tetson University has taken bold steps special relationship with the Florida Baptist over the last decade to achieve some Convention to reaffirm Stetson's commitment to very ambitious goals. Capitalizing on he an inclusive religious community for all faiths. the hard work and vision of our Fifth, we protected and improved our campus. predecessors, we have focused on a single Our geographic boundaries, as defined in the goal:S to meet the educational needs of current and master campus plan, are now protected in the future students by constantly improving the quality State of Florida Comprehensive Land Use Plan. of our academic programs and repositioning Stetson Twelve buildings are included on the National as one of the nation's premier, private universities. Register of Historic Places. The campus is more There are many ways to analyze our progress. A beautiful than ever. chronology of events is provided in the article, Finally, we dramatically improved our financial "One by one. . .," beginning on Page 18. But now I position. Our endowment has grown from $23.7 want to focus on broader, strategic changes and million in 1987-88 to $89.5 million in 1996-97. Let's future issues. The Stetson $200 Million Campaign has reached The most important achievement has been the $158 million. improvement of academic programs. Our strategy The transition is not complete. I predict it will Talk... was threefold: (1) to add faculty positions, thus take another decade for us to emerge on the improving reaching and student/faulty interaction; national scene as a premier, private university. (2) to develop new programs and expand old ones During this period, many new issues need by enhancing faculty development opportunities; attention, but four require significant emphasis: and (3) to expand the library, research equipment We must invest in faculty resources. We may and technology as critical learning tools. need additional faculty in some areas, but this will about our future The addition of 25 new faculty dramatically not be our primary focus. Faculty development, improved teaching. Substantial curricular reform recognition for achievement, and investments in resulted from improvements to existing distinguished visiting faculty and program programs and the addition of new ones. development will he priorities. Our library, research equipment, and The use of technology in teaching will be a top technology will be state-of-the-art in priority. Students will have access to all library the 21st Century- . Our achievements information from their residence hall rooms. have been nationally recognized. Faculty and students will be able to reach each There have been other strategic other via technology on a 24-hour basis. "Distance changes: learning," a concept we traditionally have ignored, First, new faculty were added when will he explored. many distinguished scholars, who Gift-funded scholarships will he our number developed our core of academic quality, one fund-raising priority. Providing access and retired. Our academic culture suddenly affordability for qualified students is a moral became more diverse as new faculty responsibility. We will leverage the J. Olhe brought new ideas. The curriculum and Edmunds Distinguished Scholars Program to working relationships changed. We establish the comprehensive merit scholars have become far more interdisciplinary network needed to improve the overall quality of as individuals work across department our students. and college lines. Stetson's colleges and schools will he more Second, we responded to the integrated as a university. For example, the increasingly diverse society in which we DeLand and Law campuses are developing live. Through such programs as the partnership programs such as the joint JD-MBA Multicultural Education Institute, the degree. Partly because of alliances with external Institute for Christian Ethics, Women partners, we are adding interdisciplinary majors and Gender Studies, Africana Studies, such as Digital Arts, Environmental Studies, and and the Howard Thurman Program, we Computer Information Systems. The Stetson are playing a lead role in promoting presence at Disney's Celebration provides an cultural awareness. Ethnic diversity opportunity for a satellite campus. Programs for within our student, faculty and staff non-traditional students and life-long learners populations has risen dramatically. have high priority. Third, the university moved from a Although we can learn from the past, it is century-old in loco parentis model for critical that we think of the future. We must student life to a student developmental never lose sight of our primary goal: to offer our model. Students participate in decision students the best possible opportunities for snaking. They learn how to be leaders learning by constantly improving the quality of and to be responsible. They are held our academic program and repositioning our- accountable for their actions. selves as one of the nation's premier, private Photo by Chris Carlson Fourth, the university redefined its universities. - Doug Lee CONTENTS

Recognize anyone? From left are Doug and Margaret Lee, and Margaret and Pope Duncan in 1986, the year Pope Duncan retired as Stetson's seventh president and Doug Lee became the PUBLICATIONS eighth. What's happened since then? See page 18. ADVISORY BOARD

ALUMNI REPRESENTATIVES A HUG FROM JIMMY Corky and George Dannals Alumna Claudine Ryce tells tragic story, works to help others Vincetta Giammanco Ford 2 Martha Pollard Holler Page 2 Claire Beth Link PASSING THE TORCH OF EXCELLENCE Evelyn West-Mills John Pelham has made the 'Stetson Connection' for many Todd Richardson 8

PARENTS COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE Mary Kay Richter MAKE A DIFFERENCE... McEniry Award winner Leonard Nance sees Stetson changing FACULTY AND STAFF 12 Steve Barnett Tom Horton GIVE STETSON TO A STUDENT Mark McMaster Scholarship students and donors share their stories Ellen Smith Darald Stubbs 14 Page 8 STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES 3,650 DAYS ADD UP TO BIG CHANGES FOR STETSON Brantley Craig A look back over the past 10 years Davina Yetter 18

VOLUME 16 - NUMBER 1 HOW DO OUR BUILDINGS GROW? STETSON UNIVERSITY From design to bricks and mortar H. Douglas Lee, President 24 E Mark Whittaker, Vice President for University Relations DEPARTMENTS Jackie Kersh, APR, Executive Let's Talk Director of Public Relations Page 14 Opposite page Editor: Betty Brady Associate Editor and Design: Under the Cupola Danielle 1-aprime, '95 MA 26 Writers: Betty Brady, Cheryl Downs, Jackie Kersh, and Campus Spotlight Danielle Laprime 33 Cover photo: Chris Carlson Proh'eritate is published semi-annually by Stetson University, DeLand, Florida 32720-3781. The Winter issue is mailed to alumni, parents and friends. The Summer issue goes to university contributors, voluntary subscribers, institutions and foundations. Printed by Independent Printing, Daytona Beach, Fla., on recycled paper. Page 33 A Hug from

hen Don and I left that Sunday night, Don had to call several police stations to report Jimmy missing September 10, 1995, on a two-day business before he found out that Metro Dade Police Department has trip, our 9-year-old son Jimmy was lying on jurisdiction over the unincorporated South Dade County area his stomach watching the second Dolphin where we live. We learned later that there are more than 30 game of the season and our 16-year-old different police departments in the Miami area. Wexchange student from Thailand, "Jin," was writing letters. A Metro Dade sent a patrol car immediately. Under Federal law, 21-year-old neighbor had been hired to stay with the kids and no waiting period is necessary before a missing-child search cook their meals. begins. When we got home around 7:30, concerned neighbors Monday afternoon, I called home to make sure everything was Were gathered outside our electric gates, patrol cars were cruising going well. Jimmy's piano teacher told me "Jin" was taking her the neighborhood, and we could hear a helicopter overhead. first piano lesson, but Jimmy was not home yet. I knew what Don and I would not learn until weeks later that the best time Jimmy got off his school bus each day, and it only took him initial response to any missing child is an organized massive 5 minutes to walk home; he should have been there. physical search of the surrounding area, including sending a I sensed something was horribly wrong. trained bloodhound to the scene immediately. When Jimmy was When Don returned to the motel, I was in tears. He called taken, there were no bloodhounds in south Florida at all. home and talked to the piano teacher, the exchange student, and That night the school bus driver and children from the bus Jimmy's 18-year-old brother, Ted. Don asked Ted to walk to the told police that Jimmy got out on the corner at his stop, alone, as bus stop and see if he could spot Jimmy. Ted also went to several usual. The last person to see Jimmy, other than the kidnapper, of Jimmy's friends' houses, but no one knew where Jimmy was. was the bus driver, who saw him beginning to walk home. By 5 o'clock we were on our way home. Don used his portable I had tried, the first day of school, to get the bus to let Jimmy phone to talk to the sitter, who said they had overslept that out in front of our house rather than on the corner where traffic morning, and he had driven Jimmy to school. Don tried to is heavy. This did not involve a route change or an additional locate someone at the school to ask if there had been bus stop; the bus drove right in front of our home. I was told that no problems, but could reach only the maintenance man. changes could be made, for any reason, for the first two weeks of school. I was passed from one bureaucrat to the next, until the last one hung up on me. Don and I planned to call back i n two weeks and insist on the change. In the meantime, we continued to let Jimmy walk home from his bus stop. After all, we lived in a safe neighbor- hood -we thought. Jimmy was in the fifth-grade class for gifted children, children who have an I.Q. of at least 130. According to his teacher, Jimmy seemed normal at school that day, laughing at his teacher's joke about gremlins attacking their desks

Claudine, Jimmy, and Don Ryce celebrate Christmas morning 1994, in their South Dade home. It was Jimmy's last Christmas.

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BY CLAUDINE RYCE, '64

over the weekend and leaving them so messy. showing Jimmy's face. An advertising agency in Homestead That night, I called Jimmy's 16-year old sister in Chile to tell donated a billboard and a small, local printer ran more posters. her Jimmy was missing. Martha had left August 28 to spend a We did everything we could think of to do. year as a Rotary exchange student. She immediately wanted to Don and I did not know it, but the police were trying to come home, but we told her to wait a day or two to see if we decide if Jimmy could be a runaway. One of his friends down the could find him. My sister flew in from Atlanta on Tuesday. We street summed up everyone's feelings about that, saying, "No way, called Martha home on Wednesday. he has everything he wants; Jimmy is a genius, [he's] not stupid." The police told us, as they left our house late the first evening, The police asked the whether any of his clothes were missing. I that we needn't worry. Kidnappings just did not happen, in their was able to tell the police exactly what he was wearing, because I experience, they said. We got knew what I had left out for him to wear. We also gave the police about an hour's sleep the first a full set of Jimmy's fingerprints. Don represents companies and night. Jimmy did not come municipalities in employment and labor matters, and he had home. I knew that taken Jimmy on a business trip to Winter Haven, where the police chief had his prints made. love cannot be If a couple is divorced, police must also eliminate the possibil- ity that the non-custodial parent has taken the child. That was ccording to quantified, but we not a consideration in our case. When I married Don, I got 1988 Depart- both simply believed three for one: Don, his 6-year old son Ted, and his 4-year old ment of Justice daughter Martha. Jinuny was born a little over a year later. statistics, every we loved each other I always told Jimmy he was our gift from God; I had never A day in America been pregnant before, and he was born when I was 43. Jimmy predators attempt to kidnap as completely and knew this was true. Once, when he was 3 and got miffed with more than 300 children. At me, I saw him walk into his playroom and heard him cry, "God, least 16 of these attempts are perfectly as any come and get me." A short time later, he came through the successful, and approximately kitchen and made up by hugging my leg. As he was walking one child taken every day will mama and son ever away he suddenly remembered his earlier demand and turned he killed, never found, or kept and raced back to his playroom, where I heard him yell, "God, long-term. No one knows if loved one another. never mind!" the success rate of predators I often used to tell Jimmy, "I love you with all my heart," and has increased since this study, he would answer, "I love you with all my heart." Ritualistically, I but most specialists suspect would next say, "I love you more because I am bigger," and he that the numbers are woefully understated. Children found would say, "I love you more because I am purer." Then we would within the first 24 hours of being molested are often reported, if both laugh happily together, in communion. I knew that love at all, not as having been kidnapped, but as rape victims if they cannot he quantified, but we both simply believed we loved each are recovered alive, or as homicide victims if they are found other as completely and perfectly as any mama and son ever dead. loved one another. No one in the area saw Jimmy taken. We later discovered that most kidnappings are "clean snatches." Nobody sees anything. The police depend on leads from the public as to the child's whereabouts. round noun Tuesday, the police notified the local We immediately produced flyers with Jimmy's photo - first news media of Jimmy's disappearance. From then homemade photocopies, later printed flyers. A neighbor told us on, television trucks were parked in our front yard, about the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children from 6 a.m. until after midnight. Tuesday was ( NCMEC) in Arlington, Va., and we arranged for them to chaos; every time we opened the door, there was distribute Jimmy's picture. Crime Stoppers asked people with Aanother television or newspaper reporter. Finally, one of the leads to call 471-TIPS, and, after soliciting donations, offered a neighbors suggested that we close the gates and hold regular press $25,000 reward for information leading to Jimmy's recovery. conferences with reporters outside the fence. We learned the Burger King of South Miami printed large posters and buttons news media will accept restrictions if they want the story.

Winter 1997 3 Don and I realized from the start we would have to get someone would see him and report where he was and whom he Jimmy's face and story out to as many people as possible. So, as was with. hard as it was, we had to show how much we were hurting. We also told stories about Jimmy to show what he was like and to make him real. The community came to know our child so well that most adopted him as their own. he first week there had been no problem in keeping The sister of Jimmy's sitter, who lives nearby, decided the the news media interested. By Saturday, we began to physical search of the area where Jimmy was last seen needed to realize the story was going to die if we did not keep be more thorough and more extensive. At noon Wednesday, it going. Don carne LIP with the idea of trying to get nearly 48 hours after Jimmy was kidnapped, more than 100 Jimmy's picture run on the electric screen during Volunteers began an organized grid search. We have since ABCT Monday Night Football on Sept. 18. We succeeded in learned that, in order for physical searches to find live children, getting Joe Robbie Stadium to run Jimmy's picture in his they must be conducted within hours of the child's disappear- Dolphin hat and shirt, taken in the stadium at the last home ance. Bill Hagmaier, who heads the FBI Child Abduction Serial game, but ABC avoided televising the big board when the plea Killer Unit, says most kidnapped children killed die within the to "help look for the little Dolphin fan" came on at pre-game and first 36 hours after they are kidnapped. half-time. Instead of giving the American people the opportu- Through Saturday, hundreds of people, most of them strangers, nity to help bring a lost child home, the public was "entertained" took time off from work to search a five-mile area covered with with pictures of the drunken antics of fans. thick tropical undergrowth and algae-coated canals. Unfortu- One week after Jimmy's abduction, we offered a $100,000 nately, the search was in the direction Jimmy had been walking, reward for Jimmy's safe return before his 10th birthday on southwest. Later we knew that Jimmy was, at that time, about September 26. We made the reward large enough to turn five miles northeast of where he was snatched. A bloodhound someone on the fringe of a group holding Jimmy, and the fuse could have pointed the search in the right direction. short enough to get him home before he suffered too much NCMEC contacted America's Most Wanted, and one of its crews came to our house Thursday afternoon and filmed our story for Saturday's show. We blew our one opportunity to get national news coverage. We made the mistake of giving an emotionally draining speech to thank volunteers at noon Friday, and came right home for our ABC interview. It is not a good idea to schedule interviews back to back: I was stuck in a nearly hysterical talk mode, feeling Jimmy might die if I stopped talking, and all Don could do was sit beside me and cry. We were not effective in presenting Jimmy's story, and ABC decided not to run it. Sunday evening, almost a thousand people attended a candlelight vigil at Harris Field. Don and I, Jimmy's brother, sister, and aunt, and his sitter Fred all sat on the front row. Jimmy's "girl friend" from school gave the flowers. During the service, however, it became obvious to us that the community was telling us it had done its best to find Jimmy, and that our best hope now was that God would answer our prayers and bring Jimmy home. But Don and I knew we would never give up. It was inconceivable to us that our son, so full of vitality, could be dead. If he was alive, then sometime, somebody, somewhere had to see him. We believed it was up to us to make sure that the person who saw him recognized him. The more eyes looking for Jimmy, the more likely

