VIRES Spring 2013 by FSU Alumni Association

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The Moment Monday, April 22, 2013 10:31 a.m. Gov. Rick Scott signs legislation allowing Florida State University to claim pre-eminent status. The legislation includes a $75 million appropriation that allows President Eric Barron, smiling over Scottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right shoulder, to enact a plan that could move FSU among the Top 25 public universities in America. See stories on Pages 5 and 31. Photo by Mark Wallheiser

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MAIN ATTRACTION. This photo is the result of Mark Wallheiserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s snap decision to set up his camera at the intersection of Copeland Street and College Avenue on a rainy day in Tallahassee.

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VIRES is the first torch in the university seal and represents strength of all kinds: physical, mental and moral.

Contents

Departments

Features

Catching Up With ... Then & Now University News Ten Questions Follow, Like, Comment Association News Class Notes In Memoriam Parting Shot

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The Magic of Smith Hall The heart and history behind FSU's most vibrant residence hall

The Path to Prosperity in Panama How native Panamanians put their careers on a track for success

Nuptials for Noles An FSU professor presides over Seminole weddings

Cover: The FSU seal rendered in the style of a traditional mola design, created by Kuna Indians indigenous to Panama. Vires 3

THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

S A V E

T H E

D A T E

November 15-16, 2013

for Homecoming 1993 National Plan your return to campus

as we celebrate

the 20th anniversary of our

Championship

Friday November 15 HOMECOMING PARADE - COLLEGE AVENUE Grand Marshal: Bobby Bowden Honoring the 1993 National Championship Football Team ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OPEN HOUSE @ THE ALUMNI CENTER DOWNTOWN GET DOWN POW WOW @ THE CIVIC CENTER

Saturday November 16 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDS BREAKFAST @ THE ALUMNI CENTER Featuring: Ross Oglesby Award Grads Made Good Alumni Writing Award Sliger Service Award PRESIDENT’S TAILGATE @ THE PRESIDENT’S HOME All Alumni Welcome FSU-SYRACUSE @ DOAK CAMPBELL STADIUM Featuring: Band Alumni Reunion 1993 National Championship Team 4 Vires

Allan Bense, Chair Susie Busch-Transou, Vice Chair Edward E. “Ed” Burr Joseph L. Camps Rosalia “Rosie” Contreras Emily Fleming Duda Joseph Gruters Wm. Andrew Haggard Mark Hillis Leslie Pantin Margaret A. “Peggy” Rolando Brent W. Sembler Gary Tyson

THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Executive Committee Allen D. Durham, Chair Gordon J. Sprague, Chair-Elect S. Dale Greene, Vice Chair Laurel R. Moredock, Immediate Past Chair Susan Sarna, Secretary Steve Pattison, Treasurer Tom Jennings, Vice President of University Advancement Scott F. Atwell, Association President L. Carl Adams Blythe Adreon Ruth Ruggles Akers Samuel S. Ambrose James J. Bloomfield Flecia Braswell David Brobst Robert Cox Tracie Domino Kyle Doney John E. Doughney IV Sandra Dunbar Richard Erickson Don Glisson Marion Taormina Hargett Thomas V. Hynes Connie Jenkins-Pye Richard Kurras Craig T. Lynch Joda Lynn Amanda McManaway Max Oligario Tamara Wells Pigott Michael J. Raymond Raymond R. Schroeder Cindy Davis Sullivan James F. Thielen Karema Tyms-Harris

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FROM THE PUBLISHER It’s symbolic that this year’s FSU Day at the Capitol fell on the 500th anniversary of Ponce de Leon’s landing on Florida’s east coast. For at the Florida Capitol, FSU’s own ship was about to come in. Viva FSU! The so-called pre-eminence bill will fund President Barron’s plan to advance our national ranking among the nation’s Top 25 public universities, with $15 million per year over five years. Florida State’s most significant periods of advancement can be traced to legislative success – beginning with the 1905 Buckman Act that started our great women’s heritage up through the creation of a medical school in 2000. The passage of preeminence is a watershed moment in our history, one that will have a profound impact on the value of a Florida State degree.

PUBLISHER: Scott Atwell

DESIGNER: Jessica Rosenthal

COPY EDITOR: Ron Hartung

There are plenty of thank-yous to pass around, beginning with our Seminole Legislative Caucus, chaired by Rep. Jimmy Patronis (B.S. ’96) of Panama City. Patronis leads a loyal group of almost 30 senators and representatives who always have FSU’s back in the halls of the Capitol. Behind the scenes our lobbyist, Kathleen Daly (B.S. ’82), worked tirelessly to make the session a successful one for FSU and higher education.

DIGITAL DESIGNER: Louise Bradshaw

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Janice Eusebio

STAFF CONTRIBUTORS: Tom Block Sue Fulford Jenn Mauck Leandra McGregor University Communications Eddie Woodward

PHOTOGRAPHY & ILLUSTRATION: Steve Chase FSU Photo Lab Diego Mazzo Mike Tuten Mark Wallheiser

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION STAFF: Administration and Operations David Overstreet, Director Kathleen Harvey Helm Jenn Mauck Alumni and Student Advancement Dawn Cannon Randle, Director Meagan Flint

A tip of the hat is also due to the FSU Alumni Association’s National Board of Directors, and Governmental Committee Chair Carl Adams, for passage of a resolution endorsing the Top 25 plan, which President Barron promptly delivered to the Senate president and House speaker. Our alumni and friends are to be commended for signing up for the Advocate for Florida State initiative and actively communicating with elected leaders about the importance of the pre-eminence legislation. Your collective voices were heard. The vision itself had its genesis within our esteemed president, Eric Barron (B.S. ’73), whose persistence in pushing our university forward – even amid diminishing state funding – deserves to be commended and celebrated. Details of the Top 25 proposal appear on Page 31. I fully expect one day we will look back at the 2013 legislative session as a time when we planted a different kind of flag on Florida soil, discovering a brave new world of higher education.

Ambassador Dr. Tommie Wright Marketing & Communications Louise Bradshaw Jessica Rosenthal Membership & Business Development Ellen Cole, Director Valerie Colvin Programs & Outreach Mandi Young, Director Tom Block Gina Bollota Sue Fulford Michael McFadden Whitney Powers

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WARRICK DUNN (B.S. ’97) MASTER OF GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS By Scott Atwell

It’s not easy catching up with Warrick Dunn (B.S. ’97). After all, he’s been one step ahead of every challenge that’s faced him in life. Even today, as a part owner of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, Dunn has found himself in need of speed. “I was sitting in a room with billionaires and millionaires and a lot of lingo was flying over my head,” says Dunn, now 38. “I felt like to get on their level and earn their respect I had to start off with the basics.” So Dunn characteristically diagramed a play for victory. He enrolled in Emory University’s Master of Business Administration program, a 20-month track from which he graduated this spring, but not without some difficulty. “It’s like when you walk into a room and the lights are off: You’re just in the room and you don’t know where you’re at. That’s what it was like. But in the end, I think I proved that I belonged.” Dunn has been uniquely successful in converting hardship into heroism. After his mother, a police officer, was tragically gunned down while working an off-duty assignment in Baton Rouge, a then18-year-old Dunn made good on his promise to attend college. He led FSU to a national championship and built a 12-year NFL career. Later, the memory of watching his single mother struggle financially to make a home for her children motivated Dunn to create a foundation that has provided almost 150 homes for single parents over the past 15 years. A former NFL Man of the Year, Dunn was expected to carve out an executive career in pro football, but the MBA experience has broadened his horizons. “I enrolled in entrepreneurship classes, venture capital, private equity, and I had an internship at Pepsi,” he says. “My life isn’t defined just by football. I’ve done so many things I’d really like to expand my reach, and I have the ability to test out different things before I commit.” In the meantime, he’s already running his nonprofit Warrick Dunn Charities with an MBA mindset, with the goal line always in sight.

Photo by Ryan Nabulsi

Dunn wearing the uniform of an Emory University MBA graduate.

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BY GERALD ENSLEY

It was Oct. 26, 1969. It was the 18th birthday of future Florida State President Eric Barron — and Barron, a freshman at FSU, wanted no part of a Smith Hall tradition of being doused in the shower by his hallmates. So he locked himself in his third-floor room, determined “not to come out until the day was over.” But other freshmen in the then-all-male dorm were having no part of it. They pounded on his door. His roommate arrived from classes and tried to unlock the door. Every time his roommate turned the key, Barron would push against the door and relock it. The growing crowd cheered on the roommate: “He’d unlock (the door), I’d lock it,” Barron said.

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Eventually the resident adviser strode into the crowd and demanded to know what was going on. “It’s his birthday and Barron won’t let us in!” the residents shouted. So the RA said, “You have my permission to break the wood,” referring to the plywood-covered hole in each door that once held a window. “Numerous arms began reaching in, grabbing my arm and keeping me from relocking the door,” Barron said. “I did end up in the shower.” A sopping-wet Barron fumed at the RA: “You’re in charge here. It’s unbelievable you let this happen!”

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The RA simply smiled. Barron had been baptized in “Smith Love, Smith Pride” – the current slogan for the sense of community that is the hallmark of Smith Hall. Smith has a distinction no other FSU residence hall can claim: It has been home to two future FSU presidents. Barron lived there as a freshman in 1969-70. His predecessor, T.K. Wetherell, lived there as a freshman in 1963-64. In fact, Wetherell (2003-2010) and Barron (2010-present) lived in rooms not far apart: Wetherell was in Room 302; Barron was in 330. “I find it bizarre that T.K. and I lived on the same floor,” Barron said in April, when he made only his second visit to Smith Hall since 1970.

Yet Smith’s distinction goes beyond the only two FSU graduates to also become FSU presidents. For the past 20 years, it has been FSU’s most popular, most celebrated residence hall — because of its sense of community. Primarily a freshman residence hall (though some residents stay additional years), the 560-resident Smith is a hub of activity, engagement and campus involvement. Students stage Casino Night and Halloween costume parties and Valentine’s Day speed-dating events. They participate in Amazing Race scavenger hunts and Foursquare Day romps around the city. They attend educational programs such as Garnet, Gold and Green Days to raise awareness about recycling, and Disability Days, in which students adopt imaginary disabilities to learn how those with real disabilities cope. Students put on skits and musical programs and decorate their wings for Christmas. They flock to the lounge to eat pizza, talk, use their cell phones and plan events. They have dinner parties and study sessions in the communal kitchens and lounges on each floor. For the past three years, university administrators have recognized Smith as the FSU Residence Hall of the Year — echoing four consecutive years in the 1990s when it also won the honor. The reason for such honors is that Smith Hall students, for a variety of reasons, are thrown together in ways not found in most dorms. The result is a level of involvement, pride and affection for Smith not found at most residence halls. “The atmosphere is awesome,” said Brendan East, a Smith Hall freshman from St. Petersburg. “Everyone is so friendly, everyone hangs out. It’s a community. It’s like a home away from home.”

Opposite page: President Barron returns to his old floor for only the second time since graduating in 1973, meeting students along the way. When the occupants of his old room were found to be away, Barron penned a note and personally slipped it under the door. Above: Smith Hall residents gather for a creative casino night called “Don’t Gamble Your Life Away.” The program reinforced positive messages about alcohol awareness. Vires 11

NO, IT’S NOT STYLISH The 2012-2013 Florida State University academic year marks the 60th anniversary of Smith Hall. Completed in 1952, it joined DeGraff Hall (1950) as the first men-only dorms built for the university’s burgeoning student population following the conversion of Florida State College for Women to Florida State University in 1947. The 10-story Smith was advertised as the “tallest building between Jacksonville and Pensacola” when it opened. Its 10-story neighbor, men-only Kellum Hall, followed in 1959.

Below: When it topped out in 1952, West Hall (now Smith Hall) was the tallest building between Jacksonville and Pensacola.

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Smith Hall was named for Elmer Riggs Smith, a math professor from 1903 to 1942 — and assistant football coach for Florida State College, the coed predecessor to Florida State College for Women. Though built as a men-only residence hall, Smith became coed in the mid-1970s along with most other FSU residence halls.

Few have accused Smith Hall of being stylish or comfortable. Its cramped, spartan rooms have been likened to a military barracks. Beds consist of one upper berth and one lower berth built into the walls. Residents share communal showers and toilets on each wing. It had no air conditioning for its first 40 years. Its construction was guided by a simple principle: economy. Building straight up rather than horizontally into multiple wings lowered the cost of a roof. Almost no space was left between the floors, which is why central air conditioning could not be installed. Federal bond money for dorm construction did not cover the cost of furnishings, which is why the beds were built into the walls: That was considered part of the building’s construction. “After World War II, the emphasis was on space, not quality of space,” said Sherrill Ragans, a retired FSU director of housing. “So getting as many spaces as you could as quickly as you could for the money was important.”

'A PLACE OF BELONGING"’ Some students are drawn to Smith by its economy. It joins Kellum, Deviney and Dorman halls as FSU’s lowest-priced dorms: $2,360 per semester vs. top-priced dorms at $3,500 per semester. But over the years, Smith’s dowdy appearance and spartan facilities often outweighed its bargain price. Incoming students often listed Smith last on their list of residence hall preferences — and were in tears when they were placed there anyway. “They thought they had been assigned to prison,” recalled Lenet Rivas. But many, like Rivas, learned they were wrong. Assigned there as a freshman in 2008, she and her roommate, Amanda Rohan, were initially “disgusted” by the appearance (which still included men’s urinals in the women’s restrooms). But they were soon swept up in a whirlwind of hall activities. Rivas became president of the student hall council, spent two years as an RA and met her fiance, Preston Madill, at Smith. Rivas now is pursuing a master’s degree in student affairs at the University of Georgia, where she is an RA who is “bringing the spirit of Smith to Brumby Hall.” “It was the people (at Smith),” Rivas said. “Nobody was enclosed in their rooms; everybody was out in the hall. The staff was always building friendship and community. (Freshmen) were no longer lost; we had a place of belonging. I really think Smith Hall helped my development because I didn’t have to go out to find friends.”

“The philosophy is (your residence hall) is more than a place you go to sleep,” said Jenna Brehm, Smith coordinator since 2011. “You should have friends here, you should cook here, you should study here. And our staff embraces that philosophy.” Smith Hall illustrates changes begun in the late 1980s, when universities rebranded “dorms” as “residence halls.” FSU increased training for coordinators and RAs. It assigned faculty members to residence halls as academic advisers and lecturers. “My role was not to be a house father or parent away from home. My role was to help the student explore, find out who they are and connect them to an overarching student experience,” said Randy Brown, the 2007-2009 Smith Hall coordinator, who now supervises residence hall coordinators at Georgia State University. “We challenge and push the student to think differently, to have fun in respectful ways, to consider the consequences of their actions through programming. Ultimately, we have fun.” At Smith, the staff is helped by two unlikely resources. One is the first-floor lounge. In an otherwise drab high-rise, the designers of Smith inserted a first-floor lounge that borders on lovely. Round and spacious, lined with floor-toceiling windows, it is an inviting space.

The staff is one of the key factors in developing the hall’s sense of community.

Smith students flock to the lounge. They bring carry-out meals from the nearby Fresh Food dining hall. They commandeer the lounge piano and small elevated stage for impromptu concerts. They fill couches and coffee tables for group study sessions. They plop into chairs to watch TV, use their cell phones, talk with dates and plan upcoming events.

The residents are overseen by a residence hall coordinator, an assistant coordinator and 18 RAs. Those university employees stage a constant slate of programs and activities. They invent slogans and post banners.

“There is always somebody in the lounge, whether it’s 1 a.m. or 3 a.m. or the middle of the day,” said Brehm, the hall coordinator. “(Other dorms) have their lounges behind closed doors. Here, the space is open and students love it.”

