Theatre bringing two top talents to teach and work at FSU tarting this fall, FSU theatre an acclaimed director. the bold and impressive 1967 the school year. students have the opportu- Alexander is a new FSU play, “The Great White Hope,” Alexander and Sherin won Snity to learn from a master Eppes Professor and Sherin is a when he was the director and she major prizes for the “The Great husband-and-wife team: Jane professor and visiting artist-in- the feminine lead. She later White Hope.” Other memorable Alexander, a nationally known residence in the theatre school. starred in the movie. Alexander performances include actress, and The two are among the best Both will teach and work with “Eleanor and Franklin: The White Jane Alexander her husband, known names in acting and students. Nancy Smith Fichter, House Years,” “Kramer vs. Edwin Sherin, directing in film and television, as the former FSU interim theatre Kramer,” and “Playing for Time.” well as on the stage. dean who was involved in bring- She has been nominated for Sometimes they have ing them to FSU, said their indi- Emmy Awards and four Oscars. worked together, as in vidual roles will be defined over Currently, Alexander, 62, is in the course of (Continued on page 8) October 2002

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2 / October 2002 October 2002 / 3 With a three-movie deal, FSU film grad writes horror for Hollywood not expecting all this stuff to hap- A year had not passed since a novelist’s internal dialogue City, where he met Weinstein at he had a preference for horror MathMax Gunzburger, professor a new “CSIT cuts aims across artificial to make FSU top in the SoutheastSumners said pen.” Eduardo Rodriguez graduated through light, shadow, produc- the Tribeca Grill for lunch. He said movies, and Roman Polanski’s Francis Eppes professor at FSU, barriers to solve modern prob- Gunzburger’s experi- Rodriguez and Weinstein from the FSU Film School before tion design, angle, lens — and he was so nervous that he ordered classic, “Rosemary’s Baby,” said he thinks FSU can be the top lems that don’t come in neat [aca- ence will be invalu- signed a three-movie deal, and he was in Los Angeles writing a inspire other people with his water instead of food. helped him decide to do movies university in the Southeast demic] packages,” Sumners said. able to the depart- Rodriguez is now re-writing horror-movie script with “X- vision.” “When Bob figured out why I based on human fears. United States in the field of “The researchers work together to ment in research and “Symbiosis,” a short horror film Files” writer Chip Johannsen. Rodriguez’s film “Daughter,” wasn’t eating, he had the waiter David Cronenberg and Steven research into applied computer attack problems in a new way.” training, getting he wrote and directed at FSU. Rodriguez, a 28-year-old said Kathy Barber of FSU’s Film bring me every flavor of ice cream Spielberg also influenced science and applied mathematics. That kind of challenge helped grants, designing new “Symbiosis” is scheduled to Venezuelan national, signed a School, “creates they had.” Rodriguez’ career and style. And Gunzberger will help lure Gunzburger to Tallahassee. courses and helping go into production in about three three-movie deal with Dimension more suspense “He said I Spielberg’s “E.T. The Extra- make it happen, according to “The math department and students and faculty months, and the other two movie Films after his thesis film than usually had a potential Terrestrial,” with the main charac- DeWitt Sumners, a Lawton dis- CSIT both offer good opportuni- develop fresh ways to schedules are still open. “Daughter” caught the attention seen at the stu- to scare people,” ter’s identity secretly guarded by tinguished professor and chair- ties to make contributions,” do things. Rodriguez began paving his of producers in Los Angeles. dent-film level.” Rodriguez said, a group of teenagers, became a man of the math department. Gunzburger said. “There are Gunzburger said road to Los Angeles long before The psychological thriller That’s why still in awe with theme in one of Rodriguez’s “Max Gunzburger is a world- many universities that are putting he embraces those he entered FSU. He studied com- “Daughter” displays “some pho- the film went to his luck. “I am scripts. In “Symbiosis” a super- class applied mathematician, together centers of this sort, but challenges and would munications in Venezuela at the n tography that I have not seen in many film festi- amazed. I was natural creature hides at a diner, especially in the areas we are most are ineffective because the like to add a couple Catholic University Andres Bello. anyone else’s movies,” said Andy vals, including where the waitresses guard it in working on here,” Sumners said. universities are not backing it d Ster more. Eduardo As a child, Rodriguez knew he Ruben, FSU film instructor. “And the popular fes- exchange for protection. (The “He is an international figure. His properly.” “In the short term, Rodriguez wanted to be a filmmaker. He said Bayar if you watch this film, you can tival Cannes, script has changed for the coming research gives him very high visi- “The primary thing is that my main goal is to even turn off the sound and fol- but it was at movie.) bility, and he is really good in here, if you are willing to work Max Gunzburger help FSU develop a low the story without it.” FSU’s annual In “Daughter,” Rodriguez developing Ph.D. students and hard, you will have the resources puters in a really big way to solve about providing me help. The group of computational mathe- Ruben praised Rodriguez’s screening in Los explores the mind of a suicidal conducting important research.” to get something done,” he said. problems. administration, up and down the maticians of the first rank, with talent to tell a story in pictures, Angeles that it woman psychologically affected Gunzburger comes to FSU “FSU will be the premier univer- “An algorithm is a recipe for line from where I sit, has been the expectations of that group build tension and explore human was noticed by with the memories of her from Iowa State University, sity in this field in the Southeast.” solving problems—a description very supportive. That is very putting FSU on the map,” he said. frailties. He also said Rodriguez the right people. deceased daughter. where he was chairman of the Gunzburger said that a key to on the computer. Software is the important to get things done. “At the same time, I want to did a good job directing the film Among them was Carlos “The way I see the world, it is math department. FSU’s future success is the com- implementation of the recipe. Our Having ideas is great, but you develop a graduate degree pro- crew and actors, which is not com- Goodman, an attorney in the film not a very nice place,” he said. Although his academic home mitment of all involved. role is to develop the recipe and need resources to get things done. gram at CSIT. mon at the student level. industry, who sent “Daughter” to He said he chose FSU’s Film is the math department, in the For those who are not math then analyze and implement it. They support the development of “It won’t be meant to compete When filming a movie, Ruben Dimension in New York. School because of the opportuni- Love Building, Gunzburger will professors, the research side of We help develop testing software good ideas and innovations.” with the separate disciplines, but said, “this is your family and the Dimension, a subdivision of ties and convenient program. be spending much of his time applied and computational math- to make sure it works, and to see Tallahassee is somewhat of a to complement them, working director is the father, the parent in Miramax Films, has produced “We are the only public film nearby, at the FSU School of ematics may be hard to under- if it is better than existing recipes family affair for Gunzburger. His hand in hand.” charge who gives love and sup- Hollywood films such as school that pays all the cost of the Computational Science and stand, so Gunzburger breaks it that the computers use.” wife, Janet Peterson, will also The best part of his new job, port to his family. Eduardo has all “Halloween,” “Hellraiser,” “Scary film developing,” Barber said. Informational Technology, or down to simpler terms. Gunzburger said his time at teach at CSIT and the math he says, is the group of students these wonderful qualities. Movie,” Wes Craven’s “Dracula “We don’t ask them [students] to CSIT, in the Dirac Science Library. “What I do is design, analyze Florida State has been encourag- department, and his daughter is a he will teach. “Even though I will “He is amazingly loyal and 2000” and “The Others.” pay additional fees. We provide CSIT performs basic research and implement algorithms of ing so far. doctoral candidate in biology. be continuing my research, I get soft spoken. I think these are char- After“Daughter,” the equipment, film and develop- in applied computer science and problems in many areas such as “Everything has been very “I have always liked my greatest satisfaction from acteristics of someone who wants Dimension’s co-chairman Bob ing.” applied numerical mathematics aerodynamics and superconduc- positive,” he said. “People have Tallahassee. I always thought this advising students. It’s what I to be successful in this business, Weinstein sent for Rodriguez. Film School Rodriguez said those advan- and also overlaps those areas tivity,” he said. “We take mean- high expectations of me, but was a place I could live, and now enjoy most about university because filmmaking is a collabo- A nervous Rodriguez flew FSU tages were important to him. with traditional disciplines. ingful phenomena and use com- that’s good. They all seem sincere I finally get the chance.” work.” —Dave Fiore rative art. Adirector has to capture from Tallahassee to New York Rodriguez directing Marcie Seklecki on ”Daughter” set — Vida Volkert

