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MIKE THOMAS ISN’T A TIGER, BUT IS HE RAISING ONE?

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One of the hottest graduate-school programs at the University of Central Florida offers would-be videogame designers a chance to create bizarre characters and strange worlds for fun and profit. by Harry Wessel • photographs by Rafael Tongol

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Sometimes all you need is a favorite dish and a familiar face. Here are a few of the local hangouts where you can find sustenance for both body and soul. by Rona Gindin • photographs by Rafael Tongol

ON THE COVER: In a motion-capture studio, University of Central Florida graduate students gearing up for careers in videogame design use actors wearing special sensors to enact virtual fantasies. Photography: Rafael Tongol; Digital Tech: Ken Lopez; Model: John Tran; Location: Studio 500 Mocap Studio at UCF / Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy. 2

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DEPARTMENTS 10 JAY BOYAR’S AGENDA Florida Film Festival documentaries include portraits of worshipful fans, a prankster guru and a hopeful model; the stars come out in the town of Harmony; the Flower and Garden Festival blossoms at Epcot; high-fashion shoes are a good fit for a Second Harvest benefit; the Mennello Museum books a printmaking exhibit.

20 TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS Palmer’s Garden & Goods has gardeners who make house calls; the National Entrepreneur Center gets a $50,000 commitment; a deli and a restaurant disappear from Park Avenue while a dormant Winter Park Plaza makes a comeback. by Willow Shambeck

26 PAGES: WHAT A WRITER LEAVES BEHIND Jeff Zaslow, co-author of The Last Lecture, began his career as a writer in Orlando and left in favor of a much larger stage. He disappeared from both places far too soon. by Michael McLeod

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32 DESIGN STYLE: WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE Blue and white colors and tribal motifs are fashion trends this season for both apparel and home furnishings. by Marianne Ilunga • photographs by Rafael Tongol

81 EDUCATION GUIDE A primer on choosing the right school for your child, along with a listing of some of Central Florida’s finest private and parochial schools, and a comprehensive list of the area’s colleges and universities.

94 SEEN Orlando Home & Leisure is out and about, this month at a small fundraiser in a Winter Park home and a large gala at the Buena Vista Palace Hotel.

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Mike is not a tiger, but apparently he is raising one. by Mike Thomas

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since Ernest Hemingway set up shop on Whitehead Street 80 years ago to write some of his greatest fiction. You can still find the city holding down the southernmost point in the United States from the exact same latitude and longitude. But it seems bigger, somehow; a wilder, more adventurous, two-fisted sort of place, thanks to Papa’s posthumous presence. That’s what a connection to an accomplished author can do for a city or region. St. Louis will always have a virtual river running through it, thanks to Mark Twain. New England will always be more New Englandy, courtesy of John Updike. San Francisco will forever be wrapped in a fog bank of mystery conjured up by Dashiell Hammett, creator of hard-boiled private eye Philip Marlowe. Orlando can claim a literary figure of tremendous historical import in Zora Neale Hurston, whose stories based on her youth in Eatonville made her integral to the Harlem Renaissance, forged by black intellectuals and authors of the 1920s and ’30s. But for whatever reason, we attract an inordinate number of writers who come and go. Our Pages department is a tribute to one: Jeff Zaslow, whose career began at the Orlando Sentinel and who died tragically earlier this year. Perhaps the most famous literary figure who was here only fleetingly is Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation icon who wrote On the Road. He lived in College Park in the late 1950s. Kerouac wrote extensively about his travels, but he never published anything about Orlando. Neither did Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline and My Losing Season. Though Conroy went to elementary school here, his literary inspiration came from his years in South Carolina, particularly those he spent in Charleston. 4

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George Garrett, one of the most wide-ranging writers of his generation, was born in Orlando. Talk about versatile: He wrote a highly respected scholarly essay about F. Scott Fitzgerald; a meticulous, fictional, equally acclaimed Elizabethan trilogy; and a novel called The Finished Man based on a 1950s political battle between Claude Pepper and George Smathers. Then again, he also wrote the script for Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, which earned a Golden Turkey Award as one of the worst films ever made. Garrett earned his literary stripes elsewhere, as a professor at the University of Virginia. But he did get a great piece of advice about being an author during his boyhood in Orlando, when he told his family he planned on being a writer. “Well,” said his grandfather, “that’s as good a way to be poor as any other.”

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For Springfield Fan, Post-Graduate Work on a Schoolgirl Crush FOR A SCHOOLGIRL, HAVING

a mad crush on a cute pop star is a common rite of passage. It’s a bit harder to fathom a grown woman clinging to that crush into her mid-40s. But when 15-year-old Melanie Lentz-Janney saw rocker Rick Springfield in a 1981 concert at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, she fell under a spell from which she has yet to emerge. “That man came onstage, and I was transformed,” says LentzJanney, who runs an Or-

lando public relations firm. “Something came over me that I had never experienced in my life – a chemical reaction that has not let up in 30 years.” She knows she is not alone, having encountered the stories of numerous long-term Springfield devotees while making An Affair of the Heart. Her documentary about the Australian-born singer, whose best-known song is still the 1981 hit “Jessie’s Girl,” will make its world premiere at the 21st annual Florida Film Festival (April 13-22). The film, one of 10 documentaries in competition this year, offers not only behind-the-scenes glimpses of Springfield, but also up-close-and-personal mini-profiles of several of his most ardent admirers.

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A Taste of Oviedo

April 14 Oviedo Boulevard One of the fastest-growing festivals in the Southeast features delicious food, arts and crafts, a car show, and home and garden exhibits – not to mention the event’s signature citrus and celery cook-off. tasteofoviedo.org

Fiesta in the Park

April 14-15 Lake Eola Downtown Orlando’s spring-hassprung event features food and entertainment as well as ceramics, jewelry, glass, painting, graphics and sculpture surrounding beautiful Lake Eola. fiestaintheparkorlando.org

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“I really thought: I’m probably one of the only people who feels this way,” Lentz-Janney confesses. “And then I realized I’m not unique.” In addition to co-producing the new documentary, she has traveled hundreds of miles to attend Springfield’s concerts, enrolled in a college (Pepperdine University) based on its proximity to his hometown, and named her son, Drake, after the character Springfield played on TV’s General Hospital, Dr. Noah Drake. Similarly smitten fans in her documentary include a 14-yearold boy, a Unitarian minister, a woman who credits Springfield’s album Working Class Dog with sustaining her through a prolonged convalescence, and a young mother whose devotion may be a problem for her husband. Meanwhile, the much-adored “Rick,” a lanky man of 62 with shaggy hair, a skinny goatee and a still-buff bod, emerges as both affably ironic about and faintly puzzled by the endless adulation. He’s also fully prepared to embrace both it and, when appropriate, his admirers. An Affair of the Heart is directed by Sylvia Caminer, an Emmy-winning local filmmaker whose musical taste, at least previously, had tended to run more toward David Bowie. For Lentz-Janney, producing the documentary helped her to see Springfield as more of a flesh-and-blood human being – not that the insight has diminished her devotion. “He wrote the soundtrack of my life,” she says, fighting back tears. “Now that I’ve had the opportunity to make this film and to get to know him, I see that it was all coming from a place of truth.” Springfield will be making at least two Central Florida appearances during the film festival. He’ll do a Q&A at Enzian Theater in Maitland on April 19, and will perform a day later at the Plaza Live theater in Orlando. Visit rickspringfielddoc.com and plazaliveorlando.com for more information.

Parade of Homes

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The Great American Pie Festival

April 27–29 Lakeside Park, Celebration Enjoy cooking demonstrations for adults and pie-making events for kids. Events are free, but the never-ending pie buffet, surely a dieter’s worst nightmare, is $10. piecouncil.org

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In addition to An Affair of the Heart, the documentaries in competition this year at the 21st Florida Film Festival include works on a wide and often surprising range of subjects, from fly-fishing therapy to an unexpected group of Mardi Gras revelers. Here’s the wideranging lineup: BERT STERN: ORIGINAL MADMAN. Stern is the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe’s final session. And as this film reveals, he is also a very strange person. BURY THE HATCHET. When you think of Mardi Gras, the first thing that comes to mind probably isn’t Native American heroism. Maybe that’ll change after you see this film. GIRL MODEL. The international modeling industry is the subject of this film, which explores a 13-year-old Russian girl’s attempt to break into the Japanese branch of the business. GIVE UP TOMORROW. A man on death row in the Philippines staunchly maintains his innocence of horrendous crimes. JOBRIATH A.D. Back in the early 1970s, Jobriath was a rock musician who thought it would be a good career move to announce his homosexuality and declare himself “the true fairy of rock & roll.” What was he thinking? That’s what this film tries to show. KUMARÉ. Prankster-director Vikram Gandhi poses as a guru from India and actually attracts a group of followers in Phoenix, Ariz. NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT. A Vietnam vet uses fly-fishing therapy to help recent vets find “peace and healing.” SALAAM DUNK. Follow the ups and downs of an Iraqi women’s basketball team at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. THE SHEIK & I. In the tradition of Borat comes this work about a filmmaker who travels to the United Arab Emirates to explore “art as a subversive act.” Enzian Theater’s Florida Film Festival will be held April 13-22. Visit floridafilmfestival.com for more information.

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THE COMMUNITY OF HARMONY HAS

a motto: “We’ve got more stars than Hollywood.” It’s way catchier than “We’re Rated Class 4 on the Bortle Scale of Light Pollution.” But both statements mean essentially the same thing. The night skies above this eco-friendly master-planned community, which is an hour’s drive southeast of downtown Orlando, are so dark that you can often see the Milky Way. That’s because in Harmony, all public outdoor lighting must be minimized and shielded so as not to mask the celestial show above. Hence the Bortle bump, a ranking that signifies “rural-suburban transition.” So don’t expect to see moviepremiere searchlights showing you the way should you decide to check

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out the ninth annual Dark Sky Festival, which will be held on April 14 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Harmony Town Square. “This is an outdoor festival, and it’s to call attention to the beauty of being out at night without all the excess light,” says Greg Golgowski, Harmony’s conservation director. Local astronomy buffs will lug their

prized telescopes to the event, offering attendees a chance to view Saturn’s rings, the moon’s craters, planets and galaxies. If it’s cloudy, there’s always the inflatable planetarium as well as lectures about space travel and other astronomical subjects. And you can check out the community’s most unusual attraction: a bat house near the square. “We believe people live better when they live with animals and nature nearby,” Golgowski says. In case you were wondering: Most parts of Orlando are rated Class 8, or “city sky,” on the Bortle Scale. That means, basically, No Milky Way For You. Visit darkskyfestival.com for more information. – Elizabeth Prats

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most women find hard to resist. That’s why Wine Women & Shoes has emerged as such a successful fundraiser in Orlando and across the country. The concept originated with Elaine Honig, a wine 23rd marketing Annual expert who lives in Napa Valley. Honig, taking a cue from the popularity of food and wine pairings, decided that an event pairing shoes and wine would be fun and original enough to help worthy causes attract attention. Over the past eight years, WW&S has been staged in 25 cit23rdmillion Annual for a variety of causes on behalf ies, raising more than $9 of women and children. A WW&S event to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida is slated for the Rosen Shingle Creek hotel on

April 28 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Attendees can bid on more than 40 auction items, watch a fashion show featuring Saks Fifth Avenue clothing, and sip Napa Valley wine while “Shoe Guys” glide past carrying the latest fashion-forward footwear on silver platters. Admission is $75 general, $125 VIP, with all proceeds going to Second Harvest, a private, nonprofit hunger-relief organization that distributes groceries to about 500 partner agencies in Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Lake, Volusia and Brevard counties. Beneficiaries include homeless shelters, low-income day-care centers, meal sites for low-income seniors, and shelters for battered women and children. Visit winewomenandshoes.com for more information. – Chelsea St. John

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He can cut it, paint it, carve it into huge sculptures. But the Winter Haven native, who now lives in Omaha, wondered if he could also imprint photographs on his medium of choice. Enter Flying Horse Editions, a research facility in downtown Orlando that helps artists in other media to master printmaking techniques. Staffers helped Statom silkscreen photographic images onto canvases of glass. “It really invigorated what he was doing already, and it changed his work,” says Flying Horse director Theo Lotz. As part of the University of Central Florida’s Center for Emerging Media, Flying Horse offers artists access to both antique tools, such as 19th-century letterpresses, and digital programs, such as Photoshop. Some of Statom’s pieces will be featured in an exhibit showcasing the creations of nearly two-dozen Flying Horse artists from March 30 to Sept. 7.

The exhibit also will include limited-edition prints and handmade books created using Flying Horse’s facilities. Visitors will have the opportunity to run Flying Horse’s Vandercook press and learn about various printmaking techniques – including etching and woodcutting – through videos. “One of the things we do is push the idea of what printmaking is,” Lotz explains. “We’re interested in doing more than just flat prints on paper.” Visit flyinghorse.cah.ucf.edu or mennellomuseum.com for more information. – Chelsea St. John

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Florida and Walt Disney World. Its presence at venerable Fashion Square is a result of the mall’s efforts to diversify its mix, says Whitaker Leonhardt, leasing agent with Crossman & Company, who cites the mall’s popular Planet Fitness health club as an example of another solid non-retail tenant. “We’ll continue to focus on retail as the primary use in the mall, but we’re also exploring office, medical and other creative uses for the property,” Leonhardt says. “Our goal is for the mall to become a true community town center.” (nationalec.org; orlandofashionsquare.com)

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green thumbs up to PALMER’S GARDEN & GOODS in Orlando. The Corrine Drive nursery this month launches a “personal gardener” service, through which a Palmer staffer will install a vegetable garden at a customer’s home and then make weekly maintenance visits. Ongoing services include pruning, fertilizing and harvesting, of course, as well as recipes and even cooking advice. “We want to improve the quality of life for our customers by promoting a happy and healthy lifestyle,” says ALLISON PALMER, who owns the nursery with her husband, JEFF. The initial cost depends upon the size of the garden and what’s planted, but there’s a $100 monthly fee to cover the personal gardener’s house calls. (palmergardens.com)

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Two tasty Winter Park businesses made their national debut on ABC’s Good Morning America this past February. A SPRINKLES CUSTOM CAKES’ creation – The Original CakeShooter, a mess-free push-up cake treat – and a PETERBROOKE CHOCOLATIER OF WINTER PARK creation – Jami Shoo, an all-edible chocolate high heel – were featured with several other products for Tory Johnson’s “Steals and Deals” segment (cakeshooters. com; peterbrookewp.com). …The burger boom continues as IRENE JUNG, a BOARDWALK FRESH BURGERS & FRIES franchisee, opens her second Florida location this month, on Colonial Drive across from Orlando Fashion Square Mall. The restaurant features fresh-crafted burgers, hand-cut fries, veggie burgers, salads, beer, wine and desserts in a family friendly environment (boardwalkburgersfl.com). … A new SUBWAY restaurant is under construction in College Park, next door to the TIJUANA FLATS on the corner of Princeton Street and Edgewater Drive. Also in College Park, at the corner of Par Avenue and Edgewater, WALGREENS is undergoing a much-needed renovation and expansion. … The former PICCADILLY CAFETERIA space in the Orlando Fashion Square Mall is now the EASTSIDE BISTRO. The bistro serves American fare such as soups, salads and sandwiches (eastsidebistroflorida.com).

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ROLLINS TO THE RESCUE OF FORLORN RETAIL PLAZA Big changes are afoot for Winter Park Plaza, a Fairbanks Avenue retail center that languished for years in pre-foreclosure status. Adjacent Rollins College, which purchased the default loan last year for a reported $2.7 million, is already bringing the property back. Beverly McNeil, responsible for leasing and asset management for the college, has commitments for most of the space in the 22,035-square-foot center, which sits just a block off Park Avenue. A hair salon will open this summer, along with an Ethos Vegan Kitchen, which will take over the old Urban Flats space. Current tenants Hot Olives and FedEx Kinko’s will remain where they are, while Rollins plans to retrofit more than a quarter of the plaza’s total square footage for private events.