Energetic and upbeat, the hall leaders seem to genuinely embrace their mission to make Smith a good place to live. It has become tradition for departing coordinators and RAs to tape pink heart-shaped cutouts in the office, reading, “I left my heart in Smith Hall.”

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its architecture, its (male residents) – everything kind of led to misconduct from time to time.”

Communal bathrooms are a deal-breaker for some students, who may have been raised in homes where they had their own bedroom and bathroom. But many believe Smith’s communal restrooms lead students to bond.

Indeed, Smith was notorious as FSU’s den of rowdiness for many years. Until the mid-1960s, FSU housed its football players there. Former FSU President Wetherell, a wide receiver, recalls he arrived with a shotgun, a hunting rifle, four boxes of ammo, a couple of fishing rods, a Royal typewriter and a ream of typing paper.

“When you’ve got all the whistles and bells in your room, you tend to stay in your room,” said Bruce Daniels, a former Smith coordinator. “But in Smith Hall, people have to get out of their rooms and they spend more time hanging out with each other.”

ROWDINESS - AND DIVERSITY FSU housing officials were not wild about Smith when it opened in 1952. Its then-562 male residents made it the biggest dorm on campus (a status now surpassed by several multiple-building residence halls). “Residence halls work best when they’re small; people feel a stronger sense of commitment to each other,” Ragans said. “Smith Hall’s size, “By the end of the first semester, I was out of shells but still had the typing paper,” Wetherell said. “That kind of tells you where my priorities were.” Wetherell said football players entertained themselves in Smith Hall by throwing water balloons out of the windows, engaging in shouting matches with residents of neighboring Kellum Hall, sunbathing on the rooftop patio and bowling in the hallways, using Coke bottles for pins and 16-pound shots (used in the shot put) for balls. 14 Vires

“My room was right by the stairwell where they set up the bottles, so I’d come out in the mornings to piles of shattered glass,” Wetherell said. The Smith high jinks didn’t end when football players moved into the new Salley Hall in 1964 (“We thought we had died and gone to heaven,” Wetherell said of Salley’s more lavish accommodations). The 1960s and 1970s ushered in the era of student protest, rock music and counterculture activities. Smith’s 10th floor has only one wing; the other half of that floor is a rooftop patio. Accessible only by stairs, because the elevator goes only to the ninth floor, the 10th floor is called the “penthouse” by students and historically breeds special bonding among its residents.

the act. But a month before the term ended, the Smith Hall coordinator announced he was evicting all 30 residents of the 10th floor and reassigning them to other dorms.

(The door to the rooftop patio is now locked, and a double set of fences was erected to keep lockbreakers from accessing the patio. The measure, like steel cages over hallway windows, is for safety: In 1971 and 2002, students committed suicide by jumping off the roof.)

The residents howled in protest, insisting officials could not penalize everyone for the actions of an unidentified few. The incident was front-page news for two days in the Florida Flambeau student newspaper — until Ragans stepped in, agreed you couldn’t punish everyone and suspended the evictions.

The 30 freshmen housed there in 1970-71 became particularly close – and rowdy. Dubbing themselves the 10th-Floor Liberation Front (TFLF), they fired bottle rockets out the windows, played frisbee dodge ball in the hallway and repeated the football players’ bowling games — with real bowling balls and pins. Their high jinks reached a climax in May 1971, when some of them took to hurling “meatballs” –heavy, wet loads of toilet paper and paper towels, inspired by Zap Comics – at cars and pedestrians. Campus police set up surveillance to catch the perpetrators, which only spurred the participants to more meatball attacks and elaborate evasive tactics. The police never caught any residents in

Many of the 10th-floor residents remain close friends 40 years later – and treasure their single year in Smith Hall.

“The TFLF prevailed! We were celebrities,” recalled Lee Schlesinger (mass communications, 1975). “And we were always proud of our demographics. FSU had just started integrating then and there were just 300 black kids on campus. But we had three black guys on our floor, which meant we had 1 percent of the blacks on campus!” Vires 15

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SMITH HALL PRIDE Indeed, some trace the ascendancy of Smith Hall to its embrace of diversity. Bruce Daniels spent seven years (1989-1996) as coordinator at Smith, one of eight FSU residence halls at which he was a coordinator. Daniels also spent 10 years as a coordinator of minority education at FSU and worked in Leon County schools. He is most famous these days as the father of NFL-bound University of South Florida quarterback B.J. Daniels, who spent his first seven years in his parents’ Smith Hall suite. Daniels said in the 1980s, each of FSU’s residence halls attracted a certain type of student. Landis drew “academic nerds,” Salley drew “beach types,” Cawthon was the home of transfer students and DeGraff was filled with minority students. But Smith was where “all the groups could come.” And following the early 1990s increase in minority enrollment, “blacks began gravitating to Smith.” As more blacks moved in, FSU’s black athletes began visiting Smith and a black fraternity established itself there. “Word got out that Smith was the place to go,” Daniels said. “It was a social hangout in that lounge.” That spirit has only grown over the past 20 years. Men now live on the first four floors, and women occupy the top six floors. In 1995, each of the 280 rooms received individual air-conditioning units. The large, hotel-style units obscure half the window of each room but provide a perfect platform for students’ flat-screen TVs. Over the past decade, the exterior has received cosmetic enhancements, and in 2009 the communal restrooms were renovated. T.K. Wetherell jokes that when he was president, he threatened to bulldoze Smith, which he still thought of as cramped and uncomfortable.

“But (his vice presidents) said, ‘We’re not going to bulldoze a place we paid off years ago,’” Wetherell said. “We did have a lot of fun (when he lived there). It was kind of a neat experience. I can see how kids now like it.”

Above: The lounge in West Hall (now Smith Hall) has remained a pictureperfect gathering spot.

Barron agrees. His father was a steel company executive, and the family moved eight times before the future president enrolled at FSU. He didn’t expect to form lasting bonds with the students he met. But over his next three years as an undergraduate, Barron lived in Tallahassee apartments and houses with former hallmates from the third floor of Smith. And he still warmly recalls many of the people and moments of his year there. “I have very pleasant memories of Smith Hall,” Barron said in April, “There was just a tremendous amount of excitement about (being a freshman). There was a certain amount of (Smith) hall pride.” There still is.

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Then& When the top photo was taken in 1928, the Florida State College for Women faculty included names like Dodd, Williams, Kellum, Salley, Sandels, Smith and Bellamy. Today, in the photo taken from the Goodyear blimp in 2012, those names are now buildings on the modern Florida State campus, which has filled out considerably in 85 years.

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THE PATH TO PROSPERITY IN PANAMA By Scott Atwell

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In the mid-1800s, when the California Gold Rush exploded, would-be 49ers on the East Coast had no quick, easy route across the U.S. But they could sail south, where a rail line across the Isthmus of Panama completed a roundabout pathway to the West Coast. Half a century later, that railroad would play an important role in the construction of the Panama Canal, and even today it’s a pivotal partner in this centerpiece of world commerce. “If you can fill a ship in Hong Kong that’s going all the way to New York, then you go through the canal. That’s the cheapest way,” says Tom Kenna, CEO of the Panama Canal Railway Co. (PCRC). “But what happens typically is that you fill a ship with cargo that has to go to all sorts of destinations, and Panama is the first place a ship has to discharge its cargo.” So each day, more than a thousand freight containers are offloaded from ships on one side of the canal, carried 47 miles over rail by PCRC and then redistributed to multiple ships on the other side. If it were a port, the railroad would be ranked among the top 75 in the world, operating around the clock and moving more than 400,000 containers per year. A visitor in Kenna’s office points out that his locomotive carries the official colors of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and the CEO smiles. Kenna is also a Seminole, but his career path is more circuitous than the straight line of the railroad he operates.

Panama is the southernmost country in Central America, a sliver of land connecting two continents, and the United States became a full-time presence here in 1904, after taking over construction of the Panama Canal. Once the project was completed a decade later, the U.S. maintained control of a swath of land parallel to the waterway – an official U.S. territory called the Canal Zone. After World War II the U.S. Army set out to create higher education opportunities for “Zonians,” military personnel and descendants of the original canal workers who were mostly U.S. citizens. Florida State University won the contract in 1957.

At first, students who began their education in Panama were required to finish at the university’s main campus in Tallahassee, but in 1967 FSU Panama became a degree-granting branch of the university. “We certainly have provided a U.S. education opportunity for a lot of Latin Americans, including Panamanians,” says Dr. Jim Pitts, who oversees FSU Panama as part of the university’s robust International Program. “We have seen many of our alumni advance to positions of influence in Panama, and I really like to think it's helped international relations between Florida and Latin America.”

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Below: Tom Kenna’s Panama Canal Railroad carries cargo across the isthmus 24/7.

TOM KENNA ’82

Tom Kenna was born in Panama to a Panamanian mother and a U.S. diplomat father, whose work took the family around the world. He returned to Panama for high school, where an aptitude test suggested medicine or dentistry as a career path. Kenna was intrigued by friends who began their college careers at the local FSU campus, but he opted for the University of Maryland, located near the Washington, D.C., area that was home during his middle school years. On Kenna’s first spring break, he fled the icy North to visit his Panamanian friends who were now at FSU in Tallahassee. Within days, he decided to transfer. Biology and organic chemistry classes kept him busy during the week, but Kenna worked on weekends tossing pizzas at The Pub on West Tennessee Street, and he volunteered as coach of the women’s club soccer team. Though he tired of the rote memorization required of pre-med classes, Kenna pushed forward with his biology degree, graduating in 1982. Returning to Panama he landed a marketing job with Colgate-Palmolive’s home health care division, which reasoned that “it was easier to teach a guy marketing of the product than to bring somebody in and teach them the biology of the product,” Kenna explains today. As it turns out, Kenna was good at marketing. He helped grow the company from $300,000 in sales to more than $4 million. After adding an MBA to his resume, Kenna changed gears. A German company called Hapag-Lloyd offered him a different kind of marketing job: developing

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shipping lines for global carriers who moved cargo through the canal. This is where Kenna learned the business that is the heart and soul of Panama. The 1977 treaty that turned ownership of the canal over to the Panamanian government precipitated the demise of the railroad, which fell into disrepair and closed in 1998. But Kansas City Southern, one of the largest railroads in the U.S., saw an opportunity. It teamed with Mi-Jack Products, a major port terminal operator, to purchase and rehabilitate the storied line. Railroads thrive in long-haul environments, where the rule of thumb predicts anything less than 500 miles is a route to failure. But the new owners had a hunch that rail traffic was an efficient alternative for moving cargo across the narrow isthmus. The idea was novel, untested and, according to Kenna, “not a slam dunk.” Kansas City Southern knew railroads. Mi-Jack knew the port business. What the new enterprise needed was someone who knew the customers. Kenna says he had grown too comfortable in his job with Hapag-Lloyd. Suddenly, he was staring at an extraordinary challenge. “It was almost like the idea would never work,” he says today. But Kenna was up to the challenge and came on board as the railroad’s marketing director. “I always say you never regret what you do, you only regret what you don’t do. I didn’t want to look back in 20 years and say, ‘I wish I would have done that.’” The new railroad launched in 2001 with both cargo and passenger service. Only 16,000 containers were moved by rail that first year, but before long Kenna landed a deal with Maersk, the largest shipping container company in the world. By 2008 the rail volume eclipsed 300,000 containers and Kenna was elevated to president of the railroad. Looking back, the discipline learned in those pre-med classes turned out to be a great benefit, spawning strict organizational skills Kenna uses daily.

“When you work in sciences you have to be methodical, very orderly. I apply the scientific method to everything.” Each day the Panama Canal Railway runs a dozen trains in each direction. In two years the canal will open a multibillion-dollar expansion, but the railroad traffic won’t be able to grow with it until the ports expand. Kenna’s real work is done where the railroad tracks end on either side. “When the train is running, it’s a piece of cake,” says Kenna, whose company built one of the most technologically advanced railroads in the world. “It’s my track, my railroad, so we have to focus more of our attention and effort on running the terminals. That’s the complicated part. I still consider myself a marketer.” Kenna also thrived socially at FSU, and credits that experience for his ability to communicate among multiple audiences. Networking skills, he says, are a must for his kind of business. “How you develop your social abilities is crucial. FSU offered us lots of opportunities to socialize and meet different kinds of people.” In Panama, Kenna followed his father’s lead, marrying a local girl and raising a family of three kids. His two oldest children earned degrees from FSU – starting at the Panama campus – and he fully expects his third child, now 14, to follow in their footsteps.

ALESSANDRA MEZQUITA ’05

The lifestyle of beauty queens and television personalities never appealed to Alessandra Mezquita, yet the 29-year-old FSU graduate has made a career of succeeding at things she never planned on doing. The Panamanian beauty grew up to represent her country in the Miss Universe pageant and then went on to blaze a trail as the first female sportscaster for Panama’s most-watched television network. “If you’re in Panama, women don’t do sports,” she says with just a bit of irony. “And it was worse because of beauty queens and sports. Those are two things that don’t work.” Like many FSU alumni from Panama, Mezquita’s journey began on her home campus. “In my generation,” she says, “everyone wanted to go to FSU Panama.” By the fall of 2003 she had transferred to FSU in Tallahassee as a communications major, with plans for a behind-the-scenes career in television. But fate intervened.

Kenna stays close to FSU Panama by serving on the local advisory board, along with two of his FSU classmates, Carlos Sosa (B.S. ’80) and Emilio Ho (B.S. ’81). The three amigos share lighthearted memories of their time together in Tallahassee, especially Saturday nights that included munching down unsold pizza after closing. “He’d call,” Sosa remembers, “and say, ‘It’s closing time. Come and get it.’” They got “it,” and more. And so did the legacy of FSU.

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Below: Mezquita on the studio set and modeling FSU gear in a recruitment ad for her hometown campus.

The television production sequence she longed for was the toughest program to get into, and after failing to make the cut Mezquita needed to improvise. She knocked on the door of Seminole Productions, the in-house TV facility for FSU athletics, where she got hands-on experience in a real production house. “I hated – hated – to do voice-overs and talk into a microphone, and I never wanted to be on camera,” she recalls. “I went an entire semester without being on camera, but finally the producers said if I didn’t do a stand-up (on camera) I wouldn’t be able to produce any more pieces.” It would not be the first time tough love forced Mezquita out of her comfort zone. After she graduated in 2005 with a degree in mass media studies, the down job market forced her back home, where family members talked her into something she had loathed: trying out for the Miss Panama pageant.

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“Most people see pageants as being superficial, but it helped me conquer my fear of speaking in front of an audience, and it helped me think that maybe I did want to do things in front of the camera.” The Miss Panama pageant was produced by Telemetro, the TV station Mezquita had grown up watching. During the event she had time to speak with producers about her interest in TV, but it would be a year before she returned, only to find that “they closed the door.” Even with the prestige that accompanies a Miss Panama title, the television gatekeepers could not get past the tradition of male sports anchors. “I got offers to do fashion work and other things that didn’t interest me,” Mezquita says, “and I always said no, because I wanted to do sports, sports, sports.” One year later, when Telemetro was reworking its format, one of the producers offered Mezquita the long-awaited opportunity to present sports on air. Today, Mezquita not only anchors the noon sports on weekdays but also serves as general manager for the company’s 24-hour all-sports cable channel, which includes her own one-hour sports talk show that simulcasts on radio. “It’s like my child,” she says of the cable channel, dismissing

frequent seven-day work weeks. “We’re trying to make it grow.” Mezquita frequently travels to cover the country’s passion – soccer – and reported from London during last summer’s Olympic Games. There’s only one downside to the hectic pace: She doesn’t have time to follow her beloved Seminoles. But FSU will always be in her starting lineup. “I’m grateful for the education I received, not just in the classrooms but especially with Seminole Productions. It was hands-on, doing all the things I’d be doing just a few years later over here. That was my foundation for everything.”