Ecologist’s message: Respect the snake—it can kill you or feed you AlumniThe face and the uniformsay arethankscan trust him to all trooperthe way. In who has escorted the coach for 39 years exactly what to do. percent of the snakes are ven- Island, in the south beaches of familiar to everybody who today’s environment, security is He has studied the omous. Among them is the Taipan Australia, where hundreds of watches FSU football. important.” reptile’s biology and Inland snake, which is “90 times birds come from Alaska every And the man is familiar to “He is a fixture at Florida behavior for more more venomous than the year to lay one egg each. Each coaches and players. State for more years than he than 25 years. He American Rattlesnake” and a fea- mother stays with her chick until It’s Billy Smith, Florida would want announced,” said earned a bachelor’s tured character in the film. it is big enough to fly away. Highway Patrol major and escort Tom Haney, former chairman of (1968), master’s The production occupied two During that time, the 7-foot black to Coach Bobby Bowden on game the Alumni Association Board. (1972) and doctorate men, Means, the scientist, and cin- tiger snake eats as many chicks as days. “When you see Coach Bowden (1975), all in biology, ematographer David Wright, for it can swallow because, after the The Alumni Association has before or after the game, he at FSU. five months of strenuous physical season, the snake will go one year given Smith the Circle of Gold (Smith) is the uniformed officer Means made his and mental work. without more food. Award for gratitude that he has who is so much part of our pro- latest film on the In a Toyota Land Cruiser, they Means also found that the escorted and protected Bowden gram.” island continent of crossed Australia’s long deserts Aborigines catch water file snakes for 39 years at no charge. The Circle of Gold Award rec- Australia, where 70 and plains and captured colorful in the rivers and use them for “You do not worry with Billy ognizes people who, through images of 5-to-7-foot snakes, food. Smith,” Bowden said. “He gets their service and achievements, sometimes in life and sometimes Between the killers and the you there on time. He has every- “personify the university’s tradi- in art. food providers, snakes represent a thing organized. He is the ideal tion of excellence.” uce Means An ancient painting of a 26- full circle of life. law-enforcement officer, and you Br foot-long “monster snake” is fea- “If you learn about a creature, Bruce Means in Australia Vol. 8 No. 3 • www.fsu.edu/~fstime/FS-Times/ tured in the film during Means’ you can appreciate it,” Means Florida State Times is published by the Florida State University Communications Group, Alumni Bruce Means, an FSU adjunct Serpent”—a scientific and cultural visit to a remote canyon in the said, “If you don’t know anything Association and the FSU Foundation to keep alumni, friends, faculty and staff informed about FSU’s Kimberley, in the northern part of about it, all you can do is fear it.” growth, change, needs and accomplishments. Views expressed in the Florida State Times are not nec- professor and three-time alum- documentary on the world’s most essarily the views of university officials or the newspaper staff. Inclusion of underwriting does not con- nus, has turned to the small venomous snakes—was co-pro- Western Australia. Means has also co-produced stitute an endorsement of the products or services. screen—but large enterprises—to duced by Means for National The painting illustrates the “King Rattler,” another National Editor-in-Chief: help him protect the environment. Geographic Television. myth of the Rainbow Serpent, Geographic documentary, and Margaret Leonard “Television allows me to reach Means, who was involved in venerated by the indigenous peo- “Viper’s Kiss,” for the Discovery Design and Production: To suggest news stories, write to the Florida State Times, Ed Augustyniak more people and educate them the writing and storytelling of the ple of Australia. “In their minds,” Channel. 1600 Red Barber Plaza, Suite 104, Tallahassee, Fla. 32310- Managing Editor: 6068 or e-mail the editor: [email protected]. To sub-

