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Departments Features President’s Perspective . . . . 4 16 Notable Names, Tall Tales and Points of Pride On Campus ...... 5 on our Evolution from Countdown College A Closer Look ...... 12 to Florida Tech Athletics ...... 14 Crossword ...... 38 The story of our university’s 60 years lives on through the words of university historian Gordon Patterson. This collection of passages shares excerpts from Patterson’s online series, “The Secret History of Florida Tech.” 26 Vik Verma: Keuper Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient Growing tech startups into multimillion-dollar businesses is just another day on the job for Vik Verma. Now his company 8x8 is revolutionizing enterprise communications everywhere. Among it all, he stays actively involved with the university.

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2 THEN AND NOW. On the left, a view of campus looking north from the roof of the Crawford Building in 1984. On the right, that same vantage point today. Can you spot what remains the same and what has changed on campus?

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Florida Institute of Technology PRESIDENT Dwayne McCay, Ph.D. VICE PRESIDENT FOR MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Wes Sumner ’18 DBA

Florida Tech Magazine is published three times a year by Florida Tech’s Office of Marketing and Communications and is distributed to over 80,000 readers. MANAGING EDITOR/ART DIRECTOR Christena Callahan ’07 M.S. EDITOR Stephanie Herndon ’07 CONTRIBUTORS Fanak Baarmand, Stephanie Bacon, Christena Callahan, Stephanie Herndon, Jillian Leclerc, Adam Lowenstein, Erin Mahaney, Gordon Patterson, Lisa Petrillo, Ryan Randall, Wes Sumner, Daniel Supraner PRODUCTION Kristie Kwong WEB LAYOUT David Smith, Erin Fox CIRCULATION Ali Faisal PHOTOGRAPHY Dominic Agostini, Mike Brown, Joy Patterson

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Dear Alumni and Friends, When our founding president, Jerome Keuper, convened the first night classes at Brevard Engineering College Sept. 22, 1958, the inaugural cohort had only a short drive from their jobs on Cape Canaveral to class in Melbourne. As we’ve welcomed students back for our fall semester and begun to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Florida Tech’s Florida Tech was featured on the home page of The Chronicle of Higher Education on Aug. 6. establishment, it strikes me that the distances our students now travel from their homes to our Melbourne campus reflect just how much Brevard Engineering College—renamed Florida Institute of Technology in 1966—has evolved over its relatively short existence. The truly international nature of our student body, with 120 countries represented last fall (that’s nearly 62 percent of all the countries in the world), says plenty about our foundation and desirability as a school, but it also bodes well for us as we evolve and grow and, just as our students do, look toward our own future. “It’s like traveling the world in four years,” one of our students told Fiske Guide to Colleges a few years ago about our global attendance. Many facets of Florida Tech that contribute to our international appeal can be traced back to our formative years: Dr. Keuper’s early and unwavering insistence on creating a challenging academic environment; a desire, certainly in the school’s second decade and President McCay prepares to lead the procession onward, to strengthen the emphasis on research; the understanding during summer commencement. that a campus must offer not just the pleasant amenities, including a soothing oasis of palm trees in our botanical garden, but also the latest teaching technologies, equipment and materials. When I was named Florida Tech’s fifth president in July 2016, I articulated three core principles that complement our history while casting an eye forward: research that benefits all of humankind, student success for a lifetime and great global citizenship. The occasion of our 60th anniversary is a great moment to pause and appreciate what Florida Tech is now and what it has the potential to be, and also to understand the tenacity and foresight of Jerry Keuper and our other early supporters. They worked tirelessly to cement a sound foundation that now, decades later, allows us to relentlessly pursue greatness.

Sincerely,

Dwayne McCay, Ph.D. President McCay and Bino Campanini ’90, ’92 MBA ran into Delta pilot Jim Berry ’91 on their flight to President Philadelphia.

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Engineering and Science: Separated No Longer

In addition to returning and equally as important, impact research areas will students, Florida Tech’s fall creates a less organizationally give the university more term began with the arrival complex environment for “horsepower” for recognition, of something else: the official students to navigate. university leaders said. merger of the College of Furthermore, the merger The merger will unify Engineering and Computing also supports the goal of the talents and efforts of and the College of Science. increasing Florida Tech’s faculty in the two colleges, Officially known as the reputation and recognition, improving communication, College of Engineering two key components to collaboration and teamwork. and Science, the merged improving the university’s school streamlines academic rankings. Creating such a administration—a benefit to critical mass of faculty in the university’s finances— high-visibility and high-

Honoring Jack Schwalbe

As he stood at the front of the room, Gordon Patterson said although there are many good professors who are learned in their field, a great professor is one who acts as a horticulturist, planting and cultivating the ‘seeds’ of study and knowledge in his students.

“And Jack Schwalbe,” Patterson contin- ued, “is a great professor.”

Professor Emeritus Schwalbe beamed as he heard these words during a recep- tion held in his honor on Aug. 13. Ed Kalajian, Ashok Pandit and Patterson Friends and colleagues honor professor emeritus Jack Schwalbe during a campus reception. arranged the reception as a farewell to the influential professor who is moving to New Hampshire to be closer to family. In 1979 Schwalbe with his structures coach and role model.” Schwalbe retired When Kalajian was starting the ocean expertise joined Kalajian to form the from the university in 2000. engineering program at Florida Tech in university’s civil engineering program 1974, he found help in Jack Schwalbe, As the reception came to a close and and develop the structures lab. a structural engineer with an exper- attendees gathered around Schwalbe for tise in ships, submarines and offshore Through the years “Coach Jack” served a group photo, he said, “I want to thank platforms. In just a few short years, on the faculty senate and volunteered you all for your kind words. I have loved Schwalbe built up the program to one as an intercollegiate tennis coach for being here, the university, the people, that experts pointed to as the definition Florida Tech. Bill Jurgens shared, the teaching … this has been the finest of what an ocean engineering program “He had a lot of great philosophy and period of my professional life.” should be. self-confidence, which made a great

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BRAISED CHICKEN, Autism in Brazil: BRONZE MEDAL Florida Tech Chef de Cuisine Jon The Scott Center to Train the Skoviera and dining service team Trainers for Treatment members Jenn Manaseri, Crystal online training Mensch and Susan Voss won a Florida Tech’s training, created Trainer” model, bronze medal in the American modules for use Paraná will select Scott Center by experts at The Culinary Federation’s Culinary in Paraná. The the trainees for for Autism Scott Center, for Competition at the 24th annual following 18 the lessons. After Treatment, along people in Brazil Chef Culinary Conference at the months will be two years, those with the Brazilian who work with University of Massachusetts in spent training trained will be Amherst June 3–8. state of Paraná, autism and other approximately able to instruct launched the As per the rules of the developmental 300 individu- others in the Autism Training competition, the group prepared disabilities. als throughout state, as Paraná Program in June. a three-course meal consisting of four cities in the looks to gradu- The two-year Over the first six an appetizer of monkfish mousse Brazilian state. ally expand the with seared scallops, a main partnership months of the program to all 399 course of Tonkatsu-style pork involves online agreement, The In what The municipalities. tenderloin and a dessert of bing training modules Scott Center will Scott Center calls cherry mousse with chocolate and face-to-face develop a set of the “Train the genoise, as well as a buffet course of Moroccan-style braised chicken.

Competing against 14 other teams, the meal was critiqued by 12 judges, including four certified Master Chefs. TALKIN’ SPACE

Teams were given a market basket Students Emily Birch, Alex Coultrup, containing a selection of materials Tereza Sedlakova and Shayan then had one hour to submit a Shirshekar traveled to Beijing, China, menu. Teams were allowed three with Andy Aldrin, associate profes- hours of cooking time and 30 sor and director of the Aldrin Space minutes to plate their dishes. Institute, to attend the inaugural Sino- U.S. Space Policy Research Center sum- mer study program. The five-day program, which kicked off July 30 in association with Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) and Ohio State University, featured faculty and student policy discussions on topics ranging from the management of space flight projects to the future of global space exploration, as well as hands-on activities for students.

Enriching Research

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR PROGRAM GRANT NEW SHARK SPECIES HONORS FEMALE PIONEER Assistant professor Shermineh Rostami Fairchild’s proposal, “Free-Space Optical Squalus clarkae, also known as Genie’s Dogfish, was identified from the Gulf Communication in Plasma Waveguides,” was selected for funding by the U.S. Army of Mexico and western Atlantic Ocean. The shark was named after Eugenie Research Office’s Young Investigator Program in July. The award is for a total of Clark, a pioneer in shark biology, who founded Mote Marine Laboratory and $360,000 over three years. Fairchild is one a few specialists in laser filamentation passed away in 2015 at age 92. The confirmation of this new species was in the United States. Filament-induced plasma channels could be engineered into reported in the journal Zootaxa in July with Florida Tech assistant professor free-space waveguides to propagate optical information more efficiently. and shark biologist Toby Daly-Engel among the authors.