JORGE NICOLAU ’85 Jorge Nicolau started working at age 17 and became a self-made success even without the benefit of a college education. By 32, the native Panamanian had risen to the position of operating manager for Sears, Roebuck’s Latin American operations. But when incessant guerrilla activity created an unstable business climate in the 1980s, Sears and other companies began pulling out of the region. Suddenly, Nicolau was without an employer.

“It’s an extremely competitive, capitalintensive business. Technology doesn’t stop. This is a world of providing more and more and faster and faster.” After completing his degree in 1985, Nicolau returned to a job with Sears stores in Colombia. That traditional, old-school background seems counter to the technology-driven enterprise he runs today, but as Nicolau has learned, the basics of business transcend product lines. “What you learn in retail is that customer service is the most important thing,” says Nicolau, who has more than 30 storefronts across the country and hundreds of retailers. “The customer should not be loyal to a company. The customer should always expect the best customer experience, and if you don’t give it to them you should expect they will go someplace else.” CWP’s parent company is publicly traded in Europe, and the Panamanian government owns 49 percent of the shares. In the last fiscal year, CWP’s 2.5 million customers spent more than $600 million with the company.

Below: Nicolau’s cable and wireless storefronts span the country.

“As I started my search for a new job, I realized the job I was aiming for had a university degree as a basic requirement, and I lacked one,” he says. Nicolau soon paid a visit to the admissions office at FSU Panama, which fast-tracked him for a business administration degree in just two years. Today, he is proof positive of the impact the campus has had on the host country, serving as president of Cable & Wireless Panama (CWP), the largest telecommunications company in a country where technology is ubiquitous. The International Telecommunications Union estimates each Panamanian owns on average two telecom devices, a penetration rate of 200 percent. Despite intense competition, Nicolau’s CWP is the market leader with 55 percent of mobile customers, 59 percent of the broadband/Internet base and nearly 80 percent of fixed land lines, in a country of 3.5 million.

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Panama is still a country of haves and have-nots, but its economy is booming. With double-digit growth and a thin 4-percent unemployment rate, one of Nicolau’s most important tasks is keeping other companies from raiding his workforce. So he works hard at creating a superior work environment, as evidenced by the Gallup Great Workplace Award, which his company has won three years in a row.

“With all this globalization,” Sosa explains, “bigger threats are around the corner from South America, North America and Europe. They’re all beginning to look at Panama with interest. These companies are saturated in their countries, and they want to keep on growing. If that’s the case, then Metro is stronger in the way we conduct business, the way we purchase volume, the way we train people, so we are much better prepared to compete with bigger players.”

“Gallup polls over 5 million workers in over 150 countries about their work environment, and only 22 companies in the world get that award each year,” he says, standing to retrieve one of the crystal trophies on display behind his desk. “Only two or three are from Latin America.” Two years ago, Nicolau accepted another honor when the local FSU campus gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Consistent with his Latin American culture, Sosa exudes an extraordinarily polite demeanor that belies his competitive nature. He developed that drive, he says, as a young sports fanatic attending Florida State in the late 1970s, when the Seminoles roamed the land as a proverbial David among college football’s Goliaths. “I’ve got the Seminole spirit with me!”

Taking his entire FSU education on the Panama campus left Nicolau isolated from the fever of Seminole athletics that afflicts fellow alumni who finished their studies in Tallahassee. Still, FSU became a family tradition. Nicolau’s daughter spent two years at FSU Panama before heading to the main campus to finish her bachelor’s and MBA. Today, she’s back home working for Hewlett-Packard. “In the end, FSU prepared me for my professional needs, and I think it’s why I’m at where I’m at today.”

CARLOS SOSA ’80

Carlos Sosa has a message for the WalMarts, Rite Aids and Walgreens of the world looking to bring drugstore chains into his homeland of Panama: “It’s going to be a lot harder than you think.” Sosa is the owner and CEO of the country’s largest drugstore chain, Farmacias Metro, which recently doubled its size in a merger with grocery store giant Grupo Rey. 26 Vires

Sosa had always envisioned himself working in a health-related enterprise. Starting his academic career at FSU Panama in 1976, he transferred two years later to the Tallahassee campus, where he earned a degree in medical technology. After adding a master’s in health administration from Georgia State, Sosa returned to his homeland in 1984 and a job running laboratory services for Panama’s largest private hospital. Seven years later, he got the itch to open his own business. An old neighborhood pharmacy was up for sale, and Sosa purchased it along with other family members. “In medical technology you learn how to do lab tests, how to draw blood, how to do analysis – a lot of chemistry, biology and microbiology,” he explained. “You don’t worry about selling the services; you worry about quality control. But I had to learn how to run a retail business.” Referring to the two-quarterback system FSU employed during his time as a student, Sosa marvels at the way coach Bobby Bowden utilized all his tools. Likewise, Farmacias Metro was built through versatility. Sosa learned about inventory control, pricing, space management and “location, location, location.” Metro grew from one store to 30. Two years ago came the merger with Rey and the rebranding of its in-store pharmacies under the Metro name. Sosa now manages 70 pharmacies and 540 employees with annual revenues exceeding $70 million. His plans call for adding six more standalone stores in each of the next two years.

Left: The man behind the medicine, Sosa’s pharmacy empire is expanding across Panama.

“We’re trying to win using all our tools,” he says. Sosa remains one of FSU’s most ardent supporters in Panama and a member of the advisory board of the local campus.

“I was fascinated by the company and I just started collecting,” says Henriquez, pointing across the Panamanian landscape to the building where his collection is housed. “It’s practically a Coca-Cola city, with just about any item you can imagine.”

CARLOS HENRIQUEZ ’74

When he was an upper-division business major at FSU in the early 1970s, Carlos Henriquez was assigned to write a case study on a major business enterprise. The company was Coca-Cola. On that day, the native Panamanian began a decadeslong fascination with the company, along the way amassing a collection of more than 8,000 CocaCola-themed items. Vires 27

Henriquez can afford to indulge his passion. In 2000, after spending half his life working 12-hour days, he sold his commercial bank and retired at the enviable age of 48. “I decided to have a life,” he says, looking out at the Panama City skyline from the 11th-story office where each day he tends to his “volunteer efforts” – which include serving as chairman of the board for Panama’s national bank. Henriquez was one of the earliest Panamanians to enroll at FSU Panama, starting classes in 1970. “The school in those days was mostly attended by military, so they were very strict with formality,” he remembers. “You couldn’t miss classes; you couldn’t be late. It was a regimentation that gave you discipline, and I really liked that.”

With the Panama skyline as a backdrop, the retired Henriquez keeps an office to tend to his volunteer efforts and family businesses.

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Eventually Henriquez made his way to Tallahassee. He was just a kid, learning a new language and new theories about business. But when he looks back at his undergraduate days, the first things that come to mind happened outside the classroom.

The counterculture was alive and well at FSU in the early ’70s, and the university earned a reputation as the birthplace of streaking. Henriquez says he still has a copy of the Florida Flambeau featuring nowiconic photos of the bare escapades. “I have never laughed so much in one day in all my life as I did that day,” he says, chuckling as he recounts what he saw. Another memory includes weekly phone calls back home, placed from a pay phone at the end of the hallway on his floor at Cash Hall. “I used to call home every Sunday after 9 p.m. to get the best rates, and I’d have a piece of paper with all the questions I needed to ask – ‘How’s Mom?’ ‘How’s the dog?’ – because it cost $5 a minute and I could only afford five minutes.” After completing his undergraduate degree in business administration, Henriquez would have stayed on at Florida State for an MBA, but his dad, a longtime banker with Chase Manhattan in Panama, insisted he come home and work first. At age 26, he was approached by a mentor who said, “‘Come on, kid, come work with me. I’m going to teach you this business.’ He was talented – one of those guys who could see in the dark.”

Some 40 countries are represented among the student body at FSU Panama.

FSU PANAMA TODAY In summer 2009, FSU-Panama was relocated to the Ciudad del Saber, or the City of Knowledge, on the site of the old Fort Clayton U.S. Army base. The campus is bordered on one side by the Panama Canal’s Miraflores locks, and on the other by Camino de Cruces National Park, a rainforest of incredible beauty and one of the most biologically diverse on the planet. Inside a five-story building some 450 students, about 80 percent of them native Panamanians, are enrolled full time. The building is home to the largest Englishlanguage library in the Republic of Panama.

The business they started together, Commercial Bank of Panama, became the No. 1 privately held commercial bank in Panama, and Henriquez became its general manager. Twenty-three years later, the bank was sold to the country’s largest financial institution, Banco General, and Henriquez was a retiree.

“With the reversion of the canal to Panama (in 2000) the university had to make a conscious decision whether to stay,” said FSU International Programs Director Dr. Jim Pitts, “and we made the decision to stay because we wanted to continue our relationship with Panama. We really see the campus as a natural gateway for Latin American students to come to Florida State University.”

Like many, he has stayed busier in retirement, helping family members with their business interests, teaching at the local Catholic University where he started an MBA program, and serving as Banco National's chairman of the board, an assignment he describes as a national duty.

While most students eventually transfer to Tallahassee, the campus awards 20-30 degrees each year in six different majors. International affairs is the most popular, and plans are under way to offer a master’s degree in this discipline soon. “The United Nations has 20 regional offices in the City of Knowledge,” said Vice Rector Alonso de la Guardia (B.S. ’75). “It was their first hub outside of New York and a great opportunity to place our International Affairs students for internships.” De la Guardia is in charge of student recruitment and hopes to see total enrollment at the campus reach 1,000.

“We have a lot of talented people on this board, from every profession,” he says. “There’s no politics involved in our proceedings, otherwise I wouldn’t be doing it. It wouldn’t be worth it. You don’t get the salary and you get a tremendous responsibility.” Carlos Henriquez has successfully imported one of Florida State’s most important byproducts: leading for the greater good.

Carlos Langoni serves as campus rector, or president. Langoni holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University and started as an adjunct faculty member of the Panama campus in 1987. He is one of 16 full-time faculty members who teach at FSU Panama. The campus is connected to the community by an advisory board that includes several FSU alumni. Among them is former banker Emilio Ho, who now manages his family’s agro-industrial food companies. “We want to enhance the whole college experience to create a new breed of professionals,” says Ho (Finance ’81), “more knowledgeable, globalized and more connected.” Vires 29

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“Florida State University is committed to providing a cutting-edge education to the residents of Florida while ensuring that our graduates have highly successful careers.

This measure will most certainly assist us in these areas.” - Eric Barron FLORIDA STATE SETS COURSE FOR TOP 25 Florida State University is poised to advance its national ranking with passage of the pre-eminence bill, which Gov. Rick Scott signed into law April 22 (see The Moment). The measure will designate Florida State and the University of Florida as “preeminent” universities and provide each school with an additional $15 million a year for the next five years to hire faculty members and escalate research. The new funding will drive FSU’s plan for moving into the top25 ranking of public universities.

FSU plans on becoming the state’s top producer of STEM degrees in mathematical, physical and natural sciences.

“Florida State spends $17,400 per student; Texas and Texas A&M spend $32,000 per student,” said Barron, who once served as a dean at the University of Texas. “This tells us how far off we are in investing in our students. Our national ranking is No. 42 among publics and No. 96 among all universities, but our financial resources are 212.”

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“We are extremely grateful that the governor and Florida Legislature have embraced this important measure, which sets high standards of excellence and then rewards the universities that meet these standards,” said President Eric J. Barron. “Florida State University is committed to providing a cuttingedge education to the residents of Florida while ensuring that our graduates have highly successful careers. This measure will most certainly assist us in these areas.” The bill creates 12 metrics by which universities are evaluated, including a freshman retention rate of 90 percent, a six-year graduation rate above 70 percent, total research expenditures exceeding $200 million, a ranking within the Top 100 nationally for research expenditures, and $500 million or more in endowments.

In December U.S. News & World Report ranked Florida State as the nation’s most efficient public university because of its success in providing students with a high-quality education despite having fewer financial resources.

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LAW SCHOOL GRADS PLACE FIRST ON FLORIDA BAR EXAM Florida State University College of Law graduates ranked first among the state’s 11 law schools on the February 2013 administration of the Florida Bar examination. Florida State law graduates have ranked first or second in the state on 10 of the past 15 administrations of the exam.

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FSU law grads taking the February 2013 General Bar Examination for the first time passed by a rate of 96 percent, according to statistics from the Florida Board of Bar Examiners. The overall passing rate of all law school graduates taking the exam for the first time was 80.2 percent. Florida State graduates are also highly valued in the legal job market. U.S. News & World Report (2013) rates Florida State the nation’s 23rd best law school, and Florida’s best, in terms of the percentage of 2011 graduates employed within nine months after graduation.

LAW SCHOOL ALUMNUS DONATES $1 MILLION TO COLLEGE Florida State University College of Law alumnus John W. Frost II (J.D. ’69) committed an additional $1 million gift to the law school to supplement two existing endowments. Sixty percent of the gift will supplement the John W. Frost II Moot Court Endowment, and 40 percent will supplement the John W. and Ashley E. Frost Endowed Professorship. This is the fourth major gift from Frost to the law school. He also has made other significant gifts to support the law school’s Annual Fund Scholarships and the William and Catherine VanDercreek Professorship. In recognition of Frost’s most recent gift, the former First District Court of Appeal courtroom in the law school’s Advocacy Center will be named the John W. Frost II Courtroom.

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Florida State University’s stellar reputation for high-quality scientific research across numerous disciplines was reconfirmed when six researchers were elected as fellows of the American Physical Society. FSU tied for second in the nation for the number of APS fellows elected for 2012. It was outpaced only by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which produced 10 new fellows, and tied with research powerhouses Harvard, MIT and UC Davis. The new fellows include physics professors Paul Cottle, Peter Hoeflich and Peng Xiong, chemical engineer Rufina G. Alamo and Mag Lab scholars Luis Balicas and Dragana Popovic. The APS is the nation’s largest and most prestigious professional society. This latest election brings to 42 the number of FSU faculty who have been so honored.

GRADUATE PROGRAMS RANK AMONG NATION’S BEST IN U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT Florida State University’s graduate programs in library and information studies, criminology, public affairs, education and law are among the best in the nation, according to new rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s 2014 edition of “Best Graduate Schools.” Library and Information Studies placed 13th in the nation, and its School Library Media program captured the nation’s top ranking. Services for Children and Youth ranked fifth, and Digital Librarianship ranked 11th. The College of Education ranked 44th, while the College of Law came in at 48th. In the category of Best Ph.D. Programs in Social Studies and Humanities, Florida State ranked seventh in criminology, and the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy was ranked 16th among public affairs programs.

FSU ALUMNA RETURNS AS COLLEGE OF MUSIC DEAN Patricia J. Flowers (Ph.D. ’81) has been appointed dean of Florida State University’s College of Music. She will begin her new role July 1.

UNIVERSITY NEWS Flowers has served as professor of music at Ohio State University since 1996. She previously served as chair of graduate studies at Ohio State from 1992 to 2007. Flowers was also associate and assistant professor of music at Ohio State from 1985 to 1996. Before her Ohio State tenure, she was visiting professor and assistant professor of music at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

His private sector experience includes design and animation development management and work with a number of video and new media technology companies, as well as creative firms and advertising agencies. Weishar earned his bachelor’s degree at Union College in 1983. He also studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Tel Aviv University.

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FLORIDA STATE NAMES NEW DEAN OF VISUAL ARTS, THEATRE AND DANCE Peter Weishar, dean of the Savannah College of Art and Design’s School of Entertainment Arts, has been appointed dean of FSUs College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance. He will begin his new role July 1.

