Physics Grad Is Critical Player in Nuclear Safety

- om above, , it’s floating ements from ds, though it en’t going to see “It’s the most Robinson got his esh water responsibilities is the responsibilities coding system that that only the assures can author- President ize a nuclear attack. part of my stressing job and everybody Robin- else’s here,” son said. Ph.D. in physics (spe cialty in nuclear (Continued on page 5) (Continued on page 14) (Continued on page 14) In other wor have a very big group “We sensing from They use remote Chimpanzee mothers, for Chimpanzee mothers, to their “They pay attention is that Another difference A chimpanzee mother can Falk believes that human out of both sides of Apalachico- out of both sides of la,” O’Brien said of the black blob. “Since it’s fr on top. People ar look- (what it is) because they’re space, and it doesn’t ing at it from from have any of the blue or green phytoplankton or plants.” looks like a black blob fr scientists who give it a close look water. will find that it’s just fresh now doing very advanced computer modeling in the Gulf of Mexico,” O’Brien said. satellites, measur ancestor that lived 6 million years ancestor that Falk, adding that chim- ago,” said humans have many panzees and things in common. fabulous mommies. instance, “are caring and loving, babies; they are But just like human mommies. to their they don’t make noises do.” babies like human mothers stick to their human babies don’t mothers’ bellies. danger, from or run climb a tree to glued while the infant remains her body. Paul Robinson . ed tides. esh water coming ed in the Gulf of he black water (a.k.a. the “black blob”) that appear November 2002 uction, the secu- They can “easily be explained of the Not-so-scientific reports “This is fr Sandia focuses A high-profile She said tone of voice became She said tone was “In evolution, humming done in Germany, The study, chimpanzees look at “We ortugas, and r Mexico in March was reported as was reported Mexico in March And there mystery. a baffling others: the “Dead Zone” off were the coast of Louisiana, fish population displacement in the Dry T with a little knowledge,” says of James J. O’Brien, FSU professor and oceanography. meteorology “black blob” include a black underwater fountain, which is blamed for sea turtle deaths, skin infections in fishermen and more. T Administration. on the safety and reliability of U.S. nuclear weapons, limiting of the proliferation weapons of mass destr of rity and reliability U.S. infrastructure to and new threats national security example of Sandia’s Gulf mysteries are by easily solved professors know who the ocean musical speech to communicate. musical speech it understanding, and the way to all started as mothers might have their babies. began humming to to language,” she preparatory said. chimpanzees’ with compares humans’ brain activity. a common because we share - turned to ative and , for the U.S. . . Paul Robinson, a nuclear physicist and a graduate of Florida State, has devoted his (Continued on page 14) ds At 60, Robinson leads an Sandia is an engineering and Falk, chairwoman of FSU’s Falk, chairwoman easing habits of service by stu • In medicine—Florida State •In community service— •In K-12 education—Florida • In expanding the campus— life to the premise that technology life to the premise war. can prevent important U.S. company: Sandia National Laboratories. science laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company National Nuclear Security Physics grad is critical player in nuclear safety Physics grad is critical Humming may have been the earliest language the earliest have been may Humming might have started Language anthropologist with humming, believes, and she bases Dean Falk she’s done in collab- it on a study scientists oration with German technology. and their computer department, said anthropology a that—at revealed the research ear- point in evolution—humans’ cre- more liest ancestors became C sites and programs abroad. sites and programs opened a new medical college two years ago. Florida State has a new Center for Civic Education and is steadily incr dents and faculty State has taken on the challenge of teaching schools how to make all their pupils learn reading sure of the basics. Research and the rest at FSU has shown the way for the state and federal campaigns to bring literacy to every child. completed Major FSU buildings are under construction. are and more - e e drama, chitectur te, left, and Steve Edwar e, painting, ar •In international studies— D’Alemberte, 69, in his famil attract those better-than- To •In the arts—Florida State‘s

and music are performed and and music are studied in Sarasota. Florida State has expanded the Sandy D’Alember sculptur and historian. and humor iar style of modesty, done said he hopes he’s courtesy, a good-enough job as president to make the university appeal to a successor “with better creden- tials than mine to lead us to much higher levels of achievement.” him candidates, D’Alemberte said, he has managed certain achievements for Florida State: now include the arts programs Ringling Museum, wher Photo Lab Photo FSU / Lee yals R

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2 / November 2002 Bill Durham passing the torch to son after 25 years workers, Bill Durham has had his and Ann already had a similar Durham is retiring this year eye and hands on every aspect of idea, and it all came together. and passing the torch to his son, the program, including getting “My wife ... thought up the Allen, a former Chief Osceola. the horse to the stadium. idea of getting a horse and a rider, “It has evolved into one of the There have been many hur- which began the Renegade and greatest traditions in college foot- dles along the way, especially at Osceola theme,” Head Coach ball,” Allen Durham said. bowl games where the tradition Bobby Bowden remembers. “Bill “My dad has always made it isn’t as accepted. Game officials Durham is the one who got the clear that Renegade and Chief and opposing coaches have horse and carried it out and kind Osceola would not be used for sometimes not wanted the horse of took it over, which is good commercial gain other than to and rider on the field. Once in because he is doing an excellent promote Florida State University Tallahassee the horse didn’t make job.” and the Seminole Tribe,” he said. it to the field, at least not in the “We get calls all the time from horse trailer. people who want to use Osceola “One year the truck broke and Renegade to open up a new down on the way to a game,” business or appear on TV com-

Photo Lab remembers Allen Durham. “Dad mercials to promote things other had to ride the horse from the than Florida State, and we will civic center to the stadium.” not do that.” Chief Osceola and Renegade The current rider is FSU stu- yals Lee / FSU

R didn’t happen overnight. When dent Lincoln Golike from Bill Durham and Renegade Bill Durham was a student at FSU Denton, Texas. He has ridden in the ‘60s, he was on the home- horses since he was 3 years old Having 80,000 sets of eyes on is the 25th year that a horse and coming committee and suggested but admits this experience is like you is one thing. Doing it riding rider have represented the the Seminoles have a horse and nothing else. bareback on a rearing Appaloosa, Seminoles and led the team onto rider on the field. The administra- “Just the honor of people holding an 8-foot flaming spear, the field at all home games. tion quickly dismissed the idea. coming up to you at the game is with flags waving, the crowd Renegade and the rider, Chief Bill Durham didn’t. After gradu- incredible,” said Golike. “The screaming and the football team Osceola, have not missed a home ating, he was still involved with blessing that God has given me is running behind you may just be game since they started in 1978. FSU, and he had a vision of what something I can’t explain. “the best feeling in the world,” Bill Durham designed, devel- he wanted. Photo Lab To have every eye in the sta- said Lincoln Golike, the current oped and paid for the program, Bill Durham met with Ann dium on me and the horse when Chief Osceola. and he’s directed it from the first and Bobby Bowden one night that spear goes in the ground and Only 12 people, all FSU stu- year. From purchasing and main- and suggested the idea as a way everyone goes crazy is the best yals Lee / FSU dents, have experienced that taining the horses to picking and to raise school spirit, according to R feeling on earth.” — Bayard Stern emotional and exciting ride. This training the riders and support Allen Durham. Bobby Bowden Chief Osceola and Renegade Bus rides home are cheap, fast and all-Seminole ice plazas on Florida’s Turnpike. The return bus to Tallahassee departs from Miami on Sundays at 2 p.m. and arrives in Tallahassee at 10:30 p.m., picking up students from the designated drop-off n points along the way.

d Ster “The service will run special schedules to adjust Bayar to students’ needs during A new bus service called TMT service at FSU, and we are already long weekends and holidays, like Transport is shuttling FSU stu- planning on expanding the serv- Labor Day weekend and Thanks- dents to and from South Florida ice to include other dates and giving,” Paez said. “Reverse trips every weekend. times and reverse trips, so that leaving from Miami on Fridays Touted as a service that will families and friends can visit f Kravitz

for special events such as Parents’ Jef keep students “Close to FSU and Tallahassee for the weekend,” Weekend and home football Close to Home” at a reasonable said TMT president Lilliam Paez. games will begin immediately.” Alan Ball with his Emmy award price, TMT charges $70 for a She said she expects the FSU Tickets for the bus are avail- round-trip ticket to Miami. service to be as popular as the able from TMT Transport in the Emmy award winner started at FSU Students traveling to Gainesville Gainesville-Miami-Gainesville Oglesby Union every Wednesday Alan Ball never received a “Six Feet Under,” had 23 Emmy pay $55 for a round trip. (GMG) service she began 18 years during the flea market from 10 diploma from FSU, but what he nominations (one shy of a record) During the eight-and-a-half- ago. Even with seven buses mak- a.m. until 5 p.m. Reservations are learned has proven to be invalu- and won in six categories. hour drive to Miami, students can ing the trips from UF, they still sell also available online: www.tmt- able. In the 1970s, the Georgia use the free time to relax, sleep, out each weekend. transport.com. It is recommended “Florida State University is native studied in FSU’s theatre study or watch a movie on one of The TMT bus service leaves that students purchase or reserve where I first started writing and program with an emphasis on the bus’ TVs with VCRs. The serv- every Friday at 2 p.m. from Gate E bus tickets early in the week to producing my own work,” Ball acting and screen writing. ice is available to students, alum- of the University Center and ensure getting a seat on the bus. said. “The professors let me do it, He took the lessons to heart. ni, staff and their families, and arrives at the Mall of the Americas The bus service is also avail- and I’ve been doing it ever since.” Three years ago Ball’s screenplay there is a “tour guide” on each trip in Miami by 10:30 p.m. Students able for campus organizations to He spoke those words from for “American Beauty” won the to assist passengers if they need it. going only as far as Gainesville rent for special events. the press stage at the 54th Emmy Academy Award and, by most Almost 25 percent of FSU’s in- will be dropped off at the Paynes For reservations or more infor- Awards, where he won TV’s top accounts, he is today one of the state students come from Palm Prairie rest stop on I-75. mation about TMT Transport, call honor for Outstanding Directing hottest talents in Hollywood. Beach, Broward or Dade County. Students traveling farther Jorge or Hilda Posada at (850) 561- in a Drama Series. —Scott Atwell, FSU Communications “We are excited about the south will be able to get off at serv- 8681. His creation, the HBO series Group

