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s 2 FLORIDA STATE Times September 2009 From archaeologist to university president Self-confidence drives Bense to excellence By Kim MacQueen to start the archaeology department that is also full of difficult decisions. Growing up on a farm in Panama at UWF. She said that when she got But it was still like going from first City, Fla., Judy Bense developed to the university following her Ph.D. base to third,” Bense said. “You’re such a love of archaeology that she work at Washington State University all alone at the top, and you have to originally planned to study in Egypt. in the early 1970s, “there was nothing make up your mind what is good for But then she got to Florida State as an here. There wasn’t a salary, there the university — which is not always undergraduate, and she realized there wasn’t a program — nothing. I love the same as what is good for the was no reason to leave. What she has to dig, and I love finding things. I individual units. Sometimes the vision dug up all over Northwest Florida has wanted to see if I couldn’t build a doesn’t come fast enough.” fascinated her ever since. program around that idea, to engage But she also notes that “it takes It’s a good thing she stayed. Bense this community in the enjoyment of strong and inclusive leadership, was tapped for the presidency of the archaeology.” which I developed beginning in University of West Florida in July Judy Bense The idea also eventually led my undergraduate days in FSU 2008, after an impressive career that Bense to form the Florida Public archaeology. Leadership and included building that university’s Archaeology Network at UWF, administration go together, so the Archaeology Institute from the ground which is dedicated to bringing leap from building and leading a large up, and founding the nation’s largest archaeology to the general public archaeological division from scratch community archaeology program. through a series of regional centers at UWF to being president is actually Like her brother Allan, former throughout the state, each staffed one of scale. I am amazed at how well speaker of the Florida House of was a largely untouched land of from Indian settlements and Spanish with professional archaeologists. The archaeology and building a program Representatives, Judy Bense has always swamp and dunes. There had never shipwrecks. But to the delight of effort is coordinated by the university, that includes the public have prepared known she can do what she puts her been a professional archaeologist in Bense and an increasingly engaged which also hosts the network’s me for the presidency.” mind to — so if she’d wanted to be the area. community, “we’re still finding stuff,” northwest regional center. It is one The same drive that got Bense in Egypt, you can bet she’d be there “My undergraduate career she said. of only a handful of statewide public to the presidency is helping her now. prepared me very well for my career “The archaeologist who took my archaeology programs in the country. feel grounded there, in a grueling “I think our mother really built as an archaeologist: lots of field work place in the department just found a So when she was asked to consider schedule that often sees her working this drive into us,” she said. “My experiences, hands-on experiences, Spanish mission site from the 1600s stepping in as president, after teaching 12- to 14-hour days, starting with brother and I have talked about this difficult projects and supervision that hasn’t even been plowed,” Bense in and leading the university’s appearances at 7 a.m. meetings in a lot, the fact that we have this great experiences,” she said. “I also earned said. “There are two shipwrecks in Archaeology Institute for 28 years, which “not only do I need to be there, self-confidence. We don’t ever think my master’s degree at FSU; I found Pensacola Bay from 1559. Pensacola Bense says she had to think about I am on the program. Often, I am that we can’t do something. It’s just a that I was very well prepared for a has incredible, untouched archaeology. it for a couple of days. Ultimately, the program . . . and I’m not even question of what hill to climb.” doctoral program, and I finished in People thought it had to be all gone though, she called being picked for the supposed to be awake yet. Bense started as an undergraduate record time.” by now. They couldn’t believe it. presidency “the biggest compliment of “I have not been this busy in 25 in the archaeology program at The Fast-forward to 2009, and you’d They believe it now.” my life.” years,” she said. “People say to me, Florida State University in 1963, think development would have It was the thrill of constant “I had been executive director of a ‘Judy, you’re 64. You’re supposed to when the state’s western Panhandle erased most of the artifacts left over discovery that gave Bense the impetus successful archaeology program, and be slowing down, not speeding up!’”

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evidence that The Florida State researchers were cited more often than Arts, Theatre and Dance, along with ranking was a paper by Professor mixture that gives flavor. The Florida University’s music programs rank at those written by faculty at any other the national recognition earned by Sally Sommer of the Florida State State University is noted for the the very top tier of music programs institution. In music education, the faculty and students for creating and University School of Dance that same kinds of fusions growing from across the country and stand out as Science Watch findings corroborate performing the arts, we also have an investigated contemporary salsa our commitment to the performing among the most forward-looking information recently published in the amazing array of top researchers in the dancing. and other arts. The whole campus, regarding research in many scholarly Journal of Research in Music Education history and criticism of the arts as well “The salsa dance form has been community and indeed the world are music disciplines,” Gibson said. “The — the lead publication for scholarly as those who explore related educational called a perfect dance for the 21st energized, spiced up so to speak, by third-place ranking is particularly inquiry in the music education and therapeutic applications.” century because it is the product of our creation, performance and research impressive in music, a discipline profession — that identified the College Serious research isn’t limited to the fusions of peoples, languages, in the arts.” represented by over 600 accredited of Music as the single most influential studying old masters or ancient music, movement and styles that departments, schools and colleges institution for research in music art forms, she said. Among the define the times,” McRorie said. throughout the United States.” education. And in ethnomusicology publications cited in the Science Watch “’Salsa’ literally means ‘sauce,’ a spicy To support its No. 3 rank for Florida and music theory, topics of College State, Science Watch produced a list of of Music articles mentioned include 71 journal articles written by faculty examinations of music and healing in from various FSU arts programs. Of other cultures, using music with special- those articles, 56 were from music needs students, and classical music journals and 15 were from journals analysis. Don Gibson dealing with dance, drama/theater, film/ The Florida State Universtiy College literature and arts management. of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance also Among the published papers in played a significant role in the Science music journals, many cover highly Watch national rankings, McRorie said. specific topics that show Florida State’s “This latest ranking encompasses music programs at the cutting edge of a broad swath of the performing arts research in the areas of music education, realm at Florida State, an area of historic music therapy, ethnomusicology and and continuing strength derived from music theory. What’s more, music the combined impact of our top-tier therapy articles submitted by Florida music, dance and theatre programs,” Sally McRorie State University College of Music McRorie said. “In the College of Visual Florida State University College of Music alumnus Robert Fleischmann (M.M. ’95) 3 FLORIDA STATE September 2009 Times FLORIDA STATE Faculty venture a world away Tiimesmes to train Indonesian teachers Vol. 15 No. 2 www.fsu.com By Dave Fiore

