to start working with Cytec because I think that there is a gap between industry and academia,” Phillips said. “And I think if we can bridge
“The new Ph.D. program in materials science and engineering is a natural outgrowth of the outstanding and broad range of materials-related research being conducted by faculty at Florida State University,” said Nancy Marcus, dean of The Graduate School at FSU. “This is an exciting opportunity for students interested in pursuing innovative and cutting-edge research in materials.” Composite materials will continue to revolutionize the way everything from automobiles to aircraft and consumer packaging are made. Using innovative technologies developed at Florida State, researchers at the High-Performance Materials Institute are now able to make materials that are stronger and lighter than traditional materials such as steel and have electrical properties that will enhance future applications.
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Erin Phillips, a native of Jacksonville, Fla., who is nearing completion of her master’s degree in industrial and manufacturing engineering, is the first recipient of the newly created Cytec fellowship.
Once she earns her master’s degree, Phillips plans to work toward a doctorate as one of the very first students in a new doctoral program in materials science and engineering at Florida State. The State University System’s Board of Governors approved the interdisciplinary program on June 23.
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“We are fully committed to educational programs that are mutually beneficial for students, science and industry, and we believe the High-Performance Materials Institute does just that,” said Rob Maskell, chief scientist for Cytec Engineered Materials, a subsidiary of Cytec Industries that is based in Tempe, Ariz. “We are thrilled to be able to invest in a top-notch program that will bring us even closer to realizing advanced composites technologies’ full benefits.”
that gap and collaborate, it’s going to be critical for advances in the area of advanced materials.”
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FSU graduate student Erin Phillips, the first recipient of the newly created Cytec Engineered Materials Doctoral Fellowship for Advanced Composite Studies, speaks during a July 17 event at FSU’s High-Performance Materials Institute. Vires 15
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INSTITUTE OF SPORTS SCIENCES AND MEDICINE KICKS OFF AT FLORIDA STATE Florida State University experts in medicine, exercise science, nutrition, sports psychology and athletic training have partnered with the Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic, one of the nation’s premier sports medicine and orthopedic treatment centers, to establish the Institute of Sports Sciences and Medicine. Based at Florida State, the institute will lead interdisciplinary research and educational outreach programs focused on the development of elite-level athletic and human performance — including an emphasis on long-term health and the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries such as concussions. “Our institute’s focus is the end-users — athletes of all ages — and all its activities will be designed to directly benefit them by promoting peak performance and optimal health,” said Institute of Sports Sciences and Medicine Director Mark J. Kasper, a faculty member in FSU’s Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences.
HUMAN PERFORMANCE LAB WILL FOSTER COLLABORATION BETWEEN ACADEMIA, ATHLETICS AND MEDICINE
When it comes to improving bone health in postmenopausal women, a Florida State professor and a group of researchers from FSU and Oklahoma State University have found a simple, proactive solution to help prevent fractures and osteoporosis: eating dried plums. “Over my career, I have tested numerous fruits, including figs, dates, strawberries and raisins, and none of them come anywhere close to having the effect on bone density that dried plums, or prunes, have,” said Bahram H. Arjmandi, Florida State’s Margaret A. Sitton Professor and chairman of the Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences. In the United States, about 8 million women have osteoporosis because of the sudden cessation of ovarian hormone production at the onset of menopause. What’s more, about 2 million men also have osteoporosis. Arjmandi encourages people who are interested in maintaining or improving their bone health to take note of the extraordinarily positive effect that dried plums have on bone density.
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The Human Performance Laboratory, located in the McIntosh Track and Field Building on FSU’s campus, will house research teams who will study the variables of sports performance, including acceleration, speed, agility, strength, endurance, proprioception (the sense of how one’s limbs are oriented in space) and biomechanics. The studies also will focus on the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries. Research findings will be shared with coaches, athletic training practitioners, strength and conditioning specialists, medical doctors and the public through publications and symposia.
EATING DRIED PLUMS HELPS PREVENT FRACTURES AND OSTEOPOROSIS
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Florida State University has unveiled a new laboratory that is intended to improve sports performance and reduce sports-related injuries while preserving optimal health for life. University President Eric J. Barron and College of Human Sciences Dean Billie J. Collier dedicated the Human Performance Laboratory, which is part of the university’s Institute of Sports Sciences and Medicine, on Sept. 16.
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“Don’t wait until you get a fracture or you are diagnosed with osteoporosis and have to have prescribed medicine,” Arjmandi said. “Do something meaningful and practical beforehand.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture funded Arjmandi’s research. The California Dried Plum Board provided the dried plums for the study. Vires 17
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MOOT COURT TEAM WINS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION The Florida State University College of Law’s Moot Court Team won first place in the World Finals of the 2011 Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition. Team members were third-year law student Tanya Cronau (B.A. ’08, B.A. ’08) of Port St. John and Cape Canaveral, Fla.; third-year law student Lynn Guery of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; and Anne Marie Rossi (J.D. ’11) of Tampa, Fla. The semifinal and final rounds of the competition were held Oct. 4 and Oct. 6 at the High Court of Cape Town, South Africa. The team previously beat Georgetown University’s representatives in Washington, D.C., for the right to represent North America in the international competition. “We were all thrilled when Florida State won the right to represent North America,” said College of Law Dean Don Weidner. “To be the global winner has us all walking on cloud nine.” Florida State defeated Saint Petersburg State University of Russia, the winner of the European round, in the semifinals. It then defeated the National University of Singapore, the winner of the Asia Pacific round, in the finals. Abdul Koroma, Peter Tomka and Xue Hanqin, all judges with the International Court of Justice, presided over the final round. 18 Vires
LAW SCHOOL RANKED THIRD BEST IN NATION FOR HISPANIC STUDENTS Hispanic Business magazine named The Florida State University College of Law the third best law school in the nation for Hispanic students in its September 2011 issue. This is the eighth year in a row that the College of Law has been named one of the top 10 law schools for Hispanic students. The magazine based its ranking on the following criteria: Hispanic student enrollment, Hispanic faculty members, degrees conferred to Hispanics, progressive programs aimed at increasing enrollment of Hispanic students and school reputation as reflected in U.S. News & World Report. “We are all thrilled to be named the nation’s No. 3 law school for Hispanic students,” said Associate Dean for Student Affairs Nancy Benavides. “It is our mission every day to make sure all of our students feel welcomed, supported and have everything they need to succeed in law school and beyond.”
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Natasha Spencer with mentor Derrick Brooks at her medical school graduation.
COLLEGE AWARDED MAXIMUM REACCREDITATION STATUS
Accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education occurs every eight years as part of a nearly two-year process that includes a rigorous self-study by the applying institution and a thorough inspection from a site visit team. Only accredited institutions may receive federal grants for medical education and participate in federal loan programs. In addition, attendance at an accredited program is required for allopathic medical students before they can take the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam or enter residency programs approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Since first gaining full accreditation status in 2005, the College of Medicine has opened new regional campuses in the Florida cities of Sarasota, Fort Pierce and Daytona Beach and rural clinical training sites in Marianna and Immokalee; graduated seven classes; and grown from around 170 medical students to a full enrollment of 480. The new regional campuses are in addition to previously opened campuses in Orlando, Pensacola and Tallahassee.
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“This news was not unexpected based on the remarkable outcomes this medical school has produced since the first class of 30 students arrived in 2001,” said College of Medicine Dean John P. Fogarty. “The leaders, administrators, faculty and students who helped plan and build this program should be extremely proud, as should all of our friends and supporters.”
Derrick Brooks (B.S. ’94, M.S. ’99) made a lasting impression as an All-American football player at Florida State in the 1990s and later as an All-Pro linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Without nearly as much fanfare, he is making contributions off the field that will have an effect for generations to come. A recent Florida State University College of Medicine graduate plans to make sure of it.
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The Florida State University College of Medicine has been granted a maximum eight-year accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the sanctioning body of U.S. medical schools. With the favorable ruling, Florida State becomes the first new medical school of the 21st century to be reaccredited.
A YOUNG WOMAN’S JOURNEY FROM INNER CITY TO MEDICAL DEGREE
Natasha Spencer (B.S. ’06, M.D. ’11) credits Brooks with inspiring her to overcome the obstacles of growing up in a crime-ridden Tampa, Fla., neighborhood. Spencer first met Brooks when she was 11 years old. As a charter member of the Brooks Bunch program, she joined the NFL standout and other young people from low-income communities on educational field trips. The program evolved as the children grew older, assisting participants such as Spencer with college. With support from Brooks and fellow Seminole Stuart Lasher (B.S. ’81), Spencer fulfilled her dream of going to medical school. Brooks, who recently completed his term as a member of the university’s board of trustees, fought back tears as he watched Spencer pick up her diploma at the College of Medicine’s commencement ceremony on May 21. “Now she’s going to throw the rope back and help pull others up,” he said. After completing a residency program in obstetrics and gynecology, Spencer plans to go back to Tampa and help others.
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GROUNDBREAKING DIGITAL ARTS PROGRAM ACCEPTS APPLICANTS FOR FALL 2012 CLASSES The Florida State University recently announced the opening of limited enrollment for a new animation and visual effects program that will prepare students to produce the Hollywood hits of the future. The firstof-its-kind program unites the nationally renowned FSU College of Motion Picture Arts with the awardwinning visual effects industry pioneer Digital Domain Media Group, which has created innovative visuals for more than 80 movies, including the Transformers series. FSU will accept applications until Jan. 18, 2012, to fill 100 freshman and 100 sophomore slots for the 2012-2013 academic year. Students enrolled in the program will spend their freshman year in Tallahassee and their sophomore through senior years in West Palm Beach, Fla. “The graduates of this program will have a Bachelor of Fine Arts from one of the nation’s top film schools and the very latest digital animation skills, making them well educated and job ready for the most competitive, high-skill careers in the film industry,” College of Motion Picture Arts Dean Frank Patterson said. “Currently, nearly 100 percent of our graduates find meaningful work in the film and television industry within 12 months of graduating.” Unlike other digital arts programs around the country, students completing the animation and digital arts program will graduate with both a Bachelor of Fine
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Arts degree from The Florida State University and professional certification training in the area of their choice. When the program begins next year, students will have the opportunity to begin “touching digital magic” through exposure to Digital Domain’s industryleading technology and techniques. Students will be prepared to work on digital animation and visual effects projects in the film industry upon graduation. “Story is the key to our business, and Florida State’s film school students are among the very best storytellers in the nation,” said John Textor, chairman of the Digital Domain Media Group. The film industry supports 2.4 million jobs and provides more than $140 billion in total wages, according to a 2010 Motion Picture Association of America report. In Florida, the entertainment industry generates more than 15,000 direct jobs and nearly 29,000 total jobs throughout the state. In 2009 and 2010, a total of 31 films and 34 TV projects were filmed in Florida, including television shows Act of Valor, Animal Cops: Miami, Basketball Wives, The Glades, Burn Notice and movies Casino Jack, Color, I Am Number Four, The Losers, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Up in the Air. “Florida continues to emerge as a major driver of our nation’s film industry, and this exciting new program will help our state solidify its status as a destination for future Hollywood professionals,” said West Palm Beach City Commissioner Kimberly Mitchell (B.S. ’89). “The unique public-private collaboration between Florida State University and Digital Domain demonstrates we have a blockbuster program in the making.”
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The smell of plush leather and sweet mahogany permeate the air as the sounds of a beating spirit drum sets time to the Hymn to the Garnet and Gold. The passionate chant of the Seminole Fight Song echoes from the halls to the rooftop terrace. Since 1951, Hotel Duval has been host to distinguished FSU alumni, politicians, dignitaries, and business travelers. Sixty years later, those cherished traditions have been preserved within Tallahassee’s most stylish boutique hotel – still the best spot to dine, relax, and enjoy the view.
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The concert served as a means of recognizing the recently created Carlisle Floyd Endowment for Opera at Florida State. Floyd, one of the foremost composers and librettists of opera in the United States, hopes the fund will help students benefit from the offerings of FSU’s College of Music and keep its opera program thriving. In addition to establishing the fund, Floyd donated the original manuscripts of his operas Wuthering Heights and Susannah, the latter of which premiered at FSU in 1955, to the university’s Warren D. Allen Music Library. 22 Vires
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Opera legend Carlisle Floyd recently returned to The Florida State University for a gala concert to celebrate his work, life and generosity. FSU’s College of Music presented A Celebration of Carlisle Floyd on Sept. 24 in Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. The performance featured College of Music alumni, faculty and student performers who showcased a number of selections from Floyd’s operas.
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RENOWNED COMPOSER CARLISLE FLOYD CELEBRATED
“This celebration of Carlisle Floyd’s work provides a unique opportunity for our community to experience the musical artistry of a leading, internationally acclaimed composer,” said College of Music Dean Don Gibson (Ph.D. '83). “It also allows those of us in the College of Music to celebrate the career of a wonderful, generous human being whose initial operatic work helped launch our program into a leadership position and whose generous planned gift will ensure the continued leadership role FSU opera will play far into the future.” Floyd began his teaching career in 1947 at The Florida State University, just four days after his 21st birthday. During his time at Florida State, he received the university’s Distinguished Professor designation and was later awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. After almost 30 years at FSU, Floyd accepted the prestigious M.D. Anderson Professorship at the University of Houston. Following his retirement from the University of Houston, he returned to Tallahassee, where he currently resides. During Floyd’s prolific musical career, the award-winning teacher and conductor wrote operatic renditions of Cold Sassy Tree, Of Mice and Men, Willie Stark and many others. He also composed a wide range of non-operatic works. “We could think of no better way to thank him for his lifelong support and to celebrate his 85th year than to give Tallahassee audiences a chance to see and hear great scenes from Carlisle Floyd’s operas and allow them to meet both the man and his music,” said Professor Douglas Fisher (B.M. '79, M.M. '81), director of opera activities at FSU and master of ceremonies for the event.
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COLLEGE OF NURSING DEAN PLOWFIELD NAMED CHANCELLOR AT PENN STATE YORK Former Florida State University College of Nursing Dean Lisa A. Plowfield has been named the new chancellor at Penn State York. Plowfield concluded her tenure as dean at Florida State on June 1 after having served since July 2007 as the seventh leader of its 61-year-old College of Nursing. FSU recruited her from the University of Delaware School of Nursing, where she served as director from 2002 to 2006.
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Speake joined the FSU College of Nursing faculty in 2001 after serving as a research associate in the FSU Center for Gerontology, a senior consultant at MGT of America Inc. and the assistant director of Performance Improvement and Public Health Nursing for the Florida Department of Health. She holds a doctoral degree in nursing from the University of Texas-Austin and Master of Nursing and Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees from the University of Mississippi.
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In addition to leading the College of Nursing through the national accreditation process and a State University System quality enhancement review, Plowfield established its first doctoral education program, realigned its mission to reflect the university’s research-intensive focus and extended nursing education to regions of the state where it was most needed. During Plowfield’s tenure, the college garnered about $4 million in grants.
“I’m honored by my appointment as interim dean,” Speake said. “I look forward to working with our nursing students, alumni, faculty and community partners to continue to build excellent educational programs that prepare registered nurses, educators and advanced practice nurses to meet the health care needs of Floridians. In 28 years as a nurse educator, my passion for nursing education has only increased as the needs for highly educated nurse practitioners and leaders expand in all aspects of health care.”
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“It has been an honor to serve Florida State’s distinguished College of Nursing,” Plowfield said. “Together my colleagues and I have expanded its already strong educational programs, created even more scholarship opportunities for our future nurses and continued to produce exceptionally well-prepared professionals at both the undergraduate and graduate level.”
FSU College of Nursing Associate Dean Dianne Speake has been appointed interim dean due to her impressive and extensive experience as a nurse educator, administrator and researcher. Soon, Speake will be leading the College of Nursing through the accreditation process for its unique Doctor of Nursing Practice program, which currently has 58 students enrolled. The first class will graduate in December 2011.
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JILL QUADAGNO RECEIVES UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED TEACHER AWARD Lauded by her students as a wonderful mentor, an inspiring teacher and a caring adviser, one of The Florida State University’s most eminent scholars has been selected to receive the university’s top teaching honor. Jill Quadagno, who holds the Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar Chair in Social Gerontology, received the 2011 University Distinguished Teacher Award during the Faculty Awards Ceremony.
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“It is quite humbling to have been chosen for the University Distinguished Teacher Award, because so many of my colleagues are superb teachers,” Quadagno said. “I am truly honored to be this year’s recipient. Ultimately, I judge my own success by the success of my students, and I can think of no higher praise than to be considered a good teacher.” College of Social Sciences and Public Policy Dean David Rasmussen said it is fitting that Quadagno is the first from the college to receive the Distinguished Teacher Award. “Jill has been an outstanding member of the faculty in every way,” Rasmussen said. “She has had a long and productive career in research on important issues of health care and aging. This award recognizes
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her commitment to teaching and mentoring our students who benefit from her being on the forefront of research in the subjects she teaches.” She was nominated for the award because of the excellent student ratings she has received for her graduate courses. A committee comprised of faculty, advisers and students reviewed the nominations and made the final selection. “She stands out as unequivocally the best teacher I’ve had, as well as one of the most important mentors in my entire life,” wrote one graduate student of Quadagno. “She is also remarkably supportive and astonishingly humble.” A former student praised Quadagno for mentoring her students long after they leave her classroom. “She is unfailingly gracious, generous with her time and sage in her advice to her former students; her ‘teaching’ does not end when we receive our FSU degrees.” This isn’t Quadagno’s first student-nominated honor. She also received a University Teaching Award, which recognizes faculty for excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching, in 1992. An internationally recognized expert, Quadagno is renowned for her work on aging, health and social policy issues. In 2010, she was elected a member of the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. She is past president of the American Sociological Association and the author of more than 75 articles and 12 books on aging and medical sociology. In 1994 she served as senior policy adviser on the President’s Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform. Quadagno began her academic career in 1977 at the University of Kansas, where she rose to the rank of full professor before coming to The Florida State University in 1987. She received her doctorate in sociology from the University of Kansas in 1976 and her master’s from the University of CaliforniaBerkeley in 1966. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Pennsylvania State University in 1964.
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SOCIAL WORK ALUMNA NAMED A NOTABLE NOLE
DOCTORAL STUDENT AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP A Florida State University graduate student who is pursuing a doctoral degree in social work has been awarded a competitive fellowship to pursue research on the needs of military veterans who have suffered from a traumatic brain injury. David Albright (M.S.W. ’06) was one of 24 students to be selected for participation in the RAND Graduate Student Summer Associate Program from a field of more than 500 applicants. He will conduct his research at RAND’s Santa Monica, Calif., headquarters. During his three months at RAND, Albright will work in the Center for Military Health Policy Research to evaluate the educational needs of service members and their families about traumatic brain injury, which results from a force to the head where portions of the brain are damaged and functioning is impaired. “It’s a real concern for military service members facing the threat of improvised explosive devices, landmines, roadside bombs and rocket and mortar shells,” he said. “It’s also problematic for military families who are often unprepared for the challenges of living with and/or caring for a loved one with a TBI.”