November 2002 / 3 When Englishmen were slaves and Muslims were the owners freed, he slipped onto a boat and often complex, relationship the Islamic culture of the 16th and from Smyrna to Italy and between Muslims and 17th centuries after a six-year stint crossed Europe to get to Christians. working at American University England. The stories were writ- in Cairo. Pitts’ story is one of seven ten by slaves who had escaped He considers the narratives collected by Daniel Vitkus, and returned to their home- not only a chance to right some FSU English assistant profes- land. historical wrongs, but to tell fasci- sor, and published in his new In all seven tales, Muslim nating tales. book, “Piracy, Slavery and pirates took British sailors as So, almost 300 years after one Redemption: Barbary Captiv- their captives. The high seas of the last captive narratives was ity Narratives from Early were at the time ruled by the written, British and American England.” vast, efficient Ottoman-Turk troops are seen as masters of the The stories in Vitkus’ book Empire, and the British high seas. The Muslim world is are true tales in a literary genre were considered to be seen by many as an uncivilized known as captivity narratives. bands of disorganized sea- society populated with the unso- There have been captivity nar- farers. phisticated poor. ratives from all societies. Some Through the nar- Vitkus said he found more involve Native Americans ratives, Vitkus’ writ- ironies while editing the narra- Daniel Vitkus abducting European women ing samples describe a tives. There was the tale of the When Joseph Pitts was an or Africans enslaved by other well-run Islamic empire. slave who got away from his English cabin boy in the late Africans. The Barbary captive Vitkus notes that the Muslim captors only to end up in 1600s, Barbary pirates captured narratives between 1570 and 1704 Christians who were taken the even more treacherous claws him as a slave. Pitts eventually are tales of English sailors and into captivity painted an of the Spanish Inquisitors. converted to Islam, after he was merchants enslaved by the even-keeled portrait of their “There was a tolerance in beaten into submission. A second Barbary Pirates of North Africa. Muslim captors. Islam of the Christians and Jews master treated him more kindly, The tales challenge many of “The larger goal is to create who had already settled in the like a son, and then he began to the convictions in Western society a greater awareness of Christian area, while in Europe many Jews embrace Islam. that the West has always been cul- and Islamic relations,” were persecuted and forced to Pitts is thought to be the first turally, economically and politi- said Vitkus. “At a time leave,” Vitkus said. Englishman to make the spiritual cally superior to the ancient when our president is calling for Vitkus plans to write two pilgrimage to the holy city of Muslim countries in the Near a crusade, we need a more com- more books about the culture of Mecca. Despite his long years in East. Vitkus’ collection of stories prehensive look at the situa- the Middle East. —Megan Ahearn the Middle East, Pitts later might make many Westerners tion.” An illustration, first published in 1688, showing an Englishman became homesick. After he was take a second look at the long, Vitkus became charmed with collecting alms to ransom English “prisoners” from captivity

Letters to the editor Seminole heritage… because they were taking the wrong annually help to fund improvements like a football game to me.… Tom Gambill, PhD, ‘79 classes, but I’ve never had that here.” to reservation schools. 1st Lt. Ron Horn, USAF Recruiting Seminoles Additionally, a true Seminole stu- The letter to the editor in the Editor’s note: Sarah Ridley is a Redundancy dent should be chosen to ride Response from Charlie Barnes, September 2002 Florida State Times recent graduate of FSU who said in On Page 5 (in the September “Renegade” during the games. Executive director, Seminole from Sarah Ridley caused a bit of her letter to the editor that the expe- Florida State Times), under the Members of the Seminole com- Boosters consternation until I reflected and rience had not gone well for her, and heading, Want something to read?, munity could also, if they desire, be considered the nature of many citi- she could hardly wait to get out of appears the sub-heading, “New given the privilege of having a con- Dear Lt. Horn: zens today. One has to be cautious FSU. She objected to using the books by Florida State graduates cession at the home games for sell- …Coach Bowden is as fine a in the use of heated rhetoric, Seminoles as a symbol for FSU sports. and alumni.” ing authentic Seminole foods and man as this nation has produced though, for an equally radical oppo- Florida State does try to recruit That strikes me as repetitious. goods. and in no way deserves criticism on nent may produce an engagement Seminoles. One of the recent efforts, What do you think? In short I would say to the FSU this issue. You are Air Force, so I am that is detrimental to all parties con- for example, is the annual visit to Rick Geissal (‘74) athletic program: “Put your money sure you already know that the cerned and to the public in general. campus of high school students from where your mouth is!” Beamer Foundation distributed One thought that did come to the Brighton Seminole Indian Editor’s note: We think you’re Marjorie F. Lee, A.B. ‘52 “Let’s Roll” stickers to U.S. Air Force mind as a result of the letter was a Reservation. Louise Gopher, Bright- right. In the October issue, we Academy athletic teams last year. question as to why doesn’t FSU (and on’s education coordinator, said FSU returned to the subhead we’d always “Let’s roll” No, football is not war. We that’s assuming that it doesn’t) make has good counseling and has used before, “New books by Florida I was very disappointed and dis- Americans love our heroes, as we a concerted effort to recruit worked well for some Seminole stu- State graduates and faculty.” heartened to hear that Coach should. And heroes are always wor- Seminoles and their descendents to dents, including one she knows well. Bowden would use “Let’s Roll” as his thy of emulation. attend FSU? “My daughter went to school Scholarships for Seminoles motto for the upcoming season. I Were it in his power, Bobby It would seem laudable for the here, and she never took a wrong In your “Publisher’s Note” on would have to say the athletic Bowden would never allow such university to provide a virtually free class and she got all the attention page 3 of the September 2002 issue, department itself dropped the ball things (bad living conditions for sol- education to any and all such indi- she needed to stay on track,” she you state that Florida State currently on this one by permitting Coach diers’ families) to happen. I sincerely viduals who meet the entrance stan- said. “I’ve had problems with other has one student who is a Seminole Bowden to use a motto that’s so appreciate your candor, but allow dards and possess a determinate schools with kids getting behind Indian and that two more are deeply ingrained in America’s mind me to suggest that your “disappoint- expected for the fall freshman class. as a rallying cry for not only our ment” might be more appropriately The Florida State University foot- nation but for the men and women channeled toward another target. ball team with its symbol and name of the Armed Services. Vol. 8 No. 2 • www.fsu.edu/~fstime/FS-Times/ Florida State Times is published by the Florida State University Communications Group, Alumni “Seminoles” brings into the universi- Coach Bowden is a tremendous Mr. Barnes, Association and the FSU Foundation to keep alumni, friends, faculty and staff informed about FSU’s ty an enormous amount of money. coach; however, he made a bad …The intent of my message was growth, change, needs and accomplishments. Views expressed in the Florida State Times are not nec- These team players have scholar- choice. … not to solely target Mr. Bowden but essarily the views of university officials or the newspaper staff. Inclusion of underwriting does not con- stitute an endorsement of the products or services. ships with tremendous benefits and Thousands of men and women to make more people aware, espe- privileges. It has long been my firm in the armed forces are deployed cially those who would allow our Editor-in-Chief: Margaret Leonard belief that some of that enormous around the world 365 days of the nation’s misfortunes to be used as a Design and Production: To suggest news stories, write to the Florida State Times, amount of money should be used to year living in tents during extreme motivator for their insignificant Ed Augustyniak 1600 Red Barber Plaza, Suite 104, Tallahassee, Fla. 32310- provide at least six to ten full, and an weather conditions and dining on quest for a bowl game. Managing Editor: 6068 or e-mail the editor: [email protected]. To sub- Bayard Stern mit address changes, news for NewsNotes or In equal number of partial, scholarships dehydrated rations stored in plastic AF Academy athletes are military Staff Writer: Memoriam, call Alumni Affairs at 850-644-2761. for members of the Florida Seminole bags and cans. All the while their members in training to serve their Vida Volkert Underwriting is handled by the Florida State University tribe. If academic or other assistance spouses and children are back home country, therefore making it appro- Director of FSU Photo Lab: Communications Group. For rates, call Charles M. Allen is needed, certainly they are as living in low-income housing and Ryals Lee Jr. at (850) 487-3170 ext. 320, Frank Flynn at (850) 487-3170 priate for them to also be a part of President of University ext. 317. Florida State Times is available in alternative for- deserving as those on sports scholar- using food stamps. For what? For the USAF’s tribute to those who Communications: mat upon request. It was published at a cost of $27,000 or ships. Some of the profit from the the defense of their country. defend our nation…. Franklin D. Murphy 60 cents per copy. It is printed on recycled paper. football and other games could also Now that doesn’t sound much Lt. Horn

4 / November 2002 Times Square studio director has always loved entertainment FSU graduate Maura managed by Missouri, Hayes moved with her she developed at FSU, gave her Hayes starts her morn- Disney, is in the family to Florida when she was 8. the chance to work as a news ing every day at 6:30 a.m. heart of Times Walt Disney World opened reporter and editor. ABC’s “Good Morning Square. MTV is the doors to what she loved the When she graduated from America” news show, across the street. most, “entertainment.” She liked FSU in 1982 with a B.S. in com- with Diane Sawyer and “I love it,” she to dance and sing and landed a munication, Hayes went back to Charles Gibson, is her said. “It’s a great role in the original cast of Disney’s Disney to pursue the entertain- first client of the day. opportunity that Main Street Electrical Parade. ment field. After years of high Unlike most Amer- puts my face on In 1979 she left her job at kicks at the Diamond Horseshoe icans, Hayes gets to the map.” Disney and went to FSU to pursue and jumping from buildings in watch them report the It’s a map a degree in dance, but changed to the Indiana Jones Stunt show, it news in person. where celebrities communication and finished in was time to put the degree to Hayes, 41, is the such as Muham- three years. work. director of production mad Ali, John She worked for FSU’s “1800 She ended up in the film and operations of the busy Travolta, Oprah Seconds,” a news broadcast show, TV department at Disney work- New York City television Maura Hayes in New York studio Winfrey and big- but the performer in her was ing on films and commercials, and and film studio, Times time entrepre- active as a Golden Girl dancer for she traveled to Paris in 1992 to Square Studios. In addition to Schwarzenegger and Mayor neurs in the film entertainment the basketball team. She helped help the press cover the opening shows like “20/20,” “Prime Time” Rudy Guiliani drove a Hummer and broadcast industry come and start the Garnet and Gold Girls to of Euro Disney. and “College Scoreboard,” clients right into the studio. (Three of the go, Hayes said. introduce football recruits and In 1999 an energetic, talented have also produced shows at the four windows in the street level And she meets them and their parents to FSU. and well-connected Hayes got a studio such as Black Entertain- studio are removable.) makes the right connections. For a while she lived in the call from New York and was ment Television and the A & E “Each production brings its Hayes says she believes talent, Jennie Murphree dormitory and offered a job at Times Square Network. own staff,” she said. education and being in the right later moved to the Kappa Delta Studios. Danny DeVito, Robin Wil-- But Hayes oversees the entire place at the right time have helped sorority house. “My degree, my experience liams, Kelsey Grammer, and Kim operation, making sure the clients her make the right career moves. By her last year in college, and a lot of hard work after col- Catrell have appeared in film pro- are taken care of. Her 25-year Disney career Hayes had the skills she needed to lege got me here,” Hayes said ductions shot at the studio. Often, From the studio she has a began early, when she was a take an internship at an ABC sta- about her job in New York. “I special non-broadcast events are magnificent view of Broadway. teenager growing up in Orlando. tion in Orlando. think this was definitely the right booked, and once Arnold The two-floor studio, which is Originally from St. Louis, Her writing, which she said career move.” —Vida Volkert