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Along Park Avenue A PLETHORA OF PASTRIES Park Avenue continues to add upscale dining and shopping options to its lineup with the recent opening of Le Macaron French Pastries next to the Paris Bistro in the Shops on Park on North Park Avenue. For the uninitiated, macarons are French confections that are nothing like the coconut macaroons you may be thinking of. They’re airy, cream-filled cookies that come in a plethora of delightful flavors. Owners Rosalie and Greg Guillem moved to Winter Park last year from Provence, France, and quickly selected Park Avenue as the ideal location for their bakery. They’re planning additional Central Florida locations for their cookie shop, which is open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. (lemacaron-us.com)

HOW TO COOK WITH VIKINGS It’s taken several years, but two all-tooprominent vacant storefronts on South Park Avenue have finally been leased. The former Storehouse Furniture location, owned by the Holler family, will become a Viking Culinary School and showroom for high-end Viking appliances. The school will offer classes for both novice and experienced cooks, and the showroom will be large and attractive enough to double as an event space, says Barry Cohen, who owns Viking locations in Tennessee and Georgia. Cohen hopes to grow the concept throughout the Southeast. The lease was engineered by Maria Price, Ed Furey and Brenda Carey of the real-estate leasing and management company, Great American Land. (vikingcookingschool.com) l 24

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Most rookies start out writing police briefs and covering zoning board meetings. Zaslow talked his way into a coveted featurewriting slot and became an overnight front-page and Sundaymagazine star. He didn’t even have a proper journalism degree: He had majored in creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University. What he did have was a profound and guileless curiosity about other people. He was the sort of person who would pepper the server with a half-dozen personal questions over the course of a dinner out. He wasn’t intrusive. Just inquisitive. People would sense that and instinctively open up to him. Even big-time celebrities like Mickey Mouse. One of the stories Zaslow wrote on his way to Sentinel stardom was a behind-the-scenes tell-all about the secret trials of

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the cast members who greet Walt Disney World visitors suited up as the park’s iconic cartoon characters. The story featured another line Vaughn will never forget: “Mickey Mouse took a drag on his cigarette.” Zaslow didn’t take himself too seriously: He had a Nixon mask on his desk, and he’d slip it on and type away when the school kids came in for tours. He was deferential to other writers and editors, regardless of their place on the Sentinel food chain. His ideas were imaginative, his writing fluid, his attitude upbeat, his copy clean and on time. “Writers like that don’t walk into your newsroom every day,” said former Sentinel editor-in-chief John Haile. “You knew Jeff wasn’t going stay around long.” His exit was as impressive as his debut: After three years, he went straight from the Sentinel to the Wall Street Journal. His co-workers here wondered how he would bear up under the soul-shackling demands of his beat: “commodities and futures.” It was hard to imagine the irrepressible Zazz spending his days crunching the latest numbers on pork bellies. And sure enough, over the course of the next four years, his byline started appearing more and more frequently over colorful front-page features. One article was about a nationwide search in 1987 by the Chicago Sun-Times to replace retiring advice columnist Ann Landers. Zaslow took a typically imaginative approach to write the story: He applied for the job himself. It was just an angle, a lark. He never expected to be chosen from among more than 12,000 hopefuls. But the Sun-Times wound up offering him the job, and he decided to take it. Serious newspaper types look down their noses at advice columns as quaint anachronisms, unworthy of their attention. “There were some people at the Sentinel who saw it as a foolish career move,” said Jay Boyar, Orlando Home & Leisure’s entertainment editor and former 28

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movie critic at the Sentinel, where he developed a close friendship with Zaslow. “Jeff just didn’t think that way. He saw the possibilities.” Soon, via a column he called “All That Zazz,” he unleashed a series of them on readers. He decided he’d be the only advice columnist in the world to make house calls. He started making occasional visits to the homes of families and individuals in need of advice, then writing about the experiences. He established an advisory board of a half-dozen “Regular Joes,” a cross-section of people from all walks of life named “Joe” or “Josephine.” Now and then Zaslow would present the Regular Joes with a reader’s question and solicit their opinions. “It was a gimmick, but he was making a serious point – that everyday people have opinions and advice worth listening to,” said Boyar. Zaslow’s own advice in the column was often both humorous and wise. When a man wrote in to say how miffed he was that his wife was resisting his request for her to get breast implants, Zaslow opined that it was her choice to make, not his – and that, besides: “She already has a big boob. You.” When people solicited his advice he took them seriously, writing back with comments and suggestions whether or not he used the correspondence in his column. When he noticed how many lonelyhearts letters he received, he created the “Zazz Bash”, an annual mixer for singles held at Chicago’s Navy Pier. Thousands would attend the event, which resulted, by Zaslow’s count, in 78 marriages. When he noticed the number of letters he was getting from financially crippled families, he kicked off a fundraising campaign to raise money for school supplies for needy children – a campaign that won him, in 2000, the first annual Will Rogers Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, recognizing work that benefits the community.

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Once, in the sixth grade, my pals and I were misbehaving, and we each had to write “I will not talk with my friends” 100 times. Instead, I wrote, “I will not chat with my chums.” My teacher was miffed, but I was learning to assert myself. Ever since, I have been a contrary wise guy – seemingly a good attribute for an advice columnist. My current job is useful preparation, too. As a Wall Street Journal reporter, I’m often asked for advice on good investments. I respond with such old lines as: “Want to make a small fortune in the markets? Start with a large fortune.” Such irreverence could help with repetitious, boring letters. To the mother who asks at what age she should let her daughter shave her legs (a perennial question), I might reply: “About age 15 for the legs, but she can shave her mustache any time.” Of course, none of my ideas have been tested with a roomful of mailbags. That is why Miss Landers warns me of the pitfalls. An advice columnist must be emotionally stable to avoid getting terribly depressed by readers’ woes, she says. Already, the sample questions given to semifinalists are a bit disturbing: I must advise a woman who has gained 90 pounds, a homosexual man whose lover is dying of AIDS and a husband who thinks his wife is having an affair with his brother. Miss Landers has potent advice for those of us who seek to replace her. “Be careful what you pray for,” she says. “You may get it.”

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Jeff Zaslow’s staff photo from his Orlando Sentinel days in the early 1980s, when he talked his way into a featurewriting position.

But the Sun-Times was a troubled, financially strapped newspaper, and in 2001, after a 14-year run, Zaslow was laid off despite his popularity. He was quickly hired back by the Wall Street Journal to write a column that was essentially a more sophisticated version of his “All That Zazz” gig. Working out of the newspaper’s Detroit bureau, he would explore the key transitions and fundamental questions faced by ordinary people over the course of their lives: Why are workplace jerks often so successful? Can you find happiness after a crushing loss? Whose fault is it that so many kids these days feel entitled to respect before they earn it? How can you convert guilt into a productive emotion? Is it ever OK to spend money behind your spouse’s back? Why are we afraid to reprimand other people’s children? Why do women form closer friendships than men? And how do you say goodbye when you

know you only have a few weeks to live? Delivering the answer to that last question would mark the beginning of his final creative outburst. In September 2007, Zaslow heard that a professor at his alma mater was about to deliver a very special lecture. Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old computer-science expert, was retiring from Carnegie Mellon because he was suffering from pancreatic cancer, an illness that would take his life in a matter of months. He wanted to use one last lecture, open to students, colleagues, family and friends, to sum up and celebrate his own life, and to say goodbye. When Zaslow’s editors told him the airfare to Pittsburgh was too steep for them, he drove. He was in the lecturehall audience as a chipper, resolute Pausch paced back and forth on stage, retracing his dreams going back to childhood and recounting the lessons he’d learned along the way. Pausch’s wife was in the audience; when he presented her with a birthday cake, students and colleagues wept and applauded. Zaslow’s story about the lecture became a national and international phenomenon. An accompanying video of the lecture went viral. He and Pausch, who would die in July 2008, developed a bond

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and decided to expand the material into a book, The Last Lecture, which sold more that 5 million copies in the United States and was translated into 48 languages. Suddenly – if you can call it “suddenly” when a writer has been working at his craft for 27 years – Zaslow was a high-profile, in-demand author. Contracts began coming his way. He would write or co-write four more books over the next four years. He finished The Girls From Ames, a book about 10 women who had grown up together in Ames, Iowa, and maintained a strong bond with one another in spite of being scattered across the country. He co-wrote Highest Duty, the memoir of Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who safely landed a stricken airliner on the Hudson River. Sullenberger had been flying – as a passenger – when he read, and was impressed by, The Last Lecture. He also co-wrote Gabby, the memoir of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, landing the contract to write the book partly because of a simple question he asked her husband, Mark Kelly, during the interview process: “How’s Gabby?” He’d been the only one among several potential writers to wonder. His last book was The Magic Room, about American weddings set in Becker’s Bridal Shop in Fowler, Mich., home to 1,100 people – and 2,500 wedding gowns. He was driving home from an event to promote the book on Feb. 10 when his car spun out on a patch of ice and into the path of an oncoming tractor-trailer. Zaslow, 53, was killed instantly. He left behind his wife, Sherry Margolis, a Detroit TV news anchor whom he’d met in Orlando and married in 1987. They had three daughters together, the youngest of whom is now 16. His love for them as he watched them grow into womanhood was what had inspired him to write The Magic Room, which he subtitled, A Story About the Love We Wish for our Daughters. WWW.OHLMAG.COM

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More than 1,500 people attended his funeral. Sullenberger, who delivered one of the eulogies, brushed aside his hero image. Then, perhaps knowing how many he spoke for, he said, simply: “I am here as a friend of Jeff ’s.” Zaslow had an amazing ability to stay in touch, over the years, with the people he had written about as well as former co-workers. One from his Sentinel days was Goldie Blumenstyk, now a writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education in Washington, D.C. If he had a new book out he’d give her a copy and sign it – and with Zazz, even something so simple would have a clever twist. “Goldie: I’ve

known you for 29 years,” one note read. “I think I can say the next 29 years will be of equal length.” Blumenstyk was in Ann Arbor on Jan. 27 to cover a speech by President Obama about college affordability. Zaslow drove there from his home near Detroit to see her. They had dinner, talked, then walked outside into the bitter cold. They passed by a homeless man. “I walked right by,” she said. “Jeff stopped and gave the man $5. Then he looked at me and said: ‘You can’t just walk past a human being.”’ When they reached his car, he drew a copy of Gabby from a pile in his trunk and fumbled for a pen. But he winced as the cold wind picked up. They decided he would sign it for her the next time they met. One of the last people Zaslow ever interviewed was Shelley Becker Mueller, owner of Becker’s Bridal Shop. Like so many people he wrote about, she would come to regard him as a dear friend. But on the day he first called her, she was, as usual, distracted. The persistent man on the line from the Wall Street Journal would just have to wait. She had at least 50 other phone calls that day, mostly from nervous brides-to-be. Once, when Zaslow called back, she was literally on her hands and knees, her mouth full of pins, enmeshed in a web of tulle and lace as she circumnavigated a gown she was adjusting. “He had to call me eight times before I would answer the phone,” Mueller recalled in a recent telephone interview from her shop. “We all move so fast. We’re so overwhelmed by the demands of the world, the chaos around us. But that was Jeff ’s gift. That was why he was such a great writer. Because he wasn’t just a writer. He was a humanitarian. He knew how to slow the world down. That was his magic. If you were around him, he made you stop, if just for a second, and say: ‘This person in front of me is all that matters.’” l ORLANDO HOME & LEISURE

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When Worlds Collide in Fashion, Furnishings by Marianne Ilunga hair and makeup by Tracie Cervero photographs by Rafael Tongol Is there an echo in here? Fashion has a way of triggering similar trends in home furnishings. This season is no exception, as airy blue and white, and lush tribal motifs, do double duty.

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The white patent Jimmy Choo sandals, $720; and indigo blue purse by Marc Jacobs, $398; are from Saks Fifth Avenue, the Florida Mall. So is Liz’s brush-stroke dress by Elie Tahari, $298. She is also wearing a multistone chain necklace, $1,225; round chalcedony earrings, $298; and a deep blue ring, $380; all by Coralia Leets Boutique in Winter Park. On the opposite page, top left, are sea-blue, elongated drop earrings, $473; and a sea-blue drusy square bracelet, $898; both by Coralia Leets Boutique in Winter Park.

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Liz sports a bold, multicolored tribal tank by Clover Canyon, $185; beige tribal print jeans by 7 For All Mankind, $189; and a woven tote bag by Prada, $2,350; all from Saks Fifth Avenue, The Florida Mall. She is also wearing neon and gold bangles by Cara, $58; and coral earrings by Kendra Scott, $58; both from Nordstrom, The Florida Mall. The leopard print heels by Christian Louboutin are owned by the model.

COMPLEMENTARY HOME DÉCOR Counterclockwise, opposite page, a red platter, $171; an ottoman, $518; and an elephant, $231; are all from Saxon-Clark Interiors in Altamonte Springs. The black and white tribal rug by Melrose Hook, $110, is from Owen Allen, Winter Park Village. The lounge chair, $966, is also from SaxonClark Interiors. The zebra coffee mug, $39, is by Blue Witch Ceramics, from Owen Allen, Winter Park Village.

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This Degree is on FI-YA Would-be video-game designers flock to one of UCF’s hottest programs.

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First there’s the double major in international business and business management he earned at the University of Montana, where he not only minored in Japanese, but traveled to Japan for a year to hone his fluency. Then, after a series of unsatisfying jobs, Battle moved to Orlando and enrolled in a tough-as-nails graduate school, where he has grown accustomed to seven-day workweeks, 16-hour workdays and periodic all-nighters. “I have never worked so many hours or so hard on anything in my life,” he says. Such are the challenges at the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy, where similarly driven post-grads are trained in a discipline that many might consider none too scholarly: video gaming. FIEA is a University of Central Florida graduate program that opened in 2005 in a revamped downtown convention center. There were just a dozen students that first year. Today, FIEA (commonly pronounced FI-ya) is one of the top programs of its kind in the country, awarding roughly 60 Master’s of Interactive Entertainment degrees every year.

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A screen shot (above) from an early version of “Plushy Knight,” a video game students are developing at the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy. The admissions office (left) features logos from companies that have hired FIEA grads, while conference rooms (far left) buzz with ideas during project meetings.

Competition is tough: For every student accepted, at least five are rejected. Last year Princeton Review ranked the FIEA program – with a full-time faculty made up of top video-game industry veterans – second in the country, behind only the University of Southern California’s. Battle, 25, has heard the jokes and snide remarks about being a nerd who just plays video games all day. “It’s really funny, because video games are probably the most complex and deep entertainment form available.” A “Mega Man II” fan who started gaming when he was 3, Battle explains: “You have music, you have game play, you have flow, you have story – and they all have to work together. It’s not an easy process.” The process may not be easy, but FIEA – housed inside UCF’s Center for Emerging Media across from the old Orlando Arena parking lot – is an inviting place to work. ORLANDO HOME & LEISURE

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It boasts an art-studio vibe, with a cozy game lounge and spacious conference rooms featuring large whiteboards and fabric walls – ideal for pinning project tasks and deadlines on small index cards. Classrooms are named after video games: These may be the only university hallways where you’ll overhear students say, “Meet me in Mario.” While the school offers one Master’s degree, students must choose one of three specialty tracks: art, programming or producing. “You get interesting personalities,” says Todd Deery, FIEA’s admission director. He sees incoming students of varying personalities, from practical programmers to abstract artists to “Type A business type” producers. Creating a video game is every bit as collaborative as making a movie, so developing teamwork skills among disparate personalities is an ongoing FIEA theme. One mandatory workshop offers lessons in improvisational theater, an art form that calls for on-the-fly cooperative skills while under pressure to perform as a team. A FIEA education isn’t cheap. Cost for the 16-month program is $33,000 for Florida residents, who make up twothirds of the student body, and $55,000 for out-of-staters. But there’s a healthy return on investment. Degree-holders in any of the three specialty tracks are highly prized by the huge and growing digital media industry, which generates roughly $9 billion in annual revenues. The overall job placement rate for FIEA grads is close to 90 percent, says Deery, and it’s 100 percent for the programming track. While most of the school’s 249 past graduates have gone to video-gaming companies such as Electronic Arts, Telltale Games and Ubisoft, many have gone to such non-gaming employers as Google, LucasArts and YouTube. Deery notes that one FIEA graduate was hired by a national investment firm to develop interactive games designed to help sell financial products. APRIL 2012

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There’s a high-tech, art-studio vibe at FIEA, with colorful walls and floors, and large open spaces.

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The Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission boasts that Orlando now encompasses one of the nation’s top digital-media clusters, with 1,000 companies involved in bringing advanced digital technology together with creative production techniques. Providing employees for all those companies requires education, and the EDC lists a number of institutions in addition to UCF’s Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy that are doing just that: FULL SAIL UNIVERSITY. The private, for-profit university in Winter Park has been going strong for more than 30 years, with a current enrollment of 15,000 full- and part-time students. It offers accelerated associate, bachelor and master degree programs in game, film and web design, computer animation and a host of other video and film production specialties. DIGITAL ANIMATION & VISUAL EFFECTS SCHOOL. Better known as the DAVE School, it’s located at Universal Studios Florida and offers a 12-month program leading to a diploma in digital animation and visual effects, preparing students for jobs at film and gaming studios. INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY. The Orlando campus – one of 10 IADT locations nationwide – offers bachelor degree programs in digital media and game production. It also has associate and bachelor degree programs in graphic design, and in web design and development. VALENCIA COLLEGE. The Orlando-based college offers an associate degree in digital media technology, with specialization in development, production and presentation. The program prepares students for jobs such as webmaster, digital videographer, video technician and project manager. SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE. The Sanford-based college offers an associate degree in multimedia technology, with specialization in graphic and web design, preparing students for technical careers in print, film and animation. ORLANDO TECH. Part of the Orange County Public School system, the downtown Orlando school offers post-secondary certificate programs in game, simulation and animation programming, digital audio production, digital video production and 3D animation technology.

