End of Year Means Retirement for Five

NON PROFIT RATE U.S. Postage PAID St. Augustine, FL Fl AG .E COLLEGE Permit No. 64 Address Correction Requested GargoyJ.ewel> site: www.oldcity. .com1 gargoyle VOL. XXVI, NO. 11 SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA April 11, 1997 End of year means retirement for five ....,,.,.,,..,.--.,,----,, special to the Gargoyle Robert and Barbara Carberry, William Kearney, Pat Blair and Virginia DuBeau have seen the college through a tremendous evolution · over the past two decades. They retire this spring. The ·Carberrys Although Robert Carberry was profiled in the Gargoyle's last issue, his wife, Barbara, also will be retiring, and the Carberrys are two of the many people who can be credited with the college's successful evolution. They were married in St. Augustine 26 years ago. It was a dreary January day, and just a few of their closest friends attended. Tom Rahner, chairman of the drama depart ment at Flagler and their long-time friend, recalled, "It was a very touching time for these two wonderful people to join ~ogether. The college was foundering then, and it seemed so appropriate that these two people should make a commitment to each other That's Barbara Carberry behind those- Foster Grants, between Nick Panepinto and. Priscilla at a time of such uncertainty." Dodds in the procession at the fall convocation and dedication for the Proctor Library. Born in New Haven, Conn., Bob earned his bachelor's degree from St. Anselm Col math and science at the high school level in tion of having been the college's first men's lege in 1953, his master's in political philoso the Boston area, and served as an adjunct basketball coach, and of having been elected phy from Fordham University in 1961, and instructor at her alma mater, Regis. -both administrator and faculty member of completed further studies at Boston Univer In 1970, Bob accepted the position of the year by the Student Government Asso sity in American government. His profes dean of the college at Flagler. Barbara taught ciation. sional experience in higher education spans for a short period in the local school system, "Bob served as dean during the most dif such roles as assistant dean ofs!Udents, dean then left teaching for 10 years to care for ficult days, and among his accomplishments of students, and instructor of political sci their three children, Chrissy, Bob and Karen. is his contribution to the initial accredita ence. In 1980, she accepted a position as adjunct tion of the college," College President Will A native of Boston, Barbara received her professor of mathematics at Flagler, and in iam Proctor said. undergraduate degree in biology from Regis 1988, she became a full-time assistant pro In 1989, Bob went back to his first love: College in Weston, Mass., in 1964, and a fessor in the math department. teaching. "After 19 years in administration, master's in biology from Fordham Univer As dean, Bob was responsible for all ar it seemed like I· was getting stale." sity in 1966. She pursued further graduate . eas related to academics, managing both stu work at Boston University. She taught both dents and faculty. He even holds the distinc- see RETIREMENT, page four Commencement: Departments recognize academic achievers grads getting ready Twenty-one seniors have been chosen The drama department chose Derek As if four years Qf meeting academic re to receive_ department awards for aca Hirons as this year's award winner. quirements aren't enough, the last week of demic achievement. Faculty chose the The four education· department recipi spring semester has the 211 seniors expect students who have distinguished them ents are. Tracy Bergman, Regena Schwarz, ing to graduate Saturday, April 19, still rush selves through their academic perfor TinaShe Simons, and Amy Witters. ing to complete a few special tasks. mance and other activities. The English department awards go to Today, for example, is the last day to ob The number of department awards Robert Eric Burroughs and Donna Miles. tain those extra tickets for guests to attend allottedeach year is based on the num Seven students will receive social sci commencement. The Office of Academic ber of students in that major. It is then ences department awards: Shawn Bingham, Affairs issued each prospective graduate six up to each department to decide how Christine Levine, Melissa Fiore, Michelle tickets in early March, but two more tickets many awards are given out at the fall and Fouts, Brett Hamil, Jeremy Puma and ·can be requested by close of business today spring commencements. Shane Runyon. ·for a maximum of eight. Beyond that num The art department award recipients The sport management