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John Carnaghi, whose 22-year FSU career spanned four presidents, died Feb. 20 at age 67. As vice president for finance and administration, Carnaghi gained a reputation as a can-do administrator who overhauled antiquated policies and spearheaded new projects. “He poured his heart and soul into the university,” said FSU President Eric Barron. “There’s no part of the university, when you’re in that role, that you’re not touching. We got listed as the most efficient, highquality institution in the country, and you’re not at that level of efficiency if you’re not a well-oiled machine.”

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Before he became dean at SCAD, Weishar served as a professor of computer animation and new media, as well as acting director of the animation program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

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As head football coach at Florida State University Jimbo Fisher is used to having the odds in his favor. But the tables were turned in 2011 when Fisher and his wife, Candi, learned their young son Ethan had Fanconi Anemia (FA), a rare blood disease that slowly causes bone marrow failure. How rare? More than 4.2 million births occur each year in the United States, but only 30 or so babies are born with FA. The genetic disease causes bone marrow failure and eventually leads to cancer years earlier than the general population. There is no known cure, and doctors estimate it will be three to five years before Ethan, now 7, is ready for a bone marrow transplant. With the clock running, the Fishers created the Kidz1stFund to raise money for cutting-edge research at the Fanconi Anemia Comprehensive Care Clinic at the University of Minnesota, where Ethan is treated. Kidz1st has raised more than $1 million.  How did you find out Ethan had FA? Candi: He got a case of the flu, and I had to take him to an urgentcare unit that routinely does a CBC (complete blood count) on each patient. Otherwise, we would not have had an indication because he looks and acts healthy.  Did you ever ask “Why us?” Jimbo: There’s a realization when it hits you, and you come to grips with it, that you start questioning everything. But then we came to understand that maybe God has put this on our plate with the platform we have to bring awareness and raise the money not only to save our son but all the others who are affected.  What were your first steps? Candi: It’s a complex disease. Every child is affected differently, so it’s rare within itself. It was very difficult to read all the literature about the things that are going to happen to your child – it makes you sick to your stomach – but if you don’t you won’t be armed with the information to speak with your doctor. Knowledge is power, and from that you can figure out what you can do about this as a parent.  Coach, have you tackled this as you would any opponent? Jimbo: This is the opponent. So what’s the game plan, how can we attack it and what are the day-to-day things we have to go about to attack it? It’s a full-court press, and we are not going to take any steps backward; we’re going to press forward.  Where is FA research going? Candi: Some of the things they’re talking about, like gene replacement therapy, sound like science fiction, but they’re not that far off. Because of the money we have given them they can bridge research that’s going on in other areas, like leukemia. So we have a lot of hope where the research is going. 34 Vires

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 What is the course of action? Candi: The transplant in itself is very dangerous and life-threatening, so they don’t want to do that until they have to. We’ve chosen the path to let him be a little boy, let him live life to the fullest and treat him like any kid as long as we can.  How is Ethan impacted right now? Jimbo: We have to be careful with his rest, keep monitoring his blood counts – because as they go down the bleeding and clotting can be a problem, and he’s such an athletic kid. When his transplant gets closer we will have to take more precautions. But right now he’s blessed, and the longer we can keep him healthy the better, so by the time he does need a transplant the research will be so much further along.  What have you learned from Virginia coach Mike London, whose daughter also has FA, and the many other FA families you’ve met over the past two years? Candi: I have learned to be very mindful of anything changing with Ethan's health while also trying not to prevent him from being a regular little boy. I've learned to be proactive but to have patience and to attempt a balance in being protective of him without panicking over every fever, cold, or bruise. It's inevitable that his health will continue to decline, but it's important that we find a balance and a new normal instead of waiting on the bad to arrive.  What is the mission of Kidz1st? Jimbo: Our goal is to find a cure for Fanconi and not stop until we do. Candi: We want to be part of the solution. Ethan’s path is going to change a little bit and right now we have time. And we want to use that time to do everything we can, because once things start happening with him I’m not sure how much we will be able to do.  The football team and Marching Chiefs have staged bone marrow donor drives. What has the support meant to you? Jimbo: It’s been unbelievable to us. It’s amazing how the students have gotten involved, how friends have gotten involved to show how much they care. Candi: I can’t say enough about the students and how much they have done. We probably have a student group contact us once a month to tell us they’re doing something. And it’s not small things, as much as $10,000 donations. One of the things I found more than anything is that it’s gotten me more involved with FSU. I’ve gotten out and I’ve gotten to know all the cheerleaders and all the dance teams, and that’s probably something I would not have done before. I’ve gotten to know them on a personal level and I can say ‘Thank you,’ and call them by name because I know who they are now. And my kids know who they are. They really have embraced this cause.

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FSU Alumni Association It’s true: before the internet or automated phone systems, class registration was done in-person as seen in this photo from the 1950s. Just imagine the lines if we did that today with more than 41,000 students!

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74 people like this. View 29 more comments Rosemary Grow Drake How well I remember! Notice the girl’s “FSU beanie”! Mandatory that all Freshmen MUST wear beanie at ALL TIMES!!! Like • Reply Marc Beaver I registered in Tully gym just like this in 1965. Saw dust on the floor, and people sitting around crying because they couldn’t make their schedule work. It was called “pulling cards” then. Wow! Like • Reply

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Laura Knippel Ballantyne it wasn’t all bad waiting in line for those cards. You made a lot of friends that way. Sometimes you could even get somebody to switch cards with you so your schedule worked out OK. Like • Reply Melanie Alexander I was at FSU 77-81 - remember standing in many long lines- At that time you could only drop/add the same class once - there was a few times I sat on steps crying because no class available / screwed up class schedule Like • Reply Bennett Shelfer It was this exact scene at this location in Tully Gym in 1958 that changed my entire life. I was asked by the lady sitting at the table whether I wanted Army or Air Force ROTC. I had no idea what she was talking about. A student behind me tapped me on the shoulder and said, “Take Air Force. The Army guys have to polish brass and carry a rifle when they march.” “Air Force,” I said to the lady. Fifty years later I retired from an incredible career in aviation... all because of a casual remark by a complete stranger. Unbelievable! Like • Reply

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ASSOCIATION NEWS SEMINOLE TRIBE ROLLS OUT RED CARPET History came alive Jan. 26 for more than 175 FSU faithful who took part in the Alumni Association’s first-ever FSU Day with the Tribe. A glorious day unfolded at Big Cypress Reservation south of Lake Okeechobee, where garnet-and-gold-clad visitors enjoyed tours of the museum and library, demonstrations of traditional Seminole art, an educational session and swamp tours. “Many FSU alumni think football when they think Seminoles,” Tribe member and FSU grad Douglas Zepeda (B.S. ’01) told the Seminole Tribune. “We’re going to show the meaning behind ‘The Unconquered.’” A lunch program hosted by Alumni Association National Board Chairman Allen Durham (B.S. ’93), who also owns the Osceola and Renegade program, included the introduction of the most recent student to portray Osceola and the undergraduate who will assume the role this fall.

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1. Seminole colors were on display at the Big Cypress Reservation. 2. The day included a tour of the Everglades in the Billie Swamp Safari buggies. 3. Archived maps, newspapers and other bits of Seminole history were on display inside the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki museum. 4. The FSU group gathered under a traditional chickee for an open discussion about Seminole history and culture with Douglas Zepeda, traditional arts and outreach coordinator at the museum, and FSU history professor Andrew Frank. 5. Sandra “Sandy” (B.S. ’68) & Paul (B.A. ’68) Lambert, who traveled all the way from Tallahassee, posed with regalia that Kyle Doney (B.S.’ 07) wore when he threw Osceola’s spear at an FSU football game. 6. Museum staff participated in the art presentations. 7. Zepeda received a gift of appreciation from Alumni Association National Board Chairman Allen Durham.

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NOLES PAINT THE COUNTRY GARNET AND GOLD

On March 23, a record 30 Seminole clubs and chapters from across the country hit the streets of their communities to take part in the 2nd Annual Seminole Service Day.

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1. Seattle Seminole Chapter members built food gardens for needy families. 2. Las Vegas Seminole Club members prepared lunch at the Las Vegas Rescue Mission. 3. Austin Seminole Club cleared invasive brush at the Shoal Creek Hike and Bike Trail. 4. Charlotte Seminole

Club President Bryan Neil helped clean out clogged gutters at Blythe Elementary School in Huntersville, N.C. 5. Seminole Club of Boston cooked a BBQ dinner for families staying at the Yawkey Family Inn, an affordable-housing facility for family members of children receiving medical care at Boston Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital. 6. Richmond Seminole Club collected 10 bags of trash during its cleanup of James River Park System. 7. Jacksonville Seminole Club members braved poor weather to clean up Jacksonville Beach. 8. Seminole Club of Clay County partnered with Orange Park Outfitters to benefit Orange Park High School by collecting and sorting school supplies, clothing and other household items. 9. Tallahassee Seminole Club filled care packages for soldiers serving overseas, partnering with local Girl Scouts who helped secure items. 10. The Gainesville Seminole Club took part in spring cleaning at the Ronald McDonald House. 11. Brevard Seminole Club picked up trash and then sorted recycling materials after the 2013 Runaway Country Music Festival. 12. Seminole Club of Greater Orlando packed blankets and other items at Harvest Time International for care packages to help disaster victims. 13. Tampa Seminoles cooked, cleaned and gardened at the Metropolitan Ministriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Tampa facility. 14. Manatee Seminole Club planted 1,000 palms trees at Bennett Park. 15. Sarasota Seminole Club volunteered at All Faiths Food Bank. 16. Naples Seminole Club painted a mural, hallways and ceiling tiles at the FSU College of Medicine Immokalee Health Education Site. 17. Pinellas County Seminole Club members took part in an extreme home makeover for Habitat for Humanity in Clearwater. 18. Seminole Club of Broward County collected trash on Fort Lauderdale Beach.

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More than 90 Florida State grads representing many of the 80 Seminole Clubs and Chapters returned to campus April 4-6, for the annual Seminole Club Leadership Conference. Club leaders kicked off the weekend with an evening of bowling at Crenshaw Lanes and participated in several workshops and round-table discussions before rounding out the weekend in the President’s Sky Box for the spring football game.

1. Prior to bowling, FSU student athletes held a Q&A. 2. Student athletes Jessica Nori and Sarah Chandler bookend club members Caitlin Gilbert (B.S. ’11), Lorie Ray (B.S. ’96, M.S. ’98), Brian McMath (B.S. ’91) and Tara Lehan (Ph.D. ’07). 3. Baseball stars Jose Brizuela and Giovanny Alfonso serve up some ham and cheese. 4. The official team photo. 5. St. Pete’s Debbie Turner had a….ball. 6. Breakout sessions provided the opportunity for club leaders like Miami’s Ben Biard (B.S. ’00) to share ideas. 7. Tampa leader and FSUAA National Director Max Oligario (B.S. ’99). 8. Steve Pattison (B.S. ’79), an FSUAA National Director from Fort Lauderdale with Richard Joye of South Carolina. 9. Geri Polk (B.S. ’71, M.S. ’78, Ph.D. ’85) of The Villages. 10. Orlando’s Patrick Regan (B.S. ’05).

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They took their diplomas during one of the most iconic years in American history. One half-century later, the FSU Class of 1963 returned to campus in April for a 50-year reunion and induction into the alumni association’s Emeritus Alumni Society. The weekend included a tour of the new student wellness facility and the Tallahassee premiere of the opera “Cold Sassy Tree,” written by former FSU faculty member Carlisle Floyd.

1. Outgoing Emeritus President Betty Lou Joanos (B.S. ’57, Ph.D. ’85). 2. Class of 1963 members on the steps of the old President’s House. 3. Gov. Reubin Askew (B.S. ’51). 4. Dr. Tommie Wright donated

the original “Fight Song” score to the FSU Alumni Association, accepted by President Scott Atwell. 5. Bridget Chandler (B.A. ’48) announced the Emeritus Society gift, a new bench for the Alumni Center Courtyard. 6. Donna Lou Askew (B.S. ’55) received the Commitment to Excellence Award. 7. Gloria Deen (B.S. ’62) recorded a scene for posterity. 8. Class of ’63 members welcomed into the Emeritus Alumni Society.

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g recent graduates with the Reubin O'D. Askew Youn The FSU Alumni Association is proud to honor three g youn for am progr of the Thirty Under 30 recognition Alumni Award, as part of the second annual class , recipients based on their contributions to profession the ed alumni. A distinguished panel of peers select community and university.

CHAD CORBITT (B.S. ’09)

Corbitt is the co-founder of an online educational company called Study Edge, which provides mass college tutoring through Facebook. He also serves as the vice president of Group Interactive Networks, which provides online communication tools for more than 2,500 student groups on over 800 campuses. Corbitt also serves as president of Tutor Matching Service, an online marketplace for students and tutors to connect through an iPad app that provides a medium for the actual tutoring to take place.

MICHAEL LOWRY (B.S. ’05, M.S. ’09)

Lowry is the hurricane specialist and storm surge expert for The Weather Channel. In that role, he provided live on-air coverage of Superstorm Sandy, the highest-rated event in TWC history, after only one month on the job. Before joining The Weather Channel, Lowry worked at the National Hurricane Center, where he led the design and development of a new storm surge forecast graphic that will become public in 2015.

JOE O’SHEA (B.S. ’08)

As an FSU undergraduate, O’Shea co-founded the Lower Ninth Ward Health Clinic, which raised funds and constructed free health clinics after Hurricane Katrina. He helped construct a school in Rwanda and championed community healthcare in Leon County. For those efforts and more, O'Shea was recognized with a Rhodes Scholarship and obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Oxford University. Today he is back at FSU as director of undergraduate research.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION THIRTY UNDER 30

KESHARA DAVIS (B.S. ’04, J.D. ’07) The Florida Bar, Orlando, Fla.

SANDY HOLT (B.S. ’06) Triattic, Tallahassee, Fla.

AAKASH PATEL (B.A. ’06) Elevate, Inc., Tampa, Fla.

ALISIA ADAMSON (B.S. ’05, J.D. ’08 ) Hylton Adamson Watson, Orlando, Fla.

JAMES WALTER DOYLE (B.A. ’06) DonorsChoose.org, New York, N.Y.

JESCE HORTON (B.S. ’07) Senior Sales Engineer, Portland, Ore.

JENNIFER QUINTON (B.S. ’06) United States Navy, San Diego, Calif.

THEODORE AQUINO (B.S. ’05) United States Navy, San Diego, Calif.

JULIAN DOZIER (B.S. ’05, M.ACC. ’06) Thomas Howell Ferguson, PA, Tallahassee, Fla.

JOHNSON HUNT (M.F.A. ’12) Adjunct Instructor, Gaithersburg, Md.

GARRETT SCHANCK (B.S. ’10) Stellar Recovery, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla.

CLAUDIA AVALOS (B.S. ’10) Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.

RYAN DUFFY (B.S. ’06) House of Representatives Office, Tallahassee, Fla.

SARAH HUTCHINGS (M.M. ’10) University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

AMANDA SPANN (B.S. ’09) Black Girls Hack, Washington, DC

NATALIE BINDER (B.A. ’06, M.L.I.S. ’11) Jefferson County Public Library, Monticello, Fla.

JUAN ESCALANTE (B.S. ’11) Tallahassee, Fla.

GREGORY LAMANNA (B.S. ’05) WellCare Health Plans, Tampa, Fla.

MEGAN SWIGGARD (B.S. ’07, M.S. ’08) Central Texas College –Far East Campus, Japan

BRITTNEY BROCK (B.S. ’07), CPA PricewaterhouseCoopers, Charlotte, N.C.

DANA FORD (B.S. ’08) English First, Shanghai, China

MICHAEL LOWRY (B.S. ’05, M.S. ’09) Weather Channel, Atlanta, Ga.

CHAD CORBITT (B.S. ‘09) Group Interactive Networks, Gainesville, Fla.

BEN GIBSON (J.D. ’08) Executive Office of the Governor, Tallahassee, Fla.