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A Week of Biofouling Talk: Global Experts Gather at Florida Tech

Nearly 300 delegates from barnacles and other plant and applied research advances in 28 countries gathered at animal life upon ship hulls and biology, microbiology, chemistry, Florida Tech in late June as other immersed structures. physical chemistry, coatings the university hosted the 19th and materials to help face the Florida Tech is home to the edition of the prestigious challenges of biofouling and Center for Corrosion and International Congress on Marine corrosion,” Hunsucker said. Biofouling Control, which is led Corrosion and Fouling (ICMCF). by Geoffrey Swain, one of the Presentations included novel Attendees represented world’s preeminent anti-fouling antifouling coatings, the government, academia and engineers, and features assistant biology of biofouling organisms, industry. professors Kelli Hunsucker and regulations and policies in place Emily Ralston. Hunsucker and for the chemicals used in ship Kelli Hunsucker and Emily Ralston, The five-day event, convened co-chairs of the International Congress Ralston were co-chairs of the hull coatings, and research and every two years, featured on Marine Corrosion and Fouling congress organizing committee. development into underwater organizing committee technical discussions, vehicles as a method to presentations and keynote “It is ICMCF’s goal to bring experts combat fouling. addresses on marine corrosion from around the world together and fouling, the growth of to discuss the latest basic and

SPACE SIMULATION INNOVATION LIGHTING UP BRAINS Florida Tech, working with Servos & Simulation Inc., has developed a Researchers at Florida Tech, in collaboration with Columbia University, have 500-pound simulator that allows human subjects to experience the entire developed the fastest method to date for creating a key molecule used in mapping suborbital spaceflight profile—from takeoff through landing—using brain activity. They also discovered ways to create two new alternate versions of 360-degree motion and the hyperbaric environment of a spacesuit. The the caged Glutamate molecule that can further advance this critical field of study. simulator allows Human Spaceflight Lab director Ondrej Doule and others This work, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was published in the to study human-system integration, including how a would-be passenger American Chemical Society journal, ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2018. communicates and interacts with the ship’s onboard systems.

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From a scientific perspective, we don’t know much about white sharks, even basic biological questions like where they go to feed and reproduce. Only by understanding where the baby sharks are living and where the Toby Daly-Engel observing a white shark on Discovery Channel’s “Great White Shark Babies.” moms are giving birth can we Sharks, DNA and TV Shows, Oh My! protect this part Evolutionary biologist the 30th annual edition determine whether Filming the show— Toby Daly-Engel was of Discovery Channel’s great white sharks in including seeing an adult of the white shark a featured scientist popular Shark Week. Vizcaino Bay in Baja, white shark in person on “Great White Shark Mexico, were related for the first time both on life cycle.” On “Great White Shark Babies,” a program that as parent-offspring or the water and in a cage Babies,” Daly-Engel, aired July 27 as part of siblings to the sharks below the surface— an assistant professor in Guadalupe Island, was nothing short of in Florida Tech’s about 240 miles west of amazing, she said. department of the bay. ocean engineering “The first time I saw and marine Linking the two a baby white shark, sciences, along populations would show which was still almost with scientists that the nursery grounds 9 feet long, all I could Mauricio Hoyos in Vizcaino Bay are think was how perfect and Michelle critical habitat for the it is. What a perfect Wcisel, used DNA Guadalupe white sharks, predator,” she said. fingerprinting—the which would help make “Seeing the adults was same CSI-type a case that the lagoon just mind-blowing, techniques should be protected. although once I got humans use to in the water, it was all Daly-Engel grew up solve crimes—to about the science.” watching Shark Week. Toby Daly-Engel

NEW REGISTRAR NAMED THE ARTS THIS AUTUMN Caroline Johnston ’09, ’12 M.S., was named university registrar This fall brings a colorful collage of exhibitions at our two this spring. Johnston has been working in the Registrar’s Office museums. Now through Dec. 15 at the Ruth Funk Center is since 2005 when she started in a work-study capacity her “Wandering Spirit: African Wax Prints.” Foosaner Art Museum freshman year. She advanced through several positions in the will have “A Look Back: Forty Years of the Foosaner Collection” office, including coordinator for undergraduate transfer credits, on display through Nov. 3, and beginning Nov. 17 is “Derek registration assistant and registration supervisor. Gores: Local Edition.”

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Voted Most Likely to Become a Unicorn During hackathon competitions, students diligently chip away at an idea to result in a software or hardware product to demo. Florida Tech’s hackathon team has won over $10,000 OUR GOLDEN AGE: FLORIDA TECH in prizes at competitions around the country, not to mention HAS HIT A SWEET SPOT the entrepreneurial award “Most Likely to Become a Unicorn” bestowed by Harvard in 2018. Florida Tech was named to an elite list of international universities in May. Times Higher Education (THE), the respected, London- A “unicorn” is a startup company that is valued at a billion dollars. based provider of data and analytics on higher education, recognized Florida Tech in its Golden Age University Rankings 2018, a compilation of 200 top Student Org Spotlight: institutions worldwide. Society for Human Resource Management Student Chapter Florida Tech is In the 2018–2019 academic year Florida Tech’s Through membership, students are invited one of only 14 South Brevard Society for Human Resource to attend annual conferences and monthly Management (SBSHRM) student chapter plans luncheons. Additionally, several large U.S. institutions to to bring a renewed interest in the group’s scholarships are available to student members make the list. activities on campus. through an application and reward process. The chapter also plans to launch a mentorship The local society and the student chapter are All the universities recognized in program to connect students with working members of the Society for Human Resource this 2018 ranking were founded professionals to better prepare them for their Management (SHRM), which is the world’s between 1945 and 1967. The future careers. Those interested may email largest human resources (HR) professional list is so named to reflect what [email protected]. society with over 285,000 members in over 165 THE describes as the Golden countries. Fanak Baarmand, assistant safety In collaboration with Career Management Age in global higher education, officer at Florida Tech, serves as the local Services, the student chapter recently held characterized by rapid university society’s college relations director and offers its first campus event. Aimed at helping expansion and increasing support and mentorship to Florida Tech’s students proactively prepare for their future, investment in research. student chapter. The student chapter provides a panel of HR professionals in some of Florida “As middle-aged institutions, full access to the local society’s resources, Tech’s most popular areas of study explained universities in the Golden Age empowering student members to become what they look for in students coming out of ranking are distinguished by successful professionals. college. Students gained the understanding having the benefit of both youth that landing a job is not just about the degree Under the advisement of Lisa Steelman and and age,” THE’s Ellie Bothwell but about taking advantage of all available Ivonne Delgado Perez, the chapter hosts noted. “They typically have had opportunities Florida Tech has to offer. development activities throughout the year, time to build up the quality of such as résumé workshops and HR case The student chapter is actively recruiting all their research and their reputation competitions, many of which our students undergraduate and graduate students. Find but also tend to be more agile have won. the chapter on Facebook and OrgSync or email and innovative than many of their [email protected]. older counterparts.”

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Shaikh Retires After Three Decades at Florida Tech

Muzaffar Shaikh is an engineer and So began an odyssey as a teacher and administration. Meanwhile, he partici- educator who’s had an amazing 50-year administrator that would span the next pated in the Brevard County community career in the American workforce. This 31 years, culminating in his retirement prayer service that followed the Sept. summer, he retired after 31 years at as associate provost of industry partner- 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He subse- Florida Tech. ships, associate vice president of interna- quently served three years on the U.S. tional partnerships and a distinguished “Teaching lives in the heart of my commerce secretary’s race and ethnic professor and head of systems engineer- hearts,” said Shaikh. “I really feel most advisory committee. ing. Even though Shaikh had various comfortable in the classroom when I see But for Shaikh, his career has ultimately administrative responsibilities for 26 of those eager minds willing to learn.” been defined by his time in the class- his 31 years of service at Florida Tech, room and the thousands of students he’s Born in Mumbai, India, Shaikh immi- he continued teaching, his first love. grated to the U.S. in 1966, earning had the pleasure of teaching. a master’s degree in engineering During his career, Shaikh led the “Learning and teaching, to me, has before taking a job at Caterpillar Inc. creation of 36 graduate degree four key dimensions,” Shaikh said. “It in Peoria, Illinois, in 1968, and later programs in engineering and busi- is a life-long phenomenon. It should be earning a Ph.D. in industrial engi- ness to serve industry. This work has participative. It should entail effective neering from the University of Illinois involved decades of partnership not use of class time. And, there should Urbana-Champagne. He said the cold only with the local community, but with be proper feedback from both the weather—especially the ice and snow— Middle Eastern and Indian universities was troublesome, but he never looked and institutions as well. teacher and the student. In summary, back. When the opportunity came to we have come back to a whole ancient While helping the university grow move to sunny Florida in 1985 and join cycle of learning from 2,500 years ago important academic programs was a Harris Corp., he was happy to head for when Confucius said, ‘I hear and I fulfilling part of Shaikh’s career, some warmer weather. forget, I see and I remember, I do and I of his proudest moments have come understand.’” He first taught as an adjunct instructor in other areas. He has been presented at the university, but by 1987, had been 10 Florida Tech awards through the Wes Sumner convinced to join the full-time faculty. years, six by his peers and four by