Jennifer Mayne (B.S. ’93, M.S.W. ’97), who received her bachelor’s degree in social work from FSU’s Tallahassee campus, was named a 2011 Notable Nole by Florida State University Panama City, where she completed her postgraduate studies in the field. Mayne, a certified social worker in healthcare with the National Association of Social Workers, is currently a supervisory social worker for the Gulf Coast VA Healthcare System in Biloxi, Miss. She is a mentor to students from the College of Social Work and a certified supervisor for Registered Clinical Social Work Interns with the Florida Department of Health. She credits the College of Social Work and its professors with preparing her for success in her professional career. “If you don’t have the tools you need to learn the profession, it’s hard to have anything to work with,” she said. “FSU provided me with a strong foundation.” Patrick Green (B.S. ’08) and FSU Alumni Association National Director Katie Patronis (B.S. ’08) were also recognized as Notable Noles.
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The RAND Graduate Student Summer Associate Program is unique in that it matches graduate students with RAND senior research staff members who have the same academic background and will mentor the students. Albright is working on the traumatic brain injury project with RAND researchers Lisa Meredith, a senior behavioral scientist, and Andrew Parker, an associate behavioral and social scientist.
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A military veteran himself, Albright expects to continue pursuing research focusing on the needs of military service members and their families after he earns his doctorate in 2011. He is simultaneously working on a master’s degree in measurement and statistics.
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Florida State University President Eric J. Barron (B.S. ’73) rededicated the newly renovated William Johnston Building to the “20th century students who first brought these halls to life” and the “21st century students who will open its doors to the future” during a ceremony held on Sept. 20. The renovation marries a traditional collegiate Gothic exterior with an ultramodern interior that includes a dramatic five-story atrium. The 143,000-square-foot building houses portions of the Division of Undergraduate Studies and the colleges of Communication and Information; Human Sciences; and Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance. The east-facing original section of the building, which contains the Suwannee Dining Hall, was built in 1913. The west-facing, newly renovated section originally opened in 1939. During the recent renovation, great care was taken to preserve many of the building’s historical interior finishes. The architects of Gould Evans Associates and a consultant from H2 Engineering designed the new Johnston Building to conform to the standards of the Architecture 2030 Challenge, an initiative by the global architecture and building community to build carbon-neutral buildings that strive to emit zero greenhouse gases in their operation.
SEVEN DAYS OF OPENING NIGHTS ANNOUNCES STELLAR LINEUP The 14th season of Seven Days of Open Nights, which runs from Feb. 9–20, 2012, boasts a diverse, eclectic lineup. Florida State’s popular performing arts festival will include the Tallahassee debuts of the acclaimed Soweto Gospel Choir, New Orleans powerhouses Allen Toussaint and Trombone Shorty, jazz chanteuse Jane Monheit, comic legend Joan Rivers, the National Theatre of Scotland and 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan. As always, the festival will focus on education. Featured artists will offer master classes to FSU students and will perform for K-12 students. 26 Vires
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FSU launched Seven Days of Opening Nights in 1999. Due to its immediate success, the festival has grown longer than its name suggests. For more information, visit www.sevendaysfestival.org.
RINGLING MUSEUM NAMES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Steven High recently joined The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art as executive director. He was previously director and CEO of the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Ga. “I am looking forward to collaborating with Steven High and hearing his exciting ideas to further enhance the Ringling Museum’s leadership position as an internationally acclaimed center for visual and performing arts,” said Sally McRorie, dean of the College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance, which manages the Sarasota, Fla., museum. “His 30-plus years of museum and university experience, coupled with his strong business savvy, are a perfect match for the Ringling Museum. We also are very pleased that he will join our fine Department of Art History faculty within the College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance. His training and scholarship in art history combined with his practical experience in museum leadership will be critically important in our preparation of students in museum studies, art history, arts administration and related disciplines.”
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At 19, the Tallahassee native had already earned her bachelor’s degree, graduating with a double major in creative writing and Russian — and a perfect 4.0 grade point average. Now, having just turned 20, she can add “Rhodes Scholarship Finalist” to her awe-inspiring résumé. Lewis navigated the grueling, months-long Rhodes application and interview process to advance to the final round of competition for the distinguished prize, awarded annually to 32 U.S. college students. Though ultimately Lewis was not among the 2012 Rhodes Scholars announced on Saturday, Nov. 19, Florida State President Eric Barron said he counts himself among her biggest fans, calling the ballet dancer, poet and all-around scholar a “deeply impressive individual.” Lewis said the overall process of applying for the Rhodes has been a rewarding experience. “It’s such a great honor just to be considered for a Rhodes Scholarship,” Lewis said. “The whole process of applying and then interviewing for the Rhodes is an amazing experience that very few people get to witness. I feel fortunate and honored to have had so many caring faculty and staff members at Florida State who supported me throughout the process.” Lewis’s path to academic and artistic excellence wasn’t a conventional one. She attended the International Baccalaureate program at Tallahassee’s Rickards High School for two years before moving to
After taking the SAT (she earned a perfect score of 2400, of course), Lewis was accepted into Florida State, where she completed her undergraduate studies in a brisk two years. With the Rhodes interview process completed, Lewis said she is now focusing on other goals. She is currently taking courses at FSU as a non-degree-seeking graduate student. In the spring, she will travel to London for an international internship, followed by a writing residency in France and another internship in Russia.
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There are many talented, high-achieving students at The Florida State University. And then there is Karlanna Lewis (B.A. ’11).
Pittsburgh, Pa., where she attended the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School for just under a year. All the while, she continued to take Advanced Placement courses online through the Florida Virtual School and soon earned her GED — again with a perfect 4.0 grade point average.
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If the opportunity presents itself, Lewis said she would still jump at the opportunity to dance for a professional ballet company. But even if that doesn’t happen, she has other options. She recently auditioned for Florida State’s Master of Fine Arts program in dance and is considering pursuing a master’s degree in creative writing. Four Florida State students have been named Rhodes Scholars: Myron Rolle (B.S. ’08), Joe O’Shea (B.A. ’08), Garrett Johnson (B.S. ’05) and Caroline Alexander (B.A. ’76). Created in 1902 through a bequest in the will of Cecil Rhodes, a British philanthropist and colonial pioneer, the Rhodes Scholarship is the oldest international study award available to American students and is widely considered the most prestigious of its kind. Rhodes Scholars are eligible to continue their studies for up to three years, all expenses paid, at Oxford University in England, which is considered one of the world’s top institutions of higher learning.
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Jimmie Callaway has plenty of both. As equipment manager for the Florida State University football team during most of the Bobby Bowden era, he also had access to the ephemera of college athletics — the game-day programs, the roughed-up jerseys, the forgotten photographs, the worn-out and cast-off pieces a team leaves behind as it plays opponents and moves through the schedule. “I was there,” Callaway said recently at his hilltop home near Tallahassee’s Lake Jackson. “I was on the inside of the fence. I’ve been to practices, staff meetings, trips. I mean, I’ve been all over the United States with the football team, whether it’s in California, New York or Miami. I’ve been everywhere.” With all that access and with patience, luck and the blessing of an understanding wife, Callaway put together an astounding assortment of FSU memorabilia that tells the story of the Seminoles, from their humble start with an 0-5 season to their reach for bowl games, glory and national championships. Opposite: Standing outside of his backyard museum, Jimmie Callaway cradles the pigskin he retrieved as a young ball boy during Florida State's first football game. 28 Vires
The ball used to kick off the first game, in 1947? He’s got it. The jerseys with no numbers worn by players in the first team photo? He’s got those, too, and they look like new. How about the first letterman’s jacket ever awarded to an FSU athlete? Coach Bill Peterson’s handsome wool jacket, the one he wore to every game? Rings and watches from the bowl victories?
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Below: Callaway’s fortuitous finds include footballs from Tommy Brown’s record punt and FSU’s first game, plus the university’s first letterman’s jacket. Opposite: Jimmie with wife Donna.
He’s got them all, and plenty more, picked up here and there through years of working with the coaches, players and staff, first as a volunteer and then as the man responsible for the minutia of a national program, from shoe laces, helmets and shoulder pads to the footballs themselves and even the luggage for the road games. Being an equipment manager is a big job. With so many moving pieces there is a lot that can go wrong, and success requires a hard-nosed
individual who can track the details and keep everything in order, and working, at all times. “The toughest, orneriest sergeant in managerial history” is how Bowden described Callaway in a signed photo, and it’s an apt description. Yet Callaway, known as “J.C.” to his friends, also paid attention to the human challenges, and he became a figure of strength and security for a number of players who at times now call him “Dad.” Through it all, Callaway built not just an impressive collection of Seminole history but also a storehouse of anecdotes, memories, friendships and experiences for him and his family. “You’re looking at an era in FSU’s history that was probably the most special one of all,” explained his wife, Donna, a well-known educator in Florida and an FSU graduate. “You don’t ever create those things again. You can try, but personalities are different, society is different, expectations are different. During that era we became part of a real strong family. Families of faith — we were all in church. We all enjoyed each other’s kids. It was just a great time.” Callaway doesn’t have everything FSU — no collection is ever complete — but he has more than anyone, and more than he can display in the
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shrine to all things Seminole he built just a few steps out the back door of his family’s home. Every visitor to the museum finds something of special interest, but perhaps the most valuable, to history at least, is the beaten old football from 1947 — Callaway’s first, but not last, lucky break in the collection game. Callaway is a native of Tallahassee and, as he put it, “grew up at Florida State,” attending Florida High, the university’s developmental research school, from kindergarten through senior year and graduation. He played baseball and basketball in high school, and early on he had a knack for being at the right place at the right time for sports history. Barely into his teens, he handled bats for the Tallahassee Pirates, a short-lived and largely forgotten farm team for the Pittsburgh Pirates, during home games at Centennial Field, at the other end of Gaines Street from Doak Campbell Stadium. Florida State, new to men’s sports and without a field of its own, played its first season there. “I was a ball boy at the first game, in ’47,” Callaway recalled. “Coach Haskins [an assistant
to head coach Ed Williamson, 0-5 in his first and only season] asked me to help with the balls, because I hung out there all the time. I was about 12 years old. … Right at the beginning of the game, the ball went out of bounds, and I got it. He asked me to stick it in a box so they can save it, and I held on to it. They never asked for it after the game, and I kept it, thinking eventually he’d ask for it.”
All-American and All-Pro footballer Marvin Jones, a former Seminole, sent this helmet from his days with the New York Jets.
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Lt. Gen. Frank Hagenbeck, a one-time football graduate assistant at FSU who became superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy, signed this Army football helmet. Vires 31
Nevertheless, he saved the ball and preserved its story — and that was just the start. There’s the ball Tommy Brown sent flying 84 yards with a monster kick in the last game of the Seminoles’ undefeated 1950 season. “He held the record at FSU for the longest punt in FSU history,” Callaway noted, and still does. Legend has it the ball bounced out of the end zone and into the cars parked outside the new Doak Campbell Stadium. True, Callaway verified. He should know. He ran out to the parking lot and scooped it up. Another case of right place, right time for Jimmie Callaway. Callaway also has a ball from the 1977 Tangerine Bowl. It’s not the most handsome piece in his collection — it is an odd orange color — but it comes from the first of many bowl appearances under Bowden, and it is signed by team leader Ron Simmons. It’s a keeper. Like any collection, this one has a few curiosities — the oddest piece being Frank Vohun’s helmet. Vohun (B.S. ’70), who played defensive tackle for FSU from 1965 to 1969, had one proud feature. Photo by Tony Archer
“Frank had a nose like no other human being,” Callaway said, and a regular facemask rubbed him. “We had to get a motorcycle helmet,” Callaway explained. “We heated the helmet and flattened it, and then got an old face mask and heated it and bent it to where it would come out longer than his nose, and that’s what Frank played football in.”
The ball may have been historic, but in the eyes and hands of a 12-year-old boy it was, well, just a pretty nice football. Above: Callaway got his hands on a plethora of Seminole relics, such as the ball from FSU’s first basketball game and Frank Vohun’s unusual helmet. Opposite: Deion Sanders insisted Callaway be part of his jersey retirement ceremony, during which he planted a kiss at midfield.
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“I played with it around the house,” Callaway said, a bit sheepishly, and indeed he did. The ball bears the scars of youthful wear and tear. “I shouldn’t have done it,” he said, “but I didn’t realize then that one day it would be valuable.”
The motorcycle helmet and its metal-flake shine stood out, and the other lineman razzed Vohun mercilessly for it. It was supposed to be a temporary solution for a week or so until the arrival of a real helmet of adequate dimensions. In reality, Vohun said from his home in Villa Rica, Ga., he wore the helmet in “five or six games, half the season or more.” It was, he recalled, one hot piece of protection, and a second version was not much better, even after Callaway drilled some air holes. Nevertheless, Vohun survived the custom head guard, completed his degree in health and physical education and came back to the team as a graduate assistant. He retired this fall from a career of coaching college and high school teams.
Callaway’s collection is overwhelmingly football, but not entirely. Here and there are pieces from other sports. The most significant comes, once again, from Callaway being where he needed to be. While in high school he helped keep the scorebook during games at the West Campus out at the old Dale Mabry Field, once an airport, then home to the men when FSU went co-ed after World War II and now the site of Tallahassee Community College. Callaway came away with the first basketball used by the men’s team in 1948.
“The first game Deion played with the Atlanta Braves, the first time up at bat he hit a home run,” Callaway said. (He and his wife were in the stands, at Sanders’ invitation.) “Chuck Tanner [the Braves manager] couldn’t figure out what he was hollering. When he left home plate, he started hollering ‘J.C.! J.C.! J.C.!’ all around the bases.”
There’s also the worn and beaten letterman’s jacket.
“Deion and I are best of buddies,” Callaway said. “We are good friends. … When he came to FSU, I took care of him the best I could.”
“Hank Mercer came to me, way back about ’76 or ’77,” Callaway recalled, “and said, ‘Can I make a trade-in?’” This was no ordinary offer. Mercer was, it turns out, FSU’s first letterman (in golf, 1948 and 1949). “He gave me that jacket for a new one,” Callaway said, with a small smile. Another case of luck finding the lucky. The full collection — every ball, photo, ring, shirt, media guide and more — is too much for his Seminole gallery to handle. It just won’t fit. “I’m thinking seriously about expanding,” he confided, his big frame stretched across a La-Z-Boy in the comfortable museum/man cave as he gave a hard look at the back wall and considered the possibilities. Good thing, as Callaway’s garage needs the relief. It’s been taken over by artifacts, most carefully protected in storage containers but some casually crowded and piled one on another. Stepping outside to show where other riches are held in reserve, Callaway negotiated around his pickup — garnet, of course, and parked outside to make room — reached a beefy hand down into one cluttered cardboard box and pulled up a small but significant piece of history. A dusty baseball once pounded into the stands by Deion Sanders, perhaps the most exciting player ever to wear garnet and gold, when he was with the Atlanta Braves. Yes, Sanders played both professional baseball and professional football. As Seminole fans know well, Sanders could do it all.
Sanders gave Callaway the bat, now framed and hanging in the museum, and he gave him the ball, too, after the Braves fan who caught it handed it back.
Donna, his wife, said Callaway was a mentor for many players. “He’s kind of a different person to get to know,” she said with a knowing look. “A lot of people think he’s gruff and rough, and he is, on the exterior, but if you get to know him, like they did, they begin to really love him. We had some of them stop us on I-10 on Father’s Day. ‘Dad, give us a hug!’” As Callaway explained it, he saw his role as mentor in clear and simple terms. “I treated them like a son, I gave them hell every chance that I thought they needed it,” he said, “and I made sure they were where they were supposed to be.” And what did they need most? “Guidance,” he said.
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The Ultimate NOLE FAN By Bill Edmonds Bartenders, here’s a tip. When well-lubricated patrons get loud and rowdy sorting out the details of Seminole glory — Did Charlie Ward throw his first FSU pass in 1989 or 1990? How many RBIs did Marshall McDougall drive in when he blasted his record six home runs against Maryland? — tell them to simmer down, pull out their smartphones and check NoleFan.org. Chances are, they’ll find the answers. The website, a growing repository of all things Seminole sports, is a labor of love by The Florida State University alumnus Bob Perrone (B.S. ’75). Perrone, a computer programmer for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, started NoleFan.org as a small project to learn HTML code, the underlying basics of every web page, but it grew into something more. Slowly and methodically, Perrone documented the basics of every year of FSU varsity athletics. “I’ve got pretty much rosters from 1947 to '48 up to now,” he said. The turning point in NoleFan.org’s development came when Assistant Athletic Director Rob Wilson (B.A. ’83) and Jim Joanos (B.S. ’56), the unofficial guardian of the story of FSU athletics, gave Perrone a special invitation in words every historian loves to hear: “We’ve got a file room you might be interested in.”
By setting rules and holding the young men accountable, Donna Callaway said, her husband helped boys away from home for the first time find their way and build their character. In the process, he fashioned lasting bonds of friendship and respect. “Just like the Deion relationship,” she said. “Deion needed a male figure in his life, because his dad had just died. Jimmie, rough and tough, was the kind of person he needed to set some parameters. ‘This is the way you conduct yourself. You don’t do this. You do the right thing.’ I’m in education, and I like to see adult role models, and I suddenly realized my husband was one, in a different venue of course, but still helping to guide young men. … He was growing people, the same way I was in school.” The Callaways have grown close to Sanders. “We don’t talk to him, really, about his work,” she said. “We know his family. … We’ve stayed at Deion’s home many times. We’ve got a bedroom out there, played with their kids. We were there at his 40th birthday.” Both families have strong religious convictions and are active in their congregations, and the Callaways worship with Sanders when visiting him in Dallas. “If you’re in Deion’s house on Saturday night,” she said, “Sunday morning you go to church.“
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Since then, Perrone has burned up the miles on Interstate 10 — he’s now in a garnet (with gold stripes) Honda Accord — on monthly trips from his Jacksonville home to campus so he can sort through the file room’s treasures and mine missing pieces of his growing archive. “I’m hoping that if people are interested in this,” said Perrone, “if they have shots of themselves when they were in school, that they will scan the photos and send me copies.” Maybe then Perrone could put NoleFan.org to bed. Or, maybe not. He considered the question, and laughed. “There’s always something else.” 34 Vires
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This relationship is why her favorite piece of all the memorabilia is a photo of Sanders and her husband on the field at Doak Campbell Stadium in 1995 for the retirement of Sanders’ No. 2 jersey. Sanders is hugging her husband and kissing his neck. “He wouldn’t go out there,” she said, “if Jimmie didn’t go with him.” Callaway takes pride in his collection, the work of many years, but the future of all this FSU athletic history is at this point unclear. “I’ve already got it set up in my will,” Callaway asserted on one occasion, “that it is all to be burned.” “Not there, not there,” his wife clarified in a later conversation, giving another knowing look that drew a laugh from her husband. “Still to be determined.”