SARA CAMERON OMBRES (B.S. ’08) Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Lake Mary, Fla.

KIM WASER (B.A. ’06) Tobacco Free Partnership of Martin County, Port St. Lucie, Fla.

TERIN BARBAS CREMER (J.D. ’10, M.B.A. ’10) Bankers Financial Corporation, Tampa, Fla.

LAYMON HICKS (B.S. ’09, M.S. ’11) Speaker and Author, Riverview, Fla.

JOE O’SHEA (B.S. ’08) Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.

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KARI WHALEY RAMSEY (B.S. ’08) Speaking of History, Inc., Kissimmee, Fla.

ASSOCIATION NEWS ALL-TIME GREATS PART OF CIRCLE OF GOLD INDUCTION Twenty years ago, the Alumni Association’s Circle of Gold program began recognizing the good work and reputations of Florida State 1 alumni and friends. This spring, on the weekend of the Garnet and Gold football game, membership rose to 208 following a star-studded induction inside Miller Hall. Inductees included Seminole Club leader Michele Adair (B.S. ’72), former Vice President of Finance and Administration John Carnaghi (posthumously), former basketball coach Hugh Durham (B.S. ’59, M.S. ’61), police Sgt. Mark Edenfield (B.S. ’79) and Heisman Trophy winner Charlie Ward (B.S.’93).

1. Charlie Ward, Sgt. Mark Edenfield, Michele Adair, Mrs. John Carnaghi, Hugh Durham. 2. & 3. Charlie Ward speaks to a packed house inside Miller Hall. 4. Sgt. Mark Edenfield receives his medal from Alumni Association Chair-elect Gordon Sprague (B.S. ’65). 5. Hugh Durham reflects on FSU’s 1972 run to the Final Four. 6. Nan Hillis (B.S. ’76), Molly Barron and Betty Lou Joanos (B.S. ’57, Ph.D. ’85)

STUDENT ALUMNI PROMOTE SENIOR RING CEREMONY Student Alumni Association leadership took part in a rite of passage known as the FSU Ring Ceremony, honoring senior class members who purchased official class rings that symbolize loyalty, tradition, service, honor and lifelong relationships. After a formal program inside Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, students gathered outside around the Westcott Fountain to ceremoniously dip their new rings into the fabled water at exactly 6:51 p.m., which translates into 18:51 military time, a reference to the institution’s founding year of 1851.

7. Rings were dipped in the Westcott Fountain at precisely 6:51 p.m. 8. Left to right: Student Alumni Association (SAA) leaders Brad Olson, Leah Jarem, Chelsey Belt, SAA President Amanda McManaway, Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Mary Coburn and Bryson Clifton.

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Kabbara, Zeigler and Macak on the coast of Carmel Bay.

NUPTIALS FOR NOLES

The popularity of Mark Zeigler (M.S. ’89) as a communications professor is quantifiable. You can measure it by the difficulty of registering for his class on fundamentals of speech, or the aggregate score of his end-of-semester student evaluations, or the four teaching honors he’s received – including the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2009. You can also tally it by the number of weddings at which he’s officiated for former students. That would be 10. The latest took place in March, when Andy Macak (B.A.’05) and Soraya Kabbara said “I do” overlooking majestic Carmel Bay in Pebble Beach, Calif. “I was stationed in Hawaii when Mark came out to do a wedding for another former student,” says Macak, a U.S. Marine captain who took Zeigler’s speech class. “That’s when I first got the idea to ask him, because there’s probably no better speaker who could have made the ceremony more touching and personal.” Zeigler, the son of a Baptist minister, approaches the nuptials with the same process he preaches in class. Vows are custom-made, following hours of conversations with the bride, groom and members of the wedding party.

“The idea is to create a narrative of their lives that ties into the promises they have made to each other,” said Zeigler, a member of the FSU faculty since 1993. “Now where the story goes is up to them. I’ve handed it off, and they have to continue to write it and nurture it, and I hope the people who came as guests of the bride go away feeling as if they know the groom just as well – and vice versa.” The Pebble Beach wedding was such a hit, some of the guests were inquiring about Zeigler’s availability to do others. “He captured the moment in such a great way,” said Macak, now stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, NC. “Besides, he’s got a 100 percent record. Every couple is still married.” Vires 49

Class Notes indicates FSU Alumni Association membership 1950s Edna Ranck (B.A. ’57) received the 2012 Christian Kjeldsen Champion for Children Award from Project Impact New Jersey, an award named for a Johnson & Johnson vice president of community and workplace programs.

CREATIVE WRITING ALUMNUS WINS PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION Florida State University alumnus Adam Johnson (Ph.D. ’01) has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his book “The Orphan Master’s Son.”

Florida State English Professor Emeritus Janet Burroway, who served as Johnson’s dissertation director, praised him as truly talented. “He arrived at FSU with everything he needed: voice, style, command and a prodigious imagination — the Miracle-Gro of imaginations,” said Burroway, who was nominated in 1970 for a Pulitzer Prize for her novel “The Buzzards.” “My time at FSU was very important and formative for me,” Johnson said. “I truly found my voice in Tallahassee, and I really do treasure those years: readings at the Warehouse, gathering for workshop, thinking about stories as I rode my bike down the St. Marks Trail.” Robert Olen Butler, Florida State’s Francis Eppes Professor of English and 1993 Pulitzer winner, taught Johnson before joining the faculty at Florida State. “As impressed as I was by his emerging talent in the workshop,” Butler said, “it was his avid exploration of everything from cockfighting to zydeco music that spoke to me of his nascent genius.”

Marcia Fine (B.S. ’66) has been honored by the Arizona Authors Association for her new novel, “Paris Lamb.” She won first prize in the Unpublished Novel category for 2012.

Edward Hida (M.S.W. ’58) was honored with the Lions’ Birch-Sturm Fellowship Award for extraordinary service to the West Allis Central Lions Club, in recognition of his role in creating the Wisconsin Lions Foundation Vehicle License Plates. 1960s Thomas Schultz (B.S. ’62), a senior partner at Miami-based Tew Cardenas LLP, was selected by the Federal Bar Association to serve as a guest speaker at a recent panel discussion regarding the history and function of Florida’s Federal Judicial Nominating Commission.

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Pulitzer judges praised Johnson’s book as “an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.” It is the third book by Johnson, 45, who teaches creative writing at Stanford.

Thomas M. Woodruff (B.S. ’65), an attorney at Woodruff Injury Law, will be racing in a skiing competition in his division at Snowmass, Colo.

Frank Ryll (B.A. ’64), Florida Chamber of Commerce director of global outreach, was honored with the International Business Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award from the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce for his work in expanding international trade in Florida. James Bailey (B.S. ’65), a Harlan, Ky., native, joined the Army as an airborne soldier during World War II and later transferred into the newly formed U.S. Air Force, where he was selected as a chief master sergeant in 1959. Chief Bailey recently retired in Eustis, Fla.

Stephen Montague (B.M. ’65, M.M. ’67), a freelance classical music composer, directed 147 performers in Cage’s “Musicircus” at the English National Opera house, London Coliseum. Ohio State University named Montague the Featured Composer in its Contemporary New Music Festival.

▲ Marcia Fine John W. Frost II (J.D. ’68) has committed an additional $1 million gift to the Florida State University College of Law, where a courtroom in the school’s Advocacy Center will now bear his name. Peter M. Dunbar (B.A. ’69, J.D. ’72), a former state representative and shareholder in the Pennington law firm, was honored with the 2012 Florida State University College of Law Distinguished Alum Award. 1970s Anne Bristol (B.S. ’70), educator and administrator, has been named head of Monarch Academy at Morgan’s Wonderland, a school for students with special needs in San Antonio. Rich Halten (B.A. ’71), an independent producer, won the national Edward R. Murrow award for his documentary “Splash,” based on people who jump off the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and survive. John Lewis (B.S. ’71, M.S. ’74, J.D. ’80) was named Trial Lawyer of the Year at the annual judicial dinner of the Southwest Florida Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

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Johnson is the fourth FSU alumnus to win a Pulitzer, joining Ellen Zwilich (1983), Doug Marlette (1988) and Kathleen Parker (2010).

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Gordon J. Sprague (B.S. ’65) of Gulf Breeze, Fla., a retired mutual fund money manager, has been appointed to the Northwest Florida Transportation Corridor Authority by Gov. Rick Scott.

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Anita Stephens (B.S. ’76, M.S.W. ’81 ) was recently added as a special event planner dedicated to social and corporate outside sales for Puff ‘n Stuff Catering, a West and Central Florida full-service catering and events company.

Stephen J. Rothman (B.S. ’72, M.F.A. ’74), a professional stage director, received the Outstanding Professor Award and was honored on campus during Cal State L.A.’s 2012 Fall Faculty Day.

Philippe Jeck (B.A. ’77) was selected to represent the interests of Jupiter Island in the Florida Historical Society’s celebration of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Florida by Juan Ponce de Leon. Two performances were held, and the event was filmed for the Florida Archives to be used as a teaching tool for Florida schools.

Lonnie Groot (B.S. ’73, J.D. ’76), of the Lake Mary law firm of Stenstrom, McIntosh, Colbert & Whigham P.A., served as a presiding judge at the 9th Judicial Circuit High School Mock Trial Competition held at Barry University Law School in Orlando. Tom Arpke (B.A. ’74) was recently elected to the Kansas State Senate, representing District 24. He previously served in the Kansas House of Representatives, representing District 69 from 2011 to 2013. Steven Templeton (B.S. ’74), managing partner of Templeton & Co., was named a Managing Partner Elite according to the October 2012 issue of Accounting Today.

Fredrick Joss (B.A. ’77), attorney at law, wrote and published his novel “Amarillo Rose.” Helen Ryan Miles (B.A. ’78) recently wrote and published “Our Best and Most Accomplished,” inspired by President Obama. The first lady wrote Miles a letter of thanks after receiving the book at a rally in Orlando. Marie D. Osborne (B.A. ’78), Miami-Dade chief assistant public defender, Juvenile Division, will receive the 2013 Mayor’s Pioneer Award, which honors a trailblazer who has shown leadership, creativity and vision in addressing community issues and advancing the status of women in MiamiDade County for at least the past 10 years. Jerry Weil (B.S. ’78), CPA, has joined Bennett Thrasher PC, Atlanta, as a shareholder in the company’s tax practice.

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Charles M. Grigg (B.A. ’73) was named the Department of Health’s new deputy secretary for statewide services, responsible for overseeing and providing direction to the state’s county health department directors and administrators.

Photo: Shems Hamilton and FRLA

Richard McNider (M.S. ’72), a distinguished professor emeritus in mathematical sciences at the University of Alabama, was honored by the American Meteorological Society for his contributions to applied meteorology.

REISS NAMED CHAIRMAN OF FLORIDA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION A distinguished 41-year career has given Andy Reiss (B.S. ’70) a chance to lead and represent an entire state industry. Reiss is the 2013 chairman of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association. The Hotel and Restaurant Management graduate is the first chairman in association history to be based in Tallahassee. “Usually the chairs have been from the bigger cities,” Reiss said. “In my case, it has to do with location. Being across from the state capitol has kept me in the forefront. Usually the chairs are from chain (restaurants) and large hotels.” However, Reiss has scored one for independent operators. He and his wife, Maxin, came to Tallahassee in 1972 and opened the first deli in town – The Deli. Several other establishments followed, including Maxin’s, the first jazz bar rooted in Tallahassee. Now, at age 64, Reiss has scaled back to a pair of restaurants and a catering business.

Claudia Rickert Isom (J.D. ’75), of Tampa, received the 2013 Florida Bar Chief Justice’s Distinguished Judicial Service Award for most outstanding service in the area of pro bono legal assistance. Hilda Skagfield Jones (B.S. ’75) is co-owner of the Abacela Winery, which was honored as the 2013 Oregon Winery of the Year by Wine Press Northwest.

S. Greg Burge (B.S. ’79), a partner at the regional law firm Burr & Forman LLP, has been inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Diahann W. Lassus (B.S. ’76), CFP, CPA/PFS and president of Lassus Wherley, was selected as a 2013 Five Star Wealth ManagerSM for the third consecutive year.

Susan May Moore (M.S. ’79, Ph.D. ’79) psychologist, university researcher and social scientist, created and published a book for grandmothers, “New Age Nanas.”

During his childhood, Reiss gained the work ethic required to run multiple restaurants. His father was a maitre d’ at a hotel in Miami, and Andy received some early training in the industry. “I was dragged to work to answer phones and bus tables,” Reiss said. “By the time I was 17, I had done all the hotel jobs.” Reiss has passed on that opportunity to thousands of young people. He estimates that 80 to 90 percent of the 7,000 employees he has had in four decades have been FSU students. “Being able to help them and affect their lives in that way is a wonderful thing,” he said. Vires 51

1980s Steven Jaffe (B.A. ’80), an attorney at Farmer, Jaffe, Weissing, Edwards, Fistos & Lehrman P.L., has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society of Broward County and Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida for a three-year term. Frederick P. Mercurio (B.A. ’81) was elected circuit court judge for the 12th Judicial Circuit, Sarasota, in the Felony Division. Thomas Martin Eads (Ph.D. ’82) of Rockville, Md., was appointed senior chemist at the Food and Drug Administration, Center for Tobacco Products, Office of Science.

ALUMNA KEEPS PAY FLOWING DURING HURRICANE SANDY The power of Hurricane Sandy did not prevent Dr. Lynne Lummel (B.S. ’76) and her peers from ensuring that thousands of people would be able to keep putting food on their tables.

“We have never closed for five days – maybe one day for a blizzard,” she said. “That week, we had $100 million in international distribution processed. For our members, this is their paycheck. Composers for performers like Adele … they are relying on us.” Through a work structure that Lummel created, staff members were able to do their jobs from home. It was designed to give workers in New York some flexibility in the event of a national emergency, such as a terrorist attack. “People could have taken vacations,” she said. “But they worked a full week and through the weekend despite a hurricane. We did it.” Workers walked many miles and showered at gyms to make sure payments kept going out. She called it her proudest moment in 25 years with ASCAP. “FSU was a turning point in my life,” she said. “Coming from a blue-collar background, I was the first in my family to graduate from college. The core business curriculum exposed me to things and gave me a selfconfidence. FSU gave me that belief I could do anything.” 52 Vires

Vivian Arenas-Battles (J.D. ’86) has been appointed an adjunct professor in the Urban & Regional Planning Program at the University of South Florida. ▲ Vivian Arenas-Battles

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When the October storm slammed into New Jersey and New York, it forced the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) to close for five days. As the senior vice president of distribution and repertory, Lummel is the driving force that makes sure royalty payments are distributed to music writers and publishers when their music is performed in a concert, played on a radio station or featured in a film or TV show.

Grant S. Vuille (B.A. ’82) published his two-act musical play, “Doctor George’s Magnificent Zeppelin.”

Pamela Childers (B.A. ’88) was sworn in as the clerk of the circuit court and comptroller for Escambia County-Pensacola. Omar Franco (B.A. ’88), a federal government lobbyist and head of the Becker & Poliakoff firm’s Washington, D.C., office, has been elected president of the Hispanic Lobbyists Association. Lily Afshar (D.M. ’89) released a new book, “Essential Bach: Arranged for Guitar,” which provides guitarists with a new approach to many of Bach’s masterpieces. Alexander S. Douglas II (J.D. ’89), an Orlando attorney, was recently named a partner with the law firm of ShuffieldLowman. 1990s Cheryl Lowell (Ph.D. ’90) was appointed president and chief executive officer of Rocky Vista University. Martha Saunders (Ph.D. ’90), of Hattiesburg, Miss. — former University of West Florida College of Arts and Sciences dean — returned to UWF as the university’s new provost and vice president for academic affairs. John K. Frazer (B.S. ’91), a physician-scientist specializing in children’s cancer, is the first recipient of the CMRI E.L. and Thelma Gaylord Chair in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at The Children’s Hospital at Oklahoma University Medical Center. Luis Garcia (B.S. ’91), a Central Florida career banker, has been named senior vice president and senior commercial relationship manager for American Momentum Bank.