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Florida Tech Magazine | 11 Harry P. Weber University Archives A CLOSER LOOK AT

The Glass Time Machine Beanie Behind a staff-only door in This fashion statement earned Evans Library, you will find incoming freshmen the nickname a stack of rare books. To the “frogs” as faculty described them side, an office of file folios with as “hopping” down Country Club delicate papers and other odds Road wearing their beanies. and ends awaiting processing. Erin Mahaney, university archivist for the Harry P. Weber University Archives, and fellow Crimson Newspaper Evans Library staff are diligently The student-led newspaper first arranging and describing these hit stands in 1968, with headlines historical materials before they that included the soon-to-be built are carefully moved to their Student Union Building and Florida temperature- and humidity- Tech’s 10th birthday celebration. controlled homes. Driven by preservation, Mahaney collects, protects, preserves and fosters accessibility of Florida Tech’s archival treasures, some of which go beyond Florida Tech’s 1958 inception—think 10,000 years beyond. Equipped with white gloves, Mahaney very cautiously pulls a few items from the sparkling glass shelves of the archives’ University Seal public display for a closer look. Elements of the original Brevard Engineering College seal are still evident today.

12 A CLOSER LOOK AT HARRY P. WEBER, PROFESSOR EMERITUS Harry Weber was an integral part of Florida Tech’s formative years and remained so up until his passing in 2017. He was the leading force behind the creation and cultivation of the archives.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Curated by Diane Newman, the special collections also preserve unique items from history and cover subject areas such as flight, poetry, ocean engineering, space Field Interview Kit and related industries. These collections hold records, WFIT’s early artifacts, memorabilia, Vintage Letterman Jacket years started as a photos, audiovisual materials Originally known as Brevard Engineering College, student-run college and more. our first athletes were referred to as “The Engineers.” station. Students used the portable recorder to cover HELP US REWIND TIME launches at Kennedy Memories made at Florida Tech Space Center. last a lifetime, and we want to help preserve them for the next generation of Panthers. Please consider donating or sharing items that captured Mammoth Molar your moment in time at In the 1920s, a 10,000-year-old mammoth molar was excavated Florida Tech. Email: [email protected] from the Botanical Garden, along with a curious spear point. The small spear point spurred a big debate on the role humans had on the mass extinction of large herbivores. FIND MORE UNIVERSITY HISTORY: TIMELINE.FIT.EDU

Florida Tech Magazine | 13 WOMEN’S ROWING The Florida Tech women’s rowing team won its second consecutive Sunshine State Conference Championship this spring. The Panthers won the Varsity 8 race and took silver in the Varsity 4 at the conference championship. The women’s rowing team has brought home the SSC Championship in 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2017 and 2018.

The team, who were ranked No. 2 in the nation all season long, also earned a team bid into the NCAA Women’s Rowing Championships for the fourth time in program history. The Panthers finished third overall in both the Varsity 4 and Varsity 8 Grand Finals to earn the bronze medal at the 2018 NCAA Championships.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE The 2018 season was one to remember for the women’s lacrosse team. Under head coach Corinne Desrosiers, Florida Tech finished with a 17-3 record and went 5-1 in Sunshine State Conference play. The 17 wins set a program record. In addition, the Panthers’ nine wins over ranked opponents this season were also a team record. For the second year in a row, the Panthers earned the No. 2 seed and finished runner-up at the 2018 SSC Tournament. Florida Tech garnered its second straight bid into the NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Tournament as the No. 2 seed in the south region.

MEN’S GOLF The men’s golf team won the program’s first Sunshine State Conference Championship this season thanks to a record-breaking final round at the Grande Oaks Golf Club, better known as the course from the movie “Caddyshack.” Florida Tech totaled a 19-under par 833 (278-287-268) for the tournament, besting defending SSC Champion, No. 2 ranked Florida Southern, by four strokes. The 19-under par team score tied a school record and the SSC tournament record. In addition, the Crimson & Gray’s final round score of 16-under (268) stands as the greatest team single round score in SSC tournament history and program history. The 268 was also the lowest round produced by any NCAA Division II men’s golf team during the 2017–18 season.

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ST. LOUIS CARDINALS SELECTS COHEN DURING 2018 MLB DRAFT In an emotion-filled In his time at Florida Tech, Wednesday afternoon, Cohen amassed a 28-15 former Panther ace Ty record, good for the second Cohen received the call that most wins in a career by all baseball players dream any Panther pitcher. Cohen of. On the third day of the also ranked second in career 2018 Major League Baseball strikeouts with 355, and Draft, Cohen was taken by holds two of the top-10 the St. Louis Cardinals with program single-season the 933rd overall pick in the strikeout totals. 31st round of the draft. His impressive command The Woodstock, Georgia on the mound garnered native is the ninth Panther the right-handed starter baseball player to be drafted multiple accolades during by a MLB organization. his career, including First- He began his professional Team All-SSC honors and career with the Cardinal’s a Second Team NCBWA Gulf Coast League affiliate, All-South Region selection. the GCL Cardinals.

TECH SWEEPS SSC SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR AWARDS For the first time in school won “best in show” at the 2018 history, Florida Tech student- Northrop Grumman Engineering athletes swept the Sunshine & Science Student Design State Conference’s Scholar- Showcase and was named Florida Athletes of the Year awards in Tech’s Female Scholar-Athlete of 2017–18. Claiming SSC Female the Year. Scholar Athlete of the Year was Steenberg, a native of Skodsborg, women’s cross country’s Marina Denmark, also graduated summa DeBiasi, while men’s swimming’s cum laude this spring with a Thomas Steenberg garnered the 3.97 GPA in global management men’s honor. and finance. He was named the DeBiasi, a native of Plymouth, Nathan M. Bisk College of Business Michigan, graduated summa cum 2018 Distinguished Scholar as laude this spring with a 3.92 GPA well as Florida Tech Male Scholar- in chemical engineering. She Athlete of the Year.

Florida Tech Magazine | 15 A Collection of

on our evolution from Countdown College to Florida Tech

16 The story of our university’s 60 years lives on through the words of university historian Gordon Patterson. The following passages share excerpts from Patterson’s online series, “The Secret History of Florida Tech.” Read the full accounts at: T.FIT.EDU/SECRET-HISTORY

HOW WE GOT OUR NAME Four years after the university’s founding, Jerry Keuper was trying to win recognition for the school. He told honorary degree The Pelican Gang of Five recipient and Florida’s Secretary of State Tom and the Birth of BEC Adams that changing the school’s name was a step In February 1958 Jerry classes after work at nonprofit organization and in that direction. Adams Keuper and a handful of Bridgeport Engineering is completely self-support- advised Keuper to draw colleagues at the Missile Institute in Connecticut. ing. This new engineering up an amendment to the Test Project—Donya Dixon, college is a community college’s institutional Dibble shared Keuper’s George Kelly, George Peters endeavor, and applica- charter and send it to him. passion for science and and Harold Dibble—began tions for enrollment will At the time there was a teaching and had been meeting at the Pelican Bar be welcomed from anyone store-front school in Tampa an adjunct professor on A1A for after-work liba- employed on or off the mili- that had the rights to the at UCLA. At the Cape name Florida Institute of tions. These individuals tary base.” Dibble was an instructor Technology. It was Adams’ became Keuper’s “co-con- in engineering extension Classes were scheduled opinion that sooner or later spirators” in formulating courses offered by Rollins to begin in September at the Tampa group would plans for what they called College and University of Eau Gallie Junior High fail to pay their annual “Brevard Engineering Miami. Neither institution, School (now Westshore corporate fee. Adams Institute” (BEI), later promised he would keep however, was willing to Junior/Senior High School) Brevard Engineering Keuper’s application in his launch a full-time program Monday, Wednesday and College (BEC). desk drawer. of undergraduate and grad- Friday evenings from In January 1958 Keuper uate courses. 7–10 p.m. Keuper was Four years later the Tampa arrived in Florida and was named president of the people had neglected to That spring, the Pelican shocked to discover the nascent enterprise, while pay their institutional dues, Gang of Five announced and the amendment to limited opportunities for Dibble served as the their intention to launch BEC’s educational charter engineering and technical college’s first dean and the school. “The institute,” authorizing the name education. Keuper’s idea executive vice president Harold Dibble declared change was approved. was to create an after-hours in charge of the academic in May 1958 in one of the engineering program in program. university’s first press Melbourne modeled on releases, “is an independent his experiences teaching

