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Design and Production am orris P M These words are the driving force Editorial Assistant Aprille Case behind the inaugural “Let Us Play” Lee Lab/Ryals Photo FSU dinner and auction, a special event to raise funds for The Florida State University’s Women’s Scholarship Endowment, scheduled for September and a team of volunteers want to make 25 at the Florida State Basketball sure women’s athletics has scholarship Training Center. With headliners funding to respond to the “Let Us Florida State University across the years such as track stars Play” call for decades to come. Board of Trustees Susan Kuijken, Kim Batten and “I have always had a passion for Chair Jim Smith Kim Williams; basketball standouts women’s athletics, and I wanted to get Vice Chair Harold Knowles Members of the Let Us Play com- Derrick Brooks Brooke Wyckoff and Tia Paschal; golf involved to support them,” Spetman and both live and silent auctions with mittee are, from left, Diana Padgett, Susie Busch-Transou champion Caroline Westrup; soccer star said. “FSU has a great women’s items like weekend getaways, dinner Aimee Wirth, Becky Spetman, Emily Fleming Duda Mami Yamaguchi; and softball standout program, but we needed to do more, with the Bowdens, skybox seats and Rachel Catalano, Valerie Peacock, David Ford Jessica Van der Linden, to name just so we put together a committee of specialty packages. Cassandra Jenkins, Susan Powers, Manny Garcia a few, women athletes at Florida State 20 women — former athletes and “It takes hundreds of thousands of Susie Busch-Transou, Connie William “Andy” Haggard Jenkins-Pye, Vicki Childers and Robert J. Jakubik have been highly successful. prominent figures on campus and in dollars to endow a single scholarship. James E. Kinsey Jr. Florida State answered their plea to the local business community — who We need help from all Seminole fans,” Erica Uzzell. Not pictured are Carole Richard McFarlain “Let Us Play.” The university and the support women’s academics and Spetman said. “We’re expecting a Smith, Lee Hinkle, Michelle Wilson, Cecile Reynaud, Genie Morcom, Leslie Pantin Jr. players are stronger and more successful athletics.” big crowd for an evening to celebrate Eric C. Walker Jennifer Anderson and Alicia Crew. because Florida State was able to The event will feature dinner, our star athletes — past, present and President T.K. Wetherell provide the support they needed. appearances by former Florida State future.” reserve tickets, visit www.seminoles. Vice President for Now Becky Spetman, wife of athletes, including Gabrielle Reece — For more information, to contribute com/genrel/letusplay.html or call (850) University Relations & Advancement Athletics Director Randy Spetman, volleyball champ and fashion model — items or services for the event, and to 644-3484. Lee Hinkle

Assistant V.P. and Director of University Communications College hosts ‘boot camp’ to Franklin D. Murphy Director of News and Public Affairs turn veterans into entrepreneurs Browning Brooks wounded in post-Sept. 11 conflicts easy one,” said Randy Blass, an at a consortium of schools, President of the By Lindsay Potvin from as far away as California assistant in organizational behavior including Texas A&M University, FSU Alumni Association College of Business Scott Atwell to Tallahassee for a crash course in the College of Business and the University of California-Los The 19 veterans who arrived at in entrepreneurship. Everything director of the boot camp. “This Angeles, Purdue University and President of the Seminole Boosters the Florida State University College from marketing, raising capital, program gives them the tools to Syracuse University. The program Andy Miller of Business on June 9 didn’t know licensing and filing for patents to be entrepreneurs, but it also gives also is recognized by the Army one another and weren’t sure what creating the actual business plan them the confidence to make a Community Covenant program of to expect. When they left on June was covered. The rigorous camp positive transition back into their the Department of the Army as a 17, they were a close-knit group of “national best practice” program. The Florida State Times is published six times culminated in each participant’s lives at home.” annually by the Florida State University up-and-coming entrepreneurs, ready presentation of his or her business The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp To learn more about the Communications Group, the Alumni Association, to succeed in the business world. plan to a group of “angel” for Veterans with Disabilities, program and how individuals can the FSU Foundation and Seminole Boosters This year’s Entrepreneurship investors. which began in 2007 at the lend their assistance, visit www. Inc. to keep alumni, friends, faculty and staff informed about FSU’s growth, change, needs Bootcamp for Veterans with “The transition between being Whitman School of Management cob.fsu.edu/ebv. and accomplishments. Views expressed in the Disabilities brought veterans a soldier and a citizen isn’t an at Syracuse University, is offered Florida State Times are not necessarily the views of university officials or the newspaper staff. Inclusion of underwriting does not constitute an endorsement of the products or services. To suggest stories or offer comments, send an e-mail to Editor in Chief Jeffery Seay, jseay@fsu. edu, or write to the Florida State Times, 1600 Red Barber Plaza, Tallahassee, FL 32310-6068. To submit address changes or obituaries, send an e-mail to [email protected]. edu. To submit news for Alumni News Notes, send an e-mail to [email protected]. To inquire about advertising, call Crystal Cumbo at (850) 487-3170, ext. 352. The Florida State Times is available in alternative format upon request. It is printed on recycled paper.

Available online at The 2009 graduating class of the 2009 Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities are, from left, Sayngeun “Sy” Phouamkha, http://unicomm. Eulanda Shingleton, Ricardo “Ricky” Perez, Christopher “C.J.” Greer, Johnny Moncayo, Garland “Zac” Faison, Luis Perez, Holli Summerset, fsu.edu/pages/ Kenyona Wilson, Ben Houston, Jeff Miller, Clifford Hawkins, Greg Amira, Ernest Charles, Lee Stewart, Allen Schmidt, Christopher Cancialosi, Jon Hurley FloridaStateTimes.html and Jose Vasquez. 4 FLORIDA STATE Times August 2009 KE TA S SHORT

Wagner named Lawton Peace laureates who sit on its board of laureate has yet to be determined. Distinguished Professor directors. PeaceJam Southeast is a program of A psychology professor who has The laureates take turns headlining Florida State’s Center for Leadership helped establish The Florida State annual conferences sponsored by each and Civic Education. To learn more, FSU Photo Lab/Michele Edmunds Lab/Michele Photo FSU University as one of the nation’s region. This past spring, Nobel Peace visit PeaceJam.org, call (850) 645-8782 D’Alemberte immortalized: As a tribute to his vision to build a medical premier institutions for research into laureate Betty Williams was the guest at or send an e-mail to rhthompson@ school at The Florida State University, a statue of President Emeritus learning disabilities such as dyslexia has Florida State’s first PeaceJam. admin.fsu.edu. Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte has been installed on the east side of the received The Florida State University’s “We seek to transform our students, Coming to TV this fall: John Thrasher Building, home of the College of Medicine. The college, highest faculty honor. no matter their age, in three ways, the ‘Strength, Skill, Character’ which opened in June 2000, was established and accredited during Richard K. Wagner, Florida State’s first being through education,” said D’Alemberte’s tenure, which ran from 1994 to 2002. The statue was Alfred Binet Professor of Psychology Rody Thompson, director of PeaceJam During the Seminole’s 2009 televised sculpted under the leadership of sculptor Melinda Copper at the univer- and a Distinguished Professor of Southeast. “PeaceJam is more than just football games, viewers will be treated sity’s Master Craftsman Studio. D’Alemberte and his wife, Patsy Palmer, Psychology, has been named the 2009- a conference. It has a yearlong, age- to a special “national television message” were very appreciative of the tribute at the April 9 unveiling of the statue. 2010 Robert O. Lawton Distinguished appropriate curriculum for elementary-, about The Florida State University a couple (one male and one female & Gold, Bill’s Bookstore, the Seminole Professor. It is the highest award that middle- and high-school students. and three of its highest-caliber students between the ages of 51 and 61) who Sportshop at Doak Campbell Stadium, the Florida State faculty can bestow on Florida State students will be able to who embody the university’s values are not business owners, have never the Seminole Bookstore in the campus one of its own. serve younger students in Leon County of “Strength, Skill and Character.” experienced bankruptcy, and have parking garage on Woodward Avenue, (Florida) by going into schools to However, their identities won’t be children. and at www.seminoles.com. teach them about the lives and work revealed until the commercial airs during To participate, call (850) 644-5465 of Nobel Peace laureates, helping them the first televised game against Miami or send an e-mail to financestudy@ Athletics donates to understand their values and roles as on Sept. 7. Check local listings for time lsi.fsu.edu. The survey will not ask $100,000 to library leaders for change. Florida State students and station. participants to disclose any information also will be involved in planning and A similar national television The Florida State University’s Strozier about their identities, and all presenting conference workshops, and message aired during the 2008 football Library has become one of the top volunteered data will be kept secure and figuring out service initiatives for the season featuring Rhodes Scholars beneficiaries of the Seminole football confidential. younger students and, in turn, being Garrett Johnson and Joe O’Shea, and team’s win over Wisconsin in the able to work alongside them. Champs Sports Bowl last December. Goldwater Scholar Rebecca Stone. It Florida State Times “Then there is transformational Florida State Athletics delivered a check can be viewed at www.fsu.com. readership survey inspiration derived through interaction in June for $100,000 to the library from with our Nobel laureates,” Thompson Heritage Protocol The editors of the Florida State Times proceeds of the team’s participation in said. “The conference, which is geared accepting historical items invite our readers to take a survey about the Orlando-based bowl. for high school students, is the most The Florida State University’s this publication at http://tinyurl.com/ “We are pleased to be able to continue Richard Wagner compelling way to inspire kids, and Heritage Protocol program is dedicated FSTimes-Survey. The survey will remain a long history of a significant financial “I could not have been more every year we’ll have a different Nobel to identifying, acquiring, cataloging, posted through the end of September commitment to academic projects surprised and delighted to learn laureate on campus.” and preserving items related to the and can be taken at any time until then. from athletics,” said FSU Director of of this award,” Wagner said. “It is It is Thompson’s hope that high institutional history and cultural heritage Results will be published later this year Athletics Randy Spetman. “Athletics is incredibly humbling for three reasons. school students from throughout of the university and its predecessor in the Florida State Times. an integral component of the mission The first is what I know about the PeaceJam Southeast’s five-state region institutions. To that end, the program and experience of higher education, and ‘TRUE Seminoles’ pregame contributions of some equally or — Florida, Alabama, Georgia, South is accepting donations of artifacts at Florida State we have been able to tailgate parties more deserving colleagues who have Carolina and North Carolina — will be from alumni, former faculty and staff join with Seminole Boosters to give back yet to receive it. The second is what able to attend future PeaceJams on the members, and friends of the university. During the 2009 football season, to academic interests. We are fortunate I know about the contributions Florida State campus. Photographs and ephemera are of the Seminole Student Boosters and to be one of the shrinking number of of previous recipients, including “Lastly, transformation comes from particular interest, but nothing is off the Florida State University Division athletics programs that are self sustaining, psychology Professor Jim Smith, taking action,” she said. “Everyone limits. To donate an item or make of Student Affairs will co-sponsor two which enhances the impact of the who has been a mentor to me since who participates in PeaceJam must be arrangements to have the item picked TRUE Seminoles pre-game tailgate academic support.” I arrived at Florida State fresh out engaged in service. So beginning in up, send an e-mail to Eddie Woodward parties: Sept. 7, from 3 to 5 p.m., prior Florida State defeated Wisconsin of graduate school. The third is how elementary school and going all the way at [email protected] or call 850-645- to the Miami game; and Sept. 26, time 42-13 to finish the 2008 season with much of a role my colleagues and through, there are service requirements 7988. tba, prior to the University of South a 9-4 record. The bowl game was the friends have played in what we have through our Global Call to Action.” Florida game. Both events will be at Seminole’s 27th consecutive, which accomplished.” PeaceJam’s Global Call to Action Alumni sought for research Wildwood Plaza, between Ragans and is the longest active streak in college project encourages students to engage in service Wildwood halls on the Florida State football. PeaceJam makes FSU its projects to address 10 core issues of David W. Eccles, the lead research campus. “Strozier Library has benefitted from southeastern headquarters injustice and suffering, which include scientist at the Florida State University The TRUE Seminoles campaign several gifts from athletics in the past and PeaceJam, an international finding ways to equalize access to water Center for Expert Performance began in 2007 as a way to unite the this most recent donation comes at a organization that seeks to inspire and other natural resources; ending Research, is seeking participants for a student body by advancing the ideals time when funds are in highest demand students to better themselves and racism and hate; halting the spread national study of household finances. of “Tradition, Respect, Unity and on campus,” said Julia Zimmerman, their surroundings through education, of global disease; eliminating extreme Participants will be asked to complete Excellence.” dean of University Libraries. “It is critical inspiration and action, has made poverty; restoring Earth’s environment; a survey involving only a few hours of This year’s TRUE Pride T-shirt, the that the libraries at Florida State receive The Florida State University its and breaking the cycle of violence. work and will be paid $50. Households proceeds of which endow scholarships support from our friends and alumni in Southeast region headquarters and, in The spring 2010 PeaceJam that are asked to participate in the for student-athletes and provide order to fulfill our mission. It is nice to turn, will give Florida State students Southeast conference will be March second phase of research will be paid opportunities for students in need, will be a part of this team and we appreciate unprecedented access to the 12 Nobel 20-21. The headlining Nobel Peace $300. Participants should be part of be available in Tallahassee at Garnet the support of athletics.” 5 FLORIDA STATE August 2009 Times Spend money wisely, creatively to weather recession