Vikram Mehta (M.S. ’86, Ph.D. ’90) was one of 30 non-resident Indians in the world to be awarded a Mahatma Gandhi gold medal by the Non-Resident Indians Welfare Society of India.

Jack A. Moser (Ph.D. ’87), a Vietnam veteran, later became a counselor and psychotherapist. He recently wrote and published a collection of poems, “You Can See Me From Here.” D. Scott Baker (B.A. ’88) was recently named a shareholder for the law firm of Zimmerman Kiser Sutcliffe, P.A.

▲ Luis Garcia

▲ D. Scott Baker Davis F. Gates (B.A. ’91) has been promoted to director of late development statistics at Merck Research Laboratories in Kenilworth, N.J. Paul K. Heim II (M.S. ’91), of Atlantic Beach, N.C., recently retired as fleet oceanographer, meteorologist and navigator after 30 years of active-duty naval service while assigned to United States Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, Va.

Andrew McClenahan (B.S. ’91) was named public safety director of SmartWater CSI, LLC’s newly established U.S. operations. Guy Quattlebaum (B.A. ’91), an attorney in the Litigation Practice Group in the Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow firm’s West Palm Beach office, has been elected president of the Palm Beach County Sports Commission.

Rodney Irvin (B.A. ’93) has been selected to serve as the interim director of employee relations in the Department of Human Resources for Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. William Simonitsch (B.A. ’93, M.A. ’94), a litigation partner in the Miami office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP, has been voted to a one-year term as president-elect of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.

Anne Anderson (B.S. ’92) was named one of Houston’s 50 Most Influential Women for 2012 by Houston Woman Magazine. Michael Haggard (B.S. ’92), a partner at the Haggard Law Firm, successfully argued a $5.7 million jury verdict in a negligent security case in Miami Dade County.

▲ William Simonitsch

Suzanne E. Minor (B.S. ’94) recently earned the degree of Fellow from the American Academy of Family Physicians and received the Full-Time Educator of the Year Award from the Florida Academy of Family Physicians. ▲ Michael Haggard Michael Hofer (B.S. ’92) introduced his latest character, Major Manners, in “Major Manners Presents Nite-Nite Soldier” and was named a finalist for 2012’s Best New Children’s Picture Book by USA Book News.

Jack Pohlman (B.S. ’94), CPA, has been named a partner/shareholder in the Southwest Florida accounting firm Wiltshire, Whitley, Richardson & English P.A.

Jonathan King (M.F.A. ’92) is executive vice president of production at Participant Media. He was the executive producer for “Lincoln,” which earned a dozen Oscar nominations for 2013. King also co-produced “No,” a Chilean motion picture nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

David Silverman (B.A. ’92) was recently granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of communication studies and theatre arts at Kansas Wesleyan University.

A switch during his senior year jump-started the career of Dan Hendrix (B.S. ’77). Hendrix, the chairman and CEO of Interface Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of modular carpet, found his path in business when he changed his major to accounting. That led to a career in public accounting before he joined Interface as a financial manager in 1983. Within a couple of years, the company installed Hendrix as the CFO. “We were in a big acquisition mode – acquiring businesses and doubling our size in 1986 and ’88,” he said. “I was trying to learn 24/7.” As Interface expands into Africa, China, Central America, India and the Middle East, Hendrix is in charge of investing in those markets. He also leads the effort to eliminate any negative impact Interface’s companies have on the environment by 2020 – an effort called Mission Zero. To accomplish those initiatives, Hendrix sticks to another beneficial lesson he learned early in his career. When he was trying to learn 24/7, a company president advised him to back off from work and find balance in his life.

Joanne Li (B.S. ’92, Ph.D. ’97), professor and chair of the Department of Finance at Towson University in Maryland, has been named dean of Wright State University’s Raj Soin College of Business. Joe Ostaszewski (B.S. ’92), a former Florida State defensive lineman, was a finalist on NBC’s reality show “The Biggest Loser” and subsequently created a foundation to help overweight and underprivileged youth.

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ALUMNUS MAKES HIS MARK IN CARPET INDUSTRY

“You can’t be a great leader without delegating responsibility, and you have to develop other people for them to grow,” he said. ▲ Jack Pohlman

Matthew C. Lucas (B.S. ’95) has been appointed to the Thirteenth Circuit Court of Florida.

Hendrix enjoyed a unique opportunity in January, when he participated in the daily closing of the stock market. He also maintains a strong tie to FSU athletics by serving on the Leadership Team within The Winning Edge Campaign, which funded the indoor practice facility. Vires 53

WOLF CREATES OPPORTUNITY FOR CAMBODIAN CHILDREN

Roberto Vargas (J.D. ’98) was named Top Lawyer by the 2013 edition of the South Florida Legal Guide. India Witte (B.A. ’98) graduated from the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce’s 2012 leadership development program. Witte was also recently promoted to senior director of foundation board relations and executive director of USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy for the University of South Florida System Foundation.

When Kay Wolf (B.S. ’72) saw children in need of education receive that gift, she cherished the moment. That was one part of Wolf’s journey to Cambodia in January. Her efforts for World Assistance for Cambodia helped provide children access to schooling, books and computers.

Wolf’s goal was to raise $15,000 to fund a school. “We raised $86,000,” she said. “We had enough money to fund the school for five years and provide an English teacher and computers.” Wolf has a bachelor’s degree in social work from the university. She has seen the power of learning in Cambodia and at home. “My son got to FSU and took his first chemistry course and a light went off. He is hooked on learning,” she said. Wolf, an Orlando attorney, has received many responses from her peers about the program. A judge in Palm Beach County sent her a letter expressing her interest in getting involved. It is an experience that Wolf holds dear. “We took textbooks to the kids. Each child had four,” she said. “You would have sworn we gave them iPads.” It all started for Wolf and a group of children when she read a book. “It is a wonderful toolkit for people with great hearts who don’t know how to make a difference,” she said.

▲ India Witte

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The trek began in Orlando, when Wolf read the book “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.” Within that book by journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Wolf encountered a section that detailed a project founded by Bernard Krisher: World Assistance for Cambodia.

▼ Dr. Tony McNeill Dr. Tony McNeill (M.M. ’96) directed the Ebenezer Baptist Church Choir in singing the national anthem at the NCAA Division III Final Four. Ryan Cappy (B.S. ’97, J.D. ’00) was named partner to Ligori & Cappy, Attorneys at Law as of January 2013.

Malinda Dobyne (M.S.W. ’97) was honored as the 2013 Public Citizen of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers Illinois Three Rivers District. Nicholas A. Philpitt (B.A. ’97), a full-time Air Reserve Technician, is flying the HC-130 Hercules combat rescue aircraft with the Air Force Reserve Command’s 920th Rescue Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. ▼ Brittany Adams Long

Michelle Eisenreich (B.F.A. ’99) was a visualeffects producer for “Prometheus,” which was nominated in the Visual Effects category of the 2013 Academy Awards. Edward Kintzel (M.A. ’99, Ph.D. ’02), an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Western Kentucky University, helped establish the Nondestructive Analysis (NOVA) Center as the research lab’s director. Jason Thatcher (M.P.A. ’99, Ph.D. ’02), associate professor of information systems in Clemson University’s department of management, has been named to the prestigious Circle of Compadres by the Information Systems Doctoral Student Association. 2000s Bill Stetson IV (J.D. ’00) is an attorney at Gunster law firm’s private wealth services practice and has been promoted from associate to shareholder status at the firm. ▲ Bill Stetson IV

Brittany Adams Long (B.S. ’98, J.D. ’01) has joined Tallahassee’s Radey Thomas Yon & Clark firm focusing primarily on administrative and appellate law. Brian Ray (Ph.D. ’98), of Gainesville, was ordained by Bishop Felipe J. Estevez of the Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine, at the Cathedral Basilica. 54 Vires

▼ Stephanie Nisivoccia

Sherma Peter (B.A. ’01) was named to the Board of Directors as alternate director District 1 of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians at the 64th Annual Scientific Assembly. Melissa Joiner (B.A. ’02) was named director of government affairs for the Florida Retail Federation. Altony “Tony” Lee III (B.S. ’02), director of annual giving at Radford University, has been elected to an at-large position on the board of directors for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, District III.

Stephanie Nisivoccia (B.S. ’04), a foreign service officer assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro carrying the FSU banner. Nisivoccia was named in 2012 to the Alumni Association’s inaugural list of 30 Under Thirty. Staci Rewis (J.D. ’04) is an attorney at Gunster law firm’s environmental and land use practice and has been promoted from associate to shareholder status at the firm. ▲ Staci Rewis

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Adam Johnson (Ph.D. ’01), an associate professor at Stanford University, was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for his novel “The Orphan Master’s Son.”

Lawrence Webster (M.A. ’02) wrote and launched his novel, “Under the North Light: The Life and Work of Maud and Miska Petersham.” Dustin Cawood (M.F.A. ’03) was the sound effects editor for the film “Lincoln,” which was nominated for a dozen Academy Awards. Cawood was also the sound designer for the documentary “Chasing Ice,” which was nominated for Best Song. Michael Lortz (B.A. ’03, M.A. ‘05) was published in “The Bus Leagues Experience: Volume 3,” a compilation of interviews with people associated with minor league baseball. Michael Raanan (B.S. ’03) started Landmark Tax Group, a company that helps people resolve tax disputes with the IRS. Daniel Spellman (B.S. ’03) co-founded UFOREA Inc., an organization dedicated to providing funding to domestic and international nonprofit organizations whose missions are to provide humanitarian, wildlife or educational aid around the globe. Walter Kmiec (B.A. ’04) directed the Florida State School of Theatre’s rendition of William Shakespeare’s comedic classic “Much Ado About Nothing,” in which Ariel Emmerson (M.F.A. ’09) was the scenic designer and Josh Wickham (M.F.A. ’12) was the scenic studio manager.

Kelly Alvarez Vitale (B.A. ’04, M.A. ’06) was honored in South Florida’s Gold Coast magazine as one of the “40 Under 40.” Nathan Boyles (B.S. ’05, J.D. ’07) was elected Okaloosa County commissioner and selected among 40 influential business leaders under 40 by 850: Business Magazine of Northwest Florida. K. Maclain Benton (B.S. ’06) was recognized in Florida CPA Today magazine as a Young CPA “Top 26 Under 36.” Philip Dugas (M.S. ’06), a Naples, Fla., native, participated alongside 14 experienced physical education teachers in the United States Sports Academy’s new pilot program designed to retrain Malaysia’s physical education teachers.

SHEPHERD TAKES REINS OF AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY A bee sting put Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd (B.S ’91, M.S. ’93, Ph.D. ’99) on a brand-new career path. Shepherd, the president of the American Meteorological Society, had a strong interest as a child in the study of insects. A honeybee changed his mind in a matter of minutes. “I found out I was highly allergic to bee stings,” he said. So Shepherd made a move toward his second interest: weather. A sixth-grade science fair in which he constructed weather instruments by using household items sent him toward his future presidency. “I knew that I wanted to be a meteorologist, but I did not want to predict the weather day to day,” he said. “I was more interested in the how and why.” At a January meeting Shepherd took over as president of the AMS, an organization of 15,000 weather professionals and students. “People are most familiar with the AMS through the meteorologists they see on TV,” he said. That visual recognition generates the two questions that Shepherd receives most often: “What is the weather going to be like tomorrow?” and “What channel are you on?” However, Shepherd eschewed television for academia, and serves on the faculty of the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga. Shepherd often crosses paths with FSU President Dr. Eric Barron (B.S. ’73). Both men serve on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Science Advisory Board, and the search committee for the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Vires 55

William F. McFetridge (B.S. ’06) joined the Tampa office of GrayRobinson P.A. as an associate.

MORRIS MAKING STRIDES IN BATTLE AGAINST EYE DISEASES To continue the fight against crippling eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration, Dr. Ann Morris (B.S. ’95) set her sights on freshwater streams.

James J. Argento (J.D. ’07) was elected chairman of the city of Leesburg’s Planning and Zoning Commission. Phoebe Flynn (M.S. ’07), a major in the U.S. Army, obtained a degree while on active duty overseas as a part of the distance learning program at FSU’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Jeremy M. Waltman (M.F.A. ’08) recently completed his first feature-length film, “Locomotive,” which won a Royal Reel Award from the Canada International Film Festival. Eunice Cheng (M.F.A. ’09) was a rigging production assistant and translator for “Life of Pi,” an Oscar-nominated film for 2013.

“If we can understand it, maybe we can treat human degenerative diseases.” she said.

The chance to work with Dr. James Fadool, an associate professor in the FSU Department of Biological Science, gave Morris a postdoctoral mentor. She credits Fadool with helping her see that she could be successful in her own lab. That foundation at FSU helped Morris become a 2011 PEW Biomedical Scholar. The process for fighting eye disease includes interacting with fellow scientists, clinicians and ophthalmologists who do research at the University of Kentucky. It is a journey that started with a broad education at FSU. “I had some great teachers who got me excited about genetics,” Morris said. “I had great classes and the opportunity to work in a lab. That really convinced me to go to graduate school.” 56 Vires

Jenna W. Clevinger (B.A. ’09) recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill.

Matthew T. Ingersoll (B.S. ’07) joined the national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP as an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group.

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Morris majored in biochemistry and thought she would give herself a year to see if she did well. After earning her bachelor’s at FSU and a Ph.D. from Emory University, she faced a decision. “I got my Ph.D. and had to decide whether I wanted to keep working in academics.”

Michael S. Provenzale (J.D. ’08) and Richard E. Englebright Jr. (J.D. ’08) were promoted to the level of senior associate at Lowndes Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed P.A., named the largest law firm in Central Florida by the Orlando Business Journal. Irene Sans (B.A. ’08) is joining KTMD, the Telemundo station in Houston, as chief meteorologist.

▼ Matthew T. Ingersoll

Morris, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky, studies the retinas in zebrafish to see if their ability to regenerate damaged eye tissue can provide a blueprint of therapy options for humans.

Morris’ interest in understanding the science world developed during middle school. She also had an interest in studying a variety of other subjects. After working at a newspaper in Tallahassee, she resumed her pursuit of scientific study. “I felt like something was missing,” Morris said. “There were advances in the ’90s on how genes regulate embryonic development. I was fascinated and wanted to go back to school to learn more about it.”

Thomas B. Noyes (B.S. ’08) recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill.

Maite Garcia (B.A. ’08) has been hired as an associate at the law office of Ramon de la Cabada P.A. in Miami.

Joseph Fisher (B.S. ’09), a Navy seaman, has been assigned to the Los Angeles-class submarine USS Cheyenne (SSN 773), based in Subic Bay, Philippines, as part of its Western Pacific deployment. Patrick Flemming (B.S. ’09, J.D. ’12) has joined Radey Thomas Yon & Clark firm as an associate focusing on the areas of labor and employment law and commercial litigation.

▲ Maite Garcia

Danielle M. Murray (B.A. ’08, J.D. ’10), an attorney with The Health Law Firm, has been appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of Florida Rural Legal Services Inc. ▲ Danielle M. Murray ▲ Patrick Flemming

Patrick Mitchell (B.S. ’09), a network specialist at the Columbia County School District Administrative Complex, received a key to the city after being named the 2013 Columbia County School-Related Employee of the Year.