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Scenes from two current Capstone projects now in development: “Penned” (top) features evil forces that are corrupting classical books, while the star of “Battle Fortress Tortoise” (middle and

cess is brutal. Students are divided into five teams to develop their game concepts, with just a month to prepare their respective pitches to a panel of faculty members and outside game-industry experts. This year, only three of the five teams passed muster at the “Vertical Slice Presentation.” Losing team members were divvied up among the three winning teams, which will have until August to complete their projects. Battle is project leader for one of the winning games, “Battle Fortress Tortoise.” As the name implies, its main character is a giant tortoise that serves as a slowmoving battle tank. Long-range cannon and crossbow-equipped fighters stationed on the tortoise’s massive carapace fight their way through a never-ending army of bloodthirsty, humanoid hyenas. It’s a unique, complex game, Battle says, featuring multiple environments with “all these levels of scale and depth going on.” There’s also plenty of scale and depth in the other two winning games. Emily Krebs, design team leader for “Penned,” describes the game, which she herself conceived, as a role-playing, educational challenge. The main character, a young library intern overseeing a classical book section, discovers that evil forces are “corrupting” the stories. So she must transport herself inside the musty pages to do battle, armed with a magical quill that gains power through the choice of vocabulary words. Krebs, 23, a lifelong fan of both Edgar Allan Poe and Nintendo’s “Star Fox 64” video game, has an undergraduate degree from UCF in visual media. Bookish and artistic, the Colorado Springs native nevertheless is on FIEA’s producer track, and is working to improve her interpersonal skills. “I’m typically not a good team person or people person,” she says. “I’ve made some big mistakes, but I’m adapting.” Derrick Barra, also on the producer 40

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track, is development director for the third Capstone game, “Plushy Knight.” As with the other two Capstone projects, there’s plenty of good-vs.-evil fighting. But in this case the fighting is done by a stuffed-bear knight acting as a protector for a young girl with a tragic past. “We’re trying to get across the idea of a [video-game] player feeling like a father,” says Barra, 24, whose project responsibilities include day-to-day time management and scheduling for his team. Already a “Video Game Producer” according to his business card, Barra has eyed a career in the industry since his middle- and high-school days, when, in addition to countess hours of gaming (alltime favorite: “Sonic the Hedgehog”), he was reading books about management. He majored in computer science at Jacksonville University and applied to FIEA with no backup plan, ranking the day he got accepted as “second only to the day I got married.” As important as FIEA is to students like Barra, Krebs and Battle, it plays an equally important role in Orlando’s ambitious “Creative Village” project. The WWW.OHLMAG.COM

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At some colleges, the trophy cases are all about sports. At FIEA, a hallway display showcases an array of popular video games that were produced with the help of program graduates.

plan to redevelop the 68 acres in and around the now-demolished Orlando Arena as a high-tech commercial/educational/residential neighborhood envisions FIEA as a critical anchor. Not coincidentally, the man who chaired the city-sponsored task force on developing the Creative Village back in 2006 was, and is, FIEA’s director. Ben Noel – former chief operating officer for Electronic Arts’ Maitland-based EATiburon – talked up the idea with such heavy hitters as UCF President John Hitt, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and then Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. They knew the old Arena’s days were numbered, that the surrounding land was city-owned and, as Noel puts it, that “for Orlando to be a cool mid-major or major town one day, we needed more of a university presence downtown. What city has 68 contiguous acres in downtown that I don’t have to fight landown-

ers and slumlords to get control of?” While the Creative Village is still a couple of years away from breaking ground, its educational anchors – UCF’s Center for Emerging Media and FIEA – are already well established. And it’s clear that FIEA grads in the workplace are busy lending credibility to their alma mater. “Not all our graduates go on to videogame companies,” Noel says. “Some are at Lockheed Martin, some are at educationor medical-simulation companies. They’re all working in digital media somehow, and they’re all working with things that are engaging and interactive.” That’s just fine with Derrick Barra, who is all but certain he’ll stick with video-game production, thank you. “You make a good amount of money for a crazy amount of work, but you don’t do it for the money. You do it to be creative, to express things with other people, to create stories.” l ORLANDO HOME & LEISURE

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Sometimes all you need is a favorite dish and a familiar face. Here are a few of the local hangouts that nurture both body and soul. by Rona Gindin photographs by Rafael Tongol

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Junktion Spells Fun for Hungry Hipsters The baby boomers among us tend to favor old-fashioned diners for a comfort food fix. Not so the pre-parental crowd. They crave an edgy ambiance along with familiar fare. Graffiti Junktion has them covered. The twin restaurants — one in Thornton Park, one in College Park — offer a hip vibe along with grown-up versions of childhood chow that Millennials love to munch. Both Graffiti Junktions have an Early Subway look. Graffiti covers the walls, giving the dining rooms a grungy ambience. Guests sit alongside strangers on long picnic-style tables, quaffing beer and shouting to hear one another over the din. Servers tend to sport spiky hair, piercings and tattoos. On any given night you might find a painter painting, a trivia guy quizzing, a karaoke host encouraging Grammy wannabes. At its Facebook page, Graffiti Junktion brags that it serves “An American Burger w/ Less Attitude & More Gratitude.” I’m not sure what that means. I just know the burgers – and most everything else – are delicious. We usually order the chicken wings, a pile of meaty and inWWW.OHLMAG.COM

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credibly flavored poultry served with “Nick’s special sauce,” a wonderful concoction for which the staff politely declines to share an ingredient list. The French fries are hand cut, while the zucchini fries are sliced and coated with panko bread crumbs. The burgers aren’t flame-broiled, but they’re big – a half-pound of Angus beef – and topping choices include peppers, onions, mushrooms, Canadian bacon, fried eggs and an array of cheeses. The San Francisco-inspired Fog City burger, the basis of which is a turkey patty, is loaded with avocado, pepperjack cheese, bean sprouts and “burger sauce.” It’s a creamy, crunchy, slightly spicy explosion of flavors. Did we mention they serve beer? Wine and cocktails are poured, pairing well with such non-burger fare as the wasabi Caesar salad, the grilled chicken quesadilla, the turkey taco salad and the blackened-mahi wrap. Graffiti junktion: 900 E. Washington St., Orlando, 407426-9503; 2401 Edgewater Dr., Orlando, 407-377-1961; graffitijunktion.com ORLANDO HOME & LEISURE

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Movers, Shakers and Ladies Who Lunch College Park seems to have more coffee shops per capita than any other neighborhood in Orlando. Shakers is the cutest in the crowd. Frescoed yellow walls are dotted with pink flowers and an eclectic collection of salt-and-pepper sets – hence the name “Shakers” – line the walls. The café is often crowded with women, who tend to arrive in small, chatty groups. The clientele fits right in with the feminine décor and a menu reminiscent of department store eateries, from a time when a leisurely in-store lunch was part of every shopping excursion. Of course there’s a chicken salad sandwich, this version offering chunks of white meat with a hint of curry plus raisins and almonds. Dieters can order half a sandwich. The Orlando Grill is just as simple and just as fresh, boasting leafy spinach layered with provolone cheese, mushroom slices and tomatoes with a Caesar-like dressing on pumpernickel bread. Shakers has pretty much all the sandwiches you’d expect, including egg salad, liverwurst, tuna, BLT, Reuben 44

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and even meatloaf. Homemade soups are always offered; we found a Korean beef soup with cabbage to be particularly satisfying. All soups and quiches, and most salad dressings, are made in house, as are the all-too-tempting cookies near the register. Shakers serves breakfast, too, until 10:30 a.m. weekdays and 1 p.m. Saturdays. Buttermilk pancakes, French toast, three-egg omelets – all the dependable old standbys. The orange and apple juices are freshly squeezed. The restaurant is such a neighborhood staple that about 300 people a day visit the website, mostly to see which soups, quiches and hot meals are available. “They’ll read that we have she-crab soup and they’ll think, ‘Oh, I have to have lunch there today,’” says Charlene Nelson, whose mother, Sunny Nelson, has owned Shakers for 15 of its 19 years. Call it a family tradition: You’ll always get a fair shake at Shakers. Shakers American Café: 1308 Edgewater Dr., Orlando, 407-422-3534, shakerscafe.com APRIL 2012

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An Impressive Upstart on Restaurant Row Tucked among the upscale chains of Orlando’s burgeoning Restaurant Row is a sleek little independent, Press 101, which is billed as a place to mix and mingle. It is certainly that. By day, local business folk and neighborhood homemakers meet at the “fast-casual” (counter-service) eatery for pressed sandwiches, flatbreads and fresh salads. There’s table service after dark, when the place takes on more of a sophisticated wine bar ambience, although the menu doesn’t change. The grilled cheese is a real winner; whole-wheat bread is stuffed with Swiss, fontina and sharp cheddar along with yummy apple wood-smoked bacon. Go indulgent with a muffaletta. Be virtuous with a blackened mahi-mahi. Founded by Bill Whitaker, who created Crispers, Press 101 is now owned by Steve F. Ashdji, whose other business interests include hotel development. Ashdji marvels at the restaurant’s daytime crowd, a mix of workers from surrounding offices and ladies who lunch. “Seventy percent of our lunchtime guests are women, and it WWW.OHLMAG.COM

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seems they want to see and be seen,” Ashdji observes. “Guests from different tables mingle and gab with one another, often staying for two or three hours.” The evening crowd is entirely different, perhaps because Thursday through Sunday nights feature live music. The entertainers, who gravitate toward the smooth jazz and easy-listening genres, attract a more mature crowd of couples in their 60s and 70s, many of whom drive from throughout Central Florida weekly to hear their favorites. “We get a funny and weird mix of people,” Ashdji says, in a tone of voice that makes it clear: That’s just the way he likes it. With tastefully elegant décor, a solid wine list and a friendly atmosphere, Press 101 manages to make its sandwich fare seem like a fancy lunch. Perhaps that’s why, year after year, it presses on. Press 101: Marketplace at Dr. Phillips, 7600 Dr. Phillips Blvd., Orlando, 407-351-2101, press101.com

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Are You Pining Away for a Better Burger? Orlando may boast a McDonald’s outlet with the franchise’s largest indoor play area, but the city has relatively few independently owned burger joints for aficionados of hand-shaped, cooked-to-order patties. Pine 22 helps to fill that niche, but not in the way you might expect, given the déclassé image generally associated with down-home burgeries. For one, the design is light and airy, approaching chic. With blondish woods, chairs with a deco bent, and signs in an au courant typeface, Pine 22 is no greasy spoon. That fashion-forward attitude applies to the food, too. You can get a bacon cheeseburger at this downtown Orlando eatery, but it’ll feature beef from grass-grazing, hormone- and antibiotic-free cows. The bacon is smoked over apple wood, not charred on a cooktop. And while the ubiquitous yellow American cheese square is offered as a nod to traditionalists, so are 10 other, far more adventurous cheeses, including smoked Gouda, Gruyère and Greek feta. Be sure to add on traditional or sweet potato fries. You order at the counter by grabbing a clipboard and checking off little boxes on a form that indicate which ingredients you prefer. Or you can opt for a pre-designed sandwich, such as The 22, an awesome half-pounder with sautéed mushrooms, bacon, 46

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charred onions and blue cheese. For the carbo-phobic, there’s the Burger in a Bowl, with a dressing of Dijon mustard and balsamic vinegar. You can eat healthy with a veggie burger made in house from black beans. Or you can choose turkey, pulled pork, chicken breast or Portobello mushroom. The toppings are locally sourced when possible and, in many cases, concocted in the restaurant’s kitchen. Black bean mango salsa is super, as are charred pineapple, white chili, basil pesto, chipotle aioli, tzatziki sauce and ginger-soy glaze. While you’re ordering, be sure to ask for a craft beer or an interesting wine. The counter staff can be lackadaisical, so don’t wait for someone to ask if you want a beer or “fries with that.” Luckily, the food at Pine 22 sells itself, which is probably why the restaurant attracts such a diverse crowd. During the weekday lunch hour, the seats are filled with local office workers, ranging from secretaries to CEOs. Theatergoers trickle in early on weekend evenings, followed by the club crowd. Monday Open Mic Nights attracts “local artsy youth,” reports Kathleen Blake, the chef/co-owner of both Pine 22 and The Rusty Spoon, a gastropub nearby. And weekends often feature Kids Eat Free specials, so you’ll see some families, too. Pine 22: 22 E. Pine St., Orlando, 407-574-2160, pine22.com APRIL 2012

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More Comfort Food in Comfortable Places ANTONIO’S MARKET & CAFÉ 611 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland “The downstairs Antonio’s,” beneath the more formal Antonio’s La Fiamma, is part wine shop, part Italian deli, part restaurant where you can enjoy pizzas from a wood-burning oven, paninis, pastas and chicken entrées. Most meals are under $13.

BANANAS, A MODERN AMERICAN DINER 924 N. Mills Ave., Orlando One-of-a-kind Banana’s serves up traditional diner classics with an avant-garde flair. You’ll find old-fashioned milkshakes, French toast stuffed with strawberries and cream cheese and coated with Rice Krispies, and specialty items such as Maine lobster mac-n-cheese. Open 24 hours on Friday and Saturday.

BEEFY KING 424 N. Bumby Ave., Orlando Beefy King and its billboard featuring a snorting steer with a crown on its head has been an Orlando staple for more than 40 years. This old-school eatery serves up its distinctive roast beef sandwiches using steam vents to heat and moisten the meat, bringing out all its natural flavors.

BRIAN’S RESTAURANT 1409 N. Orange Ave., Orlando This Designer Row icon has been serving up hearty breakfast and lunch plates for nearly 40 years. Regulars got a bit cranky when a facelift kept it closed for several months, but by last summer Brian’s was back – albeit a bit fancier – and all was forgiven, thanks to its familiar home-style meatloaf, open-faced sandwiches and, speaking of familiarity, the “Best Sweet Buns in Town.”

CHRISTO’S CAFÉ 1815 Edgewater Drive, College Park Another old-timer, Christo’s has been offering thick and juicy burgers and other down-home fare since 1970. It’s best known to early risers for its banana pancakes, but you can’t go wrong with the catfish or the gyros, either.

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DEXTER’S 808 Washington St., Orlando 558 W. New England Ave., Winter Park 950 Market Promenade Ave., Lake Mary Dexter’s seems a bit grander than a typical neighborhood restaurant, since all of its three units boast creative menus and a happening buzz. Guests sip wine while digging into oversized creations such as the signature pressed duck-and-brie sandwich, chickentortilla pie and jambalaya. In addition to the core menu, each Dexter’s has a “café” menu executed by the on-site chef.

JOHNNY’S FILLIN’ STATION 2631 S. Ferncreek Ave., Orlando Don’t dress up when you’re planning to visit Johnny’s Fillin’ Station. You’ll feel out of place. Simply saunter in, order a perfectly seasoned half-pound burger (personal props to the bacon-bleu cheese), and unwind. You can opt for a turkey Reuben, French dip au jus or Hawaiian chicken instead of ground beef on a bun.

JUNIOR’S DINER 2920 Corrine Drive, Orlando This unassuming eatery has been a staple of the Audubon Park Garden District for decades. Commandeer a booth or chat up the barstool regulars and watch as nononsense short-order cooks prepare your food. Once known as Roger’s, Junior’s offers classic American breakfast and lunch items, from pancakes to patty melts. Cash only.

MAXINE’S ON SHINE 337 N. Shine Ave., Orlando This little spot is bringing some big international flavors to Shine Avenue. The food, featuring locally grown and organic ingredients, encompasses Italian and Mediterranean-inspired dishes such as chicken marsala, lamb chops, orecchiette

rapini, and chicken and lobster cannelloni. Reservations for dinner recommended.

903 MILLS MARKET 903 Mills Ave., Orlando Once a neighborhood grocery store, this corner café has been serving breakfast, lunch and dinner to Lake Davis locals for six years. What 903 Mills is really known for is its deliciously packed subs and sandwiches, such as the Grateful Bread – roasted turkey, cranberry mayo, bleu cheese stuffing and red onion on wheat. It also boasts one of the best beer selections in town, and sells wine by the bottle. Outdoor seating makes it pet-friendly as well.

RHINO SUBS 805 Lee Road, Orlando Here you’ll find just about every sub, sandwich and wrap you can imagine. The lengthy menu includes breakfast and dinner items such as omelets, chicken fingers and fish baskets. Regulars tend to favor chicken or steak tip kabob. Drive-in or walk-up, takeout or feast at one of the umbrella tables and watch the daily Lee Road scrum.

VIRGIN OLIVE MARKET 807 N. Orange Ave., Orlando You gotta love a downtown bistro-style eatery that operates on one word: Fresh. Fresh salads, sandwiches and soups are available as well as eclectic items such as hummus and the “Mutha Clucka”(!) salad – a chicken salad with fresh spinach, feta cheese, raisins, shredded carrots, roasted red pepper, roasted pumpkin seeds and a Greek yogurt dressing.

MARKET STREET CAFÉ 701 Front St., Celebration Old-fashioned milkshakes and meatloaf dinners add a welcome touch of nostalgia in the heart of Celebration’s polished downtown retail and restaurant area. This enjoyable, upscale diner has a 1950s’ feel with newmillennium twists. Get your burger simple or black-and-blue. Make your salad chef’s-style or Thai chicken. Order chicken potpie for dinner or pecan-crusted tilapia – or request a gluten-free option such as the Cobb salad. Then start dreaming about banana cream pie and classic ice cream sundaes. ● ORLANDO HOME & LEISURE

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It’s food for thought. How a brainsmart diet keeps you healthy from head to toe. BY TARA GUIDUS

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Age shouldn’t matter. You’ve got recourse if you suspect discrimination BY SALLY McARTHUR

14 GROWING BOLDER

Inspiration and information for boomers and beyond, brought to you in conjunction with the Bolder Media Group.

20 FOREVER YOUNGSTERS Meet some fascinating fellow Central Floridians who know how to live life to the fullest.

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Just deliver the goods. Boomers at work should embrace technology and avoid Buicks. BY PAM DANIEL`

26 RESOURCE DIRECTORY Your guide to adult day care, assisted living, home companions, nurse registries, orthopedic surgeons, nursing homes, hospice care and more. ON THE COVER Marc Middleton, Wendy Chioji and Bill Shafer are probably familiar to most Central Floridians from their years as local TV news personalities. But these days they’ve been busy building a nationwide network for their own television and radio programs aimed at the boomer generation. Check out their Growing Bolder special feature beginning on page 14. foreveryoungorlandomag.com

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It’s Food for Thought A brain-smart diet keeps you healthy from head to toe.

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hen working to improve health, most of us concentrate only on the neck down. But if the brain isn’t sharp, it’s hard to enjoy the benefits of being otherwise fit. There are, however, foods that help maintain brain health. And those same foods help to reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes and other ailments. Here are some brain-smart nutrition tips that keep everything working like it should – from head to toe. ■ DETOX WITH ANTIOXIDANTS. When it comes to fruits and vegetables, the darker the better for antioxidant richness. Antioxidants are substances that may protect you against the effects of free radicals, which are molecules that can damage cells. Choose more berries, cherries, Brussels sprouts, beets, beans, kale, oranges, plums, red grapes and spinach. But more importantly, choose more fruits and veggies in general. People who eat fruits and vegetables have a lower risk of heart disease and some neurological diseases. ■ DO SOMETHING FISHY. Omega-3s, fatty acids found in some fish, have become popular because they may reduce the risk of heart disease. The latest research, however, indicates that omega-3s also offer protection against memory loss and age-related dementia. Eat more salmon, halibut, herring, mackerel, trout and tuna for these brainy acids. ■ WATCH YOUR NUMBERS. According to one recent study, people with high cholesterol and high blood pressure in-

creased their risk of dementia six-fold. A diet low in unhealthy saturated and trans fats is better for keeping cholesterol at healthy levels, which in turn reduces the risk of heart disease. Lower cholesterol also means better blood flow to the brain. ■ EAT LIGHT, BUT EAT OFTEN. Not only will this approach help keep off excess weight, but it will also aid in stabilizing blood sugar. Eating the fiber in fruits, veggies and whole grains, while limiting simple sugars found in candy, sweets and soda, also can help keep glucose levels where they need to be. The brain needs sugar to survive, but too much can leave you feeling sleepy and unfocused. ■ DON’T BE A COUCH POTATO. Physical activity offers a host of health benefits and plays a role in preventing cognitive decline. Staying active is an excellent way to keep your body and your brain fit. Oxygen is good for the brain, so exercise in some way each day for at least 30-60 minutes. Shown on the following pages are foods that can boost your brain power and prevent cognitive decline. It takes a daily intake of five nutrients to keep your mind sharp. Also shown are descriptions of how these five nutrients – vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin B-12 and omega-3s – work, and their nutritional value numbers. Tara Gidus, MS, RD, is a nationally recognized expert on topics related to nutrition, fitness and health. Check out her website, dietdiva.net.

