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Gleanings from Gail & Inspired Lifel: Page 3 Charge On, a Message from Our President: Page 4 Spring Schedule of Class January 2019 Gleanings from Gail & Inspired LIFEl: page 3 Charge On, a message from our President: page 4 Spring Schedule of Classes: page 5 LIFE Out Loud & Proud to be a Knight: page 6 A Wink at LIFE: page 7 UCF IN THE NEWS: page 8 spotLIFE: Mercia Mason-Fudim: page 9 LIFE's Collin & Did You Know?: page 11 Honors/LIFE Book Club & Deserving Students: page 12 Lunch with LIFE 02 LIFE at UCF and the Burnett Honors College are excited to announce a new partnership on a program called LUNCH with LIFE! 12 LIFE students and 12 Honor’s students will attend a 10:30 LIFE program and then go back to the Honor’s college for catered lunch followed by small group discussion. Our first program will be on Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 at 10:30am in the Pegasus Ballroom. Reserved seating will be held for LIFE and Honor’s students to sit together. Following the program at 11:30, the group will go to the BHC for a catered lunch and discussion. Watch your Tuesday email blast on January 15th, 2019 for sign-up information. The second LUNCH with LIFE will be held on March 3rd. Above: A beautiful camp for special children - Sharon Couture led the tour for LIFE members, sharing the beautiful campus, cabins, art and theater activities that help children enjoy their stay. 03 home each week, there is a life, past and present, never short survey about the fail to produce a chuckle (or speakers we just heard. Take a guffaw). Our first “spotLIFE” minute, (seriously, it won’t take participant, Sam Shutt, has longer than that) to fill it out. made searching for a “funny” This is valuable to the or "funnies” obsolete since he committee for future now is the provider for “LIFE scheduling. If you have a Out Loud, LOL” each month. suggestion for a speaker, let the This month he has also committee know by filling out a contributed our “Inspired green suggestion sheet that is LIFE.” If you want to give always available at the writing and/or contributing a Welcome table each week. shot, we’d love to add you to I cannot tell you how delighted the staff! I have been with the number of The last thing I’d like to share, members who have asked if we Alli and I are adding a LOT WOW! 2018 seemed to zoom by would be interested in their more color to LIFEtimes. The and now we have begun 2019! I story for “spotLIFE!” Don’t be only way to view this colorful hope every LIFE member and shy, let’s keep this popular new newsletter is to go online loved ones had a wonderful column going. We have 800 to www.life.ucf.edu and click holiday season and is now members, each with an on the newsletter tab. LIFE is prepared to enjoy the array of interesting tale to tell. If you ever so much more enjoyable classes that our Curriculum miss me at a LIFE meeting, in living color! Committee has prepared. As email me at always, there are several ways [email protected] and we to educate yourself on will add you to the queue of upcoming sessions. 1) You will fantastic stories for a future receive an email prior to the issue! next meeting; 2) check out our If you have a hankering to write website, www.life.ucf.edu; 3) a monthly column, bring it on! save the copy of the spring Diane Wink; “a Wink at LIFE,” schedule printed in this has become a contributor. Her month’s LIFEtimes. In your humorous stories about UCF email, by the time you get A 04 CHARGE WORD FROM OUR LIFE ON: PRESIDENT Welcome back to the from Global to Jim Burr, who has Spring 2019 sessions Perspectives are very led the curriculum of Lifelong Learning educational and committee for over at Life@UCF! I hope thought provoking. two years with you all enjoyed a We also have four wisdom, patience, wonderful Holiday presentations related and extraordinary Season — Now back to our health from coordinating skills. We to class. As you may Medical School are very excited that see on our schedule updates, to culinary Dr. Jack McGuire has of class medicine, Genomics stepped up to the presentations we and Disability. position of curriculum have extraordinary As a special treat we chair and I am very variety in our class have a special confident that our sessions this Spring. session with Amanda presentations will be I always enjoy the Meyer (a former in great hands. three sessions from student assistant) on the music her experiences as a department as we Fulbright Scholar in Sincerely, view talented young Bulgaria. performers of I offer a special exceptional levels of Thank You Julian