Domestic violence Archives and taught a course in Domestic violence in the for- records management at the mer Republic of Kazakhstan, as in University of the West Indies, in many cultures, has been consid- Mona, Jamaica, last summer. ered a family problem and not a Conaway teaches archives concern of law enforcement. But and records management and that’s changing, with some help School of Criminology, are the John Taylor, an FSU assistant ing from education, but they also information science at FSU. from the FSU School of Crimin- project directors. professor of sociology, has are affected more negative- He has ology and Criminal Justice. learned that gender, having chil- ly by work-home conflict. been an People in the Kazakhstani Fat and sugar dren and holding a challenging Conversely, the study active volun- criminal justice system came to Feeling guilty about eating fat job all affect a person’s conviction showed that men gain teer with the Tallahassee early this year to talk and sugar? Well, now you can say that he or she matters. more from having children Florida Inter- to local and state agencies about it’s only natural, you can’t Taylor and being involved in a national Vol- domestic violence and providing help it and an FSU psy- r eported, relationship, but they are unteer Corps services to victims. chologist is figuring out with Scott affected more negatively by and a USAID FSU has also trained police in why. Schieman of relationship strains. consultant in Kazakhstan. James C. Smith, FSU the Univers- While education affect- the Carib- FSU researchers have worked psychology professor, this ity of Mary- ed men’s sense of matter- bean and in with officials of Kazakhstan since year received the Society land, a study ing when it led them to bet- Central and 1999 in a project sponsored by the for the Study of Ingestive in the Decem- ter jobs, for women, educa- Charles Conaway South Ame- U.S. State Department to improve Behavior’s highest honor, ber 2001 tion was a factor in itself — rica. the response to domestic vio- the Distinguished Career Journal of even if they did not derive favor- lence. Award. Sociological able work-related benefits from it. Geography and women Edward Snajdr and Dmitri Ingestive behavior is Perspectives. Both men and women experi- Geography Professor Janet Vyortkin, researchers in the the term psychologists use John Taylor The study enced a higher degree of matter- Kodras has won the top honor for eating and drinking behavior. used a sam- ing when they held jobs with given by the Association of Correction Smith has spent his career ple of 18- to 55-year-old working more autonomy, complexity and American Geographers, the Dr. Richard Usatine, shown studying the taste of fat, why peo- people in Toronto. supervisory duties. Distinguished Service Honors, below with children in Panama, ple like fat and why they like fat “Individuals with a strong “Having children can be a for her contributions as a role was identified incorrectly in the in combination with sugar. The sense of mattering perceive that source of gratification and culti- model and mentor for women, September Florida State Times. award is given to scientists who their actions are acknowledged vate a sense of purpose. minorities and young scholars. Usatine is associate dean for have a sustained record of high and relevant in the lives of other However, the payoff for working She has produced several medical education at the FSU achievement in the field as people,” Taylor said. women is surprisingly weaker, works on women in politics and College of Medicine. judged by their peers. Study subjects were asked a possibly because working has reported on diverse geo- series of questions including women may experience greater graphical issues. Mattering “How much do you feel others time and energy demands from She has written several arti- How much do you think you would miss you if you went multiple role commitments.” cles and books, including matter to other people? away?” and “How much do “Money Politics in the ‘Year of The answer may depend on other people depend on you?” Records in Caribbean the Woman’: Campaign Fund- whether you are a man or The study showed that the With a Fulbright grant, ing in 1992 U.S. Senate Races woman, whether or not you have influences on the sense of matter- Charles William Conaway, an Involving Women” and children, how much education ing are different for men and associate professor in FSU’s “Documenting Women’s Roles you have and what kind of work women. For example, women School of Information Studies, in India.” Dr. Richard Usatine you do. derive greater benefits for matter- consulted with the Jamaican

November 2002 / 5 Doctoral student crusades to save road-crossing turtles For the past two years, Matt U.S. Highway 441 crosses the water, and they built a road Aresco has been a lone force in an Paynes Prairie State Preserve out- through it. It’s time to do the right effort to save Lake Jackson turtles side Gainesville. thing and correct a wrong that migrating across U.S. Highway (Leon) County Commission was done decades ago.” 27 (in Leon County). Chairman Dan Winchester, who The turtles also are vital to the But Aresco, a biology doctoral has two degrees from FSU, sup- Lake Jackson ecosystem. They eat student at Florida State ports the plan. He estimated the massive amounts of algae, plants University, is looking for help in cost at several hundred thousand such as hydrilla and dead and saving the turtles, which he said dollars. dying fish. are killed in greater numbers For Winchester, the ecopas- “So they actually keep the crossing the highway than on any sages are needed for reasons lake clean,” Aresco said. — other road in North America. beyond saving wildlife. He said Condensed from the Tallahassee Aresco asked Leon County the underground passages are Democrat, by Jeff Burlew commissioners for help in finding necessary to prevent traffic crash- allahassee Democrat money for a permanent ecopas- es. Editor’s note: A few days after sage that would help not only tur- More than 36,000 cars drive this story was published in the tles but also alligators, frogs, along the road each day. And dur- Tallahassee Democrat, the Leon snakes, mammals and other crit- Phil Sears / T ing migration periods, hundreds County Commission voted to try ters cross the road. Dan Winchester, left, and Matt Aresco on Highway 27 of turtles would be crossing the to get money from the state and “They’re all moving back and road if not for Aresco’s barriers. federal governments to build forth because this highway was periods in search of water. turtles, mostly yellow-bellied “What this really boils down underground passageways to built over the lake bottom,” said In February 2000, a friend sliders and Florida cooters, across to is a wildlife and a traffic safety allow animals to cross U.S. 27 Aresco, an ecologist and biologist. called Aresco to tell him about the highway for more than two issue,” Winchester said. “Lake under the highway instead of “They wander into the road, and dead turtles along the highway. years. Jackson was one large body of risking their lives on the road. they get hammered. It’s just a Aresco was stunned when he “He single-handedly initiated cruel way for a turtle to die.” walked along the highway and this project,” said one of Aresco’s The turtles cross the highway counted 90 dead turtles that had professors, Frances James. “It’s Research question is human survival between Lake Jackson, a 4,000- been struck by vehicles. really very remarkable.” acre sinkhole seven miles north of By April of that year, Aresco But the fences will break Tallahassee, and Little Lake counted 439 dead turtles along down over time. They’re also too Jackson, a much smaller lake cre- the highway. So, on his own time small to prevent large turtles or ated when the road was built in and with his own money, he built alligators from climbing over and the 1950s. a series of temporary fences along wandering into the road. Some turtles cross the high- the highway shoulders to direct So Aresco has proposed a per- way looking for a mate or a place wildlife to an underground cul- manent solution: a series of to nest and lay eggs. Others cross vert connecting the two lakes. underground culverts and con- during annual migrations in the Aresco didn’t stop there. crete walls that would help spring and summer. Still others Using containers and a green wildlife cross the highway safely. leave the main lake during dry sack, he carried more than 8,000 A similar series of passages along

Sandia’s ”Lab on a Chip“ Florida is a watery place, Out of that need the bordered by seas on three Mosquito Fleet, an amphib- (Continued from page 1) New York to work for Ebasco sides and crisscrossed with ian command, emerged: physics) from FSU in 1967. Electric Bond and Share rivers, lakes, springs and Original seven ships and 622 officers He says his FSU education Company, where he learned to swamps. and crew. The assignment prepared him for Sandia, and he work on international contracts. So it makes sense that was to fight the Seminole gives credit to Bob Davis, his In 1987, Robinson became the U.S. government, in its Seminoles warriors in the Everglades, major professor, then leader of the ambassador to the U.S./USSR efforts in the 1800s to drive and capture the Seminole Nuclear Research Center at FSU. Nuclear Testing Talks. the Seminoles out of the fer- women and children for Davis “found a way to engage In that job, he wrote two tile peninsula, would turn to the sea-faring branch transport. his graduate students, and partic- treaties that were adopted by the of the military for help. But not all meetings of sailors and Seminoles ularly me,” Robinson said. “He United States and the organiza- But, during the First Seminole War (1817–1818) were combative. called on me to help lead the tion of former Soviet republics. and the Second Seminole War (1835–1842), the Buker tells of an abandoned quarter-gunner research group, and I’ve been Then he went to Sandia. fledgling U.S. Navy was unaccustomed to combat making his way alone from Tallahassee to St. doing it the rest of my life.” “I’ve got the best job in the with enemies who were essentially landlubbers. Marks, without weapons, hungry and in the rain. Robinson was recruited by world,” he said. “I’m working on Nevertheless, as the Seminole warriors moved His solitude was cut short by an encounter with a Los Alamos National Laboratory. problems that are not only impor- up and down the Florida territory, wounding and Seminole armed with a rifle and knife. Instead of There he became the chief test tant; they’re crucial.” killing troops on the ground, historians say gov- attacking the sailor, the Seminole made a shelter director and an intimate of Besides being sure that only ernment leaders called on the Navy to help out. from the rain for him and shared a meal of wild extreme stress. the President can plunge us into For the first time in its young history, the turkey. Both slept through the night. There were “nuclear reactors nuclear war, Sandia is protecting United States engaged in combat in a watery envi- In the morning, the Seminole went his way, and about the size of your desk that us against bio-terror. ronment. the quarter-gunner went his, winding up in St. we would heat up to white-hot One new Sandia technology, For a start, ships from the United States’ West Marks, where he climbed aboard the Washington, temperatures that would glow called “Lab on a Chip,” detects India Squadron—the flagship Constellation, two just before it left the harbor. like a light bulb,” Robinson the presence of biological or sloops and a schooner—sailed along the coasts, As the fighting of the Second Seminole War recalls. They could be cooled only chemical agents. helping soldiers whenever possible. continued deep into the Everglades, the Navy fol- with liquid hydrogen. The device will be affordable The standing orders were for the ships to pick lowed. For both the Army and the Navy, the orders “Live through that—which I for hospitals, police and others in up friendly Seminoles for “protective custody” and were to drive away or capture the hundreds of sur- did—and nothing startles you.” the first line of defense. run down, capture or otherwise destroy hostile viving Seminoles, the small remainder of thou- At the end of his tenure at Los Sandia is also developing Seminoles, according to “Swamp Sailors in the sands who once had inhabited the territory. Alamos, Robinson was in charge technologies to detect weapons Second Seminole War,” by George E. Buker. By 1842, the United States said it had no desire of nuclear weapons and national development around the world The need grew, however, for small shallow- to lose more lives and spend more money. So the security programs. and working with the former draft vessels to move up and down the coastlines Army went home and left about 300 courageous “It was a dream come true for Soviet states to manage nuclear carrying communications for troops and then to Seminoles to claim that they were indeed the a young nuclear physicist,” he said. material safely. — Sibley Fleming head into battle in the swamps that flowed inland. unbeaten ones. — Dana Peck But he left Los Alamos for