AVOCADO

Packed with nutrients, one avocado has 52.9 mg of vitamin C, 8.1 mg. of vitamin E and 4,804 mg. of omega-3.

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A great source of protein, one cup gives your brain 35.8 mg. of vitamin E and 17,477 mg. of omega-3.

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VITAMIN E

This antioxidant is fat soluble, meaning it’s excellent at protecting cell membranes (which are fatty in composition) from free-radical damage. The brain is especially rich in lipids, which are at extreme risk of damage from free radicals. Vitamin E-rich foods can slow the rate of cognitive decline by years, according to a study done in Chicago in 2002. Food sources are vegetables, nuts, seeds, kiwi, green leafy vegetable and fish. Recommended Daily Intake: 15 milligrams (mg.)

VITAMIN B-12

This vitamin is naturally present only in foods that come from animals, such as meats and eggs. B-12 can help boost memory and brainpower. It’s vital for many critical functions in the body; it helps to form myelin, the insulation that protects nerve endings, and helps nerves to “talk” to one another. Foods rich in B-12: clams, beef, liver, eggs, milk, chicken, fish and fortified cereals. Recommended Daily Intake: 2.4 micrograms (mcg.)

RED BELL PEPPERS

In a single cup, this veggie can supply 190 mg. of vitamin C and 2.4 mg. of vitamin E.

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A seven-ounce, grass-fed steak will supply your body with 2.7 mcg. of vitamin B-12 and 44.9 mg. of omega-3.

EGGS

If you eat an extra-large egg, you’ll receive 0.7 mcg. of vitamin B-12, 19.6 IU of vitamin D, 0.5 mg. of vitamin E and 41.4 mg. of omega-3.

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A cup of fortified 1 percent milk will give your body 1.1 mcg. of vitamin B-12, 3 mg. of vitamin C, 98.4 IU of vitamin D and 41.8 mg. of omega-3.

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SALMON

A great source of several vitamins, three ounces of red salmon provides 4.9 mcg. of vitamin B-12, 0.7 mg. of vitamin E and 1,210 mg. of omega-3.

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In the body, vitamin C acts as an antioxidant and helps to prevent damage from free radicals, which can cause degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. The water-soluble nutrient influences your fight-or-flight response, attention and mood. It can be found in most vegetables and fruits, citrus in particular. Recommended Daily Intake: 90 mg. (men), 75 mg. (women)

VITAMIN D

Your brain will function and process faster when the proper amount of vitamin D is in your system. In addition to helping neurotransmitters send messages to and from the brain, vitamin D also promotes nerve growth. Good sources of vitamin D include salmon, mackerel, milk and fortified cereals. Recommended Daily Intake: 600 International Units (ages 19-70) 800 IU (ages 70-plus)

ORANGES

The most well-known vitamin C provider, one cup of Florida oranges will give your brain 83.2 mg.

MANGOES

One cup of this tasty summer treat provides 45.7 mg. of vitamin C.

STRAWBERRIES

A great source of vitamin C, one cup of this mega-fruit provides 89.4 mg., or more than 100 percent of your daily value.

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OMEGA-3 (DHA)

The omega-3 fatty acid known as DHA is optimal for brain health. It’s found in synapses, which suggests that this nutrient is involved in signal transmission along neurons. DHA plays an important role in brain development and maintenance. Some good sources are cold water fish, salmon, herring and cod. Recommended Daily Intake: 4,000 mg.

WALNUTS

A rich source of omega-3, one cup of this nut will provide 10,623 mg. of the nutrient.

CAULIFLOWER

A cup of this vegetable will boost your brain with 46.4 mg. of vitamin C and 37 mg. of omega-3.

RASPBERRIES

This fruit isn’t just a good source of vitamin C, giving 32.2 mg. in every cup, but it offers 306 mg. of omega-3 nutrients as an added bonus.

SARDINES

In just one cup, these fish pack a powerful nutrient punch; they have 405 IU of vitamin D, 3 mg. of vitamin E and 2,205 mg. of omega-3.

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Age Shouldn’t Matter You’ve got recourse if you suspect discrimination.

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ver the past several years, workers of all ages have been impacted by seemingly constant layoffs, downsizings and restructurings. But the challenges for older workers can be particularly acute as a result of age discrimination. There are more older Americans than ever in the workforce. Some 16 million people 55 years of age or older are either working or seeking work. That number is expected to double by 2015 as baby boomers who had planned to retire find that kicking back is no longer an option. That makes age discrimination an even more pressing problem. So if you’re 40 years of age or older, you need to understand exactly what constitutes age discrimination and what protections you have under state and federal law. Here are some commonly asked questions about age discrimination – and what steps you should take if you believe you’ve been discriminated against. Q. What is age discrimination? A. The federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids discrimination in any aspect of employment, including hiring, firing, pay, promotions, job assignments, training or fringe benefits. Even a policy or practice that applies to everyone regardless of age can be discriminatory, if it has a negative impact on workers 40 years of age or older and if it isn’t based on a reasonable factor other than age. In Florida, older workers also have protection under the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992 (FCRA). Q. What if I’m under 40? Do age-discrimination laws still apply? A. The ADEA forbids age discrimination only against people 40 years of age or older. However, the FCRA forbids all age discrimination, and can be applied to younger workers as well.

Q. Is every company subject to age-discrimination laws? A. The ADEA applies only to companies with 20 or more employees, including federal, state and local governments. It also applies to employment agencies and labor unions. Again, the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992 is more stringent, covering companies with 15 or more employees. Q. Is every worker 40 or over covered by age-discrimination laws? A. No, there are exceptions. The ADEA specifies that executives or others in “high policy-making decisions” can be required to retire at age 65, if their annual pension benefits are worth $44,000 or more. Police and fire personnel, tenured university faculty members and some federal employees having responsibilities in law enforcement or air-traffic control are also not covered. Q. Other than those jobs, can age ever be used as a basis for hiring or firing someone? A. Yes, when age is a “bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ).” In other words, if a clothing line aimed at teenagers needs models, the ability to appear youthful is necessary to do the job. Other than instances where BFOQ considerations come into play, employers can’t include age specifications in job notices. Q. I had an interview and the human resources manager asked my age. Is that legal? A. It isn’t illegal for a prospective employer to ask your age. However, in the event of an age-discrimination complaint, investigators are likely to closely scrutinize such questions to determine if there was an intent to discriminate. Q. I wasn’t hired because I was told I was overqualified. Isn’t that just another way to discriminate against older workers?

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A. Maybe, maybe not. Older workers are often more skilled and experienced. And, lacking evidence, a company can’t refuse to hire you based on the assumption that because you’re older you’d likely lose interest in the job and quit. Nonetheless, companies aren’t required to hire the most qualified or experienced person. You’d have to prove that you didn’t get the job based solely on your age, rather than another valid reason. Q. What do I do if I believe I’ve been a victim of age discrimination? A. First, contact the Florida Chapter of National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA). At its website, floridanela.org, you’ll find attorneys in your area who specialize in age-discrimination cases. Every case is different, and an attorney can advise you regarding your particular situation. If you choose to forgo legal advice, you may file a complaint directly with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). At its website, eeoc.gov, you’ll find information on how to proceed. Or call the EEOC at 1-800-669-4000 for assistance. If your complaint involves a company employing 15-19 people, or you are otherwise not covered by federal laws, then contact the Florida Commission on Human Rights (FCHR) at 1-850-488-7082. The agency’s website is fchr.state.fl.us. Q. How much time do I have to file a complaint? A. In Florida, you’ve got 300 days from the day the discrimination occurred to file an EEOC claim. Federal employees have 45 days to contact an EEOC counselor. For FCRA claims, you have 365 days from the date of the discriminatory act. n Sally McArthur is a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of the Orange County Bar Association.

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LIVING, LEARNING AND PURSUING POSSIBILITIES People you know share how they’re still growing bolder, getting better. lished its first book – on the secrets of centenarians. Given their similar editorial missions, it was only natural that the Bolder Media Group and Florida Home Media LLC, publishers of Orlando Home & Leisure magazine and its quarterly insert, Forever Young, would form a partnership for content sharing and cross-promotion. After all, both Forever Young and the Bolder Media Group’s electronic ventures are designed to help people over 50 live life to the fullest by providing inspiration and information. The initial result of that partnership is a lively package of stories provided to Forever Young by the Growing Bolder team. “The Bolder Media Group is on the leading edge of a huge demographic trend,” says Randy Noles, group publisher of Florida Home Media. “All it lacked was a print outlet, which Forever Young can provide.” Bolder Media Group founder and CEO Marc Middleton, perhaps best remembered for his years as sports anchor on WESH-TV, Orlando’s NBC affiliate, agrees that Growing Bolder and Forever Young are filling a need: “There’s now an entirely new life stage that didn’t exist a decade ago: People over 50 who make the right lifestyle choices can expect to live another four decades of active and fulfilling life. This is great news for everyone because it means that it’s never too late to reinvent yourself, to start a new career, to give back to your community, to chase your dream or pursue your passions.” FOREVERYOUNGORLANDOMAG.COM

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T “You need something to focus on, or you’ll get lost along the way.”

he longer you live, the more you learn. And if you’re lucky, you surround yourself with people who have wisdom to give and knowledge to share. Studies show that the more you push your intellectual limits, the longer you’ll live and the happier you’ll be. In fact, research sponsored in part by the National Institute on Aging has found that even brief sessions of brain exercise can have a drastic impact on age-related mental decline. So, what are you waiting for? Open your mind to new possibilities – and look for people who can lead the way. To help, Growing Bolder has reached out to familiar figures in sports, entertainment, travel, health and more, and asked them to share their thoughts on what “growing bolder” means to them, what they’ve discovered during their journeys and what advice they have to pass on to others.

ROWDY GAINES, 53 Three-time Olympic champion “To me, goal-setting is really important. You need something to focus on, or you’ll get lost along the way. But don’t become so focused on the destination that you forget to enjoy the journey, because that’s what makes you who you are – how you treat others, respond to setbacks and use your successes to build your momentum.”

“Everything I do – everything we all do – has to make a difference.”

WENDY CHIOJI, 50 Journalist and cancer survivor “I think it’s my obligation, and one I fulfill happily, to share my story of surviving breast cancer and work to pay it forward. After my fight, I was more determined than ever to live each day to the fullest, to celebrate the adventures that the world holds and to bring awareness to those who are surviving and thriving after a difficult diagnosis. Everything I do – everything we all do – has to make a difference. It has to matter. I never take a single moment for granted.”

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“People ask me all the time how long I plan to continue performing live on stage and the honest answer is – for as long as I can. Why stop doing something you love? That’s the secret to staying young. That’s what I plan on doing, and that’s my advice to you. Find something you love and make it your lifestyle.” FOREVER YOUNG

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ROCK STARS OF AGING: LEARN THEIR SECRETS TO LONGEVITY Book tells how centenarians combine healthy habits and positive attitudes.

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e’ve been told for so long, by so many, what’s not possible as we age that few of us know what really is possible. One of the most powerful ways to find out what’s possible is to interview centenarians – people who’ve lived to 100 years or older. Central Florida has boasted a number of centenarians, many of whom we’ve been privileged to know. We were there when 110-year-old Onie Ponder voted in the presidential election; when 109-year-old Ruth Hamilton became the world’s oldest blogger; when Wilhelmina Hoorn danced on her 107th birthday; and when 103-year-old artist Harold Rotenberg flirted with the ladies while being honored at a major museum. In this space, we’ll share the secrets to longevity that we’ve learned from these and other active men and women in their 90s and 100s – men and women we call the “Rock Stars of Aging.” In fact, that’s the name of a brand-new e-book published by Bolder Press, a division of Bolder Media Group. Rock Stars of Aging: 50 Ways to Live to 100, is not based upon surveys, scientific research or the opinions of scholars. Instead, it’s based upon our extensive, firsthand experience interviewing and observing active centenarians, nonagenarians and octogenarians for our national TV and radio shows. We interviewed hundreds of men and women who were far too busy enjoying life to obsess over their advancing years. These people were as diverse as any group could be, but as we talked and listened, we learned – and found many common denominators. Rock Stars of Aging is about those common threads. Threads

which, when woven together, help create not only a long life but, far more important, a life filled with passion and joy; a life without fear and regret. Active centenarians, for example, are almost always cheerful and optimistic. And medical science tells us that a positive attitude not only promotes good health – it can actually nullify predispositions for certain diseases. Dr. Michael Bauerschmidt, an expert on the human genome, says our attitudes impact us on a genetic level. “How you approach life, your attitude towards life, can manifest as how your genes express themselves,” says Bauerschmidt. In other words, although you may have a family history of cardiac disease, cancer, diabetes or Alzheimer’s, how you live your life will play a large part in determining whether or not those ailments develop. Almost all researchers now agree that a healthy lifestyle and the right attitude can overcome bad genes. Psychology trumps physiology almost every time. So don’t just work on your diet and your fitness level, work on your attitude. Learn more about the lifestyle secrets of centenarians by ordering your copy at rockstar.growingbolder.com. – Marc Middleton

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There are several grassroots efforts under way to brand Central Florida as one of America’s healthiest and most active communities. Since any successful effort of this kind requires leadership, Growing Bolder has teamed with Visit Orlando CEO Gary Sain on “The InSain Orlando Executive Challenge.” Each month, Sain will challenge a local CEO to demonstrate his or her commitment to a healthy lifestyle with a fitness feat. We’ll profile those CEOs and their feats in Forever Young as inspiration for all of us to get active. By the way, Sain started this challenge by doing 1,100 pushups on his 61st birthday. “It all starts with discipline,” Sain says. “You can’t say, ‘I’m too busy.’ This is too important to your future. Set a goal and start working toward that goal each and every day. It is not easy, but the benefits are tremendous in the long run.”

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A GRANDFATHER’S LAST WISH, AND A JOURNEY INTO THE PAST For Joanie Schirm, old family letters revealed a poignant story of courage.

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oanie Schirm, 63, is a retired executive whose future is becoming increasingly steeped in the past. During her career, Schirm served as president of Orlandobased Geotechnical and Environmental Consultants. She was also a leader in the effort to bring World Cup soccer to Central Florida in 1994. She retired in 2008, but she’s still learning, still growing, still active in her community – and still working. Only these days, she’s working on uncovering the secrets of her family’s past. Schirm’s quest has made her an expert on genealogy – an expertise she plans to share in two books. Q. What sparked your interest in genealogy? A. After my parents died within days of each other, my siblings and I discovered a collection of old letters written in Czech that revealed our parents’ and grandparents’ past – a past that we had never known fully about. When I finished counting, I realized I had 400 letters written by 78 people between 1939 and 1946. One of them was written by my father’s father, just three days before he and my grandmother were sent to a concentration camp, where they both died. The letter begins, “My dear boy,” and in it, my grandfather gives my father a last wish for how he should lead his life. It’s an amazing, altruistic wish, which is the keystone for a series of books I’m writing about my dad’s life and my own journey of discovery. Q. Where has your search into your family’s history taken you? A. Once I started digging into the letters, I couldn’t put them down. They eventually brought me into contact with seven of the letter writers or their descendants. When you do genealogy, it goes so far in your life. My husband and I have met so many wonderful people. While in Prague, I got to meet former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, whose background is Czech. We were guests at the U.S. ambassador’s home for dinner. At an American Friends of the Czech Republic event, I met former Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, a hero of my father’s. Q. What’s your advice for those just getting started in tracing their family’s history? A. If [relatives] are living who can bring history to you, go talk to them. Use modern technologies, like small video cameras or computer webcams, and document their stories. And do it now, because it’s all going to go away, and it’s history that we all need to capture for future generations. Q. Why would someone want to spend so much time looking to the past? FOREVERYOUNGORLANDOMAG.COM

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JOANIE SCHIRM A. If you have any sense of curiosity in life, you’ll be amazed. You really start, nowadays, with the Web and these ancestry sites. Then you keep going and going and going. It’s like going down a rabbit hole, and you find these amazing things. The treasures you find are seldom on the surface. Q. Now that you’ve spent all this time researching your family’s past, what are you going to do with that knowledge? A. I’ve actually written manuscripts for two books (joanieschirm.com). The first is called The Golden Youth, which chronicles my investigation of the letter writers and the people I’ve met, including two 91-year-old letter writers, an MIT professor, a scientist in New Zealand, a law professor in Canada and a former Czech ambassador to the United States. The second book is called My Dear Boy, named for that final letter to my father. In it, I explain how my father’s courage allowed him to escape occupied Czechoslovakia before it was too late. A few months later, he ended up in China where he met my mother, an American missionary. They immediately fell in love and got married. Their love affair lasted 60 years. Without my dad’s courage, my siblings and I wouldn’t exist. FOREVER YOUNG

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FACES IN THE CROWD Making changes, having fun and living life to the fullest. TATTOO YOU Tattoos are no longer taboo. They’ve gone mainstream in a big way and like just about everything else, the fastest-growing market segment is baby boomers. Recently, Andrea Kudlacz celebrated her 60th birthday by getting a very special tattoo – one that reminds her that her youth left its own permanent mark on the woman she has become.

WHAT’S ‘SUP?’ At the age of 46, after more than 19 years in a safe and secure job with the Florida Lottery, Ned Johnson quit – and started living his dream. He traded a business suit for a swimsuit and now runs Paddleboard Orlando – a stand-up paddleboard program that’s open to all ages and all abilities. Stand-up paddleboarding is quickly becoming one of the hottest exercises around, offering a full-body workout without ever having to set foot in a gym. paddleboardorlando.com

SHORT AND SWEET After a series of mission trips, Jane Hursh, 44, felt obligated to share the blessings of her life and raise money to help those in need. So she turned to something she’d always loved doing – baking cookies. Now, from shortbread to biscotti and all treats in between, Hursh’s Short and Sweet is a local business that’s making an international difference. All profits go to a variety of charities, ranging from organizations that fight human trafficking to those that provide assistance to families impacted by HIV/ AIDS. janeshortandsweet.com In Central Florida, new episodes of Growing Bolder air at noon Sundays on WUCF-TV, Orlando’s PBS affiliate. The Growing Bolder Radio Show airs at 3 p.m. Saturdays and 7 a.m. Sundays on WMFE-FM 90, also a PBS affiliate.