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Editorial Assistant Aprille Case heavily on a team from The Florida State University to help it through the process. After decades of political oppression and the lasting effects of a devastating tsunami that killed 130,000 of its citizens in 2004, the Southeast Asian nation is focusing on improving the quality of teaching Florida State University Board of Trustees and learning in its primary schools. Chair Jim Smith Florida State has received $1.5 Vice Chair Harold Knowles million to conduct research in Derrick Brooks conjunction with three not-for-profit Susie Busch-Transou organizations — the Education Emily Fleming Duda David Ford Development Center, the Academy Manny Garcia for Educational Development and William “Andy” Haggard the Research Triangle Institute — as Florida Robert J. Jakubik well as two other universities, the State Assistant James E. Kinsey Jr. University of Massachusetts and the Florida State Associate Professors Professor Tom Luschei with Richard McFarlain King Beach and Jeff Milligan with a teacher and students at Public Leslie Pantin Jr. University of Pittsburgh. principals and teachers at a madrasah School Lumpang 02. Eric C. Walker The grant is funded by the in Takengon, Indonesia during a sending six of their faculty members U.S. Agency for International needs-assessment meeting. to earn graduate degrees in FSU’s President T.K. Wetherell Development (USAID) and is part College of Education.” education in a devastated area,” Vice President for of a five-year project that builds faculty member) and I have been While Luschei focuses on working Milligan said. “It also is helping to University Relations & Advancement upon successful aspects of several working with faculty at the Open at the university level on distance- foster a positive image of Americans. Lee Hinkle recent educational initiatives in University of Indonesia to improve learning programs in one of the Through education, we are a small Assistant V.P. and Director of Indonesia. The project, which their ability to offer distance and largest cities in the world, Milligan contributor to improving relations in University Communications is a partnership between the online learning to hundreds of is working with those preparing the Muslim world.” Franklin D. Murphy governments of Indonesia and the thousands of classroom teachers Indonesia’s teachers in six outlying, Acting globally should continue Director of News and Public Affairs United States, seeks to implement who are earning bachelor’s degrees rural provinces. He is working on to be a part of Florida State’s role as Browning Brooks a more comprehensive system through distance education,” what he describes as education a major research intuition, Milligan President of the of teacher development at seven Luschei said. “Our work has faculty capacities in action research. said. FSU Alumni Association Indonesian universities in the involved technical assistance with the “Action research is practical, “There is important work to be Scott Atwell provinces of Aceh, Banten, North university in terms of instruction, problem-focused inquiry,” Milligan done in the United States, but there assessment and evaluation, and also are international problems that President of the Seminole Boosters Sumatra and West Java. said. “It is identifying problems, Andy Miller Florida State University Associate research.” gathering data associated with go across borders,” he said. “They Professor Jeff Milligan and Assistant The distance-learning aspect of those problems, implementing the need faculty and researchers, and we Professor Thomas Luschei, both the project is essential given the size solutions and then recording the bring that. We are bringing expertise from the College of Education’s of the task, Luschei said. feedback.” and insight to students — working The Florida State Times is published six times Department of Educational “Recent policy changes in The movement to decentralize the in a global, interdependent world.” annually by the Florida State University Leadership and Policy Studies, have Indonesia require that more than 1 education system from government Receiving insight is a two-way Communications Group, the Alumni Association, the FSU Foundation and Seminole Boosters taken key roles in the project. million classroom teachers upgrade control stems from the collapse of street, according the FSU professors. Inc. to keep alumni, friends, faculty and staff “In Indonesia, kids are getting their qualifications to a four-year the country’s oppressive dictatorship “So much of what I learn is not informed about FSU’s growth, change, needs educated and going to school, but bachelor’s degree by 2015,” he said. in 1998, Milligan said. the exotic, but the familiar in the and accomplishments. Views expressed in the “Given the scale of this challenge, as exotic,” Milligan said. “The ordinary Florida State Times are not necessarily the views the teachers usually have just one to “Decentralization of education of university officials or the newspaper staff. two years of college,” Milligan said. well as the location of many teachers goes hand in hand with the decency of the people strikes me. Inclusion of underwriting does not constitute “In a modern, complicated world, in remote locations, Indonesia reconstruction of democracy,” he My favorite part is probably to share an endorsement of the products or services. higher education is needed, and the must use distance learning as a said. “Action research is consistent that with folks here at home. It puts To suggest stories or offer comments, send an e-mail to Editor in Chief Jeffery Seay, jseay@fsu. government wants to raise standards primary strategy to upgrade teacher with that policy change — a way things in perspective.” edu, or write to the Florida State Times, 1600 for teachers and for students. We qualifications.” for people to be involved in their For Luschei, it is a process of give Red Barber Plaza, Tallahassee, FL 32310-6068. help the colleges improve their Open University and its faculty communities.” and take that will result in positive To submit address changes or obituaries, send an e-mail to [email protected]. capacity to make better teachers.” have been enthusiastic and grateful One of the universities in the change. edu. To submit news for Alumni News Notes, Luschei’s work is focused in the recipients of the assistance, according province of Aceh, which bore the “I truly appreciate the opportunity send an e-mail to [email protected]. To inquire capital city of Jakarta, home to to Luschei. brunt of the 2004 tsunami, lost 400 to experience the country’s striking about advertising, call Crystal Cumbo at (850) “The university has treated us beauty and culture,” he said. “I 487-3170, ext. 352. The Florida State Times is the Open University of Indonesia. faculty members and untold number available in alternative format upon request. It is With some 400,000 students, Open extremely well, and all faculty of students on that fateful day. The also feel very optimistic about printed on recycled paper. University is faced with logistical members we have worked with have disaster has created an opportunity future prospects for educational challenges not known to U.S. been generous with their time and for Milligan and his team to have a and economic development in Available online at universities. other resources,” he said. “Their tangible effect on the future of the Indonesia.” http://unicomm. “For the past three years, Mike hospitality has been truly remarkable. region. It’s a future in which The Florida fsu.edu/pages/ Spector from the University of The Open University has also given “It has been gratifying to make State University will have played a FloridaStateTimes.html Georgia (a former Florida State FSU a strong vote of confidence by a small contribution to rebuilding significant role. 4 FLORIDA STATE Times September 2009 Antarctic research facility KES wins $2.5 million NSF grant A The Florida State University’s Antarctic Marine Geology Research T Facility has received a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National SH T Science Foundation. The grant is double the facility’s previous funding OR from the NSF, which established the ice-cold curatorial and research center at Florida State in 1963. “The Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility has been a signature Provost wins top award feature of the sciences at Florida State for many years, and this recognition cataloging and preserving items related we have the experience, tools and from advising group by the National Science Foundation guarantees that it will remain so for to the institutional history and cultural manpower to do first-rate research on years to come,” said College of Arts and Sciences Dean Joseph Travis. Florida State University Provost heritage of the university and its fuel materials microstructure with this Beneath the plain exterior of an annex to Florida State’s aging Carraway and Executive Vice President for predecessor institutions. To that end, new $1 million grant. This funding Building, the research facility serves as the national repository for the world’s Academic Affairs Lawrence G. Abele the program is accepting donations of complements other major research largest collection of marine piston- and drill-core sediment samples extracted has won a top national award in artifacts from alumni, former faculty grants we already have in related areas from deep below Antarctica’s Southern Ocean floor. The premier collection recognition of his support of academic and staff members, and friends of the of materials research.” resides in a 6,000-square-foot refrigerated vault — a library of sorts for advising initiatives that have improved university. Photographs and ephemera With the grant, El-Azab and the visiting scientists from around the world who “check out” the cores in order retention and graduation rates at the are of particular interest, but nothing Computational Materials Science to conduct further analyses. university. is off limits. To donate an item or Group will develop new theoretical Among the more recent acquisitions is a nearly quarter-mile-long core make arrangements to have the item and computational models to study sequence drawn from 3,000 feet beneath the Ross Sea that provides an picked up, send an e-mail to Eddie the microstructure changes in fuel almost unbroken record of sedimentary rock beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, the Woodward at [email protected] or in the extreme nuclear reactor largest floating ice body on Earth. call (850) 645-7988. environment. “The NSF Office of Polar Programs likes the job we do here at The Group awarded $1 million Film restoration project Florida State University,” said Sherwood W. Wise Jr., a longtime professor to study nuclear fuels seeks old campus footage of geological sciences at Florida State and faculty principal investigator for the Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility. “Hence, they have doubled A Florida State University researcher In the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, The our budget for the next five years, which fortunately coincides with our has received a $1 million, five-year Florida State University had a campus installation of mobile shelving in the ‘Cold Room’ to make space for the Lawrence G. Abele grant from the U.S. Department of cinematographer named Werner Vagt. arrival of new Antarctic cores.” Energy for a study that could lead to The Heritage Protocol is trying to Abele will receive the Pacesetter the design of better nuclear fuels and track down any copies of Vagt’s films Award from the National Academic safer and more efficient reactors to that might still exist. A few have been Advising Association in San Antonio generate nuclear power. found and are being reformatted from during its annual conference this Anter El-Azab, an associate professor film to digital video. Alumni who month. The award is presented in the Department of Scientific have or know of any Florida State annually to one administrator who Computing, and his Computational University-related films are asked to exemplifies a commitment to academic Materials Science Group at Florida send an e-mail to Eddie Woodward advising and who has proven to be a at [email protected] or call (850) true advocate for students and advisers. 645-7988. “Dr. Abele’s recognition of the importance of academic advising is Myron Rolle to build rooted in his desire to help students free clinic in Bahamas make the most of their college Florida State University alumnus education and earn the degrees for Sherwood W. Wise Jr. and current Rhodes Scholar Myron L. which they have worked,” said Dean Rolle (B.S. ’08, Exercise Science) has of Undergraduate Studies Karen announced plans to build the Myron each year. Florida State medical avid FSU alumnus that he is, Myron Laughlin in a letter nominating Abele L. Rolle Medical Clinic and Sports students and doctors would travel to wants to give the College of Medicine for the award. “This dedication to Anter El-Azab Complex in Steventon, Exuma, in the the Bahamas to provide free medical an opportunity to be in on the ground the students includes a firm belief State will conduct research as part Bahamas, where his family originated. care and supplies to area residents. floor of the development of the clinic. that academic advising plays a key of a new $10 million EFRC Center In additional to providing free health “The need is already there, so we “After it gets built and has a full- role in students’ academic satisfaction for Materials Science of Nuclear services to residents and a state-of-the- can start this even before Myron has time medical staff, we would have some and success. The many innovative Fuels. The Department of Energy art wellness and training facility for the clinic built and functioning,” said other opportunities to potentially set programs that he has shaped and established the EFRC, or Energy athletes and visitors, the complex will Dr. Alma Littles, senior associate dean up other experiences for our students supported put this belief into action Frontiers Research Centers, program provide educational opportunities for for medical education and academic in the form of international, elective on a daily basis.” in an effort to spur breakthroughs in Florida State medical students. affairs for the College of Medicine. four-week rotations for our fourth-year Since Abele was appointed fundamental energy science. The project will be executed in “This mission trip would be Florida students,” Littles said. provost in 1994, he has supported The mission of this particular conjunction with the Bahamas Ministry State’s initial presence in Exuma, What’s more, the Myron L. Rolle several unique initiatives that have center, led by the Idaho National of Health and Florida State’s College similar to what our faculty and first- Foundation is offering to pay for these contributed to a steady increase in Laboratory, is to use better of Medicine. As a Rhodes Scholar, and second-year students do each year educational opportunities. retention and graduation rates as well computational models to learn more Rolle plans to earn a master’s degree in Panama and at other international as in the overall quality of the student Florida State Times about nuclear reactor fuels. Florida in medical anthropology from Oxford sites for one week over spring break as body, Laughlin said. Over the past 10 readership survey State is a member of the center’s team University in England during the 2009- a cross-cultural elective.” years, retention has increased from 83 along with the University of Florida, 2010 school year. Afterward, he plans The College of Medicine also is The editors of the Florida State percent to nearly 90 percent, even as Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the to enter the National Football League helping to advise the Myron L. Rolle Times invite our readers to take a enrollment has increased. Colorado School of Mines and the draft to pursue a professional football Foundation in establishing the clinic. survey about this publication at http:// University of Wisconsin at Madison. Heritage Protocol career and, later, a career as a surgeon. “What Myron has asked the College tinyurl.com/FSTimes-Survey. The “The Computational Materials accepting historical items The College of Medicine is of Medicine to do is provide some survey will remain posted through the Science Group at Florida State partnering with the Myron L. Rolle assistance in coordinating with the end of September and can be taken The Florida State University’s routinely conducts research on the Foundation to launch a new initiative local medical community and the at any time until then. Results will be Heritage Protocol program is microstructure of a wide range of through its FSU Cares program to Bahamas Ministry of Health as he gets published later this year in the Florida dedicated to identifying, acquiring, materials,” El-Azab said. “Thus, bring a medical mission to Exuma things set up,” Littles said. “Being the State Times. 5 FLORIDA STATE September 2009 Times Scientist studies effect of chronic infectious diseases officer of the Institute for Molecular an afflicted individual. might be misdiagnosed with systemic Medicine has patents pending on more By Paul Marcotte Medicine (www.immed.org), which Her institute’s work on Gulf War lupus or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis thorough screening methods that target Like being in a den of lions in a she and her husband, Garth Nicolson, illnesses and other chronic illnesses (ALS), for instance.” stealth infections in blood. Roman circus. founded in 1996. She also is president affecting veterans resulted in her and If such stealth infections are Beyond her research, which has That is how one of Nancy of the Rhodon Foundation for her husband being given the rank of diagnosed quickly, permanent damage resulted in more than 50 scientific Nicolson’s professors described the Biomedical Research Inc., located in honorary colonel of the U.S. Army to an individual’s health can be avoided, papers, Nicolson has been honored as scientific community to her when she South Laguna Beach, Calif. Special Forces and designated as according to Nicolson. Unfortunately, among Who’s Who Women in the was a doctoral candidate in molecular The Institute for Molecular honorary U.S. Navy SEALs. because of scientific limitations and World, the Who’s Who Executives biophysics at The Florida State Medicine’s mission is to contribute Nicolson’s passion for finding flaws in testing methods, many people in the World, and shared the Albert University in the early 1980s. As a to the understanding of and the answers to some of medicine’s most do not receive a correct diagnosis. Schweitzer Award in 1998 for woman, it would be even more so. prevention and cure of catastrophic difficult questions was born of her own The Institute for Molecular humanitarian work done in Africa. “From the moment I set foot on human chronic diseases — from bout with a chronic fatiguing illness, Nicolson defines her time at Florida campus, there was definitely a kind autoimmune diseases and fatiguing which struck 25 years ago. State as more than mere studying. of silent discrimination, but it wasn’t illnesses to rheumatic diseases, cancer “These illnesses make you so sick that “I loved Seminole football and really personal and it wasn’t done in a and AIDS — emphasizing basic and you’re chronically exhausted no matter enjoyed going to the games,” said negative way,” said Nicolson (Ph.D. translational research programs. how much you sleep, even though you Nicolson, who still follows the team on ’82, Molecular Biophysics), who counts The den of lions analogy certainly don’t really look sick,” Nicolson said. television. the long, grueling hours she spent could be applied to Nicolson’s fight “If you go for routine blood testing, She also credits five faculty studying at Florida State’s Institute against the nasty bugs that cause you can’t find the culprit because the members — Michael Kasha, William of Molecular Biophysics as invaluable chronic infections. The institute’s infections are stealthy. When our troops C. Rhodes, Randolph Rill (her major in preparing her for a career spent goal is to apply basic and translational came back from the first Gulf War, I professor), Harold Van Wart and Kurt developing an understanding of how molecular research approaches to had already suffered from this type of G. Hofer — for providing her with chronic infectious diseases affect people. better understand and eventually treat illness. It can hit any part of a person’s the breadth and depth of knowledge “My professors knew I had to catastrophic human chronic diseases. body, depending upon what the and methods to attack scientific perform at 1,000 percent if I was One of the Institute for Molecular particular genetic propensity is. That is problems that she has subsequently going to be taken seriously as a female Medicine’s current projects is working what’s so odd about them. used throughout her career. scientist,” she said. “My doctoral with the National Institutes of Health, “I call these infections the ‘great “We received extensive training committee understood the social the National Security Agency and the imposters,’” she said. “If they hit the in cross-disciplines so that you could prejudices built into our society, so Department of Homeland Security nervous system, the person will present examine a scientific problem from they really made me go the distance, on a prototype of a detection device with a catastrophic type of multiple different perspectives,” she said. “It was like running a marathon. In retrospect, to locate microorganisms in the air in sclerosis, and they don’t really have the a type of training that I found other that kind of rigorous training put me the event of a terrorist biological attack typical form, but an atypical form. In Nancy Nicolson researchers lacked when I went to other over the top so that I could withstand or other biological illnesses correlating my case, the infection hit my pancreas. institutions. It was a privilege to know anything.” to unusual stealth infections, airborne I presented with what seemed to be these scientists at Florida State.” Nicolson, 56, is now chief executive infections that hide inside the cell of diabetes, and it was not really. People — Jeffery Seay contributed to this story. Curiosity underpins career of multitasking musician