By Dave Fiore coupons and manufacturer’s coupons, things really clicked. By combining The fact that families are feeling the three, our grocery spending went the pinch of an economic recession down by about one-third, but I was is not surprising, but according to a bringing home two to three times Florida State University researcher, more stuff.” the impact may be more widespread Today, Nuzzo’s Web site, www. than expected. FrugalCouponLiving.com, is known In his study, which focused primarily across the country — and the world with recession-related stress in the — as an invaluable resource for workplace, Wayne Hochwarter, the families looking to save big dollars, Jim Moran Professor of Management one coupon at a time. at Florida State’s College of Business, Creating the site became a necessity found that more than 70 percent of after word began to spread of her men and women admitted also making money-saving ways, according to significant spending changes at home. Nuzzo. This included decisions to limit or “Friends and family were constantly eliminate the purchase of items deemed Ashley Nuzzo Wayne Hochwarter asking me where the deals were, and nonessential. I was always repeating myself, so I “Scared — it’s the one word I would started posting to a personal blog and use to describe the mental status of wanted to do. I started Diffraction as Ashley Nuzzo, with daughter Lucianna then started the Web site,” Nuzzo employees these days,” Hochwarter a creative outlet, and it grew. I started said. said. “Employees are more stressed and getting wholesalers and doing shows said it was scary when they decided to Helping to increase her exposure more strained today, and they aren’t and then realized it could be a full- give the idea a try, they knew it was the were an article in U.S. News & World looking to make a move to improve time career.” right time to take a risk. Report and an appearance on the “Dr. their situation. The study shows At the one-year mark, Cummings “I sat back and realized that I Phil” show in February 2009. Today, employees have little confidence that now focuses on her sister company, will only be 26 once, and I have the site averages between 5,000 and the next work situation will be any DiffractionFIBER (www. something I really believe in and know 7,000 visitors per day. more secure than the current one.” diffractionfiber.etsy.com), for which I can make work,” she said. “Even if “I did not want to reinvent the While the economic tide is low, she designs and produces offbeat my parents think I’m insane.” wheel,” Nuzzo said. “The key is to two Florida State alumni are teaching pillows, mouse pads and keychains plan your menus around what is on others to stretch their dollars further, from material that is made up of ‘COUPON QUEEN’ sale and then stockpile. We have items one by promoting handmade over Beth Cummings 100-percent recycled plastic bottles. Florida State alumna Ashley Nuzzo stored in the pantry, laundry room, mass-produced gifts, the other “They are modern with a sense (B.S. ’04, Elementary Education) is bathroom cabinets and the linen through the use of coupons. of humor,” Cummings said. “I love making extra money by saving money closet.” ‘HAND MAIDEN’ the modern aesthetic, but it is always choose handmade every time.” and helping other families do the The process of gathering, printing Throwing caution to the wind to cold. This is a fun way to liven things For example, Cummings’ three- same. The elementary school teacher and organizing the coupons, and then follow her dream, Beth Cummings up.” pillow set with the words “Control,” turned stay-at-home mom decided making the shopping lists, takes the (B.A. ’05, Theatre) opened an online Handmade gifts are especially “Alt” and “Delete” on them has really even before the recession that her average family around an hour and a store called “Diffraction,” selling popular in a recession, according to taken off. family needed to make some changes. half every week, Nuzzo said. handmade jewelry made from original Cummings. “A blog picked them up and then “When we had our baby, we went “We are now looking differently at photographs. “If someone is looking for a great 15 more blogs, so I had IT guys from from two incomes to one, so we every dollar we have,” she said. “When “I have been creating things present and wants to spend $20, a all over the world wanting them,” had to cut down our spending and we are able to buy more than we all my life, and I come from an unique, handmade gift is perfect,” Cummings said. “I was making them shop differently,” Nuzzo said. “We can use, we donate it to charity. It is entrepreneurial family,” Cummings she said. “With less money to nonstop for two weeks straight.” had always been watching pennies, important to spend less and give away said. “I tried the 9-to-5 thing for a spend, they put more thought on Although Cummings and husband but when I learned the secret of more, which is good for everyone in while, but it was really not what I where to spend it, and most will Patrick Regan Davis (B.A. ’05, Theatre) combining store sales with store times like these.” Alumnus’s book recounts remarkable era in Florida politics

been written about the tumultuous “The new people were better on the book, documentary By Dave Fiore political period. educated, altruistic and progressive,” and a political blog When Florida State University “It started as a memoir but quickly McKnight said. “There was no more maintained by McKnight can alumnus Bob McKnight (M.B.A. veered into more substantive issues,” ‘good ol’ boy’ network, and no more be obtained at www. ’67, Management) sat down to McKnight said. “‘The Golden Years’ ties to special interests. They didn’t goldenyearspoliticalcollection. record his thoughts about his time as were an extraordinary opportunity even know who the special interests com. a state legislator from South Florida for change in Florida, mandated by were. It was a like a clean slate.” in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he the U.S. Supreme Court.” It took the entire decade of the never dreamed it would evolve into A forced reapportionment resulted 1970s to effect all that change, a book that would help define an era in a dramatic shift of power from according to McKnight, a period of unprecedented change in Florida the Panhandle to South Florida and that also included the emergence of politics. brought an end to the influence some of Florida’s political elite, such The idea for “The Golden Years of the infamous “porkchoppers,” as Lawton Chiles, Reubin Askew and … The Florida Legislature, ’70s a North Florida-based group Bob Graham. and ’80s, Reflections on Campaigns of “good ol’ boy” conservative The book, which has attracted and Public Service” (Sentry Press, legislators. It also created an influx of interest as possible PBS and 2007) was born from McKnight’s inexperienced first-term lawmakers cable documentaries, is in its realization that not much had with wide eyes and big ideas. second printing. Information Bob McKnight 6 FLORIDA STATE Times August 2009 Two colleges merge into one

By Audrey Post and Disorders, and the School of of the College of Information, traditions of innovation and media, digital video and project and Bob Branciforte Library and Information Studies. who will serve as dean of the new success of three Florida State management; U.S. News & World College of Communication Students in existing programs will combined college. “The merger programs,” said Gary Heald, who Report ranks the programs in and Information transition seamlessly into the new gives us the opportunity to rethink became interim dean of the College Communication Science and Seizing an opportunity to college in August. how we can provide quality of Communication after the Disorders and those in the College strengthen their traditional “The recent climate of cuts education for more students with February retirement of longtime of Information among the very programs and explore new in educational funding makes less money.” dean John Mayo. “Communication best in the nation. We are building interdisciplinary offerings, the resources at the university very “The beauty of this merger has cutting-edge programs in our future on a foundation of College of Communication and scarce,” said Larry Dennis, dean is that it brings together the communication, advertising, new excellence.” the College of Information at The Florida State University merged Economic reality ... continued from page 1 on July 1. Faculties of both colleges voted Abele. “We want to put Florida Tempore Reggie Cuyler said students Atmospheric Sciences unit. members will be retained with to approve the merger in early State in the strongest position we understand what the administration • In the College of Business, the stimulus funds to also ensure that April, and Provost and Executive can until the economy begins to is up against. Dedman School of Hospitality master’s and doctoral students who Vice President for Academic recover.” “The vice presidents and the and the Professional Golf are affected can graduate. Affairs Lawrence G. Abele “These cuts have been a painful president have been very considerate Management Program will come “The administration has planned approved the creation of the new but necessary exercise,” said English of student interests and needs,” said under separate accreditation from effectively to deal with the budget College of Communication and Associate Professor and Faculty Cuyler, a member of the Budget the college so they can be open to cuts so that the impact on the quality Information. Senate President Eric Walker. “Faced Crisis Committee, which met more more students and become self- of the university is minimized,” said “Pooling the resources and with $56 million in cuts, faculty than a dozen times. He lobbied for, supporting. Music Professor and past Faculty combining the strengths of both support the goal of a sustainable and won, assurances that Strozier • The College of Social Work Senate President Jayne Standley. colleges will put the new college budget over three years. Although Library would be held harmless is exploring the possibility of “This has been accomplished over in a leadership position to address the university has not been able even though it had been slated merging with another college. the past year in an open format with emerging communication and to avoid some faculty layoffs, the for cuts. “That was one of the top • The College of Visual Arts, input from all areas, especially faculty information challenges of the 21st faculty has been a regular part of issues for the student body, and the Theatre & Dance will be and students. I feel confident that century,” Abele said. a process that has attempted to administration listened.” restructured into three schools: the overall plan is the best that could The merged college includes the minimize such actions through every Wetherell said the university will Theatre, Dance and Art Design. be devised under extraordinarily dire School of Communication, the other cost-savings measure possible.” receive approximately $22.9 million The college will suspend its circumstances, and that the university School of Communication Science Student Senate President Pro annually for the next two years in lighting program, scenic design, community will continue to work federal stimulus money that is non- and Art Education B.S. degree. together to ensure a quality education recurring, which will aid in retaining • FSU-Panama City must become for the students of Florida State.” Students support faculty affected faculty for the maximum self-supporting in three years. Its length of time possible. budget will be cut by 25 percent salaries with campaign In addition, tuition will be raised (although it will receive federal Upset about 15 percent for in-state undergraduate stimulus funds). It will suspend its By Jeffery Seay inadequate funding to be adversely affected by the and graduate students, which will Information Studies and resident Editor in Chief Legislature’s inadequate funding of bring in an additional $9.3 million MBA program except online and at The Florida State You know times are tough when higher education. At Florida State, in 2009-10. The increase will not is developing a plan with Gulf University? students begin raising money to help the average faculty salary is $10,000 apply to out-of-state students, law or Coast Community College to Tell Florida’s elected pay the salaries of their professors. behind the national average, despite medical students, all of whom pay accept freshman and sophomore On March 19, The Florida State some variances. It is not unusual higher tuition. students, pending Board of leaders: Governor’s University’s 2009 Senior Class for a faculty member to leave FSU “Although these revenues will Governors approval. Florida State Office, (850) 488-4441; launched the “POP! Protect Our for a comparable position elsewhere help us offset the current budget will encourage students who House of Representatives Professors” campaign, a noble effort and receive a raise of anywhere from reduction, we will still face a are not admitted to the main to support the university’s faculty in $20,000 to $40,000. significant gap that will become campus to begin their studies Education Committee, the face of pay cuts that were being Administrators have yet to decide more urgent when the stimulus at the Panama City campus, (850) 414-6694; proposed by the Florida Legislature. how “POP!” money will be applied. money goes away in two years,” Florida State’s “Campus on the and Senate The Senior Class set out to raise “The faculty is extremely grateful Wetherell said. “That’s why we’ve Coast.” Military personnel with $100,000 from their own ranks, from for the student support in the planned for three years out.” honorable discharges or currently Education Committee, fellow Florida State students and ‘Protect Our Professors’ campaign,” Over the past 18 months, serving will be admitted to select (850) 487-5213. from the general public. said Eric Walker, an associate administrators at Florida State have undergraduate and graduate From setting up information tables professor of English who serves as cut enrollment, frozen positions programs at Panama City. If you feel strongly on campus to using Facebook and the president of the Faculty Senate. and hiring, reduced travel, cut • The Ringling Cultural Center other online resources to generate “Far more than any dollar amount, utility usage, reduced supplies and in Sarasota must become self- about the future success support, the Senior Class raised this effort provides a tremendous severely reduced the president’s supporting in three years. of Florida State, find your $57,023.63 over three-and-a-half morale boost during threatening and six vice presidents’ budgets. In • The Asolo MFA acting program niche and support it every months. What’s more, an anonymous times. Once again, FSU students addition to millions of dollars in in Sarasota also must become self- donor who had originally pledged to have demonstrated their ability cuts in administrative functions, the supporting. year. To begin making match the campaign total decided to to keep their eye on the ball: the new plan enacts various changes in • The colleges of Education, an annual contribution, contribute $100,000 on top of what academic mission of the university, academic programs. Human Sciences, Music, Nursing call the FSU Foundation the seniors raised. which is crucial to the future of the For example: and Social Sciences also will The final budget did not include state.” • In the College of Arts and suspend or restructure some at (850) 644-6000. pay cuts for faculty members; Gov. Walker predicted that higher Sciences, the geology department programs. Contributions also Charlie Crist’s veto of state employee education will be given greater will be suspended as a separate The university will work closely can be made online at pay cuts did not directly affect faculty priority as this generation of students department but will be with undergraduate students in the members. Still, faculty member assumes positions of leadership in merged with meteorology and affected programs to work out plans www.foundation.fsu.edu. salaries throughout Florida continue the state. oceanography into a new Earth & for completing their degrees. Faculty 7 FLORIDA STATE August 2009 Times alumni.fsu.edu