WORDS OF WISDOM “I’ve learned to persevere, and I’ve learned to look at the bright side. You have to enjoy every day, because you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. I guess the biggest thing is, follow your passion. Whatever it is you like to do, get on with it because that’s what we’re living here today for.” Joe Johnston, 67, Apopka World age-group pole-vaulting champion 18

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Originally from: Jacksonville n Family: Divorced decades ago, the longtime Tampa resident moved to Orlando in 2006 to live near her daughter, son-in-law and their two young sons. One of her main activities is helping take care of her two grandchildren, ages 4 and 6. She credits good genes for her robust health – her father was active until his death, only a year ago, at age 99. n Former career: Karen was a clinical social worker based in a variety of hospitals, including Tampa General Hospital, where she worked for 18 years until her retirement in 1999. “It’s fun working in a hospital. It’s hard, but you’re working with some of the smartest people in the world, so it’s always interesting. When I hit the floor, I 20

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never knew what I’d be doing that day.” n Current activities: Growing a variety of vegetables and herbs in a 4-by-16-foot plot in the community garden at Mead Gardens; singing in the choir at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Orlando; attending hour-long yoga and other exercise classes at the downtown YMCA at least six days a week. A former runner who gave up the sport a few years ago to save her aching knees, she has always been slim: Her weight – 102 pounds – is the same as it was when she was 20. n Words of wisdom: “Get outdoors. Ride your bike. Swim in the pool. Play soccer. Stay active. Obesity is such a huge problem for so many people. The way food is packaged and marketed doesn’t help. If everybody had a community garden we’d be better off.”

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Bob Brigham, 77 Originally from: East Orange, N.J. n Family: Bob, whose first wife died in 1999, married a longtime friend, Patti Madden, in 2009. An Orlando resident since 1970, he has two children: a son, Geoff, 53, who lives in San Francisco, and a daughter, Rosalind, 45, who lives near Little Rock, Ark. His only grandchild, Cassie, lives in Paris but currently is taking courses at Carleton College in Minnesota. n Former career: After earning a Master’s degree from MIT and a doctorate in mathematics from NYU, Bob spent 33 years as a fulltime math and computer science professor at the University of Central Florida. He still teaches at least one class a year at UCF – this semester it’s Advanced Calculus – and remains a big fan of the nation’s second-largest university. “I think the kids are great. I’ve learned how to stay young by being around them.” n Current activities: A runner since his early 40s – “I suddenly decided that I might be getting older, so maybe I should start taking care of myself a little bit better” – Bob has won his age group in Orlando’s OUC Half Marathon for the past three years. It’s a passion he shares with Patti, to whom he proposed during a water break midway through a morning jog. His other hobbies include walking the couple’s three rescued greyhounds – Merlin, Onyx and Callie – and reading and writing murder mysteries. Bob is currently self-publishing one of his own mysteries, in collaboration with a fellow runner who was a former crime scene investigator. n Words of wisdom: “Just have fun. Look for the best in other people, and don’t be judgmental.” foreveryoungorlandomag.com

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Originally from: New York City and New Jersey. n Family: Glenn met his wife, Sandy, while both were working as clowns with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. (Sandy, the first female clown ever hired by Ringling Bros., also taught the first accredited class on circus clowning, at Lehigh University.) Glenn and Sandy have a 33-year-old son, Joey Severin, a video editor in New York City. n Former career: At age 21 Glenn worked in stage design and wrote for radio and TV, including Saturday Night Live, for which he penned the popular “Loud Family” skits. He also wrote copy for TV commercials, including several Mr. Whipple ads for Charmin toilet paper. After studying acting with Lee Strasberg and Anthony Mannino, he veered off in a very different direction: professional clowning. He and Sandy toured the country with Ringling Bros. for 15 years before opening a popular Orlando art gallery in 1995. n Current activities: Glenn runs Boom-Art, a gallery in the Lake Ivanhoe antique district. He and Sandy make all the nostalgia-focused art in the shop using found and recycled pieces. “What we do here is entertain, motivate and inspire people,” Glenn says.” Purchasers of their work include Shaquille O’Neal, Jeff Foxworthy, Carrot Top and Jay Leno. During their off hours, Glenn and Sandy enjoy growing their own fruits and vegetables, breeding tropical fish and relaxing poolside at their home near Lake Eola. n Words of wisdom: “Life is not a dress rehearsal. It’s the only show they give you, so you’ve got to get your act together before the circus train pulls out.” SPRING 2012

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omebody recently asked when I plan to retire, and the question stopped me in my tracks. Yes, I’ve been getting letters from AARP, but I didn’t dream anyone else might think the “R” word could be in my future. I’m still entranced by my job, count my co-workers among my best friends and can barely imagine a life without work. And that means I am like lots of other baby boomers – delusional and driven, with 63 percent of us feeling younger than we really are and 41 percent saying they would rather keep working than retire. Still, energy, memory and all sorts of other things really do start to decline after 40, and many boomers – 46 percent, to be exact – worry that they can’t compete with their younger colleagues. And as people hold onto their jobs even longer – 68 is the new 65 when it comes to retirement age – it’s increasingly common for grandparents to work alongside kids fresh out of school. All your experience and wisdom won’t keep you from being sidelined if you come across as a dinosaur. Here – with the help of several boomer friends and colleagues – are some tips for staying on top. Exercise. If somebody told you about a miracle drug that could elevate your energy, prolong your life and make you happier for hours after you took it, you’d be scouring the black market to find it. I couldn’t maintain my workload or schedule without exercising at least 45 minutes four or five times a week, and I will give up personal lunches, dinners and fun to make it happen. On a similar note, one friend takes the stairs instead of the elevator and visits the person in the next office rather than send-

ing an e-mail. It counts as exercise, and it sends a message about his vitality, too. As people age they look tired, and tired is a bad look at work. If your face shows the serious effects of more than half a century of gravity, consider a facelift, Botox or other cosmetic procedures. This applies to you, too, guys. But don’t try too hard. Nothing is going to make you look 30 again, and that includes tight shirts that show off your muffintop, stiletto heels that you teeter in, cleavage that flaunts your age spots and bare, cafeteria-lady arms. Do not – repeat, do not – talk about what you did when you worked for a Fortune 500 company in New York. Lots of people move to Florida from major jobs. The smart ones know that what matters now is what they’re accomplishing here. If you stay around long enough, you’re going to have new bosses and maybe even new owners. Even if it is true, never tell them, “We tried that before and it didn’t work.” Everyone our age forgets a shocking number of things. Do not bring meetings to an agonizing halt while you try to recall a name and complain that you can’t remember anything anymore. No one in corporate history has ever won respect or a promotion this way. You can’t use my strategy – which is to ask a longtime co-worker, who remembers every detail in the universe – but you can try to conceal your mental lapse and Google the elusive fact after the meeting. From a car-savvy colleague: Don’t buy a Buick. In office conversations, avoid the three “M’s”: Metamucil, menopause, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

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ew decisions are as confusing, emotionally wrenching and fraught with pitfalls as those related to the care of an aging parent or loved one. While it may be easier to put off thinking about it until later, the earlier you begin your research, the easier the process will be. Learn about the different types of senior housing, what choices may be best for you and how to navigate the emotional roadblocks that come with making smart choices. Waiting until you’re forced to act quickly only makes the process that much more difficult. On the following pages is a selective directory of active adult communities, assisted living facilities, elder law, estate planning, funeral homes, health plans, hospitals, homemaker and companion services, nurse registries, nursing homes, orthopedic surgeons and hospice care services. Providers who have shown a special interest in reaching Forever Young readers through advertising are highlighted. Most of the information was provided by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (ACHA). For more, visit acha.myflorida.org.

ACTIVE ADULT/ INDEPENDENT LIVING COMMUNITY Del Webb Orlando

225 Ridgewood Lakes Blvd. Davenport, FL 33837 (877) 847-8297 delwebb.com

Solivita

395 Village Dr. Poinciana, FL 34759 (863) 427-7000

Share the Care

1010 Arthur Ave. Orlando, FL 32804 (407) 423-5311 Maximum Participants: 20 helpforcaregivers.org

Share the Care

81 N. Main St. Winter Garden, FL 34787 (407) 423-5311 Maximum Participants: 20 helpforcaregivers.org

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Villa Grande on Saxon 450 Alessandra Circle Orange City, FL 32763

ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS

Adult day care offers social and health-related services in a safe, supportive and cheerful environment. Nutritious meals that accommodate special diets are typically included, along with an afternoon snack. Such facilities offer relief to family members or caregivers, allowing them the freedom to go to work, handle personal business or simply relax while knowing their loved ones are well cared for and safe.

Lake County 1172 Grand Hwy. Clermont, FL 34711 (352) 978-2770 Maximum Participants:15

McCoy Adult Day Care Center 120 E. 20th Ave. Mount Dora, FL 32757 (352) 383-9770 Maximum Participants: 24

Orange County Easter Seals Day Break at the Miller Center

2010 Mizell Ave. Winter Park, FL 32792 (407) 629-4565 Maximum Participants: 50

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Emeritus at Oak Park

4851 S. Apopka Vineland Rd. Orlando, FL 32819 (407) 876-9194 Maximum Participants: 40 helpforcaregivers.org

Osceola County Osceola Council on Aging 700 Generation Point Kissimmee, FL 34744 (407) 846-8532 Maximum Participants: 78

Seminole County 2025 W. S.R. 426 Oviedo, FL 32765 (407) 423-5311 Maximum Participants: 22 helpforcaregivers.org

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500 Waterman Ave. Mount Dora, FL 32757 (352) 383-0051 Licensed Beds: 100 650 E. Minehaha Ave. Clermont, FL 34711 (352) 241-0844 Licensed Beds: 85

Eustis Senior Care 228 N. Center St. Eustis, FL 32726 (352) 589-8944 Licensed Beds: 25

Grand Court Tavares, The 1211 Caroline St. E. Tavares, FL 32778 (352) 343-6464 Licensed Beds: 110

Heritage of Tavares 900 E. Alfred St. Tavares, FL 32778 (352) 343-3070 Licensed Beds: 36

Leisure Manor

710 Spring Lake Rd., Ste. 1100 Altamonte Springs, FL 32701 (407) 831-9630 Maximum Participants: 30 stmarymagdalen.org

301 S. Main Ave. Minneola, FL 34715 (352) 394-6619 Licensed Beds: 24

Volusia County

930 Hwy. 466 Lady Lake, FL 32159 (352) 259-8185 Licensed Beds: 115

Sender Retreat

1270 Orange Camp Rd. DeLand, FL 32724 (386) 734-4442 Maximum Participants: 45 1001 Town Center Dr. Orange City, FL 32763 (386) 851-0691 Maximum Participants: 50

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Assisted living facilities offer housing alternatives for older adults who may need help with dressing, bathing, eating, and toileting, but don’t require the intensive medical and nursing care provided in nursing homes. Residents of assisted living facilities usually have their own units or apartment.

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Lexington Park

Mayfield Retirement Center 460 Newell Hill Rd. Leesburg, FL 34748 (352) 365-6011 Licensed Beds: 20

Savannah Manor

1027 W. Main St. Leesburg, FL 34748 (352) 326-3637 Licensed Beds: 45

Shady Lane Retirement Home 201 Rosefield Ave. Leesburg, FL 34748 (352) 216-3588 Licensed Beds: 11

Silver Lake Assisted Living 34601 Radio Rd. Leesburg, FL 34788 (352) 365-9929 Licensed Beds: 8

Somerset

2450 Dora Ave. Tavares, FL 32778 (352) 343-4464 Licensed Beds: 60

Springs of Lady Lake, The 620 Griffin Ave. Lady Lake, FL 32159 (352) 259-0016 Licensed Beds: 80

Sterling House of Tavares 2232 Dora Ave. Tavares, FL 32778 (352) 343-2500 Licensed Beds: 60

Superior Residence of Clermont 1600 Hunt Trace Blvd. Clermont, FL 34711 (352) 394-5549 Licensed Beds: 110

Sutton Homes No. 7

4055 Lake Forest Mount Dora, FL 32757 (407) 740-8815 Licensed Beds: 5

Waterman Cove

1501 Sunshine Pkwy. Tavares, FL 32778 (352) 742-7111 Licensed Beds: 94

Orange County Alabama Oaks of Winter Park 1759 Alabama Dr. Winter Park, FL 32792 (407) 622-5076 Licensed Beds: 19

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Azalea Manor

150 Willow Dr. Orlando, FL 32807 (407) 282-0556 Licensed Beds: 75

Emeritus at Conway 5501 E. Michigan St. Orlando, FL 32822 (407) 277-7225 Licensed Beds: 103

Emeritus at Ocoee 80 N. Clark Rd. Ocoee, FL 34761 (407) 299-2710 Licensed Beds: 105

Emeritus at Wekiwa Springs 203 S. Wekiwa Springs Rd. Apopka, FL 32703 (407) 889-7704 Licensed Beds: 82

Golden Pond Communities 400 Lakeview Rd. Winter Garden, FL 34787 (407) 654-7217 Licensed Beds: 108

Indigo Palms at Maitland 740 N. Wymore Rd. Maitland, FL 32751 (407) 628-0123 Licensed Beds: 116

MayFLower Assisted Living Facility 1620 Mayflower Ct. Winter Park, FL 32792 (407) 672-1620 Licensed Beds: 31

Orlando Ivy Court

8015 Pin Oak Dr. Orlando FL 32819-7108 (407) 363-4511 Licensed Beds: 40

Orlando Lutheran Towers

(Orlando Senior Health Network) 404 Mariposa St. Orlando, FL 32801 (407) 425-1033 Licensed Beds: 109

Orlando Madison House 8001 Pin Oak Dr. Orlando, FL 32819 (407) 903-1808 Licensed Beds: 80

Spring Hills Hunters Creek 3800 Town Center Blvd. Orlando, FL 32837 (407) 251-8088 Licensed Beds: 108

Summer Time Retirement 909 N. Wymore Rd. Winter Park, FL 32789 (407) 645-5515 Licensed Beds: 95

Sutton Homes No. 1 2650 Derbyshire Dr. Maitland, FL 32751 (407) 740-8815 Licensed Beds: 5

Sutton Homes No. 2

4031 Quentia Dr. Winter Park, FL 32792 (407) 740-8815 Licensed Beds: 5

Sutton Homes No. 4

1481 Glastonberry Dr. Maitland, FL 32751 (407) 740-8815 Licensed Beds: 5

Sutton Homes No. 5 2216 Miscindy Place Orlando, FL 32806 (407) 740-8815 Licensed Beds: 5

Sutton Homes No. 8

6102 Sand Pines Estates Blvd. Orlando, FL 32819 (407) 740-8815 Licensed Beds: 5

Thornton Gardens 618 E. Central Blvd. Orlando, FL 32821 (407) 841-5417 Licensed Beds: 12

Westchester of Winter Park 558 N. Semoran Blvd. Winter Park FL 32792 (407) 679-5555 Licensed Beds: 121

Westminster Towers

70 W. Lucerne Circle Orlando, FL 32801 (407) 841-1310 Licensed Beds: 60 westminsterretirement.com

Winter Park Towers

1111 S. Lakemont Ave. Winter Park,FL 32792 (407) 647-4083 Licensed Beds: 73 westminsterretirement.com

Royal Gardens of St. Cloud 4511 Neptune Rd. St. Cloud, FL 34769 (407) 892-2290 Licensed Beds: 33

Savannah Court of St. Cloud 3791 Old Canoe Creek Rd. St. Cloud, FL 34769 (407) 892-8502 Licensed Beds: 36

Sunshine Quest Acres

2910 Old Canoe Creek Rd. St. Cloud, FL 34772 (407) 593-1524 Licensed Beds: 12

Seminole County Arden Courts Memory Care 1057 Willa Springs Dr. Winter Springs FL 32708 (407) 696-8400 Licensed Beds: 60

Chambrel at Island Lake

Horizon Bay Vibrant Retirement Living 443 360 Montgomery Rd. Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 (407) 786-5637 Licensed Beds: 115

Horizon Bay Vibrant Retirement Living 445 217 Boston Ave. Altamonte Springs, FL 32701 (407) 260-2345 Licensed Beds: 170

Lutheran Haven Assisted Living Facility 1525 Haven Dr., Oviedo, FL 32765 (407) 365-3456 Licensed Beds: 28

Renaissance Retirement Center 300 W. Airport Blvd. Sanford, FL 32771 (407) 323-7306 Licensed Beds: 115

Savannah Cottage of Oviedo 445 Alexandria Blvd. Oviedo, FL 32765 (407) 977-8786 Licensed Beds: 38

160 Islander Ct. Longwood, FL 32750 (407) 767-6600 Licensed Beds: 57 brookdaleliving.com

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Savannah Court and Cottage of Oviedo

480 E. Church Ave. Longwood, FL 32750 (407) 767-0500 Licensed Beds: 90

Eastbrooke Gardens

1301 W. Maitland Blvd. Maitland, FL 32751 (407) 645-3990 Licensed Beds:112

395 Alafaya Woods Blvd. Oviedo, FL 32765 (407) 977-8786 Licensed Beds: 26

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Serenades by Sonata Memory Care

509 W. Verona St. Kissimmee, FL 34741 (407) 931-3995 Licensed Beds: 75

Amber Lake Assisted Living 2411 Fortune Rd. Kissimmee, FL 34744 (407) 348-6100 Licensed Beds: 34

Bishop Grady Villas 401 Bishop Grady Ct. St. Cloud, FL 34770 (407) 892-6148 Licensed Beds: 48

Good Samaritan Society-Kissimmee Village 1471 Sungate Dr. Kissimmee, FL 34746 (407) 870-2210 Licensed Beds: 44

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201 Sunset Dr. Casselberry, FL 32707 (407) 699-5002 Licensed Beds: 78 eastbrookegardens.net

1117 Massachusetts Ave. St. Cloud, FL 34769 (407) 892-3837 Licensed Beds: 34

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150 Middle St. Lake Mary, FL 32746 (407) 321-7550 Licensed Beds: 92

Emeritus at Oviedo

1725 Pine Bark Point. Oviedo, FL 32765-6580 (407) 977-5250 Licensed Beds: 75

Emeritus at Tuskawilla 1016 Willa Springs Dr. Winter Springs, FL 32708 (407) 699-7999 Licensed Beds: 102

Grand Villa of Altamonte Springs

433 Orange Dr. Altamonte Springs, FL 32701 (407) 260-2433 Licensed Beds: 180 altamontespringsseniorliving.com

Heritage at Lake Forest, The

395 Alafaya Woods Blvd. Oviedo, FL 32765 (407) 977-8786 Licensed Beds: 36

425 S. Ronald Reagan Blvd. Longwood FL 32750 (407) 951-6450 Licensed Beds: 57

Spring Hills Lake Mary 3655 W. Lake Mary Blvd. Lake Mary, FL 32746 (407) 688-1660 Licensed Beds: 102

Sutton Homes No. 3

515 Tivoli Ct. Altamonte Springs, FL 32701 (407) 740-8815 Licensed Beds: 5

Volusia County Americare Assisted Living 2992 Day Rd. Deltona, FL 32738 (386) 789-8848 Licensed Beds: 36

5433 W. S.R. 46 Sanford, FL 32771 (407) 322-2207 Licensed Beds: 185

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fyi / resource directory Cloisters of DeLand, The 400 E. Howry Ave. DeLand, FL 32724 (386) 822-6900 Licensed Beds: 220

Forest Lake Manor

252 Forest Lake Blvd. Daytona Beach, FL 32119 (386) 760-7174 Licensed Beds: 75

Good Samaritan Society/ FLorida Lutheran 450 N. McDonald Ave. DeLand, FL 32724 (386) 738-0212 Licensed Beds: 45

Good Shepards of DeLand West, The

Kathleen FLammia, P.A.