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SECURING A FOUNDATI0N
New Direct Support Organization Aims to Make Real Property Gifts a Primary Part of Florida State Fundraising. By Emily Nix
Like many Florida State College for Women alumnae of the World War II generation, 1941 graduate Frances Cushing Ervin’s greatest legacy may well be her family and their accomplishments, from her husband on down to her grandchildren.
to The Florida State University and The Florida State University Foundation. The fledgling direct support organization held its first board of directors meeting on Thursday, July 7, 2011, in Tallahassee.
In honor of the love and devotion of their everyday hero — their wife and mother — the Ervin family chose to make a gift in her name to a cause they knew she would appreciate.
With its creation in advance of Florida State’s upcoming capital campaign, the Real Estate Foundation will provide growth opportunities for the university to invest and develop potential property under the guidance of a board of directors with backgrounds in professional real estate development, accounting and management.
After Frances’s death on Jan. 9, 2007, her husband and children determined that an appropriate way to honor her memory was with a gift reflecting her interests. Thus, they created a professorship in her name: The Frances Cushing Ervin Professorship in the Department of English. Pleased with the initial gift facilitated by daughter Anne Ervin Rowe (B.A. ’67), retired dean of the faculties and deputy provost at The Florida State University, and son Robert M. Ervin Jr. (B.A. ’79, J.D. ’82), Bob Ervin Sr. made the decision to make an additional gift to the fund — that of the couple’s Tallahassee home. This type of gift, formally referred to as a retained life estate, allows the donor to make a significant contribution to FSU. The donor may continue living in his or her home throughout his or her lifetime while benefiting from an income tax deduction in the year the gift was made. If at any time the donor decides to relinquish the life estate, he or she may do so. Otherwise, the property is given over to the university after the donor’s lifetime. This real property gift is one of the first of many that the newly established Florida State University Real Estate Foundation will use to impact the university’s programs and colleges. The Real Estate Foundation exists primarily to receive contributions of real estate to hold, manage, lease, mortgage, develop, administer or sell in order to contribute or distribute all or a portion of the net proceeds from such activity
The Real Estate Foundation board is comprised of seven directors from across the state of Florida, six of whom are graduates of The Florida State University: Chairwoman Beth Azor, Davie, Fla.; Vice Chairman Brian Swain, Winter Haven, Fla.; Bob Breslau, Davie, Fla.; Ed Burr, Jacksonville Beach, Fla.; Tom Jennings, Tallahassee, Fla.; Leslie McKeon, St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Steve Pattison, Plantation, Fla.
Above: Bob Ervin Sr. donated the home he shared with late wife Frances Ervin to FSU in her memory. The newly formed Real Estate Foundation will support Florida State through similar gifts. Photo by Tracy Hamilton
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“We have put together a fabulous team to lead the Real Estate Foundation,” Board of Directors Chairwoman Beth Azor said. “It was important for us to have many direct support organizations represented, and we also asked for recommendations based on geographic representation.”
Additionally, Azor said, through the foundation and through connections and industry affiliations, the Real Estate Foundation will be able to engage industry groups and those with real estate holdings in learning how they can help the new organization achieve its goals.
Diversity in the real estate industry was another important factor in selecting board members.
Foundation Chief Financial Officer and Real Estate Foundation Treasurer Jerry Ganz added, “Eventually, we hope gifts to the Real Estate Foundation will not just take the form of the typical pass-through property that is sold with the proceeds being provided to a specific college or unit. We hope to obtain some income-producing properties that can be retained by the Real Estate Foundation and managed for the continued success of the university. We want to have the opportunity to look at all options available that might positively impact the students and programs of The Florida State University.”
“We may get a gift presentation or a donor who asks us to be involved in residential, office, retail or industrial deals, and it’s important for our experience to be balanced,” Azor said. “It’s clear that our group brings different talents and strengths to the table.” When Azor joined The Florida State University Foundation Board of Trustees in 2005, her natural connection to real estate led her to investigate the university’s involvement with the industry. “On the foundation board, I found alumni and friends asking if we were interested in taking gifts of real estate. The foundation does an excellent job at comparing peer institutions, so in conducting surveys and speaking with our peers, we found that other universities were doing much more with real estate. They were engaging and proactively encouraging alumni and friends to bring gifts of real estate to the institutions’ attention.” Since then, Azor, her colleagues on the board and university and foundation staff have worked tirelessly to establish the Real Estate Foundation and promote it within the Florida State community and among real estate professionals state- and nationwide. The College of Business’s annual Real Estate Trends & Networking Conference in October allowed the board of directors to introduce the Real Estate Foundation to about 600 Florida State alumni and friends in the real estate industry; share the Real Estate Foundation’s mission; and explain strategies professionals can use to connect their clients with The Florida State University.
The creation of the Real Estate Foundation, coupled with its proven leadership, is yet another way Florida State is striving to become a university of unparalleled growth and success. “The Real Estate Foundation has the potential to help grow our university through alumni and friends’ gifts of real estate and to assist the university in that growth by utilizing real estate principles at the right time and place,” Azor said. “The Real Estate Foundation will counterbalance the negative impact of the current economic climate and assist in accomplishing fundraising goals that Florida State has wanted to achieve for many years.” The Florida State University Real Estate Foundation is registered as a separate corporation in the state of Florida that has been approved as a direct support organization of the university. The corporation is currently awaiting a decision from the Internal Revenue Service relative to its application for tax-exempt, charitable status. _______________________________________ To learn more about making a gift to The Florida State University Real Estate Foundation, contact Jerry Ganz, treasurer, at 850.644.0766 or jganz@foundation.fsu.edu.
Opposite page: The Real Estate Foundation Board of Directors held its inaugural meeting on July 7 in Tallahassee. Board members are (from left to right) Tom Jennings, Ed Burr, Beth Azor, Brian Swain, Steve Pattison and Leslie McKeon. (Not pictured: Bob Breslau.) Photo by Jennifer Little
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HOMECOMING 2011
On Friday, Nov. 18, thousands of Florida State alumni returned to campus in a Seminole State of Mind. As the familiar sounds of the popular Marching Chiefs filled the air, the exuberant fans joined current students and the hometown crowd along College Avenue for the university’s annual Homecoming Parade. The colorful array of floats combined with the cheers of Florida State’s well-wishers set the tone for a memorable weekend in which new memories were made while old friends looked back on the FSU of days gone by.
Left: Parade Grand Marshall Gene Deckerhoff Above: Faculty Grand Marshall Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (M.F.A. '79)
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Right: The Civic Center was packed for Pow Wow as spirited spectators took in music … Middle Right: … and the antics of comedian Craig Ferguson. Bottom Right: Each academic college was represented at the All-College Alumni Tailgate staged at the President’s House. Below: Alumni Association National Board of Directors Chair Laurel Moredock (B.S. ’78) presents the organization’s Bernard F. Sliger Award to Leslie Pantin (B.S. '70).
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Left: FSU’s first cheerleader, Maggie Allesee (B.S. '49), roots for the Noles on the sidelines of Bobby Bowden Field. Bottom Left: Miss Florida Seminole crowns new Homecoming Chief Alex Yarbrough. Below: Honored members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, FSU's 2010 Chief and Princess and the 2011 Homecoming Court pose together during halftime.
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Recruiting — whether it’s corporate or college — is sometimes about finding a needle in a haystack. Consider Usina’s FSU classmate Todd Combs (B.S. ’93, B.S. ’93), who last year came out of nowhere to be tapped as the potential successor to investment legend Warren Buffett.
“The highly competitive environment allowed me to thrive as a student and as an athlete,” the former captain of FSU’s championship swim team says. “The opportunity to interact and communicate with a wide variety of people from all over the world was also a great advantage.”
In explaining his unorthodox, handpicked protégé, Buffett quipped, “Our goal was to find a two-year-old Secretariat, not a 10-year-old Seabiscuit.”
Usina stays connected, serving on the College of Business Board of Governors, the Seminole Boosters’ Board and as swimming representative on the Varsity Club Board of Directors. In recognition of her support, the locker rooms at the Morcom Aquatics Center bear her name. She has also mentored College of Business students.
It takes one to know one. Before Usina started recruiting executives, she was an executive herself, having managed ventures in sports and entertainment. She was president of publicly-traded JumpTV, served as general manager and president of Nokia Canada and was a key member of the leadership team at Internet pioneer Broadcast.com, which sold for $6.1 billion to Yahoo!. FSU was fundamental to her success, creating a path from the locker room to the boardroom.
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In creating her database, it seemed natural to leverage her Seminole background. “There are lots of great FSU grads out there climbing the executive ladder. I wish I had even more on my list.”
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BOB SASSER (B.S. ’73) PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER DOLLAR TREE STORES
Marketing Excellence in 2011. Sasser, who recently endowed a position scholarship in football, is a lifetime member of the Alumni Association and a Seminole Boosters Golden Chief.
He leads the nation’s largest discount variety store selling everything predominantly for $1. Bob Sasser, one of the nation’s top marketing professionals, is the president and CEO of Fortune 500 company Dollar Tree Stores. Under Sasser’s leadership, Dollar Tree has grown from a small regional company to an international chain with more than 4,200 stores, distribution centers in the U.S. and Canada and over 60,000 associates across all 48 contiguous states and Canada. Since 1998 sales have grown from over $900 million to over $6 billion forecast for 2011.
Sasser counts a number of FSU graduates among Dollar Tree’s associates, and the firm plans to continue recruiting on campus as opportunities arise.
According to Sasser, “Our quality of earnings is the highest in our sector and earnings are growing faster than sales.” Over the past five years Dollar Tree stock value has increased 294 percent. Sasser sees FSU as contributing to his climb to the peaks of business success. “My time at FSU served me well,” he says. “As a student, I saw FSU as an opportunity to grow and mature. I did not have a definite career goal, and the College of Business gave me an opportunity to see a broad range of career opportunities. At the same time, I was working part time in retail, and I found it both fun and interesting. Retailing is a career that requires elements of many disciplines.” Sasser was inducted into the College of Business Hall of Fame in 2009 and returns regularly to share his experience and exchange ideas with students and faculty. In addition to regular financial support for the College of Business, he and his wife Pam established the Bob and Pam Sasser Endowed Scholarship for 44 Vires
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MEG CROFTON (B.S. ’74, M.B.A. ’75) PRESIDENT WALT DISNEY PARKS AND RESORTS OPERATIONS, U.S. AND FRANCE This alumna’s executive-suite position depends on magic — a lot of it. Meg Crofton serves as president of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Operations, U.S. and France. She also serves as president of Walt Disney World Resort, overseeing a work force of more than 58,000 cast members at the world’s premier vacation destination.
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Since Crofton joined the Disney organization in 1977, her corporate climb has been steady, holding a wide range of executive leadership roles in human resources, hotel operations and convention sales. She led an international task force responsible for opening six resort hotels at Disneyland Paris in 1992. Although Crofton has spent most of her career at the Walt Disney World Resort, she also has broad international experience, most recently as executive vice president of human resources for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, serving 90,000 global cast members at five worldwide vacation destinations. As a student at FSU, she was captivated by her first marketing course. “It just hooked me,” she said. “Marketing is a great way to look at the world. Whether you’re talking about selling products and services or you’re talking about shaping minds and hearts as a leader, there are a lot of marketing principles that you can translate, almost literally, from marketing products and services into leading people.” While earning her M.B.A., Crofton accepted a graduate assistantship with Professor Emeritus Persis Rockwood, who specialized in market research. Crofton also served as president of the FSU Marketing Club, which worked to give students real-world experience. “I’m grateful for the experience I had at FSU. I have very warm, fond memories of my time there, and I know that the students there are getting a great education.” In 2008 she was inducted into the College of Business Hall of Fame, the first woman to receive this honor. Crofton has shared her experience and insight with Florida State students as a presenter in the Charles A. Bruning Distinguished Speaker Series.
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“It was quite motivating for me and made me want to do even better. A double major in accounting and finance was not easy, but the faculty inspired me.” McAlpin is a lifetime member of the Alumni Association, a member of the College of Business Board of Governors and a guest lecturer for the college and the Dedman School of Hospitality. “I love getting back into the classroom and providing a different perspective to the students,” he says. McAlpin believes strongly in community service and was recently named national board chair of the Make-a-Wish Foundation, which grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. Founded in 1980, the foundation is now the largest wish-granting charity in the world and has realized more than 200,000 wishes in the United States since its inception. McAlpin recruits top interns from top universities for work on The World and notes that the two FSU interns who have worked aboard the ship were standouts, the only ones of their peers who received offers for permanent work. McAlpin’s daughter, Nicole, graduated from FSU in May 2010. Daughter Natalie is a senior.
Smith credits Florida State for the success he has had as a banker and as a leader. “FSU was an incredible learning ground for me,” Smith says. “Leadership in my fraternity, Kappa Alpha Order, was a great experience. I thought the liberal arts education increased my ability to think critically, and the business school experience helped further develop the thought process I had learned from my dad, Godfrey Smith, who led the bank for over 50 years.” Smith’s leadership extends to his community and his university. A native of Tallahassee, he has been active in a host of local and professional causes. He served as chairman of the FSU Foundation and led its $600 million CONNECT capital campaign. He has also served as chairman of the Alumni Association’s National Board of Directors and has served on the Florida State Athletic Board, the Florida State University Research Foundation and the Florida State University Student Investment Fund, Inc. Smith has been honored with the Alumni Association’s Circle of Gold and was inducted into the FSU College of Business Hall of Fame in 2009.
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The CEO of one of the nation’s top-performing mid-tier banks is Florida State University alumnus William G. “Bill” Smith.
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DANIEL T. HENDRIX (B.S. ’77) CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER INTERFACE, INC. He carpets the world while working to safeguard the environment.
Smith is chairman, president and CEO of Capital City Bank Group, Inc., among the largest publicly traded financial services companies headquartered in Florida. Smith joined the organization in 1978. Since 1989, when he took over as president and CEO, Capital City has grown from $626 million to $2.7 billion in assets, and its office network has expanded from 26 to 70.
Daniel T. Hendrix leads Interface, Inc., the pioneering worldwide leader in design, production and sales of environmentally responsible modular carpet for commercial, institutional and residential markets, and leading designer and manufacturer of commercial broadloom. Interface, a $1 billion company with manufacturing on four continents and sales in over 110 countries, has 4,000 employees.
With almost 1,000 employees, the company provides a full range of banking services. Its bank subsidiary, Capital City Bank, founded in 1895, has offices and ATMs in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Headquartered in Tallahassee, Capital City Bank serves as a hometown bank for Floridians throughout the state.
Honors Florida State graduate Hendrix joined Interface in 1983 and was quickly elevated to chief financial officer. In 1989, at age 33, he was identified as the youngest CFO at a Fortune 500 company. President and CEO since 2001, Hendrix was appointed chairman of the company’s board of directors in 2011.
Hendrix has played a key role in many of the company’s most significant milestones. He helped take the company public in 1983, helped globalize the company through over 50 mergers and acquisitions in the years after the initial public offering and then managed the company through three significant economic downturns: 2001, 2003 and the most recent recession. Through each of these downturns, Interface emerged leaner but more nimble, rebounding more quickly than its competitors and maintaining its 35 percent market share. Hendrix gives credit to the university. “Florida State put me on the path to a successful career in finance,” he says. “I firmly believe that I could not have been better prepared for my role as CFO and eventually, as CEO, if it were not for the accounting program at FSU and for my professor, Ross Heck, in particular. He was not only an incredible instructor; he also prepared me for the corporate world by modeling what a successful financial executive would do. He wore a suit and tie to class every day, he set extremely high expectations for us and he held the bar high in the best possible way.” Hendrix, whose wife and son are also alumni, serves on the board of governors of FSU’s College of Business.
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SHARON LECHTER (B.S. ’76) FOUNDER AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER PAY YOUR FAMILY FIRST
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She’s a CEO who knows that the world needs more CEOs — millions of them — and she’s on a mission to make that happen. “My passion is to allow people to take control of their own financial lives, to create their own balance sheets, to create their own wealth — to be the CEOs of their own lives,” says Florida State University alumna Sharon Lechter, founder and CEO of Pay Your Family First, a firm that focus on sparking children’s entrepreneurial spirit and teaching the next generation how to become masters, instead of slaves, to money. Co-author of the worldwide bestseller Rich Dad Poor Dad, Lechter co-founded and led the Rich Dad Company, producing over 20 books, board games, websites, CDs, audio cassettes and seminars focused on financial literacy. Lechter also wrote Think and Grow Rich — Three Feet From Gold and recently updated Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill — a long-hidden manuscript that identifies and confronts life’s greatest obstacles to success. Lechter is the financial literacy spokesperson for the American Institute of CPAs and appointee to the first President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy. A magna cum laude FSU graduate, Lechter joined the ranks of a Big Eight accounting firm, but, she says, “The entrepreneurial bug bit in my mid-20s. My parents’ goal for me was a long career with a stable firm, but they had raised me in an entrepreneurial home, and I decided that if I was going to work that hard, I wanted to work for ownership, not just a paycheck.” FSU provided strong support for her academic pursuits and leadership training, Lechter recalls.
