LANGFORDS PROUDLY CARRY ON FAMILY TRADITION By BOB FERRANTE
A commitment to Seminole Boosters, Inc., is never a question. It’s in the Langford DNA. Lawton Langford was a student at Vanderbilt in the 1970s when his father, George, hired Andy Miller as president of the Boosters, which began to transform the small group of alumni into a powerful fund-raising organization. When Lawton returned to Tallahassee to earn his MBA and law degree at Florida State, finishing up in 1982, he began to get involved with the Boosters. “Andy grabbed me and said, ‘We need to come up with a new policy for student tickets to football games,’ ” Langford
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said. “I had been to Vanderbilt and they had a pretty good program where the student would be admitted, simply showing their ID. I drafted the very first student ticket policy of the Bobby Bowden era, and it was based on Vandy’s policy. Andy had his hooks in me at that point, and thereafter I had the opportunity to work with the Boosters in a variety of roles, including fundraising, investing the Endowment, bylaws, restructuring as part of the FSUAA, being on the Board of Directors and ultimately Chairman.” Lawton and Beth Langford continue to be actively involved with the Boosters, with Beth joining the Board of
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