Home Instead Senior Care No. 239

Visiting Angels

Law Offices of Hoyt & Bryan, The

Visiting Angels of Lake County

Seminole County

2707 W. Fairbanks Ave., Ste. 110 Winter Park, FL 32789 (407) 494-5298 254 Plaza Dr. Oviedo, FL 32765 (407) 977-8080

ESTATE PLANNING Estate & Business Planning Group 305 Douglas Ave. Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 (407) 389-1122

Price Financial Services

1200 W. New York Ave. DeLand, FL 32720 (386) 738-9986 Licensed Beds: 11

John Knox Village of Central FLorida

940 Centre Circle, Ste. 3016 Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 (407) 339-4500

FUNERAL HOMEs

216 N. Third St., Ste. A Leesburg, FL 34748 (352) 323-6100

655 W. Hwy. 50, Ste. 103 Clermont, FL 34711 (352) 241-6400

Orange County American Home Companions 1475 Lake Baldwin Ln., Ste. A Orlando, FL 32814 (407) 896-8989

Brightstar

410 N. Dillard St., Ste. 102 Winter Garden, FL 34787 (407) 877-0720

Cameron Group, The

3319 Maguire Blvd., Ste.100 Orlando, FL 32803 (407) 896-2010

Comfort Keepers

3501 W. Vine St., Ste. 351 Kissimmee, FL 34741 (407) 888-5999

Bright Star of West Seminole 7764 Islewood Ct. Sanford, FL 32771 (407) 921-8696

Bright Star of East Seminole County

800 Westwood Sq., Ste. E Oviedo, FL 32765 (407) 278-4570

Comfort Keepers

650 Douglas Ave., Ste.1027 Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 (407) 774-4457

Granny Nannies

1912 Boothe Circle, Ste. 300 Longwood, FL 32750 (407) 682-7758

101 Northlake Dr. Orange City, FL 32763 (386) 775-3840 Licensed Beds: 60

Baldwin-Fairchild

301 N.E. Ivanhoe Blvd. Orlando, FL 32804 (407) 898-8111

380 Semoran Commerce Place Ste. 206B Apopka, FL 32703 (407) 814-7070

Visiting Angels

Oak Manor

DeGusipe Funeral Home & Crematory

CSI/Nurse World

Volusia County

1771 W. Minnesota Ave. DeLand, FL 32720 (386) 736-7231 Licensed Beds: 11

Rose Manor

9001 N. Orlando Ave. Maitland, FL 32751 (407) 695-2273

FLorida Home Companion

HEALTH PLANS

120 W. North St. DeLand, FL 32720 (386) 738-5982 Licensed Beds: 10

AGED

Savannah Court of Orange City 202 Strawberry Oaks Dr. Orange City, FL 32763 (386) 775-3030 Licensed Beds: 45

Shady Lane

2560 Shady Ln. Orange City, FL 32763 (386) 775-4453 Licensed Beds: 16

Sterling House of DeLand 1210 N. Stone St. DeLand, FL 32724 (386) 736-8100 Licensed Beds: 55

Woodland Towers 113 Chipola Ave. DeLand, FL 32720 (386) 738-2700 Licensed Beds: 175

ELDER LAW & WILLS, TRUSTS AND ESTATES Bailey Zobel Pilcher 610 S. Maitland Ave. Maitland, FL 32751 (407) 622-1900

106 Commerce Street, Ste. 101 Lake Mary, FL 32746 (407) 682-4111

Insurance Network for Seniors

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Senior Helpers

home health and nurse registries

Spring Hills Care Services

Home health care helps seniors live independently for as long as possible, given the limits of their medical condition. It covers a wide range of services, including occupational and physical therapy, speech therapy and even skilled nursing. It may also involve helping with such daily activities as bathing, dressing and eating as well as cooking, cleaning and monitoring prescription and over-the-counter medications.

1850 Lee Rd., Ste.140 Winter Park, FL 32789 (407) 628-4357 3800 Town Center Blvd. Orlando, FL 32837 (407) 251-8088

Visiting Angels of Orlando/Ocoee

6220 S. Orange Blossom Tr., Ste. 194 Orlando, FL 32809 (407) 888-5999

Visiting Angels of Orlando Winter Park

Lake County

2221 Lee Rd., Ste. 26 Winter Park, FL 32789 (407) 236-9997

Christian Home Companionship

Visiting Nurse Association (VNA)

2204 Citrus Blvd., 2B Leesburg, FL 34748 (352) 787-0052

FLorida Hospital Waterman Home Care Services/Private Division

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620 N. Wymore Rd., Ste. 260 Maitland, FL 32751 (407) 478-5469

715 Douglas Ave. Altamonte Springs, FL : 32714 (407) 314-2674

3270 Waterman Way Tavares, FL 32778 (352) 253-3900

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2250 Lee Rd., Ste.102 Winter Park, FL 32789 (407) 629-1141

102 W. Pineloch Ave., Ste. 23 Orlando, FL 32806 (407) 854-3100

Osceola County True Help Services

526 Simpson Rd. Kissimmee, FL 34744 (407) 348-2383

655 W. Fulton St., Ste. 1 Sanford, FL 32771 (407) 302-4138

Companion Care Services 1036 Lyric Dr. Deltona, FL 32738 (321) 246-2898

Shepherd’s House of DeLand, The 138 North Boulevard Ct. DeLand, FL 32720 (386) 738-1908

HOME MEDICAL SUPPLIES Lake County Lincare

301 S. Richey Rd., Ste. 101 Leesburg, FL 34748 (352) 323-5540

Long’s Home Medical Services & Equipment 3801 S.R. 19A, Ste. 408 Mount Dora, FL 32757 (352) 735-1120

Orange County Binson’s Home Health Care Centers 2069 Aloma Ave. Winter Park, FL 32792 (407) 679-2135

Colonial Medical Supplies 915 S. Orange Ave. Orlando, FL 32806 (407) 849-6455

Scooter Store Orlando 2457 Silver Star Rd. Orlando, FL 32804 (407) 522-3780

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Helping Hands Medical

Hospice of the Comforter

Padgett’s Medical & Ostomy Center

Volusia County

1316 N. John Young Pkwy., Ste. A Kissimmee, FL 34741 (407) 847-5933

4050 13th St. St. Cloud, FL 34769 (407) 892-3037

Seminole County Binson’s Home Health Care Centers

762 E. Altamonte Dr. Altamonte Springs, FL 32701 (407) 691-3009

Bonnie Hearing

715 Douglas Ave. Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 (321) 254-6141

Colonial Medical Supplies

614 E. Altamonte Dr. Altamonte Springs, FL 32701 (407) 849-6455

Volusia County Lincare

3063 Enterprise Rd., Ste. 23 DeBary, FL 32713 (386) 668-6599

Rotech Oxygen & Medical Equipment 919 N. Spring Garden Ave. DeLand, FL 32720 (386) 736-9666

HOSPICE

Hospice programs are available to help terminally ill individuals live their remaining days with dignity. These programs can assist the family, or other designated caregivers, in making the patient as comfortable as possible. Assistance is available around the clock, seven days a week. Hospice care usually is provided in the patient’s home, although it is also available at special hospice residences.

Lake County Cornerstone Hospice & Palliative Care 2445 Lane Park Rd. Tavares, FL 32778-9648 (352) 343-1341 Licensed Beds: 36

Orange County Samaritan Care Hospice of FLorida

1300 N. Semoran Blvd., Ste. 210 Orlando, FL 32807-3567 (407) 514-1300 Licensed Beds: 0

Vitas Innovative Hospice Care 2201 Lucien Way Maitland, FL 32751 (407) 875-0028 Licensed Beds: 0

480 W. Central Pkwy. Altamonte Springs, FL 32714-2415 (407) 682-0808 Licensed Beds: 22

FLorida Hospital Hospice Care 770 W. Granada Blvd., Ste. 304 Ormond Beach, FL 32174-5180 (386) 671-2138 Licensed Beds: 8

Halifax Health Hospice of Volusia/FLagler

3800 Woodbriar Tr. Port Orange, FL 32129-9626 (386) 322-4701 Licensed Beds:18

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7727 Lake Underhill Rd. Orlando, FL 32822 (407) 303-8110 Licensed Beds: 225 flhosp.org

Health Central

10000 W. Colonial Dr. Ocoee, FL 34761 (407) 296-1000 Licensed Beds: 171

Orlando Regional Medical Center 1414 Kuhl Ave. Orlando, FL 32806 (407) 841-5111 Licensed Beds: 808

Winter Park Memorial Hospital 200 N. Lakemont Ave. Winter Park, FL 32792 (407) 646-7000 Licensed Beds: 307 winterparkhospital.com

FLorida Hospital Celebration Health

1000 Waterman Way Tavares, FL 32778 (352) 253-3300 Licensed Beds: 204

400 Celebration Place Celebration, FL 34747 (407) 764-4000 Licensed Beds: 174 celebrationhealth.com

Leesburg Regional Medical Center

FLorida Hospital Kissimmee

FLorida Hospital Waterman

600 E. Dixie Ave. Leesburg, FL 34748 (352) 323-5000 Licensed Beds: 294

Leesburg Regional Medical Center North 700 N. Palmetto St. Leesburg, FL 34748 (352) 323-5695 Licensed Beds: 22

South Lake Hospital

1900 Don Wickham Dr. Clermont, FL 34711 (352) 394-4071 Licensed Beds: 104

Orange County Arnold Palmer Medical Center 92 W. Miller St. Orlando, FL 32806 (407) 649-9111 Licensed Beds: 443

Dr. P. Phillips Hospital 9400 Turkey Lake Rd. Orlando, FL 32819 (407) 351-8500 Licensed Beds: 237

FLorida Hospital

601 E. Rollins St. Orlando, FL 32803 (407) 303-5600 Licensed Beds: 1067 flhosp.org

FLorida Hospital Apopka 201 N. Park Ave. Apopka, FL 32703 (407) 889-1000 Licensed Beds: 50 flhosp.org

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FLorida Hospital East Orlando

2450 N. Orange Blossom Tr. Kissimmee, FL 34744 (407) 846-4343 Licensed Beds: 83 flhosp.org

Osceola Regional Medical Center

700 W. Oak St. Kissimmee, FL 34741 (407) 846-2266 Licensed Beds: 257

St. Cloud Regional Medical Center 2906 17th St. St. Cloud, FL 34769 (407) 892-2135 Licensed Beds: 84

Volusia County FLorida Hospital DeLand 701 W. Plymouth Ave. DeLand, FL 32721 (386) 943-4522 Licensed Beds: 156 fhdeland.org

FLorida Hospital Fish Memorial 1055 Saxon Blvd. Orange City, FL 32763 (386) 851-5000 Licensed Beds: 139 fhfishmemorial.org

NURSING HOMES Lake County Edgewater at Waterman Village 300 Brookfield Ave. Mount Dora, FL 32757-9562 (352) 383-0051 Licensed Beds: 120

Freedom Pointe at The Villages Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center 1460 El Camino Real The Villages, FL 32159 (352) 750-3800 Licensed Beds: 72

Orange County Adventist Care Centers/ Courtland 730 Courtland St. Orlando, FL 32804 (407) 975-3800 Licensed Beds: 120

Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers 210 Lake Ave. Orlando, FL 32801 (407) 872-7088 Licensed Beds: 135

Conway Lakes Health & Rehabilitation Center

Seminole County

5201 Curry Ford Rd. Orlando, FL 32812 (407) 384-8838 Licensed Beds: 120

Central FLorida Regional Hospital

Gardens at DePugh Nursing Center, The

FLorida Hospital Altamonte

Life Care Center of Orlando

1401 W. Seminole Blvd. Sanford, FL 32771 (407) 321-4500 Licensed Beds: 226

601 E. Altamonte Dr. Altamonte Springs, FL 32701 (407) 303-2200 Licensed Beds: 341 flhosp.org

South Seminole Hospital 555 W. S.R. 434 Longwood, FL 32750 (407) 351-8500 Licensed Beds: 206

550 W. Morse Blvd. Winter Park, FL 32789 (407) 644-6634 Licensed Beds: 40 3211 Rouse Rd. Orlando, FL 32817 (407) 281-1070 Licensed Beds: 120

Manor Care Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 2075 Loch Lomond Dr. Winter Park, FL 32792 (407) 628-5418 Licensed Beds: 138

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ORTHOPAEDICS EMERGENT ORTHOPAEDIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY

ORLANDO HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER 830 W. 29th St. Orlando, FL 32805 (407) 843-3230 Licensed Beds: 420

REGENTS PARK OF WINTER PARK 558 N. Semoran Blvd. Winter Park, FL 32792 (407) 679-1515 Licensed Beds: 120

SAVANNAH COVE

1301 W. Maitland Blvd. Maitland, FL 32751 (407) 645-3990 Licensed Beds: 39

Osceola County CONSULATE HEALTH CARE OF KISSIMMEE

2511 John Young Pkwy. N. Kissimmee, FL 34741 (407) 931-3336 Licensed Beds: 120

OAKS OF KISSIMMEE

320 N. Mitchell St. Kissimmee, FL 34741 (407) 847-7200 Licensed Beds: 59

Seminole County LAKE MARY HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER 710 N. Sun Dr. Lake Mary, FL 32746 (407) 805-3131 Licensed Beds: 120

TUSKAWILLA NURSING AND REHAB CENTER

1024 Willa Springs Dr. Winter Springs, FL 32708 (407) 699-5506 Licensed Beds: 98

VILLAGE ON THE GREEN 500 Village Place Longwood, FL 32779 (407) 682-0230 Licensed Beds: 60

Volusia County GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY/ FLORIDA LUTHERAN 450 N. McDonald Ave. DeLand, FL 32724 (386) 738-0212 Licensed Beds: 60

WOODLAND TERRACE EXTENDED CARE CENTER 120 Chipola Ave. DeLand, FL 32720 (386) 738-3433 Licensed Beds: 120

LONGWOOD HEALTHCARE CENTER 1520 S. Grant St. Longwood, FL 32750 (407) 339-9200

Important Phone Numbers

7350 Sand Lake Commons, Medplex B, Ste. 2205 Orlando, FL 32819 (407) 355-3120 freedom-joint.com

INNOVATIVE SENIOR CARE AT CHAMBREL AT ISLAND LAKE

JEWETT ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC

Volusia County

(202) 783-2242 aahsa.org

BROOKS REHABILITATION CENTER

FLORIDA ADULT DAY SERVICES ASSOCIATION

1285 Orange Ave. Winter Park, FL 32789 (407) 647-2287 jewettortho.com

REHABILITATION CENTERS

Rehabilitation centers use a combination of therapy, small groups and individual sessions to facilitate recovery from an illness, an injury or a surgical procedure. Such facilities typically fall into one of four categories: occupational, physical, addiction and psych-social.