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Drake Anderson
Just 34 years young, Florida State’s Osceola and Renegade program was recently tabbed college football’s greatest tradition in a nationwide poll conducted by ESPN SportsNation and EA Sports. The responsibility of portraying the Seminole leader falls on the sturdy shoulders of FSU junior Drake Anderson, who is in his third season riding as Osceola. How excited were you to hear about winning the best tradition contest? What we are trying to convey and represent is the Seminole nation, the unconquered spirit of the tribe. We try not to bring attention to ourselves. We come there, we do our job and we go home. We try to keep it simple and do it in a respectful manner. We just appreciate that the fans got behind us the way that they did. What do you enjoy about what you do? I grew up riding horses, so for me to get a chance to come to a great school like FSU and have a chance to ride horses and have it be a part of my daily routine is just amazing for me. I enjoy everything about game days — all the work and everything that goes into it. It is a joy for me to be part of the program and be a part of the heritage. The pressure on you is almost like an athlete on game day. Do you feel it? I feel like it sometimes. There is a lot of practice, sweat and blood that goes into it, but everything about the program — from riding horses on a daily basis to cleaning stalls to washing horses and anything like that — is part of the program and part of what goes into this great tradition. How has the experience of being Osceola compared to your expectations? It never ceases to exceed my expectations. I grew up unfamiliar with a lot of the FSU traditions. I knew Bobby Bowden and the team of sorts, but I was not a huge college football follower. So coming into this I did not know what I was getting into. It still astounds me on a daily basis how important and how honorable it is to be part of this tradition. When you look back on the experience, what do you think you will appreciate the most? I think I will appreciate the discipline it has given me. I ride a lot. The horses are stationed about an hour outside of town for security reasons. During the summer I ride between three and four days a week — sometimes five days a week. During the fall, I am up there at the farm two or three times during the week and on the weekends also. It is a large time commitment. It is instrumental for my future going on just to be able to know how to manage time, get everything done with schoolwork that I need to, balance my social life and put the dedication I need to with the program. 48 Vires
You are very tall. Is that an advantage or a disadvantage in riding? In this type of riding, it is a good advantage. Being tall and having long legs gives me a lot of leverage around the horse. I can wrap my legs around his body easier than some people can. How does bareback riding compare to the cutting horse experience to which you are accustomed? An old cowboy that I rode for gave me a horse and said, “Here’s a horse, here’s a bridle.” I said, “Where’s the saddle?” and he said, “You don’t get a saddle.” I actually started off riding for probably two or four months without a saddle at all, because as you are developing riding skills, if you do it first without a saddle, then you develop a sense of balance and a sense of the core skills. Who is Drake Anderson? My major is business, and I think I am going to go into marketing. I grew up in a small town in Alabama called Jemison. It had two red lights, a McDonald’s and a Piggly Wiggly. That’s about all there was in Jemison. I graduated with a class of 110 people, and I have been riding horses since I was 10. That’s all I have ever wanted to do is ride horses and be a cowboy. That’s what I did during my high school career — played football and rodeoed. But you ended up being an Indian? I went from being a cowboy to an Indian. Allen Durham, who will serve as chairman of the Alumni Association’s National Board of Directors next year, is the owner of the program now, and of course he rode for four years. What is the best advice he has given you about this role? He told me there is a lot of importance that comes with this role but to not allow this to be the biggest part of my career here. He said that this is an instrumental part of your college career and your life now but take this and move on with it. “Don’t let it be the biggest thing you have done. Go on and have a successful career and a family.”
Photos by Ross Obley
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On Friday, Nov. 11, a bedecked party of Florida State’s finest united in the Alumni Center Grand Ballroom for an evening of dining, friendship and fun to benefit the Legacy Scholarship. 1. The well-appointed room was lined with one-of-a-kind silent auction items ranging from a Nike FSU black combat helmet autographed by coaches Bobby Bowden and Jimbo Fisher to a guitar signed by country superstar Jake Owen. 2. The spirited live auction featured rarities like an authentic San Francisco Giants jersey autographed by former Florida State standout Buster Posey (3. shown here being modeled by a Student Alumni Association member) and an exclusive opportunity to join Osceola and Renegade behind the scenes and on the field during a 2012 football game. 4. Guests sipped champagne from special stemware, which showcased an etching commemorating the centennial anniversary of the famed Westcott Building.
5. Delores Spearman (B.A. ’98, M.A. ‘08), who co-chaired the event committee with Cindy Sullivan (B.S. ‘85) and Karema Tyms-Harris (B.S. ’92, M.S. ’05), accepts a token of the Alumni Association’s gratitude for her contribution to the gala’s success. 6. Left to right: Michelle Bachtel, M.D., Roni Jennings, Vice President of University Advancement Tom Jennings, Ph.D., and Bill Dixon, M.D., stand together in support of Legacy Scholars. 7. Alumni Association National Director Ray Schroeder (B.S. ’65), chair of the Legacy Scholarship, and wife Charyl delight in the evening’s proceedings, including the naming of the Ray & Charyl Schroeder Family Scholarship. 8. Bridget Chandler (B.A. ’48) and granddaughter Jill (B.A. ’09) celebrate the announcement of the Gilbert S. Chandler Legacy Scholarship, named in honor of Bridget’s late husband. 9. Alumni Association President Scott Atwell toasts the Legacy Ball attendees and sponsors, whose generous contributions helped the scholarship endowment top $300,000 — $50,000 more than the association’s goal!
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ASSOCIATION NEWS CONTINUING A LEGACY Hundreds of future Seminoles applied for the second annual awarding of the Alumni Association’s Legacy Scholarships, which were established to benefit of children, grandchildren and siblings of FSU graduates. Four recipients were selected from the impressive list of candidates based on their academic merit, a written essay, involvement in the community and extracurricular activities. Brief excerpts from these Florida State freshmen’s award-winning essays are below.
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Jake Bouchard Pensacola, Fla. “For as far back as I can remember, I have always wanted to be a Seminole. … I know that Florida State, with its strong academic programs, will give me the tools and knowledge I need to make my own mark in the world. My sister has demonstrated her leadership both on campus and off, and I intend on following her lead and continuing the high standards that she has set.”
Matthew Costello Louisville, Ky. “As a part of the university, it is my goal to learn as much as possible while I am at FSU and to take that knowledge with me when I leave Tallahassee. Once I begin my career, I will use that knowledge to do my part to make the world a better place, all the while representing FSU in the most positive light possible.”
Courtney Librizzi Coral Springs, Fla. “In my family, being a Seminole is more than just getting a degree from FSU; it’s a tradition. … Tallahassee is my second home, where all my family shares their greatest memories. I have loved this place since the first time I stepped foot on campus. It is my turn to carry on the family legacy, and I could not be more proud.”
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Courtnie Garko Colorado Springs, Colo. “Continuing on the legacy of my family at The Florida State University will help me realize my full potential. I know that Florida State will offer whatever I want to study so that I am prepared when I enter the workforce. Finally, I know that going to school at my dream school will make my family proud and show them that I have tried hard to follow in their footsteps.”
2011 Legacy Scholarship recipients Courtney Librizzi and Matthew Costello
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The arms of the FSU Alumni Association extend around the world in the form of the more than 80 alumni chapters, known as Seminole Clubs. In 2011, the association enlisted six of these clubs to launch a pilot program, Operation CLUB, which allows alumni, fans and friends of Florida State within a club’s reach to be part of the chapter automatically. Every Seminole Club will come on board over the next five years, enabling all alumni to stay connected to the university through their local clubs’ activities. Operation CLUB Pilot Groups Atlanta Seminole Club Palm Beach Seminole Club Sarasota Seminole Club
Seminole Club of Greater Washington, D.C. Seminole Club of Greater Orlando Seminole Club of North Texas
Clubs in 11 states hosted more than 30 kickoff events to usher in the 2011 Seminole football season. 1. The Seminole Club of Greater Orlando took over downtown for its annual Spear-It Fest, attracting a crowd of more than 1,200 FSU fanatics.
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More than 50 of the groups held weekly game-watching parties, bringing Noles across the country together to cheer FSU on to victory. 2. The Atlanta Seminole Club attracted fans of all ages to their football festivities. 3. Former Florida State quarterbacks Thad Busby (B.S. ’01) and Drew Weatherford (B.S. ’08) [left and right, respectively], joined by John Jones (center), watched Florida State take on Wake Forest with the Seminole Club of Volusia & Flagler Counties. Clubs across the nation are also paving the way for future Noles to attend the university. Currently 14 Seminole Clubs have established scholarships through endowments with the FSU Foundation. 4. Bobby Bowden signs a football for a fan at a scholarship fundraiser presented by the Phoenix Seminole Club, which is in the midst of endowing its award. 5. South Carolina’s Midlands Seminole Club and Upper South Carolina Seminole Club will create an endowment with a portion of the proceeds from the sales of the state’s new FSU license plate. 6. The Seminole Club of Clay County’s 2011 Leonard Voyles Scholarship recipients (left to right) David Simonton, Carlye Rangeo, Jessica Smith and Sara Beasley accept their awards at the chapter’s Seminole Send-Off.
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ASSOCIATION NEWS CONNECTING ALUMNI TO FSU’S RICH HERITAGE The Emeritus Alumni Society — which is comprised of all alumni who graduated from or attended the university fifty or more years ago — gathered throughout the summer and fall to reminisce about their time on campus and learn about the Florida State of today. Emeritus alumni in Florida’s Big Bend met regularly for a series of Coffee Chats, where they heard from university experts like Professor of Meteorology Peter Ray (M.S. ’70, Ph.D. ’73) and former football coach Jim Gladden. 1. Left to right: Nancy Sheridan (B.A. ’57, M.S. ’67) and Emeritus Alumni Society Chair Betty Lou Joanos (B.S. ’57, Ph.D. ’85) smile for the camera.
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The flourishing society also hosted luncheons across northern Florida and in North Carolina. 2. Richard Lawrence joins Drew and Rachel Peacock in Marianna, Fla. 3. Joanos (right) catches up with fellow Emeritus alumni in Gulf Breeze, Fla. 4. FSU President Eric Barron (B.S. ’73), flanked by Connie Sellers and Gene Sellers (B.S. '56), honors the university’s distinguished emeritus alumni in Maggie Valley, N.C. 5. Left to right: Malena Nichols, Mary Wheeler (B.S. ’44), Marjorie O’Neal (B.S. ’41), Mike Dasher (B.S. ’99) of The FSU Foundation and Cecil Nichols enjoy each other’s company at the Maggie Valley Club and Resort, which offers guests breathtaking Smoky Mountain vistas. The FSU Black Alumni Association held its annual reunion in October, reuniting black alumni for a long weekend of networking and fellowship. The Awards and Recognition Luncheon proved to be a reunion favorite. 6. Left to right: Black Alumni Association National President Connie E. Jenkins-Pye (A.A. ’81, B.S. ’83, B.S. ’84, M.S.W. ’85); Keturah Brown, Outstanding Student Award recipient; Corey Simon (B.S. ’99), Heart of a Champion awardee; Nina Ashenafi Richardson (B.A. ’87, J.D. ’91), Outstanding Alumni Award recipient; J. Marshall Shepherd (B.S. ’91, M.S. ’93, Ph.D. ’99), Outstanding Alumni awardee; and Alumni Association President Scott Atwell line up for a photograph at the conclusion of the ceremony.
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James Bloomfield | B.S. ’96 | Raleigh, N.C. District Sales Manager, Galderma Laboratories as a high-performing Bloomfield prepared for his successful career remained connected has He pharmaceutical sales manager at FSU. Triangle Seminole the with to his alma mater through involvement ip and improved its bersh Club, which significantly increased its mem also serves as a He ent. financial position under his tenure as presid cil. Coun member of the Seminole Boosters Inner
Flecia Braswell | B.S. ’86 | Tallahassee, Fla. Braswell, a skilled marketing professional, shares a long history with The Florida State University. Her Seminole story began when her great-grandmother attended the Seminary West of the Suwannee and continued as she, her mother and sister received degrees from FSU.
John Doughney IV | B.S. ’02, B.S. ’02, M.S. ’03 | Atlanta, Ga. Senior Manager, Connections Planning & Investments, Coca-Cola Doughney credits FSU with preparing him to take on challenging leadership roles and diverse business opportunities. His experiences g with the Student Alumni Association and the Homecoming Steerin role valuable Committee provided him with an understanding of the that the Alumni Association plays in the university experience for graduates and students alike.
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e 36-member The FSU Alumni Association is guided by an activ success of the National Board of Directors, which ensures the sight. The directors, organization through strategic planning and over t industries, share a who bring expertise from a variety of pertinen re to represent the passion for Florida State and a deep-seated desi munities. university as alumni ambassadors in their com
Marion Taormina Hargett | B.S. ’93 | Ridgefield, Conn. Universal Vice President of Olympics and Sports Sales, NBC through advertising While Hargett helps brands achieve their goals and Super Bowl, she during major sporting events like the Olympics the local level. A past on has maintained a passion for promoting FSU forward to continuing president of her area’s Seminole Club, she looks role on the National new her commitment to Florida State through her Board of Directors.
, Fla. Betty Lou Joanos | B.S. ’57, Ph.D. ’85 | Tallahassee of Directors, Board ty Socie ni Alum itus As chair of the FSU Emer the National both over ed presid have to n Joanos — the first perso ty — is responsible Board of Directors and the Emeritus Alumni Socie years ago. She has for engaging alumni who graduated 50 or more to Florida State, which received many honors for her years of service Alumni Association for include serving as the associate director of the 13 years prior to her retirement in 2003.
Craig Lynch | B.S. ’81 | Charlotte, N.C. LLP Partner and Director, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein Seminole Club, otte Charl the of ent presid past -time Lynch, a three in America in real estate was recently named one of The Best Lawyers boards of directors law by Woodward/White. He also serves on the the University of North for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and his Juris Doctorate. Carolina School of Law, from which he earned
M.S.W. ’85 | Tallahassee, Fla. Connie E. Jenkins-Pye | A.A. ’81, B.S. ’83, B.S. ’84, Program Case Manager, Action sive Serious Habitual Offender Comprehen Tallahassee Police Department nt Alumni Association, Jenkins-Pye, a founding member of the Stude ni Association. She Alum Black is the National President for the FSU enhancing the to ation dedic has received several awards for her including the unity, comm the quality of life for youth, families and d. Awar ni Alum g Black Alumni Association’s Outstandin Vires 55
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ENTERING AN ELITE CIRCLE Four new members were inducted into the Circle of Gold during an evening ceremony on Friday, Sept. 16. The FSU Alumni Association’s signature award — presented to no more than 12 individuals each year — recognizes those who personify the university’s tradition of excellence through service and achievements. The thriving assembly now consists of 197 distinguished alumni and friends of The Florida State University.
1. New inductees (left to right) Sandra Rackley (Ph.D. ’75), former Florida State
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Dean of Undergraduate Studies; attorney Mary Ann Stiles (B.S. ’75); and James Apthorp (B.S. ’61), former chief of staff for Florida Gov. Reubin Askew (B.S. ’51), pose with fellow Circle of Gold member Laurel Moredock (B.S. ’78), chair of the Alumni Association’s National Board of Directors, following the presentation of their medals. 2. Richard Fallon, dean emeritus and founder of the FSU School of Theatre, accepts his Circle of Gold award. 3. Left to right: FSU Black Alumni Association National President Connie E. Jenkins-Pye (A.A. ’81, B.S. ’83, B.S. ’84, M.S.W. ’85) and fellow inductee Cassandra D. Jenkins (A.A. ’79, B.S. ’79, M.S. ’81) congratulate Sandra Rackley. 4. FSU President Eric Barron (B.S. ’73) greets Gov. Askew and his wife, Donna Lou Askew (B.S. ’55). 5. Former university president Stan Marshall, a Circle of Gold member, enjoys the festivities. 6. Yvonne Hutto (B.S. ’60) and Circle of Gold member Nancy Turner (B.S. ’61, Ph.D. ’77) chat before the ceremony begins.
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KICKING OFF FOOTBALL SEASON WITH A DECADES-OLD TRADITION The Alumni Association marked the start of FSU’s highly anticipated football season at its 60th annual Kickoff Luncheon on Friday, Aug. 26.
1. Head coach Jimbo Fisher addresses a sea of over 1,400 fans at the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center. 2. The Marching Chiefs enliven the sellout crowd with a spirited performance. 3. Wide receiver Bert Reed pauses to take a photograph with a Seminole enthusiast at the conclusion of the luncheon.
SERVING FOOD, FUN AND SEMINOLE SPIRIT For the third year this fall, the association welcomed alumni and friends of the university to an Open House the evening before every home football game. Guests were treated to activities and fare unique to each event’s theme as well as a performance by retired professor of music Tommie Wright.
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4. The legendary Wright leads the rousing cheer at the end of the FSU Fight Song, which he composed. 5. Emeritus Alumni Society Board of Directors member Jack McCoy (B.S. ’56, M.S. ’58), with wife Betty, wears his Florida State pride on his face. 6. Future alumna Penelope Pasqualone (Class of 2032) dons her Seminole best. 7. Judy Willis (B.S. ’76), Dale Willis (B.S. ’76) and Erin Fellows (B.S.N. ’02) are all smiles.
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STUDENTS TODAY, ALUMNI TOMORROW, SEMINOLES FOREVER 2
1 The Student Alumni Association, or SAA as its known to its 2,750 members, provides opportunities for today’s Seminoles to get involved on campus and interact with each other in a positive environment. SAA sponsors a variety of events throughout the year while grooming tomorrow’s leaders through opportunities like the Leadership Council.
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1. FSU President Eric Barron welcomed over 4,000 new students to his home for the second annual President’s Backyard BBQ on Sunday, Aug. 28, co-sponsored by SAA. 2. The Garnet and Gold Glitter Guys show Florida State’s newest students how to express their school spirit. 3. Molly Barron joins in on the afternoon’s fun, which included appearances by the FSU Flying High Circus, the Marching Chiefs and Indak Dance Troupe as well as a flash mob performed by the FSU Orientation Leaders.
4. Students filled the Alumni Center Grand Ballroom on Monday, Sept. 19 to learn about the more than 20 campus organizations represented at the SAA Involvement Fair.
5. SAA members played for their chance to win prizes ranging from electronics to an on-the-field experience with Renegade and Osceola during the group’s annual Bingo Night on Tuesday, Oct. 18.
6. SAA challenged FSU’s students to donate more clothes than their peers at the University of Florida during their fall community service project, Operation Cover-Up Tallahassee. The organization collected almost two tons of new and gently-used clothing, which were donated to area nonprofits.
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ASSOCIATION NEWS A DREAM VACATION ON THE HIGH SEAS
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More than 300 Florida State fans and friends boarded the brand-new Disney Dream™ in early November for the third annual Seminoles at Sea cruise.
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football team play Boston College on a jumbo poolside screen, passengers had the opportunity to hear behind-the-scenes details on the Osceola and Renegade program from current rider Drake Anderson (center) and Allen Durham (B.S. ’93), director of the Renegade team and chair-elect of the Alumni Association’s National Board of Directors (right). In an interview with Alumni Association President Scott Atwell (left), they talked about the history of Osceola and Renegade, how riders are selected and trained and the program’s special connection with the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
2. Andy Jhanji, executive vice president of the FSU Foundation, embarks on the three-day adventure with wife Jane and son Trent. 3. Angela Perry (B.S. ’94, M.S. ’95) and her son, Will Ryan, zoom by on the AquaDuck water coaster, one of the many splashy features aboard the vessel. 4. Joe O’Shea (B.A. ‘08), who spoke to the cruisers about his experience as a Rhodes Scholar during an exclusive Seminoles-only reception, shoots the breeze with a fellow passenger. 5. Nathan Archer (M.A. ’08) and Dan Taylor’s smiles sparkle as brightly as the sun shining down on the ship’s deck. 6. Many families make Seminoles at Sea an annual tradition.