Notable Names Points of Pride Tall Tales Florida Tech Magazine | 17 Joan Sherman 50 Years of Flight Twenty-six-year-old chemist Keuper. It was the beginning of a Aerospace Technical Institute Joan Sherman joined RCA marvelous chemical reaction that (ATI) was incorporated in 1967 at the Missile Test Project in would begin 20 years of teaching at Cape Kennedy Regional the photography lab in 1959. at BEC and Florida Tech. Airport, now known as Orlando Needing to prove herself, Melbourne International Airport, At Florida Tech Joan Sherman Sherman “wanted to be one of and began training flight students was a pathbreaker. In 2014 when boys.” While having lunch with the following year—50 years Mike Babich retired he noted a group of her skeptical, male ago this year. ATI president J. A. that Florida Tech’s chemistry co-workers, one of the men Lauderbaugh became the first department had the distinction pulled out a cigar and started dean of the school. of leading the nation in women to light it. She said, “I can smoke faculty members. Our university In November 1970 Florida Tech that.” She took the cigar and can be proud that Joan merged with ATI to form the began to puff out clouds of Sherman’s legacy continues. School of Aeronautics. The smoke. At that point a man came merger brought to Florida Tech up and asked “would you like programs in aviation electronics, to teach at BEC?” It was Jerry air transportation and flight crew training.

In 1990 George M. Skurla Hall ... IN ENGINEERING AND TECH opened and became the home of the School of Aeronautics. The building was named for Florida IBM’s quantum Tech’s trustee, George M. Skurla, Intel computer nears the retired president and CEO of Northrop Grumman Corporation.

develops the the 50-qubit 2018 microchip milestone Now celebrating its 50th year, the college offers 26 degree programs

1958 and two minor options.

The Great Quail Escapade university would form a interest in marketing the subsidiary called FIT Farms speckled product. By 1974 Inc. to produce the quail Keuper decided to shut down eggs. Eggs he brought back FIT Farms Inc. and close the from Colombia would form quail hatchery. the brood’s nucleus. An old Keuper had other ideas. carpenter’s shed near what Later he would receive a is now the Harris Student flock of peacocks to wander Design Center was retrofitted the campus. Still later, he into a quail roost. would acquire a large herd In the fall of 1972 on a flight went off in Keuper’s head. By early December, 300 FIT of long-horned rams as part from Colombia to Florida, In 1965 a team of University quails were “laying like mad of an experiment seeking to Jerry Keuper hatched one of Florida researchers had at the campus hatchery.” devise a male contraceptive. of his zaniest schemes. He concocted Gatorade which Keuper was overjoyed and That certainly adds new decided to launch a quail was paying UF huge divi- envisioned Florida Tech’s meaning to “High Tech with hatchery at Florida Tech. dends. Keuper wondered if national reputation soaring. a Human Touch.” quail eggs might do the same The trip itself had had noth- The quail scheme, however, for Countdown College. ing to do with quail eggs, was not destined for success. but seeing a bowl of them Keuper threw himself into Only a handful of local super- during a meal, a light bulb hammering out a plan. The market managers expressed

18 DID YOU KNOW? In 1983, the Florida Tech student body voted to change the mascot from “Engineers” to “Panthers.”

The Infamous Streak The two naked men were moving Excitement grew as news of the “Hi Mom” and “Hi Pop.” One wore Dale Simcox, fast when they passed in front planned streak was reported by bunny ears. One wore a sombrero. of the Denius Student Union on the local press. Late Thursday One rode a bicycle while another who bore Tuesday, March 5, 1974. One had a afternoon more than 50 Jensen arrived on a motorcycle. A team responsibility towel wrapped around his head; Beach students arrived to lend pulled a chariot. the other wore a Groucho Marx their support to their Melbourne for campus The streak was over in a matter mask and a backpack. Two hours brethren. By 9 p.m. a crowd of of minutes. It was estimated that security, said a later a third streaker dashed from nearly 1,000 people had gathered. 55 percent of the student body Wood Cafeteria to Shaw Hall. This Police Chief Cotron ordered 15 streak “wouldn’t had participated in the streak. was the year streaking fever raged police officers to maintain a By midnight the Jensen Beach happen here.” on college campuses. Students perimeter along Country Club streakers were on their way home, at Countdown College were Drive to ensure the streakers The next 72 and the Melbourne students were determined not to be left behind. remained on course. back in their dorm rooms. hours would Within hours, a whispering At 10 p.m. a bugle sounded A backlash against the night’s prove him campaign began rallying support and close to 600 students, who “lamentable happenings” at for a mass campus streak. The had gathered at the Crawford wrong. The Countdown College grew in the plan was for students to gather at Science Building broke into a run. two weeks following the streak, national the Crawford Science Building at Shouting “We’re Number One” but ultimately no legal action was 10 p.m. on Thursday, March 7. The the naked throng raced past the taken against any of the streak’s “streaking” university’s response was muted. president’s office through the participants. Robert Cotron, Melbourne’s Chief dorm quad and on to Roberts craze had come of Police, said, “If the school Hall. Some of the students to Florida Tech. doesn’t care, we don’t care.” sported bow ties as a salute to Behind the scenes a handful of Jerry Keuper who always wore a professors quietly supported the bow tie. Others displayed their students. filiality by carrying signs saying

Notable Names Points of Pride Tall Tales Florida Tech Magazine | 19 4 1 Babcock Street 5

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Aerial View of Campus, 1969

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Main entrance to campus Residence Hall Campus Library 1 2 3 from Babcock Street (with open-air first-floor breezeway) (before Chao Tsu-Yu Chinese Clock)

4 Columbia Village 7 Evans Library 10 WFIT

5 Evans Hall 8 Shephard Building 11 Skurla Hall 6 Ruth Funk Center 9 Link Building FUTURESITE OF:

DID YOU KNOW? The college originally had a dress code that dictated “shorts, slacks and pedal pushers are considered inappropriate for campus wear” and that “male students should shave daily.”

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Armadillos, Leprosy and Disney Studios Eleanor Storrs became fasci- in a lead article in the pres- “Scheme of Things.” Disney Professor Storrs announced nated with armadillos early tigious journal Science. Studios dispatched a film her retirement in 1993 and in her doctoral studies. After Subsequently, the WHO and crew and the program’s died on May 20, 2018, after completing her doctorate, NIH awarded Storrs a series moderator, James MacArthur a brief illness. “Polly,” as Storrs happened to overhear of contracts to provide arma- of “Hawaii Five-O” fame, to her friends and colleagues a group of leprosy research- dillo tissue with leprosy for Countdown College for two called her, never lost her ers lamenting the absence of studies seeking a vaccine days to film Storrs’s field and passion for science and love any animal model that could against the disease. lab work. of armadillos. be used for leprosy studies. Four years later Storrs “I asked them,” she recalled, accepted a research profes- “if anybody had ever tried sorship at Florida Tech’s to inoculate an armadillo Medical Research Institute with leprosy because their (MRI). During the next body temperature is 90 to 92 15 years she conducted a degrees. They laughed at me. wide-ranging series of exper- I mean it must have sounded iments on leprosy and other strange—an armadillo.” infectious diseases.

Following that conversation, A 1982 article published Storrs discovered wild arma- in National Geographic had dillos with leprosy and dove sparked the interest of the into further research. In 1974 producer for the Disney University Boulevard her work was recognized Network’s television program

... IN SCIENCE

The first in vitro mammals, a litter of mice, are born. 1958

Artificial mouse embryo is 2018 grown using only stem cells.