4 ProVeritate abuse. As we hoped, the idea of a countdown appealed to the When I talked to Attorney General Janet Reno after the media. signing ceremony, she agreed that the effectiveness of these Shortly before Jimmy's birthday, Terri Lynn, who volunteered postings depends on how the order is implemented. A wailing her services as a publicist, came up with the idea of inviting the wall of missing children's photos is not going to get any of them press into our home while our family opened and read our found. Giving priority to children in mortal peril means the birthday cards to Jimmy. Don read: "In the great baseball game of pictures of children abducted by predators must be clearly life, son, you are a major league baseball player. I would not distinguished from other missing children by some color or word, trade you for anything." Jimmy wanted to be a major league such as "ENDANGERED." Also, because children abducted by baseball player. predators are in such imminent danger, these children's pictures That evening, we attended a silent prayer vigil at our church. must be posted within 24 hours. Jimmy's aunt watched all night hoping someone would "find" We discovered it would cost over half a million dollars in Jimmy and bring him home. postage to send Jimmy's pictures to each of the more than three Nobody came; she never got million homes in Florida alone. So we sent 25 color reward to open the gate. ... the pictures posters to every member of Congress in his or her local district Our publicist suggested we office and asked them to post them in heavily trafficked areas of show the anger and frustra- of children their communities. The Community Bank of Homestead picked tion we felt that our own up the more than $6,000 in postage. We timed the stuffing and government seemed to be abducted by addressing of these envelopes to coincide with televised com- working against us in locating ments about Jimmy's case by Florida Representative Peter our son. We had been told predators must Deutsch on the floor of the House. Reporters came to our house we could not post reward be clearly to take pictures of us watching his speech. posters in the Miami federal We appeared on several national talk shows, and each building, unless I was an distinguished ... national appearance resulted in renewed local interest. After employee. I had worked awhile, if the local media did not report anything about the case, there as senior litigator for by some color people would call and ask them what was going on. Many District Counsel to the reporters were personally affected by the story and themselves Internal Revenue Service, but or word, such as looked for new angles. They ran Jimmy's picture when they left in 1991. We also talked to other parents or children about their fears. discovered posters hung in "endangered." These Although we prepared press kits and faxed idea sheets to post offices had been thrown children's pictures various magazines, no one did an article while we were looking in the trash, after a memoran- for Jimmy. We joked, though I was more than ready if it would dum circulated saying the must get his picture out, that we should tell the National Enquirer we posting of pictures of missing believed he had been abducted by a flying saucer. children was not authorized. be posted Over the months we looked for our son, we unsuccessfully On September 27, the day pleaded with the national news networks to show Jimmy's following Jimmy's birthday, within 24 hours. Picture. Their excuse was that the kidnapping of a child is a local Don surprised the media by matter. Don and I do not believe it makes sense to show pictures blasting state and federal of children killed by their parents, who can no longer be helped, elected officials for their and refuse to run pictures of children in mortal peril who might apparent indifference. Only one elected official had written to us be recovered alive if enough people knew of their plight and even to express her concern. This change in our demeanor what they look like. generated a debate among the media as to whether elected The kidnapping of children is a national problem requiring a officials really should be expected to help find one child. national search. John Walsh and Bill Hagmaier have both told We prepared a petition asking the president to require the us the evidence shows that pedophiles who kill roam the country posting of pictures of our most endangered missing children in and kill again and again. Even the pedophiles who do not kill are federal buildings and federal parks. Volunteers set up tables at normally repeat offenders who destroy the innocence of their special events, such as auto races; eventually over a half million young victims. The FBI told us the radius of the search circle people signed the petitions. Most were enraged to find that must he extended at least 300 miles for every day a child is pictures of the most-wanted criminals could be posted in post missing. offices, but pictures of our most endangered children could not. The jurisdiction of the FBI must be extended to cover the In January 1996, President CIinton signed an executive kidnapping of our children by pedophiles. Nearly every time one memorandum not only requiring the posting of pictures of of the more than 1.5,000 police departments or 3,000 sheriff's missing children but also giving priority to pictures of children departments has a kidnapping, the unit comes to it cold, and in mortal peril. valuable time is lost trying to figure out what to do. If one law

Winter 1997 enforcement group hunted for these predators, we believe What you can do to more of our kidnapped If one law children would come home enforcement make your community alive and more predators would be caught. group hunted for safer for children: these predators,

ow i mportant we believe more • Convince school was the public- ity we worked so of our kidnapped predator drills are as hard to gener- children would important as fire H ate? drills. The lead that broke the case was come home alive called in by a Redlands woman who • Write songs or who found a bookbag in her and more design games to handyman 's trailer containing teach children to papers and books with Jimmy's predators recognize lures. name on them. If Jimmy's disappearance had just been a would be caught. three-day wonder in the local • Know which law enforcement agency pages, she and her son would has jurisdiction in never have remembered who your community Jimmy Ryce was. and keep the On December 9, 1995, her handyman, Juan Carlos Chaviz, number by the was charged with Jimmy's Murder. When he was arrested, the telephone. police told reporters Jimmy had been abducted at gun point and taken to a trailer, just two miles from his bus stop, where he was

• Use Neighborhood Watch and get to know your neighbors; sodomized and shot. Jimmy's dismembered body was found, look out for each other's children. encased in cement, in three containers near the trailer where Chaviz lived. When Jimmy was 5 years old, he asked me why God let a little • Convince law enforcement to bring a bloodhound to any missing-child call. boy burn up in a fire. The somewhat glib answer I gave was that

• Develop a rapid response plan for massive physical search. Martha, Claudine, Jimmy, and Don Ryce visit Parrot Jungle in Miami in August of 1995, just before Martha leaves for • JIMMY ASAP (Join In the Manhunt for Missing Youth, Chile. and Aid in Solving Abductions by Predators), by looking at abducted children's photos at http://www.iimmyasap.or g on the World Wide Web.

• Convince businesses to post pictures of children abducted by predators.

•Convince your local television networks to run JIMMY ASAP alerts.

• Call The Jimmy Ryce Center for Victims of Predatory Abduction (1-800-JIM-RYCE) for help.

• Campaign for longer mandatory sentences for violent crimes against children.

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maybe God wanted him to come home to him. Jimmy thought Recently, a little girl in marathon, about eight years old, came about it a moment and said, "What if the little boy wanted to up to me and said a man had tried to get her in his car, but she live with his family first?" Jimmy, too, had many things he knew what had happened to Jimmy. "So, I turned and ran like wanted to do before he died. Jimmy should have." Well-meaning people have told me that God had a purpose in Hearing that Jimmy's story possibly saved this child's life is as taking Jimmy, and that God will not give me more than I can near as it gets to getting a hug from Jimmy. bear. I believe God gave man free will. The man who killed Jimmy chose to do evil. God did not take Jimmy; God received him. He must be there to make complete the lives cut short. I know Jimmy, at some point in his humiliation and agony, Claudine Walker Ryce earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1964 from cried out: "Mama! Daddy! Help me!" We were not able to help Stetson, where she was a menber of Alpha Xi Delta. After earning a him. Don and I started The Jimmy Ryce Center for Victims of master's degree in English at the University of Florida, she taught in Predatory Abduction to help some boys and girls escape community college. She has written for both television and newspapers, pedophiles who prey on children. Not all parents are as able to and completed all course work toward her doctorate at UT. She earned a law generate publicity as we were, and no one suffering the anguish degree at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and worked as an Internal of losing a child should have to bear the additional stress of Revenue Service attorney for 12 years. In 1991, she resigned to help her needing to make their child's features and danger known. The attorney husband, Donald T. Ryce, in his practice, and spend more time Jimmy Ryce Center in Miami Beach (1-800-JIM RYCE) exists to with their children. She heads the non-profit Jimmy Ryce Center jor Victims of help parents. Predatory Abduction.

Alumnus harnesses technology to help find missing children

Don Iverson knows that missing children are hard to find. offices at 6707 Old Dominion Drive, Suite 200, McLean, Va. So the 1959 Stetson graduate and expert in computer 22101. MKI also maintains a toll-free number, 1-800-323- systems integration decided to bring the power of modern MISS. technology to bear on the problem. Founder of 11 computer MKI shows Missing Kids Alerts on national television in companies, including Iverson Technology, he now heads the order to help find missing children. It is a photo partner of the D'BRIT Corp. and Internet Catalogs Corp., with headquarters U.S. Dept. of Justice's National Center for Missing and in McLean, Va. Exploited Children. All sightings of children and their abduc- Two years ago, he founded Missing Kids International tors are reported directly (MKI) to use the latest techniques of television, telecommuni- to NCMEC, which cations, computer networking, and computer image database notifies the appropriate technology to increase the chances of finding missing children federal, state, and local through national searches. Serving on MKI's board of advisors law enforcement forces is longtime Stetson basketball coach Glenn Wilkes, for whom for follow up action. Iverson played while at Stetson. The only organization "Several things led me to start MKI," Iverson said. "I ran in the U.S. providing away when I was small, but I came back. And my daughter ran regular, national television away for a few days, too. I was fortunate; she was found by a profiles of missing great policeman. I've also spent many years coaching youth children, MKI takes no sports. government funds, relying "So I knew about the problem - one million children are solely on contributions; kidnapped or run away each year in the U.S. - and I was its goal is have its own looking for a way to help. Because of my background, I came dedicated TV network to up with this." profile children continuously. MKI stores profiles of children in advance on its National "We've been very successful," Iverson said. "In the six- Computer Registry, and supplies a photograph and personal month period beginning in March of `96, we profiled 143 profile to law enforcement agencies as soon as a child is children and located 41 of them. In addition, 12 abductors reported missing, so a search can begin immediately. It also were caught - in these cases, non-custodial parent abductors provides registered children's medical histories to hospitals with felony warrants against them." - Betty Brady when necessary. Parents can get registration forms through the World Wide Web (www.access.digex.net/-mki) or MKI's

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e rode The White Wonder with the football players, shared his home and TV with sports-mad youngsters, bused loads of young Hpeople to DeLand to experience Stetson University, and turned over his Sunday morning pulpit to green kids, all with no visible qualms. Above all he was always there, ready with unquestioning friend- ship, unwavering support, and wise counsel. This is how "John's Boys," a group of Stetson alumni from Palatka, Fla., think of the man they call their best friend, understanding mentor, and second father. If you ask the Rev. John Pelham about these accolades, he will smile his gentle, warm smile, and deny he did anything special. "All I did was open the door," he says, just like ministerial mentors and profes- sors at Stetson and Southern Baptist Seminary did for him. "Brother John is not just a friend in the good times. He doesn't leave you when your life falls apart," said Dr. John I Iewett, a '74 graduate in religious studies and now executive vice president, church division, of Cargill Associates, Fort Worth, Texas. "He isn't afraid of controversy. I remember when I was playing piano for a youth musical that sounded a lot like rock and roll. Some people walked out of churches where we performed. But John Pelham never wavered in his support for what the group was trying to do for young people. "Most people who know John wouldn't say he is a real creative guy. But he did stuff nobody else was doing, and made it seem as though everybody should be doing it." As a young minister, Pelham started a new church at Pompano Beach that experienced phenomenal growth. When he went to Palatka, he found a very different situation.

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OF EXCELLENCE by Jackie Kersh

"The church was just existing," he for an unpaid summer job with Pelham to always included me. He always treated me remembered. "I needed to find something experience what it was like to be a pastor. as though I were one of the gang. Even significant for us to do. I didn't know I "1 stopped at the church and Brother now, when 1 come hack to Stetson or to Could work with young people, but 1 John asked me to ride along with him to Palatka, I see him, and he is always found a wonderful the hospital in Gainesville. Before I could i nterested in catching; up with me. group at that ask him anything, he said, 'Vernon, I want "John is a person of great integrity and church so I started you to come work with toe. this summer.' 1 deep faith in God. It is nice to know inviting other got paid, too! At end of the summer, I somebody like that, somebody who is young people. I did knew 1 was supposed to go into the always accepting of you." some things not ministry. In a real sense, John Pelham is The Stetson Connection was one of knowing hem or if I my spiritual mentor, my second father. Pelham's greatest gifts to his young people should, like riding Whenever I have a major decision to and to his alma mater. the bus with the make, I talk to him. There are still days "Except for John, neither I nor my wife, kids to football when I ask John if he's sure this is what June Warrin, '75), would have considered Stetson, because of the cost," Hewett said. games to get to John Pelham I'm supposed to be doing!" "He made it all happen. know them better is my spiritual "John Pelham took some incredible said. "He opened his "About five of its guys went through and because their mentor, risks for us," Hewett e is high school together in Palatka. One day parents felt easier my second pulpit to us, and we were so green! H he gives you the Brother John got us out of school, put us with me along. I father. the world's best affirmer; in his car, and drove us to DeLand to see - have a lot of good Harkey great gift of encouragement." memories of that Harkey remembers One of those risky Stetson and meet the professors. We old broken-down times. Pelham was detained on a mission thought we must be pretty important for bus. They called it trip that summer when Harkey was him to do that. I The White Wonder because it was "helping out." He called on Saturday and had already painted white, and we wondered every told Harkey to take the two Sunday accepted a scholar- trip if it would stake it back!" services. ship at the Univer- "I first met him when 1 was 10 years "I had never preached before, and I was sity of Florida. old," said Dr. Vernon Harkey ('75), pastor scared stiff," Harkey said. "I spent all night Then John told me of First Baptist Church in DeFuniak reading books that probably didn't help a Stetson would Springs, Fla. "First Baptist in Palatka was bit. But I did it'." waive tuition for doing a community survey and I wanted "I tried to put them in places where ministerial stu- to help, but nobody wanted to team up they could be involved, to actually do dents." with a kid - except John. I can still ministry," Pelham said. "The church loved Harkey says he remember h ow important I felt to be it and so did they." "never knew there going with the pastor. At one time, Hewett remembered, was any other "I have so much to thank John for: my there were 15 to 19 students from First school." "Brother John life's work, his friendship; I even met my Baptist Palatka at Stetson and then John is a person of great integrity and and deep faith pulled us out of wife Rebecca in the church youth group," Southem Seminary. "John Pelham was in God. school, piled 40 or Harkey said. "So many young people, not instrumental in our being there and he -Strickland j ust ministers, were influenced by him in ahvays kept in touch, taking us out to 50 of us in the the youth program or at Stetson." dinner in DeLand and in Louisville." church bus, and I Harkey was a pre-teed student at The Rev. Randy J. Strickland ('75), took us to Stetson Stetson, but his medical school entry pastor of First Methodist Church in for the day. We exam scores were disappointing. So he Titusville, Fla., said it didn't matter if you wandered through the buildings, sat in earned a master's in education at Stetson weren't in Pelham's church. on classes, talked to professors. I had and became a teacher. But something was "When I was at Stetson, Dr. Pelham looked at a chemistry lab at UF; but it was missing. So he hesitantly decided to ask would conic to visit 'his boys,' and he longer than a football field and there