Meitin skill. The four President presentations 05 06 Proud to be a Knight by Ann Gardepe [This piece was originally Central Florida in 1978, to published in the Orlando earn a master's degree. So, I whose vision and guidance Sentinel on June 29, 2018.] have degrees from FTU and have led to impressive The retirement this week of UCF; the same school! heights in technology, Dr. John C. Hitt, after 26 years My husband, John, medicine, sports, the arts and as UCF's illustrious president, attended classes to attain his community involvement. We has me thinking about my Florida teaching certificate Knights are supremely own long-time connection to and later we celebrated our grateful! We wish Dr. Dale the university. I became a daughter's graduation from Whittaker the best as he takes student in January, 1969, UCF. the helm and to you, Dr. Hitt, when it was Florida John and I are now 5th year thank you and Godspeed! Technological University and members of the Learning Charge on, UCF! Once a graduated in the charter class Institute for Elders known as Knight, always a Knight! of 1970. There were 3 LIFE at UCF---still students buildings on campus and and still very proud of our none were parking garages! knighthood. Looking back, it With my degree in education I is amazing to see how far the taught in Orange County university has come since its Public Schools for 37 years, founding in 1963, thanks to during which time I returned the leadership of Dr. Charles to the school, renamed the Millican, Dr. Trevor Colburn University of and especially, Dr. John C. Hitt rain, snow, sleet, or hail: 07 UCF Football's history of delivering wins by Diane regardless of weather conditions Wink regulations which allowed their (e.g. Kevin Smith, Leger Douzable, UCF football has achieved a omission. The only way to get water Joe Burnett, and Michael Buscemi) wonderful record of wins, losses, and was to hold your container under a neither UCF or Mississippi State could comebacks including conference restroom sink faucet which was move the ball and there were 13 championships and major bowl game angled to allow only half the bottle punts in just the first half and only 419 wins, our blowout 2017 and 2018 to fill. Luckily, the weather TOTAL yards in the game. The only seasons and a 25-game win streak. remained typically Floridian and a scores were field goals by each team Just this year our football team won truly life-saving rain began and in the second quarter and a the War on I-4, AAC Eastern Division continued long enough to cool Mississippi State Touchdown and and AAC Conference Championships everyone off. Sadly, Texas did win extra point right before the game and, for the second time, played in the the game 35 to 32. The other ended. Regardless, there was also Fiesta Bowl which, sadly, we lost 40- outcome was the installation of repeated ear splitting ringing of cow water fountains throughout the bells at even the smallest Mississippi 32 to LSU. stadium concourse by game two the Other than asking about wins and next weekend, at which time State accomplishment - maybe to losses, a good way to get fans talking administrators from President Hitt keep warm. about football is to bring up the down, manned entrance gates to There was a much colder FB game impact of weather, significant ever give a bottle of water to every fan December 7, 2013 when UCF defeated since UCF FB played its first Div III attending. SMU 49-20 in a literally frozen (24 °F) game September 9, 1979 at St. Leo’s in Move forward to December 27, stadium in Dallas. Was not a big pre-hurricane rain on a muddy 2007, that season’s end, and UCF’s stressor for fans since less than 1000 puddle-filled field (not a stadium). Liberty Bowl game in Memphis braved the ice storm to watch in UCF FB has a storied history of playing against Mississippi State. The day person. With this win, UCF, led by in blistering heat, numbing cold, and dawned overcast and presented quarterback Blake Bortles, became monsoon like rain such as the games two major challenges. The first was co-winner of the AAC conference against Texas, Mississippi State, SMU clear during the pre-game tailgate championship and went on to win the and Marshall. held in a large shed near the Fiesta Bowl 52-42 over Baylor. September 15, 2007, the opening day stadium. As UCF fans arrived we But, no question, if you mention for Bright House (now Spectrum) were given a small plastic gold weather to any UCF FB fan, the thing colored clicker topped with a star they will ask is “Were you at the Stadium, dawned bright and warm.
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