Notable Names Points of Pride Tall Tales Florida Tech Magazine | 21 Werner von Braun Werner von Braun spoke at BEC’s fourth commencement. He Winning was one of the first people to describe BEC as “Countdown College.” In his short speech, von Braun ticked off the school’s Accreditation accomplishments. “Cooperation, dissension, recognition, criticism” By 1964, Jerry Keuper knew von Braun declared “…all these things have gone into building Countdown College’s survival Brevard Engineering College.” hinged on winning accreditation. Von Braun believed the college’s future was bright. “Your president, He had been told more than once Dr. Jerome P. Keuper,” von Braun concluded, “with his great vision that there was no way BEC would has noted the need for such a school in the area, and with his be accredited. Specifically the devotion and others who have helped him, Brevard Engineering school must have a new library College will someday become one of the top engineering colleges before the Southern Association in the nation.” of Colleges and Schools would consider making an accreditation visit, but there was no money for such a substantial project. NASA created; first successful Liquid water 2018 The Melbourne Junior Women’s American satellite, Explorer 1, discovered Club proved to be BEC’s launched into orbit; space race begins on Mars 1958 staunchest ally and spearheaded ... IN SPACE the library campaign. The culmination of the fundraising drive came in April as a formal ball hosted by the club. It was a Small Change, Big Legend stunning success. With three others at a bar in With these plans in motion February 1958, a thirty-some- and Keuper’s promise that the thing physicist proposes the ridic- library would be built, a SACS ulous idea of launching a college. accreditation team would arrive Someone standing off to the side on May 10. Keuper undoubtedly overhears this and tosses 37 wondered if a concrete slab cents of change from a long-dis- would be enough to win the tance phone call on the bar and team’s approval. quips “go start your college with Good news came six weeks this.” This is the legend. later. The preliminary report described the college in Seven years later Jerry Keuper glowing terms. BEC’s faculty must have been thinking about received high praise for its this episode when he opened “dedication and enthusiasm.” a letter from the advertising The report concluded that no department of Time Magazine. In other college or university was December 1966, Time announced “offering anything comparable to a nationwide contest for a free, these programs.” full page ad in the magazine. Late in November SACS Always on the look-out for ways announced that BEC had received to publicize Countdown College, full accreditation. Keuper made it Keuper summoned Homer Pyle, clear that this accreditation could the college’s part-time publicist, not have been achieved without to his office. Pyle’s assignment: the help of NASA, the Air Force, Come up with a proposal. civilian contractors at the Cape and, most assuredly, the women A few days later, Pyle returned of Brevard. with a draft for Florida Tech’s entry composed around a spoof on the title of W. Somerset Note: On Saturday, Jan. 23, 1965, BEC’s library Maugham’s 1919 novel The Moon and Sixpence. Keuper liked the idea and submitted was formally dedicated. In 1984, the library was the copy. Weeks passed, then good news came from Time’s headquarters. Countdown moved to its present location and the original College’s “The Moon and 37 Cents” advertisement would be published in the magazine’s library building was renamed the Jerome P. June 23, 1967, Florida edition of Time Magazine on page X2. Copies of the magazine would Keuper Administration Building. reach 86,757 Florida households.

22 The Atomic Toilet A year after its 1965 donation of warned, “it would ruin us. It would In its July 13, 1970, issue, Time a 5-million electron volt linear endanger the lives of the 500 Magazine profiled Woodbridge’s accelerator to the college, GE students who use the campus work in an article titled “Sewage donated a 10,000 Curie Cobalt-60 area.” Melbourne’s city manager Tastes Good Like Water Should.” irradiation source along with the Dick Simmons agreed. An The initial tests of the “atomic needed radiation protection and alternative solution was needed. toilet” were encouraging. remote operation hardware. David Woodbridge had an idea: why not Plans for Melbourne’s space Woodbridge, chair of the physics All that remains use the Cobalt-60 source to purify age, nuclear sewage plant, department, knew the machine sewage water? He claimed that however, ran into a roadblock. meant it was only a matter of of one of Florida his experiments confirmed the Environmental and health time before the college’s physics efficacy of the Cobalt-60 process concerns led city inspectors Tech’s most department was ranked as one of in eliminating up to “97 percent to block the building permits the best in the nation. imaginative of bacteria and pathogenic needed for a fully operational In December 1968 construction organisms.” With the addition of facility. The “honey cart” ended its endeavors is a began on the $1.25-million microfilters, both solid and liquid daily deliveries. Woodbridge took small kiosk and Crawford Science Building and sewage could be turned into up other projects. The source of nuclear laboratory. Woodbridge potable water. radioactive Cobalt-60 remained the underground planned to use the radioactive buried beneath a small kiosk next Tests of Woodbridge’s passageway Cobalt-60 in experiments to the Crawford Science Building. “bio-nuclear sewage converter” designed to explore “how space The “atomic toilet” remained linking the took place in the newly travelers will fight off radiation dormant until 1981 when John constructed “25 feet by 4 feet in “atomic toilet” in outer space.” Before the Miller and Keuper decided to diameter” metal cylinder buried construction was completed, decommission the nuclear to the Crawford next to the seven-story Crawford Countdown College was swept facility. All that remains of one of Science Building. Each morning Building. into a dispute over the City of Florida Tech’s most imaginative a “honey cart” containing 300 to West Melbourne’s proposal to endeavors is a small kiosk and the 400 gallons of sewage arrived on build a sewage treatment plant underground passageway linking campus, was pumped into the on one of the tributaries of the “atomic toilet” to the Crawford “nuclear irradiator” and passed Crane Creek. “If any pollution Building. through the filtration devices. of the stream that runs through Students irreverently dubbed the our campus occurs,” Keuper facility “the atomic toilet.”

Notable Names Points of Pride Tall Tales Florida Tech Magazine | 23 THEN THEN THEN THEN BASIC RATE OF $1.01 $0.19 $0.04 $1.00 INFLATION LOAF OF NOW NOW BREAD NOW NOW

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Sources: U.S. Census, fiftiesweb.com Persistence Pays did. After several months, the foundation came back for a site visit, after which they said they had decided to give the university $50 million.

“It was a turning point. There’s no question in my mind,” said Weaver of the grant money. The five-year commitment made it possible for Florida Tech to build two major buildings— Olin Engineering and Olin Biological Sciences—as well as It was a beautiful evening at through the years, and in Betty Preece fund equipment for the labs the Merritt Island home of 1996 he applied again to the and teaching facilities, offer The late Betty Preece ’74 M.S. was former university president Olin Foundation for a grant, scholarships and endow a a compelling force in helping Lynn Weaver and his wife, this time to fund a biological professorship. women in engineering flourish. Anita, as they entertained their sciences building. Following Two years after earning her guests after dinner. Watching that application, Weaver “Success breeds success,” Florida Tech master’s degree in the moon rise over the river, received a request for a strictly he added as he described science education, she joined the Weaver enjoyed cordials with confidential meeting with the additional results that did not faculty as an adjunct professor. those guests, representatives representatives, and set it up come directly from the grant’s of the F. W. Olin Foundation, for the following evening at funding. From the construction Preece served on the original while discussing a request his home with Lawrence Milas, and fitting of these buildings, organizing team and as an for a grant to build a new then-president of the F.W. Olin the university not only doubled inaugural member of the Society academic building. Foundation, William Horn, its space and filled it with of Women Engineers. Through who was the vice president of the latest technology and the years, she served in many Years prior, in 1990, Weaver, the foundation, and the late equipment, but also attracted organizations to champion president emeritus, had Jack Hartley, who at the time outstanding faculty and the case for engineering as a applied for a $10 million grant was a university trustee and students and helped build a career to women and under- from the foundation to fund CEO of Harris Corp., and his successful capital fundraising represented groups. the construction of a new wife, Martha. campaign to the tune of engineering building. The Together with her husband, $27 million. university was among the top As the after-dinner cordials and Preece established a scholarship three candidates for the grant, business talk continued, Milas From all this success, Weaver supporting electrical engineering but ultimately the request was said, “We’re thinking of making was able to ask the Olin undergraduate students denied. The foundation was one major grant to a private Foundation for another $14 and endowed the Women in unsure of the financial stability institution where it would make million to build what is today Engineering Scholarship at of the university and instead a real difference, and you’re Olin Physical Sciences and also Florida Tech. gave a much smaller sum of one of the institutions we’re help fund the Clemente Center $100,000 as a ‘consolation prize,’ looking at.” and new baseball fields to as Weaver put it. replace those that used to be He encouraged Weaver to where the Olin Quad is today. Weaver continued to keep in submit another request for a touch with the foundation much larger sum of money, about the university’s progress and that’s exactly what Weaver

24 In the 1960–61 academic year, By the Numbers the university bestowed degrees to 21 graduates. 2% In the 2017–18 academic year, the university bestowed Florida Tech’s degrees male-to-female to 2,673 ratio in the 1960s: graduates. 42% That’s over 49:1 127x as many Florida Tech’s graduates last 98% male-to-female year as in our 982++L ratio in the 2010s: first year. 1.4:1 1960–61 2017–18 5858% 42++L The university’s first graduate, The university began The School of Aeronautics and Florida Tech started Reagan DuBose, receives an offering doctoral programs. the Jensen Beach campus offering online degrees. associate degree in engineering. became part of the main campus. 1961 1978 1987 2009