Winter P97 9 were no professors, just grad assistants. THE JOHN L. PELHAM LEGACY CONTINUES... "At Stetson, the lab was the size of my high school's, but with all the equipment I For more than 40 years, Stetson education process," President Doug Lee could want. All the teachers had a Ph.D., University alumnus, administrator, and said. "He has meant more to us, and to and there was personal interaction with former trustee John Pelham has been the many young people he has them. The quality was there, and it was all matching students, many of them now mentored, than we can ever repay. We accessible. I have only one regret: that I ministers, with his alma mater. As he are delighted that his work will continue didn't decide to go into the ministry right prepares to retire this year from his through these scholarships." out of high school. Tuition was waived for church relations position at Stetson, he Pelham enrolled at the university in ministerial students, but my parents paid is helping establish a scholarship 1946, graduating with a bachelor of arts all the costs. They say they never regret- program to ensure the matchmaking degree in 1950. After seminary and ted doing it; they provided me with the continues. pastorates in DeLand, Fort Lauderdale, best, and trusted me to figure out what to The John L. Pelham Ministerial and Pompano Beach, Pelham and his do with it." Scholarship Fund will provide financial wife, Judy, found a home in Palatka, "Because of the experiences I had had, I assistance at Stetson University for where he was pastor of First Baptist could tell them, students in ministerial education Church for more than 22 years. `This is what courses or who are dependents of Elected to the Stetson Board of happened to me, pastors. The Rev. Dr. Terry Rhodes of Trustees in 1975, Pelham was named and I can help Jacksonville, an alumnus, trustee, and chair in 1977. He currently serves as open the door," chair of Stetson's Religious Life assistant secretary to the board. Stetson Pelham explained. Council, is heading a two-year cam- chose him for the Minister of the Year, "I would fill up a paign to raise $50,000 to endow the Alumni Distinguished Service, and bus, call Gary scholarships. Serving as co-chair is the Doyle E. Carlton awards, and awarded Meadows (then Rev. Charles T Rabun, Jr., president of him an honorary doctorate. He served dean of admissions the Stetson Ministerial Alumni the Southern Baptist and Florida Baptist and now alumni Association and an associate pastor at Conventions as president of the FBC director), and he John taught me the little Pelham's former church, First Baptist, and as a member of several boards. He would meet us and things that matter Palatka. Pelham has begun the fund co-chaired the Florida Baptist Churches provide lunch, so much. drive with a $10,000 pledge. division of the Stetson $50 Million then turn the kids - Hewett "John Pelham's life exemplifies Campaign, which raised funds to endow loose on campus. Stetson's historic commitments to the O. Lafayette Walker Chair of Some came just to educational excellence and to faith and Christian Studies. get out of class - we had a very support- ethics as integral components of the ive principal. The campus visit would do it for them, and then they would sell others. Some of the finest students Stetson has had were from Palatka. "At Stetson I found such closeness, such a family atmosphere," Pelham said of beneath them. He modeled the ministry where you could just feel it bounce off his student days. "There were professors I as a high calling, challenging and exciting Flagler I lall. Oh, what a man! Then he could relate to, who heard what I was and worthy of the best; he modeled said, `I want you to learn to do that.' I saying and who really talked to me. I still excellence." was so embarrassed the first time he put can't believe how much individual time Little things are important to Pelham. his arms around my waist to help me use they gave me when the school was so He remembers what Dr. Irving Stover, my diaphragm. But in a few minutes I crowded. There were more than 1600 of legendary Stetson drama teacher, did for could feel something. The boys used to us veterans there in '46." him. kid about them not having `the voice of "John taught me the little things that "I had a real Alabama accent," Pelham God'; that's what they used to call mine. matter so much," Hewett said. "On his said. "Dr. Stover said I shouldn't try to "That's what I got at Stetson. That's way to a funeral, he would say, `Come lose it, but that I needed to do something what I wanted to pass on." with me so you can see what to do.' He with it, accentuate it. He stayed after class taught me how to dress, how to sit and and showed me how an old stand before a congregation, how to talk Shakespearean actor could project his to people without seeming above or voice across Woodland Boulevard to

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GRANDFATHER' BRINGS STUDENT TO STETSON

by Jackie Kersh

thought about other universities, but when I compared them to Stetson, this was where I wanted to be," says Stetson junior Joseph Crain III, a son of missionaries who hopes to coach volleyball and I teach youngsters like himself at the mission school he attended in the Philippines. He is at Stetson largely because of the man he calls "my grandfather figure," the Rev. John Pelham. All that stood between Crain and Stetson was money. His family had put money in a college fund, but not enough for a private university. "God took care of that, with a lot of help from John Pelham," Crain said. "Even before I transferred to Stetson, Dr. Pelham recom- mended me for a youth pastor's position at First Baptist, Tuscawilla (near Orlando)," Crain explained. "That contact was the key to my life at Stetson; it provides my income. Dr. Pelham knew I was looking for a place to minister and that I love working with kids. It is the best kind of experience." C rain said Pelham also raised several thousand dollars in grants for him "and he twisted the arm of Financial Aid to make up the difference. It was so funny listening to him arguing with Jack Agett (director of student financial planning)." Crain is one of three students living in Wheeler House, a residence for ministerial students, which he describes as "just great." Students there are much more accountable than in the residence halls, he believes, "because we make our own rules." "He (Pelham) really cares about the Wheeler House guys," A retirement dinner honoring John and Judy Pelham is Crane said. "He doesn't push himself, but he always wants to scheduled March 17, 1997, at Stetson. Vice President know if we are okay or if we need something. It helps just to for Campus Life James Beasley heads the planning have a grandfather figure like him, to draw on his experience. committee. tie's such a gong-ho, sincere person." Contributions to the John L. Pelham Ministerial "The scholarship fund (John L. Pelham Ministerial Scholar- Scholarship Fund may be sent to Stetson University, ship Fund) is to make sure others can have the kind of experi- 421 N. Woodland Blvd., Unit 8286, DeLand, FL 32720- ence Joey is having at Stetson," Pelham said. "He's a fine young 3756. Checks should be made payable to Stetson man who wanted to come to Stetson and get his degree so he University, with a notation that it is for the Pelham could help others. I just encouraged him to apply and helped a Scholarship Fund. hit with money." For further information about the dinner or scholarship fund, contact Susan Anderson, director of major gifts, at (904) 822-7460.

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HEN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY member on campus. I knew that it would not be easy, and it Leonard Nance first came to Stetson in 1989, wasn't - the first three years were extremely difficult. But I was he just wanted to make a difference. Little did committed." he realize he would he named the 1996 Nance felt that it was his responsibility as an African- McEniry Award winner. American at a predominantly white institution to demonstrate WNance describes winning the campus' most prestigious that there are competent and diverse individuals who are able to teaching honor as a shock. "It was so surprising to me," he said. do stellar jobs. "It wasn't until I actually heard my name that it dawned on the "I am not saying that I am that person," Nance laughed. "I they were really talking about me. I kept listening to the descrip- Could have gone to a predominantly black institution. I deliber- tion and thought to myself. `I didn't realize that there was ately chose Stetson because I felt it was important for African- someone else on the faculty who also did that, or who went American students, and especially for white students, to have there!' I was convinced that they were not talking about me. interaction with someone who is different - to be able to see "Receiving The McEniry Award validated a lot of the that we really are all the same." decisions that I made about my life, and about why I am here. I Named university advisor on diversity, Nance feels that is the am totally committed to students and more committed to being best way to bring about change and to help institute the inclu- a good teacher." siveness that the administration wants to occur. "The typical He decided early on that, if he taught, he would be the kind white student at Stetson often comes from an experience that of teacher who really listens to doesn't include a lot of Photo by Chris Carlson students. "I know I sometimes interaction with a diverse overdo it, but I am constantly group. This is also true of saying things like `can you give African-American students. It me examples' or 'l can't read is an adjustment." your faces,' to keep the on task. He points to significant I have to make the material changes. "Primarily, I've clear and interesting. That is noticed a difference in the my approach." attitudes on the faculty and Nance remembers his first student level - they are more visit to campus. "One reason I positive. I have never ques- chose to come to Stetson was tioned the commitment of my hope of positive change, of Stetson's top administrators, recognizing that things were but the message was being lost not as I would like for them to as it began to filter down. It he at an institution like wasn't actually played out in Stetson. The moment I everyday activities that we saw stepped on campus I fell in across campus. As the top love with the place - I fell in administrators have continued love with the students. They to stress the value of diversity, are what keep me here." as a goal of how to define the President Doug Lee and institution, it has begun to former Provost Lou Brakeman take root." discussed with Nance their vision of the university, and key issues like inclusiveness ance holds a and diversity. They convinced him that Stetson was willing doctorate in sociology from to take the necessary steps. the University of "I realized it would be a Virginia. personal struggle for me at that NIn his doctoral thesis, The time because I would be the Role of Perceived Choice in Life only African-American faculty Satisfaction and the Attitudes of

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Blacks Toward Abortion, he on that would he legitimate. tried to develop a theoretical When you factor in other perspective that would provide kinds of problems, the cases some insight as to why become a lot less clear. That is perceptions and behavior are what I am struggling with, how often very different. to decide which direction to "When you look at survey take." data comparing the attitudes Nance is optimistic that on abortions of African- change can occur. Americans and whites, you His work with the homeless find African-Americans tend ties into two of his sociology to be more closed to abortion. classes. Students are pursuing But if you look at actual field work at a local shelter, behavior, the data indicates _ two have had internships, and that African-Americans are as likely or slightly more likely to several have expressed interest in doing their senior research have abortions. I found that discrepancy, between perceived and thesis on that issue. actual behavior, interesting," Nance said. Nance also counsels two student groups on campus: the Nance theorized that two factors, perception of choice and life African-American Student Association and a nontraditional satisfaction, were key indicators. "One of the things we have to student honorary, Omicron Psi. "AASA continues to he active. acknowledge is that abortion has become a political issue. For For the most part, their experience on campus has been positive. whites, generally speaking, the issue of abortion is about mother- That is not to say that there have not been problems; there will hood'and the role of women in society. Those who believe in the always be problems. The real key is how the institution responds sanctity of motherhood and want to maintain those values are when those problems occur," he said. often opposed to abortion. Younger women who are career- "We are nowhere near where we need to be. I would like to see oriented or who have a different definition of motherhood are us increase both minority faculty and students on campus, and more likely to be for abortion. especially administrators. That is a key area where we need to "When you translate that across race lines, comparing have greater diversity. Decision-makers, those who are defining African-American women with white women, you find it makes the course of the university, must represent a wide variety of sense politically for the latter to take those positions because both ethnic and gender diversity," he said. their perception of the amount of control they have over their "I see my role to help point that out - so we never lose sight own lives is different. Many African-American women are not so of the fact that the world is more diverse than it ever has been, sure that taking a political stand is in their best interest." and will become even more diverse. If our students are to be This question, why it seems that individuals accept a defini- successful, they will need the skills to operate in a such an tion of themselves within their social group that ultimately is not environment. For the university not to reflect that diversity is to in their best interest, has been a lifelong preoccupation. It has do the students a disservice. sparked another of Nance's interests: Studying the homeless. "I "Diversity is not only a responsibility, it is a mandate - it is a look at factors like alienation," Nance said. "Why is it that reality. For us to be successful as teachers and as members of people believe they cause the problems that confront them and society, we have to face reality. Just think of all the positive to what extent do the homeless blame themselves for their effects of bringing in new and different viewpoints or groups." condition?" Nance feels he is a better teacher today because his students Nance explored this issue during a recent sabbatical. "Societal help keep him grounded. "Whether we discuss diversity or wisdom and stereotypical behavior suggest that some of the homeless issues, I try to impress upon my students how to deal reasons people are homeless are that they have not sacrificed with theoretical problems in the textbook, but recognize that enough, or that they are lazy. I wonder to what extent the those theoretical problems have practical implications, too. It's homeless buy into that. Does the way they live out their lives our responsibility to figure out not only what those problems are reflect that stereotype? What would it take, if it does, to begin to and why they continue to persist, but also what it is going to take change that concept?" to help alleviate them. He has uncovered a complex issue. "The literature indicates "What does it take to make them aware that people seem to there is no one answer or factor to explain why the homeless accept definitions that are not in their best interest? How do we exist. Some are there because of circumstances or changes in begin to change that so they have control over their life experi- industry, and because they do not have the requisite skills to ences and help make things better?" Nance ponders. make a transition. They find themselves without jobs. A large "I tell my classes that I remain hopeful that it is possible to proportion of others, however, also has a substance abuse effect meaningful changes within society. That is what I want problem. That complicates the picture. That group is more them to be able to take away from class - not just the difficult to explain," Nance said. information of the discipline, but how you use that to snake a "If we are looking at individuals who don't have jobs and who difference." could be helped in some way by upgrading their skills, focusing

Winter 1997 13 ` GIVE STETSON TO A STUDENT'

programs go beyond the basics that any ive Stetson University to a university can provide. Such extras as the student. That's the invitation George Investments Program, the Prince Stetson is sending its Entrepreneurial Program, the Hollis alumni and friends this Leadership Development Program, the G Religion and Ethics Program, the Institute year, with its decision to put all annual fund gifts into student financial assistance. for Christian Ethics, and the Howard The annual fund goal is $2 million, Thurman Program add a unique dimen- an increase of $500,000 over last sion. Our students have life-changing year. opportunities, and we believe our alumni "We are focusing all our energies and friends will want to help us see that on this," said Vice President for no qualified student has to pass up these University Relations Mark opportunities for a lesser experience. Whittaker. "We don't want to see "Stetson is able to attract academically good students unable to come to talented students. Nearly 40 percent of Stetson for financial reasons. Our our first-year students this year graduated tuition is far lower than most in the top 10 percent of their high-school institutions of our quality, but for class, and the mean SAT score for this many students a gap remains, and year's class was 1114, over 200 points we need additional donor funding above the mean for Florida students and for scholarships in order to hold the 100 points above the national mean. Our line on tuition. scholarship program includes merit Mark Whittaker "Stetson students aren't rich," he scholarships, so that we can continue to said. "More than 60 percent of our enroll top students. Students learn from students qualified for need-based aid last one another, and it is as important to have year, and 20 percent of them had such good students as it is to have good large needs that they received federal Pell professors. Grants. About 85 percent of our students "We are grateful for every annual fund received some money from Stetson, gift, because each dollar we raise has a either merit or need-based aid - and positive impact on student financial they still have to borrow. During the assistance. A new program of named 1995-96 academic year, Stetson students scholarships has also been created, to link collectively borrowed more than $6.8 donors with the students they are helping million. They're also working in addition to educate. Stetson is known for its to studying; more than 850 of our 2,000 personal relationships, its family-feeling. Students had on-campus jobs last year, and "For each four-year commitment of others worked off-campus. $5,000 annually, donors will be able to "So the problem is real; the need is real. follow their scholarship recipient through "The value we provide is also real. Our his or her Stetson career - and perhaps student-to-faculty ratio of 11 to 1 is beyond, just as professors often do. unusually low, and results in close interac- Likewise, donors who commit $25,000 tion between students and professors, each year for four years will provide which is one of Stetson's hallmarks. scholarships for five students annually. Thanks to our successful Kresge Science Students will have the opportunity to Initiative Campaign, our science labs offer network with donors in addition to the best to our students, and are used by receiving financial assistance from them. undergraduates, unlike labs at larger We see this program as a win/win situa- schools. We also are in a $9.5 million, tion for both. largely alumni-funded, building program "We're very excited about the to enlarge our library, add classroom and opportunities this new concept provides, physiology lab space, and improve for our students as well as for our donors," recreational facilities. Whittaker said. "A Stetson education is a quality "Give Stetson to a student; you may education," Whittaker continued. "Our change a life."

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TIM DAVID AND LEIGHAN RINKER SCHOLARS are RINKERS MAKE chosen on the basis of strong religious commitment and leadership in churches and other religious organi- UNIVERSITY BETTER zations. "By offering scholarships, we can affect the quality of the student body," said David Rinker of THROUGH STUDENTS Atlantis, a Stetson trustee. "It's not just giving money to the university; it's giving students. It's a wonderful opportunity- to give, affect the lives of young people, and make the university a better place." The Rinker involvement in Stetson is a family affair. David Rinker's father, the late M.E. Rinker, Sr., was a Leighan and David Rinker trustee for 30 years and contributed generously to the university; and David and Leighan Rinker son David and his wife Janice, both 1991 graduates, suggested the Rinker scholarships. Also Stetson alumni, David and Leighan Rinker are involved in real estate and investments. He chairs the M.E. Rinker, Sr., Foundation of West Palm Beach and directs the Experiential Education Program at Lake Worth Christian School. She founded and chairs Beginnings of Palm Beach County, a preschool facility. Both are pursuing doctorates in education at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.