Scott Atwell Rites of autumn await alumni President, players. Visit alumni.fsu.edu or call hundred Seminole faithful as we sail new feature, the Festival of Colleges, 2009 Football Schedule Alumni (850) 644.2761 for tickets. on an alumni cruise to the Bahamas. outside Doak Campbell Stadium. Date Game Event Association • Alumni Open House. In school, Our Disney friends will televise the Drop by this tented city to find out 9/7 MIAMI you only ventured to the President’s game live on the boat as we sail for what’s new with your college. This 912 JAX STATE O House to serenade the first family Nassau, joined by Heisman Trophy year’s Homecoming game falls on 9/19 at Brigham Young W/T 9/26 s. FLORIDA O In short order, you can initiate a with song or to make good on a winner Chris Weinke. He will help Halloween, so bring the kids for treats. 10/3 at Boston College W/T robust conversation among Florida fraternity dare. Today, the “old” us celebrate the 10-year anniversary Your FSU Alumni Association is 10/10 GEORGIA TECH O State alumni by asking a simple president’s house across Tennessee of the 1999 National Championship celebrating its 100th anniversary this 10/22 at North Carolina W/T question: “Spring or fall, which Street is the new Pearl Tyner Alumni with a big-screen viewing of the Sugar year, and more events can be found 10/31 N.C. STATE O on-campus season do you long Welcome Center, and the welcome Bowl win over Virginia Tech. Ask us in the center spread titled “Alumni 11/7 at Clemson W/T 11/14 at Wake Forest W/T for most?” Viewpoints are often mat is always out — especially on about availability of cabins. Association Times,” starting on page 11/21 MARYLAND O home Fridays game from 5 to 7 p.m. • Homecoming. Your Alumni entrenched — rooted, no doubt, by 9. Find the latest information on our 11/28 at Florida W some long-ago rite of passage (or love) when we gather for spirit and spirits. Association organizes everything from activities and even join or renew your Key: — and it would be foolish here to Admission to the Open House is free the Chief and Princess election to the membership at www.alumni.fsu.edu. O Friday Alumni Center Open House favor either side of the argument. for association members and $5 for parade and Homecoming Awards It will be hard to beat such a fanciful W Friday Welcome/Social T Game Day Tailgate However, the landscape before us non-members. Make a new football breakfast. This year, we’re adding a fall. Your move, spring. leads to autumn, so for those who tradition by stopping by for live music, fancy fall and football, here’s how refreshments and Seminole spirit! your Florida State University Alumni • On The Road. Your Alumni Association plans on tugging at your Association, in conjunction with our heartstrings in the coming months: vibrant Seminole Club network, is your • Aug. 21 - Kickoff Luncheon. traditional host for away football games. It began nearly 60 years ago as a Our brand new Utah Seminole Club way to sell football season tickets to has been preparing for more than a year Tallahassee businessmen whose minds to welcome us to the BYU game, with had been poisoned during their college festivities in Park City that include a days in Gainesville. They took the Friday pep rally and Saturday game-day medicine, and today the antidote festivities. If you’re following the ’Noles is even more potent as some 1,500 on the road this season, make sure to faithful wedge their way into every check our Web site for the latest details. nook and cranny of the Civic Center • Oct. 22-25 – Seminoles at for a dose of excitement and Bobby’s Sea Disney Cruise. If you plan on “State of the Seminole” address. This watching the FSU-North Carolina year’s luncheon will have a new option football game from your living room available for attendees to sit next to couch, kick it up a notch with a few This year, lucky Kickoff Luncheon attendees will dine with the players.

such figures can be easily features entertainers who dress as mermaids criticized or praised. By contrast, and mermen, and perform a variety of Lee delves into how future underwater acts, which have ranged from generations will rate the movers eating bananas and performing ballet to full- SeminoleSeminole bylinesbylines and shakers of today. Who will blown aquatic musicals. they judge to be the heroes of our generation? “Designing and Conducting New books and CDs by Florida State faculty and graduates home state of Pennsylvania by motorcycle. Research in Education” His adventures and pictures include his visit “The Rise of an American Clifford J. Drew, Michael Hardman and “The Yoruba Diaspora in the symptoms and provides different diagnoses, to the “haunted” Fort Mifflin, taking his first Cowboy” John L. Hosp (assistant professor of Atlantic World” are designed to be quick, easy to read and parachute jump and touring the site where Dr. Myung Un Lee (M.A. ’81) teacher education and research faculty edited by Toyin Falola and Matt D. highly applicable in an emergency situation. United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. New World Media member of the Florida Center for Reading Childs (assistant professor in Caribbean Diagnostic algorithms, text boxes and charts 11, 2001, near Shanksville. Historically, the image of the Research) history) illustrate crucial information. “American cowboy” has been Sage Publications Indiana University Press “Broken Strings: Wisdom invoked for many purposes, Designed for students who This anthology traces the “The Adventures of a for Divorced and Separated such as its use to shake off the will be studying others’ experiences and trials of the Sheltered Life” Families” crisis of confidence known as research and conducting Yoruba culture, focusing on Sonia Primm (B.S. ’55) Deborah Hansen (B.S. ’71) the “Vietnam syndrome” and their own, this book is a their enslavement, middle Tate Publishing and Enterprises Authorhouse recapture the “old glory” of the practice-oriented approach to passage, experience in America In this memoir, Primm writes that she has The ending of a marriage country. In his second novel, Lee explores understanding, planning and and return to Africa. The always been told that she can be emotionally messy the idea of this same “cowboy” image safely conducting research in education. Included 19 essays provide varying has lived a sheltered life. for both parties, but divorces leading and ruling the world in the 21st are key explanations of various research perspectives of the Yoruba, covering their Be that as it may, she has that involve children can be century. methods, steps of the research process and integration, transformation and resistance of had exciting and sometimes even messier. The author real-world research applications. American culture. dangerous adventures. The has 15 years of experience “Weeki Wachee, City of book covers her time as a being a divorced parent and Mermaids: A History of One “The Master of Secrets” “Pediatric Emergency student at The Florida State recognizes that separated of Florida’s Oldest Roadside D.S. Lliteras (B.A. ’74, M.F.A. ’77) Medicine” University in the 1950s, when families are part of the fabric of today’s Attractions” Hampton Roads Publishing Jill M. Baren, Steven G. Rothrock she was a member of the University Chorale society. This book illustrates that families Lu Vickers (B.A. ’87, M.S. ’89, Ph.D. Company (B.S. ’82), John A. Brennan and and tuition was $100 a semester. of divorce, though altered, can find a new ’97) and Sara Dionne Set during the time of the birth Lance Brown reality and become healthy again. University Press of Florida of Christianity, this novel follows Saunders Elsevier “Adventure! Finding Adventure Filled with Addan, a young boy sent to find This reference textbook in One’s Own Home State” “The Search for a Hero” photographs and his father after witnessing the covers the specific Dan Dolack (B.S. ’49) Dr. Myung Un Lee (M.A. ’81) history, this book death of Jesus. On his journey, knowledge described by Authorhouse New World Media tells the tale of he falls prey to bandits and is the authors as essential After the death of his wife and a period of Since the beginning of time, there have Weeki Wachee rescued by Jeshua, whose influence goes in caring for a child in mourning, Dan Dolack became determined been innumerable historical figures — Julius — also known against everything that Jesus taught. Yet an emergency situation. not to spend the rest of his life drinking, Caesar, Alexander the Great and Napoleon as the City of Mermaids — the historical Addan is charmed by Jeshua. Faith, doubt Features such as “Quick overeating and watching television. This to name a few — who have left heroic roadside attraction at a large natural spring and redemption are tested in this story. Look,” a section that lists common book documents his quest to explore his legacies for all to remember. In hindsight, in Hernando County, Fla. The attraction 8 FLORIDA STATE Times August 2009 On campus house goes off the electricity grid ‘OGZEB’ demonstrates viability of alternative energy By Bayard Stern recombined with oxygen in a fuel cell, to have graduate students live in the LEED Platinum-certified, the highest and easily replaced for research purposes Managing Editor and this process produces the electricity house for months at a time. By having level of certification awarded for energy and as technology progresses. Its form is inviting — a red house for the house. people living there, OGZEB and all efficiency standards given by the U.S. “We’ve integrated all of these on stilts with vaulted ceilings, reclaimed “It’s a very cyclic and clean system,” of its systems will have prolonged Green Building Council. environmentally friendly technologies wood beams, angled windows and a Kramer said. “The only byproduct exposure to many different conditions In addition to its clean power supply, together in this project and the contemporary décor. Its function is coming out of the fuel cell is water and variables. The office space is some of OGZEB’s other “green” ongoing research will study how they nothing short of revolutionary — a vapor.” to be used by researchers to study features include a structured, insulated best perform in conjunction with completely solar-powered structure that OGZEB also uses a new technology OGZEB’s environment and its total panel system that makes up the shell each other,” Kramer said. “It becomes serves as a real-world testing facility for to allow hydrogen combustion to be functionality while occupied. Every and the core of the house. This system a question of figuring out how to hydrogen power, hydrogen combustion usable in appliances. The house is room has sensors installed that detect is extremely well insulated, produces most efficiently balance our energy- and other innovative clean energy and furnished with a custom-retrofitted, and record information on indoor air little construction waste and is quick producing systems with the energy- design technologies developed at The hydrogen-burning Viking stove. quality, carbon monoxide levels, organic to assemble. In the interior, reclaimed consuming ones. Florida State University. “The entire combustion technology chemicals, temperature and humidity. wood was used throughout, and the “This project’s goal is to help The Off-Grid Zero Emissions was developed here at Florida State,” This data will help researchers determine exposed truss that supports the roof develop and promote cost-effective Building (OGZEB) was developed, Kramer said. “We researched hydrogen how efficiently all of the technologies was recovered from an old barn. In and environmentally friendly energy- designed and built under the leadership combustion to see what parameters were perform and interact with each other. addition, light-emitting diode (LED) producing systems and construction of researchers from Florida State’s required to use it safely and efficiently. A According to Kramer, the lights, solar-thermal heating and techniques.” Energy and Sustainability Center. hydrogen flame burns clean and its only OGZEB was designed to rival the top geothermal heating and cooling systems To learn more about the OGZEB “The OGZEB is a test bed for byproducts are heat and water vapor.” environmentally friendly houses in are used. All of OGZEB’s mechanical project, visit www.esc.fsu.edu/ogzeb. developing and implementing In one of the first “experiments” the world. It has been registered to be systems are designed to be removable html. cutting-edge technologies in both conducted with the hydrogen-burning residential and commercial settings,” stove, Kramer said some of the said Anjaneyulu Krothapalli, the Don OGZEB team tested the equipment ‘LEEDing’ in responsible building Fuqua Eminent Scholar Professor of with a crawfish boil, and all systems Mechanical Engineering and director By Bayard Stern environmentally friendly as possible. monetarily and environmentally.” worked perfectly. Kramer stressed of the center. “It also serves as an Managing Editor According to Larry Rubin, Florida Florida State has completed two that many people contributed to the energy-efficient model for student Whether they are ultra-modern State’s director of Facilities Design LEED-certified buildings to date. The OGZEB project, including professors living and office space.” research facilities, high-tech and Construction, all new major McIntosh Track and Field Building and students from the Energy and The building is completely powered classrooms or a grand performance construction and renovation projects earned a LEED Silver Certification Sustainability Center, the College by solar energy collected from a hall, all new and renovated buildings are being designed and built using and the King Life Sciences Building, of Engineering’s Department of solar array installed on the roof. The at The Florida State University are methods that will enable the university home of the Department of Biological Mechanical Engineering, and local energy collected can be used for all of now being designed and constructed to achieve LEED certification, which Science, earned a LEED certification. architects and engineers. The interior its electrical needs, but in addition, to be as energy-efficient and stands for “Leadership in Energy and Completed projects awaiting LEED designer was Pam Andras, a graduate the electricity generated powers an Environmental Design.” certification include the Materials student from Florida State’s Interior innovative system that converts water “We think that being good stewards Research Building and the College Design program. into hydrogen, which is stored, and then of the environment in terms of our of Education’s Stone Building OGZEB is nestled in the heart of converted back into electricity. construction projects is important and expansion. Buildings currently under Florida State’s campus adjacent to Justin Kramer, OGZEB’s project worthwhile,” Rubin said. “Building construction that are registered for the Love Building near Woodward manager, is a graduate of the Florida wisely in order to conserve resources LEED certification include the Ruby Avenue. It’s divided into separate living A&M University-Florida State is always a good thing to do. And Diamond Auditorium/Westcott and office space, allowing each to University College of Engineering. when you start planning the project Building renovation, the William function independently of the other. He completed his master’s thesis on early on to meet LEED standards, the Johnston Building renovation, Student One of the missions of the project is sustainable energy engineering with a Stern Photo/Bayard economy of it makes good sense both Success Center II and the Florida State focus on OGZEB. University Conference Center. “The sunlight coming in is converted Larry Rubin, director of Facilities Design Awarded by the U.S. Green and Construction, with the LEED-certified into direct current,” Kramer said. “That James King Life Sciences Building in the Building Council, LEED certification power is then converted into alternating background. signifies that completed building current by an inverter, and that powers projects meet the highest recognized the house. Excess power is stored in standards of green-building design and a hydrogen system that takes excess performance. In order for a building electricity and uses it to split water to be LEED-certified, a construction molecules by using a water electrolysis project must meet strict criteria and device we developed, which separates earn required points in categories that water into its component elements of include energy and water efficiency; site hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen gets selection, including proximity to public vented into the atmosphere and the transportation; green space preservation hydrogen is stored.” and habitat protection; indoor Kramer explained that by keeping environmental quality; stewardship hydrogen away from oxygen, it is of resources and sensitivity to their actually stored energy because hydrogen impacts; and innovative design. seeks to combine with oxygen to make “Being an institute of higher learning, water. The hydrogen is stored in tanks we should set the right tone,” Rubin that are able to hold enough to produce said. “Building energy-conscious facilities up to 30 day’s worth of electricity. So at enables Florida State to save money night or on cloudy days, when electricity Stern Photo/Bayard over the long run by conserving energy. is required but not being produced We hear from students and faculty that they really appreciate our efforts to do as by the solar panels, or if more power The Off-Grid Zero Emissions Building, which is completely powered by solar and hydrogen energy, is located on the north side of is ever needed, the stored hydrogen is the Florida State campus. The Love Building can be seen in the background. much as we possibly can.” Alumni Association A special insert provided by your Alumni Association