Checking out library books in 1984; checking out technology tools in 2018

Find more university history: SPECIAL THANKS to those who helped research and develop this collection: TIMELINE.FIT.EDU Stephanie Herndon, Erin Mahaney, Gordon Patterson, Lisa Petrillo, Leslie Savoie Documentation for the Secret History series comes from the Keuper Scrapbooks, photograph collection and university papers in the Harry P. Weber University Archives or Florida Institute of Technology Special Collections, John H. Evans Library, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL. 25 Jerome P. Keuper Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient Vik Verma

langing glory, the New York that into my company’s motto: ‘Use ventures ranging from seabed mining to Stock Exchange bell rang technology to solve real-world problems nanomaterials. on June 19, 2018, by the cost-effectively. The rest will take care Beyond his eight patents and distin- chief executive officer of of itself.” C guished 25-plus-year executive career Silicon Valley-based 8x8 Inc. and our Some may call him a disrupter— with leading technology companies, next Jerome P. Keuper Award winner, Verma’s passion is taking complex Verma has led a remarkable educational Vikram Verma ’87. The 10 seconds of technology and translating it into prod- path. Verma earned additional engi- brassy tolling is an enduring symbol of ucts and services that create value for neering degrees from the University America’s capital market. This historic customers worldwide. In 1990, Verma of Michigan and Stanford University. day signals 8x8’s move from NASDAQ. started his career at Savi Technology as He’s also completed graduate executive It is almost an oxymoron that a simple a design engineer while it was pre- credentials from Stanford, Harvard and brass bell is the opening of Wall Street revenue. In the early part of his career the University of California at Berkeley. in today’s environment of high-speed at Savi, his work on RFID (radio-fre- technology and competitive economy. A dedicated Panther, Verma loyally quency identification) and the Internet In contrast to the sound of the bell supports his alma mater. His time as of Things is credited with revolution- clang, 8x8’s focus is on revolutionizing a member of the Florida Tech board izing the worldwide container track- of trustees from 2002 to 2007 and enterprise communications everywhere ing and security industry. The World again from 2015 to present adds to with groundbreaking unified communi- Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, transformational decisions at the cations and contact center technology. recognized this breakthrough by university. In addition, Verma is the It is the world’s first communications naming him a 2003 Top 40 Technology recipient of the Faculty Honors Award cloud provider. How does one come to Pioneer in the world. Verma grew Savi (co-valedictorian) Class of 1987, the the honor of ringing the bell? Technology, known as a pioneer in 1987 Tau Beta Pi Williams Fellowship, Vikram Verma’s formula for life is cloud-based managed service offerings the 1999 Alumni Distinguished simple. The four-step process is (1) take in addition to the RFID tracking and Achievement Award for the College a chance, (2) give your best, and the security solutions, from a startup to a of Engineering, and a commencement results will come, (3) be honest with multimillion-dollar business. Verma led speaker in 2002 and 2018. yourself and know your limitations its acquisition by Texas Instruments. With Verma adding to the heralded and (4) when you find your calling, go During his tenure, Verma served as previous winners—including business for it and don’t let go. This process Savi Technology’s engineering VP before becoming chief operations executive Jim Thomas, Major League derives from his life experience, specif- officer and later president and CEO. Baseball pitcher Tim Wakefield, ically four defining moments which Interestingly, Verma later bought back astronaut Sunita Williams, the army’s he eloquently shares in both personal Savi from Texas Instruments and even- first female four-star general, Ann encounters and large audiences alike. tually sold it to Lockheed Martin in Dunwoody, retired Ford Motor Co. Florida Tech is an integral part of his 2006. At this point in his career, work- executive Robert Phebus Jr., attorney story and formula. Verma, who earned ing as president of strategic venture Dale Dettmer and Carmax President his bachelor’s degree in electrical engi- for Lockheed Martin, Verma turned his and CEO Thomas Folliard—it is easy neering, says, “Florida Tech taught me attention to shifting the quintessential to imagine Jerome P. Keuper smiling in the value of hard work, commitment and military technologies and programs his bow tie. focusing on fundamentals. I’ve parlayed at Lockheed to global commercial Stephanie Bacon

26 Florida Tech Magazine | 27 THURSDAY, OCT. 11 FRIDAY, OCT. 12 Meg O’Malley’s presents Homecoming FREE CONCERT! 5K Run/Walk Homecoming Fest 6 p.m., Downtown Melbourne featuring Cold War Kids 6 p.m., Downtown Melbourne Cool shirts, goody bags and a post-race party at Meg’s with food, drinks and music!

SATURDAY, OCT. 13 Homecoming Cookout and Tailgate Party 11 a.m., Panther Den and Varsity Practice Field Florida Tech Campus

Football Game vs. Valdosta State 1 p.m., Panther Stadium Shuttles provided to the stadium 6:30 p.m., Clemente Center

SUNDAY, OCT. 14 ALL WEEKEND

Homecoming Celebration Brunch Wandering Spirit, African Wax Prints Honoring Father Doug Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts 12:15 p.m., Hartley Room A Look Back: RSVP to [email protected]. Forty Years of the Foosaner Collection Foosaner Art Museum

28 REGISTER TODAY: HOMECOMING.FIT.EDU Sold-out headlining shows Festival appearances at Bonnaroo and Coachella Six studio albums and a decade in the industry Don’t miss the ONLY 2018 FLORIDA TOUR DATE for Cold War Kids at Homecoming Fest!

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BAND MEMBERS > Nathan Willett, singer/guitarist/pianist > Matt Maust, bassist > Joe Plummer, percussionist > David Quon, guitarist > Matthew Schwartz, keyboardist

Florida Tech Magazine | 29 ALUMNI NEWS ON THE ROAD: OXFORD

News from the desk of Andy Kirbach ’90 Florida Tech Alumni Association President Oxford study abroad students with President McCay and guest speaker Julian Field ’84

DEAR ALUMNI, STUDENTS, PARENTS AND FRIENDS, Get ready Panthers! Not only is Florida Tech celebrating 60 years of education and research, it’s also time for Homecoming! Homecoming Weekend (Oct. 11–13) is a great time to visit Melbourne. There is so much happening: It all kicks off with the Homecoming 5K in Downtown Melbourne on Thursday. On Friday, come to Homecoming Fest featuring national recording artist, indie rock band, Cold War Kids performing a free concert in Downtown Melbourne! Join us Saturday at the football game and, later, the Homecoming Gala celebrating 60 years of Florida Tech. Check the Alumni Association website, Facebook and Instagram for the complete schedule of activities. The weekend is a must-attend with alumni recognitions and awards, gatherings, celebrations and fun activities. Each presents opportunities to mingle with some of the most distinguished alumni and influencers in business, science and industry from our amazing Florida Tech community! It gives us a chance to inspire each other and network to bring about the dreams of the future that will change the world. For those of you who can’t make it back to campus for Homecoming, ON THE ROAD: DENVER you are welcome to visit the Alumni Office any time you are in Central Florida. If getting back to campus is a challenge, you can reconnect with other Panthers by attending an Alumni Reception in your area or finding an alumni chapter in a city near you! Also, mark your calendars for the Day of Giving on Nov. 27, 2018. The money raised will assist Florida Tech’s greatest needs including financial aid, research and student activities. The Day of Giving is about alumni participation, which is a key factor in how organizations, including U.S. News & World Report, perceive the success of the university and how they ultimately rank. Our alumni continue to grow and advance. What will be your part? Come, attend, connect and see! Be part of the momentum. Our first Colorado alumni social Go Panthers!