By Dave Fiore As diverse as his career may seem, In 1995, Colnot received the Ernst Florida State University College there is one thing that ties it all von Dohnányi Certificate of Excellence, of Music alumnus Cliff Colnot is a together, Colnot said. given by the Florida State University distinguished conductor, accomplished “The most important common College of Music to its alumni who musician, master arranger and respected element is curiosity,” Colnot said. display excellence in performance or educator. And the fact that he does it all “Always asking questions of mentors, composition. Since the certificate’s at the same time doesn’t seem to bother master teachers, performers, writers, inception in 1963, there have been only him a bit. conductors — everyone I work with 14 recipients. “I don’t consider any of my various — is always the common element. Cliff Colnot Music Inc., a business responsibilities to be work — all are Generally, answers generate more he formed to bring his various clients equally enjoyable,” Colnot said. “It is questions, which is how I progressed under one umbrella, lasted almost 20 not exactly an onerous task to go from through various situations in my years. one to another. I just have to organize career.” “I offered composition, arranging things, so that not too many things are It is a skill Colnot believes is and writing for television, commercials, demanding me at the same time. It is underemphasized in today’s education individual artists, film scores and radio,” working out great.” system. he said. “I kept the business until the Those tasks include serving as “The focus seems to be on rote cycle ran its course. But I continued to principal conductor of the Chicago memorization and not enough teach and conduct the entire time.” Symphony Orchestra’s contemporary emphasis on curiosity and asking A major impetus for Colnot MusicNOW series, the Civic Orchestra questions,” he said. “I make it a top pursuing arranging was the influence of of Chicago, Contempo at the priority with students. I say, ‘Ask why the late Charlie Carter, resident arranger University of Chicago and the DePaul are you doing that.’ Always asking.” for the Florida State University Bands Cliff Colnot University Symphony Orchestra, as After graduating from Florida for 40 years. well as orchestras at Indiana University. State with honors in 1968, Colnot “His class in arranging prompted Colnot also teaches advanced went on to earn his doctorate from me to be interested in arranging and orchestration at the University of Northwestern University. He was composing,” Colnot said. “He is the Chicago and film scoring at Columbia immediately hired by Northwestern main link in my increased interest in College. as an assistant professor and taught that area. In fact, the modern arranging And in between he arranges music there for six years. He left to open a I do is an extension of what I learned for the likes of Richard Marx, Hugh music business while still teaching as an from Charlie, with an emphasis in pop Jackman, Leann Rimes and SheDaisy. adjunct professor. and rock.” 6 FLORIDA STATE Times September 2009 Efforts bring three Rhodes Scholars in four years Academy, the U.S. Military Academy amazing, but until recently, they 30 years since Caroline Alexander’s By Libby Fairhurst at West Point, and the University of simply didn’t have a centralized 1976 win; former student body News and Public Affairs Chicago. During the same period, conduit on campus to the wealth president Joe O’Shea (2008), a Since 2005, The Florida State a mere six schools have managed to of national fellowships out there,” community leader whose good works University has produced three match the Rhodes record of Florida President T.K. Wetherell said. “Now have helped the sick and needy from Rhodes Scholars. No other state State. That stellar cadre includes that they do, it goes to show that at a Tallahassee to Rwanda; and Myron university in the nation can make Columbia, Brown and Georgetown large public institution in the South Rolle (2009), a college football All- that claim. universities. such as The Florida State University, American and an aspiring surgeon The groundwork began in late Among the renowned institutions outstanding individuals with Rhodes who plans to open a free medical 2004, when Florida State established who have garnered “only” one or D. Craig Filar potential can shine and win just as clinic in the Bahamas, where his its first Office of National two Rhodes Scholarships since they could at an Ivy League college parents were born. Fellowships. Finally, students had 2005, while Florida State was in the Northeast – and sometimes, as But also extraordinary: The more a one-stop shop –– equal parts nabbing three: Dartmouth College; “Across the country, we’re now we’ve demonstrated here since 2005, than 40 other nationally competitive recruiter, teacher, coach, navigator Cornell University; the universities viewed as a force to be reckoned even more so.” scholarships and fellowships collected and advocate –– that would help of Virginia, California-Berkeley, with,” he said. Not surprisingly, the Rhodes by Florida State students –– clearly them to compete with Ivy League Michigan-Ann Arbor and Texas- While the Office of National Scholars of Florida State –– among the nation’s best –– since students for prestigious fellowships, Austin; Washington University in St. Fellowships has evolved into an recipients of the most distinguished the 5-year-old Office of National and win. Louis; the U.S. Air Force Academy; increasingly expert guide through student award in the academic Fellowships opened for business. And win they did. In the past Northwestern University; and the a complex, extremely competitive world –– epitomize extraordinary So far, these honors include three four years, the Rhodes triple play California Institute of Technology. application and interview process, achievement and exceptional Truman Scholarships, a trio of at Florida State has been bested G. Craig Filar is the director of the quantity, quality and diversity of potential for more on the national Goldwater Scholarships, a Jack by only nine schools –– a rarefied Florida State University’s Office fellowships won and the speed with and world stage. They are Kent Cooke Scholarship and Udall group composed of Harvard, of National Fellowships. He has which they have accrued reflect first accomplished student and NCAA Scholarship, and an impressive total Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Duke, noticed that word is really getting and foremost the caliber of students shot-put champion Garrett Johnson of 26 Fulbright Fellowships. the Massachusetts Institute of around about its rapid-fire succession at Florida State. (2006), the university’s second For more on the Office of National Technology, the U.S. Naval of wins on the national front. “Our students have always been Rhodes Scholar but the first in the Fellowships, visit www.onf.fsu.edu. Florida State graduates make flight forecasts for Delta

By John Woodrow Cox predict the weather may have changed Thirty years ago, Nigel Fitzgerald since Fitzgerald and Stewart moved (B.S. ’78) and Don Stewart (B.S. ’79), to Atlanta three decades ago — both fresh from the halls of The Florida admit they miss the old ways — but State University’s Department of the quality and success of graduates Meteorology, accepted jobs within six from Florida State’s meteorology months of each other as meteorologists department has sustained through the with Delta Air Lines in Atlanta. years. In fact, the department is so Back then, they mapped out flight well known for academic excellence plans by hand on broad sheets of that six alumni have jobs with Delta’s paper, steering planes around potential Operations Control Center, either turbulence and directing them to sky in the meteorology department or as lanes that would boost their air speed aircraft dispatchers in the flight control and save fuel. Delta’s meteorologists department. The Operations Control used a handful of weather models to Center is the nerve center of Delta’s chart the courses, and they fed data into worldwide operation. a single IBM mainframe computer. “FSU has always had a very strong “It was pretty laborious,” meteorology program,” said Jeffrey Fitzgerald said. Hubright, a 1980 graduate and current “You had to back it up,” Stewart Delta dispatcher who came to the added about the computer. “Kind of company 20 years ago. “Meteorology Four of the six Florida State meteorology alumni who call the shots at Delta Air Lines’ Operations Control Center, from left: Jeff Hubright, Heather Heitzman, Don Stewart and Dan Ciminelli. Nigel Fitzgerald and Michael Whelchel are not pictured. ‘dinosauric.’” is a pretty specialized skill, and there In spring of 2005, then-25-year-old are not that many universities that have .he recalled thinking. “I’m gonna make forced students to predict the highs and at Delta until 1984, saw Stewart’s Heather Heitzman graduated from strong meteorology departments.” sure this plane has a good flight plan.” lows for cities around the country every application, interviewed him and the same Florida State meteorology Working with so many other Florida Besides their link on Saturdays in weekend. offered him a job. department and soon after took the State alumni is not only a point of the fall, they each share common, but “That was something that definitely Fitzgerald, who moved to the United same job Fitzgerald and Stewart had in pride, Hubright said, it’s also a bit of also unique, memories about how prepared me for what I’m doing now,” States from England in 1967, said he 1979 — but something was different. a bonding experience in the fall when Florida State prepared them for their he said, adding that he still regrets had loved weather since he was 11, but “Now I’m sitting in front of eight football season arrives. parallel careers. barely missing out on beating more Florida State gave him the chance to flat-screen monitors,” said Fitzgerald, “When the operation allows us to “I think it’s just a good program that than 60 other students in his last make it a career. noting that each serves a vital role. “It’s have that kind of down time, we’re all continues to turn out good, quality semester. “I came close. I was in first up They don’t often make it back to like a theater in front of me.” yelling across the room at each other people, and that’s why they end up until the last week, and I look back and Florida to visit their alma mater, but all Heitzman laughs when she because we’re all tracking the scores,” he here,” said Michael Whelchel, a 1981 I’m still upset about it.” six alumni all say it’s never far away in envisions that pre-computerized said. “I even have an FSU meteorology graduate who took the same path as If it weren’t for his connection to the their memories. world and the effort Fitzgerald and shirt that I wear sometimes.” Hubright from Delta’s meteorology university, Stewart said it’s unlikely he Even now, when Hubright Stewart exerted every hour of every Once, Hubright said, he even plotted division into flight control. would have ever had a chance to work occasionally calls Tallahassee Regional day to design those flight plans. a flight plan for one of the football A 1998 graduate who started as a for Delta. He applied for 150 positions Airport, it’s a special experience for him. “I can’t imagine,” she said. “You had team’s charters to an away game. Delta meteorologist two years ago, Dan and had few responses, but the late “It’s unlike calling any other city,” to work for your forecast back then.” “I know Coach Bowden is going to Ciminelli said he remembers competing Clarence Joe Emmons Jr., a 1958 he said. “It’s kind of like you’re The way in which meteorologists be sitting in first class on this aircraft,” in a departmentwide competition that Florida State graduate and a manager calling home.” 7 FLORIDA STATE September 2009 Times Archaeologist documents submerged treasures By Bayard Stern position with the park service as an 12 ships and two submarines that were radioactivity, unexploded munitions, magazine, wrote the book “Submerged: Managing Editor underwater archaeologist. sunk in atomic-bomb tests at Bikini sharks or treacherous diving conditions. Adventures of America’s Most Elite An avid scuba diver for four decades, “I was sent to work on the National Atoll in 1946. In addition, they would determine if Underwater Archaeology Team,” and Daniel Lenihan has become one of Reservoir Inundation Study,” he “The ships in the Bikini Islands were human remains were present, as well as co-wrote “Underwater Wonders of the world’s best-known underwater said. “That was the genesis for the thought to be potentially radioactive provide pertinent ecological information the National Parks.” He also co-wrote archaeologists. He is the founder of the Submerged Cultural Resources Unit, and the local inhabitants had long been about the area. the novels “Wake of the Perdido Submerged Cultural Resources Unit, because it brought the people and the distrustful and angry about them,” The team would then submit Star,” “Justice for None” and “Escape an elite team of divers charged with funding together.” Lenihan said. “Our team deemed detailed reports about the site to the from Andersonville” with his friend, finding, evaluating and documenting Consisting of five to eight divers, the the sites safe, and they are now a very National Park Service. The results of Academy Award-winning actor Gene sunken historic vessels in America’s Submerged Cultural Resources Unit popular diving destination which is the reports would help determine if a Hackman. parks and around the globe. was established in 1975 by the National good for everyone.” site should be open to public diving, “I struck up a friendship with Gene Learning about submerged artifacts Park Service to explore, survey and Lenihan said that all of the dives restricted, or protected in some way. Hackman, and we started talking about and places while diving fascinated him, protect historic shipwrecks and other were interesting in their own way, With their reports, the park service books that we liked to read,” Lenihan Lenihan said, and he was particularly sites important to American heritage. but one in Hawaii was particularly could then make determinations said. “In the mid-‘90s we started intrigued with these aspects while cave During Lenihan’s tenure as leader, meaningful for him. about how best to manage the site and working on a sea tale that became diving in Florida. He enrolled as a the team went on hundreds of dive “The World War II vessel the describe it to the public. ‘Wake of the Perdido Star.’ We stayed graduate student at The Florida State operations all over the United States USS Arizona is a major American war Lenihan and his team have been the friends and wrote two more University, earning a Master of Science and around the world — wherever relic, and it has tremendous symbolic subject of many articles, national TV books together.” degree in archaeology in 1973. the U.S. Department of Interior had importance,” he said. “Up until 1983, specials and documentary segments “Studying at Florida State gave me jurisdiction. He stepped down as chief when we first started looking at it, produced by CBS, PBS, the BBC, a very positive orientation,” Lenihan, in 2000 but continued as one of the people weren’t really sure what was CNN, the Discovery Channel 64, said. “I learned that life didn’t have team’s archaeologists until he officially down there. I tried to approach the and National Geographic. to be a battlefield. Some very exciting retired on July 4, 2009. assignment as just a job and to isolate He has written numerous opportunities opened up for me there. “People already knew how to myself from its memorial aspects. But articles for Natural (Anthropology emeritus professors) survey and document sites on land, I didn’t dive on the Arizona for long History Tony Paredes and Bruce Grindal but applying these methods to the before it really started having an effect both really inspired me and fueled my underwater realm is what our unit on me. It still has the remains of over interest in anthropology.” offered,” Lenihan said. “The team 1,000 young men in it. By the end While a student at Florida State, now has expanded its mission to study of that first field season, I knew I was Lenihan started working for the more types of natural sites. Since 2000, just kidding myself saying, ‘Oh it’s just National Park Service as a park ranger they have been called the Submerged another dive.’” and archaeologist under George Resources Center.” Lenihan explained that the team’s Fischer, the Florida State University Over the years, the team has mission was to carefully document emeritus staff member who helped received significant national media all aspects of an underwater site by At left, Dan Lenihan participates in using mapping experts, archaeologists, mapping operations in the Dry Tortugas, found Florida State’s Program in attention, particularly for its underwater 1993. Underwater Archaeology. After mapping of the USS Arizona in Pearl scientists and photographers. They graduation, Lenihan moved to Santa Harbor, excavation of the Confederate would assess potential dangers Fe, N.M., in 1974 to take a full-time submarine Hunley, and the re-survey of such as leaking fuel, toxic chemicals,