department ber, graduates will have to plea to each other are Gerard Geary and Carrie Holmes. award gQes to Kelly Hansen. for spare tickets. There are even notices on The nine business administration de Additonally, three students will receive the mailroom bulletin board from those so partment award recipients are Dana Presi-dent's Awards at commencement. desperate, they're offering to pay for extras. Angle, TrishaAngleton,JonahAsh, Chris The President's Award for Service is going In addition to making sure relatives and tine Fricke, Brian Haas, Greg Nealey and to Regena Schwarz and Jonah Ash. The friends can attend the commencement cer- Michael Ochipa, Benjamin Platt and President's Award for Leadership is being Bethany Schonsheck. given to Brian Haas. - see COMMENCEMENT, page four - -::;,,.- Page Gargoyle EDITORIAL April 11, 1997 E-cl itt-,R i al Qpinjt) 11 Avoid the real world malarkey been so stratified by the educational system for all the years ferred year after year. Someone should test this theory to de by eric burroughs my personal memory encompasses. And now that the final termine its success. Perhaps for four or five years of chemical A rite of passage. That's what this day is approaching, and I have another four years of school engineering, four or five years of microbiology, four or five whole graduation ,thing is supposed to ing racked.up, I'm supposed to just go out and be a real per years of medieval French liter.ttlire and on and on and on. be. Some kind of grandiose means of son. Who are they kidding? See, that's a good 15 years right there. validating your maturity,' which in some Gosh darnit, I like being a student. Benefits galore exist Do you think they would really chase down a 70-year-old cases obviously misses the mark. for all us students: we can borrow money from the govern person with seven bachelor's, three master's and perhaps a To be honest, I have long since ment and wink at them when they ask (demand, what's the doctorate or two and suddenly demand payment? I doubt it. graduated, even if that diploma isn't difference?) when we'll pay it back, we can choose how much Hopefully by that time, with that resume, you should be able comfortably sitting in iny home right or little studying we want to do, we can be particularly lazy on to get a job at some university. At that age, a job won't be so now. All the particularities .that have certain days ifwe so desire. Naturally this doesn't mean we bad. You will have succesmilly avoided a real life and learned been a stepping stone to anoth_er semes can do whatever we want, but we do have a heck of a lot more a whole lot while enjoying all the fruits of youth-although ter now just get in the way of the inevi leeway than what's out in the real world--:iust ask the ones the monthly loan payments would be rather astounding. table day: exams, papers, etc., etc. If it wasn't for the fact that who are already.there. Let's face it, we students have it pretty Otherwise, what can you do but bear the burden of a suit I can be an inherently lazy individual, I would say this is just good, especially in Florida with weather like this; then it's all and tie, admit to yourself that schooling, the essence ofyouth my own apathy; apatheticus studentium, I believe, somebody once the better for us-a nice day outside, forget about' class and ful vigor, has finally passed and a Willie Loman fate is all that · called it. However, this time there is a gross finality to ·this go to the beach. Studying to do? Do it at the ~- remains. whole idea of schooling, something quite dramatic. · Well, there really are no ways to accomiilodate these two But where's the fun in a Willie Loman-pseudo-real world Just think for a moment about what it means, even if you diametrically opposed forces of the eternal studenthood and life? None of us really ever wants to reach this dreaded stage, are not graduating within the next two weeks. For more than the real world; it's pretty much one or the other. You can al so let's not try to fool ourselves into believing this malarkey. 16 years, my fellow classmates and I have been attending ways go to graduate school and continue the schooling. People We're always going to be student-kids at heart, so instead of school. This wouldn't be all that big a deal if we were old and have often proposed the theory that a student could conceiv passing this stage of education-,<,tudenthood-youth, let's just wizened, but we're only 21. Most of us started when we were ably go to school for .several years, say 50 or so, by taking out continue to do whatever it is that is true to ourselves and noth 5, not counting pre-school.

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