YOUR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Andy Kirbach ’90 | President | Melbourne, FL | [email protected] Kim Bozik ’87 | Vice President | Chandler, AZ | [email protected] Rhodie Humbert ’82 MBA | Secretary | Melbourne, FL | [email protected] Brian Stahl ’86, ’88 M.S. | Treasurer | Satellite Beach, FL | [email protected] David Murphy ’91, ’01 M.S. | Member-at-Large | Winter Garden, FL | [email protected] Al Hagopian ’89, ’94 MBA | Member-at-Large | Indialantic, FL | [email protected]

30 ALUMNOTES ON THE ROAD: PARIS

Alumni at the Avenue des Champs-Elysees

More reception photos: alumni.fit.edu

ON THE ROAD: NYC ON THE ROAD: BOSTON

Thank you to Jonathan Krausche ’97 for arranging exclusive Featuring Special Guest: accommodations at One Trade Center Alumnus Tim Wakefield, former pitcher for the Red Sox

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3 worldwide shipping and air 4 1970s freight company. As a part of the senior management team, he will 1|R.P. “CHIP” ROHLKE ’76 was oversee the growth and diver- deployed as a chaplain for the sification of all business under 1 2 Billy Graham Rapid Response the Amerijet charters umbrella. Team to the Keys after Hurricane He has over 35 years of expe- 5 6 7 Maria. Rohlke ministered rience in the air cargo charter to homeowners affected by and airline terminal operations the hurricane and supported industries. Samaritan’s Purse volunteers who helped in the cleanup. 4|DANA GARTZKE ’82 MBA was recently appointed vice president 2|SIMON ZYSMAN ’78 Ph.D. is for the Alliance of Health Care 8 9 a licensed clinical psycholo- Sharing Ministries headquar- gist and a revered pioneer in tered in Melbourne, Florida. opioid addiction treatment. He spent the last 22 years in He is the founder of Employee Washington, D.C., in the U.S. Assistance Resource Services House of Representatives as Inc. (EARS), an outpatient clinic chief of staff for various members 10 11 14 in Smithtown, New York, which of Congress. Prior to Capitol currently holds one of the high- Hill, Gartzke worked 15 years est success rates in treating as an engineer (BSEE) and opioid dependence in New York. program manager for Harris Zysman recently published the Corp. He resides in Manassas, 13 book Successful Heroin & Opioid Virginia, and is fond of skeet and Addiction Treatment. 12 sporting clay. DENNIS NOLAN ’79 M.S. is proud 5|DOUGLAS RILLSTONE ’83 to revise the 4th Edition of has been awarded a Band One Handbook of Fire and Explosion ranking in the prominent legal Protection Engineering Principles: guide Chambers USA: A Guide For Oil, Gas, Chemical and to America’s Leading Business 15 Related Facilities while commenc- Lawyers. This is the highest ing his 25th year working for distinction awarded by the Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, group. He was lauded for his Saudi Arabia. experience in development and redevelopment projects. 16 1980s 6|NANCY WALKER ’83, ’86 M.S., has joined SmartSky Networks, 3|MICHELE ALTHERR ’80 was a next-generation airborne recently named the principal communications provider, as of Aspen Elementary School in chief commercial officer. After Los Alamos, New Mexico. She working with aerospace and has worked in education since in-flight connectivity technol- 1997. Through her outstanding ogies for more than 30 years, efforts as a teacher and commu- she is well-prepared to lead the nity leader, she rose to serve as company’s network-related sales a New Mexico Public Education and marketing efforts. 17 18 Department Teacher Leader School Liaison. KARL WADENSTEN ’85 has joined the race for lieutenant governor GLEN GATES ’81 has been of Rhode Island. After serving a named director of charter sales successful 40 years as president for Amerijet International, a of VIBCO Vibrators, a company

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that manufactures industrial 9|PHIL ESTES ’94 was recently Materiel Command headquarters, 18|TANIA KILCULLEN ’16 and vibrators for dump trucks, he has promoted to the position of and in posts in Red River, Texas; CHRIS DAWSON ’16 were changed course to politics. He distinguished engineer at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and recently married. They currently is also a member of the Rhode IBM. He is an expert in Linux with the NATO Rapid Deployable live in Colorado where Tania is Island Commerce Corporation container technology and is Corps–Turkey. an environmental inspector for as a board member and cast the currently an OSS maintainer the Aurora Water Department, sole vote against a $75 million for multiple high-profile proj- 14|Col. STEPHEN YORK ’06 was and Chris is assistant super- loan guarantee for 38 Studios as ects, such as the Docker recently installed as commander intendent for Richmond a member of the state’s Economic engine project and the CNCF of the Red River Army Depot in American Homes. Development Corporation. container project. Texarkana, Texas. He comes to Red River after his last assign- APRIL VIVINO ’16 has received a 7|JOE WALDEN ’88 MBA, ’89 10|ALLISON COFFIN ’96 was ment as director for the Training Fulbright U.S. Student Program M.S., has been selected for recently tenured and promoted Management Directorate, Army award to South Korea from the induction into the Powerlifting to associate professor of neuro- Combined Arms Center, in Fort U.S. Department of State and Hall of Fame as part of the class science at Washington State Leavenworth, Kansas. The native the J. William Fulbright Foreign of 2018. He is an Army veteran University Vancouver. She is also of Louisville, Kentucky, has 29 Scholarship Board. She will and lecturer for the School of the co-founder and president of years of service. support the teaching of English Business at the University of Science Talk, a science commu- as part of the Fulbright English Kansas who’s been powerlifting nication nonprofit organization. 15|JENNIFER HANSELMAN ’07 Teaching Assistantship. as a hobby for the past 40 years. was recently appointed as the 11|HEATHER SCHNEIDER ’97 was founding dean of the College ANGELICA ZAMORA-DURAN ’16 8|ALAIN MOUSTARD ’89 was named chief financial officer at of Mathematics and Sciences M.S. was selected to serve on the recently named director of digital Good Samaritan Medical Center at Westfield State University in National Board of Phi Kappa Phi, transformation at COLAS, an in West Palm Beach. Schneider Westfield, Massachusetts. In her a prestigious academic honor international construction firm. is responsible for overseeing free time, Hanselman conducts society. She will serve on the In 2001, he joined Bouygues the financial operations for the outreach in K–12 schools on Council of Students and act as Telecom as director of IT produc- 333-bed acute care hospital and ecological topics, especially liaison between student members tion. He was then appointed its departments. Prior to joining climate change. She also pres- and representatives on the board. director of operations and office Good Samaritan, she served ents on pedagogical topics, automation (2004), then director in the same position at Florida such as shifting lessons toward 19|HARRY HOBBS ’17 DBA shares of application development back Medical Center, a campus of inquiry, debunking science a photo of his granddaughter office (2005), before taking the North Shore in Broward County. myths and connecting the Next Layla, a future Panther, fixing lead of the Information Systems She also worked as the CFO at Generation Science Standards to her hair for a day of school with Department in 2007. The Hospitals of Providence East the Common Core. a smile. Campus in El Paso, Texas. 20|WARREN PITTORIE ’17 M.S. 1990s 2010s recently earned his master’s 2000s in aviation human factors and Last year, the OSIRIS-REx space- 16|JEANA MASCIO ’11 success- plans to remain at Florida Tech craft mission launched from Col. JOHN FELLOWS ’01 M.S. fully defended her Ph.D. in to continue his research with the Cape Canaveral with the goal was named the chief executive atmospheric sciences from the College of Aeronautics and stay of landing on Asteroid Bennu, officer of APT Research Inc. APT University of Utah. She has involved with various campus collecting regolith from the supports more than 50 govern- accepted a senior research asso- departments and organizations. surface and returning to Earth ment and industry custom- ciate position at Atmospheric DREW BEYER ’18 and TY COHEN for analysis. AMY SIMON ’93, ers, including NASA and the and Environmental Research Inc. ’18, former Florida Tech pitchers, CHRISTIAN D’AUBIGNY ’96 and Department of Defense, all while in Boston. have signed deals with Major KERRI DONALDSON ’99 were functioning as a 100 percent League Baseball’s Detroit Tigers instrumental in the development employee-owned small business. MICHAEL COX ’12, ’14 M.S., and St. Louis Cardinals, respec- of the imaging technology and marks two years in business with tively. Beyer, a four-year member execution of the mission. At 12|KAREN D’ALBERTO ’05, ’07 PalmettoINSITU, a geotechnical of the Panthers baseball team, 4.5 billion years old, Asteroid PMBA, proudly shares a photo of sampling company that collects ranked second in school history Bennu is likely one of the earliest Rylan Rocco D’Alberto-Perkins soil across the U.S. and extracts with 20 career saves. Cohen asteroids and will reveal secrets in his Panther cub gear. precise data on soil parameters. amassed 28 wins in his time as a about the origins of the universe. He is known as the “Indiana 13|Col. JOEL WARHURST ’05 M.S. Florida Tech pitcher, the second The mission is entering its first Jones” of capturing soil data in recently became Anniston Army most wins in school history. approach to the asteroid this fall. the geotechnical engineering Depot’s 35th commander. He space due to his reputation of ELI FULLER ’93 recently is a graduate of the Dwight getting in and out of some of the completed the Talisker Whiskey D. Eisenhower School for most challenging site locations. Faculty Atlantic Challenge, an ocean National Security and Resource Knowledge of the soil is crucial 21|MARY BONHOMME, associate rowing race commonly called Strategy at Fort McNair, to any construction project, and provost for Extended Studies, “the world’s toughest row.” Virginia. Commissioned in 1994, he has efficiently provided foun- shares a photo of her great Starting in La Gomera in the Warhurst began his service at dation requirements for a variety nephew, Samuel Chamberlain, in Canary Islands and finishing Fort Campbell, Kentucky. After of advanced structures. his Panther gear. His parents are in Antigua & Barbuda, the race completing the Command and Grant and Hannah Chamberlain. stretches over 3,000 miles. General Staff School, he was 17|SHAHAB ARABSHAHI ’15 His four-man crew crossed the reassigned to Fort Campbell. welcomes his newborn son and Atlantic to finish in record time. Later, he served with the 101st future Panther, Raiden. Airborne Division, with the Army