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Scott Just the ticket: Atwell Alumni Web site shines spotlight on theater grads President, Alumni “Memphis” cast by fellow Florida reuniting Seminole thespians. include “Chicago,” Charlotte, N.C.; and Association State alumnus Kevin Covert (B.F.A. “Theater is a communal art,” said “42nd Street,” Louisville, Ky., before ’92), one of no less than nine Florida State University Schoolof “Follies,” “Chitty heading to Canada. Seminoles currently living out their Theater director Cameron Jackson. Chitty Bang Bang” Alumni Association When the curtain rises later this dream on Broadway in productions “We want to reach out to the FSU and “A Chorus bylaws require us to month on the highly anticipated such as “South Pacific,” “West Side theatre community — those who Line,” in which she maintain “among Broadway musical “Memphis,” Story,” “9 to 5,” “Damn Yankees,” have been out in the world, and those performed with a pair former students a Montego Glover will take her “Happiness” and “Finian’s who are getting ready to go out — of grads from her Glover spirit of fellowship place in a long line of Florida Rainbow.” and get everyone reconnected.” same Florida State and regard for one State University theater graduates Glover’s ascent to Broadway If travel takes you to the Big University class. another.” As this starring on the Great White Way. stardom has given rise to another Apple, the New York listings will “It was really spotlight program Glover (B.F.A. ’96) has earned the debut: a Web page tracking our help you find Florida State alumni special to have three matures, our network lead role in the critically acclaimed stars on and off Broadway. At the on Broadway. Conversely, you can FSU grads in the of Seminole Clubs production, which features original Alumni Association, every day track numerous grads touring the same dressing room,” will organize FSU music by Bon Jovi founding brings word of good news about country with major theater troupes said Fletcher, whose Nights at the Theatre, member David Bryan. Florida State graduates, but the such as “Cats,” “Mary Poppins” and college experience Fletcher complete with social “I’m so honored to be among the success of theater alumni provides a “A Chorus Line.” included training in gatherings after the distinguished FSU artists thriving on unique opportunity: interactivity. The latter features 2001 alumnus London with members of the Royal shows, featuring our alumni stars. Broadway,” said Glover, whose New Fellow Seminoles can show their Emily Fletcher, about whom Variety Shakespeare Company. “It says a lot You can follow Fletcher, Glover York theater credits include “The pride by attending a show and magazine gushed: “Emily Fletcher about the FSU program.” (“Memphis” previews begin Sept. Color Purple” and “Dreamgirls.” “It utilizing our “FSU on Broadway” stops the show early with her After a short run in Japan, “A 23) and all our Seminoles at the is the result of the proud tradition of Web page, which will make planning magnetic take on statuesque Sheila, Chorus Line” returns to North Florida State University Alumni excellence that is FSU.” a snap. In addition, the page will the over-the-top femme fatale.” America this fall with stops in Association home page: www. Glover will be joined in the become a billboard of sorts for Fletcher’s Broadway credits Memphis, Tenn. (ironically); alumni.fsu.edu. 8 FLORIDA STATE Times September 2009 Neighborhood of Discovery High-Performance Materials Institute

By Gary Fineout discover the molecule, joined the Florida absorb an impact three to four times It may appear at first that Jerry Horne State University faculty in 2004. that of regular aluminum bumpers. gets paid to play with toys. Researchers at the institute are using All of this research goes on at the Horne, an engineer who works at buckypaper and other composites new, 45,000-square-foot home that The Florida State University High- in a variety of ways, whether it’s to the institute moved into late last year, Researchers and Florida State professors working just a few minutes from the main campus Performance Materials Institute, builds build small airplanes for the military, right down the street from the National are engaged in a mix of scientific research that has the potential to change the future in many ways. lightweight, radio-controlled airplanes make body armor or construct hybrid High Magnetic Field Laboratory. and then takes them out for test flights. wind-solar turbines. There also is The $21 million, two-story building But Horne isn’t doing this for fun. research going on to determine whether consolidated 13 labs that were spread Center for Advanced Power Systems He is part of the high-flying research buckypaper could one day be the main out over four locations. By Gary Fineout the wind doesn’t blow constantly — that is going on at the institute’s home, material used on the fuselage of jets. The High-Performance Materials Most people don’t think too much and the force of the wind can vary if located on Florida State’s Southwest Students at the High-Performance Institute — which has seven professors about what’s going to happen when wind turbines are spread out across a Campus in Tallahassee. His goal is Materials Institute spent four months on staff and up to 55 students — got they flick on a light switch. large landscape. to use composite materials that can be creating an electric car made out of its start under a different name back They just expect the power to be on. But at the same time, an electric turned into small compact planes that other high-tech composite materials that in 1995. But now the institute is an “If it’s not there, they get mad,’’ said utility using wind power can’t plunge can be used by the U.S. military for was driven by Florida State University umbrella organization that also includes Steinar Dale, director of the Florida its customers in the dark if the wind anything from weapons to surveillance. President T.K. Wetherell during the the Center of Excellence in Advanced State University Center for Advanced dies down. The center is helping Sometimes his planes fly with no 2008 FSU Homecoming Parade Materials, which won a $4 million Power Systems. with research that can help design problems. And sometimes they crash. and this past spring at the Daytona grant from the state back in 2006. But getting power to your home a predictable system — which may “Even when we crash them, it’s good International Speedway. The institute The institute’s $4 million annual or business isn’t an easy task. Moving include a backup power source — so information,’’ said Horne, who on a also has embarked on research designed budget comes from a combination of large amounts of electricity from power that the wind power project is a success. recent day was working on a plane that to improve the production process for both federal grants and contracts with plants into the wire that flows into “If you have hundreds of these wind weighed less than 3.5 pounds. fiberglass boats so that it’s less stressful industry partners. Companies can either a building is actually an enormously sources out there, how do you best And that’s one of the key goals on the environment. work one on one with the institute or complex process. And that process is connect them together and optimize at the High-Performance Materials This research could transform become a partner that gets to share in getting increasingly more complicated power delivery?’’ Dale said. “One of Institute. Researchers and professors automobiles and airplanes since a lighter, the research results. Wang notes that as utilities across the country attempt to the things we are looking at is what there are seeking to unlock the potential yet stronger, material is more energy- some companies also are talking about move away from traditional sources of happens when the wind suddenly stops. that exists with composite materials, efficient to use. And because buckypaper starting businesses that capitalize on power such as coal and oil and toward Where’s the power going to come which could in the future replace the is an excellent conductor of electricity, some of the discoveries made by the renewable sources of energy such as from?” aluminum, steel and other materials it could help revolutionize energy institute. wind and solar. The Center for Advanced Power now used to build cars, airplanes and production since it could be used in fuel Wang, however, stresses that the That’s where the Center for Systems was established in 2000, computers. cells. The institute also is researching High-Performance Materials Institute Advanced Power Systems comes in. and its home is a 36,000-square-foot Ben Wang, director of the High- how its composite materials could help has another key mission besides its It’s home to some of the most facility that sits across the street from Performance Materials Institute and an save lives, whether it’s to make materials research: to train and educate the next unique research facilities in the nation, the university’s brand-new High- assistant vice president for research in that emit less smoke when they are on cadre of engineers who will go out into a place where utilities and the federal Performance Materials Institute, located engineering at Florida State, explained fire or build cars with bumpers that can the world and build on the advances government use advanced simulators on Florida State’s Southwest Campus the No. 1 mission of the institute this that have already been made at Florida to test the wide range of conditions in Tallahassee. The center, which has way: “It’s really to push the envelope, State. that can affect electrical power systems. a roughly $5 million budget, has 40 understanding the materials from “Educating students is really a lot of That’s important information that can people working there, including 22 the atomic level all the way up to the fun,’’ he said. “This is a job that I would help them before they spend millions to students. macroscopic and systems level.” x not trade for anything else. Every year a L build these power sources. What may be a fairly ordinary- One of the most amazing composite you have a new group of students; every Want just one example? The materials researchers are working b/Bill b/Bill year you graduate a group of students a center is helping with a on goes by the colorful name of L who become your lifelong friends.” wind farm in buckypaper. Buckypaper is a sheet Florida State University President T.K. Oregon. As made using carbon nanotubes, an Wetherell, below right, and doctoral student S F U Photo Alvin Lim take an electric car designed and anyone knows, extraordinary material that is 10 times built by Lim and other engineering students lighter than steel but up to 500 times for a spin at the Daytona International Speedway. stronger. These nanotubes are fibers Ben Wang that are 50,000 times smaller than a human hair. Buckypaper gets its unique name from buckminsterfullerene, or carbon 60, a molecule that has the shape