Alumni Celebrating a century Association Tiimesmes National FSU Alumni Association Board of Directors stages yearlong birthday bash Donald L. Eddings ’68 By Scott Atwell December mail, Alumni Association Chairman which is celebrating its own milestone, Alumni Association President along with Dean Frank Patterson, Members (if you’re not a member, Scott F. Atwell who screened the best student films join today) will receive a copy of our A full century has passed, and it still President in the 20-year history of the program. commemorative publication “VIRES,” ranks as one of the most significant Return visits to those cities brought which will feature a listing of “100 Maury Kolchakian ’75, J.D. ’78 dates in the history of our institution: together Florida State Rhodes Scholars Distinguished Graduates,” as selected Immediate Past Chair 1909, a year that ushered in a new Garrett Johnson, Joe O’Shea and by a blue-ribbon panel. Jeffrey L. Hill name (Florida State College for ’69 Myron Rolle. The university has On the landscape of higher Women), a new president (Edward Chair-Elect produced three Rhodes Scholars in education, traditions form paths of Conradi, who would serve for more Laurel R. Moredock ’78 four years, more than all universities in hallowed ground upon which we than 30 years) and a new seal (Vires, Vice Chair Florida combined. walk. One century ago, the Class Artes, Mores). It also was the year in Along the way, we were proud of 1909 began leading us down a Allen D. Durham ’93 which graduates of the Class of 1909 to offer our alumni exclusive fruitful trail that has widened into a Secretary began an Alumnae Association, its presentations by the Admissions Office superhighway, boasting more than object to “promote fellowship among Michele M. Adair ’72 and Career Center. We followed 280,000 alumni around the world. the alumnae, to further the well being Treasurer our arts programs to New York for This birthday party is thrown in their of the college and to cooperate in its an alumni travel event that featured honor and for all those who have Ruth Ruggles Akers, Ph.D. ’04 work.” Florida State grads who make us joined us on the journey. Ken Alexander ’93, M.A. ’94, J.D. ’98 A century later, we continue to Candace Rodatz Barnes ’98, M.S. ’01 proud on Broadway, welcomed home build upon that promise, celebrating David Brobst ’86 the Class of 1959 for a 50th reunion, the centennial with 100 events in our Benjamin Crump ’ 92, J.D. ’95 and celebrated the accomplishments 100th year. Kyle Doney ’07 of our emeritus alumni (graduated In February, on the very weekend Sandra Dunbar ’72 at least 50 years ago) with an awards of the university’s annual Heritage Diane S. Ervin, M.S. ’72 brunch. Jane Tronnier Fader ’96 Day festivities, the curtain came Under the leadership of our S. Dale Greene ’74 up on the association’s Centennial 36-member National Board of Karema Tyms-Harris ’92, M.A. ’97 celebration with a “Night of Directors, chaired by Phi Beta Kappa Lee F. Hinkle ’71 Gershwin” piano concert performed Maury Kolchakian, your Alumni Thomas V. Hynes ’80 by beloved professor of music Association has rolled through the Patricia Sibley Kenimer ’74 Tommie Wright. Wright is a “49er,” Joda Lynn ’01, M.D. ’05 first half of its schedule of 100 events. one of the 125 legendary faculty Frank Moreno ’00 The fall is chock-full of more fun and members who arrived on the Florida Steve Oelrich ’70 recognition, led by newly installed Rhodes on the Road: Myron Rolle (’06), Joe O’Shea (’08), T.K. Wetherell State campus in 1949. He spent 59 Katie Patronis ’08 chair Don Eddings (’68). In the (’67, ’68, ’74) and Garrett Johnson (’05) in Tampa. Above, Myron Rolle Michael J. Raymond ’81 years in the classroom and taught in Miami. James A. Riscigno ’66 more than 58,000 students. Who Susan Sarna ’89 better to salute our alumni than the Barry J. Scarr ’73 man who has taught more of them Raymond R. Schroeder ’65 than anyone in history? Fall Centennial Events Delores O. Spearman ’98 From there, our celebration went Gordon J. Sprague ’65 on the road to meet alumni in their Cindy Davis Sullivan ’85 own backyards. Orlando, Tampa, Thomas Waits ’66 Atlanta and Miami welcomed the Florida State University Film School,

Alumni Association Ambassador Tommie Wright brings up the curtain on Centennial celebration

www.alumni.fsu.edu Aug. 21 Kickoff Luncheon Sept. 26 Time Capsule Dedication (850) 644-2761 Oct. 7 FSU Symphony at Ringling [email protected] Oct. 9 Alumni Cup Golf Tournament Oct. 17 Odds and Evens Flag Football Oct. 22 Seminoles at Sea Disney Cruise Oct. 30 Homecoming Parade In December, Oct. 31 Homecoming Breakfast/Festival of Colleges FSUAA members Nov. 20 Salute to the Presidents Association President Scott Atwell (r) presents will receive a outgoing board chair Maury Kolchakian (‘75, J.D. commemorative Student Alumni Association ‘78) with a feather from Chief Osceola’s spear during the 2008 football season. Centennial 30th Anniversary Open House publication. Dec. 11 Big Band Dance Alumni Association Seminole Clubs Keeping the Garnet & Gold connected with Florida State University

The Seminole Club Network Seminole Clubs Are there other What are Seminole Clubs? alumni groups?

Seminole Clubs are organized groups of Florida State University alumni, friends and fans who gather If you’re looking for other to support the university. Seminole Clubs exist throughout the country and around the world, working alumni groups to get involved with … try directly with the Florida State University Alumni Association to represent the university in their one of our constituent groups. communities. The Emeritus Alumni Society Why should I connect with my local Seminole Club? The Emeritus Alumni Society was organized to encourage the continuing interest and participation of those alumni who have reached emeritus status, Members of Seminole Clubs gather for social functions, such as game-watching parties and membership i.e., those who graduated 50 or more years ago. All alumni of The Florida mixers; host student receptions for current and newly accepted students to Florida State; organize State University who have reached emeritus status constitute members of community service events; represent Florida State at college fairs in the area; raise money toward the Emeritus Alumni Society. At the 50th anniversary of each succeeding scholarships for students from the region; and much more. class, the members are automatically welcomed into the society. For more How do I get involved? information, e-mail Stephanie Lamb at [email protected]. The Florida State University Black Alumni Association Good question! Contact the club representative in your area (see map below). If there’s not a club in The Florida State University Black Alumni Association (BAA) is an officially chartered your area, contact the Florida State Alumni Association to start one. You can reach us at (850) 644- affiliate of the The Florida State University Alumni Association. The BAA’s goals 2761 or visit http://alumni.fsu.edu for more information. are to serve, involve and inform black alumni. For more information, e-mail National Many Seminole Clubs also use social networking Web sites such as Facebook and Myspace to President Benjamin L. Crump at [email protected] or National Board of Directors communicate with alumni and friends in their area, so check those Web sites as well if you’re looking to chairwoman Cassandra Jenkins at [email protected]. connect with your local Seminole Club.

We support constituent organizations like the Black Alumni Association, seen here celebrating a Homecoming Established Seminole Club Reunion where Oscar Braynon II (‘00), state representative from New Seminole Club South Florida, was recognized.

Many Seminole Clubs host Emeritus Luncheons to honor alumni who graduated at least 50 years ago.

In Winston-Salem, N.C., the Triad Seminole Club’s work with the Ronald McDonald House is an example of Seminole Club work in the community.

The Kentucky Seminole Club Seminole Club officers convene adopted a highway as part of its annually at Florida State for a community outreach. Leadership Conference that helps them guide their clubs.

Seminole Clubs host tailgate parties before Florida State football games in their area. The Greater Orlando Seminole Club welcomed hundreds Florida State of alumni before fans gather for last year’s Champs game watching Sports Bowl. parties in cities Students reap the benefits of across the scholarships provided by Seminole country. Clubs in their area.

Alumni Association Seminole Clubs Keeping the Garnet & Gold connected with Florida State University

Seminole Clubs 13 Greater New Orleans 25 Marion County Seminole Club 37 Pinellas Seminole Club 47 Seminole Club of North Texas 56 Southwest Florida The Seminole Club Network Seminole Club (Ocala, Fla.) President: Rob Todd (Dallas) Seminole Club Contact: Caitrin Muldoon Gladow President: Sally Smith (727) 535-4816 President: Harry Russell (Fort Myers, Fla.) 1 Alaska Seminole Club (850) 449-3667 (352) 390-3472 [email protected] (214) 460-2601 President: Bob Shearman (Anchorage. Alaska) [email protected] [email protected] or [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.pinellasnoles.com Contact: Corbin Sawyer www.marionseminoles.org www.nolezone.com www.swflseminoles.com (907) 250-2962 14 Greater Orlando [email protected] 26 Martin County Seminole Club 38 Portland Seminole Club 57 Southwest Ohio or [email protected] Seminole Club 48 The Seminole Club Seminole Club President: Kevin Carmody (Stuart, Fla.) (Oregon) President: Rhea Anderson of Philadelphia (Dayton/Cincinnati) (407) 310-3301 President: Alex Ralicki President: Brian Seeley (360) 356-4857 Contacts: 2 Atlanta Seminole Club [email protected] (772) 221-4508 [email protected] President: Erika Carlson or (360) 210-7528 Matt Gerberick www.orlandoseminoles.com [email protected] www.phillynoles.com (678) 576-3232 www.martincountynoles.com [email protected] (937) 207-3626 [email protected] 15 Greater Pensacola [email protected] www.seminoleclubs.com or Katrina FitzSimmons Seminole Club 39 Richmond Seminole Club 49 Seminole Club of the Rockies 27 Miami Seminole Club Contact: Keith McCrea (850) 567-6451 Contact: Todd Weston [email protected] President: Eric Munoz (804) 869-0408 (Denver) (850) 346-6315 President: Allison L. Carver 3 Austin Seminole Club (305) 804-1383 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] President: Steve Suknaic [email protected] 58 Syracuse Seminole Club www.pensacolanoles.com www.coloradonoles.org (512) 771-8038 www.miaminoles.com Contact: Connie Bruno [email protected] 40 Roanoke Seminole Club 16 Highlands Seminole Club [email protected] www.austinseminoles.com Contact: Melanie Moses www.geocities.com/syr_noles (Highlands County, Fla.) 28 Middle Tennessee (850) 766-3814 50 Seminole Club of Volusia/ Contact: Erin McCarta Seminole Club [email protected] Flagler Counties 59 Tallahassee Seminole Club (863) 381-5011 4 Birmingham Seminole Club (Daytona Beach, Fla.) President: Jason M. Johnston Contact: Bill Cartus [email protected] (Nashville, Tenn.) Contact: Jeff Johnson President: Monica Surrency (850) 566-0316 (205) 979-2022 41 San Francisco Seminole Club (615) 310-7193 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] President: Gordy Reid [email protected] www.dbnoles.com www.tallahasseeseminoleclub.com www.birminghamnoles.com 17 Houston Area Seminole Club (415) 686-2262 www.nashvillenoles.com Contact: Florida State Alumni [email protected] Association 51 Silver State Seminole Club 60 Tampa Bay Seminole Club 5 Brevard Seminole Club (850) 644 2761 29 Mississippi Gulf Coast (Las Vegas) President: Matt Borasch Find us on Facebook (813) 283-0665 Seminole Club 42 Seattle Seminole Club President: Jason Adams (Melbourne, Fla.) Leadership needed. (702) 443-0582 [email protected] President: Brendan McCarthy President: David Caesar (Gulfport/Biloxi, Miss.) [email protected] www.tampanoles.com (321) 720-3893 (425) 369-1798 18 Jacksonville Seminole Club Contact: Ian Sears www.myspace.com/vegasnoles [email protected] (251) 802-4400 [email protected] or President: John Cook 61 Tennessee Valley www.brevardnoles.org [email protected] [email protected] (904) 778-4194 or (904) 403-1432 Seminole Club Leadership needed. www.angelfire.com/wa3/seattlenoles/ 52 Smokey Mountain [email protected] (Huntsville, Ala.) Seminole Club 6 Charleston Seminole Club www.jaxnoles.com Contact: Brian Arent