Lake County ALL COAST THERAPY SERVICES

13940 N. U.S. Hwy. 441, Bdg. 700, Ste. 702 Lady Lake, FL 32159 (352) 751-1095

LAKE CENTRE FOR REHABILITATION 600 N. Blvd., Ste. D Leesburg, FL 34749 (352) 728-3000

Orange County ORLANDO REGIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES

160 Islander Ct. Longwood, FL 32750 (407) 260-1161

820 Commed Blvd. Orange City, FL 32763-8321 (904) 775-7488

PREMIER REHABILITATION

911 N Spring Garden Ave. DeLand, FL 32720 (386) 736-3108

RELOCATION SERVICES CREATING DIVINE ORDER 551 Sundown Tr. Casselberry, FL 32707 (407) 699-5600

ELDER MOVE MANAGERS 2520 Betty Street Orlando, FL 32803 (407) 761-4371

SENIOR RESOURCES ALZHEIMER’S & DEMENTIA RESOURCE CENTER 1506 Lake Highland Dr. Orlando, FL 32803 (407) 843-1910

CENTER FOR MEMORY DISORDERS

1301 Sligh Blvd. Orlando, FL 32806 (407) 649-6888

3901 E. Colonial Dr. Orlando, FL 32803 (407) 447-5971 memorydisorders.org

TOWERS REHABILITATION SERVICES

ONE SENIOR PLACE

210 S. Lake Ave., Ste. 200 Orlando, FL 32801 (407) 872-7088

Osceola County 311 W. Bass St. Kissimmee, FL 34741 (407) 870-5959

1012 W. Emmett St., Ste. C Kissimmee, FL 34741 (407) 933-0891

Seminole County GENESIS ELDERCARE REHABILITATION SERVICES

360 Montgomery Rd. Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 (407) 682-1057

(877) 342-3858 fadca.net

FLORIDA AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION

(888) 419-3456 ahca.myflorida.com Floridahealthfinder.gov myfloridarx.com

FLORIDA ASSISTED LIVING ASSOCIATION (850) 383-1159 falausa.com

FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF HOMES AND SERVICES FOR THE AGING (850) 671-3700 faha.org

FLORIDA HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION (850) 224-3907 fhca.org

NATIONAL ADULT DAY SERVICES ASSOCIATION (877) 745-1440 nadsa.org

NATIONAL CENTER FOR ASSISTED LIVING (202) 842-4444 ncal.org

715 Douglas Ave. Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 (407) 949-6733 oneseniorplace.com

CORA REHABILITATION CLINICS/KISSIMMEE

SPECTRUM REHABILITATION & WELLNESS

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF HOMES AND SERVICES FOR THE AGING

Senior Solutions & Services All in One Place. Featuring the Following Resident Businesses: AGED Medicaid Planning Alzheimer’s & Dementia Resource Center Arden Courts Memory Care Facility Baldwin-Fairchild Bonnie Hearing

CarePlus Health Plans. Creating Divine Order Elder Move Managers Estate & Business Planning Group The Law Offices of Hoyt & Bryan Humana Insurance Network for Seniors Leigh Manor Assisted Living Life Care Center of Altamonte Springs Life Care Center of Orlando Longwood Healthcare Center Orlando Senior Health Network Price Financial Services Savannah Court & Cottage of Oviedo Serenades by Sonata Memory Care VITAS Innovative Hospice Care of Orlando

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Individual attention and academic excellence remain powerful draws for parents and students. entral Florida is chock

full of excellent private and parochial schools, but that can create a daunting challenge for parents. What may be a great choice for one child may be a bad fit for another. “Parents need to look carefully,” says Michelle Campbell, admissions director at Pine Castle Christian Academy in Orlando. Hers is a small school with “a sense of community, where everybody knows everybody.” But some parents may be more comfortable having their children learn in a larger setting, or at a school with a particularly strong focus on athletics or the arts. It all starts with academics, Campbell says. The question she is frequently asked by parents who visit her K-12 school: What percentage of graduates go to college, and what colleges do they go to? But it doesn’t end with academics. Another commonly asked question, Campbell reports, concerns institutional stability and morale. “If there’s lots of teacher turnover, that could be a red flag. After all, if the staff is happy, the kids should be happy. People find comfort when you tell them that most of the staff has been here a long time.” Campbell, as well as administrators at other private schools in Central Florida, strongly recommends that parents visit the schools they’re considering and spend some quality time there before making their decision. Jennifer Clary-Grundorf, director of admissions at Lake Mary Preparatory School, suggests at least two separate school visits: Start by attending an open

house, which schools typically hold on weekends, and follow up with another visit when school is in session. If you can visit a school only once, make it during an active school day, says Craig Maughan, headmaster of Trinity Preparatory School in Winter Park. By observing interactions between students and teachers, and between students and one another, “you can grasp the culture, the flavor, the ethos – elements that fall outside the curriculum.” Then again, even multiple school visits won’t tell the whole story, Maugham acknowledges. It’s important to check on a school’s accreditation, which assures it has been vetted by independent professionals. Accreditation is particularly important, since the state of Florida neither regulates nor licenses private schools – and most colleges will accept students only from accredited schools. If a regional accreditation is not specified, the school must be approved by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), which is the accrediting body for all schools and universities in 11 southeastern states. SACS, one of the most prestigious accreditations and one of only six regional accrediting bodies recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, evaluates academic programs, extracurricular activities, staff qualifications and financial stability, among other factors. Including SACS, there are just 13 accrediting organizations officially recognized by the Florida Association of Academic and Nonpublic Schools (FAANS), including the Florida Council

of Independent Schools (FCIS), which represents more than 72,000 students in 157 member schools. FCIS uses criteria similar to SACS and evaluates only secular private schools. Faithbased schools have a number of accrediting organizations recognized by FAANS, including the Florida Association of Christian Colleges & Schools (FACCS) and the Florida Catholic Conference (FCC). Campbell notes another outside yardstick parents can use to judge a private school: how its students fare on standardized tests. While private schools generally do not use the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test, better known as the FCAT, most rely on some kind of standardized measure, such as the venerable Stanford Achievement Test or the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. But a particularly critical measure, Maughan says, is class size. Even the larger private high schools typically keep their class sizes under 20 students. The overall size of a school counts, too, and Maughan points out that in this case private schools offer much more choice than public schools. While virtually every public high school in Central Florida has at least 2,000 students, the region’s private and parochial high school student bodies range in size from as large as 1,100 to as small as 50. For more in-depth information and advice, go to the website of the National Association of Independent Schools, nais.org, and click on “Go To Parents Guide,” and then “Choosing the Right School.” l

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ACCREDITATION Key

Following are the listed accrediting organizations used by private schools in Florida and elsewhere. For more information about each organization and its criteria, visit their websites: ACSI: Association of Christian Schools International (acsi.org) ACTS: Association of Christian Teachers and Schools (actsschools.org) AI: Accreditation International (aiaccredits.org) AISF: Association of Independent Schools of Florida (aisfl.org) AMS: American Montessori Society (amshq.org) CAPE: Council for American Private Education (capenet.org) CASI: Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (ncacasi.org) CITA: Commission on International and Trans-Regional Accreditation (citaschools.org) CSF: Christian Schools of Florida (christianschoolsfl.org) ECFA: Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability FAANS: Florida Association of Academic Nonpublic Schools (faans.org) FACCS: Florida Association of Christian Colleges & Schools (faccs.org) FCCAP: Florida Catholic Conference Accreditation Program (eas-ed.org)

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FCCPSA: Florida Coalition of Christian Private Schools Association (fccpsa.org)

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FKC: Florida Kindergarten Council (fkconline.org)

FCIS: Florida Council of Independent Schools (fcis.org) FISA: Florida Independent School Association (no website) FLAGS: Florida League of Assembly of God Schools (flags.org)

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FLOCS: Florida League of Christian Schools (flocs.org) GOLD SEAL: Gold Seal Quality Care Program (www.dcf.state.fl.us/programs/childcare) IBO: International Baccalaureate Organization (ibo.org) ICAA: International Christian Accrediting Association (icaa.us) MSCES: Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools (ces-msa.org) NAIS: National Association of Independent Schools (nais.org) NCPSA: National Council for Private School Accreditation (ncpsa.org) NCSA: National Christian School Association (nationalchristian.org)

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NLSA: National Lutheran Schools Accreditation (lcms.org)

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SACS: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (sacs.org)

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SAIS: Southern Association of Independent Schools (sais.org)

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SBACS: Southern Baptist Association of Christian Schools (sbacs.org)

NPSAA: National Private Schools Association Accreditation (npsag.org)

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HIGHER EDUCATION directory Undergraduate degrees

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Graduate degrees

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Ana G. Mendez University System Orlando 407-207-3363 • suagm.edu

BS, BBA, BSN, BA

MBA, MPS, MS, MEd, MA, MPA

Undergraduate PCH: $334 Graduate PCH: $390

The 60-year-old private university, based in Puerto Rico, opened its Orlando campus in 2003; offers accelerated, dual-language undergraduate and graduate programs.

Barry University School of Law Orlando 1-321-206-5600 • barry.edu

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PY Part Time: $25,180 PY Full Time: $ 33,630

Opened in 1999 and fully accredited since 2006; recently opened a new Legal Advocacy Center on its 14-acre east Orlando campus.

Beacon College Leesburg 1-352-787-7660 • beaconcollege.edu

AA, BA

N/A

PY Full Time: $28,650

The only accredited U.S. college offering associate and bachelor degrees exclusively for students with learning disabilities.

Belhaven University Orlando 407-804-1424 • orlando.belhaven.edu

BA, AA, BBA, BS

MA, MBA, MEd, MS

Undergraduate PCH: $445 Graduate PCH: $545

A private Christian liberal arts university designed for busy professionals, with classes held one night per week.

Bethune-Cookman University Daytona Beach 1-386-281-2950 • cookman.edu

BA, BS

MS

PY Full Time: $13,990

Founded in 1904 by civil-rights legend Mary McLeod Bethune; one of just three historically black colleges in Florida; has been a full-fledged university since 2007.

Columbia College Orlando 407-293-4911 • ccis.edu

AA, AS, BA, BS, AGS, BGS

MBA

Undergraduate PCH: $175 Undergraduate (online) PCH: $229 Graduate PCH: $315 Graduate (online) PCH: $320-$335

The Orlando campus, one of 30 nationwide, was established in 1975; the main campus in Missouri was founded in 1851.

The DAVE School Orlando 407-224-3283 • daveschool.com

CERT

N/A

PP: $33,500

Opened in 2000 at Universal Studios Orlando; offers training in computer graphics; one of only two educational institutions granted membership in the Visual Effects Society.

DeVry University Orlando (two campuses) 407-345-2800 / 407-659-0900 devry.edu

AA, BBA, BA

MBA, MPA, CERT

PCH: $597-$700

The 80-year-old university has 90-plus locations nationwide; offers associate, bachelor’s and master’s degrees at its five colleges, including the Keller Graduate School of Management.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach 1-386-226-6000 • erau.edu

BS, BAE, BSE, BBA, AS

PhD, MS, MAE MBA, MSE, MSA

Undergraduate PY: $29,852 Graduate PY: $15,208

The world’s oldest and largest university devoted to aviation and aerospace; boasts a fleet of 92 instructional aircraft and 41 flight simulators.

Everest University Orlando (2 campuses) 407-628-5870 / 407-851-2525 everest.edu

BA, BS, AA

MBA

Varies by program

More than 100 campuses nationwide, including two in Orlando; offers degrees and certification programs in fields ranging from accounting and nursing to massage therapy.

Everglades University Altamonte Springs 407-277-0311 • evergladesuniversity.edu

BS

MA, MBA

PY Full Time: $16,553

Offers bachelor’s degrees in such fields as construction management and alternative medicine, and graduate degrees in business administration and aviation science.

Florida A&M University College of Law Orlando 407-254-3268 • law.famu.edu

N/A

JD

PY Part Time: $8,634 PY Full Time: $11, 773

Celebrating its 10th anniversary in Orlando; has 700 students at its four-story, downtown Orlando campus.

Florida Christian College Kissimmee 1-888-468-6322 • fcc.edu

AA, BA, BS, BT

N/A

PCH: $440

Requires “a Bible emphasis” of all its students; degrees offered include a five-year Bachelor of Theology.

Florida Christian University Orlando 407-896-0101 • fcuonline.com

AA, AAS, AS, ASBA, BA, BS, BSBA

MA, MSEd, MS, PhD, MSBA

Undergraduate PCH: $60 Graduate PCH: $80 Doctoral PCH: $90 Post-Doctoral PCH: $100

Founded in 1985 in Orlando as Florida Theological Seminary; offers classroom and online degrees from associate to post-doctoral levels.

Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences Orlando 407-303-9798 • fhchs.edu

AS, BS, CERT

MS, CERT

PCH: $315

Adjacent to Florida Hospital’s main Orlando campus; offers a wide range of nursing and medical tech degrees and certifications.

Florida Southern College Lakeland 1-863-680-4120 • flsouthern.edu

BA

MA

PY Full Time Undergraduate: $25,529

Founded in 1883; features several Frank Lloyd Wright buildings and was ranked as one of the Top 10 Colleges in the South by U.S. News & World Report.

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HIGHER EDUCATION directory Undergraduate degrees

SCHOOL Name

Graduate degrees

*Cost

Notes

Fortis College Winter Park 407-843-3984 • fortis.edu

AA

N/A

Varies by program

Part of a network of 30 schools in 15 states; the Winter Park campus offers certification training in health care and cosmetology.

Full Sail University Winter Park 407-679-6333 • fullsail.edu

AS, BS

MS

PCH: $418-$802

Offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs for careers in film, music, gaming, animation and other forms of interactive entertainment.

Herzing University Winter Park 407-478-0500 • herzing.edu

AS, BS

MBA, MSN

Varies by program

One of the first post-secondary institutions founded to prepare students for careers in the computer industry

Hindu University of America Orlando 407-275-0013 • hua.edu

N/A

International Academy of Design and Technology Orlando 1-888-489-8111 • iadt.edu/Orlando

AS, BS, BFA

N/A

ITT Technical Institute Orlando & Lake Mary 407-371-6000 / 407-660-2900 itt-tech.edu

AA, BA

Keiser University Orlando 407-273-5800 keiseruniversity.edu/orlando.php

MA, PhD

PCH: $300

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PCH: $300-$350

Founded in 1977 in Chicago as an academy of merchandising and design; now has 10 campuses nationwide and offers degrees in cutting-edge technologies.

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MBA (online)

Varies by program

Focusing on technology-oriented programs at its 140plus U.S. locations, including two in metro Orlando; offers associate and bachelor’s degrees.

AA, BA, AS, BS

MBA, MA, MS, PhD

N/A

Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale; has 13 campuses in Florida, including Orlando; classes are small and are taken one at a time.

Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Orlando 1-800-736-6126 • chefs.edu

AA, BA (online), CERT

N/A

PY Full Time: $19,550

The Orlando campus is one of 17 in the United States; focuses on culinary arts, hospitality and restaurant management.

Mountain State University Altamonte Springs 407-774-6200 • mountainstate.edu

BS, RN-TOBSN,

MSN, MS

PCH: $320-$700

Formerly known as Beckley College, the West Virginia university now has branch campuses in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Central Florida.

Nova Southeastern University Orlando 407-264-5601 • nova.edu

AA, BA, BSN, RN, BS

MA, MS, MBA, MEd

Average Undergraduate PCH: $575

The Fort Lauderdale-based school, founded in 1964, has grown into the nation’s eighth largest, not-for-profit independent university.

Prince of Prestige Academy Maitland 407-245-7355 • ppa-edu.us

CERT

N/A

PC: $295

The School of Digital Motion Picture Production offers online diploma programs in filmmaking, preparing students for entry-level positions in the motion picture industry.

Reformed Theological Seminar Oviedo 800-752-4382 • rts.edu/orlando

CERT

M.Div, MA, D.Min

PCH: $405-$435

The virtual campus started in Orlando in the 1990s and became the first online seminary offering accredited degrees.

Rollins College Winter Park 407-646-2000 • rollins.edu

BA

MA

PS: $19,200

For five years running has ranked No. 1 among Southern master’s level universities by U.S. News & World Report.

Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business Winter Park 407-646-2000 • rollins.edu/mba

N/A

MBA

PP varies between: $49,000-$66,000

Offers three different MBA degrees, one tailored for recent graduates, another for working professionals, and a third for mid- to senior-level executives.

Rollins College Hamilton Holt School Winter Park 407-646-2000 • rollins.edu/holt

BA

MEd, MA

PCH: $390-$399

Named for Rollins’ eighth president; offers evening classes for working adults pursuing bachelor’s or master’s degrees.

Sanford-Brown Institute Orlando 1-877-770-3677 sanfordbrown.edu/Orlando

AA

N/A

N/A

Offers short-term programs, many from 12 to 24 months, with coursework from medical assisting to paralegal studies to business administration.

Seminole State College Sanford 407-708-4722 • seminolestate.edu

AA, AS, BA, BS, CERT

N/A

PCH: $85-$115

Four campus locations; offers five bachelor’s degrees in addition to scores of associate degrees, certification programs and continuing adult education.

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#1 MBA in Florida (Forbes & Bloomberg BusinessWeek)

One of the 50 most beautiful college campuses (The Best Colleges)

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ROLLINS rollins.edu

WINTER PARK / ORLANDO Founded 1885

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HIGHER EDUCATION directory Undergraduate degrees

SCHOOL Name

Graduate degrees

*Cost

Notes

Stetson University DeLand 1-800-689-0101 • stetson.edu

BA, BS, BBA

MEd, MBA, MS, MA, MAcc, JD/ MBA

Undergraduate PS: $16,470

Founded in 1883; boasts Florida’s first School of Business Administration, first School of Music and the first college newspaper, now 125 years old.

Strayer University Orlando & Maitland 407-926-2000 / 407-618-5900 strayer.edu

AA, BS, BBA, CERT

MBA, MS, MPA, MEd, MHSA

Undergraduate PC: $1,650 Graduate PC: $2,250

Founded in 1892; has more than 90 campuses in the U.S.; offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as certification programs, in subjects ranging from accounting to public administration.

Troy University Orlando 407-219-5980 • orlando.troy.edu

BS, BSBA, ASB, ASLE

MS, MPA, MBA

PCH: $235-$290

Main campus in Troy, Ala.; the 125-year-old school now has 60 branch campuses in 16 states, including nine in Florida.

University of Central Florida Orlando 407-823-2000 • Ucf.edu

AA, BA, CERT, BFA

MA, MFA, MSA, MBA, MS, MEd, MPA, PhD

PCH: $186

Opened in 1968 as Florida Technological University in the outskirts east of Orlando; now the second largest university in the U.S., offering more than 200 majors.

UCF Center for Emerging Media Orlando 407-235-3616 • cem.ucf.edu

BFA, BA, BS

MFA, MA

Florida Resident PP: $33,000 Non-resident PP: $55,000

The downtown center houses a host of undergraduate and graduate programs in digital media, plus an art studio, a printing press and the University of Florida’s graduate architectural program.

UCF College of Medicine Orlando 407-266-1000 • med.ucf.edu

BS

MS, PhD, MD

Florida Resident PY: $26,815 Non-resident PY: $54,815

Opened in 2009, with its first class of medical students all receiving full four-year scholarships; a main anchor for Orlando’s burgeoning Medical City in Lake Nona.

UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management Orlando 407-903-8000 • hospitality.ucf.edu

BS

MS, PhD

PCH: $186

Offers bachelors and graduate degrees in hotel, event, restaurant and food-service management and a PhD in hospitality education.

University of Phoenix 3 Orlando-area campuses 1-866-766-0766 • phoenix.edu

AA, BS, RNto-BSN

MBA, MPA, MS, MEd, MHA, MIS

PCH: $380

More than 200 locations nationwide; now the largest private university in the U.S..

Valencia College Orlando 407-299-5000 • valenciacollege.edu

AA, BA, BS, AS

N/A

PCH: $99.06

Named last year as the top community college in the U.S. by the prestigious Aspen Institute; guarantees its graduates admission to UCF.