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By Gary Fineout which is located just across the street. for superconductors and figure out As corny as it may sound, the “One of the reasons for us to come where electrical currents flow freely Applied Superconductivity Center is a to the Magnet Lab was the future of and where they are blocked. These place where scientists are making magic. very high field magnetic technology microscopes can yield intricate details Researchers and Florida State professors working just a few minutes from the main campus But this magic isn’t some sleight-of- would be greatly enhanced if you on a sample that is no wider than three are engaged in a mix of scientific research that has the potential to change the future in many ways. hand trick or an illusion meant to fool could use these new and enhanced human hairs. people. The Florida State University superconductors,’’ said Larbalestier, The center is also working on Center for Advanced Power Systems research center, working closely with who also is a professor of mechanical research designed to create more the National High Magnetic Field engineering at the Florida A&M powerful superconducting magnets. looking building on the outside masks that has been extended for another five Laboratory, is focused on the magic that University-Florida State University The National Science Foundation gave the complicated research going on years and $42.5 million. The goal is comes from superconductors. College of Engineering. the center a grant to design and build inside. The center, for example, is home to create a ship that has everything on Superconductors are compounds or The long-term goal of the center, a superconducting magnet that would to a 5-megawatt power system that it board run by electricity, whether it’s alloys that can conduct “frictionless” which has a $3 million budget and as shatter previous records. If successful, has used in some of its experiments. the propulsion motors, the lights or electricity, meaning they don’t give many as 40 students and employees, it could open the door for a series of The two motors that make up the electromagnetic weapons. off heat and can keep an electric is to identify the weaknesses and new magnets that create powerful fields system are capable of producing enough Dale says that about 70 percent of current going and going. They strengths of materials that can be without the sky-high electric bills that electricity to power between 4,000 and the research being done at the center is have amazing properties, such as used to make superconductors. The now come with other types of magnets. 5,000 homes. on behalf of the Navy. But the center the ability to defy gravity and repel center relies primarily on grants from Larbalestier estimates that a standard This powerful motor — as well as also is doing work to help keep the magnets — characteristics that are at the U.S. Department of Energy, the high-powered magnet costs as much as other devices — can be hooked up to lights on across the nation. In 2005, the heart of magnetic levitation trains. National Science Foundation and the $2,400 an hour in electricity to operate. the center’s real-time digital simulator. researchers won a major grant from Superconducting magnets are used Air Force Office of Scientific Research/ And if superconductors can be Spread out over the second floor of the U.S. Department of Energy to every day by doctors and physicians Multidisciplinary Research Program. created at higher temperatures than now the center, this simulator is composed improve the reliability and security of using magnetic resonance imaging, or “We actually are not ourselves exist, it could make them even more of a bay of computers capable of the electrical grid that provides power to MRI, machines, which can give highly discoverers of new materials,’’ commercially viable. The five main reproducing the conditions that electric homes and businesses. detailed images of the inside of the Larbalestier said. “What we are, materials used for superconductors utilities and large power users must deal Last fall, the Center for Advanced human body. conceivably, is one of the very best require extremely cold temperatures with on a daily basis. Power Systems and the Florida A&M But David Larbalestier, the director groups anywhere in the world that that are well below zero degrees Celcius. The simulator allowed researchers University-Florida State University of the Applied Superconductivity understands that if we have a new Larbalestier, for example, suggests at the center, for example, to test the College of Engineering were selected Center and chief materials scientist for material, what it is that has to be done that some day, superconductors could 5-megawatt power system as if it were to become partners with a national the magnet lab, points out that the to make that useful.’’ be used to replace copper wiring, an aboard a large warship being buffeted engineering research center headed “catch” to this “mysterious quantum Researchers at the Applied accomplishment that could greatly by 50-foot waves. by North Carolina State University phenomenon” is that superconductors Superconductivity Center, for example, reduce power consumption. He “Such a test has never been done by working to incorporate emerging only work at extremely cold have powerful microscopes that can compared the efforts of scientists at the anybody before or since,’’ Dale said. technology — including renewable and temperatures. Also, superconductors examine the crystals in materials used Applied Superconductivity Center to The center replicated the conditions alternative energy — into everyday use. have not been able to produce the same those of car engineers who took the of rough seas because it is part of a “Most of our work deals with powerful magnetic fields that can come power of a Formula 1 race car and then consortium of universities sharing a looking at new technologies and how from more traditional magnets that rely used its technology to create a BMW or five-year grant from the U.S. Navy’s you use new technology to improve the on tremendous amounts of electricity. a Porsche. Scientists at the institute, it Office of Naval Research to create an reliability of the grid, so you don’t have And it’s those challenges that the follows, try to find the absolute limits, all-electric warship. The center was brownouts and blackouts,’’ Dale said. scientists and researchers at the center scientifically speaking, so that working part of an initial $50 million grant In other words, Dale’s center is are working on. devices can then be made safely from making sure that the lights keep Larbalestier said the center was first superconductors.

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Ulanski of history) “Canterwood Crest: “A Buddhist in the Classroom” of religious examines the vital ABC-Clio Take the Reins” S id Brown (M.A. ’88) communalism role played by This book looks Jessica Burkhart (B.A. ’97) State University of New York Press on a pluralistic, the Gulf Stream at the American Aladdin Mix Brown offers a tolerant and as both a natural Revolution not The first in the Buddhist perspective multireligious environment for an incomprehensibly vast through the eyes new “Canterwood on the ethical society. array of sea life and as the quintessential tool of its least-famous Crest” series, this quandaries, lived Specifically, that allowed seafaring traders, settlers, pirates and least-studied book follows experiences and it focuses on and others to efficiently traverse the North participants: Sasha Silver intimacy involved the loss of the Atlantic. ordinary citizens. and her horse, in the teaching indigenous Hindu population and changes They are revealed Charm, during profession. brought about since a multireligious “Down Home: through new their first semester Everyone can progressive region of Colonial British India Dispatches from Dixie” research, letters and diaries. What’s more, at Canterwood appreciate this was partitioned in 1947, and the effect on Bob Dart (B.S. ’68) the roles of women, African-Americans, Crest Academy. book’s approach to topics such as attention, Hindu and non-Muslim minorities, pluralism Southern Lion Books Native Americans, immigrants and others After Sasha is community, rage, wonder, consumerism and and indigenous cultures. are revealed. able to demonstrate her skill in the arena, simple kindness. A blurring of journalism and she immediately becomes the target of a “Magic and Grace” “Libertad” particularly nasty group of girls who have “Inception” literature written C had Hautmann (B.A. ’80, M.A. ’85) Jock Young (B.S. ’90) already established themselves as the school’s Mike Lieber (M.S. ’88) by an author Evermore Books Conch Island Books elite. Her determination to hold her own will Astute Publishing with decades This adult comedy/ Young’s second be put to the test and readers will be held in of journalistic drama tells the story novel finds two suspense as she strives to make the advanced This is a political experience, of Gibb Chapman, recent Florida State riding team before the semester ends. thriller that centers this book is a a writer who seems University graduates around Sean May, a compilation of to have everything embarking on a “Bridge of Sand” major in the Army Dart’s favorite until his ego over- deep-sea fishing Janet Burroway (English professor National Guard true-life Southern inflates due to adventure. emeritus; Robert O. Lawton Distinguished who, while on active stories. These often humorous and always the unexpected Unfortunately for Professor) duty in Iraq, sustains insightful yarns have subject matter varying popularity of his them, instead of a Houghton a head injury that from the well-known — Willie Nelson and latest novel and leisurely weekend Suspense mingles causes him to lose Virginia Tech — to the virtually unknown his subsequent of catching fish, with insight in most of his memory. — a forgotten island in the Chesapeake Bay newfound celebrity status. His life is plunged they find themselves ensnared in a deadly this novel about While recuperating at Walter Reed Army and a beach game called “halfrubber.” into a series of trials that suggest he is being web of peril. Pirates, the CIA and a cooler a senator’s widow Medical Center, he is angered by the poor tested by some sadistic higher power. This containing $2 million are just the beginning who finds herself treatment he receives. Disillusioned, he takes “The Travel Adventures quirky and heartfelt story follows Chapman of a trip that finds the two graduates fighting, dissatisfied with to the streets, but unknowingly carries with of Lilly P. Badilly” as he transitions into middle age and finally not just for their own freedom, but to life. She returns to him a device that holds damning evidence of D ebbie Glade (B.A. ’83) expose the dark secrets of the American and a town in Georgia a crime ring involving ruthless government deals with longstanding issues. Smart Poodle Publishing Cuban governments. where she lived contractors and officers. May is hunted by Billed as a as a teenager and people who will stop at nothing to protect “Implied Consent” children’s “Everything Matters, Nothing harbored a crush their power, prestige and wealth. C ody Fowler Davis (J.D. ‘84) book unlike Matters” on an African-American coworker. Once Palari Books any other Gina Mazza Hillier (B.S. ’85) reunited, the two fall in love but are soon “The Soul Genome: Science Suspense is in available St. Lynn’s Press driven apart by forces outside their control, and Reincarnation” no short supply today, Written for causing her to flee. Burroway reminds the Paul Von Ward (B.A. ’61, M.S. ’62) in this sequel to this tale women by a reader that one cannot escape the outside Fenestra Books Davis’ first novel, chronicles woman who has world and that the only way to survive is to Could the person “Green 61.” The the journey of a remarkable millipede named felt overworked, hold on to kindness, fairness and love. you are today book chronicles Lilly P. Badilly. This exceptionally bright, under-inspired be informed or another chapter in talented and piano-playing insect embarks on and lost amid the “Sullivan Road” influenced by the life of likeable a unique, hilarious travel adventure into the demands of life, Pierce Lehmbeck (B.S. ’58) the experiences and optimistic fertile Costa Rican rainforest, learning about this book offers Authorhouse of one or more attorney Anderson its geography, culture, plants and animals. a seven-step plan Set during World people who lived Parker, who is once She eventually faces her biggest fears to save to help the reader War II, this in the past? This again pitted against his sneaky, conniving the lives of her family. A CD is included that understand what novel follows book explores rival Justin Cartwright III. Justin sends an features a recorded narration of the book is truly important in life. 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Less- number of intense, topical cases? and may even be a valid subject of scientific This is the story of a Inmates Get Time Off than-reputable inquiry. romance between U.S. for Good Behavior” inhabitants “Wife Shopping” Marshal Trey Scott R achel Hamman (B.S. ’87) populate the rural community, but it “First Christmas S teven Wingate (M.F.A. ‘91) and Katherine Taylor, Blank Slate Productions proves a fertile ground for the cultivation at Muddy Creek” Mariner Books a schoolteacher with Hamman, who of a relationship between Sullivan and his R ichard A. Bartlett (Professor The yearning an orphanage full was named a nephew as they struggle to survive. Emeritus of the American West) for intimacy and of children and a “Most Remarkable Booksurge Publishing the various ways five-year-old sister Woman” on “It Happened in School” Bartlett, an award- men employ depending on her. ABC-TV’s “The Bob Crosby (B.A. ’70, M.A. ’72) winning author to seek it out is Katherine is having View,” discusses Emerald Book Company and professor the overarching second thoughts about their impending an epidemic that This book is a emeritus at theme of the marriage because of Trey’s obsession with is sweeping the composition Florida State, book — a avenging the murder of his first wife. Will nation: mothers of 50 light- delivers this story collection of Trey make the ultimate sacrifice for his first “imprisoned” hearted stories of Jesuit Father stories about wife, or let go of his obsession and gain by motherhood. of high-school Demetrius de how they redemption with his second? It addresses those mothers who feel like occurrences, taken Mara as he travels try, often unsuccessfully, to establish a every bit of their time is leeched away by a from Crosby’s to a Montana connection with a potential wife. The 13 never-ending to-do list of maternal duties experiences boomtown on fictional accounts explore the coexisting and obligations. Hamman, with the help of during his career Christmas Eve with the hopes of performing heartache and hope inherent in the search 76 stories from mothers across the country, in the public a midnight Mass. This charming, poignant for companionship. 11 FLORIDA STATE September 2009 Times seminole-boosters.fsu.edu