6 / November 2002 Want Something to Read? New books by Florida State graduates and faculty

Reader: Jeannette Grantham, Office of the president

evangelicals as the sparks of a religious by Celia Malone Kingsbury (Ph.D. ‘00, Professor of Management at FSU) revival among teenagers. Cassie and literature) Gulf Coast Publishing LLC Rachel, as innocents martyred for faith, also Texas Tech University Press This book describes how high perform- During wartime, paranoia, gossip and ance individuals like Bobby Bowden, Mike became useful symbols for those seeking to n rumor become accepted forms of behavior Martin, Tiger Woods, John Elway and Greg advance a conservative political agenda d Ster and dominant literary tropes. This book Norman think. The descriptions are fol- and to lay the blame for Columbine at the examines the impact of war hysteria on lowed by self-tests to help readers identify feet of their liberal opponents. Bayar definitions of sanity and on standards of how they think about their own successes According to police investigators, how- PANACEA behavior during World War I. and failures and how they think about oth- ever, Cassie and Rachel may never have by Robert J. Thompson (B.S. ‘89, com- ers when they succeed or fail. Also includ- been asked by their killers about God. They munication) What Is a Book? ed are practical strategies for changing per- may have been simply victims of a sense- Trafford Publishing by David Kirby (W. Guy McKenzie sonal styles to optimize individual and less crime rather than martyrs to a cause. “Panacea” is the first novel of Robert Professor of English, FSU) organizational success. This book provides a careful examination Thompson, an attorney. It’s a political The University of Georgia Press of the available evidence and attempts to thriller with a romantic story line. With Kirby addresses the making and con- The MARTYRS OF COLUMBINE discover what really happened. mystery, murder, relationships and humor, suming of literature by redefining the four Faith and the Politics of Tragedy it reveals the rewards of living selflessly. components of the act of reading: writer, by Justin Watson (M.A. ‘92, Ph.D. ‘96) Hide Your A$$ET$ and Disappear Thompson writes about a young reader, critic and book. He discusses his Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press A Step-by-Step Guide to Vanishing Chicago attorney who hopes to find a more students, his work and his practice as a Two of the victims of the Columbine Without a Trace fulfilling personal and professional life teacher, writer, critic and reader. He posi- massacre in April of 1999, Cassie Bernal by Edmund J. Pankau (B.S. ‘72) while on an extended vacation in the tions his theories and opinions as products and Rachel Scott, reportedly were asked by ReganBooks/HarperCollins Florida Panhandle. He meets a woman and of “real” life as much as academic exercise. the gunmen if they believed in God. Both Pankau is a highly rated private inves- intrigue follows. supposedly answered “Yes” and were tigator, a professional speaker and writer. This book makes suggestions for the cre- THINKING LIKE A WINNER killed. ation and maintenance of legitimate strate- The PECULIAR SANITY OF WAR A Guide to High Performance Within days of their deaths, Cassie and Hysteria in the Literature of World Leadership Rachel were hailed as modern martyrs. gies for asset protection. War I by Mark J. Martinko (Bank of America They have been seen by many American An oral history of FSU by its many alums By Jennifer Brooks Agwunobi Miami, but that’s beside the point. Do you FSU Office of University Relations know how many girls there are here? “No, sir, I don’t,” I answered. Despite having signed to attend Miami, I He said, “Well, this was a girl’s school up visited the Florida State campus. Why not? until 1948, not that this would have any effect The rush parties the university threw for on your decision. But there are fourteen girls for prospective athletes were great. And with four- every guy.” teen scholarship offers, I got to be pretty good at —Burt Reynolds (1954-55) being entertained. I expected to see a pretty lit- Cherished stories like that one are tle campus covered with ivy, but not such a among many in the new book, “FSU charming little town. Then I met one of the Voices: An Informal History of 150 years.” slickest, most charismatic men I have ever met, A beautiful, 224-page pictorial coffee-table and did he do a number on me. book, “FSU Voices” tells its vignettes of his- Tom Nugent, the new head coach, was on a tory in chronological order. mission. Florida State was going into big-time “It is not intended to be an official doc- football. He was an innovative genius; he gave ument, but an informal history of Florida football the I-formation, the typewriter huddle, State University told by the people who the lonesome end…. lived it,” said “FSU Voices” editor, Maxine He was just as clever a recruiter of talent. Stern. “The chances are good that you will Behind his desk hung a know, have been beautiful, wide-angled taught by, or are relat- photo of the FSU campus. ed to some of the voic- I didn’t pay any attention es telling this story.” to it when we first started “FSU Voices” is talking about what the first book that Miami was giving me. … spans the entire 150 “Buddy, will they years of FSU’s history. give you that?” he asked, It will be available swiveling around in his by mid-November. chair and pointing at the FSU’s 2002 Home- school picture. “With coming Weekend will your athletic ability and officially launch the charm—well, son, you’ll book’s release. own this entire campus. More information You’ll start for me as a about “FSU Voices” is freshman. You won’t available at (850) 644- start as a freshman at 1000 or www.fsu.edu.

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Florida State is bringing national artists to town in February for the university’s fifth annual arts festival, Seven Days of Opening Nights. This year, three of the stars are Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, pianist André Watts and U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. The festival will also offer a Buster Keaton silent film with a new score, a baroque opera, two ballets (one “dazzling” and “inventive” and one classical and powerful), two art exhibits, a monologue by the soul-searching and witty actor Spalding Gray, a musical theater comedy and other shows and artists still being lined up.

Arts lovers have somewhere to go this February

Wednesday, Feb. 12 O Alonzo King’s LINES Contemporary Ballet—“The New York Times” describes Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet as “unpredictable ... inventive ...dazzling.” The works are complex, muscular, musical and unfettered by dogma. Thursday, Feb. 13 O Actor Spalding Gray—Spalding Gray is best known for monologues that delve into his own neuroses. In his latest, “Morning, Noon and Night,” he applies his customary charm and deadpan wit to the new-found experience of fatherhood. Friday, Feb. 14 O Art Exhibit Opening—Two breathtaking art exhibits, one extraordinary art form. Stunning visions of unsurpassed complexity and bril- liance in glass come together in “Chihuly: Seaforms” at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science and “Trial by Fire: Contemporary Glass” at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts. The works are vibrant color and bold shapes and sizes, from pieces that can fit into the palm of your hand to vast chandeliers that drape from ceiling to floor. O Duets: An Evening of Classical Ballet—Dancers from the New York City Ballet, National Ballet of Cananda, American Ballet Theatre and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet perform a physically and emotionally intimate pas de deux from the world’s most beloved ballets. Saturday, Feb. 15 O Actor Olympia Dukakis—Olympia Dukakis is “Rose” in Martin Sherman’s one-woman play about a feisty Holocaust survivor. Her performance embodies the history of 20th Century Jewry and brings a survivor to fierce and restless life. Dukakis’ Rose will mesmerize you on a journey from a Ukrainian shtetl, through the ghettos and sewers of war-torn Warsaw, to Atlantic City and modern Miami Beach. Monday, Feb. 17 Clockwise from top left, Andre O U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins—Not since Robert Frost has a poet managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad appeal. He celebrates the beauty of ordinary days that are suddenly not so ordinary, Watts; Buster Keaton, The surprising readers with “playful, wry and poignant angles of vision.” Collins has captured a wide audience General; Dale Chihuly, with poems that are funny and familiar, tender and often profound. Seaforms; Billy Collins; Olympia Dukakis; Spalding Gray; and Tuesday, Feb. 18 Swamp Gravy O Special screening of Buster Keaton’s silent classic “The General” with premiere of original composition by Jeff Beal. “The General”is consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made. Friday, Feb. 21 O North American premiere of opera “Semele”—The tragic story of a mortal girl who is loved by a god and whose ambition to become immortal herself proves her undoing, “Semele” was one of the earliest full-length, all-sung operas performed in the English language. An important work in the development of baroque opera, it was composed in the 18th century by one of the leading theatre composers of the time, John Eccles. Saturday, Feb. 22 O Swamp Gravy—Gleaning comedy and tragedy of daily life from family stories, tall tales and folklore, “Swamp Gravy” is a musical theatre masterpiece that strikes a familiar chord with its audience. “Swamp Gravy” is now Georgia’s official state folk life play, written, directed, designed and performed by a cast of Colquitt, Ga., citizens. O Pianist André Watts and the University Symphony Orchestra—At the tender age of 16, André Watts stepped onto the stage alongside Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic and almost overnight became one of the world’s most sought-after and beloved pianists. Sunday, Feb. 23 Encore performance of “Semele”