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LIFE ON THE FINAL FRONTIER Three FSU Space Explorers Look Back on an Era of Greatness. By Tom Nugent
Dr. Calvin Fowler Remembering the "Thrill of Liftoff" Calvin Fowler says he will never forget the moment when he lifted his right hand and moved it slowly across the instrument panel until it was poised above a button marked with a five-letter word: Start. He still remembers the countdown as he ticked off the seconds in the Cape Canaveral launch pad blockhouse: “T-minus twenty … ” “T-minus nineteen … ” Right: Calvin Fowler at the controls of the 1962 launch of the Mercury-Atlas 7 rocket. 60 Vires
At T-minus eighteen, he would hit the start button, and the engines aboard the giant Mercury-Atlas 7 rocket would roar into ignition.
Research and Science Less than a hundred yards from the blockhouse, meanwhile, astronaut M. Scott Carpenter was also holding his breath. If everything went according to plan, Carpenter would soon be hurtling toward space at more than 17,000 miles an hour, en route to becoming the second American in history to orbit the earth only a few months after John Glenn first accomplished the feat. The moment of truth had finally arrived. Slowly and calmly, the then-39-year-old Fowler spoke the words into his microphone: “T-minus eighteen.” At the same instant, he hit the button, and the engines that powered the 70-foot-high rocket kicked into action. Within a few seconds, the launch pad was a boiling cauldron of fire and smoke, and the enormous spacecraft was beginning its historic liftoff. On May 24, 1962, the fledgling U.S. space program took a huge step forward, as the fearless Carpenter made headlines around the world by orbiting the earth three times in less than five hours.
“That was a once-in-a-lifetime moment for all of us who were in the blockhouse that day,” Fowler told VIRES recently while recalling the “nervewracking tension” he’d experienced at T-minus eighteen seconds. “As the test conductor on that launch, it was my job to make sure everything went perfectly … [and] when the rocket left the pad and headed safely toward orbit, all of us were enormously relieved. There were congratulations all around, and then we conducted a lengthy briefing — before jumping into our cars and heading for the nearest bar in order to celebrate!”
Below: The space shuttle Atlantis is seen shortly after the rotating service structure was rolled back at launch pad 39a, Thursday, July 7, 2011, at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis lifted off on Friday, July 8 on the final flight of the shuttle program, STS-135, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. Photo by NASA/Bill Ingalls
The launch was one of several historic takeoffs that Fowler — now a spry 83-year-old grandfather of nine who lives in Cocoa Beach, Fla. — managed during his 40-year career as a space engineer. A gifted administrator, he also played a major role in the space shuttle program, spending most of the 1980s as a shuttle budget analyst and planner at Kennedy Space Center. Along the way, he won special kudos for helping to design the highly praised Space Lab Cost Projection System.
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Dr. Norman Thagard The First American Astronaut to Hitch a Ride with the Russians Thirty-three years after Cal Fowler sent Scott Carpenter zooming off into space aboard Mercury-Atlas 7, another FSU alumnus would make NASA history. That intrepid voyager was shuttle astronaut Norman Earl Thagard, a 52-year-old medical doctor and former Marine Corps fighter pilot who became the first American to be carried into space aboard a Russian-built rocket.
Above: Astronauts of the STS-7/ Challenger mission (left to right) Sally K. Ride, mission specialist; John M. Fabian, mission specialist; Robert L. Crippen, commander; Norman E. Thagard, mission specialist; and Frederick H. Hauck, pilot. STS-7 launched the first five-member crew and the first American female astronaut into space on June 18, 1983.
“Those were years of very hard work,” he says today, “but all those who worked on the shuttle missions are still very proud of the successes they achieved. There were some tragedies along the way — when we lost the Challenger [1986] and the Columbia [2003] … but for the most part, that program was remarkably successful. “I think it’s a real shame the shuttle missions have now come to an end. They were a great example of American ‘can-do’ engineering!” Fowler says the management and productivity skills he learned while earning a master’s degree in business at FSU in the mid-1960s were “crucially important” in helping him direct hundreds of NASA staffers on space-related projects during his lengthy career. “To this day, I’m grateful for the help I got in that FSU program, which allowed me to become a much better manager.” These days, the endlessly-energetic space guru works as a gung-ho volunteer for the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, raising money that helps economically challenged kids attend college. Describing his new life as a dedicated volunteer, the irrepressible Calvin Fowler likes to tell people, “I think I have a problem; I’m always working on something for some deserving organization!”
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Thagard’s 1995 flight aboard the Mir Space Station was hardly his first voyage into the Wild Blue Yonder, however. Before that epic undertaking, he’d already flown on four different NASA space shuttle missions, during which he spent more than 25 days in space. “It’s hard to say goodbye to a program that brought so many good people together in a quest to extend America’s presence in space,” says the Marianna, Fla., native who would later return to his alma mater as a highly popular engineering professor and director of college relations at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. “But priorities change and budgets change along with them. I do feel some nostalgia about the end of the shuttle, but I’m also confident we’ll continue to be a world leader in space exploration.” According to Thagard, the historic flight aboard the Russian space vehicle offered a compelling lesson on the need for peaceful cooperation among all the nations on Planet Earth. “The earth is quite large,” says the now-retired professor and recent aerospace consultant on such blockbuster Hollywood cinema hits as Virus and Armageddon, “but when you can go around it in 90 minutes [aboard a spacecraft], you’re very impressed that it’s a finite body. “You never see the boundaries between countries, and so it really is one world from that point of view!”
Research and Science Describing the rigors of life aboard a cramped spacecraft, the fearless Scott told reporters, “The space shuttle may look large on TV, but with seven people on board, it’s like living in a Winnebago!” Like the bold shuttle missions on which he so often flew, Scott’s life has been “a thrilling and endlessly surprising” adventure. Raised in a mostlysegregated area of Miami in the 1950s and early 1960s, the youthful African-American was a gifted trumpet player who wound up studying music as an undergraduate at FSU before opting for a Navy career upon his graduation in 1972.
Capt. Winston Scott Bidding a Fond Farewell to the Space Shuttle Program Whenever Winston E. Scott looks back on his 35-year career as a U.S. Navy test pilot and NASA astronaut, he remembers the “enormous satisfaction” he gained as an explorer who went where only a few human beings had ever gone before. However, the former mission specialist aboard the space shuttles Endeavor and Columbia also feels a tinge of painful nostalgia.
Left: Scott, now dean of the Florida Institute of Technology's College of Aeronautics, continues to take flight as a private pilot. Below: Mission specialist Winston Scott, as seen from inside orbiter Columbia, conducts the second Extravehicular Activity on mission STS-87.
Today you’ll find Scott working full time on the campus of the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, where he serves as dean and professor of the College of Aeronautics. He’s also kept alive his love of music from his FSU days, and he often plays local gigs with his own Winston Scott Cosmic Jazz Quartet. Of course, he’s also an aerospace consultant to several national firms and frequently pilots his own private plane on his business trips. Far from settling into docile retirement, Scott describes his personal philosophy in exactly five words: “Life is busy and fun!”
“The space shuttle program was a big part of my life,” says the 61-year-old Scott today, “and it was sad to see it finally come to an end this past summer. But I also feel very fortunate to have been part of a program that accomplished so many outstanding successes over the years. Many people ask me if I’d ever want to fly on a space shuttle again, and I never hesitate to answer, ‘Yes!’” The author of a widely praised book on his life and his shuttle adventures (Reflections from Earth Orbit, Apogee Books, 2005), Scott made headlines in 1996 (Endeavor) and 1997 (Columbia) by successfully completing three spacewalks during which he spent a total of 19 hours floating weightless at the end of a tether linking him to the space shuttle. While performing numerous repairs and scientific experiments, the daring astronaut also delighted fans across the globe with his easygoing sense of humor. Vires 63
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WHAT’S NEXT FOR NASA … AND THE U.S. SPACE PROGRAM? By Tom Nugent
Charles Bolden
Now that that NASA’s famed space shuttle program has ended, the question looms: Where will America’s $17 billion-a-year space agency take us next? According to Charles Bolden, the veteran Marine Corps general who now directs NASA’s 15,000 employees from its Washington, D.C., headquarters, the future of American space exploration has never been brighter. “As a former astronaut and the current NASA Administrator, I’m here to tell you that American leadership in space will continue for at least the next half century,” Bolden told a gathering of reporters at the National Press Club recently while describing several of the agency’s upcoming missions. “Once again, we have the opportunity to raise the bar, to demonstrate what human beings can do if we are challenged and inspired to reach for something just out of our grasp but not out of our sights.”
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Pressed for specifics, he went on to outline a series of ambitious initiatives aimed at maintaining the 13-year-old International Space Station and visiting Mars during the next couple of decades. While Bolden doesn’t deny that recent fiscal cutbacks will make it tougher for NASA to achieve its goals in the next few years, he’s confident that the private industry can succeed in delivering U.S. astronauts and cargo to the space station. Meanwhile, the giant space and aeronautics agency is already moving forward with plans to build a new “heavy-lift” rocket, known as the Space Launch System, that will be required to carry future American astronauts first to an orbiting asteroid and then on to Mars for an up-close look at the Red Planet. Although Bolden insists that NASA’s basic mission hasn’t been harmed by the fiscal cuts, Calvin Fowler warns that the decision to close the shuttle program could have a lasting negative impact on the space agency. “As things stand right now, we’re going to have to rely on private contractors — or on the Russian space program — to fly our own astronauts up to the International Space Station,” the longtime NASA program manager says. “I also think the agency’s plans for visiting an asteroid and the planet Mars in the years ahead are highly dubious, at this point.” Winston Scott says he basically agrees with this assessment. “I’m very concerned that we don’t have enough resources at NASA right now,” warns the former astronaut. “If you look at the situation right now, it’s clear that we don’t even have access to space through our own NASA programs. “The American space program has been such a huge success over the years, and it’s brought so many benefits to this country and the rest of the world, that cutting back on it just doesn’t make any sense.” Norman Thagard is also concerned about the future of the U.S. space program. As he often tells reporters, “I think there are a whole lot of questions right now [about NASA’s future] that deserve our attention. I’m confident that we’ll continue to be a world leader in space exploration … but we do need to pay careful attention to those questions and make sure we come up with the right answers.”
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1960s Karl V. Price (B.S. ’61), a retired Air Force colonel, received the President’s Volunteer Service Award from the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. Ted R. Ruta (B.S. ’62), a four-decade officiating veteran from Titusville, Fla., was named the 30th recipient of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Outstanding Football Official Award. Dennis J. Lester (B.S. ’67) announced his retirement after 40 years of working for State Farm insurance companies. Lester, now of Park City, Utah, owned and operated a State Farm insurance agency for over 32 years in Boca Raton, Fla.
1970s Kay L. Wolf (B.S. ’71), a partner in the Orlando, Fla., office of Ford & Harrison LLP, received the Summit Award from The Central Florida Women’s Resource Center. The award is given to women who demonstrate leadership through community visibility, support women’s issues and act as a role model both professionally and socially. She was also named Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers 2012 in the areas of labor and management law. James F. Vickrey (Ph.D. ’72), a professor of speech communication at Troy University’s Montgomery Campus, received the Southern States Communication Association’s James Madison Award in First Amendment Studies and was honored with the Intellectual Freedom Award by the Alabama Library Association.
Richard H. Sollner (B.A. ’67, J.D. ’70), a shareholder in Trenam Kemker’s Tampa, Fla., office, has been named to the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of real estate law. He has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America since 2007.
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Darryl R. Stanford (B.M. ’67) retired in August 2011 from his position as associate pastor of music for senior adults at First Baptist Church in Indialantic, Fla. Bobby E. Canty (B.S. ’68) has announced his retirement from Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Okla., where he has served as dean of students since 2000. Thomas H. White (B.S. ’68) was featured in the season premiere of Travel Channel’s Man vs. Food Nation. Two unique menu items from his Tampa, Fla., restaurant, Skipper’s Smokehouse, were highlighted on the episode: the smoked Florida alligator ribs and the blackened grouper reuben.
Charles L. Woody ▼ Charles L. Woody (J.D. ’72), a member of the Spilman Thomas & Battle law firm, has been hired as an adjunct professor of law at Washington and Lee University’s School of Law, Lexington, Va. He will teach employment law beginning in the spring semester of 2012.
FSU GRADUATE INSPIRES ON NATIONAL BROADCAST Attorney and disability rights activist Aaron Bates (A.A. ’99, B.A. ’01, J.D. ’03) of Orlando, Fla., was featured in a moving profile on the 46th annual Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day Telethon. Bates is affected by spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic disease that causes widespread weakness and atrophy of volunteer muscles. Motivated by personal experience, Bates has played key leadership roles in state legislative efforts to aid young adults with disabilities who want to enter the workplace. Recently he helped pass a Florida state law that assists employed people with disabilities in hiring personal care attendants. He serves on a number of local and national disability advisory boards including the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s National Task Force on Public Awareness. The Muscular Dystrophy Association is the nonprofit health agency dedicated to curing muscular dystrophy, ALS and related diseases by funding worldwide research.
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▲ Tom White with Man vs. Food Nation host Adam Richman Richard M. King II (M.S. ’69), president and CEO of Chicago-based Kittleman and Associates, LLC and a founding member of the National Network of Nonprofit Search Consultants, was elected to the Illinois Wesleyan University Board of Trustees.
Benjamin F. Anderson (B.S. ’73) of Fort Walton Beach, Fla. has been appointed Okaloosa County Tax Collector by Gov. Rick Scott. Anderson, a real estate broker and appraiser, is a member of the Florida Association of Realtors Board of Directors, director for the National Association of Realtors and chairman of the Presidential Advisory Group on Auctions. Vires 67
Torch Award recipients (left to right) John Thrasher, Max Carraway, Patrick Hogan and John McKay.
FLORIDA STATE HONORS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI WITH TORCH AWARDS The Florida State University Faculty Senate presented Torch Awards to four alumni who have contributed significantly to the university’s ability to fulfill its academic mission on Oct. 5. The Torch Awards, established in 1996, are named for the three torches in FSU’s seal: vires, symbolizing moral, physical and intellectual strength; artes, symbolizing appreciation of aesthetics and the beauty of intellectual pursuits; and mores, symbolizing respect for customs, character and tradition.
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John M. McKay (B.S. ’71) Artes Award Recipient
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John Thrasher (B.S. ’65, J.D. ’72) Vires Award Recipient State Sen. John Thrasher was elected to the Florida House in 1992 and unanimously elected as speaker of the House in 1998. During his term, Florida State received approval and funding for the College of Medicine, the nation’s first new allopathic medical school in more than 20 years. The medical school building bears his name. Following his service as a state representative, Thrasher was appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush to be the first chairman of the FSU Board of Trustees. While he was chairman, he assisted in creating the policies and procedures under which it operates today, and the College of Medicine received accreditation. Thrasher was elected to the state Senate in 2009 and became chairman of the Florida Republican Party in 2010.
McKay, a real estate developer, investor and manager, served as a state senator from 1990 to 2002, the final two years of which were as senate president. During his term in the Florida Legislature, McKay formulated a plan to allow management of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., to be taken over by Florida State. McKay’s extensive community service includes serving as a member of the board of trustees of Manatee Rural Health Foundation and the board of directors of the LeRoy Collins Institute. Maxwell Carraway Jr. (B.S. ’70) Mores Award Recipient Carraway, the university’s registrar emeritus, served as university registrar from 1976 until his retirement in 2003. In 1997, Carraway received the Florida State University President’s Humanitarian Award. In 2007, the Max Carraway Employee of the Year Award, which is presented annually to the employee who has consistently demonstrated service
excellence to Florida State, was named in his honor. Carraway continues to serve the university as coordinator of the docent program for the President’s House and as a member of the FSU Heritage Committee. He served as president of the FSU Association of Retired Faculty in 20092010 and is still an active member. Patrick W. “Pat” Hogan (B.S. ’55) Mores Award Recipient Hogan served as vice president for public affairs from 1979 until his retirement in 1990. During his lengthy career at the university — which began in 1951 while he was a student working in the sports information office — Hogan served six university presidents, and the student body increased from 5,000 to 28,000. Hogan is a member of the Alumni Association and the Varsity Club. He is a recipient of the FSU Gold Key Award for Service and Leadership as well as the FSU Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award. He was inducted into the FSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1990.
Lonnie N. Groot (B.S. ’73, J.D. ’76) of the Lake Mary, Fla., law firm Stenstrom, McIntosh, Colbert, Whigham & Partlow P.A. was appointed to the board of directors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Volusia and Flagler Counties. Donald C. Hunter (B.S. ’74, M.S. ’83) was sworn in as the police chief of Marco Island, Fla. on Aug. 8, 2011. He previously served as Collier County sheriff from January 1989 to January 2009.
1980s Capt. Tom Hynes (B.S. ’80) and Col. Cliff Wyllie (B.S. ’77), both American Airlines pilots, manned an all-Seminole cockpit on a Miami Dolphins charter flight during the 2011 football season.
Mark J. Price (B.S. ’85), a partner in the Naples, Fla., law firm of Roetzel & Andress LPA, has been selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers magazine as a top attorney in Florida for 2011.
▲ Capt. Tom Hynes
Col. Cliff Wyllie
Byrd F. "Biff" Marshall (B.S. ’75, M.B.A. ’78, J.D. ’78), president and managing director of GrayRobinson P.A., has been named to the Best Lawyers 2012 Lawyers of the Year list. The Orlando, Fla., securities attorney has been named to The Best Lawyers in America annually since 2006. Stephen Tabano (B.A. ’75), a shareholder in the Tampa, Fla., law firm of Trenam Kemker, was elected to the board of directors of Volunteers of America of Florida. He is a Florida Supreme Court certified circuit civil mediator. Christopher L. Griffin (B.S. ’76, J.D. ’78), a partner in the Tampa, Fla., office of Foley & Lardner LLP, was appointed to a three-year term on the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Committee on Infractions, effective Sept. 1, 2011. In this role, he participates in hearings involving member schools and associated individuals who are alleged to have violated NCAA legislation. Griffin will serve as one of the committee’s two coordinators of appeal. Prior to this appointment, he was a member of the NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee for eight years, five of which he served as committee chair.