(Charleston, S.C.) 30 New Mexico Seminole Club 43 Seminole Club of Baltimore (Asheville, N.C.) [email protected] President: Stacy Mizrahi President: Richard Mills President: Julia Winkler (Albaquerque, N.M.) (843) 737-1503 19 Jefferson County (410) 381-6268 (828) 551-9337 62 Treasure Coast Seminole Club President: Sharon Hensley [email protected] [email protected] Seminole Club [email protected] (Fort Pierce, Fla.) (Monticello, Fla.) (505) 821-9501 www.baltnoles.com [email protected] President: Garry Dundas Contact: Susan Hogle Taylor 53 Southeastern Michigan (772) 461-2310 7 Charlotte Seminole Club [email protected] Seminole Club [email protected] 44 Seminole Club of President: Bryan Neil 31 New York City Seminole Club (Detroit) (704) 287-2311 Broward County President: Corey Perlman 63 Triad Seminole Club 20 Johnson City Seminole Club President: Ricky Kohly [email protected] President: Mike Watson (248) 388-9788 President: Chris Gillis (850) 321-1470 (Winston-Salem, N.C.) www.charlotteseminoleclub.com (954) 684-3587 [email protected] President: Bob Newman (423) 202-1765 [email protected] [email protected] http://fsumichigan.blogspot.com (919) 742-4779 [email protected] www.nycnoles.com www.browardnoles.com [email protected] 8 Charlottesville Seminole Club http://seminoles.scientia.cc 54 Southern California www.triadseminoleclub.com President: Peter Jones 32 Omaha Seminole Club (434) 249-4297 45 Seminole Club of Clay County Seminole Club 64 Triangle Seminole Club 21 Kansas City Seminole Club Contact: Becca Gilbert [email protected] (402) 214-9450 President: Sheila Kay Riley Contact: Jennifer Cook (Orange Park, Fla.) (Raleigh/Durham, N.C.) [email protected] President: David Ballantine (951) 680-0531 or (951) 201-3689 President: Jim Bloomfield (816) 984-1749 (904) 945-8904 [email protected] (919) 608-9712 [email protected] 9 Circle City Seminole Club [email protected] www.seminoleclub.com [email protected] (Indianapolis) 33 Palm Beach Seminole Club www.seminoleclubclaycounty.org www.triangleseminoles.com President: Scott Montgomery 22 Kentucky Seminole Club Contact: Scott Osteen 55 Southernmost Seminole (317) 213-4126 65 Upper South Carolina (772) 473-9542 Club of Key West [email protected] (Louisville, Ky.) [email protected] 46 Seminole Club of DelMarVa President: Mark Blum Contact: Yvette Talbott Seminole Club www.pbnoles.com (502) 228-9879 (Salisbury, Md.) [email protected] (Greenville, S.C.) President: Pat Harvey President: Diane Ervin 10 D.C. ’Noles [email protected] 34 Panama City Seminole Club (410) 677-0972 (864) 414-1506 President: Shannon N. Mandel www.kentuckyseminoleclub.com Seminole Clubs President: Janice Hanks [email protected] [email protected] (202) 271-3143 often welcome (850) 258-6506 www.delmarvanoles.com www.upstateseminoles.com [email protected] Florida State 23 Lake City Seminole Club [email protected] www.dcnoles.org athletic teams 66 Utah Seminole Club Contact: Steve Gordon to town, as the

(386) 752-4788 or (386) 365-5413 Austin Seminole (Salt Lake City) [email protected] or 35 Panhandle Seminole Club President: Richard Clark 11 Destin Seminole Club Club did earlier Contact: Jason Crowe christopher.gordon@ (Marianna, Fla.) (801) 558-3274 (850) 830-3790 hcahealthcare.com President: Roy Baker this year for the [email protected] [email protected] www.lakecityseminoles.com [email protected] Florida State (850) 482-7689 softball team. 67 Windy City Seminole Club www.panhandleseminoles.com Contact: Marla Burton Seminole Club officers convene 12 Greater Boston Seminole Club 24 Manatee Seminole Club [email protected] annually at Florida State for a Contact: Marilyn Santiestaban www.windycityseminoles.com

Leadership Conference that helps them [email protected] (Bradenton, Fla.) 36 Phoenix Seminole Club President: Mark Barnebey Networking events organized by Seminole guide their clubs. Leadership needed. Contact: Richard Nix [email protected] Clubs help members connect within or Dominic Bernardo their local communities. www.manateeseminoleclub.com (602) 478-6296 [email protected] or dominic_ [email protected] www.phoenixnoles.com Coming Again This Fall Family Friendly Your Alumni Association Affordable

Class portrait at Work with T.K. Wetherell on the steps of the new Weekends President’s Student Alumni House.

Students Today. Alumni Tomorrow. Seminoles Forever. FSU’s Student Alumni Association honors the university’s rich legacy by promoting tradition and A snapshot of the FSU Student Alumni encouraging students to get to know alumni. Association, whose Class of 1959 This fall, the organization celebrates its 30th membership approaches anniversary. 700 this fall. 50th Reunion

This Golden Reunion ushered in a new status for the Class of 1959 — emeritus alumni. The class reassembled on the April weekend of the Florida State University spring football game and enjoyed several events, including a piano performance by Tommie Wright.

Seminole great Hugh Durham (’59), who both played and coached basketball at Florida State, talks with former teammate Joe Westhafer and his wife, Anna.

The family of Herman Gunter (seated right) was on hand to see the retired music professor receive the Emeritus Society’s Dean Eyman Award for Service.

Homecoming Alumni and friends packed the Union Our earliest record of “Homecoming” dates back Ballroom for the Emeritus Reunion to a 1929 gathering for the Florida State College for traditional Alumni Association Women. Over the years, one constant remains: the Homecoming Awards Alumni Association is the organizing entity of this Breakfast. They’re getting better! Our emeritus alumni annual pilgrimage, which rallied around the theme (50-plus years since graduation) gathered for the “Unconquered Legacy” in 2008. annual reunion, including a special 60th for the Class of 1949. The stunning April weekend included the annual Emeritus Awards brunch, featuring Commitment to Excellence Award winners Alice Englert (’47), Betty Lou Joanos (’57, Ph.D. ’85) and Tommy Waits (’56).

Mary Pat Peacock (’49) entertains Bess Lux (’43) and Miriam Arnold (’49) in the living room of the new College Football Hall of Famer Ron Simmons at a President’s House. Homecoming Parade pre-reception in the Alumni Association’s Pearl Tyner Welcome Center. 13 FLORIDA STATE August 2009 Times Coming Again This Fall Family Friendly Aff ordable Weekends for details, see VisitTallahassee.com or fsu.com and the September edition of the Florida State Times

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Charlie Barnes Yesterday and today, Florida State’s Executive Director, Seminole Boosters campus offers welcoming assurance cut grass on game day. The Marching spring football drills being undertaken be endured. We’ve been through trying going to win? Chiefs used to practice on their by the defending 1993 National times before and emerged triumphant, Sherm just kept smiling, and said, There are times when the spirit field near the stadium on Saturday Champions. As a fragrant breeze rose, and so we will again. Don’t pay much “We’ll win because we’re too good to yearns to be renewed, the Human mornings, and the thump of the he could see across Pensacola Street attention to the noise. It will pass, and play that bad for this long.” spark to be refreshed. For many drums and the brass could be heard the magnificent, newly bricked grand it will pass so soon that you may find And of course Sherm was right. Seminoles and for many Americans, across the campus. towers of University Center glowing you can’t remember all the details a year What he said was right about the Sugar this is such a time. You might recall a time when gold in the afternoon sun. from today. Bowl game nine years ago, and it’s just Our University and the cool green students gathered outside the locker Where Westcott stands is the oldest In the National Championship as right today about our University. We hills of Tallahassee has always been room on Saturday to greet our football continuous site of higher education in game in the Sugar Bowl in 2000, I are too good, too strong, and there are a place to nourish renewal of the players as they came out after the the state of Florida. Our architecture sat with a large group of friends, and too many alumni who love the school spirit. On campus, yes, new buildings game. Burt Reynolds was “Buddy” reassures us with timeless grandeur; we were very excited and animated for the current unpleasantness to have confuse the old familiar trails, but then, and just a regular guy. In the its cool niches offer a calming languor as the game progressed early on. Our any lasting effect. much of the core remains as it was 1960s, T.K. Wetherell lived in Smith letting us pause to breathe. We take Seminoles jumped to a big lead over These are stressful days for many for us, and for those who were here Hall and walked, perhaps as you did time to remember all that this place the hapless Virginia Tech Hokies. Americans. You may be one who before us. Look at old photographs of on bright days, to classrooms among has meant to us across our lives. The mood changed sharply as counts yourself among that number. Florida State University and Florida the buildings that still stand in a broad Our University leadership is in Virginia Tech fought back. If you Know that here is always a place to State College for Women students apron down the gentle slopes from transition. Our alumnus-President recall, the third quarter was awful, welcome you. Return here, to the time in an earlier day. The trees are still Westcott. I wonder how often in the — his football letter and Ph.D. shocking. Virginia Tech went ahead machine that offers respite from the there; the same landscapes can be seen past year he’s stared out the window parchment both garnished with the as the fourth quarter began, and our day’s concerns. Enjoy once again the with brick and stone façades rising up of his office in Westcott at Florida’s same garnet & gold colors — is once-merry band of fans was raging fellowship with your friends of college in the distance, and we know those Capitol looming on the next hill, stepping down. Our beloved football against everything that seemed to be at days. Refresh your spirits with the places. They were here before us. They and thought how comforting of the Coach, who will forever be identified fault with our Seminoles. Threats were game and the colors and the noise and welcomed and embraced us in our spirit it might be to just once stroll with us as we will with him, is turning made, and dark promises. the grandeur and all the joy. youth, and they will be here after us to anonymously back along the old paths. the pages of the final chapter. Our But one fellow kept smiling. He’s Come to the football games this warm the lives of men and women not On a beautiful spring day in 1994, Hall of Fame baseball Coach came a communications entrepreneur from fall. Close your eyes. Feel the sun and yet born. Jerry Kutz wrote of the joy he felt as here in 1964 as a Seminole player and Louisville, Ky., named Sherman breathe in the sweet air. Life doesn’t You may have walked down Landis he stood atop the grandstand at Dick has been Head Coach for 30 years. Henderson. Sherm told everyone to provide us so many days that we can Green to the Library at twilight. You Howser Stadium watching the #1 There is a lot of harsh noise be calm. “It’s going to be all right,” he afford to discard our memories of the may remember the buttery yellow light ranked Seminole baseball team trounce about Florida State right now in the said. “Trust me; we’ll win.” best ones. from the street lamps near the old an ACC opponent, and turning his newspapers and on the Internet. Much Loud voices demanded to know, Life is good at your university. Sweet Shoppe, or the sweet scent of head to watch, at the same time, of it is caustic and destructive but it will “Why?” Why did he think we were Come home again this fall. Two alumni help Mets battle for National League championship helps runners steal bases or avoid here today,” Slate said, sitting in the dugout before the game. “In the top By Gary Libman getting picked off first or second base. Mets dugout before working with programs, you get discipline in how to It’s 2:45 p.m., more than four hours Alicea learned much of what Reyes. As a trainer, he accompanied play. When you go into professional before game time, and in the right he knows about base running Florida State teams to the College baseball, the guys that excel are field corner of quiet Dodger Stadium, while leading the Seminoles to World Series, the NCAA basketball disciplined. They study the game. Florida State University alumnus Rick the championship game of the tournament, and the Sugar and Fiesta They know how to prepare, know Slate is working with Jose Reyes. The College World Series in 1986. Slate Bowls. He also worked with football how to make adjustments throughout New York Mets’ star shortstop has earned a bachelor’s degree in sports coach Bobby Bowden, baseball coach the season.” Luis Alicea missed four games with a tight right management in 1989 and a master’s Mike Martin and basketball coach Pat The St. Louis Cardinals recognized shin. Slate, the Mets’ strength and degree in athletic administration in Kennedy. Alicea’s understanding of the game, conditioning coordinator, is trying to 1992, both from Florida State. “It’s pretty impressive when they selecting him in the first round of determine whether Reyes can play that Slate and Alicea are helping the see those names on your résumé,” the 1986 free agent draft. He batted evening. Mets battle for the National League Slate said. .260 during 13 seasons as a major- Wearing shorts and a T-shirt, championship this season, and As a result of that experience, league second baseman. After his Reyes runs sprints, stretches his legs, experiences at Florida State catapulted he was named the strength and playing career ended in 2002, Alicea crouches and moves laterally. After 20 their professional development. conditioning coach of the fledgling managed minor league minutes, he flashes a “thumbs up.” As Slate said his time at Florida State Florida Marlins in 1992. He left the teams for three seasons he leaves the field, Slate stands on the meant “everything” to his career. Marlins in 2001. But in December and coached first base for infield and discusses Reyes’ condition As a junior, he walked on with the 2002, the Mets named him to a Boston for two seasons. with Mets trainer Ray Ramirez and Seminoles football team but did not similar position. He joined the Mets in Manager Jerry Manuel. play. So he changed direction. He Meanwhile, Alicea, the Mets’ first 2009. As Reyes starts the game at won a full scholarship as an assistant base coach, said that three years of Alicea praises what he shortstop, Mets first base coach Luis strength and conditioning coach Florida State baseball keyed his success learned at Florida State. Alicea, another Florida State alumnus, for his senior year and two years in in professional baseball. “If I had to do it all Rick Slate scrutinizes opposing pitchers and graduate school. “The level of baseball (under Mike over,” he said, “I would infielders. He gleans information that “That opportunity is how I’m Martin) was very good,” he said in the go back to FSU.” 15 FSU-085 9.75x13_REV:Layout 1 6/26/09 10:19 AM Page 1 FLORIDA STATE August 2009 Times