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ntil Jan. 5, there’s no need More than any sculptor of his age, Rodin often exposed the joint lines of the piece ment of galleries and sculpture gardens at to fly to Paris to see The revealed in his finished sculpture the pro- molds to deliberately foil expectations of major museums. Thinker, The Kiss or about cess of how he made each sculpture. wholeness. Patched-together couples often More than 450 works of art from the 70 other works of the He used fragmentation to express the seem to collide and pull at each other with- Cantor Collection have been given to 70 Ugreatest French sculptor of complex dilemmas of social order. He broke out any true mutuality. museums. the 19th century, Auguste Rodin. the figure into pieces to capture the sensa- Breaking the academic rules of his era, The John and Mable Ringling Museum They’re all in the The John and Mable tions of movement and emotion, and he Rodin presented fragments of figures, of Art, in its affiliation with FSU, is the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, in an exhibit called “Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, Sculpture from the From Rodin to theatre and a concert—Ringling and Asolo offer it all Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation.” The Kiss, Rodin Along with the bronze sculptures are hands, feet, heads and bronze studies for Rodin’s epic monu- torsos as finished ments, drawings, historic photographs and pieces. models and a film showing the stages of the During his lost-wax process for casting bronze sculp- lifetime, the pop- ture. ularity of his “Indisputably, Rodin created work led him to figures and images that cap- commission tured the passion of his foundries to cast age,” said Dr. John versions of his sculp- Wetenhall, execu- ture as the market tive director of demanded. For example, the Ringling The Kiss and The Eternal Museum. Spring were available in four sizes. At the end of his highly successful career, he left his estate to the French government, with the stipulation that the government would build a museum for his work after his death. In accordance with Rodin’s will, the Musée Rodin in Paris was given the right to cast Rodin’s sculpture posthumously. In 1956, French law limited production to 12 casts of each model. A system of numbering was established by law in 1968: the first eight of the 12 casts, numbered 1/8 through 8/8, have been At the FSU Center for the Cultural available for the public SeaArts in Sarasota,son you of can see Concerts a play, get at Ringling Museum 2002-2003 to purchase; the last four, lost with Rodin and other sculptors and numbered I/IV through IV/IV, are painters, study the circus, wander reserved for cultural institutions. The law through a mansion…. And now you can was reestablished and strictly imposed in throw in a concert before you go back to 1981. daily life. All works in the Iris and B. Gerald This season, the Ringling offers con- Cantor Collection and Cantor Foundation certs in the Courtyard or the Rubens Collection are considered original Rodins, gallery. Music from different eras will be under the French law. Some of them were featured in classical and popular styles made during Rodin’s lifetime, others after including flamenco guitar, Celtic harp, he died, according to his instructions to the opera arias and chamber pieces. government of France. “Bringing musical performances to The Thinker, Rodin The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor The John and Mable Ringling Museum Foundation was established in 1978 to of Art fulfills the broad, multi-discipli- organize and circulate exhibitions of Rodin nary vision of the FSU/Ringling sculpture. Gerald Cantor (1916-1996) was Cultural Center,” said Dr. John widely acknowledged as the preeminent Wetenhall, executive director of The John collector and proponent of Rodin in the and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. United States during the second part of the “This series provides a unique cultural 20th century. It was his dream to share his experience for our community, made passion for Rodin’s work with a broad pub- rare by this extraordinary setting.” lic audience. All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. Iris Cantor is chairman of the founda- For the Asolo Theatre (it’s next door tion, which promotes the arts and supports to Ringling) schedule, see the October exhibitions, scholarships and the endow- Florida State Times or call 800.361.8388.

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largest museum/university complex in the admission is $15; admission for ages 55 and nation. It is open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every older is $12. Admission is free for children day except Thanksgiving, Christmas and 12 and younger accompanied by an adult, New Year’s Day. Admission to the Ringling museum members and Florida students Museum of Art includes the Circus and teachers with valid I.D. cards. For more Museum, a timed tour of Cà d’Zan man- information, call 941.351.1660. sion, Rose Garden and the grounds. Adult ngling and Asolo offer it all Roskamp gives Ringling gift of $1 million Sarasota developer Bob Roskamp and his wife, Diane Roskamp, gave $1 million in September to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, operated by Florida State University in Sarasota. “For the past two years, Diane and I have had the privilege to be part of the Ringling Museum family,” Roskamp said in a letter outlining the gift to FSU President Sandy D’Alemberte. “In that short period we have witnessed and enthusiastically supported the changes and development of this treasure. The magnitude of support that has come from our association with FSU is so much greater than this optimist could have imagined—and the results are only at the beginning of a new era for the museum.” D’Alemberte said the gift was “extremely generous in cash and even more important in spirit.” “When the 2000 Florida Legislature partnered FSU with the Ringling, the Ringling’s total endowment after 60 years of existence was $1.8 million,” D’Alemberte said. “Through the state’s matching funds program for endowment, Bob and Diane Roskamp’s single $1-million gift can generate a total of $1.75 million, significantly enhancing the Ringling’s resources.” Roskamp has developed luxury adult retirement and related care facilities in Florida, Arizona and Pennsylvania. He is a member of Ringling’s Board of Directors and chairman of its development committee. Both Roskamps are active as volunteers and donors in community, non-profit organizations. Roskamp’s other philanthropic interests include research at the University of South Florida to discover cures for diseases of the mind, with a strong focus on Alzheimer’s disease. He holds a master’s degree in education and administration from Loyola University in Chicago. On Sept. 20, the FSU Board of Trustees voted to direct $43 million, appropriated by the 2002 Legislature, to the Ringling Museum. Lawmakers earmarked the money for new construction at the Ringling—but assigned the Board of Trustees the job of distributing the money. The construction will include a new visitors' pavilion, restoration of the 18th century Italian Asolo theater, a new education/conservation building and expansion of the Ringling's art galleries. FSU's Board tied $21 million of the construction funds to the Ringling's success in raising $l0 million in endowment within a year—with the goal of raising $50 million in five years.

erts atTickets Ringling available by calling the MuseumRingling Museum at 941.358.3180. 2002-2003

November 2002 January 2003 Saturday, Nov. 16 Thursday, Jan. 2 Esteban, Guitarist Deluna, Celtic Harpist International classical/flamenco guitarist Myth telling and music. Rubens Gallery and his band. Courtyard Thursday, Jan. 9 Erin Windle, Soprano December Art songs, opera arias and popular Tuesday, Dec. 3 favorites. Rubens Gallery Johnathan Spivey, pianist Solo recital. Rubens Gallery Tuesday, Jan. 21 Florida String Quartet Thursday, Dec. 12 Classical chamber works. Rubens Gallery Florida Voices The Cathederal, Rodin Vocal chamber ensemble. Rubens Gallery Thursday, Jan. 30 Earlye Musicke Consort Thursday, Feb. 27 Thursday, March 27 Thursday, Dec. 19 Early instruments from the Medieval, Sparrow and Locke, Opera Duo Sarasota Brass Quintet Romm Trumpet and Piano Duo Renaissance and Baroque periods. Rubens Mezzo-soprano Carol Sparrow and tenor Classical, popular and jazz favorites. Trumpeter Ronald Romm and pianist Avis Gallery Randolph Locke. Courtyard Courtyard Fedge Romm. Courtyard February March Tuesday, Feb. 18 Thursday, March 13 Sarasota Woodwind Quintet Serenata, Guitar and Flute Duo French horn, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and Guitarist Rex Willis and flutist Julie Eriksen. flute. Rubens Gallery Rubens Gallery

10 / November 2002 How good is FSU athletics? As good as the players and fans decide to be Two years ago Andy Miller (president the locker room to applaud the players as lous University Center. Florida State is prospering in no small of the Boosters) and I enjoyed lunch on a they left the stadium. The cynic would say Thrasher was on the Boosters Board part because of the close attentions of com- warm day in Inverness. Bob and Linda Fohl that today, only agents crowd the locker- until he resigned to be the first chairman of mitted alumni leaders. And be assured that and John and Patsy Stewart drove up from room door. They might say that today’s col- the FSU Board of Trustees. many of them came to the university Orlando, and we were the guests of Tom lege football players are little more than Florida has 10 state universities, most in through the locker-room door. and Monkey Hagar at a café in the historic mercenaries soldiering on a training major population centers, and they want all Those wonderful people—the Fohls, downtown. ground for professional sports. the legislative money that flows to Florida Stewarts and Hagars—would not have us The Fohls, Stewarts and Hagars were all That cynic’s view is popular in some State and Florida. It isn’t personal. They just give up the gains we’ve made in order to in school together at FSU in the 1950s. The quarters, but it’s false, certainly at FSU. The want the same things that we have always recreate some fond vision of the 1950s. They conversation turned to stories of the old truth is that across the board, especially at wanted. also remember a collegiate campus atmos- major public institutions, academic stan- Their population base gives them polit- phere less commercialized than today’s. dards for student-athletes have never been ical power. They too loved sitting in the wooden as high as they are today. bleachers, feeling the wafting breeze late in Keeping Score The dark alleys of the day as their friends and classmates organized cheating have fought their hearts out on the field. By Charlie Barnes largely been hosed out But they also recognize that Florida Executive Director and opened to cleansing State has advanced from one arena to a Seminole Boosters beams of sunlight. The higher level of competition. Like many, they fact that splashy stories have supported this advancement with of NCAA rules breaking their hearts and their treasure. Fohl played appear in the papers is tight end for the Seminoles, and now he days, of campus social life in the fifties, and proof enough of today’s and Linda have created an endowment for of game-day traditions. low tolerance for bad the starting tight end’s scholarship. The Andy Miller FSU was a smaller campus then. behavior. Hagars and the Stewarts have likewise Students knew each other, or at least recog- Still, there is a longing for the way invested strongly in FSU athletics. nized faces as they walked back and forth to things were, or the way we remember Andy Miller and the Boosters have the class. Whether the innocence was really them. It does exist: the small, friendly cam- responsibility of making sure FSU keeps there or whether our yearnings for a less pus where college sports is an amusement pace with competitors on the national stage. complicated time have seduced us is not for the student body, and boys and girls It’s our job to communicate what rival important. It is important that we find pow- play for the passion of the game, seldom programs are building and what motivates erfully appealing that timeless vision of daring to dream of becoming professional young student-athletes to select a school. simplicity, of discovery, of the recollected athletes. Yes, Bobby Bowden and his coaches joy of college life. You can find that very world right now and our great program have drawn highly Tom and Monkey talked about the foot- at Presbyterian College, at Hampden- talented young men to FSU. We’re raising ball games, and how fans gathered outside Sydney and at Wofford. It exists at East money to protect against the day when Greg Jones Central State and Stephen F. Austin State College and at Birmingham Southern. FSU could go back to that time if we wanted. But, we’d have to really want it. mation We’d have to leave our stadium behind,