Stetson's atmosphere is geared toward academics and success'

first-year student Katy Johnson of LIP in the Miss Florida Teen USA contest. Delray Beach loves Stetson: She met Ludecke at the age of 12, "The small classes, the nice competing in her first pageant. "She's teachers, the atmosphere, been my role model ever since." Chaudoin Hall. I'm so thankful to At Stetson, she pledged Delta Delta Fthe Rinkers for my scholarship; I probably Delta sorority, and serves as its representa- wouldn't have been able to experience all tive to junior Panhellenic, a service this without them." organization. She also represents the She had planned to go to Florida State Surf Club in the Student Government University, but a friend, Kristin Ludecke, Association. "I'm just learning to surf," who graduated from Stetson in 1996, she laughs. Other interests include karate, helped change her mind. "After a lung theater, and singing. phone conversation with her, I decided to "I've signed LIP for two voice classes come for SOAR, and fell in love with next semester," said the soprano. "I plan Stetson. It's geared toward academics and to enter the Miss Florida pageant this success in life. That's the kind of summer, using `Glitter and Be Gay' from atmosphere I wanted. I got to Candide." register with real people instead Her goal is broadcast journalism, but of machines. The students here she wants to bring a law degree to it; she a re of high caliber; they- are plans a double major in communications here for a purpose. It's very studies and pre-law, and hopes to go on to motivating. Even sorority life Stetson's law school. During her sopho- here is not just partying. more year in high school she was an They Put a huge emphasis anchorwoman on KID'S TV "I loved it," on grades, study, she said, "and I'd like to get an internship community service." at a television station here." Close to both Ludecke, She graduated from Westminster who was Miss Florida Academy, a Presbyterian school in Fort 1995, and Megan Welch, Lauderdale, where she "did everything," Miss Florida 1994, who from varsity cheerleader to making the also attended Stetson, honor roll. But closest to her heart is the Johnson currently holds organization she co-founded in high the Florida Homecoming school, Say Nay Today, which promotes Queen and Miss Florida Teen sexual abstinence among teens. "That will World titles. She was first runner- be my platform in the Miss Florida competition." Photo by Danielle Laprime

Winter 1997 15 THE MASSEY SERVICES SCHOLARSHIPS, given by MASSEYS BELIEVE IN Harvey and Carol Massev of Winter Park, go to Stetson business and music students with financial QUALITY EDUCATION, need, with preference to those who show social responsibility-. "I believe very strongly in quality - SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY education," said Harvey Massev, a new Stetson trustee. "The niche that Stetson fills is very important, and I realize that not all Stetson students are well-off. I believe education is the means to compete in a global economy, and that it can help solve our social ills." Married for 33 years, the Masseys built Massey Services Inc. from a small, Orlando-based pest control company- into the largest independently owned and operated pest prevention and lawn care company in Florida, with centers throughout the state. A supporter of junior Achievement, he also serves as a mentor to area college students. In 1994, he received the Leukemia Society's Service to Mankind Award.

`The Roland George Program will give me a competitive edge'

unior transfer student Jennifer Lay "He encouraged me to come here, and of Port Orange is paying for her own the scholarship made it possible," she said. education, which she says keeps her "I'm so excited about the Roland focused and makes her especially George Program. I can't wait till I'm a grateful for her Massev Services senior and can take it. It will give me a Scholarship. competitive edge, with practical experi- Born in Orlando, she graduated from ence in managing a portfolio and buying Lake Brantley I ligh School, and went stocks and bonds. " on to Daytona Beach Community My goal is to be a stockbroker, and one College because she got a full day to be CFO (chief financial officer) of scholarship there. a corporation," said the finance major. "I did well," she said, While at DBCC she worked for "graduating with a 3.7 average, MacAcademv in Ormond Beach, which while working full-time. I sells computer training videos, designing was planning to transfer to their catalogs and fliers. "It was a good a state school, but then a job; I learned a lot, and I'll probably work DBCC counselor who for them again in the summer. But for now graduated from I've given it LIP; I have no time for Stetson (Steve anything but studying." Coleman, BA She's enjoying her five Stetson classes 1989) told me - all in the business school - and hopes about to become involved in Stetson's business Stetson's student organizations once she settles in. Roland She has always kept busy; in high school George she worked in her church's community Invest- services department . ments "I'll be the first one in my entire family Program, to graduate from a four-year college," she which said. "Then I plan to look for a job as a allows stockbroker in Boston, and hope that my students to employer will send me to Harvard invest real University for my master's degree in money. business administration."

1 6 Winter 1997 Volume XXII No. 2 Calling all alumni: Are you ready for Stetson Weekend? his year's big alumni event on the new ambiance in the atrium of the DeLand campus - Stetson Feb. 21-23: duPont-Ball Library. Plus, the new Hollis TWeekend, Feb. 21-23 -is nearly Center is under construction between here. Committees for the classes of '4 7,'52, Hard Hats Required... Griffith Hall and the swimming pool; and '77,'62,'67,'72,'77,'82,'87,'92 have been the new Wilson Center is going up west of busy organizing Reunion events for months, administration major from Sebastian, the Edmunds Center. but remember that Stetson Weekend isn't include student skits, pre-game tailgate Stetson is busy Building Opportunities just for the Reunion classes. parties, and a 1940s-theme alumni-student for Students this year; come be part of it. "Stetson Weekend is new, and it's for dance at a DeLand Airport hangar. everyone, combining the best aspects of There will also be class dinners; a golf Homecoming and Reunion. So plan to tourney and barbeque; alumni baseball, come even if you're not in a Reunion year; soccer, and volleyball games; receptions; a there will still be lots to do," said Gary pep rally and basketball game; plus music Meadows, executive director of the alumni and more. association. In keeping with the construction theme Special events planned by co-hostesses of the weekend, "Hard Hats Required," Davina Yetter, a senior communications you'll get to see the newly-completed studies major from DeLand, and Jerra Mandy Stoll Tennis Center near Hollis Fortner, a sophomore business Intramural Field, and you can check out the Library catalog on information superhighway

tetson's library collection is now user's e-mail address. The system also lets accessible through the World Wide users know if an item is already checked out. Web, so off-campus users, including The staff has had a big job bar-coding the Salumni, have access to its catalog. Students library's collection of 2 50,000 books in order have access from their residence hall and lab to automate circulation, Kline said. computers; faculty, staff, and alumni have The Unicorn system is the latest in accerss from their office and home many changes at thelibrary. The first phase computers. of a three-phase, $4 million expansion was The new, state-of-the-art Unicorn completed this fall. Book stacks that had Collection Management System integrates stood for many years in the central atrium the library catalog with circulation, were moved to make way for new computer reserves, periodicals and acquisitions, said workstations. The area was rewired, new Library Director Sims Kline carpet was laid and new furniture for service The systems administration team desks and a comfortable reading area for implementing the automation system periodicals and new books were added. Corky, '46, and George, '49, Dannals o f included Betty Drees Johnson, '59, The library's second phase of renovation DeLand enjoyed the annual chili supper at associate director for technical services; and expansion calls for a north wing Alumni House before the Yule Log David Everett, associate director for public addition of around 13,400 square feet, Lighting at Hulley Tower. (Photo/Kathy services; and Debbi Dinkins, technical additional seats for both individual and Burley) services librarian. group study and additional stack space. The fully-integrated Unicorn system The third phase will include complete Cruising the web? Don't allows users to find information on books, replacement of the heating and air periodicals and other media through conditioning system, improved access for forget to check out searches by author, title, subject and people with disabilities and internal Stetson's home page at keyword. Information on the item found can rearrangement of some book stacks, work www.stetson.edu. be printed, downloaded, ore-mailed to the areas and offices. Campus•News

Alumna takes Founder's Day honors Reference Librarian Jane Turner Bradford, '68, left, won `most original' honors at the Edward Furlong, '38, and wife Charlotte Nov. 6 Founder's Day luncheon for faculty " Peaches" celebrated their 54th wedding and staff, saying her hat, made of book ends anniversary on July 27, 1996. and scarves, was designed for people who do Bill Whitaker, '51, to Patti Staub, Nov. 15, not sew....Amy Ammon of Facilities 1 995. Management, right, won the `most Founder's Tina Louise Raleigh, '91, to Scott Christian Day hat' award for her version of Hulley Lerro, '93, Nov. 9, 1996. Tower, which she said she made within her William Clay Shackelford, '91, to Tricia budget -- 43 cents. Pellegrini, April 27, 1996. Brady Evanda Sweet, '92, to Lisa Mincey, July Alumni Relations Executive 7, 1995. Secretary Jackie Hays, left, Tara Hill Thomson, '92, to Jim Sequine, '87, shows off her mini-Stetson Aug. 3, 1996. Lara Klund, '93, to Bradley Wheeler, '94, hat as she talks with retiree Nov. 23, 1996. Bill Dreggors who often Beth Wactlar, '93, to Thomas A. Koller, Jr., visits Stetson in the persona Nov. 16, 1996. of Henry DeLand. Alumnus Jean Renee Johnson, '94, to Anthony Tom Horton, '49, right, a Sherlock, July 20, 1996. retiree working in Career Eric Owen Remington, '94 to Kymbrough Services this year, showed Leigh Zurstadt, Nov. 9, 1996. up in a special hat of Lisa Michelle Katt, '95, to Joseph Allen (Photos/Betty Brady) undetermined purpose. Watson, June 16, 1996. Cija Marie Novak, '95, to Richard John Werblo, Aug. 10, 1996. Sven L. Smith, '96, to Yovannie Noelle Want to change jobs? Try professor's Web site Rodriguez, Aug. 3, 1996. arketing professor Randall Hansen which they can post resumes on-line at low has compiled a World Wide Web ornocost, network with professionals in Msite that enables students-and their fields, and search on-line job listings. other joh-seekers-to market themselves "The Quintessential Guide offers one- using the internet. The Quintessential stop shopping for job-seekers," said Hansen. New Hatters Career and Job-Hunting Resources Guide, "It doesn't just provide links to other found at http://www.stetson.edu/-hansen/ resources; it provides helpful editorial Joyce Kenfield Curvin,'81, and husband careers.html on the Web, provides more content and links to even more invaluable Chris, a son William Kenfield, Nov. 29, 1995. than 100 listings and links to resources that information for j ob-seekers." James M. Dinsmore, '81, and wife Kathryn, a can help job-seekers, including alumni, find The frequently updated site is also the son Robert Christian, Aug. 28, 1996. employment. only one to provide a comprehensive Deborah C. Corrigan, '87, and husband Brad, The site not only provides information bibliography of career-related print a daughter Emily Caroline, March 4, 1995. about traditional job search techniques, such resources, said Hansen, adding that he Mary Sages Haluch, '88, and husband David, a daughter Andrea Marie, May 31, 1996. as resumes, cover letters and interviews, but compiled the site after seeing his students Brady Evanda Sweet, '92, and wife Lisa also directs job-hunters to numerous sites at struggle with job searches. Mincey, a daughter Taylor Lauren, June 5, 1993, and a son Brady, Feb. 14, 1996. Derrick Bell, Stokely Carmichael to visit Eric Owen Remington, '94, and wife Kymbrough Leigh, a daughter Jordan The 1997 Howard Thurman Lecture Series, Gospel Choirs, to follow. Leighann, Sept. 7, 1996. sponsored by Stetson's Howard Thurman On Thursday, Feb. 27, civil rights Program, a joint undertaking with New activist Stokely Carmichael, former chairof Birth Corp. of Daytona Beach, continues in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating February with talks by two prominent Committee (SNCC) will speak and answer Broward alumni Ian African American writers and activists. All questions at 4 p.m. in the Stetson Room of evening with Dali events are open to interested alumni. the CUB, followed by a book signing and an On Feb. 13-14, attorney Derrick Bell, informal reception. Alumni in Broward County will get activist, writer, and professor at New York January speakers in the series were together on Tuesday, Feb. 11, to view University Law School will be on campus theologian/educator Samuel DeWitt the Salvador Dali exhibit at the Fort He will meet informally for dialogue with Proctor, author of The Substance of Things Lauderdale Museum of Art, followed interested faculty and staff members at 7 Hoped For: A Memoir of African-American by a reception at the Chart House. p. in. Thursday, Feb. 13, in the Faculty Faith; and former U.S.Congressman Hosting the event are Fort Lauderdale Lounge on the first floor of the Carlton Walter Fauntroy (District of Columbia), a District Co-chairs Leslie Adams Union Building, and will speak at noon on former chair of the board of directors of the Bell,'74, and Kathy Craven, '75. Cost Friday, Feb. 14, in the Stetson Room of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. is $10 per person. CUB, with a book signing for his new book,