Mary E. Clagg (B.S. ’12) has graduated from Navy Officer Candidate School (OCS) and has received a commission as an ensign in the United States Navy while assigned at Officer Training Command in Newport, R.I. Daniel G. Escobedo (B.S. ’12) has graduated from Navy Officer Candidate School (OCS) and has received a commission as an ensign in the United States Navy while assigned at Officer Training Command in Newport, R.I. Paul T. Riggs (B.S. ’12) earned the title of United States Marine after graduating from recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C.

▼ Jacqueline Petrozzino-Roche

Jackie Thaxton (M.S. ’12) has been named program manager of Little Star Center Inc.

William Antczak (B.S. ’10) earned the title of United States Marine after graduating from recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C. Jonathan Bennett (M.F.A. ’10), Gef Gove (M.F.A. ’11), Tricia Mears (M.F.A. ’11), Matt Ryan (M.F.A. ’11) and Jim Ed Wills (M.F.A. ’11) worked on production of the film “Lincoln,” which was nominated for a dozen 2013 Academy Awards. Madeline Eberhard (B.F.A. ’11) was a camera production assistant who worked on the 2013 Oscar-nominated film “Silver Linings Playbook.”

▲ Jackie Thaxton

CLASS NOTES

Jacqueline Petrozzino-Roche (B.A. ’09, B.S. ’09) was hired by Finley Engineering Group Inc. as the bridge designer for the firm.

Philip A. Witherspoon (B.S. ’12) has graduated from Navy Officer Candidate School (OCS) and has received a commission as an ensign in the United States Navy while assigned at Officer Training Command in Newport, R.I.

PANKOKE TAKES HER PLACE IN CHICAGO FASHION WORLD Taking a gamble on the Windy City has put Kate Pankoke (B.S. ’10) in a prime position. During the past year, the Chicago-based fashion designer has created her own bridal line, Elaya Vaughn. She also carved out a spot on Season 11 of “Project Runway,” the fashion design TV show. “In design, you have one choice: Move to New York,” Pankoke said. “But I never considered myself a New York girl. Chicago was my way of doing New York. It’s a big city with a fashion scene, but it’s a lot more homey.” The move paid off. Pankoke found her footing on “Project Runway” by training for the experience as if it were the Olympics. “I put myself through fashion boot camp,” she said. Out of thousands of applicants who were narrowed down to a cast of 16, Pankoke finished in ninth place. Her area of expertise, bridal design, is a passion she developed at FSU. As part of Fashion Inc., she did three wedding gowns and three bridesmaid dresses. From that point, she had found a niche and set the wheels in motion to start her own line. “Bridal is the most fun fashion because you can splurge and go over the top,” she said. Pankoke was part of the last graduating class in Apparel Design and Technology, an FSU program that was cut. She hopes there will be similar opportunities in the future for other fashion enthusiasts. “It was hard to see it go,” she said, “because that’s why I went to FSU.”

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▼ Alyssa Potter, Starlett Hill

Alyssa Potter (B.A. ’10) and Starlett Hill (B.S. ’11) appeared in NBC’s musical-drama television series “SMASH” as extras on the set. Sean Walroth (B.A. ’10, M.P.A. ’12) earned the title of United States Marine after graduating from recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C.

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I N M E M O R IAM 1920s Allie Richards Teague (L.I. ’29, B.A. ’33)

1930s Hazel M. Alexander (B.A. ’31) Eleanor L. Douthat (B.A. ’32) Hattie Crews Dowdell (B.A. ’33) Clarissa Knight Beck (B.S. ’36) Babette Fleming (L.I. ’36) Elizabeth B. Franks (B.A. ’38) Hazel M. Gowling (B.S. ’38) Evelyn Pat Slaughter (B.M. ’38) Sarah Hendry Steen (B.S. ’38) Annie Frances Walker (L.I.’38) Anna E. Bell (B.A. ’39) Margaret F. Fleet (B.A. ’39) Betty H. Landsberger (B.A. ’39)

1940s Murray L. Barrett (’40) Charlotte Louise Causseaux (’41) Mary Slemons Johnson (B.S. ’41) Mary R. Morgan (B.S. ’41) Helen B. Bickerstaff (B.S. ’43) Helen C. Bird (B.A. ’43) Rachel Gunn Brown (B.A. ’43) Martha Hackl Eilertsen (B.A. ’43) Patricia Randall Gannett (B.S. ’43) Virginia G. Lassiter (B.A. ’43, B.S. ’44) Gladys S. Baker (B.S. ’44) Gwendolyn B. Button (B.S. ’44) Earlene P. Carter (B.S. ’44) Mary Eleanor Cooper (B.A. ’44) Marianthe Stafeles Coppedge (B.S. ’44, M.S. ’50) Lilla F. Lett (B.S. ’44, B.S. ’62) Jacqueline D. Polk (B.S. ’44) Esther C. Schiffer (B.S. ’44) Geraldine Clark Turner (B. ’44, M.Ed. ’56) Mary Ellen Whaley (B.S. ’44) Mary M. Munson (B.S. ’45) Helen Fletcher Sams (B.S. ’45) Margaret Fuller Thomas (B.S. ’45) Winifred M. Apseldorf (B.A. ’46) Bronna D. Gaddy (B.S. ’46) Alice P. Kilgo (’46) Angelina R. Lanni (B.S. ’46) Doris Agner Lewis (B.S. ’46, M.S. ‘68) Patricia P. Marker (’46) Ann F. Shuler Farrior (B.A. ’47) Jeweldeen Timmons Kerr (B.S. ’47) Louise I. Pierce (B.A. ’47) Lucille Wooten Sellars (B.M. ’47, M.M. ’49) Emma Herlong Worth (B.S. ’47) Bernice D. Baker (B.S. ’48) Katherine D. Channing (’48) Mary L. Davis (B.A. ’48) Margrette Nancy Lassiter (B.A. ’48) Melvin Carl Magidson, Sr. (B.S. ’48, M.S. ’49) Mary Frances Sullivan (B.A. ’48) Eleanor Boothby (B.A. ’49) Joannah W. Costine (B.S. ’49) Peggy Baker Feustel (B.A. ’49) Phyllis H. Goodson (B.S. ’49)

Paulina D. Granville (B.S. ’49, M.A. ’50, Ph.D. ’87) Marjorie King Hazen (B.A. ’49) Edna Mae Jones (B.S. ’49) John Joseph Madigan (B.A. ’49, M.S. ’56) Norma Phyllis Ward (B.A. ’49)

1950s Norma Armstrong Beardsley (B.S. ’50) Marjorie M. Budd (B.S. ’50) Kenneth David Clark (B.S. ’50, M.S. ’69) James L. Ewing III (’50) Robert Benjamin Graham (B.S. ’50) Margaret Y. Kirkman (M.A. ’50) William Andrew Tanner (B.S. ’50) Ruby M. Ulm (B.S. ’50, M.S. ‘57) John Scheper Vanderoef (B.A. ’50, M.A. ’51) Frances R. White (B.S. ’50, M.A. ’52) Ronald P. Wildes Jr. (B.S. ’50) Margaret Tims Younathan (B.S. ’50, M.S. ’51, Ph.D. ’58) William I. Barber (B.S. ’51) Catherine E. Broadus (B.S. ’51) Camilla D. Croy (’51) Elizabeth Lazear Fannon (B.A. ’51, M.A. ‘61) Ray M. Fleming (B.S. ’51) Wallace A. Kennedy (B.A. ’51, M.A. ’52, Ph.D. ’56) Marian Lawton Langford (B.S. ’51) Betty Breeden Lee (B.S. ’51) Daniel Waldon Padgett (B.S. ’51) Jean Holmes Stehle (B.A. ’51, M.A. ’52) Lonnie Burton Welch (B.S. ’51) Janis Wells Westling (B.S. ’51) William K. Bass, Sr. (B.S. ’52) William Randolph Beaton (M.S. ’52) Donald G. Deitch (B.M. ’52) Ivan Lee Kestner (B.A. ’52) Julie Hawes Matthews (B.S. ’52) Okley C. Norris (B.S. ’52) Walton F. Perrine, Jr. (C.E. ’52) Louis P. Russo, Sr. (B.S. ’52) Evan Owen Shaw (B.S. ’52) Rose Frances Spicola (M.A. ’52, Ph.D. ’60) Doris Smith Swope (B.A. ’52) Carlos R. Taylor (B.S. ’52, M.S. ’56, Ed.D. ’63) William Jackson Wilder (B.S. ’52) Mary B. Adams (B.S. ’53) William T. Edwards (B.S. ’53) James Giles Evans (B.S. ’53, M.S. ‘63) Howard David Gehres (B.S. ’53) Margaret P. Hussong (B.S. ’53) Donald West Jaicks (’53) Kathryn Elizabeth Patrick (B.S. ’53) Billy Duane Teel (B.S. ’53) James Ralph Thompson, Sr. (B.S. ’53) Charles S. Yentsch (M.S. ’53) Miles W. Hardy (M.S. ’54, Ph.D. ’60) Myrtle Simpson Aase (B.S. ’55) Ralph S. Becker (Ph.D. ’55) Harold Vincent Gibson (B.S. ’55, M.S. ’56) Virginia P. Giebeig (B.S. ’55) Mary B. Gremp (B.S. ’55) James Parker Hussong (B.M. ’55, M.M. ’56) Spurgeon Franklin Johnson (B.S. ’55, M.S.W. ’74) Jack Kelly Luttrell (B.S. ’55) Richard Dennis Mayo (B.M. ’55) John H. Moore (Ph.D. ’55)

James William Poppler (B.M. ’55) Dorothy B. Seals (B.S. ’55) Roger McLeod Bickel (B.S. ’56) Marion Eleanor Bradley (B.S. ’56) Lon Paige Hatton (B.S. ’56) Ernestdeen Johnson-Comes (B.S. ’56) Bobby B. Kennedy (B.S. ’56, M.S. ‘67) Constance C. Long (B.S. ’56) Rock Curtis Payne, Jr. (B.S. ’56) Jacob Anthony Samenfink (Ed.D. ’56) Wilton Ray Turner (B.M. ’56) Mary Anne Baucino Quick (B.M. ’56) Ralph H. Atwell (B.S. ’57) Patricia B. Brazil (’57) Ellen Kiuru Campbell (B.S. ’57) Joe C. Davis (’57) Jane Quinn Gray (B.S. ’57) Mary Clare Langan (B. ’57) Loretta Iris Metzger (B.S. ’57) George Edmund Nunez II (B.S. ’57) Constantine Petropoulos (M.S. ’57) Dixon G. Robinson, Sr. (B.S. ’57) Rena M. Rybicki (B.S. ’57) T. Michael Smith (B.S. ’57) Ralph William Thomas (B.S. ’57, M.S. ‘58) John M. Vecchioli (M.S. ’57) Richard Vernon Williams (M.S. ’57) Trudie Perry Bailey (B.S. ’58) Hamilton Joseph Bisbee, Jr. (B.S. ’58) Roy E. Harris (B.S. ’58) Alvin H. Hightower (B.S. ’58) Roy Clarence Nixon (B.S. ’58) Leonard B. Southerland, Jr. (B.S. ’58) Nants Harvard Reynolds (B.A. ’58) Zack T. Williams (M.S. ’58) Lavonn Marceil Benson (M.S. ’59) Gladys E. Bowen (M.S.W. ’59, Ph.D. ’81) Jerome L. Boxer (B.S. ’59) Willie T. Green (B.S. ’59) Harriette M. Hopkins (B.M. ’59) Fred J. Impastato (Ph.D. ’59) John Edward Manning (B.S. ’59) Joann Bowen Montague (B.S. ’59) James Edward Snowden (B.S. ’59) Esther I. Thomson (M.A. ’59) Harry Paul Tison (B.S. ’59, M.B.A. ’72) Edward T. Ward (B.S. ’59) Jo Anne Williams (’59)

1960s Gordon F. Caldwell (B.S. ’60) Richard F. Campbell (Ph.D. ’60) Donald Eugene Clark (B.S. ’60) Joe D. Cooke, Jr. (B.S. ’60, M.S. ‘72) Jacqueline S. Deckel (B.S. ’60) Ronald George Fraser (B.S. ’60) Mary Elizbaeth Gehring (B.S. ’60) Marcia Jeru Hodges (M.S. ’60) Charles M. Keels (B.S. ’60) Carline M. Moore (B.S. ’60) Kenneth C. Shannon, Jr. (B.M.E. ’60) Richard W. Straw (B.S. ’60) Albert Stratton, Jr. (’60) John H. Bakker (B.S. ’61) Marjorie Ann Barron (M.S. ’61)

Charles R. Gibson (B.S. ’61) Carla F. Howard (B.S. ’61) Patrick G. Richmond (B.S. ’61) D. Dean Coffin, Sr. (B.S. ’62) Kenneth B. Cone (B.S. ’62) Thomas Wayne Fritz (B.S. ’62) Randal B. Geoghagan (B.S. ’62) Ernest P. Grover, Jr. (B.S. ’62) Bobby A. Hattaway (B.S. ’62) William D. Heuck (B.S. ’62) William Dana Hiscock III (B.S. ’62) Mary Ann Jennings (B.S. ’62, M.S.W. ’88) Andrew J. Leavins (B.S. ’62) Betty L. McCollough (B.A. ’62) Donald E. Roberts (B.S. ’62) Robert F. Schmidt, Jr. (B.S. ’62) Clyde H. White (B.S. ’62) Laura W. Wideman (B.S. ’62) Genevieve Kay Bishop (B.A. ‘63, Ph.D. ’92) John Howard Chason, Jr. (B.S. ’63) William H. Ellis (Ph.D. ’63) Donald H. Esry (B.C.E. ’63) Tim Garvey (B.S. ’63) Donald W. Leonard (B.S. ‘63, M.A. ’68) Michael Ross Long (B.S. ’63) Frederick A. Martin (B.A. ’63) Jack Edward Spillane (B.S. ’63) David B. Wingate (M.A. ’63) Sherwood Lee Bugg, Jr. (B.S. ’64) John Marion Cooksey (B.M. ’64) Iva S. Hartsfield (B.S. ’64, M.S. ’70) David A. Jasin (B.S. ’64) Bernard J. Michels (B.S. ’64) Miriam B. Oliver (B.S. ’64) Phillip Wayne Price, Sr. (B.A. ’64, M.A. ’67) John B. Ryan, Jr. (B.S. ’64) Stephen Wesley Smith (B.M. ’64, M.M. ’70) Martha Ann Taylor (M.S. ’64) Beth Bates Bass (M.S. ’65) Robert L. Darling (B.S. ’65, M.S. ‘79) David F. Dillon (B.S. ’65, M.S.W. ’67) Frank R. Dunnill (M.S. ’65) James C. Fulton (M.S. ’65) Ann F. Futch (B.S. ’65) Wayne Stuart Gallagher (B.S. ’65) Barney R. Groves (Ph.D. ’65) Nancy Clark Hammett (’65) William Denslow Hartman, Jr. (B.S. ’65) Nell Wolf Henninger (B.S. ’65) Norman L. Preston (B.S. ’65) Sandra Reiley Pritchett (B.S. ’65) Barbara Camille Reid (B.A. ’65) Irene Lopez Suarez (B.A. ’65) Dr. James P. Vastine (M.S. ’65) Royce D. Byrd (B.S. ’66) Lee E. Cearnal, Jr. (B.A. ’66) Martha Luann Cooper (B.S. ’66) Mario F. Deliberty, Jr. (B.S. ’66) Margery C. Fulton (B.S. ’66) Marvin B. Harper (’66) Hazel W. Hoff (B.S. ’66) John W. Leavell (B.A. ’66) Tom E. Mattis (B.S. ’66, M.S. ’75) Gerald James Pedretti (M.S. ’66) Joe James Rousseau, Jr. (B.S. ’66) Vires 59