ts Infor along with televised games and sights and sounds and smells of game day. There’d be no more great, milling clouds of fans. We’d even have to give up our hateful

tesey FSU Spor rivals. We’d make do with less passion. Big time college athletics is a powerful force in our culture, and in our case especially, Seminole athletics creates an emo- Photos Cour tional infrastructure that draws in and involves our graduates. In Florida, where changes are the norm, FSU needs alumni with the financial means and the political clout to protect and nour- ish their university. Orlando attorney Hugo de Beaubien said, “Recently, when President George Bush needed a leader for HUD, an important …cabinet position, he called on Mel Martinez of Orlando. When our state needed a new Supreme Court justice last month, we selected Raoul G. Cantero of Miami. When our state needed a new secretary of state this fall, the governor appointed Jim Smith of Tallahassee.” All are Seminoles. Some of the most prominent and powerful names in the state emerge from our classes of the 1950s and 1960s. Florida Senate President Jim King isn’t just an alumnus. He was president 20 years ago of the Jacksonville Seminole Booster Clubs. Former Florida House Speakers T.K. Wetherell and John Thrasher aren’t just FSU graduates. T.K. was a star defensive back for the Seminoles, and then, as a legislator, Coach Bobby Bowden he fought to get money to build the fabu-

November 2002 / 11 d as the players and fans decide to be really want. dumbfounded until a couple of the leaders you tell us what you’re willing to do and Here is a good tale about Coach Mickey walked over to ask what was up. we’ll accept it. If you’re willing to do what it Andrews. He was frustrated with the “We’re your coaches, but we can’t make takes to be a 7-4 team, we’ll coach you to be results after several days of practice during you want to do what you have to do to win. that good. If you decide you want to be what would become a national champi- We’re frustrated, and you’re probably mad national champions, then we’ll coach you onship season. He just couldn’t connect at us for pushing you, and nothing good is that way.” with his players; he wasn’t able to motivate happening. And that’s where we are. What do we them to give the effort he wanted. “Rather than us fighting each other, really want, and what are we really willing Mickey and his assistants abruptly here’s what we’re going to do. You boys get to do? Mickey’s players gave him their stopped coaching and walked over to the together and decide how good you want to answer. I imagine our Seminole fans and shade of the big oak tree. They ordered cold be and then come back and tell us. We’ll supporters will let us know their answer as drinks, sat and waited. The players stood coach you to that level. No hard feelings; well. Defensive Coach Mickey Andrews

Bobby Bowden is no longer here. Our fans give a great deal. Individually, they tend to give more than fans of most other schools. To those who feel burdened, I say do what you can do, be happy with what you can do and understand that not every appeal is directed at you personally. “When will it be enough? When is enough, enough?” Actually, there is a straightforward and realistic answer to that question. Athletic Director Dave Hart’s annual scholarship cost for all men’s and women’s sports is between $3.5 and $4 million. To ensure that money, we have to build a scholarship endowment of around $80 million at today’s tuition rates. We currently have an endowment of $20 million under management. Half the Dynasty Campaign’s $70-million goal is for scholarships. By the time it’s collected, our endowment should have more than $60 million. We’ll continue to raise money until the endowment will pay the annual scholarship costs, which are always increasing. We’ve also been fortunate to raise a great deal of money for facilities. We’ve bond-financed most of those facilities, and we will pay them off with money we’ve raised and money that we will raise. When the endowment is adequate, and when the facilities are paid for, then I think FSU might consider retiring our Seminole Booster program. Enough will finally be enough. A fully funded endowment and debt-free facilities are not ambitious goals for old-line major universities. Most of our rivals enjoy those very advantages now. Let me give you a taste of what we’re up against. So far, we’ve had the generous par- ticipation of many, many donors. However, our largest single gift to date is $2 million. I’m told the University of Arkansas’ athletic program will receive $300 million from one donor. The University of Missouri athletic program is receiving $150 million from the same donor. Our ACC rival Virginia has received two $20-million gifts to athletics recently. We made the decision to take on the old, big schools. We’ve been aggressive, enter- prising. We’ve been lucky and we’ve been smart, and it’s paid off handsomely. We have come to believe that we can be as good as anyone, attract the best student-athletes in the nation, and compete for national championships in all sports. “Why bother?” is the question I think some are asking. Why put extraordinary effort and expense toward something that we may not need, and that our fans may not

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on Aging Conference in Tampa in the Miami office of Holland & Knight Tammy N. Williams-Hinson (B.S.), who August. Brown is executive director of LLP., is on the board of directors of teaches language arts at Shanks High the St. Johns County Council on Aging. CHARLEE, a Miami-Dade County non- School, was named Gadsden County’s Lucy Dyal Hadi (B.M.E., M.M.E. ‘70) was profit organization that provides for the 2002 Teacher of the Year. named deputy secretary of the Florida needs of abused and neglected chil- John-Franklin Leopold (B.S.) received a Department of Children and Families dren in foster care. Purple Heart recognizing injuries he by Secretary Jerry Regier. John F. Peterson (B.S.) is sports director of received Dec. 5, 2002, while serving in WFLA-TV in Tampa. Afghanistan. 1969 Doug Mientkiewicz (‘96) was inducted into Robert W. Perkins (J.D.) has been appointed 1987 the FSU Athletic Hall of Fame. He by the National Republican Chet L. Hall (B.S.) is managing director of played baseball for FSU and currently Congressional Committee to serve on Cardinal Services Contract Resources starts for the Minnesota Twins. the Business Advisory Council (BAC) in LLC. recognition of contributions and dedi- Lt. Cmdr. Mark Marchione (B.S.), assigned 1997 cation to the Republican Party. by the U.S. Coast Guard to the Marine Shamalene Wilson Broner (B.S.) was induct- Safety Office in New Orleans, is assis- ed into the FSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1972 tant chief of port operations, directly August. She spent two seasons with a Brian C. Proctor (B.S.) was inducted into the supervising the new Sea Marshall pro- professional fastpitch softball team, the Leon High School Hall of Fame. He gram. Georgia Pride, after graduating. Her graduated from Leon in 1967 and Patricia “Tracey” Garmany Sellers (B.S.) is second year, Broner was named played fullback. senior manager at Deloitte & Touche’s Defensive Player of the Year and select- 1973 Tax Practice in Tampa. ed to play in the All-Star game in Terry P. Lewis (B.A., J.D. ‘76) was named by Akron, Ohio. She currently works for Florida Supreme Court Chief Harry Lee 1988 her alma mater, Pasco High School. Richard W. Moore (J.D.) is chief operating Anstead as co-chair of the Florida Court Leigh A. Danzey-Bussell (Ph.D.), focusing officer and general counsel of Moore Education Council, which oversees her attention on the issues surrounding Consulting Group in Tallahassee. He is Florida’s program of continuing educa- women in sports, with emphasis on also of counsel with the law firm of tion for judges. Title IX and gender equity, is the first Amundsen and Gilroy. female professor in the physical educa- 1976 tion department at Marian College in Diahann W. Lassus (B.S.) was a panelist at 1989 Nicole Dash (B.S.) completed a Ph.D. in Indianapolis, Ind. the National Association of Personal sociology at Florida International Christian C. Davis (B.S.) is director of Finance Planners’ 2002 National 1935 University. Dash is assistant professor of finance and accounting at the Atlanta Conference in Nashville, Tenn. Elizabeth Bradford DeCola (B.A.), a long- sociology at the University of North Century Center Marriott. Frances Haemmerlie Montgomery (M.S., time California nursery school inspec- Texas. Warrick D. Dunn (B.S.) was inducted into Ph.D. ‘78) is associate dean in the tor, has retired to Tall Oaks in Reston, James W. Humann (B.S., J.D. ‘93) was pro- the FSU Athletic Hall of Fame in August. College of Arts and Sciences at the Va. moted to senior director of business Terrie M. Glover (B.S.) is director of public University of Missouri-Rolla. 1936 affairs with Hard Rock Cafe relations at Moore Consulting Group in Esther H. Davis (B.S.) has retired from the 1982 International (USA) Inc. Tallahassee. Episcopal ministry in Berkeley, Calif., Bradley C. Robinson (M.M.) is a University Denisha Sanders (B.A., M.S. ‘91) is director Maggie D. Mooney (B.S.) joined the law and lives in Pacific Grove, Calif. of Mississippi assistant professor. He of career services of The University of firm of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, sang Mozart’s “Requiem” Sept. 11 in a North Carolina at Pembroke. Coleman & Goggin as an associate in 1941 worldwide choral tribute to the victims Tampa. Vivian Ahlsweh Williams (B.A., L.I. ‘61), and survivors of the 2001 terrorist 1990 Mindy Meades Miller (B.S., J.D. ‘00) joined Mark A. Block (B.S.) received an MBA in owner and publisher of the Oconee attack. the law firm of Marshall, Dennehey, marketing management from Johns Enterprise, Watkinsville, Ga., was Warner, Coleman & Goggin as an asso- Hopkins University School of named Sharon Johnson volunteer of 1983 ciate in Tampa. the year for her annual banquet for vol- Kevin A. Christie II (B.S.) is in the Doctor of Professional Studies in Business and unteer firefighters and sponsorship of Chiropractic Program at Logan Education. 1998 the Watkinsville Christmas Parade. College. Pamela Hinken Conklin (B.S.) is a senior Kevin F. Cash (A.A.) signed a contract with intelligence analyst at Hawkeye the Toronto Blue Jays. He was a catch- 1962 1984 Systems in Alexandria, Va. er for FSU. Bobby W. Carnley (B.S.) was inducted into Ann Harshbarger Halpern (B.A.) received Joseph J. Theobald (B.S.) is region manager Scott E. Snedeker (M.B.A.) works for BB&T the Leon High School Hall of Fame. He the Otis Dodge Memorial Award from over the special investigations unit for Corp. Snedeker is a financial center was a 1964 graduate of Leon. He the Seventh “Deep South” District of SAFECO Insurance. manager in Boston. played offensive guard and was a the American Advertising Federation. Justin R. Whitfield (B.S.) was inducted into sprinter on the track team. Halpern was cited for years of service 1991 the Leon High School Hall of Fame. He R. Steve Lewis (J.D.) lectured at the Florida Jeanne S. O’Bryan (B.S.) has won the NASA beginning as an AAF college chapter is a 1993 graduate of Leon and was a Chamber’s Environmental Permitting Space Flight Awareness Leadership president at FSU. quarterback. Summer School in July at Marco Island. Award. 1964 He works for Lewis, Longman & Walker 1999 Andrew A. Roberts (B.S.) was inducted into P.A. 1992 Sandra Bird (Ph.D.) is interim chair of the Mark T. Ebel (M.S., Ph.D. ‘96) teaches at the Leon High School Hall of Fame. department of visual arts at Kennesaw Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Roberts was a 1959 graduate of Leon 1985 (Ga.) State University. High School in Tallahassee and was a Major Richard Raines (B.A.) is retiring from Ala. his position as associate professor of Carol D. Edwards (Ph.D.) is assistant dean in lineman. He went on to play for FSU. Brent C. Paul (B.S.) graduated from the electrical engineering at the Air Force the School of the Arts at Kennesaw Navy’s Basic Civil Engineer Corps 1965 Institute of Technology, Wright- (Ga.) State University. Officer School. Edward A. Scott (B.S., M.S. ‘66) is director Patterson AFB, Ohio. Dale M. Hoffman (B.S.) is the Hillsborough Megan E. Gajdos (‘99) is senior account of the U.S. Air Force Academy Libraries. Susan L. Wessner (B.S., M.S. ‘87) is in the County Tax Collector’s new director of manager for Duffey Communications Terry E. Lewis (B.A., M.A. ‘66, J.D. ‘78) lec- 2002 Who’s Who Among America’s Motor Vehicles Services. Hoffman is a in Atlanta. tured at the Florida Chamber’s Teachers. Wessner is an instructor of 10-year veteran of the agency. James W. Visconti III (B.S.) is working in Los Environmental Permitting Summer college preparatory math at Tallahassee Angeles as a writer in the entertain- School in July. He works for Lewis, Community College. 1995 William Robert McConkie II (Ph.D.) has ment industry. Longman & Walker P.A. Gary D. Wilson (B.S.) has joined Akerman, joined the faculty of Bethany College in Michael B. Mann (B.S.) received his doctor- Senterfitt & Eidson P.A. in Orlando. the department of economics and 2000 ate in ministry in May from Columbia Timothy M. DeCanio (B.S.) is in the Doctor business. Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga. 1986 of Chiropractic Program at Logan John W. Grigg (B.S.), a fullback, was induct- College. 1968 ed into the Leon High School Hall of 1996 Thomas W. Hardy (M.S.) received his doc- Gregory R. Hough II (B.S.) is attending the Catherine Knutson Brown (B.S.) was elect- Fame. toral degree in education from the University of Richmond (Va.) T.C. ed president of the Florida Association Amelia “Mel” R. Maguire (J.D.), a partner in of Senior Centers at the Florida Council University of Alabama. Williams School of Law.