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Alumni •News Send news to Jackie Hays, Alumni Relations, 1966 solicitation. Stetson University, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., Sue Orrell, Houston, Texas, graduated from Unit 8257, DeLand, FL 32720-3781. the University of Houston in Dec., 1996, with 1973 1908 a Ed.D. degree in Curriculum and Instruction W. Henry Bryant III celebrated his tenth Rosamond James McCuskey, Stuttgart, with a major in music education. Her anniversary as owner of Bryant Art Alaska, celebrated her 109th birthday on dissertation topic was "Grace C. Nash in Direction, an advertising and graphic Nov. 4, 1996. Music Education in the United States from design firm. He is currently designing 1960-1990 and I -let Influence Upon Members corporate identity materials for Premier 1943 of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association Bank, located in suburban Atlanta. Dorothy Jennings Sandridge, Orange Park, in the States of Arizona and Colorado." Elizabeth Minkley Jarrard, Zirconia, N.C., represents the third generation of her family to has a new position as a financial consultant be elected to Stetson University's Board of 1967 at Merrill Lynch. Trustees -- on Sept. 20, 1996. James Byron Gibson, Ormond Beach, has been re-elected Public Defender for the 7th 1974 1947 judicial Circuit. Michael R. Fronk, Lake Mary, is president of James Frederick Fish, Memphis, Tenn., Fronk-Hartman and Associates Inc., of Winter continues to write a column of memories 1968 Park, a national advance planning marketing entitled, "Sand in my Shoes" for the Dwight Morrow, DeLand, is selling his 1967 company, specializing in funeral home Daytona Beach News-Journal.. If you have Mercury Cornet automobile after 30 years, marketing. memories you would like to share, you may about 212 oil changes, and more than 636,671 write to him in care of the Alumni Office. miles -- and plans to buy a new car. 1978 Freddye Clay Moore, Daytona Beach, was re- 1950 1969 elected to the Volusia County Council, John Lee Pelham, DeLand, director of church Jane Gilbart Dallager, Yigo, Guam, was District 3. relations at Stetson University, was honored honored with her husband Major General with the establishment of the new John L. John R. Dallager with "The General and Mrs. 1979 Pelham Ministerial Scholarships at the Jerome F. O'Malley Award for 1996," for Henry "Hank" J. Langknecht, Etobicoke, university. Stetson's Religious Life Council meritorious service to the nation and the U.S. Ontario, has enrolled in a doctoral program in (reconstituted from the former Church Air Force while he served as commander of homiletics at the Toronto School of Theology Relations Council) is assisting with the the 52nd Fighter Wing, Spangdahlem Air and accepted a teaching position at Trinity Scholarship Fund Campaign. Base, Germany, from January-December, Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. Kee 1995. In addition to his military Fortes Strong, Brooklyn, N.Y., teaches 1956 leadership, they were cited for exerting drama in a Brooklyn middle school, and Alvin E. Smith, Ormond Beach, has been leadership as a military couple. She was recently directed "A Christmas Carol." appointed by the Speaker of the Florida House active in various charitable enterprises and to serve on the task force working to separate in the Deutsch-Amerikanischer 1980 and reorganize the Department of Children Frauenklub, a women's club encouraging Shirla Pinder Langknecht, Etobicoke, and Family Services (formerly the Dept. of understanding between Germans and Ontario, works for Hudson Bay stores. John Health and Rehabilitative Services). The task Americans. Evelyn Grimm Lynn, Ormond H. Pelzer, recently received an AV rating force is developing a plan for how the local Beach, has been re-elected State from the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, organizations will be structured. Representative for District 27 in the Florida signifying that an attorney's legal abilities are House of Representatives. David E. of the highest standard and that his ethics and 1957 Sumner, Muncie, Ind., has written a conduct are above question. At Ruden, John A. Morgan, Jr., Springfield, Va., is now reference book entitled Graduate Programs McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell, P.A., Professor Emeritus of Political Science and in Journalism and Mass Communications. He was notified of his selection for the he concentrates his practice in litigation, Public Affairs at The George Washington particularly appellate work, administrative University. Tom Weightman, Dade City, 1997-98 edition of Marquis' Who's Who in litigation and ad valorem taxation. He is retired as Pasco school superintendent Aug. the Midwest. board certified by The Florida Bar as a 31, after 22 years at the helm of Pasco schools. specialist in appellate practice. 1970 1958 William E. Mathewson, West Lawn, Pa., 1981 Billy G. Crayton, Kansas City, Mo., has has retired after teaching in the Wilson James M. Dinsmore, Tampa, is a personal earned inclusion in Marquis' Who's Who in School District for 33 years where he was a financial advisor at American Express Medicine and Healthcare 1997-1998. guidance counselor and former director of Financial Advisors in Tampa. the hand. 1964 1983 Joseph Maxwell "Max" Cleland, Lithonia, 1972 Don Feuerbach, Vero Beach, a second year Ga., is, we believe, the first Stetson alumnus to Mary Jane Andrews, Daytona Beach, director student in the Master of Divinity program at he elected to the U.S. Senate. Donald E. of behavioral services for Intracoastal Columbia Theological Seminary, is the Coonley, New London, N.H., served as Health Systems Inc. has been appointed to recipient of a Merit Scholarship for the 1996- Stetson's delegate to the inauguration of Dr. the board of directors for the Mental Health 97 year. This scholarship is awarded on the Anne Ponder as Corby-Sawyer College's Association of Palm Beach County Inc. basis of academic achievement, leadership seventh president on Sept. 28. Jessanna Kevin F. Donohue, Ellicott City, Md., has ability, and potential for ministry. Terrell Gartside, Deland, sixth grade been appointed underwriting sales manager counselor at DeLand Middle School, was and director of development at WJHU-FM, 1986 presented the "Educator of the Year" award for the NPR-affiliated public radio station Ann Staub McFall, Deltona, was re-elected her "outstanding dedication for professional licensed to The John Hopkins University. to the Volusia County School Board. development of Volusia County educators." He will also supervise the station's membership development and major gift (Alumni News continues on page 4)

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N MEMORIAM We're experimenting: What do you think? Helen Harrison Welch, '27 e've often wondered what it free to talk back. Louise Beadle Karel, '30 would be like to include at least And by the way, if you think we've lost Elizabeth Badger Gilbert, '38 one issue of Cupola in our minds because you are receiving this Charles T. "Skeet" Cobb, '39 W Frank Minehart, '40 ProVeritate, and decided this time to try it. so soon after receiving the fall Cupola, be This is the issue of the magazine that goes assured we tried to get that issue out Don H. Black, '43 Edna Parrish Fernandez, '47 to all alumni; if we get a good response we earlier. It was a big issue, with lots of news, William H. Thomas, '49 may do it again next winter. The summer and took longer than we expected to William H. Naff, '51 issue of ProVeritate goes only to donors, so produce. Then we had mail list problems Nancy J. Theriot, '51 we probably won't insert Cupola in it until brought on by new postal regulations. So, Francis J. Tobin, '52 all our alumni are donors.... while we had hoped it would be out in Thelma E. Miller, '52 We've also made a few changes in early November, it didn't hit the post James W. Olson, '55 ProVeritate this time, and we'd like your office until mid-December, where it was James D. Young, '56 opinion. Did you notice? Do you care? delayed by holiday mailings. We tried, but Thomas A. Tierney, '65 Our only reason for producing these that issue seemed to be jinxed. We hope James O. Hodges, '70 publications is to stay in contact with our for more timely mailings in the future. William G. Panakos, '74 Sandra Brown Summers, '74 alumni, donors, and friends. Please feel -- Betty Brady, editor Stuart P. Thompson, '80 (Alumni News continued from page 3) was promoted on April 1, 1996, to the rank has been appointed public relations account 1987 of Captain in the Medical Service Corps of executive at Gilbert & Manjura Marketing James John Bange, Jr., Flagler Beach, has the U.S. Army. She serves as chief of in Orlando. He was formerly with been promoted to vice president-branch hematology and processing for the Clinical Yesawich, Pepperdine & Brown (YPB), coordinator for Southtrust Bank's new Laboratory of Brooke Army Medical Center. Orlando. Steven L. Survance, Hobe Sound, Daytona Beach office. David B. Cope, is the First United Methodist Church of Rockville, Md., has been named vice 1995 DeLand's new youth/children director. president of marketing for the Baltimore Laura Karin McCall Eckert, Ponce Inlet, Ravens football team. Marcia Mayberry was honored along with five other members 1996 Clark, Oviedo, is a buyer at Universal by the Athens of Florida Business and Kristin Ludecke, Eustis, Miss Florida 1 995, Studios in the merchandise division. John Professional Women , DeLand, during will recreate a lily Pons concert in 1998 at the No Putnick, Taylorsville, N.C., is the new National BPW Week, for outstanding work Lily Pons Water Gardens in Buckystown, Md., director of information systems for Catawba in the community and for promoting women to mark the 100th anniversary of the opera Memorial Hospital. in the work place and in the club. Tami Coe star's birth. Gardens officials have asked her Elton, DeLand, is the new music director of to don the same dress Pons wore at her 1936 1988 Ernmanus Lutheran Church in Orange performance. Lily Pons's size 2 dresses fit Barbara Courturiaux, DeLand, has rejoined City. She is the organist for all services, Ludecke perfectly. Ludecke's parents have Barnett Bank, N.A., Volusia-Flagler staff as leads the children's and bell choirs, and also acquired Pons' flamboyant costumes, sheet vice president and relationship manager. teaches private piano lessons. Jennifer music, letters, business contracts, wedding Moran, Wrightsville, N.C., and a fellow albums, stage makeup and even preserved 1989 hiker, Kyle Graham, raised more than locks of her hair. Mark Reed, Dade City, is Christina Karas, Boca Raton, has been $1,000 for Habitat for Humanity while attending Indiana University to pursue a promoted to first vice president/investments hiking the Appalachian trail in four and master's degree in organ performance and at Prudential Securities. one-half months. Sean Richter, Del-and, literature, with a minor in music theory. 1991 Eva Kristina Calero, San Antonio, Texas, Who's who... Stetson University President: Doug Lee; Vice President for University Relations: Mark Whittaker; Executive Director of the Alumni Association: Gary Meadows, '59, '63 MA: Executive Director of Public Relations: Jackie Kersh; Cupola Editor: Betty Brady; Alumni News: Jacki e Hays; Alumni Members of the Publications Advisory Board: Corky and George Dannals, Vincetta Giammanco Ford, Martha Pollard I ioller, Claire Beth Langston Link, Evelyn West Mills, and Todd Richardson.

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4 Winter 1997 Cupola Tim MCMAHAN SCHOLARSHIPS, funded by MCMAHANS FIND Richard A. and Mary B. McMahan of DeLand, are reserved for residents of VOIUSia County. "We PLEASURE IN STUDENTS' wanted to give to students and to know of their progress, to have the pleasure of seeing them go SUCCESS on to success in life," said Richard McMahan, a trustee. "It touches me to give to individual students; it's a good feeling. Scholarships are an integral part of the students' selection process. Students are looking for them. This kind of personalized scholarship program lets alumni and friends carry that burden for the university. My Mary and Richard McMahan wife and I think it's the right thing to do." Long-tune Stetson supporters, the McMahans received the 1992 Doyle E. Carlton Award for extraordinary contributions to the life and development of Stetson Univer- sity and the State of Florida. Former owner of a commercial construction company, he now heads the Richard Allen McMahan Group, which is developing residential property in Daytona Beach. He served in the Florida State I louse of Representatives from 1992-94. She is the owner of Main Street Travel in DeLand.

`It's nice having teachers who really know their subjects and are so excited about it.'

first-year chemistry major You get involved in everything," she said. Elizabeth Fogleman grew up next "Stetson is like that, too. I've been door to Stetson, but never surprised to find that Stetson students are thought she'd go to college here. just like ine. I haven't become too busy "I didn't realize what a great yet. I've been concentrating on studying schoolF it is, that something so good was - I don't want to lose that scholarship! I right at home," she said. have tried out for some plays - I love to Her involvement in her family's act - and I'm involved in BSU (Baptist photography business, Fogleman Studio of Student Union) and work with the youth DeLand, led her to Stetson. "I've helped staff of my church to help high-school my Dad with weddings since I was about students. I live at home; it keeps costs 10 - keeping track of which photos he's down and I have my own bed and get to done, holding a flash, organizing the see my family. people. When we did (Associate Dean of "I originally thought I might major in Business) Jud Stryker's daughter's wed- marketing, but I found my chemistry ding, I talked for a long time with him course so fascinating, I decided on and Dean of Business Paul Dascher. They chemistry; I'm willing to work hard for told me about Stetson's programs. Later it. I'm interested in health and my parents and I came to Dr. Stryker's medicine, and am thinking about office and he talked with us and gave us a becoming a pharmacist. I've little orientation. I knew this was where I noticed pharmacists working wanted to be. with people - advising them, "I thank God every day for my feeling good about giving them McMahan Scholarship. I'm very happy to medicine to help with their be here. It's nice having teachers who problems. I'd like to get a really know their subjects and are so job over the summer to excited about it." explore this area." Living between DeLand and DeLeon Springs, she went to Taylor High School in Pierson, a small school where she was active in the Future Farmers of America, Drama Club, Future Educators, and student government, and was class valedictorian. "I loved the small school. One by one, 3,650 days add

BY JACKIE KERSH are priorities.... New sorority houses are under construction.... The relationship with the Florida HAT A DIFFERENCE A Baptist Convention, Stetson's largest single donor, day makes," goes an develops cracks, as church funds shrink and old song. Make that priorities change. The State Board of Missions 3,650 days; it will recommends that funds for Stetson be reduced from "W help you imagine $1,350,000 per year to $950,000. Stetson University 10 years after Doug Lee became president. A previous president, J. Ollie Edmunds, defined 1987-88 the university's mission as "wholehearted commit- ment to be a superior educational institution which At his formal inauguration, Doug Lee reaffirms the provides persons with the academic skills and the close ties between Stetson and DeLand and makes personal character needed to lead a productive a personal commitment to the goal of achieving life." Although a university in transition, Stetson "true academic distinction" in the context of three remains clearly focused on its dual commitments to defining values: respect for the human spirit, for academic quality and student development. See religious and moral truths, and for the primacy of how many of these milestones in a decade of teaching. He emphasizes the university as an asset significant change you remember, have forgotten, to the area's quality of life and involves Stetson or never knew about. You won't pass or fail; you actively in the life of DeLand and Volusia may be surprised. County.... Stetson is listed in the Top Ten Compre- hensive Universities in the South by U.S. News and World Report; Changing Times magazine 1986-87 chooses Stetson as the Best Buy, High-Quality University in Florida.... A study-abroad program Pope Duncan retires and H. Douglas Lee becomes begins in Nottingham, England, and the College of Stetson's eighth president, inheriting a university Law begins a relationship with Chinese legal with a solid reputation for academic quality, a practitioners. The Joseph C. Prince Entrepreneur- mission to promote academic excellence, and ship Seminar expands beyond Winter Term.... To aging, but attractive facilities. Stetson's endowment secure Stetson's future by increasing its endow- is only $20 million, but a five-year, $50 million ment, a fund-raising goal of $200 million, by the fund-raising campaign has added operating and year 2000, is set.... A comprehensive graphic scholarship funds.... Stetson has just been granted a identity program gives Stetson a consistent market chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the first at a private image. Florida university, recognizing the quality of its liberal arts programs.... Stetson's first long-range master campus plan points to a critical problem, 1988-89 the possible four-laning of Woodland Boulevard and Amelia Avenue, which would have a serious Stetson commits to maintaining and increasing impact on Stetson's campus. The controversy over quality, expanding the faculty by 23 new positions a possible solution, and reducing the closing Amelia student-faculty ratio to through the campus, an exceptional 12 to 1.... demonstrates that the The Hollis Leadership university lacks Development Program is community support the first in Florida to for its long range focus on developing goals. Improving community relations Hollis Scholars with and securing the Trustee Mark Hollis campus boundaries

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Student Council forms.... To encourage campus dialogue about critical moral issues, the Institute for Christian Ethics is established.... Candid discussions, begin about a new relationship between the Griffith Hall under construction university and the Florida Baptist Convention that broad-based leadership skills. Grants totalling would reduce $500,000, from the National Science Foundation funding to zero over and the Charles A. Frueauff Foundation, fund 1 0 years. state-of-the-art scientific equipment for under- graduate use and a geology lab. Stetson moves into Russian Studies Center the Computer Age with the largest single upgrade established to computing resources for faculty and students 1989-90 ($1 .3 million) in its history.... A new building for the Admissions and Financial Aid offices is a gift The greater focus on social responsibility earns from alumni Edna and Jack Griffith. To protect the students recognition for volunteer service on campus, the Board of Trustees identifies priority campus and in the community.... Campus Life zones for property acquisition. University staff help receives additional funding to implement Campus develop the DeLand Comprehensive Traffic and Life Task Force recommendations.... The Stetson Land Use Plans.... Faculty, students, and adminis- $200 Million trators turn the trauma of an alleged alcohol- Campaign related date rape into the catalyst for building a reaches the new campus climate, emphasizing individual $70 million responsibility and social activism. A task force mark. The reviews all aspects of campus life and makes John S. and recommendations ranging from deferral of Greek James L. rush to a review of the alcohol and residence hall Knight and visitation policies.... Jessie Ball A Faculty Senate duPont resolution strongly foundations supports the Student diversity grows help the university goal of a Russian diverse campus Studies community that Program expand to its own campus center, making gives a broader it the most comprehensive program of its kind in perspective. The the southeast. M. E. Rinker Sr. establishes the African American Rinker Institute of Tax and Accountancy to extend Student Associa- the highly-rated accounting program to the tion is revived and community. The College of Law sets a new the Multicultural national record by winning the National Mock Trial Championship for a second consecutive year.... Skinner Nurseries gives more than 140 16- Live oaks planted foot live oaks for planting on North Woodland on the boulevard Boulevard. Landscaping, to slow traffic, begins on