▲ Christopher L. Griffin
John A. Boudet (B.S. ’82, J.D. ’85), a partner in the Orlando, Fla., office of Roetzel & Andress LPA, has been selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers magazine as a top attorney in Florida for 2011. Kristin K. Adamson-Landau (B.A. ’84, J.D. ’88) of Tallahassee has been elected president of the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers for 2011 and 2012. She was also named to Best Lawyers in America and Florida Super Lawyers in the areas of marital and family law. ▼ Laura L. Johnson
Col. Tracy R. Norris (B.S. ’87, M.S.P. ’91) is serving in Basrah, Iraq as the chief of staff for the 36th Infantry Division of the Texas Army National Guard. The division is responsible for all U.S. military operations in the nine provinces of southern Iraq. ▲ Col. Tracy R. Norris
Robert J. Hartley (B.S. ’77), principal at Stambaugh Middle School in Auburndale, Fla., was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Mark P. Barnebey (B.S. ’78, J.D. ’83, M.S.C. ’78), a shareholder of Kirk Pinkerton P.A. in Sarasota, Fla., received the 2011 Community Service Leader Award from the Manatee County Bar Association.
Mark A. Mazzatenta (M.M. ’87) joined the full-time music faculty at High Point University where he teaches guitar, music fundamentals and jazz. As a recipient of the 2010 recording grant from the North Carolina United Arts Council, he has released his third CD, Time for You, with his band MazzJazz.
▼ Susie Murray
Nelson T. Castellano (B.S. ’88), a shareholder in Trenam Kemker’s Tampa, Fla., office and co-chair of the firm’s Business Transactions Practice Group, has been named to the 2011 editions of The Best Lawyers and Florida Super Lawyers.
1990s Alaine Williams (J.D. ’79), partner and attorney with the law firm Willig, Williams & Davidson of Philadelphia, Pa., has been recognized as one of Thomson Reuters 2011 Super Lawyers.
Laura L. Johnson (B.A. ’84), founder and owner of Tallahassee-based Coton Colors, and Susie Murray (B.S. ’83) published their first cookbook, The Happy Everything Cookbook, in the fall of 2011.
David M. Corry (J.D. ’90) has been named general counsel of Liberty University, Lynchburg, Va.
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Sara T. Blakely (B.S. ’93), founder and owner of Spanx, has been invited by the Buckhead Coalition to serve as a director. The Buckhead Coalition is a nonprofit civic association that limits its membership to 100 CEOs of major area firms in Atlanta, Ga. Karla C. Carney-Hall (M.S. ’93) has been named vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill.
▼ Mark D. Lencke Mark D. Lencke (B.S. ’90, M.B.A. ’04, B.S. ’09), principal at Investment Advisers in Panama City, Fla., was elected to the board of trustees of Florida House on Capitol Hill, the state’s embassy in Washington, D.C. Martha D. Saunders (Ph.D. ’90), president of The University of Southern Mississippi, received the Public Relations Society of America Silver Anvil Award, signifying the highest level of achievement in public relations practices, for “The Southern Miss Story: Enriching the Brand of a Research University Through a Centennial Celebration.” The awardwinning entry included information on events and publicity, videos, publications and more from the university’s 2010 centennial anniversary. Saunders also won a Silver Anvil Award in 1995 for her role in a public safety communication campaign at the University of West Florida. ▲ Martha D. Saunders
Carlos A. Kelly (B.A. ’93), a stockholder and eminent domain attorney at the Fort Myers, Fla., law firm Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt P.A., delivered the presentation “There Goes My Everything, Eminent Domain & Business Damages” at the Florida Association of County Engineers and Road Superintendents annual conference. Vincent S. Long (B.S. ’93, M.P.A. ’96) of Tallahassee was appointed Leon County administrator after serving as deputy county administrator for the past six years. Sabrina C. Vickers (B.S.N. ’93), a partner in business and real estate at News Orleans-based Chaffe McCall LLP, was named chairman of the International Association of Attorneys and Executives in Corporate Real Estate. An active member since 2004, she served on the board for four years in addition to one year as vice chairman before being elected chairman.
Jacqueline Myles Crain (B.S. ’97), a shareholder in Trenam Kemker’s St. Petersburg, Fla., office, has been named to the 2011 editions of The Best Lawyers in America and the Florida Super Lawyers Rising Stars list in the area of health care law. Warrick D. Dunn (B.S. ’97), a limited partner at the Atlanta Falcons, was recognized with the Jefferson Award in the Outstanding Athlete in Service and Philanthropy category. The award is one of the nation’s top honors for community service and volunteerism. Dunn was a two-time Pro Bowler in five seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before moving on to the Atlanta Falcons, where he added three more Pro Bowl seasons in six years. He finished his playing career with an additional season in Tampa Bay. Michael H. Millsap (B.S. ’97), a science teacher at Sumter Central High School in York, Ala., has joined Teach For America’s 2011 teaching corps. ▲ Maggie D. Mooney-Portale
Nicole Leithiser Rader (B.S. ’94) won the grand prize in This Old House magazine’s 2011 Reader Remodel Contest. Her family’s home was featured on the cover of the July 2011 issue. Lara L. Tibbals (B.S. ’94), a shareholder with the Tampa, Fla., law firm of Hill Ward Henderson, has been appointed by Gov. Rick Scott to serve as a member of the Second District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission. She is also the recipient of the prestigious James M. “Red” McEwen Award from the Hillsborough County Bar Association. Renee A. O’Connor (B.S. ’95) has joined Teach for America’s 2011 teaching corps and will be teaching social studies in Miami-Dade County, Fla. Gerald D. Sullivan (B.S. ’95) has assumed command of the 19th Expeditionary Weather Squadron at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. The 19 EWXS is responsible for providing weather support to all Army operations in Afghanistan.
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L. Renee Braddock (B.S. ’91) of Callahan, Fla., is the first female to be promoted to captain in law enforcement in Nassau County Sheriff’s Office. She has served as a deputy with the sheriff’s office since December 1992.
Dimitri N. Diatchenko (M.M. ’96) appeared in consecutive episodes of FX’s show Sons of Anarchy. He has also completed work on his 31st video game as a voice actor.
Carrie L. Cooper (B.S. ’92) has been named the dean of university libraries at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
Daniel A. Garcia (B.S. ’96), an attorney in the office of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, has been appointed as the Hispanic National Bar Association’s deputy president for Broward County, Fla.
Charles M. Harris (J.D. ’92) has been named managing shareholder of Trenam Kemker’s St. Petersburg, Fla., office, where he practices in the Commercial Litigation Practice Group.
Scott E. Adams (B.S. ’97, B.S. ’97), a partner in the Birmingham, Ala., office of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, has been elected to the prestigious American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a
Maggie D. Mooney-Portale (B.S. ’97), a shareholder at Jacksonville, Fla., firm Lewis, Longman & Walker P.A., has achieved board certification in city, county and local government law from The Florida Bar. Her practice focuses on environmental, governmental, special taxing districts, administrative law and litigation. Maria P. Darley (M.S. ’98) has been named director of the study abroad program at Augusta State University, Augusta, Ga. She has served as the program’s coordinator since 2008. ▲ Maria P. Darley
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Amy L. Drushal (B.S. ’98), a shareholder in Trenam Kemker’s Tampa, Fla., office, has been named a Rising Star in the 2011 edition of Florida Super Lawyers in the area of business litigation.
ALUMNUS JOE HUTTO’S TRUE STORY INSPIRES PBS DOCUMENTARY When wildlife artist and naturalist Joe Hutto (B.A. ’71) wants to “talk turkey,” he means something quite different than you might think. He actually speaks the language of wild turkeys, having spent more than a year as the full-time parent of a clutch of young fowl. Nature’s My Life as a Turkey, which originally aired on PBS in November, recreates Hutto’s moving tale of raising wild turkey hatchlings in Florida’s flatwoods.
▼ Delores Spearman
After a local farmer left a bowl of eggs on Joe Hutto’s front porch, his life was forever changed. Hutto, who possessed a broad background in the natural sciences and an interest in imprinting young animals, incubated the eggs and waited for them to hatch. As the chicks emerged from their shells, they locked eyes with an unusual but dedicated parent. Hutto spent each day living as a turkey mother, taking on the full-time job of raising 16 turkey chicks. Hutto dutifully cared for his charges around the clock, roosting with them, taking them foraging and immersing himself in their world. In the process, they revealed their charming curiosity and surprising intellect. There was little he could teach them that they did not already know, but he showed them the lay of the land and protected them from the dangers of the forest as best he could. In return, they taught him how to see the world through their eyes. “Had I known what was in store — the difficult nature of the study and the time I was about to invest — I would have been hard pressed to justify such an intense involvement. But, fortunately, I naively allowed myself to blunder into a two-year commitment that was at once exhausting, often overwhelming, enlightening, and one of the most inspiring and satisfying experiences of my life,” Hutto wrote in his book, Illumination in the Flatwoods, which was re-released by The Lyons Press to coincide with the broadcast. Find out more about Hutto’s experience and his episode of Nature, the most-watched documentary film series on public television, at pbs.org/nature.
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Delores Spearman (B.A. ’98, M.A. ’08) of Rockledge, Fla., was named 2011 Citizen of the Year at the Florida Today 2011 Volunteer Recognition Awards for her work in helping a cross section of organizations from the Cocoa Village Playhouse to the Children’s Advocacy Center.
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Jack C. Watson (Ph.D. ’98), a professor of sport and exercise psychology and chair of the department of sport sciences at West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va., has been selected as president-elect of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, an international professional organization for sport and exercise psychology. Derrick L. Alexander (B.S. ’99), former Florida State University defensive lineman, has been hired as an assistant football and basketball coach at Bishop McLaughlin Catholic High School in Springhill, Fla. Ryan P. Young (B.S. ’99), a Channel 2 WSB-TV action news reporter in Atlanta, Ga., received an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in News Gathering Excellence in the breaking news category for DeKalb Officer Shot.
2000s Sarah R. Hamilton (B.S. ’00, JD. ’03, M.B.A. ’03) joined Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP as an associate in the firm’s Indianapolis, Ind., Business and Finance Practice Group.
▼ Altony Lee Navy Lt. James Tomaszeski (B.A. ’00) has completed his two-year tour with the Blue Angels and transferred to Strike Fighter Squadron 32 based out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va. He is only the second Florida State alumnus to have served as a Blue Angels demonstration pilot. Tara L. Carroll (B.A. ’01) of St. Petersburg, Fla., was elected a shareholder in the law firm of Trenam Kemker and has been named a Rising Star in the 2011 edition of Florida Super Lawyers in the area of real estate law. Kayla A. Riera-Gomez (B.A. ’01), an attorney at Fowler White & Burnett P.A. in Miami, Fla., was named a director of the Dade County Bar Association Board. Elizabeth M. van den Berg (J.D. ’01), attorney at the southwest Florida law firm Goldstein, Buckley, Cechman, Rice & Purtz P.A., attended a seminar titled “Florida PIP Litigation: Hot Topics, Trends, & the Future of PIP.” Melissa L. Kuipers (B.S. ’02), an associate in the Denver, Colo., law office of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, was named chair of the Colorado Convention Committee for the 2012 Republican National Convention. ▲ Melissa L. Kuipers
Altony Lee (B.S. ’02) was named an Honorary Commander of the 6th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Florida’s MacDill Air Force Base on Sept. 16, 2011.
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▼ Navy Lt. James Tomaszeski
Melanie S. Griffin (B.S. ’03, J.D. ’06, M.B.A. ’06), an attorney in the Orlando office of Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth, Capouano & Bozarth P.A., was elected president of the 2011-2012 board of directors for the Central Florida Association for Women Lawyers. Melvin B. Thompson (B.A. ’03) started a new position as the student activities and leadership director for Polk State College, Lakeland, Fla. Gerald Jackson (M.F.A. ’04), owner of the Jacksonville, Fla., company Five Alive Films, announced the premiere of its first major film production, Truly Everlasting. Benjamin A. McCullough (B.S. ’04) earned a doctor of medicine degree from the University of South Alabama, Mobile, Ala. He has received the American Academy of Neurology Award for outstanding scientific achievement and clinical acumen in neurology. Bethany S. Platt (B.S. ’04, M.S. ’06), a licensed professional engineer in the Charlotte, N.C., office of Clark Nexsen, has passed the Model Law Structural Engineer Exam and the LEED Green Associate Exam. Sheena M. Carlisle (B.A. ’05) was promoted to associate director of the Metro Orlando Film & Entertainment Commission by the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission. In this role, she will serve as the Orlando region’s film commissioner. Elizabeth Morris Adams (B.S. ’06) has earned a Master of Science from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. Ryan A. Cunningham (B.S. ’06) was designated a naval aviator while serving with Training Squadron 21 at the Naval Air Station in Kingsville, Texas.
ALUMNA ELECTED TO INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE Jennifer L. Howse (B.A. ’66, M.A. ’68, Ph.D. ’73), president of the March of Dimes Foundation, has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine, the nation’s premier advisory group on improving health. “I am deeply honored to be selected to join the IOM, which includes many of the most transformational thinkers in science and medicine,” said Howse. “I hope that my experience in leading nationwide public health campaigns in the areas of newborn screening, folic acid awareness and preventing premature birth can contribute in a meaningful way to the dialogue.” The Institute of Medicine is a unique not-for-profit, non-governmental organization established by the National Academy of Sciences in 1970 to provide independent, unbiased, evidence-based information and advice on issues in the medical sciences, health care and public health. Election to the institute is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. Howse has been president of the March of Dimes, a leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health, since 1990. She also currently serves on the board of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Ca., the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the National Health Council. Vires 73
Carol C. Incarnacao-Shirm (B.A. ’07) has been hired as an associate attorney in the Miami, Fla., office of Diaz, Reus & Targ LLP, a full-service international law firm that focuses on trade, customs, financial, commercial and corporate transactions, tax, immigration, litigation and arbitration matters.
Joshua C. Freeland (B.A. ’08), a Marine first lieutenant, along with his fellow Marines of the Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 stationed out of Marine Air Stations Futenma, Okinawa, Japan, returned from a successful deployment in support of international training with allies and aid in humanitarian relief. William A. Hamberg (B.S. ’08, M.S. ’09) completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill. Stefani C. Norrbin (B.A. ’08, J.D. ’11) has joined the Fort Myers, Fla., law firm Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt P.A. as an associate in the tort and insurance litigation division.
ALUMNUS HONORS HEROIC FATHER THROUGH PUBLICATION Attorney Peter M. Dunbar (B.A. ’69, J.D. ’72), an adjunct professor of law at FSU, only recently discovered the letters written by his father during World War II. Like many veterans, Carl Dunbar rarely spoke about his wartime service after returning home. Nearly 20 years after Carl’s death, Pete’s mother told him about the messages his father, a pilot assigned to a marine unit that became known as “The Black Sheep,” mailed home. The young lieutenant’s personal experiences and observations are recounted in exquisite detail through 79 letters and postcards he sent to family during his tours of duty. Those letters are now preserved in a recently released book, Before They Were the Black Sheep, which was edited by the penman’s son.
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Timothy A. Whitman (B.M.E. ’08) performed Amazing Grace with the U.S. Navy Sea Chanters Chorus and the U.S. Army Band during the Pentagon Memorial on the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Joe A. Fisher (B.S. ’09) and Michael E. Iles (B.S. ’09) completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill. Jennifer R. Scharps (B.A. ’09) is one of 284 members of AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps who have completed 10 months of full-time service to communities in need. NCCC projects support disaster relief, the environment, energy conservation, infrastructure improvement and urban and rural development.
2010s Adam G. Lukebke (Ph.D. ’10) has been appointed director of choral activities at Waldorf College, Forest City, Iowa.
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Seeking to learn more about what his father went through, Pete conducted a detailed investigation of the early history of the squadron, and his commentary provides breadth and context to the letters. Through the elder Dunbar’s correspondence, we follow his twoyear transformation from a young aviation cadet taking on the responsibility of protecting his nation in global conflict to a valiant veteran of 82 combat missions as a member of one of the Marine Corps’ most recognized groups. The letters, postcards and flight books are presented unaltered, ensuring the accounts and descriptions revealed are true to Carl’s original experiences. At the same time, his individual journey is reflective of what so many other young men of the Greatest Generation faced during the war.
Robert T. Thomas (B.S. ’08) graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Recruit Training Center in Cape May, N.J.