Charlie Barnes Y ou never know what a season will bring Executive has a penchant for mayhem.” Our Director, with no football to distract us and all most-popular team in America behind quarterbacks Jimmy Jordan and Wally Seminoles put an exclamation point Seminole we have is the clever predictions of Notre Dame. Rounding out the top Woodham. In 1979, FSU began the Boosters on the ’90s by becoming the only team colorful pundits and their pre-season five were Penn State, Michigan and season ranked #7 by Gameplan; no in NCAA history to go undefeated to magazines. Tennessee. ACC teams were listed among that a National Championship ranked #1 College football fans tend to have Yes, the great names do endure but pre-season Top 20. from pre-season to post-season, wire- Chris Weinke and Bobby Bowden unusually short memories. Perhaps it’s not without difficulty. The sun will be Gameplan’s Top Five in 1979 to-wire. gave each other a boisterous hug during part of the emotional infrastructure up for the Seminoles before too long. included Southern Cal, Texas, One of the many wonderful things the celebration this July of “Seminole of team loyalty. The personalities of Ambitious programs like Utah Alabama, Oklahoma and Penn State. about college football is that each Showcase.” The Showcase brought universities and their fans are shaped and Boise State are often treated It’s interesting that in 2009, both season starts fresh; all hope begins new fifty-five former Seminole stars back to by their histories. Some have a chip on dismissively, yet here they are in 2009 ESPN and Rivals.com produced a pre- each fall. You never know what’s going campus to interact with one hundred their shoulder while others view glory pre-season, cluttering up the Top season Top Five list nearly identical to to happen. You never know. prospective young football recruits. as an entitlement. 20 and aching to shove the prima Gameplan’s choices from thirty seasons Back in 1979, Ohio State did not It has been ten years now since Timeless icons of college football donna programs into the dirt. The ago. The difference, of course, is that appear anywhere on Gameplan’s Top Bowden and Weinke last hugged on like Notre Dame, Southern California, ESPN Top 25 this August includes the Gators top those charts in 2009. Twenty radar. In fact, their assessment the field of their greatest triumph, the Alabama, Oklahoma, Nebraska and TCU, Boise State and Utah, all three The 2009 Gators have duplicated was grim, predicting OSU would 1999 National Championship. the like all fall into passages of dreadful ranking ahead of Notre Dame and our 1999 Seminoles’ feat of leading finish no better than 5th in the Big 10. Ten years ago, Florida State was a disrepair from time to time only to Florida State, which are #23 and #24 nearly every pre-season list. Ten years “They have seen the defection of too many more prominent feature on the college re-emerge and act as if they’ve always respectively. Michigan doesn’t appear ago, The Sports Illustrated Top Five key performers … We don’t see much football landscape, but those things been at the top of the pyramid. at all, having been nudged out by #25 pre-season picks included Penn State, more than seven wins for the Buckeyes.” do change with time and there are That self-assured attitude can be Rutgers. Miami is absent as well. Arizona, Tennessee and Ohio State, as But, Ohio State went undefeated many of us who believe Florida State a dependable source of strength. Rivals.com ranks both Oregon and well as FSU. Our eventual opponent in 1979 and played for the National will once again shine on the national Belief that your program is innately Oregon State among their Top 25, but for the national championship that Championship in the Rose Bowl, stage and reign in the Atlantic Coast exceptional bolsters confidence that no there’s no Michigan and no Miami. year, Virginia Tech, began down the barely losing 17-16 to Southern Conference. matter how dark the night, tomorrow Boise State and Utah are there, and list at #17. California. By the time you read this it will be the sun will shine more brightly than also the South Florida Bulls. Florida In 1999, Athlon magazine described Ten years ago, Virginia Tech was September and the new season will ever. State comes in at #16. FSU as the dominant team of the ranked in the pre-season right about be under way. Today however, we In August 1998, The Harris Poll Thirty years ago, the cover of 1990s, “and in 1999 returns its entire where Florida State is this August. You are still in the doldrums of August announced their national survey Gameplan Magazine 1979 featured receiving corps, its top five rushers and never know. showing Florida State to be the second Bobby Bowden and his dual nine of its top ten scorers. And the defense

1950 group that recognizes excellence in Kimberly A. Marks (B.S. ’81) was Dawn Grzymala Warner (B.S. ’91) has professional service work. elected president-elect of the National been elected president of the Florida Arden A. Anderson (B.A. ’52) is Council for Interior Design Qualification, Association of Family and Consumer president of Terrier Oil Company in Thomas K. Hannah (B.S. ’73) retired a non-profit organization involved in Sciences. Louisiana. after 35 years of service to the Florida the certification of interior designers Department of Health. throughout North America. Michael A. Adkinson Jr. (B.S. ’92) 1960s has been sworn in as sheriff of Walton Scott R. Stewart (B.S. ’74) has been Thomas M. McAlpin (B.S. ’81) has been County, Fla. promoted to assistant vice president William Andrew Haggard (B.A. ’64), named president and chief executive www.westcottlakes.org with the Chubb Group of Insurance Gregory Green (Ph.D. ’92) is professor a Florida State trustee, was included officer of ResidenSea Ltd., the only (866) 510-1515 Companies in Warren, N.J. and chairman of the Health and Physical in this year’s edition of Florida Super residential community housed on a Education Department at Fort Valley Lawyers. luxury cruise ship at sea. Jeffrey P. Kaloostian (B.S. ’75) has State University in Fort Valley, Ga. been teaching aerospace technology in Stephen R. Montague (B.M. ’65) was Norma Stanley (B.S. ’82) has been Tampa, Fla., since retiring from the U.S. Michael A. Haggard (B.S. ’92), as guest featured on an episode, “Composer included in The Best Lawyers in America Air Force in 2004. speaker at the National Crime Victim presents Portrait: Stephen Montague,” of the 2009 as a top lawyer in the areas of Bar Association’s annual conference, British Broadcasting Company’s Radio 3 elder law, trusts and estates. Shirley M. Meckley (B.A. ’76, M.S. discussed “Destroying the Defense program “Hear and Now.” ’79) has returned from a two-week Samuel L. Henry (B.S. ’83), logistics Security Expert.” He also was named a delegation to Israel and Palestine, Richard E. Harbin (B.S.N. ’67) has chief for Joint Enabling Capabilities “Super Lawyer” by the journal Florida sponsored by the Interfaith Peace- retired from clinical practice but Command, was named Junior Civilian Super Lawyers. Builders, to learn about the conflict and continues to provide clinical consultation of the Year for 2008 by the U.S. Joint the results of American policy on the Don Wilczynski (B.S. ’92) has recently and technical assistance to community Forces Command. lives of people living in the Middle East. changed jobs after 12 years as vice health centers and Ryan White HIV Kenneth E. Keechl (B.A. ’84) is joining president of inside sales for FirstData. programs. Susan L. Womble (B.S. ’76) wrote the the Kopelowitz Ostrow Firm as a partner He now is senior vice president of book “Newt’s World: Beginnings,” which Mary H. Jones Partridge (B.A. ’67, M.S. after serving as vice mayor of Broward indirect sales and business development was named the Florida Book Award gold ’68) was elected chairwoman of the County. at Century Payments in Frisco, Texas. medal winner in children’s literature for American Lung Association. 2008. Joanne Sowell (Ph.D. ’85) was honored Troy Kishbaugh (B.S. ’93) has returned Leslie Waters (B.S. ‘69, M.S. ’70) has with the Alumni Outstanding Teaching to the Florida law firm of GrayRobinson Daniel T. Hendrix (B.S. ’77) is president been elected to the Seminole City Award from the University of Nebraska P.A. He specializes in health care law. and chief executive officer of Interface, Council in Seminole, Fla. She is a former at Omaha. She teaches the Arts the largest manufacturer of modular Lt. Col. Charles “Chip” Brown (B.A. Florida state representative. Masters program, which focuses on art carpet, in Atlanta. integration for new K-12 teachers. ’94) will take over the command of the 62nd Airlift Squadron at Little Rock 1970s Mark Simpson (B.S. ’77) was named Larry Blocher (Ph.D. ’86) was selected AFB, Ark. senior vice president of Hancock Bank. Manuela Dal Borgo (M.S. ’70) received as a Lowell Mason Fellow by the National He has been working in the financial Robert D. Long (M.S. ’94) has passed two scholarships, the Graduate School Association for Music Education. services arena for more than 30 years. his professional Certified Economic Research Scholarship and the Overseas Development exam. Research Student Award, for her cross- 1990s disciplinary doctorate in Greek, Latin 1980s Rafael Gonzalez (J.D. ’90) has become Michael D. Prewitt (B.S. ’95) and Sarah and Economics at University College Carl V. Stombom (B.S.’80) is currently chief executive officer of the Center for B. Prewitt (B.S. ’95) have recently London. serving as the Federal Aviation Medicare Set Aside Administration in joined the International Mission Board Administration’s senior representative as missionaries. They will be working as Robert E. Holden (B.S. ’72) was listed Clearwater, Fla.

NEWS to the Pacific Rim. He is based at the missionaries in Lisbon, Portugal. as one of America’s leading lawyers American Embassy in Tokyo. Mark I. Duedall (B.S. ’91) has joined for business in the 2009 edition of Hunton and Williams LLP as counsel in Samantha Strickland (B.S. ’96, M.S. Chambers USA. Steve Allbritton (B.S. ’81) was named ’99) was named vice president of growth NOTES its Atlanta office. regional vice president for Hanlon and brand management for Florida Capt. Winston E. Scott (B.M. ’72) Investment Management, an investment Michael L. Lisle Jr. (B.S. ’91, M.S. ’05) Commerce Credit Union. was inducted into the 2009 Signature advisory firm in Egg Harbor Township, is the director of education for Trident Sinfonian class of recipients, a music Alumni N.J. United Way in Charleston, S.C. 12 FLORIDA STATE Times September 2009 Amy Lynne Boyett Aldredge (B.A. ’97), Lawther, Short, Parrott, Walker & president of Confidential Shredding and Abramson LLP in Salisbury, N.C. Recycling in Tallahassee, has received O BITUARIES a small business award from the Heather Cox Rosenberg (B.S. ’05, Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce. M.S. ’07) was awarded the 2009 Agnes Furey Victim/Survivor Award from Big Jim King Holly Butz-Swanson (B.A. ’97) is editor Bend Victims’ Assistance Coalition for of Penn State Medicine, the alumni and her work in training volunteers to help James E. “Jim” King Jr., 69, one of The Florida State University’s most community magazine of Penn State survivors of sexual violence. politically prominent alumni, died July 26. University’s College of Medicine. King served for 12 years in the Florida House of Representatives. Richard E. McClaine III (B.S. ’06) is James E. Merritt (B.S. ’97) was named attending a 13-month undergraduate jet Elected to the Florida Senate in 1999 and subsequently re-elected, he was a Florida Rising Star, a person under 40 pilot training course, which combines the senate majority leader from 2000-2002 and senate president from years old who has practiced law for less basic studies in engineering and 2002-2004. The Republican lawmaker represented District 8, which includes all of Flagler County and parts of than 10 years, in Florida Super Lawyers. navigation, at the Naval Air Station in Kingsville, Texas. Duval, St. Johns, Volusia and Nassau counties. Kimberly White (B.S. ’98, M.S.W. ’03) At Florida State, King earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in marketing in 1961 and a Master of Business was promoted to community nephrology Kellie Symons (J.D. ’06) joined the coordinator at the Malcom Randall Central Florida Association for Women Administration degree in marketing in 1962. Veterans Administration Medical Center Lawyers in the Angel Tree Project, In light of his long-term and enthusiastic support of Florida State and in seeking advances in biomedical research, in Gainesville, Fla. an annual event that benefits Rock the university dedicated the James E. “Jim” King Jr. Life Sciences Building in fall 2008. The state-of-the-art Lake Elementary School, where most Crystal R. Sircy (M.B.A. ’99) was students come from families below the building put the university’s diverse areas of biological science under one roof on the northwest corner of the main appointed as Enterprise Florida’s vice poverty line. campus in Tallahassee. It consists of two five-story wings connected by a two-story central lobby, and is home to president for business retention and scientists who lead world-class research in cell and molecular biology, ecology and evolution, environmental science, recruitment. Bryan Waters (B.S. ’06) has started Baseband Bracelets, a promotional and physiology and neuroscience. King will be interred at the building. (See the October Florida State Times for more on Jerri Weinmann (B.S. ’99, M.S. ’01) was fundraising company that manufactures the life of Jim King.) promoted to senior speech language personalized leather bracelets that are pathologist with HealthSouth Emerald stitched to resemble baseballs. Coast Rehabilitation Hospital in Panama Cynthia B. Wallat City, Fla. Chris Waters (B.S. ’08) has started a promotional and fundraising Cynthia B. Wallat, 68, a professor at The Florida State University from 1982 to 2003, passed away on July 5. 2000s company, Basebrand Bracelets, which While at Florida State, she served as chairwoman of the Department of Educational Foundations and Policy manufactures personalized leather Studies, associate dean of the College of Education and department head and associate professor in the Department Daniel S. Samess (B.S.’02) is the bracelets that are stitched to resemble executive director of the Greater baseballs. of Childhood, Reading and Special Education. Marathon Chamber of Commerce in Key Prior to her appointment at Florida State, she was an associate research specialist and project officer for the U.S. West, Fla. Alexander Merkovic-Orenstein (B.A. ’09) was a Truman Scholarship winner Department of Education and an assistant professor in the early childhood department at Kent State University in Melanie Shoemaker Griffin (B.S. ’03, this year at The Florida State University. Ohio. M.S. ’06, J.D. ’06) was named the 2009 He will study at the University of London Wallat earned her bachelor’s degree in 1962 from the State University of New York, New Paltz, and her Most Productive Young Lawyer by the School of Oriental and African Studies in Young Lawyers’ division of The Florida the fall of 2009. doctorate in education from the University of Pittsburgh. Bar Board of Governors. Ryan B. James (B.S. ’08) has graduated Robert Marion Morgan from the U.S. Coast Guard Recruit Training Center in Cape May, N.C. Got News? Robert Marion Morgan, 78, a globally renowned professor of educational research, To submit items for Alumni News died Jan. 12. Kelly Lesso (B.S. ’05) graduated from Campbell University School of Law in Notes, e-mail [email protected]. Morgan came to The Florida State University to serve as the chairman of the Buies Creek, N.C. She now is an attorney Please write “Alumni News Notes” in Department of Educational Research in 1968. with the law firm Woodson, Sayers, the subject heading of the e-mail. He headed a team from the university’s Learning Systems Institute — which he founded — to establish the Korean Educational Development Institute. At his retirement in 2003, Florida State named Morgan a distinguished professor and distinguished director.