Winter 1997 1 9 Russian Studies Program brings to campus re- Lynn Business Center nowned poet, novelist, and essayist Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Seventeen new faculty members, Amelia Avenue. Stetson from some of the nation's most prestigious universi- helps the City of DeLand - ties, are recruited, including nine women and four survey historic resources , from ethnic minority groups. Faculty approve a including the campus.... joint MBA/JD degree program for the Business The George Williams School and College of Law.... The family of Trustee Scholarship Program is Mark Hollis announces a $4.5 million gift, prima- created to ensure access for rily for the William M. and Nina B. Hollis Scholar- minority students, and a ship Program to aid middle-class students.... program with DeLand High Students and staff create a model recycling pro- School encourages minority gram.... The Stetson University National Historic admissions .... Sampson Hall is renovated and District is added to the National Register of restored; the enhanced art gallery honors former Historic Places, bringing national recognition and president Pope Duncan and his wife, Margaret. campus protection .... The campus grieves when three students are killed and four others are 1990-91 severely injured in a North Florida auto accident .... The Campus Diversity Committee is established to support the goal of increased multi- The campus changes to accommodate expanded cultural activities and minority- student recruit academic offerings needed to prepare students for ment.... A new emerging career fields. The generosity of Eugene alumni networking and Christine Lynn allows Stetson to purchase the program aids former Empire Bank building as the new home of student career the School of Business Administration, the Lynn placement. Business Center. This frees space in Davis Hall for Teacher Education, Philosophy, Sociology, and A Women and Counseling.... The Florida Baptist Convention Gender Studies narrowly approves a new Stetson-FBC covenant class which gradually eliminates funding. The Board of Trustees, the Faculty Senate, and the Cabinet begin exploring new ways the university can become a more diverse interfaith community 1991-92 emphasizing religion and ethics.... More than 200 students participate in the Youth Motivator The transition continues as the in loco parentis Program in area high schools, setting a new model for campus life is replaced with a student standard for campus volunteerism.... Nobel Peace development model, emphasizing personal and Laureate and South African Episcopal Archbishop social responsibility and values.... Faculty creativity, Desmond Tutu gives the inaugural Stewart Lecture supported by research grants, foster programs that for the Institute for respond to new student interests such as Women Christian Ethics.... and Gender Studies. Established programs, like the Reaccreditation by George Investments Institute, expand their the Southern scope.... Donors provide an educational curriculum Association of lab; modern psychology, language and music tutor Colleges and Schools labs; and enhanced labs for the natural sciences. A and the National National Science Foundation grant funds computer Association of equipment. A renovated Stover Theatre reopens.... Schools of Music Despite a faltering national economy, the univer- reaffirm academic Archbishop Tutu sity continues to balance its budget without quality. The visits Stetson reducing the quality of its academic and campus life

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programs, thanks to strategic spending decisions, Campus chapter of the financial sacrifices of faculty and staff, and Into the Streets donor support. The endowment tops $38 million. founded on campus The Stetson $200 Million Campaign reaches $89.4 million in cash and pledges. School of Music recruitment efforts push enrollment to the desired Faculty-developed level of 165 to 175 majors. Student financial initiatives include assistance increases from 27 percent to 33 percent the Center for the of the university's budget as the national recession Study of Aging's creates greater demands for need-based financial Community Health aid... The faculties of Stetson and Bethune- Education Program Cookman College, an historically black institution, (with local hospitals, develop collaborative programs. The first the Fish Foundation, Multicultural Education Institute draws nearly 250 and the Johns Hopkins registrants, including more than 100 Stetson University); and the Students. A new multicultural education course is collaboration between Disney Development among the first approved by the State of Florida to Company, Osceola County School Board, and meet English for Speakers of Other Languages Stetson to plan a model school and teaching teacher certification requirements. Stetson hosts its academy at the new city of Celebration. The first state Migrant Education Summer Stetson Institute for Social Research leads to Institute .... The dUPont-Ball Library installs CD- collaborative student/faculty research for outside ROM workstations for students and faculty and groups.... An additional $200,000 is invested in extends satellite television reception to Elizabeth Hall and the Russian Studies Center.... The newest academic computing.... The faculty adopts a two- semester academic year for '95-'96, ending Winter FBC-Stetson covenant comes within 20 votes of Term. New programs include a minor in leadership revocation. To retain the relationship, Lee proposes development, and university experience courses to an immediate $312,000 funding cap, with gifts only help new students adjust to Stetson.... Former from churches who choose to participate. The FBC President Jimmy Carter gives the Stewart Lecture agrees. and praises Stetson volunteers.... Students are participating more in planning through a revital- ized Student Government Association. The student-run Into the Streets coordinates volunteer 1992-93 efforts.... A Stetson political science student is The university has selected as one of 60 national Truman scholars.... many new faces. Fifty Stetson hosts the NCAA Regional basketball percent of the 147 tourney in the Orlando Arena.... The student Marketing program full-time faculty founder of Into the Streets receives the Florida members have been sponsors campus Office of Campus Volun- Body Shop outlet here less than six teers Excellence in Service years. The newcomers Award.... The ethnic are a highly qualified diversity of the student group, with a diversity President Jimmy population grows from 99 of backgrounds and Carter at reception minority undergraduates in interests and a deep for volunteers 1988 to 180, assisted by a commitment to full-time Minority Affairs teaching and to Coordinator. New organi- interaction with students. They have new ideas and ways of working zations include Students together.... Developing informal partnerships with Transcending outside groups, to encourage new programs and Homophobia.... The help students develop their careers, is a priority. Commons is renovated to make meals more attractive

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and interesting... A new university problems.... A revised mission statement reemphasizes charter and by-laws Stetson's commitment to teaching, reaffirm Stetson's and defines the role of an indepen- identity as an indepen- dent university with a denomina- dent institution; enlarge tional heritage. the heard from 24 to 36 trustees, who not longer must meet a denomina- 1993-94 tional membership School of Music's Gala fills the Peabody Auditorium requirement; and Strategic changes reach a climax its i nclude a values and Stetson focuses on its primary heritage statement. purpose: To provide students with a Baptist funding drops to broad foundation of knowledge in the context of $17,000; the Trustee Challenge Gift Program helps contemporary issues and needs.... Emphasizing offset the loss of more than $600,000 annually in Stetson's historic commitments, the Program in FBC funds. Religion and Ethics bring., under one umbrella initiatives in religion, ethics, and social responsibil- ity. The Institute for Christian Ethics joins with 1994-95 area medical professionals to open dialogue about a critical moral issue, "Euthanasia: The Ethics of Effort., by faculty to explore new ways to teach and Dying." The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial to connect students with emerging careers are Quilt makes a memorable visit to Edmunds Center. aided by seed money from The Hollis Renaissance New academic programs, based on new faculty and Program. The 10-year, $10 million commitment is student interests, include: The Body Shop, a retail funded by the William M. and Nina B. Hollis lab program whose students learn business manage- Foundation. The Kresge Foundation Science ment and marketing by operating an on-campus Initiative (totalling $1.125 million), to endow franchise for an international company; expansion scientific equipment replacement, is successful. of Latin American Studies to a major; a minor in Trustee Art Sullivan and his wife, Melissa, commit Environmental Studies; and faculty discussions $250,000 to a program for young writers. Other about an Africana Studies minor.... Archie new academic initiatives include Discovery, to help Greenberg, a private than who cared deeply about undecided students choose a major; an agreement education, leaves more than $8 million to Stetson. with the American Graduate School of Interna- Six Greenberg Chairs recognize faculty achieve- tional Management (Thunderbird) to enhance ments in teaching, scholarship, and service. Music graduate international business study; expanded School supporter Bea Tinsley establishes a $2 programming in journalism and in health profes- million endowment. The $200 Million Campaign sions; and a Study Abroad program in Mexico. passes the $106 mullion mark.... Florida Leader Stetson's law school and undergraduate schools magazine recognizes Stetson's Student Government adopt a formal agreement that improves access to Association as the host at a Florida private univer- Kresge Foundation t he law school for qualified undergraduates. The sity.... College of Law teams set a new record: Science Initiative first School of Music Gala fills the 2,500-plus-seat victory in all five national law school competi- Peabody Auditorium in Daytona Beach.... Structur- funds scientific tions.... A joint task force of student,, faculty. i ng a campus ministry program for the 21st Century equipment member, and professional staff begins a broad review of is the task of a new Religious Life Council, composed of trustees, alumni and friends. Faculty adopt new general education requirements in the College campus. Revised residence hall, of Arts and Sciences that strengthen the emphasis guidelines encourage individual on religious heritage, contemporary social issues, , tudent responsibility. A feasibility and ethical decision making ..... Enrollment is a , tudy begins for a student activities continuing challenge as new students' needs for and wellness center.... The $200,000 financial aid grows.... A task force recommends cost of removing lead paint from that the university's no-alcohol policy be changed (Chaudoin Hall entphasizes, historic to a more credible and enforceable one of restricted campus, building maintenance use. After discussions with all major university

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constituencies, trustees approve the change. Rogers, it is funded with a $140,000 grant from the Implementation will include a major education Jessie Ball duPont Fund, matched by Stetson. A component, specific strategies to discourage Jewish scholar joins the Religious Studies depart- alcohol use, and expanded counseling services. ment as an adjunct professor. Trustee David Rinker The change is unacceptable to the Florida Baptist and his wife, Leighan, establish endowed and Convention, which forms a study committee to annual scholarship programs for student leaders discuss the future of formal and informal relation- with strong ethical commitments. Nobel Peace ships with Stetson .... A study committee recom- Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel gives mends construction of a new 33,000-square-foot the Stewart Lecture.... Stetson begins one of its student activities center. Trustee Mark Hollis and most extensive building construction and renova- his wife, Lynn, provide the initial gift: $2.5 tion efforts in recent history - the donor-funded million. With donor interest, studies begin for $9.8 million Building Opportunities for Students library renovations and additions for both the program. Included are the Hollis Center, which DeLand and College of Law campuses, and a will provide a new focus for student activities; the center for the fast-growing Sport and Exercise 13,000-square-foot Wilson Athletic Center (named Science program. Funding for the Mandy Stoll for Trustee Patricia Wilson and her husband, Pat) Tennis Center is completed. Most of a $7 million to house the Sport and Exercise Science program bequest from the late Dossie C. and Marian and provide workout facilities, training rooms, and Wright Hull, both alumni, is earmarked for physical therapy facilities for student athletes; a construction and renovation. major expansion/renovation of duPont-Ball - Library, with improvements in technology to create 1995 96 an Information Commons; and the first six courts of the Mandy Stoll Tennis Center for men's and women's varsity tennis. A new $9 million Law Faculty involvement with The Hollis Renaissance Library will replace the current facility at the Program bears its first fruits: new majors in digital College of Law.... Unable to heal the divisions arts and computer information systems and between them, Stetson and the Florida Baptists expan- terminate all formal and informal relationships. sion of Stetson returns to the FBC a $568,000 trust fund environ- for ministerial scholarships .... A significant enroll- mental ment shortfall creates new challenges to a balanced studies to budget. Demands on tuition-funded student financial aid continue to increase. An in-depth a major New majors in digital study identifies Stetson's strengths and distinguish- with arts, computer ing programs as a prelude to new marketing natural information systems strategies.... Strategies in property acquisition add science added (BS) and a needed buffer zone for the DeLand campus.... The policy School of Business Administration achieves the ( BA) highest level of national accreditation for under- tracks, a Elie Wiesel greets students after graduate and graduate business and accounting summer giving the Stewart Lecture programs by the American Assembly of Collegiate under- Schools of Business. The teacher education graduate program receives accreditation from the National research program, and the International Scholars Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Educa- Program pilot in Hispanic theater. A five-year, $6 tion. The College of Law is ranked first in the million plan guides academic, library, and adminis- nation for its trial and appellate programs in the trative computer technology needs. Included is 1995 U.S. News and World Report's survey of information-sharing with the Teaching Academy at graduate school programs.... Stetson is cited by the Celebration.... Among new campus diversity Chronicle of Higher Education for achievements in initiatives is the Howard Thurman Program, both the proportion of women participating in designed to extend the teachings of the Daytona sports and the proportion of athletic scholarship Beach native and civil rights activist into the wider dollars women receive.... The endowment climbs community. Directed by civil rights leader Jefferson to over $80 million.

Winter 1997 2 3 From design to bricks and mortar: How do our buildings grow?

By Betty Brady Now he heads his father's firm, Rogers, then; because the Central Florida Lovelock and Fritz (RLF) of Winter Park, building market was so busy when the efore the bricks, before the mortar, designers of Stetson's new Hollis Center, Hollis and Wilson projects were bid before the foundations are poured, Wilson Center and duPont-Ball Library that it was difficult to get reasonable B a building grows from three basics. expansion and renovation. figures. "First, the site, then the program RLF designs buildings to meet the Noyes said the fact that the university requirements, then the needs of the needs of the client, not to feed the ego of brought its general contractor for the owner," says Winter Park architect Jack the architect or the firm, Rogers stresses. buildings, Foley Associates, on board early Rogers. "Much of the originality in To determine those needs, design advisory was helpful. "With more than $2 billion architecture comes from satisfying the committees of Stetson students, adminis- worth of construction going on in Central demands of these three elements." trators and faculty members have been Florida, the fact that we had the contractor working for a year with Rogers and his on board six months early to work with us staff on each of the buildings. on value engineering and costing has been third-generation architect, invaluable." Florida-horn Jack Rogers watched A fourth Stetson design committee, for Ahis father, Jas. Gamble Rogers 11, he Stetson projects offered site the Mandy Stoll Tennis Center, worked design Stetson University's Carlton challenges: the library involves with its designer, Zev Cohen Associates, Union Building in the late '50s. (His older Tadding to and renovating the an engineering firm. "This is the right brother, the late Gamble Rogers, well- existing library; the Wilson project is sited way," said Noyes. "People who will have known poet and folk-singer, even at- close to the Edmunds Center, and the responsibility for supervising and using tended Stetson for a year.) His grandfather involves some renovation to it; and the the equipment and space should have a say had moved his architectural business from Hollis Center site is close to Griffith Hall in its design." Chicago to Daytona Beach in 1915. and the Carlton Union Building, wrap- ping around the existing swimming pool. The architect dealt with these initial site re there special frustrations to concerns, and then turned to the design design by committee? advisory committees to flesh out the A Rogers said giving large commit- administrator-drawn program require- tees input into the design, as Stetson did, ments with the anticipated needs and takes more time, but is worth doing. "We desires of the users. got a lot of good input from the students The process worked very well, says and staff, particularly on the Hollis David Noyes, director of facilities man- Center," Rogers said, "and that was agement administration at Stetson, who important for a building that is planned as oversees the building projects. the hub of student activity. We went into "Members of the Wilson design this knowing that the process would take committee provided valuable time. insights into the actual layout of the "Architects provide a service. We're not sports medicine area, for example. creating a piece of art; we're creating a With Hollis, we took student building for a specific need for a specific concerns into account in designing client. Buildings are complex and archi- the exercise room. The library design tects must recognize the ability of the committee was extremely helpful in owner to educate them as to the needs. space-related issues, and provided good, Our goal is to facilitate the needs and compelling reasons for the design of the desires of the owner, and do it in such a addition," he said. way that we end up with architecture at the The architect and the design commit- end," Rogers said. tees also wrestled with costs - first, "There are many ways to solve a problem because the desires of the users and design a building. The excitement in sometimes exceeded what we do comes when we figure out how budgeted costs; to solve a problem."