Mackenzie L. Weeks (B.S. ’10), a former member of FSU’s Golden Girls dance team, was selected for the 2011-2012 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders squad. Lauren M. Pashke (M.A. ’11) joined the WinstonSalem Symphony in Winston-Salem, N.C., as development manager. She is responsible for managing all aspects of the annual fund campaign as well as grant writing and special events. indicates FSU Alumni Association membership
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I N M EM O RIAM 1920s Edna Laws Holden (C.E. ’23, B.M. ’44) Mary Louise Hyatt McCaughan (B.M. ’29)
1930s Audrey Meeks Hickman (B.A. ’30) Marguerite Neel Rogers (L.I. ’30, B.A. ’40) Margaret Sullivan Gomez (B.A. ’32) Elizabeth Anderson Johnson (B. ’32) Dorothy McKethan Mason (B.A. ’33) Angelina Ferrara Noto (B. ’33) Tobiah Lovitz Brannen (B.A. ’34) Alta Deahl Nickel (B.M. ’34) Elizabeth Smith Orr (B.A. ’34) Laura Cash Pajcic (B.S. ’34) Janeice Braman Wright (L.I. ’34) Helen Gray Davis (B.A. ’35) Martha Whitaker Dresher (B.A. ’35) Marion Brantley Florin (B.S. ’35) Harriet Foster Girardeau (B.S. ’36) Mary Meginniss Harris (B.S. ’37) Jean Willis McEnery (B.S. ’37) Mary Ola Reynolds Miller (B.A. ’37) Banks Wood Sharp (B.A. ’37) Mary B. Smith (B.S. ’37) Jean Brown Zellner (B.A. ’37) Helen Walde Brennan (B.A. ’38) Ruth Garcia Healey (B.S. ’38) Elizabeth Pierce Moss (B.S. ’38, M.A. ’47) Martha Lester Nelson (B.A. ’38) Margaret Schmidli (B.S. ’38) Roselyn Silverberg Selber (L.I. ’38) Anita Leonard Wilder (B.S. ’38) Frances Battey Curtis (L.I. ’39) Elizabeth Scott James (B.A. ’39) Virginia Rood McInnis (B.S. ’39) Nancy Bryan Poole (B.S. ’39) Letha M. Royce (B.M. ’39, M.M. ’49) Marjorie Merrill Ward (B.A. ’39)
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1940s Dorothea Kloeppel Armstrong (B.S. ’40) Dorothy Manning Lanigan (B.S. ’40) Mary Cochran Rodgers (B.A. ’40) Isla McCann Schettgen (B.S. ’40) Frances Slade Watson (B.S. ’40) Lucile Flow Wise (B.S. ’40) Delia Montero Delgado (B.S. ’41) Eugenia F. Eve (B.A. ’41, M.S.W. ’57) Helen May Loggins (B.A. ’41) Anna Frances McKay Arnold (B.S. ’42) Elizabeth Weaver Barclay (B.S. ’42, M.S. ’78) Mary Haynie Bennett (B.S. ’42) Helen Emmanuel Economidis (B.A. ’42) Marion C. Eldridge (B.S. ’42, M.S. ’49) Mary Hardee Kavanaugh (B.A. ’42) Claire Means Little (B.S. ’42) Willie Phelps Piercecchi (B.S. ’42) Margaret Matthews Reed (B.M. ’42) Janie Johnson Sander (B.A. ’42) Elizabeth Hunter Sims (B.S. ’42, M.S. ’50) Ruby Harold Hutchison (B.S. ’43) Mary Love May (B.A. ’43) Mary N. Nixon (’43) Mary Huddleston Stein (B.A. ’43) Edna Earl Wilson Stevens (B.A. ’43) Frances Compton Williams (B.S. ’43) Ruth Hawes Fordham (’44) Rosalie Pincus Fuchsberg (B.S. ’44) Mary Thompson Pomfrey (B. ’44) Jacqueline Bierer Velikanje (B.S. ’44) Thelme L. Alvarez (B.A. ’45) Mamie Piland Brady (B.S. ’45, M.S. ’66) Margaret Fernandez Lopez (B.S. ’45) Annette Eddy Melville (B.A. ’45) Florence Fordham Nickerson (B.S. ’45) Ruby Ebert Page (B.S. ’45) Elizabeth Page Pickel (B.A. ’45) Sarah L. Bennett (B.S. ’46)
Lois Byrd Cotteleer (B.A. ’46) Mary Burney Matreyek (B.S. ’46) Elizabeth Campbell Matthews (B.S. ’46) Royce Goforth Meier (’46) Bessie A. Rhodes (B.A. ’46) Ruth M. Sturrock (B.S. ’46, M.S. ’48) Gloria Hendry Thompson (B.A. ’46) Dorothy M. Tucker (B.S. ’46, M.A. ’50) Iva Leiter Bagley (B.S. ’47, M.S. ’60) Rosalind Almony Blake (B.S. ’47) Menton Brown Epperson (B.A. ’47, M.A. ’51) Lucy Brown Leach Hodgkins (B.A. ’47) Elizabeth Poe Parrish (B.S. ’47) Ruth Jones Riley (B.A. ’47) Jack P. Campbell (B.S. ’48) Leila Van Netta Dodson (B.S. ’48) Dorothy Hasbrouck Drake (B.A. ’48) Cecille Earnhart Edwards (B.S. ’48) Barbara L. Farrar (B.A. ’48) Ruby Daniel Forth (B.A. ’48) Elizabeth Linn Gabriel (B.S. ’48, M.M. ’52, D.M. ’67) Jean Debevoise Haire (B.S. ’48) Phyllis N. Johnson (B.S. ’48) Rosa Mills Malloy (B.A. ’48) Miriam Grantham Reid (B.A. ’48) Harry M. Carter (B.S. ’49) Betty Epps Gravely (B.M. ’49) Betty Wilkison Gray (B.A. ’49, M.A. ’66) Jean Paul Hatch (B.S. ’49) Vaughn H. Mancha Sr. (M.S. ’49) Mary Baggett Mullikin (B.S. ’49) Elsie Sterns Schoneck (B.S. ’49) Janet M. Shupp (B.S. ’49) Carl L. Thompson Jr. (B.S. ’49)
1950s Sally Henley Allsopp (B.S. ’50) C. Virginia Bert (B.S. ’50, M.S. ’63, Ph.D. ’67) Nancy Varn Bevis (B.S. ’50) Vivian Bunny Booth (B.S. ’50) Robert H. Browning Jr. (B.S. ’50) Catherine Austin Buzzett (B.A. ’50) Robert E. Cummings Sr. (B.S. ’50, M.S. ’51) Barbara Morgan Davis (B.S. ’50) Sam S. Fann (B.S. ’50) Violet Rice Hampton (B.A. ’50) Evelyn Scott Harvey (B.S. ’50) Esther E. Lenox (B.S. ’50) Glenn Thorp Lewis (B.S. ’50) Billy G. Miller (B.S. ’50) Mary Oxer Millis (B.S. ’50) Martha Walker Penfield (B.S. ’50) Dee Wade Price (B.S. ’50) Florragene Barnhill Schneider (B.S. ’50) Sarah McFarlin Wells (B.A. ’50) John P. Wheeler Jr. (B.S. ’50, M.S. ’51, Ph.D. ’58) John L. Aughtman (B.S. ’51) Elizabeth A. Britton (B.S. ’51) Nellie Cone Day (B.S. ’51) Kenneth C. Ellingsworth (B.S. ’51) Walter A. Erikson (B.S. ’51) Evelyn P. Johnson (B.S. ’51) Bruce E. Kirksey (B.S. ’51)
Lois J. Knobler (M.A. ’51) Luther E. Kramer (B.S. ’51) Sam S. Lamar (B.S. ’51) Nell Foust Leffler (M.A. ’51) G. Ulmer Miller Sr. (B.S. ’51, M.S. ’52) Eugenia Anderson Roberts (M.S. ’51) Aubrey L. Sapp (B.S. ’51) Thomas E. Taylor (B.S. ’51) Elizabeth Edmondson Tippin (B.S. ’51) Arnold E. Zimmerman (B.S. ’51) Jo Ebert Angle (B.S. ’52) John Bargas (B.A. ’52) Helen Abrams Browning (B.S. ’52) Marianne Gillen Buckley (B.S. ’52) Frank R. Chase (B.S. ’52) Marjorie Horton Duffy (B.A. ’52, M.S. ’67) John L. Gay (’52) Richard C. Gray (B.S. ’52) Clarice Adams Jordan (B.S. ’52) Jack G. Kazanzas (B.S. ’52) Jencie Bales Laing (B.A. ’52) Bradford L. MacGowan (B.A. ’52) John W. Shephard Sr. (B.S. ’52) Harvey E. Sykes Jr. (B.S. ’52) Therion D. Tedder (B.S. ’52) Joan Day Walker (B.A. ’52) Paul C. White Jr. (M.S. ’52) Travis J. Barnes Jr. (B.S. ’53) K. Lewis Carr (B.S. ’53) Jennie Ciccarello (B.S. ’53, M.S. ’54) Ernestine Hunt Davis (B.A. ’53) Charlotte W. Hartwell (B.S. ’53) James H. Hill Sr. (B.S. ’53) Martha Bill Lavoy (B.S. ’53) Eleanor Green Mann (B.S. ’53) Ronald D. McConnell (B.S. ’53) David K. McKinley (B.S. ’53, M.S. ’56) Frankie Brownlee Stevens (B.S. ’53, M.Ed. ’56) Betty Pierce Symmes (B.M. ’53) Woodley Grizzard Trussell (B.S. ’53) Bobbie Peel Williams (B.S. ’53) Patricia Vines Brewer (B.S. ’54) Preston W. DeMilly (M.S. ’54) Paul Edmonston (M.A. ’54) Essie Barber Geiger (B.S. ’54) Helen Finch Greene (Ph.D. ’54) Sidney L. Grovenstein Jr. (B.S. ’54) Richard B. Kissinger (B.S. ’54) Frank A. Langer (M.A. ’54) Leona Olive (M.S. ’54) Marian Martin Parish (B.A. ’54) Olean M. Shuler (B.S. ’54, M.S. ’58) James C. Walters (Ph.D. ’54) Thomas C. Watson (B.S. ’54, M.M.E. ’60) Christopher B. Young (B.A. ’54, B.Div. ’57) Benjamin J. Berkowitz (Ph.D. ’55) James P. Bishop (B.S. ’55) Hoyt E. Bowen (Ph.D. ’55) Stanley E. Fowler (Ph.D. ’55) Margie Dillard Fuqua (B.S. ’55) B. Kenneth Gatlin (B.S. ’55, J.D. ’59) Nancy Maxwell Gentry (B.A. ’55) Florence Congiolosi Hansen (B.A. ’55, M.S. ’60)
William J. Holston (B.M. ’55, M.A. ’58) Emmanuel G. Moshonas (B.S. ’55) Thomas E. Perkins III (B.S. ’55, B.S. ’80) Jack T. Rickling (B.S. ’55, M.S. ’71) John R. Rippey (M.A. ’55) Beryle R. Scarboro (B.S. ’55) Marian Bailey Stringfellow (B.S. ’55) Martha Wilkerson Tews (B.S. ’55) William M. Watson (B.S. ’55) Lillian B. Zachary (M.A. ’55, Ed.D. ’62) Carol Fulkerson Ashley (B.S. ’56, M.A. ’82) Marian Craig Bullock (B.S. ’56) James E. Hickey (B.S. ’56) Shirley A. Johnson (B.S. ’56) Ernest P. La Roche (B.S. ’56) Harold T. Luce (M.M. ’56, Ph.D. ’58) Hurschell F. Mathews (B.S. ’56) Lamar C. Mayfield Jr. (B.S. ’56) Charles T. Mock (B.S. ’56) Frank T. Rayner (B.S. ’56) John W. Tippin (B.S. ’56) Anne J. Winter (B.S. ’56) Patricia E. Womack (B.S. ’56) Richard C. Bee (B.S. ’57) Richard N. Bittner (B.S. ’57) Elizabeth Haas Cherry (B.S. ’57) Joan Cunningham (B.S. ’57, M.A. ’67, Ph.D. ’74) Barbara Christman Dann (B.S. ’57) George W. Davis Jr. (B.A. ’57) Dale Leary Donaldson (B.S. ’57, M.B.A. ’83) William E. Duggan (B.S. ’57) Elke Frank (B.A. ’57, M.A. ’59) Carlee E. Hendrix (B.S. ’57) Daisy Ferrell Johnson (B.S. ’57) Bernard R. McCann Jr. (B.S. ’57) Dana W. McKinnon (B.S. ’57) James C. Moore Jr. (B.S. ’57, M.S. ’65, Ph.D. ’68) Thomas P. Scarritt Sr. (B.S. ’57) Barbara McCullough Shelton (B.S. ’57, M.S. ’68, Ph.D. ’75) Raymond C. Staab (’57) Lois S. Wilson (B.S. ’57, M.A. ’65, Ph.D. ’74) John D. Andrews (B.S. ’58) Robert B. Berkshire (M.A. ’58) Sam Chudnofsky (B.S. ’58) John R. Crowell Sr. (B.S. ’58) Barmell Bledsoe Dixon (B.S. ’58, M.S. ’75) James B. Finney (B.S. ’58) Ellen Butler Hankin (M.S. ’58, Ed.D. ’72) Betty F. Horner (B.S. ’58) Benjamin H. Horton Jr. (Ed.D. ’58) Melvin S. Hunter (B.S. ’58) Naomi R. Knepper (M.S.W. ’58) Broward R. Lambert (B.S. ’58) Marie Hume Landrum (B. ’58, M.A. ’72) Donald K. Lewis (B.S. ’58) Charles F. Luttrell (B.M. ’58) Paul H. Morgan (’58) Judy Bryson Nelson (B.A. ’58) Robert W. Rosell (B.S. ’58, M.S. ’59) A. Katherine Russ (B.S. ’58) Harry M. Shoemaker III (B.S. ’58) Paul W. Snyder (B.S. ’58, M.S. ’61, Ph.D. ’71) Jaqulin Spires Spence (B.S. ’58)
H ILMAR S. S K AGFIELD (’54) Hilmar Skagfield passed away at 88 on Sunday, Aug. 14. Skagfield was born in Iceland on July 25, 1923. As a young man, he followed in the footsteps of his operatic father and recorded music as a soloist and with his younger sister, Edda. He also played the Hawaiian guitar with The Hawaiian Quartet and was an accomplished pianist. Skagfield immigrated with his wife and young daughter to Tallahassee, Fla., to attend The Florida State University, proudly calling Tallahassee his home for over 60 years. After working as an accountant for many years, he founded Skandia Draperies, a successful manufacturer of draperies for mobile homes and office buildings. The company eventually evolved into Skandia Window Fashions, which has locations in Tallahassee, Thomasville, Ga., San Diego, Ca., and Manitowoc, Wis. He fully integrated himself into the community by enthusiastically participating in all aspects of life in Tallahassee. He and his wife were strong supporters of the performing arts, particularly musical performances at FSU. He was an active participant in many community groups and was a charter member of Capital City Kiwanis Club, which recently recognized him for over 50 years of service. In addition, he founded Kiwanis in Iceland, which now has 50 chapters. Skagfield served as Iceland’s Consul and then as Consul General over a 25-year period, giving him the opportunity to identify areas of cooperation between his homeland and his adopted country. He was instrumental in developing an exchange program between the Tallahassee Police Department and the police department in Reykjavik, Iceland, which was led by an FSU graduate at the time. In recognition of his many achievements in cultural exchanges between Iceland and the United States, the president of Iceland awarded him the Order of the Falcon. He is survived by his wife of almost 65 years, Kristin Skagfield; children Lucy Baney and husband Jack of New Canaan, Conn., Hilda Jones and husband Earl of Roseburg, Ore., and Hilmar Skagfield and wife Karen of Tallahassee; grandchildren Brian Baney, Jasminka Baney, Hanna Jones, Meredith Jones, Jonathan Skagfield and Brittany Skagfield; and sisters Edda Skagfield of Pafastadur, Iceland, and Sigrid Sigurdsson of Hamburg, Germany.