Webster University Orlando 1-888-302-8111 • websterorlando.com

BA, BS

MA, MBA, MHA, MS, CERT

PCH (includes online courses): $395-$675

The St. Louis-based university has more than 100 campuses worldwide, including two in Orlando, with classes starting five times per year.

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DEGREE KEY AA: Associate of Arts

BGS: Bachelor of General Studies

MAcc: Master of Accountancy

BS: Bachelor of Science

MAE: Master of Aerospace Engineering

AGS: Associate of General Studies

BSBA: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

MBA: Master of Business Administration

AS: Associate of Science

BSE: Bachelor of Science in Engineering

MD: Doctor of Medicine

AAS: Associate of Applied Science

ASB: Associate of Science in Business ASBA: Associate of Science in Business Administration ASGE: Associate of Science in General Education BA: Bachelor of Arts BBA: Bachelor of Business Administration BFA: Bachelor of Fine Arts

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M.Div: Master of Divinity MEd: Master of Education MFA: Master of Fine Arts MHA: Master of Health Administration

JD: Juris Doctor

MHSA: Master of Health Services Administration

JD/MBA: Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration

MHSc: Master of Health Science

MA: Master of Arts

MIS: Master of Information Systems

MPA: Master of Public Administration MPS: Master of Professional Studies MS: Master of Science MSA: Master of Science in Aeronautics MSBA: Master of Science in Business Administration MSE: Master of Science in Engineering MSEd: Master of Science in Education MSN: Master of Science in Nursing

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Grade Range

Number of Students

Student Teacher Ratio

352-383-2155 chbs.org

1945

No

Pre-K-12

608

17::1

NCSA, SACS

$7,403-$8,044

Faith Lutheran School 2727 S. Grove St., Eustis, FL 32726

352-589-5683 faitheustis.org

1975

Yes

Pre-K-8

230

18::1

NLSA

Please call

First Academy Leesburg 219 N. 13th St., Leesburg, FL 34748

352-787-7762 firstacademyonline.com

1988

Yes

K-12

290

18::1

ACSI, SACS

$4,133-$6,256

Gateway Christian School 18440 U.S. 441, Mount Dora, FL 32757

352-383-9920 myGatewayChristianSchool.com

2000

Yes

Pre-K-8

120

13::1

CAPE, FAANS

$4,400

Lake Montessori & Learning Institute 415 N. Lee St., Leesburg, FL 34748

352-787-5333 lakemontessori.com

1978

No

Pre-K-8

130

17::1

AMS

$2,700-$6,250

Liberty Christian Academy 2451 Dora Ave., Tavares, FL 32778

352-343-0061 lcaeagles.net

1987

No

K3-12

204

25::1 max

FACCS

$4,500

Montverde Academy 17325 Seventh St., Montverde, FL 34756

407-469-2561 montverde.org

1912

Yes

Pre-K-12

890

12::1

FCIS, FKC, SACS, SAIS

$8,900$32,500

Real Life Christian Academy 1501 Steve’s Road, Clermont, FL 34711

352-394-5575 reallifechristianacademy.net

1982

Yes

Pre-K-12

347

13::1

ACSI

$3,663-$5,775

St. Paul’s Catholic School 1320 Sunshine Ave., Leesburg, FL 34748

352-787-4657 saintpaulschool.com

1961

Yes

Pre-K-8

180

about 17-20::1

FCCAP

$4,970-$5,668

Azalea Park Baptist 5725 Dahlia Drive, Orlando, FL 32807

407-277-4056 azaleaparkbaptist.org

1961

Yes

Pre-K-8

150

16::1

SBACS

$3,000-$4,000

Bishop Moore Catholic School 3901 Edgewater Drive, Orlando, FL 32804

407-293-7561 bishopmoore.org

1955

Yes

9-12

1,158

25::1

SACS

$9,288$12,864

Central Florida Christian Academy 700 Good Homes Road, Orlando, FL 32818

407-850-2322 cfcacademy.org

1973

Yes

Pre-K-12

245

14::1

ACSI, SBACS

$5,200-$8,500

Central Florida Preparatory School 1450 Citrus Oaks Ave., Gotha, FL 34734

407-290-8073 cfprep.org

1990

Yes

Pre-K-12

290

10::1, 12::1, 15::1, 20::1

ASIF, GOLD SEAL, NCPSA, SACS

$6,150-$8,950

Christian Victory Academy 4606 Lake Margaret Drive, Orlando, FL 32812

407-281-6244 christianvictoryacademy.org

1998

Yes

K-12

105

12::1

FCCPSA

Varies with program

Faith Christian Academy 2008 Goldenrod Road, Orlando, FL 32807

407-275-8031 fcalions.org

1979

Yes

Pre-K-12

447

25::1 or less

FLOCS

$5,525-$6,175

Family Christian School 671 Beulah Road, Winter Garden, FL 34787

407-656-7904 fcs-fl.org

2003

Yes

K-8

130

12::1

ACSI

$3,620-$4,920

Forest Lake Academy 500 Education Loop, Apopka, FL 32703

407-772-3707 forestlakeacademy.org

1926

Yes

9-12

340

16::1

CITA, NCPSA, SACS

$10,760$21,888

Foundation Academy 15304 Tilden Blvd., Winter Garden, FL 34787

407-877-2744 foundationacademy.net

1958

Yes

Pre-K-12

620

14::1

CASI, SACS

$3,500-$9,500

Good Shepherd Catholic 5902 Oleander Drive, Orlando, FL 32807

407-277-3973 goodshepherd.org

1956

Yes

Pre-K-8

663

18::1

FCCAP

$5,688-$7,056

Hampden Dubose Academy 3700 Dohnavur Drive, Zellwood, FL 32798

407-880-4321 hda-lhs.com

1934

Yes

K-12

100

15::1

FACCS

Please call

Holy Family Catholic School 5129 S. Apopka-Vineland Road, Orlando, FL 32819

407-876-9344 hfcschool.com

1977

Yes

Pre-K-8

665

35::1

FCCAP

$5,080-$7,520

Jewish Academy of Orlando 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland, FL 32751

407-647-0713 jewishacademyorlando.org

1996

Yes

K-8

175

7::1

FCIS

$12,900$14,500

2011-2012 Tuition

Year Established

Christian Home & Bible School 301 W. 13th Ave., Mount Dora, FL 32757

Accreditations

Website/Phone

School Name/Address

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Student Teacher Ratio

1968

Yes

Pre-K-8

488

20::1

FACCS

$2,750-$4,250

Lake Highland Preparatory School 901 N. Highland Ave., Orlando, FL 32803

407-206-1900 x3343 lhps.org

1970

Yes

Pre-K-12

2,042

13::1

FCIS, NAIS, SACS

$9,000$16,500

New School Preparatory 130 E. Marks St., Orlando, FL 32803

407-246-0556 newschoolprep.org

1995

Yes

Pre-K-8

140

15::1

FCIS, FKC

$9,700

Orangewood Christian School 1300 W. Maitland Blvd., Maitland, FL 32751

407-339-0223 orangewoodchristian.org

1980

Yes, Lower School; Dress Code, Upper School

K-12

687

13::1

CSF, NCPSA, SACS

$8,760$10,680

Orlando Christian Prep 500 S. Semoran Blvd., Orlando, FL 32807

407-823-9744 orlandochristianprep.org

1960

Yes

Pre-K-12

330

6::125::1

FACCS

$3,400-$7,700

Orlando Junior Academy 30 E. Evans St., Orlando, FL 32804

407-898-1251 oja-sda.com

1906

Yes

Pre-K-8

220

17::1

SACS

$4,000-$7,000

Park Maitland School 1450 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland, FL 32751

407-647-3038 parkmaitland.org

1968

Yes

Pre-K-6

630

10::1

FCIS, FKC

$9,225$12,250

Pathways School 1877 W. Oak Ridge Road, Orlando, FL 32809

407-816-2040 pathwaysprivateschool.com

1996

Yes

Pre-K-8

280

20::1

FISA

Please call

Pine Castle Christian Academy 7101 Lake Ellenor Drive, Orlando, FL 32809

407-313-7222 pccaeagles.org

1983

Yes

Pre-K-12

240

10::1

ACSI, SACS

$6,061-$9,200

Providence Academy East Campus: 1561 S. Alafaya Trail, Suite 200, Orlando FL 32828 West Campus: 7605 Conroy Windermere Rd., Orlando, FL 32835

407-282-1006 theprovidenceacademy.com

2004

No

K-12

40

4::1

N/A

$18,000

St. Andrew Catholic School 877 N. Hastings St., Orlando, FL 32808

407-295-4230 standrewcatholicschool.org

1961

Yes

Pre-K-8

350

16::1

FCCAP

$4,700- $6,500

St. Charles Borromeo School 4005 Edgewater Drive, Orlando, FL 32804

407-293-7691 x249 stcharles-orlando.org

1955

Yes

Pre-K-8

300

20::1

FCCAP

$5,700-$8,400

St. James Cathedral School 505 E. Ridgewood St., Orlando, FL 32803

407-841-4432 stjcs.com

1928

Yes

Pre-K-8

480

16::1

FCCAP

$5,855-$7,560

St. John Vianney Catholic School 6200 S. Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, FL 32809

407-855-4660 sjvs.org

1962

Yes

Pre-K-8

600

17::1

FCCAP

$4,805-$6,750

The Christ School 106 E. Church St., Orlando, FL 32801

407-849-1665 thechristschool.org

1996

Yes

K-8

333

14::1, 17::1

CSF

$8,300-$8,800

The Crenshaw School 2342 Hempel Ave., Gotha, FL 34734

407-877-7412 crenshawschool.com

1999

No

Pre-K-12

12::1

AISF, CASI, SACS

$5,700$11,200

The First Academy 2667 Bruton Blvd., Orlando, FL 32805

407-206-8602 thefirstacademy.org

1987

Yes

Pre-K-12

1,110

12::1

ACSI, SACS

$7,000$13,500

The Parke House Academy 1776 Minnesota Ave., Winter Park, FL 32789

407-647-3624 theparkehouseacademy.com

1986

Yes

Pre-K-6

200

12::2, 15::1

FCIS, FKC

$4,900-$9,999

Trinity Christian School 1022 S. Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, FL 32703

407-886-0212 tcsapopka.org

1974

Yes

Pre-K-8

350

18::1

ACSI, SACS, SBACS

$5,510-$6,070

Trinity Lutheran School 123 E. Livingston St., Orlando, FL 32801

407-488-1919 tlsdowntown.com

1953

Yes

Pre-K-8

250

12::1

NLSA

$7,094-$7,254

Trinity Preparatory School 5700 Trinity Prep Lane, Winter Park, FL 32792

407-671-4140 trinityprep.org

1966

No

6-12

834

12::1

FCIS

$16,800

West Orange Montessori 227 S. Main St., Winter Garden, FL 34787

407-654-0700 westorangemontessori.com

2007

No

Pre-K

40

7::1

AMS

$2,750-$7,350

Windermere Preparatory School 6189 Winter Garden-Vineland Road, Windermere, FL 34786

407-905-7737 windermereprep.com

2000

Yes

Pre-K-12

980

16::1

FCIS, FKC, IBO, SACS

$8,960$15,510

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Accreditations

Year Established

Kingsway Christian Academy 4161 N. Powers Drive, Orlando, FL 32818

Grade Range

Website/Phone

School Name/Address

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Number of Students

Student Teacher Ratio

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1991

Yes

Pre-K-12

385

12::1

CASI, ICAA, SACS

Please call

First United Methodist School 122 W. Sproule Ave., Kissimmee, FL 34741

407-847-8805 fums.org

1967

Yes

Pre-K-6

243

15::1

CASI, FACCS

$2,700-$4,400

Heritage Christian School 1500 E. Vine St., Kissimmee, FL 34744

407-847-4087 heritageeagles.org

1974

Yes

Pre-K-12

550

15::126::1

FCCPSA

$3,050-$3,350

Holy Redeemer Catholic School 1800 W. Columbia Ave., Kissimmee, FL 34741

407-870-9055 hredeemer.org

1994

Yes

Pre-K-8

263

13::1

FCCAP

$5,255

Life Academy 2269 Partin Settlement Road, Kissimmee, FL 34744

407-847-8222 allaboutlife.us

1999

Yes

Pre-K-12

270

22::1

FLOCS, SACS

$4,459-$4,720

North Kissimmee Christian School 425 W. Donegan Ave., Kissimmee, FL 34741

407-847-2877 nkcschool.org

1995

Yes

Pre-K-12

140

20::1

SBACS

$3,350

Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic School 800 Brown Chapel Road, St. Cloud, FL 34769

407-957-1772 stacschool.com

1989

Yes

Pre-K-8

280

20::1

FCCAP

$4,795-$6,045

Southland Christian School 2901 17th St., St. Cloud, FL 34769

407-891-7723 southlandchristianschool.us

1996

Yes

Pre-K-12

350

27::1

FACCS

$3,300-$3,800

Trinity Lutheran School 3016 W. Vine St., Kissimmee, FL 34741

407-847-5377 trinitychurchandschool.com

1981

Yes

Pre-K-8

152

16::1

NLSA

$4,825-$5,075

All Souls Catholic School 810 S. Oak Ave., Sanford, FL 32771

407-322-7090 allsoulscatholicschool.org

1954

Yes

Pre-K-8

267

14::1

FCCAP

$6,300-$8,028

Altamonte Christian School 601 Palm Springs Drive, Altamonte Springs, FL 32701

407-831-0950 altamontechristian.org

1966

Yes

K-12

200

17::1

FACCS

$4,100-$4,600

Annunciation Catholic Academy 593 Jamestown Blvd., Altamonte Springs, FL 32714

407-774-2801 annunciationacademy.org

1995

Yes

K-8

589

18::1

FCCAP

$6,000-$7,250

Center Academy 470 W. Central Parkway, Altamonte Springs, FL 32714

407-772-8727 centeracademy.com

1968

No

5-12

60

10::1

SACS

$11,000$13,000

Champion Preparatory Academy 721 W. Lake Brantley Road, Altamonte Springs, FL 32714

407-788-0018 championhomeschool.org

Yes

K-12

304

9::1

NPSAA

Varies with program

Forest City S.D.A. 1238 Bunnell Road, Altamonte Springs, FL 32714

407-299-0703 fcsdaschool.com

1986

Yes

K-8

108

13::1

SACS

$4,025-$5,250

Holy Cross Lutheran Academy 5450 Holy Cross Court, Sanford, FL 32771

407-936-3636 thehcla.org

1999

Yes

Pre-K-8

290

15::1

AISF, NCPSA, SACS

$6,100

Lake Forrest Preparatory School 866 Lake Howell Road, Maitland, FL 32751

407-331-5144 lakeforrestprep.com

1991

Yes

Pre-K-8

200

18::1

AISF, NCPSA

$8,772$13,005

Lake Mary Montessori Academy 3551 W. Lake Mary Blvd., Suite 205, Lake Mary, FL 32746

407-324-2304 lmma.net

1995

Yes

Pre-K-6

106

11::1

AMS, CITA, SACS

$8,512$11,000

Lake Mary Preparatory School 650 Rantoul Lane, Lake Mary, FL 32746

407-805-0095 lakemaryprep.com

1999

Yes

Pre-K-12

700

18::1

FCIS, FKC

$7,980$12,875

Liberty Christian School 2626 S. Palmetto Ave., Sanford, FL 32773

407-323-1583 liberty-patriots.org

1973

Yes

K-12

220

14::1

ACSI

$3,250

Markham Woods Christian Academy 1675 Dixon Road, Longwood, FL 32779

407-774-0777 markhamwoodschristianacademy.com

1987

Yes

Pre-K-8

98

7::118::1

ACTS, FAANS, FLAGS, FLOCS

Please call

Pace Brantley Hall School 3221 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, FL 32779

407-869-8882 mypbhs.org

1972

Yes

1-12

128

10::1

FCIS

$13,385$13,855

Accreditations

2011-2012 Tuition

Uniforms

City of Life Christian Academy 2874 E. Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy., Kissimmee, FL 34744

Website/Phone

Year Established

School Name/Address

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407-324-1144 pageschool.com

1908

Yes

Pre-K-8

150

7::1

AI, AISF, GOLD SEAL, MSCES, NCPSA, SACS

Please call

ST. LUKES LUTHERAN SCHOOL 2025 W. S.R. 426, Oviedo, FL 32765

407-365-3228 stlukes-oviedo.org

1947

Yes

Pre-K-8

730

15::1

NLSA

$2,700-$6,980

ST. MARY MAGDELEN CATHOLIC SCHOOL 869 Maitland Ave., Altamonte Springs, FL 32701

407-339-7301 smmschool.org

1961

Yes

Pre-K-8

490

17::1

FCCAP

$5,720-$9,460

SWEETWATER EPISCOPAL ACADEMY 251 E. Lake Brantley Drive, Longwood, FL 32779

407-862-1882 sweetwaterepiscopal.org

1984

Yes

Pre-K-5

200

8::1

FCIS, FKC

$7,900-$9,888

THE GENEVA SCHOOL 2025 S.R. 436, Winter Park, FL 32792

407-332-6363 genevaschool.org

1993

Yes

Pre-K-12

475

10::1

FCIS, FKC

$4,990$10,575

THE MASTER’S ACADEMY 1500 Lukas Lane, Oviedo, FL 32765

407-971-2221 mastersacademy.org

1986

Yes

K-12

906

17::1

ACSI, ECFA, SACS

Varies with program

TUSKAWILLA MONTESSORI ACADEMY 1625 Montessori Point, Oviedo, FL 32765

407-678-3879 tuskmont.org

1986

No

Pre-K-8

146

12::1, 15::1

AISF, AMS, SACS

$5,741-$8,534

ST. BARBABAS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL 322 W. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL 32720

386-734-3005 sbesyes.org

1971

Yes

Pre-K-8

370

18::2, 18::1, 22::1

FCIS, FKC

$2,377-$5,758

TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 875 Elkam Blvd., Deltona, FL 32725

386-789-4515 trinitychristianacademy.com

1986

Yes

Pre-K-12

625

11::125::1

FLOCS, SACS

$4,300-$6,750

Accreditations

Uniforms

Number of Students

Year Established

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