Jack Rogers in his Winter Park office building. (Photos/Chris Carlson) RLF likes working hand-in-hand with owners RLF is a busy firm; its staff of 58 Computers are everywhere; Rogers million addition and renovation to the architects, mechanical and electrical said computer-aided design and drafting Orlando Regional Medical Center engineers, and interior designers rou. are invaluable. "A drawing that once (1990-95) and the Naval Support tinely keep 30 to 38 projects in different took an hour to plot now takes seven Activity complex in Naples, Italy - stages of development, from design to minutes," he said, adding that eliminat- seven buildings built simultaneously with construction. ing much of the repetitive work gives a total construction value of about $50 Their Winter Park offices have designers more time to work on under- million (1994-96). expanded around the building Rogers' standing and analyzing the design. "We prefer to work for end users as father opened in 1948 on Lincoln RLF-designed projects in Central opposed to developers or speculative Avenue. The atmosphere is friendly and Florida include the Walt Disney Memo- builders," said Rogers. "We do better in open, with easy movement from desk to rial Cancer Institute being built at long-term relationships, working with desk, room to room, and floor to floor. A Florida Hospital-Orlando; and the Mary, people who want to build quality in. We large conference room welcomes visitors Queen of the Universe, Shrine at Lake have on-going relationships with four with glass walls, as does senior partner Buena Vista. RLF also designs for the clients that go back 30 years. It's Jack Rogers' office. "We work in project Department of Defense, from Rhode valuable for both the owner and the teams; at any given time there are pro- Island to Key West, and west as far as architect." bably four to eight people working on the Texas. Stetson projects, for example," he said. Their largest projects include a $65

Winter 1997 2 5 EDITORS' NOTE: ProVeritate has a new look; we've updated the cover and the contents page, and revamped (and added) some departments. We'd like to know what you think about the changes - yea or nay. Feel free to write us at 421 N. Woodland Blvd., Unit 8319, DeLand FL 32720-3781; or send e-mail to [email protected] u or danielle.laprime© stetson.edu. If you're on-line, check out Stetson's web page at http:\www.stetson.edu. You'll find our latest events calendar, news releases, and publications, as well as information on admissions, students and faculty, and academic programs. - Betty Brady and Danielle Laprime

University examines athletics study chair. "Because we focus on the Jud Stryker; Political Science Professor programs in NCAA self-study scholar-athlete - an athletically-talented Eugene Huskey; Decision and Information person whose primary goal is an education Sciences Professor Betty Thorne; Finan- he university is in the midst of a - we are delighted to he a part of this cial Planning Counselor Toni Keyes- year-long, campus-wide self-study process." Coleman; Assistant Comptroller Mack Tof its athletics programs as part of a Lubot said the university will benefit by Wadsworth; University Trustee Art recently-mandated NCAA Division I increasing awareness and knowledge of Sullivan of Stuart; Jan Latour of St. athletics certification program. Academic the athletics program, confirming its Petersburg, immediate past president of and financial integrity, rules compliance, strengths and developing plans to improve the Stetson University National Alumni and commitment to equity will be in any areas of concern. Association; Foreign Language Professor examined. On the steering committee with Lubot Nancy Vosburg, who will write the report; "In 1993, the NCAA began requiring are interim Athletics Director Jeff Altier; Public Relations Director Jackie Kersh; all Division I athletic programs to be Women's Basketball Coach Dee Romine; and Athletics Senior Secretary Carol certified every five years, and our turn has Sport and Exercise Science Chair Liz Snyder, who serves as liaison. Student arrived," said Provost Eugene Lubot, self- Schumaker; Associate Dean of Business members are Dave Hill, Jean Bonnicci, and Roman Rodriguez. Edmunds scholarship designed Commuter lounge gives off-campus students space; to bring top students to Stetson new support offered for non-traditional students he new J. Ollie Edmunds Distin- eth Joslin works at the com- students between the ages of 24 and guished Scholarship Program, paying puter, while Melissa Randolph 59, 147 of them full-time. To meet all expenses for students with top catches up on the news in the their needs, the university has estab- T B academic and leadership potential, is Carlton Union Building's Commuter lished an office for non-traditional designed to attract to Stetson students of Lounge, which gives off-campus student support services, which Joslin the caliber of Oxford University Rhodes students a place to relax on campus. coordinates from the commuter lounge. Scholars, says J. Ollie Edmunds, Jr., of Non-traditional students are increas- A junior psychology major, Joslin had New Orleans, vice chairman of the ing at Stetson; last fall there were 189 two years of college credit when she Gualala Foundation. left a career as a profes- Given by the foundation to honor the sional photographer to enter late J. Ollie Edmunds, it covers full Stetson in 1995 at age 36, tuition, fees, and on-campus room and so she knows the problems board for four years, and includes a non-traditional students summer internship stipend for six weeks face: loss of income, tuition between the sophomore and junior years. debt, isolation, guilt over Edmunds Scholars also have the option of loss of family time, competi- studying and traveling abroad for a year. tion with younger students, Two J. Ollie Edmunds Distinguished fear of failure. While Scholars will be chosen for the 1997-98 building a support system academic year, with two additional for adult learners, she also scholars named each year thereafter. is working to increase the Nominations are made by principals or university community's headmasters at selected secondary public awareness of their special or private schools, and selection is based Photo by Chris Carlson circumstances. solely on merit, without regard for expected major, need, race, religion, sex, 26 ProVeritate or ethnic origin. In addition to high grade-point averages, SAT or ACT scores, Walking tour booklet packages Stetson history, horticulture and class rankings, candidates must demonstrate high motivation; outstanding id you ever wonder how DeLand building histories are based on those prepared by Historic Site Specialist leadership, personal achievements, and and Elizabeth halls got their skills in communication; outstanding D names? Do you know whose Sidney Johnston, DeLand, when the character and personal integrity; and a bust is atop the entrance to Flagler campus district was nominated for the clear potential to enrich the lives of their Hall? Can you distinguish between a National Register of Historic Places, fellow Stetson students as role models. live oak and a jelly palm and by Stetson Historian An alumnus who became a judge and tree and do you know Gilbert Lycan, author of then served Stetson as trustee, president which of the two is native Stetson University: The First and chancellor, Edmunds earned his way to Florida? If these 100 Years. Working with through Stetson, but found time for many questions pique your Spence was David Rigsby, campus leadership positions. He received curiosity, see A Walk with manager of landscaping and a bachelor's degree in 1925, a master's the Founders, a self-guided grounds for the university degree in 1927, and a law degree in 1928. walking tour booklet and a landscape architect. In 1943, Stetson gave him an honorary about Stetson University's "This tour was initially doctorate of laws. historic campus. created as a small botanical Elected a trustee in 1934, he served for Prepared by the identification project," more than 50 years. A former Duval university's Public Spence said, "but because of County judge, he left his legal practice in Relations Office and Rigsby's and others' interest 1 947 to become Stetson's fourth presi- partially funded by a and support, we now can dent, a position he held for 19 years. He $1,498 grant from Florida's see the campus as a mini died in 1984, but his commitment to Division of Historic Resources, the arboretum. At Stetson, we have the Stetson lives through the Gualala booklet tempts visitors to take leisurely, beginnings of a beautiful collection of Foundation, which he founded in 1964. It self-guided tours of the evergreen trees and shrubs that hopefully will grow sponsors the McEniry Award for Excel- campus where 12 landmarks make up into a larger collection for all to enjoy." lence in Teaching, the Etter Turner Award the Stetson University Campus A Walk With the Founders is available for the year's top graduate, and the National Historic District. The com- for $2.50 at the campus bookstore and Edmunds Sabbatical and Faculty Develop- panion horticulture tour, developed by the Gillespie Museum of Minerals gift ment Program. It has also contributed to alumnus Don Spence as a senior shop. Copies also are given to teachers Stetson's Emily Edmunds Garden Pavil- project, introduces visitors to campus who bring groups of school children and ion, Phi Beta Kappa Fund, Stewart flora, which plays an important part in other tour groups who use the Stetson Lecture Series in Christian Ethics, Kresge the campus ambiance. A center-fold campus as an outdoor lab on Florida Science Initiative, and Challenge Gift map with overlay pinpoints campus architecture, flora and early Florida Program. structures and horticulture. history. Architectural descriptions and Lewicki, Sandridge, Massey, Strickland join Board of Trustees Volusia and Flagler Counties. Lewicki is a trustee of the Donald C. Determined to establish "a good precedent" our newcomers have joined Stetson's McGraw Foundation and the Elizabeth B. for their alma mater, the Class of 1908 pub- Board of Trustees. McGraw Foundation and a member of the lished Stetson's first "annual" in May 1908, a I Stetson School of Business Administra- F n the first year of five-year terms record four months from first discussion to press are: entrepreneur Lee McGraw Lewicki, tion Board of Advisors. She received a time. The class wanted their creation's name to Sudbury, Mass., an alumna and owner of Stetson Distinguished Alumni Award in The Gift Basket, Inc., in Waltham, Mass.; 1993 for her contributions to the univer- suggest the South and Florida, so they chose Orange Park community leader and sity and her community. Oshihiyi, the Seminole word for mockingbird. Stetson alumna Dorothy (Dottie) Sandridge's grandfather, former Florida Jennings Sandridge, the third generation Governor W.S. Jennings, was a Stetson It could be that editors of the 1921 Oshihiyi of her family to be elected to the Board; trustee in the early 1900s, and her father, Harvey Massey of Maitland and Winter S. Bryan Jennings, was an alumnus and a had it in for a Southern staple. Among the Park, president and chief executive officer trustee. Her grandmother, May Mann edition's knee-slappers was a list of The Seven of Massey Services, Inc., the largest Jennings, one of Florida's first advocates Stetson Wonders, including "I wonder if we'll for beautification and a pioneer in the independently owned and operated pest ever have a meal without grits?" The same prevention and lawn care company in effort to preserve the Everglades as a Florida; and David Strickland, chief national park, was the first woman to year a poet lamented, "The bell for breakfast executive officer of Barnett Banks, N.A., receive an honorary degree from Stetson. ri ngs,/Dinner and supper too,/Each time the grits appear,/Woe to the starving crew." Massey has established a Challenge Gift Kevin Riggs, right, works with junior scholarship program at Stetson, to assist Frank McDonald, who studied the first year or transfer students who are vibrational behavior of musical instru- academically talented or performance ments in an internship under Riggs' oriented. direction last summer. (Photo/Chris Strickland's institution established the Carlson) Barnett Bank Scholars Program at Stetson in 1987, funded with gifts from Barnett Bank of Volusia County and Barnett Hansen, Riggs, Eleazer, Lake Charities, Inc. Barnett also contributes to win 1996 Hand Awards Stetson's athletic and library programs, ssociate Professor of Physics and has established a Challenge Gift relationships - parents, siblings, girl- Kevin Riggs and Assistant scholarship program and an intern friends, boyfriends, or professors. Our job Professor of Marketing Randall program for business school students. is to help them deal with relationships." A Hansen received the 1996 Hand Awards for scholarly and creative work during Napier, Sanz stress helping International links continue Spring Commencement on the DcLand students succeed to grow in Spain, Latin America campus; Professors William R. Eleaser and Peter F Lake received Hand Awards at the

ew Dean of Admissions Mary tetson took another step into the College of Law. Established by Stetson Napier and Counseling Center international arena with the signing College of Law graduate and university Director Donald Sanz have very of a faculty exchange N S trustee Dolly Hand and her husband, different responsibilities, but share a with Spain's University of Granada, Homer, of Belle Glade, the awards common goal: helping students succeed in allowing Stetson faculty members to recognize dedicated teachers who also life. witness first hand Spain's integration into have notable achievements in scholarship Napier is responsible for enrollment the "New Europe" while teaching Spanish or creative activity. management, an institutional job she students about the U.S. experience. On Riggs joined the arts and sciences i nfuses with as much the Stetson campuses in DeLand and at faculty in 1987. In addition to his class- personal contact as the College of Law in St. Petersburg, room work, he is a frequent presenter at possible. students will gain a uniquely European professional conferences and has an "We will not drop perspective from visiting University of impressive list of scholarly writing. His students and head the Granada professors. academic interests range from experimen- other way as soon as they "We have been pursuing collaborative tal condensed matter physics to musical walk in the door," Napier arrangements with two institutions in acoustics and vibra- says. "I want to maintain Granada, the university and the Union tional holography. Mary Napier as much personal contact Iberoamericana de Municipalistas (UIM), Hansen joined the as possible through an international organization in Granada business faculty in 1992. programs already in place and with some that represents municipalities in Latin His publications include new approaches." The Ohio native brings America, " said Political Science Professor a book, Dynamic Cover to Stetson 10 years of experience as a William Nylen, director of Stetson's Letters, co-authored with professional admissions officer at the multi-disciplinary Latin American Studies his wife, Katherine; and Program and an expert in Latin American University of Tulsa, where she was senior a forthcoming chapter politics and international political associate dean of admissions. Randall Hansen in a book entitled economy. Sanz is a psychologist, a sixth-genera- Electronic Communica- tion Florida Cracker, a former Green A proposed exchange program with tion Across the Curriculum. UIM (lbero-American Union of Munict- Beret and a man hooked Eleaser has taught trial advocacy, pal Leaders) will expand Stetson's ongoing on helping students evidence and criminal law for 17 years, student internship exchange commitment succeed. and serves as faculty advisor to Stetson's with UIM-affiliated Latin American He was a Dade County, trial competition teams, which have won municipalities, which now include Fla., court counselor in 15 national contests under his guidance; juvenile and domestic Cuernavaca, Mexico, and Durazno, in addition, U.S. News & World Report Uruguay. Stetson also will host annual relations when he made has ranked Stetson's trial advocacy visits by representatives of cities in South the decision - to help program first in the nation for two and Central America and the Caribbean. troubled young people find Don Sanz consecutive years. Eleaser also recently Stetson has on-going foreign study the source of their won a national teaching award from the exchange programs with institutions of problems - that sent him back to school, Roscoe Pound Foundation for his work in higher learning in Dijon, France; Moscow, first as a student, then as a career college trial advocacy. Russia; Nottingham, England; Freiburg, counselor. Lake joined the law faculty in 1990, Germany; Madrid, Spain; Guanajuato, "College students face enormous stress teaching torts and insurance law, and Mexico; and Kwangju, Korea. and pressure," Sanz says. "Most of the jurisprudence and human rights. He problems they experience revolve around