Patricia Cain Steele (B.S. ’58) Eugene L. Striegel (B.S. ’58) James L. Thompson Jr. (B.S. ’58) Carolyn Davis Turpin (B.S. ’58) Carole L. Armstrong (B.S. ’59) Jacqueline Celian Dick (M.S. ’59) Marie Shaw Dunn (Ph.D. ’59) John W. Eberhart (B.S. ’59) Roger D. Herndon (B.S. ’59) Charles T. Hurd (B.S. ’59) Barbara Houston McCollum (B.M. ’59) Sue Pendarvis McKemie (’59) Dian Hadfield Moore (B.S. ’59) Sidney Mordes (M.S. ’59) William G. Nicholson (B.S. ’59) Harold D. Orville (M.S. ’59)
Richard J. Parker Jr. (B.S. ’59) Edith Witherspoon Trott (B.A. ’59)
1960s Thomas R. Bayless (B.S. ’60) Jimmy R. Calhoon (B.S. ’60) Richard P. Claude (M.S. ’60) Robert E. Fowler (M.S. ’60) F. J. King (Ph.D. ’60) Steve A. Marcinko (B.S. ’60) William L. McLean Jr. (B.S. ’60) Margaret Callinan Rowe (B.S. ’60) Leslie R. Snodgrass (B.S. ’60) John A. Speranza (B.S. ’60) N. Gordon Carper (M.A. ’61, Ph.D. ’64) Lowell T. Cooke (B.S. ’61)
John D. Kendall (B.S. ’61) Virginia Kuehn (M.S. ’61) Byron G. Massialas (Ph.D. ’61) Harry E. Ramsey (M.S. ’61) Kenneth E. Allen Sr. (B.S. ’62) Barbara Page Bamford (B.S. ’62) James H. Bedsole (M.S. ’62) Vernon L. Biaett (B.S. ’62) William J. Clancy (B.S. ’62) David A. Day (B.A. ’62) George F. Jensen (B.S. ’62) Martha Daniel Loftis (B.A. ’62) William B. Raper (M.S. ’62) William C. Sims (B.S. ’62) Harry E. Wagner III (B.S. ’62) Clyde H. White (B.S. ’62) Robert A. White Sr. (B.S. ’62) Marjorie Hopke Applegate (B.S. ’63) Richard T. Brown Jr. (M.S. ’63) Mabel R. Cooper-Skjelver (Ph.D. ’63) David L. Craig (B.S. ’63) Dieter W. Dauber (M.S. ’63) Peter W. Finck (B.S. ’63) Olga Chason Godwin (B.S. ’63) Jerry W. Hicks (B.S. ’63) Elizabeth Hays Hoefflin (B.A. ’63, M.S. ’64) Gordon C. Lee (B.S. ’63) Marilyn Deland Lipscomb (B.S. ’63) William C. Moger (M.S. ’63) Fred T. Reeves (B.S. ’63) Julian R. Warren (M.S. ’63) Perry M. Arthur (B.A. ’64, M.A. ’65) Ronald L. Brumbaugh (B.S. ’64) Dorothy A. Cutrell (M.S. ’64) Charles R. Evans (B.S. ’64) Stephanie vonLackum Henkel (B.A. ’64) G. Edward Huggins (B.S. ’64, M.S. ’65) Frances E. Kauffman (B.A. ’64) Eugenia B. Maxwell (B.A. ’64) Gloria J. McCormick (B.S. ’64) Roy L. McLaughlin (M.S.W. ’64) Susan J. Riggs (B.S. ’64) John B. Rogers (B.S. ’64) Gerald W. Seibel (B.S. ’64) Paul J. Tillman (B.A. ’64, M.A. ’67) Lynne Watson Abstein (B.S. ’65) Elizabeth Tapley Cassady (B.A. ’65) Peter J. Cianciola (M.S. ’65) Patricia A. D’Alessandro (B.S. ’65) Richard F. Freund (B.S. ’65) Vicki Voyles Fry (B.S. ’65) John E. Kammerer (B.S. ’65) Ann Huffman King (M.S. ’65) William A. Lattimer (M.S. ’65) Robert H. Moss Sr. (M.S. ’65) Carolyn Divers Pyatt (M.S. ’65) Alfred E. Sapp Jr. (B.S. ’65) James I. Taylor (B.S. ’65, M.Ed. ’67) William H. Agee (Ph.D. ’66) Jeanette Lassiter Anderson (B.S. ’66) Michael B. Baldwin (B.S. ’66, M.S. ’70) Charles E. Bennett Sr. (M.S. ’66) Sister Patricia E. Consier (M.M. ’66, Ph.D. ’75) Gary F. Dufour (B.S. ’66) Theodore J. Eckert (M.S. ’66) Vires 77
Edith Stafford Langley (B.S. ’66) James H. Morehouse (B.S. ’66) J. Brian Murphy (B.A. ’66) James B. Murphy (B.A. ’66) Gordon H. Sumner (B.A. ’66, M.A. ’76, Ph.D. ’79) John H. Taylor (B.S. ’66) Carolyn Hicks Terry (B.S. ’66) Wendell A. Wildes (B.S. ’66) John B. Churdar (Ed.D. ’67) John A. Clark (B.S. ’67) Thomas L. Creer (Ph.D. ’67) Barbara Day Gatsch (B.S. ’67, M.S. ’71) Christopher R. Gault (B.S. ’67) James D. Hamilton (B.S. ’67) Reginald G. Jonkers (B.S. ’67) Patricia R. Mixon (B.S. ’67) Anna C. Seaman (M.S. ’67, Ph.D. ’71) John M. Weber Jr. (B.S. ’67) Jeff W. Williams Jr. (B.S. ’67) Darla B. Bussey (B.S. ’68) Bob E. Dart (B.S. ’68) Valerie Weislo Gardner (B.A. ’68, M.S. ’69) Henri A. Groenheim (Ph.D. ’68) Richard A. Iacino (B.A. ’68) John M. Lipscomb (B.A. ’68, M.S. ’69) Forrest E. Luke Jr. (B.S. ’68) Etta Pardee Martin (M.M. ’68) Donald N. Muse (B.S. ’68, M.S. ’69, Ph.D. ’75) John E. Myers (B.S. ’68) Gary A. Roberts (B.S. ’68, M.B.A. ’70) Robert H. Rutledge (M.S. ’68) Daniel P. Sweet (B.S. ’68) Billy G. Walls (Ph.D. ’68) Roxanna Austin (M.S. ’69) Carolyn M. Azrikan (B.S. ’69, M.S. ’70) Glenellyn Jones Barty (B.S. ’69) Phillip L. Bender (B.S. ’69) Carl J. Colombo Jr. (B.S. ’69) George W. Deer (Ed.D. ’69) Lavonne Christmas Dilmore-Gause (B.S. ’69, M.S. ’82) William C. Gill (M.S. ’69) Paula A. Jula (B.A. ’69) William J. Kiliany (B.S. ’69) Susan Graves Lathrop (B.S. ’69) Peggy A. Morris (B.S. ’69) Clifford C. Norse (Ph.D. ’69) Frank J. Quagliano (B.S. ’69) Mary Ramsey Smith (B.S. ’69) Douglas L. Stowell (J.D. ’69) Joseph G. Whitehead (B.S. ’69) Pamela Jones Wood (B.S. ’69)
1970s Betty Bruner Birch (B.A. ’70, M.S. ’71) Francis E. Brasher (D.M. ’70) Ernest L. Dealing (B.S. ’70) W. Ralph Durrance Jr. (J.D. ’70) Donald B. Hand (M.S. ’70) Robert D. Hays (B.S. ’70, M.S. ’73, Ph.D. ’81) Florence S. Head (M.S. ’70) Kenneth L. Kaisler (M.S. ’70) Gerhard S. Lewis (B.S. ’70) William M. Rishoi (B.S. ’70, M.S.W. ’71, J.D. ’80) 78 Vires
John M. Robinson (M.S. ’70, Ph.D. ’72) Susan Barber Schroeder (B.S. ’70, M.S. ’75) Jack K. Weaver (Ph.D. ’70) Jay T. Winn (B.S. ’70, M.S. ’72, Ed.S. ’78) Walter D. Wyatt Jr. (B.S. ’70) Becky Epperly Young (B.S. ’70, M.S. ’78) Mary Zander Aho (Ph.D. ’71) Stephen J. Burton (B.M.E. ’71, M.M.E. ’72) Clemence M. Cain (B.A. ’71) Gregg F. Carrico (B.S. ’71) Charles T. Chapman Sr. (B.S. ’71) Charles W. Cope IV (B.S. ’71) Kenneth L. Danielson (B.S. ’71) Otto W. Eckman (Ed.D. ’71) Robert B. Ferrell (B.S. ’71) Carla Thompson Griffin (B.S. ’71) William H. Kane Jr. (B.S. ’71) Philip J. Lundin (B.S. ’71) Jose L. Rodriguez (B.S. ’71) Malcolm Swanson (M.S. ’71)
Gary W. Wells (B.S.W. ’71, M.S.W. ’72) Wilma S. Austin (M.S.W. ’72) Jeanette Keyton Conely (B.S. ’72) Willis A. Denmark III (B.S. ’72) Sara Guido Earl (B.S. ’72) Steven E. Flint (B.A. ’72, M.S. ’75) Veronica A. Frowert (B.A. ’72) Marilyn Sherman Fuquay (B.S.W. ’72) Guy C. Grenier (B.S. ’72) Paulette Szabo Gross (M.S. ’72) Kenneth W. Higgins Jr. (B.S. ’72, M.B.A. ’81) Don T. Hopkin (B.S.W. ’72) David E. Jensen (Ph.D. ’72) Patricia A. Joiner (B.S. ’72) Ernestine Ezell Kinsey (M.S. ’72) William L. Rub (B.S.W. ’72) Carleton J. Ryffel (B.S. ’72, M.S. ’73) George E. Williams (B.A. ’72) Thomas L. Wisnousky (M.B.A. ’72) Thomas S. Colson (B.S.W. ’73)
BR IAN J. KELLEY (M.A. ’75) Brian Kelley, a retired CIA officer who was falsely suspected of being a KGB mole, passed away at 68 in his Vienna, Va., home on Monday, Sept. 19. Kelley, an acclaimed counterintelligence expert responsible for identifying and defusing foreign spies, worked in the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations for 20 years prior to joining the counterespionage branch of the CIA in 1984.
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In April 1989, Kelley broke the secret code Moscow used to communicate with its deep-cover agents. This led to the identification of a State Department official, Felix Bloch, as a possible Russian spy. When an unknown source inside the U.S. government alerted Bloch to the investigation, suspicion fell on Kelley. For years, he and his family were interrogated and followed, and he was suspended from the CIA. In 2001, FBI agent Robert Hanssen was identified as the real mole, exonerating Kelley of all accusations. He returned to the CIA until his retirement in 2006. A year later, he was awarded the agency’s Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal. At the time of his death, he taught counterintelligence at the Institute of World Politics, a graduate school in Washington, D.C. Kelley was born on Jan. 8, 1943, in Waterbury, Conn. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt., followed by a master’s in East Asian studies from FSU. Kelley is survived by wife Patricia McCarthy Kelley, sisters Pamela Baim and Mary Lou Raider, sons Barry Kelley and Brian T. Kelley, daughter Erin Kelley Aldrich and 10 grandchildren.
Leonard M. Geldon (B.S.W. ’73) Gregory T. Gladden (B.S. ’73) Gregory J. Glass (M.B.A. ’73) Robert R. Heinemann (B.S.W. ’73) Catherine Lorrell Lee (B.S. ’73) Barbara S. McCrimmon (Ph.D. ’73) Mel L McMullen Jr. (B.S. ’73, M.S. ’75) Hilda F. Owens (Ph.D. ’73) John J. Piccard (B.A. ’73, M.F.A. ’78) Jeffery A. Pope (B.S. ’73) Eugene N. Smith (B.S.W. ’73) Antoine E. Spacagna (A.A. ’73) Earl M. Spaulding Jr. (B.A. ’73) Lloyd W. Stanley (B.S. ’73) Doris Braswell Sweetland (M.S. ’73) Beverly Wise Baldwin (B.M.E. ’74) Ethelyne M. Bilhardt (B.S. ’74) Barbara B. Biscup-Wills (B.S. ’74) Peter J. Breslin (B.A. ’74) Janice Queen Dorsey (B.S. ’74) Mark D. Faircloth (B.S. ’74) Jeff Friedman (B.S. ’74) Doris B. Gilliam (M.Ed. ’74) Daniel T. McQuagge (Ph.D. ’74) Esther Richardson Sanborn (B.S. ’74) James S. Trunzo (M.S. ’74) J. Dezmond Waters III (Ph.D. ’74) James H. Webb (J.D. ’74) Viola F. Williams (B.S. ’74) Emory L. Abernathy (B.S. ’75) Maura Whittier Baughman (’75) Edward B. Baxley (B.S. ’75) Madison P. Bigham (B.S. ’75) Donna Deem Bostic (B.S. ’75) Craig D. Cohen (B.S. ’75) Sandra Hines Groves (B.S. ’75) Jeffrey S. Heussner (B.S. ’75) Mildred McCoy (Ph.D. ’75) Pam J. Morris (B.S. ’75) Norman J. Reiner (B.S. ’75) Bernadette R. Rhodes (B.S. ’75, M.S. ’76) Jo A. Wilson (B.S. ’75) Dorothea Anderson Antman (M.S. ’76) Lee R. Callahan Jr. (B.S. ’76) Norman C. Edwards Jr. (M.S. ’76) James L. Everett (B.S. ’76, M.S. ’79, Ed.S. ’88) Gary R. Fishel (B.S. ’76) Joan R. Futch (B.S. ’76) John R. Garrett (B.S. ’76) Mary J. Gates (Ph.D. ’76) William J. Griswold II (B.S. ’76) Michael M. Hersh (B.S. ’76) Richard E. Hodges (M.S. ’76) Anne D. Rees (M.S. ’76) Victor B. Swan Jr. (B.F.A. ’76, M.F.A. ’79) Tiny Ronas Thomas (Ed.S. ’76) Garth L. Allred (Ph.D. ’77) Thomas D. Clark Jr. (D.B.A. ’77) Kenton W. Elderkin (J.D. ’77) Joseph T. Fore Jr. (B.S. ’77) Ralph M. Hartsfield Jr. (B.A. ’77) John C. Kandarakis (Ph.D. ’77) Linda Massey Klein (M.S. ’77) Marian Golden Peacock (M.S. ’77) Edward E. Pierce (B.M. ’77)
Robert E. Pierce (A.A. ’77) Johnny M. Weedman (A.A. ’77) Lois A. Anderson (B.A. ’78) Randall L. Mobley Sr. (B.S. ’78) Linda Fried Pallot (B.S. ’78) Regina A. Perretta (M.S. ’78) Alexander G. Rios (B.S. ’78) William D. Rowe (A.A. ’78) Sandra Gaston Tobe (M.S. ’78) Melanie Wilson Walker (B.S. ’78) David E. Bailey Jr. (B.S. ’79) Robin Cannon Candeto (B.S. ’79) James C. Cassels (B.S. ’79) Janet Green Gilmore (M.S. ’79) John A. Jarosz Sr. (B.S. ’79) Martha Green Letchworth (M.S. ’79) Nancy Gonzalez Mills (M.S. ’79) Glenn R. Sweeney (B.S. ’79) Elizabeth Mahan Swope (B.S. ’79) John R. Thweatt (B.A. ’79)
1980s Barbara R. Clayton (M.S. ’80) Sandra Stoutamire Davidson (B.A. ’80) John M. Koenig (B.S. ’80) Teresa Young Massa (B.M. ’80) Jeffrey L Schweizer (B.S. ’80) James A. Vevera (B.S. ’80) Donald F. Weber Sr. (M.S.P. ’80) Allan D. Bridwell (A.A. ’81, B.S. ’82) Carolyn MacMillan Buby (Ph.D. ’81) William D. Domico (Ph.D. ’81) Ronald W. Gardner (B.A. ’81) Sherman K. Hui (M.B.A. ’81) Vivianne Grefe Kaharoeddin (B.S. ’81) Charles N. Obryant (B.A. ’81) Leo W. Rotan (Ph.D. ’81) Fabian K. Sjolund (B.S. ’81) Steven G. Gey (J.D. ’82) Raymond A. Koscho (M.S.W. ’82) Michael S. Masarsky (B.S. ’82) Bonnie M. Demars (M.S. ’83) Sandra Blizzard Guidry (B.S. ’83) Stephanie Greco Larson (M.S. ’83, Ph.D. ’87) Patricia A. Paden (M.S. ’83, Ph.D. ’83) Mark A. Spillar (B.S. ’83) Thomas G. Stringfellow (B.S. ’83) R. Steven Tompkins (M.S. ’83) Brian D. Abner (B.S. ’84) Mary Sappington Bingham (M.S. ’84) David M. Blazek (B.S. ’84, M.S. ’91) Don R. Fussell (M.S.W. ’84) Michele "Mitch" S. Guilbault (B.S. ’84) Lance D. Logue (B.A. ’84) Deane Chapman Lafoy (M.S. ’85) Norman E. Eastman (M.S. ’86) Sarah L. Johnson (B.S. ’86) Sandra L. Nally (B.F.A. ’86) Mark C. Potter (B.S. ’86) Kirtley R. Cook (M.A. ’87) Ann C. Smith (B.S. ’87) Richard E. Torpy (J.D. ’87) Joseph M. Wisniski (B.S. ’87) Bonnie J. Baker (B.S. ’88, M.S. ’89) William C. Borgersen (B.S. ’88)
Elaine Manson Malecki (M.S. ’88) Warner C. Radford (B.S. ’88, M.S. ’90) Grace Han Grose (M.M. ’89) Sharon R. Hames (A.A. ’89, B.S. ’90)
1990s Clayton J. Carroll (M.S. ’90) Timothy L. Cox (B.S. ’90) Craig M. Gillum (B.S. ’90) Carl F. Davis (Ed.S. ’91) Karol A. Hawthorne (B.S. ’91) Matthew D. Manning (M.S. ’91) Edna Johnson Ragins (Ph.D. ’91) Betty Ledford Blue (M.S. ’92) Charles P. Carbone (’92) David K. Cordrey (B.A. ’92) Thomas M. Guilford III (B.S. ’92) Mary E. MacGrogan (B.S. ’92) Juanita Carroll Palmer (Ed.D. ’92) Terri G. Seidel (B.S. ’92) Dana L. Sexton (B.S. ’92) Paula Bucca Heacox (A.A. ’93, B.S. ’95) Sharyn Janes (Ph.D. ’93) Justo Rodriguez III (B.S. ’93) Diane K. Foster (B.S. ’94, M.S. ’95) Steve M. Surratt (M.B.A. ’94) Paul C. Todd (B.S. ’94) Laura Rhodes Goldstein (B.A. ’95) Rosemary Ilic (B.S. ’95, M.S.W. ’96) Erica Blumstein May (A.A. ’95, B.A. ’97, J.D. ’04) James D. O’Neil (B.S. ’95) Daniel K. Poshek (B.S. ’95) Diana J. Alvarez (B.S. ’96) Andrew T. Denison (A.A. ’96) Bennie F. Mason (Ph.D. ’96) Jodi L. Mendiola (B.S. ’96, M.S.W. ’98) Raymond C. Mensing III (B.A. ’96) Steven C. Carson (B.S. ’97) Christopher M. Davis (B.S. ’97) Kelly K. Spegon (B.S. ’97) Lonnie J. Jackson Jr. (A.A. ’98, B.S. ’01) Amanda J. Villmer (A.A. ’98, B.S. ’99) Jonie Voich (B.S. ’98) Phillip D. Anderson II (B.A. ’99) Paul R. Mooney (B.M.E. ’99)
2000s Lise D. Lofstrand (M.S. ’00) John R. De Sotel (Ph.D. ’01) Gregory C. Elden (B.S. ’01) Arthur L. Lefler Jr. (M.S. ’01) Scott P. Stanton (B.F.A. ’01) Alyson C. Enoch (B.A. ’02, B.S. ’02) Annette M. Johnson (M.S. ’02) Susan Clay Wardowski (B.S. ’02) Kristin C. Kalliche (B.S. ’03) Robert M. Kelly (B.A. ’03) James H. Chapin (A.A. ’05) Adam C. Cooper (B.S. ’05) Rhoda K. Johnson (J.D. ’05) Mason S. McLeod (B.A. ’05) Kelly A. Michalczak (B.A. ’05) Joseph E. Sylvia (M.S.W. ’05) Monica D. Lee (B.S. ’06)
Rogerio R. Morales (B.S. ’06) Taylor J. Simpson (B.A. ’06) Jennifer L. Brown (B.S. ’07) Natalie A. Lay (B.A. ’07) Joshua J. Ridenour (B.S. ’07) Jason C. Roberts (B.A. ’08) Eric D. Scherer (’08) Lilia M. Busby (B.S. ’09) Bobby L. Hopkins (M.S. ’09) Allie M. Minahan (’09) Amber S. Roach (B.A. ’09) Jesus Blanco (B.S. ’10) Ashley L. Cowie (’10) De’Erick T. McCray (’10) Rebekah Miller (’10) Louis R. Paine III (’10) Luther H. Blake (’11)
Class Year Unknown Wayne O. Aho Kenneth R. Bazo Douglas G. Bielenberg Robert J. Blackshear Thomas D. Bolden Paula Horne Church Marjorie M. Cochran Betty Hennessey Corry Shirley W. Dugger Jim Elk Rodney E. Evans Jane Ferguson Esther H. Frieden Anthony K. Hewitt William D. Hoffman Ralph L. Horst Jr. Justin A. Howard Matthew J. Kolak David Levine Mary Agnew Mahorner Dorothy L. McCarron Joseph L. Meadows Joseph L. Millard IV James R. Nesmith Sr. Earl H. Passwaters Lucille Phillips Eddie L. Roberts Reggie Royals Brad E. Schou Eric J. Schwarz William M. Tinsley Carina L. Todd Robert C. Webster Jr. Joseph P. Woodbery
Faculty & Staff Nerline L. Allison Cynthia Barnes Bailey Lois Schnoor Ballard Dozier D. Bartlett Christa Beverly Donald T. Birch Larry Butler Maria E. Chaklai Mary Ann Chalmers James T. Cohen Sr.
Judy Poppell Cook Arthur E. Deshaies Leslie C. Druckenmiller Bettye Glenn Gainous Thomas A. Gleeson Annabelle Griswold Hancock Arthur N. Hargrett Olean O. Harrison Marguerite E. Hinds Prince Holloman Richard E. Hulet Leo E. Jackson Hilda James Donna J. Kelley William T. Kerber Anthony Koo Elizabeth Palfy Krausche George Marsaglia Donald E. Michel Pamela Morris Mukta Nayak Anna Botts Nelson Gertrude M. Roche Harry A. Schmidt Marcile W. Shelfer Wayne Q. Shook Nicholas S. Voorhees Michael H. Wilder Larry Williams
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WELL VERSED FSU President Eric Barron (B.S. ’73) closed
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his annual State of the University address with a demonstrative experiment, asking faculty members to walk up and drop off books they have published in the last three years. Florida State faculty produce an average of 120 books each year, and the cavalcade lasted for quite a while, until the overflow of publications reached beyond the president’s grasp. “Name an award of true distinction — Nobel Prize, Guggenheim, Fulbright, Pulitzer, National Academy membership — we have faculty here who have earned them,” he remarked. If the pen is indeed mightier than the sword, Barron is well armed.
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