1930s 1960s • Chad J. Motes Sr. (B.A. ’72, J.D. ’75) • Carol Combs Hole (M.S. ’79) • Stephanie J. Young (J.D. ’91) • Dortothy Tait Fittz (B.M. ’33) • Frances Whitehead Cordray (M.S. ’60) • Patricia Ann Scarry (M.S. ’72) • Joe K. Blacketer (B.S. ’79) • Clayton Anthony Campbell Sr. (B.S. ’92) • Selma Davis Craven (L.I. ’34) • Donna J. Eubanks (B.S. ’61) • Jay Steven Tiedeberg (B.S. ’72, M.B.A. ’74) • George J. Linder III (M.S. ’92) • Gwendolyn Patterson Thompson • Ruth A. Johnson (B.S. ’61) • William M. Barber III (B.S. ’73) 1980s • John Maure Saba III (B.S. ’92) (L.I. ’36, B.A. ’38, M.A. ’53) • Richard I. Coleman (B.S. ’63) • David McLean Coe (B.S. ’73) • Sharon A. Benack (B.S. ’80) • Leigh Anne Sebert Brooks (B.S. ’93) • Willa Greer Whitfield (L.I. ’36) • James R. Shenkel (B.A.’63, M.A. ’67) • Richard J. Hayden • Carolyn Dean Bartrem (M.A.C.C. ’80) • Donald Eugene Moore (B.A. ’93) • Roberta Rogers Letton (B.S. ’37) • Richard Whitmire (B.S. ’63) (B.A. ’73, M.A. ’76, M.S. ’76) • Gerald L. Chatlos (B.M. ’80) • Lillie Mae Barnes Rice (Ed.S. ’93) • Grace McKee White (B.A. ’37) • Randolph W. Blackwell (M.A. ’64) • Mary Elizabeth Korray (M.L.I.S. ’73) • Jolynn Francis Solomon Paris • Julie Rose Wright Sublette (Ph.D ’93) • Josephine Trantham Ross (B.A. ’38) • Joseph Evans (B.S. ’64, M.S. ’65) • Dorothy Louise Moore (Ph.D. ’73) (B.S. ’80, M.S.W. ’81) • Michael James Renault (B.S. ’94) • Ilma Labar Sevier (B.A. ’39) • Stephen G. Roberts (B.S. ’64) • Paul Alan Scranton Jr. (B.A. ’73) • Thomas E. Abercrombie Jr. (B.S. ’81) • Scott M. Love (B.F.A. ’96) • Juanita Adderhold Thiel (B.S. ’64) • Joan Gale Turner (B.S. ’73) • Edward Henry Brown III (B.A. ’81) • Janiris Maria Constable (B.A. ’97) 1940s • Sara C. Cobb (B.S. ’66) • Catherine Amber Patterson Wadsworth • Jill Irene Holston (B.S. ’81) • Micah Clark King (B.S. ’97) • Elizabeth Venning Blackburn (B.S. ’40) • James P. Dold (B.S. ’67) (B.S. ’73) • Lydia Dee Roth Johnson (B.S. ’81) • Courtney Alexis Seaward Summerlin • Edith Seiver Taylor Smith(B.A. ’42) • Elizabeth E. Hollamon (B.A. ’67) • Frank White (B.A. ’73) • Capt. Gregory Edward Shapley (M.S. ’81) (B.A. ’97, J.D. ’99) • Frances Hall Hendrix (B.A. ’47) • James R. Pearson (M.S. ’67) • John Hudson Schroer (B.S. ’74) • Peggy Doran Whitesell Barrow (M.S.W. ’82) • Twanyetta Lashonda Miller (B.S. ’99) • June Williams Bryant (B.A. ’48) • William T. Rice (B.S. ’67) • James Edward Tye (B.S. ’74) • Douglas William Gille (B.S. ’82) • James R. Crabtree (B.S. ’49) • Gertrude Langford Simmons (Ph.D. ’67) • James H. Acker Jr. (M.S. ’75) • John William Ginocchio (B.S. ’82) 2000s • Retha Maudlin Darden (B.S. ’49) • Alan M. Katz (M.S. ’68) • Myra Aikens (B.M. ’75) • Susan Glauser (B.A. ’82) • Tasha LaShay Blatch (M.S. ’01) • Etta McCulloch (B.S. ’68, M.S. ’72, Ph.D. ’74) • Carmen Gail Lew Hutchison Langston • Bruce McKeen (B.S. ’82) • Amanda Jean Brock Dufon (B.S. ’01) 1950s • Anna Marie Howard Johnson (M.S.W. ’75) • Vivian Jerrell Conner (M.L.I.S. ’83) • Kathleen Apuzzo Krasniewicz • Sidney S. Henry (B.S. ’50, M.S. ’52) (B.A. ’69, M.S. ’70) • Sharon W. Schrader (B.S. ’75) • John Brian Greaney (B.S. ’83) (M.L.I.S ’02) • John R. Edenfield (B.S. ’50) • Andrew Lynn Barrett (M.A. ’76) • Marlene Elizabeth Greer-Chase (Ph.D. ’83) • Marc E. Masonbrink (M.S. ’02) • Wallace R. Croup (B.S. ’51, M.S. ’59) 1970s • Warren A. Canon (B.S. ’76) • Marie Lamond Morgan-Kinneer (B.S. ’83) • Kirk Lawrence (B.A. ’03) • Stewart R. Knowles (B.S. ’51) • Charles T. Lawson (Ph.D. ’70) • Blaine Scott Cary (B.S. ’76) • Steven M. Bloom (B.S. ’84) • Shelli Rebecca Plotkin (B.S. ’04) • Catherine Torrance Toney (B.A. ’51) • Brenda M. Malloy (M.S. ’70, Ph.D ’75) • Charles A. Copenhaver Jr. (B.S. ’76, B.S. ’79) • Roxane Loud (B.S. ’84) • Capt. Abraham L. Stone (B.A. ’04) • Richard F. Laux (M.S. ’53) • Donald Angus McDonald (M.A.C.C. ’70) • Charles “Bert” Furbee (M.A. ’76) • Jack Marc Polsky (B.S. ’84) • Walter J. Kirchner (B.S. ’05) • Cloyd H. McClung (M.A. ’53) • Douglas E. McLean (B.S. ’70) • Patrick M. Hegarty (B.A. ’76) • Hugh B. Riley III (B.S. ’84) • Dewey D. Smith (B.S. ’05) • William H. McDonald (B.S. ’53) • Stuart P. Merrick Jr. (B.S. ’70) • Willie Lee Holmes (Sp.E. ’76) • Douglas S. Smith (B.S. ’84) • Danielle L. Hornsby (B.S. ’06) • Dewey L. Glass (M.A. ’54) • Clarence E. Pansler (Ph.D. ’70) • Thomas Russell Johnson (B.A. ’76) • Lorian Solomon Williams (B.S. ’84) • Alejandro Paul “Alex” Rosete (B.S. ’08) • George F. Arnot (M.M.E. ’54) • Joseph Anthony Salvatore (Ph.D. ’70) • Charles G. Kraemer (M.S. ’76) • Lisa Voth Marsh (B.S. ’85, M.S. ’88) • Phillip Hallman (’09) • John G. Harocopos (B.S. ’54) • Dennis Leon Zimmerman (B.S. ’70) • Regina P. Mills (B.S. ’76) • Frances Irene Rigsby (M.S. ’86) • Steven Lumbert (’09) • Shirley Harper Kalenich (B.S. ’55) • Joseph Louis Ashbrook (B.S. ’71) • Gordon James McCulloch (B.S. ’76) • April Michele Stanley (B.S. ’86) • Fred A. Thornton (B.S. ’55, M.A. ’62) • Roy A. Bland Jr. (M.S. ’71) • Gary Thomas Snell (B.S. ’76) • Angela P. Crews (B.A. ’87) Faculty and Staff • Harry Senske (B.S. ’55) • Roberta S. Fluhrer (B.S. ’71) • Frank Haney Gilson (M.A. ’77) • Joanne Jenny Smithell Dungan (B.S. ’87) • Alfa Duty Barnes • Sara Whitehead Williamson (B.S. ’55) • Catherine B. Kerce (B.S. ’71) • Rebecca Johnson Hood • Albert Philip Hahn (B.A. ’87) • William D. Claudson • John M. Gustafson (Ph.D. ’56) • William Leader (B.S. ’71) (B.S. ’77, M.S.W. ’84, Ed.S. ’87) • Connie Elizabeth Stillman McGillen (B.S. ’87) • Jackie Terrell Clenney Sr. • William H. Lyon (Ph.D. ’56) • Robert Oliver Pryor • Joseph T. Jordan (J.D. ’77) • Kerry Anne Aube Lingle (B.A. ’88) • Bessie M. Cobb • Alice Florice Sullivan MacDonald (B.S. ’57) (M.S. ’71, Ph.D. ’74) • William Scott Lindsey (B.A. ’77, J.D. ’81) • Katharine Lynn Gibson McKee (B.S. ’89) • Lilyan Cason Essig • Wallace T. Jenkins (B.S. ’57) • Eugenia Testa Randolph • Mary Carol Schoenberger (B.S. ’77) • Scott Andrew Santella (B.S. ’89) • Audrey Opal Moore Free (B.A. ’45, • Catherine H. Jensen (B.S. ’57) (M.A. ’71, Ph.D. ’77) • Debbie Lee Pogue Armstrong (B.S. ’78) • Timothy M. Teague (B.S. ’89) M.A. ’57, Adv.M. ’69) • Raymond Leamond (B.A. ’57) • Willis Warren Smith II (B.S. ’71) • Roger Thomas Walker (B.S. ’78) • William J. Hoetker • Celia D. Blanks (B.S. ’58) • Neil William Standley Jr. (B.S. ’71) • Barbara King Wright (Ph.D. ’78) 1990s • Emilie Johnson Jennings (B.A. ’36) • Paul A. Jones (B.S. ’58) • Catherine Kerce Stout (B.S. ’71) • Larry Hal Brown (Ph.D. ’79) • Steven Kent Grev (B.S. ’90) • James P. Love (B.S. ’50, M.S.W ’59, • Reuben Ray Fountain (B.S. ’58) • David W. Cuttino (D.M.E. ’72) • John William Convertino (M.S.W. ’79) • Aurora Tobias Pascual (M.S.W ’90) Ph.D. ’70) • Robert M. Wilson (B.S. ’58) • Beulah K. Cypress (Ph.D. ’72) • Lynn Ann Wrigley Eustace (B.S. ’79) • Lee Corbin (B.S. ’91) • Peggy David Singleton • Paul F. Rago (B.S. ’59) • Dan Wesley Henderson (B.S. ’79) IN MEMORIAM IN • Bonnie Cecilia McLean Eger (B.S. ‘72) • Michael Keith Jones (B.S. ’91) • David M. Gainer (B.S.W. ’72) • Stephen Gage Hilliard (B.A. ’79) • Kelly Nicole Brown Westberry (B.S. ’91) 13 FLORIDA STATE September 2009 Times 14 FLORIDA STATE Times September 2009 www.foundation.fsu.edu