Florida Tech Magazine | 33 SPECIAL PREVIEW

Excerpt from our upcoming 60th Anniversary publication, 60 for 60: Celebrating Sixty Years of Alumni at Florida Institute of Technology

Alvin Kaltman, Ph.D. COMING IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR

mong the earliest students of the fall of 1960. At the invitation of Ray GPS as Kaltman has traveled extensively. Brevard Engineering College Work, acting dean of BEC, Kaltman also In this photo, he is exploring Cape A (BEC), the precursor of Florida taught a general college chemistry course Washington, Antarctica. Tech, Alvin Kaltman earned his at what was to become Florida Tech. He In 1998, with more than 30 years master’s degree in 1964 and also served then went on to earn his doctorate in of practical management experience, as an undergraduate teacher. political science from George Washington Kaltman compiled foundational leadership Prior to his enrollment at BEC, he University in 1970. lessons that are still relevant today in joined RCA as a junior mathematician— Kaltman’s diverse professional an easy-to-read book, Cigars, Whiskey & even though his undergraduate degree experience included systems design, Winning: Leadership Lessons from General was in social sciences, which he earned programming and analysis for government Ulysses S. Grant. at the University of the Philippines while agencies and private organizations. His career included stints as a senior serving in Air Force intelligence. He soon His work not only developed the search executive vice president of MBNA, group learned senior scientists working at Cape algorithm for the prototype of what vice president of GEICO Corporation, as Canaveral were setting up an engineering became GPS, he also designed the first well as president and CEO roles with two college offering graduate courses in the game analysis programs used by several companies. Today, Kaltman volunteers evening, and he enrolled in the applied NFL teams. Perhaps his wanderlust began to teach a course in leadership at George mathematics master’s degree program in when working on the search algorithm for Washington University.

34 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Philina Richardson: Science Outreach Philina Richardson has found the uniquely perfect intersection of her marine biology degree and her time as a Florida Tech librarian. She now puts her anomalous skill set to use with the Alaska SeaLife Center in science outreach for shark research.

When I graduated from Florida our capture efforts, which allows us to learn Tech nine years ago, I never imagined my from their expertise while simultaneously career would follow this path—from student, getting them involved in the research to librarian, and finally to Science Outreach process. By talking and working with those Fellow at the Alaska SeaLife Center in “on the ground,” we’re increasing the reach Seward, Alaska. As it turns out, it was my and effectiveness of our research. I once time at Evans Library that set me on this read an article that said something to the trajectory. As a librarian, I helped students effect of “perform outreach or your research find, access and evaluate information. Now will die,” and while I don’t think things I’m putting my information literacy skills to are quite that dire, I do believe that using use on the other side of that process, working outreach to cultivate and develop interest and with biologists at the SeaLife Center to appreciation can only be beneficial in the create an outreach site for the Pacific sleeper long run. shark research project. While working on the The Pacific sleeper shark is a poorly project, I’ve often found myself thinking of the understood and understudied species that is things I’d ask my students to look for when frequently caught by both commercial and evaluating a resource—how do you determine private fishing vessels in the Gulf of Alaska. DEGREES: ’09 B.S. marine biology credibility? Accuracy? By focusing on those In fact, much of what we know about Pacific CURRENT CITY: Kent, Washington areas, I hope to make the research process sleeper sharks originates from animals caught easier for our readers. as bycatch in commercial fisheries. Learning FAMILY: Spouse, Pierce Louderback ’08 Performing outreach isn’t just about more about these sharks and their biology HOBBIES: Hiking, knitting dumping information on your audience; can help us reduce both discard mortality and FAVORITE FLORIDA TECH MEMORY: it’s about creating an opening for dialogue other human impacts on their populations. Watching shuttle launches from between researchers and stakeholders. One The path from student, to librarian, to Country Club Road. of my favorite parts of working at the SeaLife arctic shark research has certainly been Center is the opportunity to work with these interesting, and I wouldn’t have had it groups. We work with local fishermen in any other way!

Florida Tech Magazine | 35 IN MEMORIAM

JERRY B. CRUTE ’71 M.S. passed away July 8. After earn- JOHN P. CALLAHAN, Ed.D., professor emeritus, passed ing his master’s degree in management at Florida Tech, he away on Jan. 10, 2018, and burial with full military was employed by NASA as an electrical engineer and test honors took place at Arlington National Cemetery director. in July.

JOHN C. ADKINS ’85 MBA passed away June 15 after a Born on Aug. 29, 1928 in Bronx, New York, he served his long battle with cancer. He served as a Brevard County country honorable in both the U.S. Air Force and Army judge and other local judicial positions after receiving his and also worked as a civilian for the Army. master’s degree in business administration. He came to Brevard County in 1976; in August 1998, he retired from the Florida Tech after having served as THOMAS R. SHAW passed away June 3 after a battle with an associate dean and professor of management in the cancer. He attended Florida Tech from 1970–73 and worked College of Business. for Radiation Inc. and Harris Corporation before becoming an independent contractor. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death NICHOLAS CAMERON TRUSLER WATERS ’13 passed away by his son Michael and unexpectedly on June 28. He earned dual bachelor’s degrees his daughter Kathleen. in business and marketing before going into the field of Callahan leaves behind personal family finance and insurance. his loving wife Maria.

Research professor emerita ELEANOR “POLLY” STORRS Dr. and Mrs. Callahan BURCHFIELD, Ph.D., passed away May 20 after a brief have established a illness. As the director of the university’s Comparative generous endowment, Mammalogy Laboratory, she led breakthrough research on a scholarship fund in armadillos and leprosy. Read more about her work at Florida memory of their daughter Tech on page 21. Kathleen.

In Memoriam In Memoriam John C. Hartley Harry Brandon Florida Tech trustee emeri- Former Florida Tech trustee JOHN THOMAS “JACK” tus HARRY ELLIS BRANDON passed HARTLEY passed away June away Aug. 9 due to prostate 5. Having joined the universi- cancer. Brandon served with ty’s board of trustees in 1987, distinction and vision on the Hartley’s singular impact on the Florida Tech board of trustees growth, identity and success from 2006 to 2017. of Florida Tech over more than three decades on the board was “We are very fortunate to have rivaled only by his remarkable Mr. Brandon on our board,” said 40-year career at Harris Corporation. former university president Anthony J. Catanese when Brandon joined. “He is well-known for giving back to the community, and we The same year he was named to the Florida Tech board, he was look forward to his giving us the benefit of his tremendous knowl- president, CEO and chairman of the board at Harris Corporation. edge and talents.” Just as he guided Harris into the ranks of one of the nation’s Indeed, his talents were numerous. With 26 years of computer premier technology corporations and worldwide leadership in the marketing and marketing management experience, Brandon was the communications, electronics and space sectors, Hartley tirelessly vice president of marketing for Harris Corporation before leaving in devoted himself, as chairman of the Florida Tech board and head 1982 to start his own commercial real estate investing business. of a university capital campaign, to making Florida Tech one of the nation’s outstanding private universities. The culmination of He also mentored Florida Tech students in business and entrepre- Hartley’s and former university president Lynn Weaver’s efforts neurship. Travis Proctor ’98 benefitted from Brandon’s mentorship came in 1997 with the F.W. Olin Foundation’s $50 million gift to the and founded Artemis IT Solutions. “He was always willing to university. mentor anyone,” Proctor recently recalled to Florida Today. “(He) had a drive for helping entrepreneurs get their business started “I don’t think anyone labored harder than Jack Hartley,” university and going.” historian and professor Gordon Patterson told Florida Tech Magazine in 2006. “He staked his reputation on the success of Florida Tech At least as equally notable as his business accomplishments were and its mission.” his philanthropic efforts. Brandon and his wife, Wendy, were generous altruists and arts supporters. Together they’ve been bene- The campus now includes the John and Martha Hartley Room factors to Brevard Symphony Orchestra, Health First Foundation, in the Denius Student Center and Hartley Hall, a five-story United Way of Brevard, Founder’s Forum, the Melbourne/Palm Bay residential facility in Harris Village. His wife, Martha, also Chamber of Commerce, the Economic Development Commission of created the John Thomas and Martha Hartley Scholarship for Florida’s Space Coast and others. undergraduate students.

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Then & Now Evans Hall, shown here in March 1979 and today, has been a residence hall, a dining hall, labs and classrooms and is now the backdrop to the Ethos Community Garden, added February 2017.