Aug. 2011

The Wright Word A newsletter for employees of Florida Southern College

August 2011

Take a Bite out of Wynee’s Great New Discount for Staff and Faculty

Last year’s new student group photo.

Mark Your Calendars!

• Aug. 20 - New students arrive on campus.

• Aug. 21 - Convocation for students, families and guests (2:00 p.m., Branscomb) • Aug. 24 - Classes begin (8:00 a.m.)

• Sept. 2 - First home athletic event - Volleyball - FSC Classic (3:30 p.m., Jenkins Field House) - Faculty & Staff free with College ID. Check our athletic website at www.fscmocs.com for all team schedules and Moccasin news.

There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but Wynee’s Bistro is pleased to announce a discounted one! Beginning on August 24, FSC employees may eat lunch at Wynee’s on weekdays between the hours of 10:0011:00 am and 1:00-2:00 pm for only $4.00 + tax ($4.28) when using Moc Bucks.

This savings is almost half off the regular lunch price, and you can chow down on all you care to eat. Wynee’s offers soups, a salad bar, foods from around the world, healthy options, freshly home-cooked entrees, sandwiches, wraps, pasta, pizzas, and daily specials, along with a variety of beverages and fresh-baked desserts.

Moc Bucks, which any FSC employee can purchase, currently give employees a 20% discount at Wynee’s for any meal. The new discount offers even more value, but remember – you must use Moc Bucks to take advantage of this great deal. So bring your FSC ID card to the business office today to purchase your Moc Bucks.

Alumnus Returns to FSC as Associate VP FSC Social Media Platforms • facebook.com/floridasouthern • flickr.com/photos/fscmocs/sets • twitter.com/fscadmissions • foursquare.com/venue/1362812 Verizon Wireless is featuring Friends & Family for Florida Southern College employees. To register for your 18% employee discount visit www.verizonwireless.com/discount.

Enter your work e-mail address and select “Check for Discounts”.

Reverend Thom Shafer ’76 has returned to our beautiful campus to serve as the associate vice president for advancement. His new role will focus on cultivating relationships and securing major gifts to benefit the College. Thom earned his bachelor’s degree in speech and drama at FSC before New and Returning Faculty pursuing his master’s Mark Your Calendars! – Fall 2011 degree from Perkins Wed. Aug. 17 – New Faculty Only School of Theology in HR Orientation and Publix Tour Dallas, Texas. He has served in The Florida Conference of the Thurs., Aug. 18 – New Faculty Only Academic Orientation Session United Methodist Church for 32 years.

Library Tour Thom is married to Karen King Shafer, a native of Bartow, and they are the proud Fri., Aug. 19 – All Faculty parents of Amanda, 22, and Daniel, 18.

Stay Tuned for detailed schedule for this date!

If you have news you would like to include in future editions of The Wright Word, we would love to hear about it! Please send news to kpawlak@flsouthern.edu.

The Wright Word • August 2011

Please Welcome FSC’s New Faces!

Please welcome to the campus our new hires in July Marshall Gross – Financial Aid Associate Austin Hanlin – Community Living Coordinator Ann Haydon – Business Affairs Associate Erik Lafauce – Grounds Crewmember Pamela Nielsen – Financial Aid Counselor Kevin Smith – Lead Plumber Brigette Wagner – Administrative Assistant to the VP for Advancement

New Places and Changes

HealthFlex Incentives Still Available Eligible employees who are enrolled in the medical plan should be on the lookout this month for a postcard reminder from HealthFlex. The postcard will be mailed to participants and spouses who took the Blueprint for Wellness and will include a reminder to complete the Health Quotient (HQ) between August 1 and September 30.

Participants and spouses may complete the HQ even if they did not participate in the Blueprint for Wellness screening.

Primary participants and covered spouses must both take the HQ between August 1 and September 30, 2011 to avoid a higher medical plan deductible in 2012.

• Donna Kahelin, formerly of facilities maintenance, is now a library assistant in Roux Library.

• Lance Niekro will begin our new season as the associate head coach of the baseball team with Rick Marlin serving as assistant coach.

Weddings, Babies, and Other News Congratulations to Alicia Rossow (formerly Slone), our intramurals and recreation coordinator, who recently married Dave Rossow.

The wedding was held June 18 at the Bavarian Inn in the German village of Frankenmuth, Michigan. Following Alicia and Dave Rossow the ceremony, the couple honeymooned in Jamaica’s Montego Bay. Dave and Alicia met as high school students in Michigan and began dating in college.

Correction The June edition of the Wright Word incorrectly titled employee Ashley Fore as the administrative assistant for English.

Ashley is the administrative assistant to the dean of the school of arts and sciences.

In Memoriam It is with much sadness that we say goodbye to good friend and co-worker Michael V. O’Brien. Michael, who worked in facilities maintenance at FSC for nearly a decade, passed away unexpectedly July 19.

Wright-Designed Tourism and Education Center is “Taking Shape” Florida Southern College’s new Frank Lloyd Wrightdesigned Sharp Family Tourism and Education Center is under construction with a blend of historical design and hightech processes.

The new building’s design, like the campus’ existing Wright structures, features various intricate, custom-made concrete blocks. These blocks have been improved upon through extensive planning and testing, as well as key creative changes made to the composition of the concrete.

The highly-anticipated tourism center is being constructed using plans for a Usonian house that Wright created as part of the campus master plan but which was never built. Wright’s Usonian houses were intended to be distinctly American in style – Usonian is an acronym for United States of North America. The Sharp Family Tourism and Education Center at Florida Southern College will be the first Wright structure constructed for the original client on the original site since 1966.

The footings and foundations of the building are in place, and the building is expected to have a roof this fall, with the final details completed in March 2012.

Florida Southern College alumnus and former trustee Dr. Robert R. Sharp ‘61 and his wife Peggy contributed the gift to name the center. In addition, a large part of the project’s funding was provided by Polk County and the City of Lakeland, who gave a combined $1.5 million toward construction.