S. Patricia Ramsey The Women for Florida State Executive Vice President for Principal Gifts, University: Uniting for the Future Florida State University of a desire to cultivate more women Foundation as leaders, advocates and donors for the university. With a mission of Women have long served as empowering Florida State women by volunteers in the community, sharing increasing awareness and education, the their time and talent to improve Women for Florida State University society and the world. The same holds provides opportunities for mentoring, true today, even as women expand networking and philanthropy. their roles in business, government Consider for a moment that: and the nonprofit sector. Women • Women are expected to control 60 are consistently identifying multiple percent of the wealth in the United Why are women so meaning and satisfaction of their support what they love,” said Joyce opportunities for philanthropic States by 2010; philanthropic? Having the facts philanthropy. Miles, FSU Foundation board member involvement — giving time, talent and • Women account for 56 percent of about women as philanthropists is The Women for Florida State and driving force behind the Women financial resources for the common undergraduates in U.S. colleges today; one thing, but understanding why University encourages these traits. for Florida State University. “I am good. Nowhere is this more evident • Women currently make up 53 they give is quite another. Women Through its core value system, women pleased to launch this effort and look than at The Florida State University, percent of the work force and are wish to create new solutions to have the opportunity to expand their forward to working with a host of where women have played a vital role in increasingly moving into high-paying problems, serving as entrepreneurs own knowledge via special events and fabulous volunteers to make this the university’s history, dating back to professional careers; through their philanthropy — workshops. In fact, in March 2010, the happen, exceeding all expectations!” the creation of the Florida State College • Women generated $2.1 trillion in ultimately making a difference in Women for Florida State University The 73 passionate members of the for Women in 1905. earnings in 1999; their community and society at will be kicking off its inaugural annual Women for Florida State University The Women for Florida State • From 1997 to 2003, a total of 770 large. Women commit themselves event, “Backstage Pass to the Very steering committee, including 42 alumni University was formed with this in women gave independently to Florida through volunteerism and connect Best of FSU.” This two-day, exclusive, and four current students, wish to make mind. It all began in 2004 and 2005 State; with the individual their gift in-depth tour of one of the nation’s this initiative as inclusive as possible when a group of women passionate • During that time, those women affects. Through collaboration, greatest universities will give women the in an effort to increase awareness of about all things Florida State formed gave more than 4,700 gifts to the women make efforts to avoid opportunity to get an inside peek into opportunities for women to stay actively an ad hoc committee and held focus university, totaling over $35.2 duplication, competition and waste what makes Florida State so great. engaged in life at the university. To learn groups to discuss how to promote million; and with the project they fund. Finally, “This is the perfect time for women more about the Women for Florida women’s involvement with the • Ten of those women women are able to celebrate their at The Florida State University to State University and how to become university. The Women for Florida independently gave gifts of $1 accomplishments by having fun identify their passions, engage with the involved, visit www.foundation.fsu.edu/ State University was born in 2008 out million or more to Florida State. together — enjoying the deeper university’s programs and ultimately community/womenforfsu. 15 FLORIDA STATE September 2009 Times Society names professor to first group of fellows By Barry Ray scientific organization. Profession, and Society.” The honor the largest database of petroleum postdoctoral fellows. News and Public Affairs “The most treasured recognitions are goes to those who have distinguished compounds in the world — priceless The ACS honorific follows a recent The honors continue to stack up for from those closest to home,” Marshall themselves in multiple areas, including information for some of the world’s string of honors bestowed upon one of The Florida State University’s said. “As a chemist, I am therefore promoting the science, the profession, richest companies. Marshall: best-known scientists. especially honored to be chosen for and service to the society. “Thanks to Professor Marshall’s • Earlier this year, he was named Alan G. Marshall, the Robert the inaugural class of fellows of the The inaugural group of ACS fellows innovations, FT-ICR mass spectrometry the co-recipient of the 2009 New O. Lawton Professor of Chemistry American Chemical Society. I look were recognized and honored in is now an invaluable routine analytical Frontiers in Hydrocarbons Award, and Biochemistry at Florida State forward to seeing other Florida State Washington, D.C., on Aug. 17. procedure in areas ranging from sponsored by Eni, an Italian energy and director of the Ion Cyclotron University chemists as ACS fellows in Marshall is widely recognized as industrial chemical analysis (e.g., oil company. Marshall’s share of the award Resonance Program at the National the near future.” having revolutionized the field of exploration) through environmental money was 150,000 euros — roughly High Magnetic Field Laboratory, The ACS Fellows Program was chemical analysis. He co-invented and and ecological science (e.g., atmospheric $200,000. has been named to the first group established in late 2008 “to recognize continues to develop Fourier transform gas analysis) to medical prognosis • In 2008, he was selected to receive the of fellows selected by the American members of the American Chemical ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass (e.g., personalized medicine),” said 2008 Ralph and Helen Oesper Award Chemical Society (ACS), the Society for outstanding achievements spectrometry, a powerful analytical Harold Kroto, Florida State’s Francis from the Cincinnati Section of the world’s largest member-driven in and contributions to Science, the procedure capable of resolving and Eppes Professor of Chemistry and American Chemical Society. Eight of identifying thousands of different a recipient of the Nobel Prize for the past 26 awardees of the prestigious chemical components in complex Chemistry in 1996. “The technical and award went on to win the Nobel Prize. mixtures ranging from petroleum to computational advances have resulted in • In 2007, he was selected to receive the biological fluids. Since its invention, the ultimate high sensitivity and, most 2007 Chemical Pioneer Award from more than 750 FT-ICR instruments, importantly, the resolution needed for the American Institute of Chemists. with a replacement value of use in the field. The award recognizes “chemists and approximately $425 million, have been “Without Marshall’s developments, chemical engineers who have made installed in laboratories worldwide. FT-ICR-MS would have remained a outstanding contributions advancing In recent years, Marshall’s research useful laboratory technique and could the science of chemistry or impacting group has received a great deal of not have become the routine method the chemical industry or the chemical attention for its development of of general fundamental and strategic profession.” “petroleomics,” an entirely new branch applicability that it now is,” Kroto • He was named a Robert O. Lawton of chemistry that seeks to predict the said. “He is most worthy of selection Distinguished Professor at Florida State properties and behavior of petroleum to the inaugural group of fellows of the for 2006-2007. The Lawton award is and its products. Using FT-ICR American Chemical Society.” the highest honor that the university’s mass spectrometry, his team has been In addition to his ground-breaking faculty can bestow on a colleague. able to simultaneously separate and research, Marshall also has authored or With more than 154,000 members, Alan G. Marshall identify thousands of separate chemical co-authored more than 450 refereed the American Chemical Society is constituents within a single crude oil journal papers and has mentored one of the world’s leading sources of sample. In so doing, it has compiled more than 100 graduate students and authoritative scientific information. Scientist supports safer food supply with new tests By Libby Fairhurst allergic reactions in more than 6 million FALCPA and protect those consumers.” immunoassay that can sensitively detect methods all require sophisticated News and Public Affairs people each year in the United States Hsieh expects to publish one or two any pork muscle in food and feed instruments coupled with complex data The odds of contracting mad cow alone. And, with a two-year, $216,000 papers per year during the course of the mixtures regardless of their processing analysis procedures for interpreting disease from banned or adulterated award from a division of the Tanaka grant period. She anticipates at least one conditions,” Hsieh said. “This assay results. Rapid field tests of pork or any bovine protein lurking in raw or Kikinzoku Group of Japan, Hsieh will patent application for the project once was commercialized in 2000 and other fat are non-existent. processed food for humans or meat- devise a rapid test to detect traces of it is completed. has been widely used internationally. “With this grant, I hope to change bone meal for livestock have declined pork fat — good news for more than “A fast, effective fish allergen However, detection of pork fat remains that, because such tests are vital over the past decade. So have the risks a billion Muslims and millions of Jews immunoassay has the potential for challenging due to the physiochemical to practicing Muslim and Jewish of purchasing fishy imposters billed as who adhere to Halal and Kosher dietary immediate commercialization,” nature of the fat. Currently available populations,” she said. red snapper, ground beef that isn’t all laws, respectively, that forbid pork she said. “Currently, two domestic cow, or spoiled meat that doesn’t look consumption. biotechnology companies, who or smell bad … yet. “In 2004, the Food Allergen already have licensed several of our All that consumer protection is Labeling and Consumer Protection species-specific tests for food and feed thanks in part to improved food-testing Act (FALCPA) called for mandatory control in heat-processed products, methods — quicker, more reliable labeling of the eight major allergenic are marketing immunoassay kits for paper-strip field tests and simpler, more foods by January 2006, but while detection of ingredients in all seven accurate laboratory assays — developed methods have been developed to detect types of foods listed in the ‘Big Eight’ since the 1990s by food scientist Yun- the presence of shellfish, peanuts, tree except for finfish. Since the FALCPA Hwa “Peggy” Hsieh of The Florida nuts, wheat, soy, cow’s milk and egg, labeling mandate took effect in 2006, State University. Currently, four assays currently there’s still no way to test for these companies have been eagerly in commercial use worldwide feature fish proteins in food materials,” Hsieh seeking assays for fish detection, and her patented technology. said. they have shown strong interest in my

x Now, with two recent grants “With the increase in the production laboratory’s research efforts to develop a L totaling nearly $500,000, Hsieh will and consumption of seafood in recent fish-specific ones.”

b/Bill b/Bill begin work on the development of two years, more consumers with fish Awarded on the heels of her USDA a Peggy Hsieh L new immunoassays for commercial allergies are at risk of serious reactions fish-allergens grant, Hsieh’s two-year use on both raw and processed food or even death than ever before due grant from Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo

products. With a three-year, $280,000 to mislabeled or undeclared fish K. of Japan will help to advance her S F U Photo award from the U.S. Department byproducts,” she said. “My USDA earlier research on the detection of pork of Agriculture, she’ll design a test grant will enable me to develop a products in food and feed products. to detect fish allergens, which cause convenient and reliable tool to enforce “I previously developed a rapid pork 16 FLORIDA STATE Times September 2009 Grand Tour Tallahassee

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

Free Fun… • On Sunday, cap off your visit with a drive along one of Leon County’s beautiful canopy Free Food… roads and visit or even picnic at Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park, a masterpiece Freebies… of floral architecture, or the Tallahassee Museum. Friendly Folks and of course… Florida State Football!

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