Marcia Lynn Williams (A.A. ’66, B.S. ’69) William L. Wimbish (B.S. ’66) Charles Francis Cnudde (Ph.D. ’67) Wallace G. Cooley, Sr. (B.S. ’67) Robert G. Herron, Sr. (B.A. ’67) George Daniel Jacobs (B.S. ’67, M.S. ‘68) Jack L. Jones (M.S. ’67) Thomas Clarence Schlageter (B.S. ’67) Joseph H. Sewell (B.S. ’67) James Jose Stokesberry (B.S. ’67) Michael E. Stuart (M.S. ’67) William Huntington Abney, Jr. (B.A. ’68) Rosemary Elizabeth Althouse (Ph.D. ’68) Carol Irene Dallas (B.M. ’68, M.M. ’70) R. William English, Jr. (Ph.D. ’68) William C. Garber, Sr. (M.S. ’68) Roland Emil Niednagel, Jr. (B.A. ’68) Mary Louise Sorenson (M.S. ’68) Marion Webster Taylor (B.S. ’68) Albert Trull Jr. (M.S. ’68, Ed.D. ‘72) Rosemary H. White (B.S. ’68, M.S. ’70) Steven James Zurko (B.S. ’68, M.S. ‘69) Joseph C. Barry, Jr. (B.S. ’69) Howard Edward Bowers Jr. (B.A. ’69) Dean A. Burns (M.S. ’69) George J. Demetree (B.S. ’69) Lenemaja Von Friedman (Ph.D. ’69) Mariella Glenn Hartsfield (M.A. ’69) Albert O. Herrington (M.M. ’69) Eulene M. Miller (B.S. ‘69, A.S. ’85) Cheryl Lee Scott (B.S. ’69) Emil F. Shortt (M.S. ’69) Jerry Duncan Taylor (Ph.D. ’69) Thomas W. Torley (B.S. ’69) Jerry Frances Trunzo (B.A. ’69, J.D. ‘72) Brian Kent Waters (M.S. ’69, Ph.D. ‘74) John F. Wilkinson, Jr. (B.S. ’69, M.B.A. ’75) Delano C. Williams (B.S. ’69)

1970s Granville C. Burgess (B.S. ’70) Richard Eugene Constans (B.S. ’70, M.S. ’75) Darlyn Donna Davison (M.A. ’70, Ph.D. ‘74) Patricia L. Dowell (B.S. ’70, M.S. ‘72) Joan G. Haworth (Ph.D. ’70) John Edwin Holsberry, Jr. (M.A. ’70) Lucy Tobias Pace (M.S. ’70) Robert M. Bean (B.S. ’71) Laurence L. Benson (M.S. ’71) D. Frank Beovich, Jr. (M.S. ’71) Timothy J. Campbell III (M.M. ’71) Marjorie O. Cook (B.S.N. ’71) Bette Drane Eisenbrown (B.S. ’71) Edward William Froman, Jr. (B.S.W. ’71) Robert Louis Hester (B.S. ’71) Allen Lamar Martin (B.S. ’71) John Francis McCarthy (B.S. ’71, M.B.A. ‘72) Thomas J. McGough (B.A. ’71, M.S. ’77) John Barry Mittan (B.S. ’71, M.S. ’76) William R. Sechler, Jr. (B.S. ’71, M.B.A. ’78, M.S.P. ’81) Rosanne Shelnutt (B.S. ’71) Marvin P. Alford (B.S. ’72) John R. Bryan, Jr. (M.S. ’72) Thomas Moore Currier (B.A. ’72) 60 Vires

Raul Ignacio Hernandez (B.S. ’72) Flora W. Jefson (M.S. ’72) John Scott Matlock (B.A. ’72) Richard Evan Orr (B.S.W. ’72) Marvin C. Parker, Jr. (B.A. ’72) Phyllis H. Pierce (M.S. ’72, Ph.D. ’76) Winston Eugene Whigham (B.S. ’72) Sandra Ricardo Wilcox (B.A. ’72, M.S. ‘77) Judith E. Anderson (B.S.W. ’73) Russell Bobo, Jr. (J.D. ’73) Edd Russell Brown (M.S. ’73) Charles Lee Daniel (Ph.D. ’73) Gayle Andrews Gay (B.S.W. ’73) John M. Hutchinson, Jr. (M.S. ’73, Ed.S. ’75) Larry Dean Jenkins (B.A. ’73) William Teel Lyons (B.A. ’73, J.D. ‘79) John B. MacDonald (B.S. ’73) Jack Stuart Neely, Sr. (B.S. ’73) Robert L. Sellars (J.D. ’73) Carol Marie Bores (B.A. ’74) Eda Kanal Decker (B.S. ’74) Stephen Ernest Eagerton (B.S. ’74) Linda Marie Harn (B.S. ’74) Percy Warner Mallison, Jr. (B.A. ’74, J.D. ‘78) Carol A. McGuire (M.S. ’74) Gregory C. Meissner (B.S. ’74) Maria A. Riley (B.S. ’74) Donald P. Smith (B.S. ’74) Malvena Elaine Akel (B.A. ’75) Loretta A. Bussierre (M.S.W. ’75) John Robert Carnaghi (M.S. ’75) John Patrick Cronin (B.S. ’75) Thomas Patrick Daniels (B.S. ’75) John Rebele Erbeck (M.S. ’75, Ph.D. ’78) Edna P. Flores (B.S. ’75) David J. Gustafson (M.S. ’75) John F. Hagemeister (B.S. ’75) Robert Brantly Haller (B.S. ’75) William E. Graham (B.S. ’75) Charley Grant (B.S. ’75, M.S. ’77) Brian J. Kelley (M.A. ’75) Frederick T. La Rochelle, Jr. (Ph.D. ’75) Donald Hill Moon, Jr. (Ph.D. ’75) Jorge E. Posado (B.A. ’75) William L. Smith, Jr. (M.S. ’75) Chamin H. Walker (M.M. ’75) Duane L. West (B.S. ’75) Martin L. Young (B.S. ’75) Fredrica M. Anderson (M.S. ’76) Henry Alexander Boerner (B.S. ’76, M.S. ’79) Edna S. Brown (Ed.S. ’76) Janice H. Brown (B.A. ’76) Susan C. Deconna (B.S. ’76, M.S. ‘77) Patricia G. Ford (B.M. ’76, M.M. ’83) Clyde W. Galloway, Jr. (B.S. ’76, J.D. ’80) William E. Gilbert (B.S. ’76) Rita Eika Jones (Ed.S. ’76) Luella W. McBride (Ed.S. ’76) Pamela Marie Middlebrooks (B.S. ’76, J.D. ‘83) Harry W. Slagle, Jr. (B.S. ’76) Vincent V. Versurah, Jr. (J.D. ’76) Robin C. Will (B.S. ’76) Claude Allen Wimberly II (B.A. ’76, M.S. ’78) John C. Bennett (B.S. ’77) Emma Grace Burke (M.S. ’77)

BA RRY MIT TA N

( B.S. ’71)

Barry Mittan captured indelible images of FSU, figure skaters and foreign landscapes during his successful photography career. Mittan, 63, died Jan. 23 from injuries he suffered in a fourvehicle crash. Mittan, who was a proud member of the FSU Flying High Circus, started his career as the staff photographer for a half dozen student publications at the university from 1967 to 1971. He later worked for several state agencies. For two decades he was the official photographer for several figure skating organizations and attended many American, international and Olympic competitions. He received numerous awards for his photography, including the Professional Skaters Association Edi Scholden Award for Best Figure Skating Photograph of the Year in 1996 and 1998. He also published eight books of landscapes documented during travels to foreign countries. While he attended FSU, Mittan recorded events and students’ lives. He donated thousands of negatives to the university, several of which were included in a photo exhibit at Strozier Library titled “The Formative Years at Florida State University: The Student Experience of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.” “We have nothing else like [Mittan’s donation],” said Eddie Woodward, FSU’s Heritage Protocol Archivist. “It is an incredible collection of negatives that document a very important and very active time in the school’s history.” As Mittan moved through his photography career, he enjoyed a handful of leisure activities, including gardening. He served on the board of directors of the World Botanical Gardens in Hawaii. He is survived by his wife of 32 years, Jayne Mittan; his brother, Gary; and his sisters, Marla and Beverlei.

Mittanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection bears witness to an important era in FSU history. These negatives illustrate events from spring of 1968, including a memorial service for Martin Luther King.

Contact sheet courtesy of J. Barry Mittan Photograph Collection, FSU Heritage Protocol

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Vernon C. Huff, Jr. (B.S. ’77, M.P.A. ’78) Tim Meacham (B.S. ’77) Richard T. Schoonover II (B.S. ’77) Kenneth E. Wilson (B.S. ’77, J.D. ‘81) Glenn Alan Anderson (M.S. ’78) Susan Lodge Bryant (B.A. ’78) George Louis Corrente (B.S. ’78) Therese Duzinkiewicz (M.S. ’78) Constance L. Foster (M.A. ’78) Cathie Marie Hamby (B.S. ’78) Ronald Cleo Pope (B.S. ’78) Lawrence Robert Schopler (B.S. ’78) Colleen Belle Walker (B.S. ’78) Gary Campbell (B.S. ’79) June Hoefer Jones (M.S. ’79) Clarissa Y. Robison (M.S. ’79) Bryant Jaron Russell, Sr. (M.S. ’79) Ellen M. Youngblood (B.A. ’79)

1980s James Duane Carter (Ed.D. ’80) Iris F. Flounary (B.S. ’80) James Henry Garland (B.S. ’80) Frances R. Gerstman (Ed.D. ’80)

Virginia E. Rogowski (B.S. ’80) Robert A. Ronda (B.S. ’80) Jeffrey L. Armstrong (B.A. ’81) Deborah L. Brothers (B.A. ’81) Annalisa Mims Cope (B.S. ’81) Glenn E. Johnson (B.A. ’81) John Henry McElyea (B.S. ’81, J.D. ‘86) David Jon Russ (J.D. ’81) Jerry A. Samuells (B.S. ’81) Thomas L. Sanchez, Jr. (A.A. ’81) Bruce W. Summerlin (B.S. ’81) Victoria T. Arias-Fraasa (B.S. ’82) Charles R. Britt (M.A. ’82) Linda M. Eldridge (B.S.N. ’82) Michael S. Garr (B.A. ’82) Jacquelyn T. Hartley (Ph.D. ’82) Jodi Lynn Goethe (A.A. ’83) Carl Michael Schwendinger (B.S. ’83, M.S. ’85) John Stephen Angermeier (B.A. ’84, M.A. ‘86) Elizabeth Gruender (B.S. ’84) Dan C. Lovelace, Jr. (B.S. ’84) Janet U. Council (M.S.W. ’85) Wendi M. Moon (B.S. ’85) Lily Frances Roberts (B.S. ’85)

Suzanne D. Tellechea (B.S. ’85) John Wescott Hartsfield (B.S. ’86) Mildred N. Kissinger Neil (M.S. ’86) Sandra Elizabeth Seymour (Ph.D. ’86) Dalton C. Perrett, Jr. (B.S. ’88) Michael Roy Tyner (M.S.W. ’88) Cynthia Lynn Connell (B.S. ’89) Barbara J. Edwards (Ph.D. ’89) Susan Lorain Halsall (B.S. ’89) Terry W. Jones (B.S. ’89, B.S. ‘93) Mathew L. Kemp (M.S. ’89) Patricia A. Rempe (B.S. ’89) Peter W. Rickard (B.S. ’89) Bret Kelly Woods (B.S. ’89)

1990s Glenn L. Edrington (A.A. ’91, B.S. ’93) Mark Alan Hanna (B.S. ’91) Randall E. Harrison (B.S. ’91) Jane Bowie Mattson (M.A. ’91) Shannon Erin West-Redwine (B.S. ’91) John Gwong Jung (B.S. ’92) Adriana Josefina Pumphrey (B.S. ’92, M.S. ’93) David S. White (B.A. ’92)

RON FRAS ER (B.S. ’60) “The Wizard of College Baseball,” Ron Fraser, lost his battle against Alzheimer’s disease Jan. 20. He was 79. Fraser made his name in Miami, where he won two national championships with the rival Miami Hurricanes during his 30-year coaching career. His influence upon his peers and former players carried back to Tallahassee and beyond. “He competed hard, but when the game was over we were all friends,” said FSU coach Mike Martin. “He wasn’t a guy who tried to keep everything to himself. He passed along his ideas to many coaches in the promotion and teaching area. He was just a guy who was a great, if not the greatest, promoter of college baseball.” Fraser, born and raised in New Jersey, paid his expenses at FSU by selling sandwiches in the sorority houses. He would put the sandwiches in boxes and leave them at the houses just before curfew. That work ethic served Fraser well as he moved through his coaching career. He took over at Miami in 1963. He coached numerous national teams and the 1992 Olympic Team. Fraser retired from Miami in ’92 with 1,271 wins. His efforts for FSU, the state and the sport of baseball were recognized by his alma mater long before retirement in ’92. Fraser was inducted into the Seminoles’ Hall of Fame in 1981. “He definitely bragged about being a graduate of FSU and playing baseball at FSU,” said Harvey Sweeney (B.S.‘57), Fraser’s FSU teammate for three seasons. “He was loyal in terms of speaking highly of FSU and telling people he did graduate from Florida State.” Fraser is survived by three children and five grandchildren.

Joyce Carrol Cummings (B.S. ’93) Erin Sue Hayes (B.A. ’93) Steven J. Madden (B.A. ’93) James S. Meriwether III (Ph.D. ’93) Meredith A. O’Brien (B.S. ’93) Billie J. Brownlee-Payton (B.S. ’94) Luis A. Espino (J.D. ’94) Carol Ann Lanfri (B.S.N. ’94, J.D. ‘96) Gary R. Lester (Ph.D. ’94) Linzey R. Faison (M.S.N. ’95) Kristen Grady Milligan (M.S. ’95) Christie Ann Musselwhite (B.S. ’96) Deanna Lee Battaglia (A.A. ’97) Charles Edward Brindle (B.S. ’97) Miles W. Hughes (J.D. ’97) David A. Logan (M.S. ’97) Donna M. Celso (B.A. ’98) Stephen Keith Moss (B.S. ’98) Janice M. Wade-Miller (B.S. ’98, M.S. ‘01)

2000s Christopher Paul Gearhart (B.S. ’00) John P. Kane (B.S. ’01) Margaret M. Murray (M.S. ’01) Larry Michael Schwartz (B.S. ’01) Tiki Louise Suarez-Brown (Ph.D. ’01) Jacqueline M. Burnell (B.S. ’02) Terry L. Lightfoot (M.S.W. ’02) Christina Mayers (M.S. ’02) Kathy Dykes Parrish (M.S. ’03) Jennifer Ann Mattox (B.S. ’06) Joseph G. Wall IV (B.S. ’09)

2010s William A. McDonald (B.S. ’12) Erik D. Peterson (M.S. ’12)

Faculty & Staff Ashley D. Atchison John Carnaghi Betty A. Clark Lottie B. Colston Terrance H. Coxe Elijah Drew, Jr. Meghan B. Flanagan Nellie Money Franklin Frank L. Gaines, Jr. E. Walter Herold, Jr. Donald C. King Woodrow W. Lewis, Sr. Jo McCaskill Edward D. McConnell William A. Mitchell James C. Myers Michael R. Redmond Dewey Rudd Virgie D. Schnaufer Billy G. Smith Sharon L. Thoman Edward Valenstein William G. Walker Emma L. Williams James Zarichny

Class Year Unknown Betty S. Whitney

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Photo by Michele Edmunds

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PARTING SHOT

RAIS ING A GL ASS TO THE S ENIO R C L ASS More than 400 members of the Class of 2013 hoist champagne glasses for a senior toast during their final week of class with Eric and Molly Barron (foreground) in the backyard of the Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House. The bubbly salute was the culmination of a first-ever senior send-off that included an appearance by the Marching Chiefs. Photo by FSU Photo Lab