November 2002 / 13 Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk ate professor of industrial arts and voca- tional education from 1964 to 1974. A native of Reading, Pa., Mr. Perkins served in the Army Air Corps and was an Air Force Colonel. He was active in World War II and the Korean Conflict. He retired in 1959. He was a ham radio enthusiast and liked fishing, gardening and photography. William A. Richards William A. Richards, 91, a retired business education professor, died in August. In Memoriam He had taught at Florida State from 1951 to 1976. He was a member of the honor soci- 1910 - 1919 eties Pi Omega Pi and Pi Gamma Mu. Sallie Brown Eddins (L.I. ‘19)

1920 - 1929 James D. White Margaret Van Cleve Fraser (B.M. ‘28), Kathleen Anderson Greenlee (L.I. ‘29), Ella Hammond Middleton (B.S. ‘28)

Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk 1930 - 1939 Iris Knight Meredith (B.A. ‘30), Mary Katherine Walker Bell (B.S. ‘31), By Paula Gerson Chairwoman, department of art history Josephine Baggs Jones (L.I. ‘32), Bonita Bailey Borders (A.B. ‘33), Emily Jackson Swanson (B.S. ‘33), Margaret Wienbarg Nicholson (B.A. ‘34), Doris Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk, professor of art Lee Spelce (A.B. ‘34), Mattie Sue Collins Evans (B.S. ‘34), Elizabeth Akin history, died Aug. 28. Axton (B.S. ‘36), Vivian Williams May (L.I. ‘36), V. Faye Peterson Ricker She was a pioneer in the field of (B.S. ‘36) Oceanic art, having written her dissertation on Gauguin in Polynesia at the University 1940 - 1949 of California at Los Angeles. Shirley Davis Bradley (B.S. ‘40), Rose Kirby Williams (B.S. ‘40, M.S. ‘67), She came to Florida State in 1995 after a Jessica Cyzycki Malone (B.S. ‘41), Voncile McColskey Stiles (B.S. ‘42), long career at the University of California, Wilma Smith Sullivan (B.S. ‘43), Cynthia Waterman Craig (B.S. ‘45), Olive San Diego. Professor Teilhet-Fisk was a Beryl Kitchen Carlson (B.A. ‘47) brilliant teacher whose ebullient personali- ty attracted many students. In addition to courses on Oceanic art, James D. White 1950 - 1959 Professor Teilhet-Fisk taught the art of James D. White died of a heart attack Patricia Evans Rosenstein (B.S. ‘51), Dr. Boris Gutbezahl (Ph.D. ‘52), Africa and the African Diaspora, the art of on August 23. Myrtya Matthews Helms (B.S. ‘52), Elizabeth Willis Watson (B.S. ‘53), Native Americans of the Southwest and Professor White had a long and impres- Layniere King Armstrong (B.S. ‘54), John J. Bishop (M.M. ‘54), Richard J. folk art in the United States. sive career as a law-enforcement officer, Reuteler (B.S. ‘54), Clydie Aman Jones (B.S. ‘55), Quenton R. Farr (B.S. ‘56), An enormously active scholar and lec- prosecutor, legal counsel and educator. June Bowen Stoutamire (B.S. ‘57, M.S. ‘81), Leonard Gledhill Jr. (B.S. ‘58), turer, her field work took her to Africa and After graduating from FSU with a degree James E. Kuhn Jr. (B.S. ‘58), Benjamin S. Baldy (B.S. ‘59), James Edward Polynesia. In recent years, she took Florida in business administration in 1969, he Hooks (B.S. ‘59) State students with her on field-work expe- worked as a deputy sheriff with the Leon ditions to Tonga. County Sheriff’s Office. He was promoted 1960 - 1969 Besides teaching, she generated muse- to detective sergeant and worked in nar- um exhibitions. Having been a curator in Harold Paul Gerrish (M.S. ‘60), Richard W. Sinclair (B.A. ‘60), C. Norman cotics and criminal intelligence. Ingram (B.E. ‘62, M.S. ‘71), Mary Irwin Kemp (M.S. ‘62), Paul Ambrose Los Angeles and in Nigeria, she continued In 1971, he went to Stetson University Lastowski (B.S. ‘65), Stephen B. Milliken (M.S. ‘66), Dr. Krishna P. Mandal to work with museums while teaching at Law School and earned a Juris Doctor in (M.S. ‘68) the University of California and in 1974. Then he became a prosecutor with Tallahassee. She participated in the the State Attorney’s Office in Tallahassee. Museum Studies Program, and in 1998 she Professor White began teaching with 1970 - 1979 co-curated the enormously successful FSU’s School of Criminology in 1975 as an Betty Hunt Burts (M.S. ‘71), Dr. Bobby T. Holland (Ph.D. ‘71), Gary Luther Dimensions of Native America show in the adjunct professor. He joined the faculty Dalton (‘72), Robert M. Marshall III (B.A. ‘73), Charles F. Dobson (‘76), Dr. FSU Museum of Fine Arts. full-time in 1978. Marcia J. Myers ( M.S. ‘76, Ph.D. ‘79), Caroline Hess Bartels (B.S. ‘77), He brought a flavor of reality to his Joanne Jurysta James (B.A. ‘77), Nicholas M. Arfaras (B.S. ‘78), James H. Charles L. Perkins instruction, the result of his continued Wooten III (B.S. ‘78) involvement in government and criminal justice. From 1978 to 1980, he was a member of the Governor’s Council for the 1980 - 1989 Dr. Mary Allen Ellzey (Ph.D. ‘81), Karen Harmon Rogo (M.B.A. ‘81), Prosecution of Organized Crime, and from 1980 to 1982, he was special counsel to Gov. Elizabeth Garcia Vieira (M.S. ‘81), Darryl P. Miner (B.A. ‘82), Clifford N. Bob Graham. Throughout most of his Campbell Sr. (B.A. ‘86, M.A. 88, Spe. ‘98), Dr. Sahira R. Abdulla (M.S. ‘86, career, he served as a reserve officer with Ph.D. ‘90), Manohar S. Gowda (B.S. ‘87) the Tallahassee Police Department. Professor White wrote numerous 2000 - 2002 books and academic papers and produced Alana M. Dennard (B.S. 2000), Alan W. Giddens (B.S. ‘02), Patrick J. Malone a law enforcement training film series that Jr. (M.S. ‘02) received the film industry’s Award of Excellence for educational films. He retired from FSU this year but con- STUDENTS tinued to work on academic interests. Albert Jackson Bush III Charles L. Perkins Jim White left a lasting impression on Charles L. Perkins, 94, died in many students during his years at Florida FACULTY AND STAFF September. Mr. Perkins was an FSU associ- State. —Phil Kiracofe Charlie Gibson Sr.