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serves as advisor to the student client In September 1938, counseling team and is a faculty mentor. the Florida Gators Stetson Hatters ready faced the formidable for tough 1997 campaign Stetson Hatters in a gridiron baffle in fter the 1996 42-win season with Gainesville. With a 16- the first NCAA Regional -14 win under their A appearance since 1992, the 1997 Stetson Hatters baseball team hopes to belts, the Hatter team become the first squad since 1989-90 to was welcomed home appear in the Regionals in consecutive with a joyous parade, seasons. bonfires, bells ringing Led by 1996 TAAC Coach-of-the-Year Pete Dunn (629-365-1 in 18 seasons at and, legend has it, Stetson), Stetson faces its toughest the girls were allowed schedule in recent years, including games Walk through the duPont-Ball Library's new glass doors to stay outside their with traditional rivals Miami, Florida, into the newly-renovated atrium, featuring comfortable residence halls past South Florida, Central Florida, and reading areas, new displays for library materials, and a Florida International, as well as 1996 10 p.m. It was Florida new reference desk. Bring your questions: at the desk NCAA Regional opponent South State University's turn you'll find a new computer workstation running a wealth Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia Tech, of CD-ROM databases. (Photos/Chris Carlson) in October 1947 Michigan, and Purdue. when the Hatter Stetson returns six starters from a club football team traveled that recorded the fourth-highest batting average in school history (.303). Junior toTallahassee to shortstop Kevin Nicholson, the 1996 humiliate the Cape Cod League MVP, leads this year's Seminoles,14-0. squad. Last year Nicholson won the team Triple Crown (.351, 13 home runs, and a (Don't worry, Messieurs team-record 71 RBI's), and anchored the Bowden and Spunier, infield. Turning the double plays with Stetson abandoned Nicholson is sophomore second baseman the sport in 1956.) Gene Boyd, a switch-hitter. Sophomore Brooks Stephens who plays first base and bats clean-up, had a .303 average last year, including five home runs and 42 RBI's. Two-year starter Tim Branz, a junior, plays third base. Last year, he set a Stetson single season career record when he was Hall, the pitching staff returns two starters Sport and Exercise Science: hit-by-pitch 18 tunes. with double-digit victory totals last a growing field Roaming the outfield are returning season, seniors Marc Matcham (10-3, 3.30 starter Ned French and junior college ERA, 87.1 IP) and Eric Knott (10-3, he Sport and Exercise Science transfers C.J. Fagan and Emmett 108.1 IP, 96 K's). Senior Matt Brown (7- program at Stetson is experienc- Berberich. French, a sophomore, earned 4, 4.19 ERA) and transfers Todd Jordan T ing growing pains but its outlook honorable mention Freshman All- (Vanderbilt) and Luis Lasso (Embry- is optimistic. The model follows a American honors last year. He hit .325 Riddle) also start. Reliever Clint national trend - educating students for and set a single season record with 91 base Chrysler, last year's Cape Cod League allied health careers instead of teaching hits. Juniors Fagan, from Tallahassee Relief-Pitcher of the Year, helps to replace jobs. Community College, and Berberich, from last year's NCAA national saves leader Historically, the bulk of majors in Middle Georgia Community College, Mike Lyons, who signed with the New physical education were trained to teach bring speed and defense. York Mets. Sophomore returners Lee physical education. Former Department Sophomore Sammy Serrano anchors Knight, Jeff House, E.J. Dornfeldt, and Chair Robert Weickel proposed both a the defense behind the plate. Second on Bob Santom add to the bullpen. sport and exercise program and a sports the team in batting average last season The 1997 Hatters must overcome a administration program. (.326), his defense and hitting helped him tough schedule to return to the Regionals, When Liz Schumaker became chair, earn First Team Mizuno Freshman All- but, Dunn says, if any team can do it, it is she realized more was needed. "Stetson American honors. this one. Eric Knott, senior sports was not addressing the needs of the future Led by veteran pitching coach Rick administration major from Sebring. in terms of the teacher training program so I recommended discontinuing it in

Winter 1997 29 favor of moving the physical education program toward heath and wellness." The Sport and Exercise Science Program, which is seeking accreditation this year, has five tracks leading to a bachelor's degree in athletic training, exercise therapy, movement therapy, sports administration or sports communi- cation. When the Wilson Center is completed next year it will provide much needed and greatly anticipated facilities. "The Wilson Center will have an exercise physiology lab to Study body systems, the chemistry of human movement, so we can offer a heavy saturation of lab courses," Schumaker said. "The goal of the program is flexibility. Students receive a generic, but intense education to help them do well in a number of allied health fields. Members of the Stetson University Children's Choir, from left to right, Nicholas "SES is drawing students who want to Schafer, Alexandra Reed, and Tara White prepare to rehearse under the guidance of be physical therapists, doctors, sports Starter Choir Director Melinda O'Neill. (Photo/Sylvia Sabatine) medicine trainers, fitness and nutrition specialists, sports administrators and sports Stetson University's Community School of the Arts celebrates its successes journalists. Many of the classes include ormerly named Community School summer. The festival celebrates the 500th internships. For example, movement of Music, the Community School of anniversry of John Cabot's historic therapy students take a lot of therapeutic F he Arts was founded in 1985 and landing in the New World. courses and need a 200-hour practicum. provides artistic learning and outreach At the festival, the group, representing Many go on to physical therapy schools or opportunities for all ages and levels of the State of Florida, will be featured in a graduate schools and have done extremely development, including music dance and World of Music evening concert, a well," she said. art programs. Notable Lunch performance and a Sunday Since then, the school, directed by morning church service. Other partici- Patrece Robinson, has grown dramatically. pating groups include adult and youth New programs, internships Under the direction of Stetson faculty choirs from as far away as South Africa, and professional development members, the Community School England, Portugal, Brazil, and the Czech rejuvenate Teacher Education includes a youth string and chamber Republic. music program, a youth jazz band, a guitar Holiday time at Stetson provided reparing teachers for the future has ensemble, a flute choir, an advanced and a showcase opportunities for Stetson always been an important role of beginners' children's choirs, Orff- University's Community School. The PStetson's Teacher Education Schulwerk classes, and a dance studio for Childern's Choir and the Dance Program Department. New facilities and innova- ballet, tap/musical theater, and modern/ presented The Nutcracker Ballet and tions in technology are contributing to an jazz. Holiday Choral Selections. Pictured explosion of programs that enhance Stetson's Community School has below, are members of the Dance Troupe learning experiences. Some of the new outreach programs, bringing instructors to directed by Kim Norman, from left, Lisa programs include: the DeLand Chisholm Center for after- L. Philips and Susan A. L. Hicks. school programs, and presenting concerts • PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Photo by House of Hatton and recitals off-campus to community Stetson collaborates with two Professional groups. It also sponsors a successful annual Development Schools in Volusia County: guitar workshop, directed by Stetson George Marks Elementary and Atlantic Professor Stephen Robinson, drawing High School in Port Orange. Teachers at participants from around the country and area schools work with Stetson faculty featuring international artist/teachers members and in turn, come speak to each summer. Stetson classes or are involved in semi- The choir, under the direction of Ann nars. The program benefits public school Small, is one of only two choirs in the students as well as Stetson Students United States invited to participate in the through internships. week-long International Festival 500 Sharing the Voices Workshop/Celebration • INTERNSHIPS in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada this Stetson will place 5 to 6 Students at Celebration Teaching Academy next fall, 30 ProVeritate in Celebration, FL. The Stetson students special educator and a regular teacher. - will be working with elementary and Patrick Coggins is working on Project secondary students and their teachers in Harmony, a joint program with the an innovative approach to team-teaching Volusia County Sheriff's office to teach called neighborhoods. -This year there social skills and build relationships are 81 Stetson students interning at between diverse groups of middle school George Marks Elementary and 5 interns at students. Atlantic High School. At the elementary level, Stetson students begin by observing • USING NEW TECHNOLOGIES the classroom teachers and their students. The two-year-old curriculum lab, for Their field experience spirals through all Stetson education students, provides their Stetson courses. By the tune they are opportunities for creating classroom seniors, they teach actual classes. - materials on campus. Atlantic High School interns are pre- The lab was used as the site of a sented with many innovations because special two-week summer project for AHS is a high technology school. Stetson gifted students: Following the Equator. students gain practice in team-teaching Under the direction of Program Director with their mentors and in using block Bob Leahy, students produced a video scheduling, which allows the high- which they wrote and edited based on schoolers to be more active learners. the theme of Mark Twain's classic travelogue. • FACULTY NEWS The project, a celebration of the Two Stetson faculty members, Gary Moser centennial of Twain's journey, was High technology has found a home in two and Mercedes Tichenor, were invited to designed by Cindy Lovell, assistant new labs on campus. (Top photo) the attend the Ernest L. Boyer Technology director of the program and a Stetson Music School Voice Lab allows music Summit for educators with two teachers alumna. She is an avid collector of Mark school students to "see" their voices on from Atlantic High School. Now they are Twain memorabilia. In the photo below, screen and compare them to the voices of working to get grants on ways to update Lovell demonstrates techniques for great singers. Left to right, Katherine and acquire more technology in campus creating eel animations. Students also Rorher and faculty member Craig teacher education classrooms. - Two learned how to work with claymation Maddox discuss her voice graph. (Bottom) other faculty members Kathy Piechura- and 3-D set design, to sequence and Adrienne Harvey, a digital arts major, -Couture and Elizabeth Heins are involved videotape the action, dub in music, works in the digital arts lab where in creating an inclusion co-teaching dialogue, and narration, and ultimately students can prepare for careers in video, model for special needs children at create a 30-minute videotape. The animation, film scoring, and special Woodward Elementary School for 4th and master tapes created will he donated to effects.The Digital Arts program is a joint 5th grade classes. Their inclusion model of The Mark Twain Memorial in Connecti- venture between the Music School, and mainstreaming 10 or I I special needs cut and The Mark Tw ain Boyhood the Computer Science and the Art students into a regular classroom was the Home in Missouri. departments in the College of Arts and pilot for elementary schools in Volusia Sciences. (Photos/Chris Carlson) County. The children are co-taught by a Lincoln Hulley was university president Stetson alumna Cindy Lovell, a teacher at Burns-Oak Hill Elementary, works with when an edition of the Stetson Weekly students on a project she designed for the gifted in Stetson's curriculum lab. Collegiate printed both translations from Virgil and the news that "Mr. Tilden, Stetson's well-known baseball player, killed one hundred and twenty-five mosquitoes in his room one night."

Titled Rules and Regulations for Students of John B. Stetson University, a turn-of-the- century circular laid down the law: 'A young woman may, at the option of the Lady Principal, receive a call from a young man, providing a special written request to that effect is received from parent or guardian." Books, etc.

FANT DESCRIBES HALLUM EXPLORES PROTESTANT ROBINSON/FLOYD DUO `MISUNDERSTOOD JESUS' MOVEMENT IN CENTRAL AMERICA RELEASES NEW CD (Smyth & Helwys Publishing, 1996) (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1996) (Lakeside Records, 1996)

he Misunderstood Jesus: Ten Lost eyond Missionaries: Toward an nder the Influence, a new C: D Keys to Life, by religious studies Understanding of the Protestant recorded by music professor Tprofessor Clyde E. Fant, describes B Movement in Central America, by U Stephen Robinson and music Jesus Christ as the consummate outsider. political science professor Anne Motley alumna Angeleita Floyd, '74, , features "Jesus has always been misinterpreted by Hallum, explores the works strongly influenced by dance forms, those who want to neatly political and social folk genres, or single composers. Founder categorize him," said behavior of Central of Stetson's guitar program, Robinson Fant, adding that American Protestantism. studied with the late Andres Segovia. churches "bend him left Focusing on fast-growing Floyd studied flute with and right." Christ, on the Pentecostal groups, she the late Geoffrey other hand, was critical of argues that the impor- Gilbert at Stetson and traditional institutional tant distinction is teaches at the Univer- structure. "About half (of between the churches of sity of Northern Iowa. what is written) is about the poor and those Her book, The Gilbert things Christ never had instituted from outside Legacy: Methods, in mind, and much of it goes against what the culture or run by the elite. Based on Exercises and Techniques he really was," said Fant, former president field experience, she suggests that these for the Flutist, has won of the Baptist International Seminary in churches of the poor may foster deep wide acclaim. Both Switzerland. "I believe Jesus gave the societal transformations in Central musicians tour and perform extensively. church the answers to life, but sometimes America. Founder and chair of the non- the church gets mixed up about what he profit Alliance for International Refores- meant." tation Inc. (AIR), a community-based THORNE'S STATISTICS TEXT environmental organization working in OFFERS PRACTICAL_ HELP Guatemala, she is now researching grass- (Prentice Hall, 1997) FARRELL RELATES RUSSIAN roots environmentalism in Guatemala. CRITIC, MEDIEVAL. TEXTS pplied Statistical Methods: For ( University Press of Florida, 1995) Business, Economics, and the Social Sciences, by business professor MUSSER GUIDES WAY A akhtin and Medieval Voices, edited by TO NEW THEOLOGIANS Betty Thorne and William L. Carlson of English professor Thomas J. Farrell, (Abingdon Press, 1996) St. Olaf College, focuses on problem B is the first wide-ranging exploration solving and the importance of interdisci- of the theories of Russian critic Mikhail New Handbook of Christian plinary partnerships, a theme emphasized Bakhtin as they apply to Theologians, edited by religious by the cover photo of a hard-working medieval literature. Its Astudies professor Donald W. team of Alaskan sled collection of 10 essays Musser and Joseph L. Price of Whittier dogs. "Based on our challenges established College, is designed to years of teaching, we ways of reading medieval replace and supplement believe the best way to texts and builds a bridge the 30-year-old standard learn to solve prob- between Bakhtinians resource, A Handbook of lems is to practice," and medievalists. "What Christian Theologians by said Thorne, who Bakhtinians (and other Marty and Peerman. Its teaches decision and theorists) have to learn 54 articles range alpha- information sciences at Stetson. She said from better knowledge of betically from Thomas J.J. medieval literature can balance what Altizer to Womanist the material works medievalists ought to learn from theory," Theologians, and include with all kinds of students, from those with said Farrell. A Chaucerian scholar, he such diverse new streams strong math skills to those with math also contributed one of the essays, "The in contemporary theology as black anxiety. "Students learn because they see Chronotopes of Monology in Chaucer's theology, liberation theology; and feminist a wide range of realistic examples," she said. Clerk's Tale," to the collection. theology, which have arisen since the Marty/Peerman volume was published and represent new voices in the Christian dialogue.

32 ProVeritate A Stetson University Club for Caribbean culture lovers was born when a few students with island roots discovered they shared a common malady - homesickness. Caribbean in Miami that I missed the camaraderie Now in its second year, the Caribbean Club and shared interests," she recalled. is in full swing: Members staged two reggae "Before we formed the club, I was depressed and concerts and a "Carib Cookout" this fall didn't even know it," Raymond said. "I could have and will team up with the Office of joined any group on campus, but I wanted to share Admissions in the spring to get the my culture and the experiences I was having. Stetson story to prospective students "One day in class I heard a student speak and, around the Caribbean. although she had no obvious accent, I knew she With the help of their mentor, was Caribbean," Raymond said. "I introduced Andrew Daire, a native of Jamaica myself and said, `Where are you from?' We began and assistant director of Stetson's talking and both our accents were hack in two Counseling Center, students seconds." tackled the formal process of That was the day Raymond met Aeleia gaining recognition as a campus organi- Sanderson, also of Jamaica. They and Sandra zation. Daire became official adviser and Tomlinson, whose home is on Grand Cayman, unofficial "awesome" chef, according to club soon founded the Caribbean Club. Sanderson was members. On the club's planning day in September, the first president. he treated officers and committee chairs to a This year's officers are co-presidents Tomlinson Caribbean-style feast of red beans and rice Iong - and Shani Bowen of Jamaica, with Melissa Shep- simmered in coconut milk, a hatch of fried plan- herd, Barbados, as secretary-treasurer. Committees tains and platters of spicy jerk chicken and chicken address education, fund-raising, communications with curry. and programming. Members represent more than a dozen islands According to Tomlinson, members are excited dotting the Caribbean, yet the club isn't solely for about a new dimension for the club: teaming up those who miss the turquoise sea and silky beaches, with Admissions Z)ean Mary Napier to develop a the lilt of patois and exotic cookery. Some fact sheet for prospective Caribbean students and a regulars have never visited the tropical ports; they plan to make them feel welcome from the day they represent the Caribbean aficionados on campus. first inquire about Stetson. This year the club has grown to around 65. "It's all about building relationships and making "The nature of the Caribbean is diversity, so new students feel at home," Napier said. "The students from there thrive on cultural differences," students in the Caribbean Club will make said Stetson alum Daire, a certified trainer in great ambassadors for Stetson." multicultural education and cultural diversity. "They're proud of their heritage and enjoy sharing it, but they also have a healthy respect for others' uniqueness. Heather-Gail Raymond, who calls Jamaica home, was studying voice at Miami's New World School of the Arts when Duncan Above, Nikki Stafford, left, and Lan Quang Couch, director of choral activities, recruited keep an eye on the grill her for Stetson's School of Music. during last fall's Carib "1)r. Couch tactfully told me that New Cookout. At right, World's 'grunge look' wouldn't work at hungry Caribbean Club Stetson," said Raymond. "So I changed to members gather 'round a preppy wardrobe." for the feast. (Photos/ But it took more than clothes to make her Cheryl Downs) feel at home on the DeLand campus. "There were so many students from the