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MBA.FSU.EDU 16 FLORIDA STATE imes August 2009 T David R. Zimmerman (B.A. ’68) has been to Iraq for a six- to nine-month tour as a the Florida Public Relations Association. assistant to the president at Kennesaw State hired as a consulting principal at the civilian adviser to the Multinational Force University. Deborah Rubens (B.S. ’83) was elected to Greenway Group in Norcross, Ga. Corps-Iraq on issues associated with the Iraq ministries, the provincial reconstruction the board of directors of the Association of P.S. Ruckman Jr. (M.S. ’88) has become a 1970s teams and coordination between the corps Junior Leagues International, a women’s nationally recognized expert on presidential and the U.S. Embassy. community leadership organization. pardons, working with the British Miranda F. “Randi” Fitzgerald (B.A. Broadcasting Corporation’s “The Takeaway” Bonnie Fowler (B.S. ’84) has been ’72, J.D. ’78), a partner with the law firm Nikki Ann Clark (J.D. ’77) was appointed to and National Public Radio’s “On the Media,” recognized as one of the top 25 agents of Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & the First District Court of Appeals by Florida as well as filming for an upcoming episode of by the Tallahassee Board of Realtors. She Reed, has been selected Orlando’s Real Gov. Charlie Crist. She has served on the bench “History Detectives.” received the 2008 Tallahassee Board of Estate Lawyer of the Year for 2009 by Best of the Second Judicial Circuit since 1993. Realtors Presidential Spirit Award. Lawyers, an online database of lawyers. 1990s www.westcottlakes.org John G. Wood Jr. (J.D. ’77) was elected Robert S. Lewis (J.D. ’85) has been selected (866) 510-1515 Capt. Lonnie N. Groot (B.S. ’73) served as to the Florida House of Representatives, Christian Peterson (B.S. ’90) was named the for inclusion in the 2009 edition of The Best a judge for “We the People: The Citizen and District 65, representing northeast Polk Volunteer of the Year for the L.A. Lee Family Lawyers in America, an online database of the Constitution State Finals Competition” County. Center of the YMCA in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. lawyers in the nation. for 2009. Peterson is a shareholder and a member Hon. Cory J. Ciklin (B.S. ’78, J.D. ’81) has Vivian Arenas-Battles (J.D. ’86) has been of the litigation practice group of the law presents Neil J. Doroshenko (B.S. ’74) has retired been appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist to the certified by the Florida Supreme Court as firm of Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart; he was as senior manager after 33 years with the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal. a circuit court mediator and is available to recognized for his dedication to the YMCA at Internal Revenue Service, completing his Cindy Brown (B.S. ’79) has graduated from handle mediations involving eminent domain its annual meeting. career in Greensboro, N.C. Emory University with a Master of Divinity and environmental-law matters. Guy E. Quattlebaum (B.A. ’91) joined Butzel Pamela K. Heringhaus (B.A. ’74) was degree. Barry G. Brooks (B.S. ’86) was elected Long as a senior attorney in the firm’s branch presented with the Athena Award by the and sworn in to serve a four-year term in Palm Beach, Fla. Chamber of Commerce in Bowling Green, 1980s as a supervisor for the Capital Region Ohio. This award is presented to someone Marion A. Hill (B.S. ’92, J.D. ’95) is the Raymond Gilley (B.S. ’80) was named the Community Development District− who has excelled in his or her profession, managing partner of the South Florida law Eunice Sullivan Professional of the Year by Southwood development in Tallahassee, Fla. helped to improve the quality of life for firm Delancyhill and is now a member of the the Florida Economic Development Council. others and supported the position of women David M. Caldevilla (J.D. ’86) had his The Orange Bowl Committee. in the community. John W. Culver (B.S. ’82), has been automotive artwork, “Automotography,” Gregory W. Meier (B.S. ’92), a Shuffield promoted to executive vice president of displayed in the Bank of America Plaza Elisa F. Topper (M.S. ’75) has been named Lowman estate planning and taxation Starbucks, president of global consumer Building in Tampa, Fla. site director of the DuPage Library System attorney, attended the Heckerling Institute products, food service and Seattle’s Best in Geneva, Ill., by Library Associates on Estate Planning, the nation’s leading Coffee. Igmedio Edgardo Pantaleon (B.S. ’86) Companies, an information industry firm merged his law firm with Tampa-based conference for estate planning professionals. that provides staffing service and support to Maureen McLaughlin Brockman (B.S. ’83) Bricklemyer, Smolker & Bolves. Charlotte Barnes (B.S. ’93) has published the 388-facility system. was named the Public Relations Professional a new collection of poetry, “Poems from a of the Year by the Orlando-area Chapter of Jorge A. Perez (B.A. ’86, M.S. ’88, D.R. Ret. Col. Lettie Bien (B.S. ’76) will return ’97) has been named faculty executive Florida Girl.” Also, her children’s book, “Stella

OBITUARIES

Carole Haggard Neal Kenyon Carole Haggard, 53, the first female board member of Neal Kenyon, 79, the former director of the Florida