14 / November 2002 Not the least of his chores has been raising money—so he did (Continued from page 1) has a goal of $600 million. • In technology—Florida State has built • In research—Since 1998, Florida State a “first-rate technology infrastructure,” has almost doubled the contracts and developed rapidly expanding distance- grants to conduct research—from $88 mil- learning programs, played host to the lion to $147 million. One of the best known national magnet lab and bought the world’s Photo Lab outcomes is the synthetic Taxol that thou- largest university-owned computer. sands of cancer survivors will never forget. • In athletics—Besides championships, D’Alemberte, former president of the FSU athletes have new buildings and American Bar Association, said he wasn’t yals Lee / FSU equipment, academic oversight “and a R sure what he would do next—maybe try Booster organization that is simply the best practicing law—but he hoped to stay Sandy D’Alemberte in the country.” involved in some of his FSU projects. • In faculty—Florida State has acquired bring international reputations, exciting talent to FSU. The faculty responded to D’Alem- 59 named professors in three years. They research projects and exceptional teaching • In money raising—Florida State has berte’s speech with a prolonged standing launched its first two capital campaigns, ovation, which he tried without success to FSU Annual Faculty Torch Awards raising $250 million in the first one and $346 end by motioning repeatedly to the audi- FSU President Sandy D’Alemberte, at the fall faculty meeting Oct. 1, presented the million already in the second one, which ence to sit down. faculty’s annual Torch awards to: • Ray Solomon, an Eminent Scholar and dean for 17 years of the College of Disappearing groupers are explained—Dead Zone is next Business; (Continued from page 1) nutrients for plants to grow. It is caused by • Nancy Smith-Fichter, chairwoman of the dance department for 45 years and research vessels and data records. chemicals from farms in the Midwest com- recent interim dean of the School of Theatre; The computer modeling system works ing down the Mississippi River.” • Four alumnae of the Florida State College for Women: Betty Lewis Harrison, much like the satellite image shown on the Another example of blobish mania? Sarah Lewis Marxsen, Shirley Rodgers Tellander and Mary Lou Norwood. Weather Channel. In the fall of 1999, when tropical storm “Meteorologists have equations for the Harvey came across the peninsula of ocean,” O’Brien said. “In the case of the Florida, it created very strong currents from Gulf of Mexico, it is driven by sun, temper- south to north. After it passed, a bountiful ature, winds, air, tides, rivers putting in population of red grouper had disappeared fresh water. All these forces are acting on the from the Dry Tortugas at the southern tip of ocean.” Florida. O’Brien hopes to help explain the cause “A few weeks later, they found them

Photo Lab of the “Dead Zone,” a region the size of 100 miles away out on the shelf,” O’Brien Rhode Island where nothing can grow, off said. “They were still in the ocean, but they the coast of Louisiana. got moved.” The explanation: Currents “It’s not poisonous like the red tide,” he induced by changing atmosphere moved

yals Lee / FSU said. “It just doesn’t have the right mix of the fish. —Sibley Fleming R

Torch winners, from left: Betty Lewis Harrison, Sarah Lewis Marxsen, Shirley Rodgers Tellander and Mary Lou Norwood. We hummed, then talked, because our babies needed it (Continued from page 1) babies had the ability to cling to their mothers bellies as well, but they lost it when their mothers began to stand on two feet. Falk suspects that was why human mothers turned to their creative side, con- trolled by the right side of the brain, to communicate with babies. The humming became the human t mother’s way to get close to her baby. olker

So humans may be more right-minded ida V than chimpanzees—more emotional and V creative. The right brain controls feelings, Dean Falk emotions and humor. with her collection of skull casts and endo- “It’s the artistic side,” she said. casts (of the interior braincase), including a The left brain is the logical side. 2.5-million-year-old Australopithecine and “It’s generally been thought that the left a 65,000-year-old Neanderthal. hemisphere was most important because it Falk started her collection 25 years ago. is known to be the language-bearing side of She visited research laboratories and muse- the brain,” she said. ums in Africa, Asia and Europe. That’s true, Falk confirmed, but when She made contacts with curators, who the earliest human ancestors were roaming allowed her to copy prehistoric skulls, and the earth, scientists believe, language had other anthropologists and researchers, not been created. including Karl Zilles, head of research That’s why Falk believes tone of voice in groups in Dusseldorf. humming, became essential. Today, it’s Falk and Zilles scanned some of Falk’s important in language. endocasts and used his software to map It “could completely change the mean- both brain sides. They also scanned a mod- ing of the sentence,” she said. “It bears ern human brain and a chimpanzee’s brain. information about the mental state of the Then, they compared them all. speaker. By the tone of voice you should The images showed that from the earli- know if somebody is lying to you, or if you est ancestors, the right side of the human should date a person.” brain—but not the chimpanzee brain— Last year Falk traveled to Dusseldorf, expanded greatly. —Vida Volkert

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16 / November 2002 Former football standouts now serving in the armed forces Dan Kendra first side Fort Worth, is waiting or a national championship, Merna’s father and two entertained the idea of on word when he’ll begin you were working together uncles fought in Korea. becoming a Navy SEAL Basic Underwater Demo- for your wings of gold.” Merna, now a major and when he was in grade lition School, or BUDS, in Coker credits FSU Head instructor, graduated in school. Coronado, Calif. Coach Bobby Bowden for 1989. Classmates dreamed For the veterans, the helping him develop quali- Stallworth spent his of playing football. terrorist attacks only ties that benefited his mili- childhood not far from the Kendra wanted to be a strengthened their convic- tary career. Coker is up for a Pensacola Naval Air member of an elite special- tion that they had selected promotion to lieutenant Station, home of the Blue forces unit. a career that makes a dif- colonel next year. He said Angels. The lure of flying After an injury- ference. Stallworth was the regimented lifestyle he drew him to the military plagued football career at involved with the peace- experienced in football also after graduating from FSU Florida State, Kendra was keeping operations in prepared him for the in the early 1990s. on the verge of making the Kosovo. From his ship, Marines. Coker had no interest Indianapolis Colts as a Marines were deployed “Playing for Coach had a in the military until, one fullback when he walked and humanitarian aid was lot to do with shaping my day during his last semes- out of preseason camp. Kirk Coker sent to Albania. leadership skills that I need- David Stallworth ter at FSU, he walked by a “He said to us, ‘you know what? I “What happened on 9-11, it makes you ed up here,” he said. Marine Corps recruiting booth. On a think this world needs more special-forces realize what you are doing is very impor- Merna told Bowden what his football whim, he talked to the recruiting officer guys than NFL guys,’ “ tant,” Stallworth said. experience meant to his mil- and was hooked on the said his mother, Diane. “It “After 9-11, if you are out itary career. Although mat idea. has always been his in the community in uni- drills came under scrutiny Kendra is well known dream to pursue this. form, you have strangers after De-vaughn Darling’s for having a pet alligator Football picked him; he coming up to you and death last year, Merna and wanting to be a Navy didn’t pick it. But this, he shaking your hand and applauds them. SEAL. Once on campus, wanted to do. thanking you for the job “I’ve absolutely learned players said the military “After 9/11, that really you’re already doing. It many attributes from those was what Kendra mostly pushed him over the makes you real proud and hard, hard days at Florida talked about. edge. It was, ‘I’m doing makes you believe the State,” said Merna, who was Kendra has been to this.’” (career) choices you made in Saudi Arabia for four Coronado, Calif., for test- Kendra, training to be were the right choices.” months during the Gulf War. ing before entering BUDS, a Navy SEAL, is one of at Coker has served in “There were many days you a notoriously demanding least seven former Semi- Southeast Asia, Somalia wanted to hang it up, but phase of training for noles players actively and the Middle East, you couldn’t. And there SEALS. He’ll be part of an serving in the Armed including Saudi Arabia were similar days in the eight-man team that will Forces. Dan Kendra and Kuwait. He had been Marine Corps. There’s noth- Greg Tony be challenged physically Kirk Coker, a part-time starting quar- to the Pentagon days prior to Sept. 11. ing that I’ve done in the Marine Corps that and mentally. If he gets through that he terback in the mid-1980s after walking on, “Quite frankly, we in the military have was harder than mat drills. will go to jump school in Fort Benning, and John Merna, who been talking about the “I’ve told Coach Bowden much of what Ga., and scuba school in Panama City. walked on as a tailback, potential for something he did on the practice fields and training is “This is where he belongs,” his mother are Marines stationed in like this to happen for very similar to the structure of the military said. “He was so fascinated by the chal- Quantico, Va. Coker, a years,” Coker said. training. Coach Bowden was a great leader. lenge. The body is good, and everything is major, is an aide to a three- Football and the mili- He oversaw what was going on, he held great. Things are really falling in place. star general. tary service are perfect people accountable, and he and his staff “With football he loved the cama- Former fullback Ren- partners, according to taught lessons much more important for off raderie, working as a team to pull it off. dell Long is stationed in these former Seminoles. the field. He is a great role model for young That’s what (the military) is all about. It’s Korea. Ex-linebacker Defensive coordinator men and hopefully future Marine Corps all team-oriented.” —Condensed from the David Stallworth, a Navy Mickey Andrews, who is leaders.” Tallahassee Democrat, by Steve Ellis helicopter pilot who also also Stallworth’s father- oversees helicopter main- in-law, and off-season tenance, calls Coastal conditioning prepared the Systems Station in Pan- linebacker for Aviation ama City home. Former Officer Candi-date School defensive lineman Stan- in Pensacola. ley Scott, who played in “The drill instructor the mid-’80s, is an instruc- John Merna had that same kind of tor at West Point. He is captain after a long tone you were already used to,” said stint at Fort Hood in Texas. Former gradu- Stallworth, who works alongside a former ate assistant Franklin Arizona State football

Hagenbeck (1977 -78) is player. “Everything I Photo Lab a major general and the went through in football top U.S. military com- pretty much trained me mander in Afghanistan. for that training—the

(See story about way they run the mat yals Lee / FSU Hagenbeck in the drills and defense. R August Florida State “It’s kind of easy to In the practice towers from right: FSU President Sandy D’Alemberte and Frank Times.) go from football to the Murphy, University Communications Group President, visit with Head Coach Bobby Only Kendra and military, especially when Bowden and son, Terry Bowden, an ABC Sports commentator. Greg Tony joined the on the teamwork side. I military after Sept. 11. went through two years 2002 Seminole football schedule Tony passed on a chance of flight school begin- Nov. 2 at Wake Forest to start at fullback this ning in 1995, and it was a Nov. 9 at Georgia Tech season to enter the lot like being part of a Nov. 16 NORTH CAROLINA (Homecoming) Marines Officer Candi- team at Florida State. date School. Kendra, at a Instead of working for Nov. 23 at N. Carolina St. Nov. 30 FLORIDA (Home) a joint military base out- Stanley Scott an ACC championship