NEWS Seminole Boosters, died March 19. Because of her tireless State University Asolo Conservatory’s graduate program and enthusiastic dedication to serving The Florida State in theater arts, died Dec. 9, 2008. He taught graduate students at the Asolo Conservatory NOTES University, Haggard became an integral part of its culture and history. of Professional Actor Training in Sarasota, Fla. from In addition to her service to the national Seminole 1976 to 1981, and later taught acting on Florida State’s Boosters organization, Haggard was the first female main campus in Tallahassee. president of the Greater Miami Seminole Club and created the first endowed “I think he was probably more proud of his teaching than anything else,” said Alumni scholarship for women’s athletics at Florida State. Jimmy Hoskins, a longtime friend, “He was so proud of his students and how 1950s The Haggard Baseball Plaza outside of Dick Howser Stadium on the Florida well they fared.” State campus is named in honor of Haggard and her husband, prominent Coral Kenyon embarked on a theater career in 1950 in New York after graduating The Hon. John R. Blue (B.S. ’58) was from Louisiana State University with a theater degree. He became a singer, dancer honored with the 2009 Chief Justice’s Gables, Fla., attorney William “Andy” Haggard (B.A. ’64), who is an FSU trustee. Distinguished Judicial Service Award, given and a choreographer, talents that he honed over his 40-year career. to the judge in Florida who has given the Margo Bindhardt most outstanding service in the area of pro- Monsignor William A. Kerr bono legal assistance. Margaret “Margo” Bindhardt, 67, artistic sponsor and former chairwoman of The Florida State University’s Monsignor William A. Kerr, 68, the executive director 1960s annual Seven Days of Opening Nights arts festival, died of the Claude Pepper Center for Intercultural Dialogue Raymond E. Bellamy II (B.A. ’61), a May 20. at The Florida State University, died May 3. During his Tallahassee orthopedist won the Capital Bindhardt was a major supporter of artistic culture tenure at the Pepper Center (2006-2009), he launched Medical Society’s Outstanding Physician Award. in Tallahassee, Fla., and was an active patron of the arts an international dialogue to support a United Nations throughout the state. She was a former chairwoman of program called the Alliance of Civilizations to establish James B. Miller (B.A. ’61) has been elected international connections and collaboration. as chairman of the Buckhead Coalition for a the Florida Arts Council, a board member of the Council two-year term. He is currently the chairman on Culture and Arts for Tallahassee/Leon County, and started the Plantation Kerr earned a master’s degree in American Studies in 1973 and a doctorate in and chief executive officer of Fidelity Bank Wildlife Arts Festival in Thomasville. She also was the main force behind the Arts diplomatic history in 1975, both from Florida State. In addition, he served as the in Atlanta. Exchange project near Railroad Square in Tallahassee. Catholic campus minister and an adjunct history professor from 1971 to 1984. In Clifford E. Snedeker Jr. (B.S. ’62) is now Don Gibson, dean of Florida State’s College of Music, credited Bindhardt as 1997, the FSU Alumni Association named Kerr a Distinguished Alumnus. Rotary Club district governor for Tampa the driving force behind the current renovation of Ruby Diamond Auditorium. Kerr served as president of La Roche College in Pittsburgh from 1992 Bay, Fla. He has been a member of Rotary International for 45 years. “She was always trying to nurture the very best artistic activity in this city and to 2004, and was the vice president for university relations at The Catholic always involved in supporting people who were trying to do it,” Gibson said. University of America in Washington, D.C., from 1984 to 1992. He then Ronald E. Lindquist (B.S. ’63) has retired from Regions Financial Corporation as a served as the executive director of the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in senior vice president after nearly 45 years Philomene Asher Gates Washington, D.C. of institutional portfolio and mutual fund management. Philomene Asher Gates, 90, a member of the Florida State University Foundation board of directors, died Jimmy Carr Terry E. Lewis (B.A. ’65, M.A. ’66, J.D. ’78) Jimmy Carr, 95, the first dean of men at The has been selected for inclusion in the 2009 Feb. 17. edition of The Best Lawyers in America, an Gates earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Florida State University and longtime administrator, online database of lawyers in the nation. 1938 from the Florida State College for Women, died April 1. Marcia B. Feinstein (B.S. ’66) was named the university’s institutional predecessor. She was Florida State President Doak Campbell hired a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award for a member of the Cotillion Club and Pi Beta Phi Carr to be the dean of men in 1946 when the Fiction for her book, “Paper Children: An university changed from an all women’s school to a Immigrant’s Legacy.” Sorority. Gates not only endowed scholarships, such as the Philomene Gates Award co-educational institution. He remained at Florida Judith A. Bense (B.A. ’67, M.S. ’69) is now State until 1963 when he became an assistant to the president of the University of West Florida in for Excellence in Communication, she also raised almost $100,000 for a Pensacola, Fla. center for speaking and writing the English language at Florida State. chancellor of the Florida Board of Regents. As a correspondent for the Orlando Sentinel, she also wrote about living “Jimmy Carr was the most admired and respected college administrator I’ve Charles Lee Moates (B.S. ’67) has been elected as a councilman to the Greenwood conditions in the Soviet Union and war preparations in Germany before ever known,” said Florida State alumnus Reubin O’D. Askew (B.S. ’51), former County Council, Greenwood, S.C. World War II. Florida governor. 17 FLORIDA STATE August 2009 imes Ducktropolis,” was recently named a finalist T in the children’s picture-book category 1920s • Charles Michael Cain (B.S. ’54) • James William Trout (B.S. ’61) of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book • Mary Frances Chittenden Foster (B.A. ’29) • Polly Lassiter Cook (B.S. ’54) • Donald Wayne Vander Jagt (M.S. ’61) Awards. • Irene Saunders (B.A. ’29) • Evelyn Fredrickson Frost Deyo (B.A. ’54) • William Augustus Burgstiner (B.S. ’62) • Sterling Gilbert (B.S. ’54) 1903s • Albert Leonard Henderson (B.S. ’62) Brian Xanders (B.S. ’93, M.B.A. ’94) was • Matha Nez (Ph.D. ’54) • Donald Paul Jaeschke (M.S. ’62, Ph.D. ’71) • Eva Mae Green Lane (B.S. ’32) • Lt. Jack Robert Swike (B.S. ’54) • David Terrence Kelly (Ph.D. ’62) promoted to general manager of the • Mary Hale Mizell (B.A. ’32) • Paul Rutledge Wharton (M.S. ’54) • James Lewis Scraggs (B.S. ’62, M.S. ’65, J.D. ’74) National Football League’s Denver Broncos. • Marguerite Williamson Spann (B.S. ’32) • Huber Winton Ellingsworth (Ph.D. ’55) • Carolyn Hanna Wetzel (B.S. ’62) • Betty Dunn Culpepper Coleman (B.A. ’33) Kyle Eiselstein (B.S. ’94) has achieved • Edward B. Harding (B.S. ’55) • James L. Barnawell (B.S. ’63) • Gertrude Davis (B.A. ’34) • Bobby Lee Johnson (B.S. ’55) • Thomas Whitley Benton (B.S. ’63, M.S. ’72) member status at Miller & Martin PLLC in • Hazel Moreland Christie (L.I. ’35) • John Pistone (B.S. ’55) • Stephen Gary Bush (B.S. ’63) Chattanooga, Tenn. He concentrates his • Thelma Grace Smith Grentner (B.A. ’35) • Harry Edward Senske (B.S. ’55) • Leslie Dean Cassels (B.M. ’63) practice in the area of civil litigation with an • Julia Baker Hard (B.S. ’35) • G. Donn Teal (B.A. ’55) • Betty-Ann Lundgren Drouin (B.S. ’63) emphasis in complex commercial disputes. • Mary Francis Ellenberg Kinnin (B.S. ’35) • Fred A. Thornton (B.S. ’55, M.A. ’62) • Howard Thomas Hillabrand Jr. (B.S. ’63) • Mamie Jane Clark Worley (L.I. ’35) • James Samuel Bailey (B.S. ’56) • Clarence Rodgers (M.S. ’63) Melissa L. Fenton (B.A. ’94, M.S. ’95) was • Rev. Esther Helen Davis (B.S. ’36) • Gene Calvin Cox (B.S. ’56) • Dorothy Turner (B.S. ’63) hired as an adjunct library faculty member • Anna Gertrude Kuhn(B.A. ’36) • Richard Erman Holladay (B.S. ’56) • Nancy Keeneth Binger (B.S. ’64) • Mary Louise Hoenshel Smith (B.S. ‘37) at Hillsborough Community College in • J. Herbert Josephs (B.S. ’56) • Paul Quentin Cultra (B.S. ’64) • Mildred Ida White McCullough (B.A. ’37, M.A. 40) Hillsborough County, Fla. • Jerome Lyle Klonsky (B.S. ’56) • Linda Price LaMay (B.A. ’64) • Helen Virginia Lane Mulling (L.I. ’37) • Ronald Carl Phillips (M.S. ’56) • Clement Henry Lausberg (M.S. ’64, Ed.D. ‘72) • Adeline Naomi Bledsoe Braik (B.A. ’38) John “Rhett” Bullard (B.S. ’95) was • Col. William Clark Plumb II (B.S. ’56) • Janell Wheeler Rice (B.S. ’64) • Jane Rice Ingram (B.S. ’38) elected to serve as the vice chairman of • Lester Hickman Childs (B.S. ’57) • Joseph John Richter (B.S. ’64) • Margaret Stout Renfro (B.S. ‘38) the Florida Democratic Party and as one of • David Dixon Cureton III (B.S. ’57) • Stephen Gray Roberts (B.S. ’64) • Hilda Dale Spradlin (B.S. ’38) the members from Florida to serve on the • Shirley Luella Goodson Davis (B.S. ’57) • Michael M. Strayhorn (B.S. ’64) • Ruth Rubin Elasser (A.B. ’39) • Catherine Harkins Jensen (B.S. ’57) • Juanita Adderhold Thiel (B.S. ’64) Democratic National Committee. • Elizabeth Wynn Porter (B.A. ’39) • William Henry Leonard (B.S. ’57) • Marguerite MacCalla Winfree (B.S. ’64) J. Albert Stobbe (B.S. ’96) was named the 1940s • Jessie Anton-Mitchell (M.S. ’57) • Alan Vandam Bornstein (M.S. ’65, Pd.D. ’67) 2008 Associate of the Year in the Orlando, • Elizabeth Blyth Venning Blackburn (B.S. ’40) • Lucille Merritt Bullock (B.S. ’58) • Shirley K. Collins Fortino (B.S. ’65) Fla., branch of New York Life Insurance and • Joan Miller Griffin (B.S.’40) • Eldon Lloyd Greene (B.S. ’58) • Marcelle Massey McLeod (B.S. ’65) has been promoted to partner. • Marianna Swank Harrison (B.A. ’40) • Wendell L. Gunn (B.S. ’58) • Charles John Molnar (B.M. ’65. M.E. ’70) • Zonira “Zee” Hunter Tolles (B.S. ’40) • Frank James Little (M.S. ’58) • Henry Daniel Saastamoinen (M.S. ’65) Rachel Hyman-Solomon (B.S. ’97) received • Mary Louise Anderson Herr (B.A. ’41) • George Maust (B.S. ’58, M.S. ’74) • Jess Clower Palmer (B.A. ’66) her master’s degree in speech-language • Catherine Quinby Lester (B.A. ’41) • Charles Whitfield Pennington (B.S. ’58) • Ann Shuler Stoutamire (B.S. ’66) • Travis Harvey Ross (B.S. ’58) pathology from Nova Southeastern • Virginia Balkcom Mikler (B.S. ’41) • Charles Wayne Brown (B.S. ’67) • Marcia Murray Beveridge (B.A. ’59) • Richard Lamar Gamble (B.S. ’67, M.S. ’75) University. She also completed her • Marguerite Dressler Strand (B.A. ’41, M.A. ’43) • Gean Elvira Meave Atkinson (B.A. ’42) • Edgar Albert Bragg (M.S. ’59) • James Lee Harley Sr. (B.S. ’67, M.W. ’72) certificate of competence in speech- • Julia Frances “Judy” Campbell Chittenden (B.S. ’42) • William Raymond Brennan (B.S. ’59) • Dean L. Makinster (B.S. ’67) language pathology as offered by the • Florence Jean Wood Crow (B.S. ’42) • Patricia Stephens Cook (B.M. ’59) • Sandra Jo Hollingsworth Sowell (B.S. ’67) American Speech-Language Hearing • Mary Brice Deaver (B.S. ’42) • Susie M. Copeland (M.S. ’59) • Alice Edith Bundy Ventry (B.S. ’67, M.S. ’69) Association. • Doris Clotille Black Ellis (B.A. ’42) • Theresa G. DeVane (B.S. ’59) • Harry S. Cardea (M.S. ’68) • Avis Tucker Lowe (B.S. ’42) • Okle Catherine Jones (B.M. ’59) • Jerry L. Curtis (Ph.D. ’68) Maggie Mooney-Portale (B.S. ’97), an • Tam Thomas Milton (B.S. ’42) • Walter James Koss (B.S. ’59, M.S. ’61, Ph.D. ’75) • Aaron Marion Dowling (B.A. ’68, M.S. ’75) attorney at Lewis, Longman & Walker, has • Esther Rowland Hack Paine (B.S. ’42) 1960s • Joseph Lanier Hornsby (M.S. ’68) recently been named one of Biz941’s “Top • Edith Seiver Taylor Smith (B.A. ’42) • John M. Bullock (B.S. ’60) • Mary Ellen King (B.S. ’68) 25 People to Watch.” • Carolyn Faye Talley Williamson (B.S. ’42) • Jack Nelson Coffey (B.S. ’60) • Victor Earl McElhiney (M.S. ’68) • Monterey W. Wilson (B.S. ’42) • Mary Brooke Billings Leonard (B.S. ’60) • Walter Albert Sheridan (B.M. ’68) Aaron J. Solomon (B.S. ’97) was promoted • Charlotte Huffman Bruce (B.S. ’43) • Walter Marshall Odum (B.A. ‘60, M.A. ‘62, Ph.D. ‘78) • Robert Walton Bush (M.S. ’69) to commercial sales manager for ADT • Mary Lucile Rivers Carter (B.S. ’43) • Robert R. Sherman (B.S. ’60) • Mollie Crum (B.S. ’69) Security Services in Pompano Beach, Fla. • Roberta “Tillie” Van Brunt Cheyney (B.A. ’43) • Lynn Paul Cleary (M.S. ’61, Ph.D. ’70) • Cortland Hoach Edwards II (M.S. ’69) He also was honored by ADT as the No. • Marguerite Louise Rivers Connors (B.S. ’43) • Sandra Doris Cooke Eubanks (B.S. ’61) • Anna Marie Howard Johnson (B.A. ’69, M.S. ’70) • Carlene A. Miller (M.A. ’69) 1 nationally ranked commercial account • Lora Elizabeth Draughn Dietz (B.A. ’43) • Myriam Sellers Esneul (B.S. ’61) • Roberta Dunlap Folker (B.A. ’43, M.A. ’59) • Dennis Silver (J.D. ’69) executive for 2008. • Lucy Lee Entzminger Jacoway (B.S. ’61) • Elizabeth Mitchell Gardner (B.A. ‘43) • Milton Johnson (M.S. ’61) 1970s • Jean Carolyn Buescher Harriman (B.S. ’43) Monica R. Guy (B.S. ’98) has been certified MEMORIAM IN • Clarence L. Lowman (M.S. ’61, Ed.D. ’67) • Timothy David Crowe (B.S. ’70, M.S. ’78) • Mary Stephenson James (B.A. ‘43) as a family law specialist by the Board of • Evelyn Grayson Rutledge (M.A. ’61) • June Kirkpatrick Fletcher (M.S. ’70) • Marion Elizabeth Rogers Dufoe (B.A. ’44) • Ted Eugene Starnes (M.S. ’61) • Lucien F. Lamoureux Jr. (B.S. ’70, M.S. ’71) Legal Specialization of the North Carolina • Ora Gwindyl Brookins Ferguson (B.A. ’44) Bar. She is currently an attorney with the • Jean Carraway Leach (B.S. ’44, M.S. ’63) law firm of Bell, Davis & Pitt, P.A. • Dorris Herman Rubin (B.A. ’44) • Margaret Friedman Bergstrom (B.A. ’45) Randall N. Vitale (B.A. ’99) was recognized • Mildred Olive Ehrhardt (B.A. ’45) “Get a game ticket today and you’ll be entered in as one of the “Top 40 Professionals • Audrey Opal Moore Free (B.A. ’45, M.A. ’57) — Bobby Bowden Under 40” by the South Florida Business • Betty Claire Ames Grosskopf (B.A. ’45) the drawing for some great prizes” Journal. He also received the Distinguished • Myrtice Clarice Langston Ashmore (B.S. ’46) Leadership Award, presented at the • Margaret Treisback Derby (B.S. ’46) Community Leadership Association’s • Eugenia Tatum Avant McJunkin (B.A. ’46) • Patricia Louise Hill Smith (B.S. ’46) WIN THE GRAND TOUR annual international conference in Denver. • Sarah Jane McKelvy Smith (B.S. ’46) Derek R. Young (B.S. ’01) has joined the • Mary Frances Rutland Kinnaird (B.A. ’47, M.A. ’60) TALLAHASSEE GRAND PRIZE Fort Lauderdale, Fla., branch of the law firm • Paulette Blank Wright (B.A. ’48) • Norma Margaret Gavilan Barli (B.A. ’49) You could win a Grand Tour Ideal Weekend for two. With every Weiss, Serota, Helfman, Pastoriza, Cole & • James Robert Crabtree (B.S. ’49) Boniske. • Augusta Struck Haberyan (B.S. ’49) ticket you purchase for the September 12 Florida State v. Jacksonville • Frank Hammock (B.S. ’49) State Game, your name will be entered automatically in a drawing for Maxi-Madelynn Wood (B.A. ’02) has • Anthony Alvaro Montes de Oca (B.S. ’49) the GRAND TOUR GRAND PRIZE as well as other prizes.* Head released her debut album, “Soulful • Dr. Martin Palmer (B.S. ’49) Integrity,” and the album has been listed on Football Coach Bobby Bowden, along with Gene Deckerhoff, the Voice of • Mable “Marie” Wood Norman Clary Ubbens (B.A. ’49) Carrabba’s Italian Grill music charts in Japan, England and Sweden. • Fred Richard Wagner (B.S. ’49) the Seminoles, will draw and announce the winner Logoof the Guidelines Grand Prize and the She has just returned to Tampa Bay, Fla., • Ouida Alford Whitehurst (B.S. ’49) winners of the second, third and fourth prizes. after a stint in Chicago. • Fern Meta Roberts Williams (B.A. ’49) General Logo Guidelines • Kennneth Victor Woolsey (M.S. ’49) GRAND PRIZE – IDEAL WEEKEND• The logo and its parts must never be distorted, altered, redrawn or modified in any way. Cody L. Langston (B.S. ’05) was appointed to the board of directors of Flight Line Group 1950s • Deluxe room for two for two nights – Sept.• The 1 logo1 amaynd only 1 be2 reduced– at t orhe enlarged newly proportionately. renovated Inc., an aviation service group based at • Arthur Willis Bauknight (B.S. ’50) RESIDENCE INN BY MARRIOTT TALLAHASSEE• The logo should always N beORTH surrounded by• enoughDinner white spacefor tthatwo it stands at sufficiently apart from other items on a page. Tallahassee Regional Airport. • Earline Lila Bright (B.S. ’50) TALLAHASSEE’S CARRABBA’S ITALIAN GRILL ($90 certificate), Sept. 11 or 12 • Two • Esther Johnson Burton (B.S. ’50) • If our company name is listed, please refer to us as “Carrabba’s Italian Grill”, NOT “Carrabba’s”, “Carrabba’s Italian Restaurant”, “Carrabba’s Restaurant”, etc. David A. Lipp (B.S. ’05) received the • Martha Ann Robinson (B.S. ’50) tickets to the Kenny Chesney Concert, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 11 • Two tickets for the • Barbara Schippert Moler (B.S. ’50) Certified Commercial Investment Member Florida State v. Jacksonville State Game inColor the Logo Osceola Guidelines Grill, overlooking the FSU Football • James Madison Pafford Sr. (B.S. ’50) designation by the CCIM Institute, a Stadium, Sept. 12 • RESERVED PARKING• The S correctPACE logo colors directly must always across be used. from the stadium • Virginia Aleine Burgess (B.S. ’51) commercial real-estate association. • Mary Virginia Fountain Goodman (B.S. ’51) SECOND PRIZE • Deluxe room for two• Thefor logo two must nneverights be screened or printed in a shaded color. Joshua Sampiero (B.A. ’05) has been • Thomas Howes (B.S. ’51) • A one-color logo should only be reproduced in BLACK. • William Richard Kendall (B.S. ’51) at TALLAHASSEE’S HAMPTON INN &If SUITES,you are only printing I-10/ in a single color other than black, please contact us. promoted to editor in chief of Windsurfing • John Peter Knudsen (M.S. ’51) THOMASVILLE ROAD, Sept. 11 and 1•2 When• D theinner two-color for version is used, only specific colors are permitted: magazine, after working there only four • Marion-Ellise Davis Kraljev (B.A. ’51) two at TALLAHASSEE’S OUTBACK STEAKHOUSEPMS 3425 and PMS 1795 (for coated paper) or PMS 1797 (for uncoated paper). years. What’s more, he is the youngest • Lorraine Lee Larson (B.S. ’51) editor in chief in the Bonnier Corporation, • Claude Ethan Locklin (B.S. ’51) ($75 certificate) • Two tickets to the Florida State v. the magazine’s publisher. Sampiero also is • Wendell Dustin Waters (M.M. ’51) Jacksonville State Game in the Osceola Grill, overlooking the • Lois Lenore Boulware Williams (B.A. ’51) 1-color: Black 2-color: Green PMS 3425 working on a new digital magazine that he FSU Football Stadium, Sept. 12 • RESERVED PARKING Red PMS 1795-C hopes will revolutionize the way computer • Norma Crane Alley (B.A. ’52) PMS 1797-U • Thomas Ates (B.S. ’52) SPACE, Sept. 12 users approach media. 4-color process equivalents: • Bobbie Wheeler Hammond (B.S. ’52, M.S. ’69) Green: C-100, M-0, Y-76, K-38 THIRD PRIZE • DINNER FOR TWO BY ARAMARK Red: C-0, M-94, Y-94, K-6 • Herbert L. Henry (B.S. ’52) • Cmdr. Theodore Lawrence Hodson (B.A. ’52) at Chili’s on the FSU campus, Sept. 11 or 12 • Two tickets Contact Information • Lorraine Parrish (B.S. ’52) to the Florida State v. Jacksonville State gamePlease send in athe proof Osceola for approval prior to reproducing our logo on any materials: • William Olin Shuler (B.S. ’52) Barbara Harvey Grill, overlooking the FSU football stadiumPrint Production Manager • Johnnie Davis Cook (B.S. ’53) Carrabba’s Marketing Department Got News? • Maj. 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Susan New online community coming Sigman Director of Communications to Florida State University FSU Foundation connection. Register today at one. Web site features a variety of news six months, and many will provide fsu.edu. and offers from the university, a social networking components such as place to update personal profiles and an alumni directory and class notes. Wondering how you can join manage memberships, and an outlet Features such as these allow oneFSU the Seminole Boosters to help make to RSVP for university-sponsored to provide a two-way football crowds at Doak Campbell events and provide donations and street of information Stadium 83,000 strong? Perhaps financial support to Florida State. sharing that encourages you’re interested in learning about The result of months of alumni and friends of ways you can provide philanthropic preparation, design consultation the university to build support to the university? Maybe and planning, oneFSU was created and maintain a stronger you’d like to renew your Alumni to provide alumni and friends of connection with Florida Association membership? Now, the university with more ease and State. instead of visiting multiple Web sites flexibility in staying connected to “The site, while a work and conducting search after search, Florida State. in progress, reflects the you can do all of these things, and “OneFSU allows us to better vision of where The Florida more, from one location. serve and engage members of the State University is heading,” Alumni and friends of The Florida FSU family with what’s happening Pecha said. “OneFSU truly State University now can experience at the university,” said Jeanne allows us the opportunity to a new “Garnet and Gold” connection Pecha, assistant vice president for continue our goal of building as the university unveils “oneFSU,” advancement services. “Why make it relationships and providing an online community that provides difficult to know what’s going on at quality services while keeping single sign-on access to the FSU Florida State?” everybody up to date.” Alumni Association, Seminole OneFSU goes beyond the typical With a scheduled public launch Boosters, the FSU Foundation Web site that simply provides of fall 2009, Florida State invites all and the John and Mable Ringling information. Individual colleges will alumni and friends to visit the site Museum of Art. This members-only begin building their sites over the next and experience the latest Seminole 19 FLORIDA STATE August 2009 Times Student scholarship ... continued from page 1

program expenses in another country for an academic year. Callejas will be studying Swahili in Tanzania, and Ho will be studying Turkish in Istanbul. • Eight students won Fulbright fellowships, which fund study, research or teaching of English worldwide. Full-grant recipients and the countries to where they will travel are graduate Alexander Merkovic-Orenstein Alan Kuhnle Ashley Danley students Michael Douma, Germany; Jason Hobratschk, Netherlands; Photos/Melissa Meschler Photos/Melissa Victoria Penziner, United Arab have the backing of their respective that includes writing and rewriting opportunities to socialize and learn. to attend the School of Oriental and African Emirates; and Heather Wakefield, schools. application letters, fielding questions “We want to help students learn Studies in London. Georgia. Four other students received Faculty and administrators credit from faculty committees, mastering and grow; we are teachers and mentors • Alan Kuhnle, a junior mathematics assistantships to teach English in other the campus’ Office of National interviews with poise and obvious as well as researchers,” Blessing said. major from Oxford, Miss., won the Goldwater countries: Jennifer Ervin, graduate Scholarship, a $7,500 award for sophomores student, Vietnam; Carly Nasehi, Fellowships (www.onf.fsu.edu), created intelligence, and keeping tabs on current “Having a student recognized nationally and juniors who plan to pursue research careers graduate student, Germany; Travis with money donated by Trustee David world events. For the 60 to 80 students is a tremendous feeling when you have in math, science and engineering. Kuhnle Smith, undergraduate student, Russia; and Ford, with bolstering Florida State’s who participate, it also is a self-discovery helped that student along.” has written a computer program that uses Lulio Vargas-Cohen, undergraduate annual award wins. process that fine-tunes their future goals Recent recipients of national awards computer models to simulate the evolution of student, Spain. “Our best students are as good as and professional skills, regardless of at Florida State include: an ecosystem and how it changes when foreign •Nasehi also won the Thomas R. Pickering any in the country; they just need to whether they win an award. • Alexander Merkovic- species are introduced. Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship, valued be encouraged,” said Peter Garretson, Along with building Florida State’s Orenstein of Tequesta, Fla., won the • Ashley Danley, an engineering at $122,000. The award pays for two years assistant professor of history and director national prestige, the recent focus on Truman Scholarship for Public Service, student from Cape Coral, Fla., received the of graduate study in international affairs, two of the university’s Middle East Center. preparing students to be nationally which awards $30,000 for graduate school Udall Scholarship, which provides her with paid internships with the Department of State, “Having an office that can help them competitive also enriches the academic to “change agents” who are committed to up to $5,000 for tuition, room and board or a Foreign Service mentor and an automatic with the nuts and bolts has made all the culture throughout campus, stimulating careers in public service. Merkovic-Orenstein other educational expenses. Udall recipients appointment as a Foreign Service officer after difference in the world.” scholarly activity and promoting student co-founded Global Peace Exchange, an are college undergraduates who are working she earns her degree. organization that gets college students involved • Allie Dick and Amanda The office, which opened in success. to preserve and protect their national heritage in humanitarian service by linking universities through studies in the environment. Danley Gonzalez were named to the USA Today January 2005, works to connect “FSU has some fabulous students, with government agencies. In 2007, he traveled founded “Dare to Love: Project Haiti,” a group All Academic Third Team. the best students’ academic passions but usually they were only known to Liberia to work with ex-child soldiers and that plans to work on improving water quality in • Peter Hoesing received the Fulbright with government agencies or private within their home departments,” said refugees from the country’s civil conflicts. two of the country’s small villages this summer. Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad foundations looking to fund projects Susan Blessing, a physics professor He provided them with treatment aid against • Isabel Callejas and Alena Award. Valued at just over $30,000, the honor that fit their criteria or values. It’s who was instrumental in the office’s intestinal worms and vocational education to Ho, international affairs majors, won Boren will fund Hoesing’s dissertation research in an exhaustive process for students creation. Now top students have better better their lives. Merkovic-Orenstein plans scholarships. Each receives $20,000 to use for ethnomusicology in Uganda for six months. 20 FLORIDA STATE Times August 2009 Grand Tour Tallahassee

Way back in 1822, Napoléon Achille Charles Louis S ee Tallahassee Murat (Royal Prince of Naples, 2nd Prince Murat), nephew for the First Time…Again • On Friday evening,mix of Napoléon Bonaparte, began a Grand Tour of the United with the friendly and beautiful people of States, including a visit to the land that Congress had September 11 – 13 Tallahassee at the granted to General Marquis de Lafayette for his service as Downtown GetDown. the French hero of the American Revolution—36 square Look for Florida State University’s Brag- miles that would become Tallahassee, the Capital City of Alumni and fans already know the With-the-Tag Van for some special Seminole Florida. gem that is Tallahassee. You revel in giveaways. Murat was a well-liked, colorful, and opinionated the warmth, beauty and excitement • Friday night, country man who spoke seven languages and, in publishing his of the Florida State campus. Now, music fans won’t want to take a fresh look, and introduce your miss Kenny Chesney at the observations on America and Americans, described the kids, your grandkids and your friends Tallahassee-Leon County Tallahassee social scene as bustling with elaborate parties to Murat’s favorite place. Discover Civic Center - just a short where its ladies were as beautiful and well dressed as any in Tallahassee again…through their eyes. walk from the Downtown GetDown. New York. Introduce them to the area’s Chesney • On Saturday, consider amalgam of rolling hills, tall pines He might have told General Lafayette, who never had the taking a tour of the state Capitol building and chance to visit, “You don’t know what you’re missing.” and majestic live oaks, adorned with the nearby Challenger Learning Center with Long story short - Prince Murat settled in Tallahassee, met Spanish moss, that form the city’s its IMAX Theatre, relish local crafts, food and famous canopy roads. Show off music at the Downtown Marketplace - or and married the great-grand niece of George Washington, the campus. Take them on a stroll visit one of the other nearby museums or served as Postmaster, Alderman and Mayor, died there, along Legacy Walk. Teach them the attractions. and both he and his wife are buried in the city’s St. John’s warchant and share all the game-day • Saturday afternoon, the flavor of Episcopal Church cemetery. festivities. Tallahassee and Leon County will be on Like Murat, Florida State alumni know that most folks (And…even if you’ve been back display at the “Visit Tallahassee Showcase” recently and think you’ve seen it all, on Langford Green, right next to Doak who haven’t visited this Capital City of Florida don’t know Campbell Stadium. Some of the area’s surprises await you in town and on what they’re missing. finest restaurants, attractions, hotels and campus.) merchants will have exhibit booths set up Florida State University and Visit with free food and other freebies right up Tallahassee invite you, your family until game time. and your friends to discover—and • At 6 p.m. Saturday, THE GAME – sponsored rediscover—Tallahassee by VisitTallahassee.com - see the Florida September 11 - 13. State Seminoles take on the Jacksonville Join us for: State Gamecocks. • On Sunday, cap off your visit with a drive Free Fun… along one of Leon County’s beautiful canopy roads and visit or even picnic at Free Food… Alfred B. Maclay GardensCarrabba’s State Park, Italian a Grill masterpiece of floralLogo architecture, Guidelines or Freebies… Generalthe Logo Tallahassee Guidelines Museum. • The logo and its parts must never be distorted, altered, redrawn or modified in any way.

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WIN THE GRAND TOUR GRAND PRIZE You could win a Grand Tour Ideal Weekend for two. With every ticket you purchase for the 4-color process equivalents: Green: C-100, M-0, Y-76, K-38 September 12 Florida State v. Jacksonville State Game, your name will be entered automatically in a drawing for the GRAND TOUR GRAND PRIZE and Red: C-0, M-94, Y-94, K-6 other prizes.* On his September 3, 2009, call-in show, Head Football Coach Bobby Bowden, along with Gene Deckerhoff, the Voice of the Seminoles, will Contact Information Please send a proof for approval prior to reproducing our logo on any materials: draw and announce the winner of the Grand Prize and the winners of the second, third and fourth prizes. Barbara Harvey Print Production Manager GRAND PRIZE – IDEAL WEEKEND • Deluxe room for two for two nights – Sept. 11 and 12 – at the newly renovated RESIDENCE INN BY MARRIOTT TALLAHASSEECarrabba’s NORTH. Marketing • Dinner Department (813) 288-8286 for two at TALLAHASSEE’S CARRABBA’S ITALIAN GRILL ($90 certificate), Sept. 11 or 12 • Two tickets to the KENNY CHESNEY CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 11 •Two tickets for theFax FLORIDA(813) 349-9422 STATE vs. JACKSONVILLE STATE GAME in the Osceola Grill, overlooking the FSU Football Stadium, 6:00 p.m., Sept. 12 • RESERVED PARKING SPACE directly across from the stadium, [email protected]. 12 SE R COnd P IZE • Deluxe room for two for two nights at TALLAHASSEE’S HAMPTON INN & SUITES, I-10/THOMASVILLE ROAD, Sept. 11 and 12 • Dinner for two at TALLAHASSEE’S OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE ($75 certificate) • Two tickets to the FLORIDA STATE vs. JACKSONVILLE STATE GAME in the Osceola Grill, overlooking the FSU Football Stadium, Sept. 12 • RESERVED PARKING SPACE, Sept. 12 THIRD PRIZE • Two Dinners for four by ARAMARK at Chili’s on campus in the Oglesby Union, Sept. 11 or 12 • Two tickets to the FLORIDA STATE vs. JACKSONVILLE STATE GAME in the Osceola Grill, overlooking the FSU Football Stadium, Sept. 12 FOURTH PRIZE • Four Dinners for four by ARAMARK at the Park Avenue Diner on the FSU, Sept. 11 or 12 * The names of all those who purchased game tickets as well as those who hold season tickets will be automatically entered in the drawing. No purchase is necessary — to register for the drawing, and for complete prize details, go to VisitTallahassee.com and complete the registration form.