with values of nature,” said film, said he decided to produce it t Means said, “the snake was the “Quest for the Rainbow Bayard Stern mit address changes, news for NewsNotes or In Means, 61, an ecologist, writer to “instill appreciation for wild creator and destroyer of the Serpent” is expected to run again Staff Writer: Memoriam, call Alumni Affairs at 850-644-2761. olker Vida Volkert world, the provider of food and soon, according to Denise Jones of Underwriting is handled by the Florida State University and researcher whose latest docu- animals.” Director of FSU Photo Lab: Communications Group. For rates, call Charles M. Allen ida V

mentary film was aired on Means himself has been bitten V the survivor, a powerful creature National Geographic Television, Ryals Lee Jr. at (850) 487-3170 ext. 320, Frank Flynn at (850) 487-3170 yals Lee, FSU Photo Lab MSNBC in July. by poisonous snakes twice and they perceived as a deity.” but the date is undecided. President of University ext. 317. Florida State Times is available in alternative for- R Means also flew to Chappel Communications: mat upon request. It was published at a cost of $27,000 or “Quest for the Rainbow has survived because he knew Means and “Rainbow Serpent“ —Vida Volkert Franklin D. Murphy 60 cents per copy. It is printed on recycled paper. Billy Smith, right, with Bobby Bowden

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Woodward transformed collections at the FSU Libraries. You can forget about driving Most of the donated books are Missing Gulf War pilot may be Saddam Hussein’s prisoner through campus on Woodward first editions of works such as The last decade has betrayed by the U.S. govern- changed to “prisoner of war.” Avenue. One crucial block—from COMPRESSION “Uncle Remus: His Songs and been a roller coaster of ment’s speedy conclusion— Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media Call Street to the Stultz swimming His Sayings,” and seven issues of emotions for those who without evidence—that he was studies at New York University, says the pool—closed permanently to SHORT TAKES ON BIG SUBJECTS “Uncle Remus: The Home love FSU graduate dead, and subsequent failure to Speicher case has been used recently in an motor traffic in August, to start COMPRESSION Magazine,” which Harris edited. Michael Scott Speicher. look for him. effort to gain sympathy for a war against construction of a pedestrian mall with “will continue working in trying to make Austin comes to FSU “Paxton, who died last year, loved FSU His family, friends Cindy Laquidara, the attor- Iraq. landscaping, benches and paths for walk- this nation safer.” Debra Austin, an FSU alumna who and insisted that this university receive and colleagues were first ney who has represented "I fully understand the emotional desire ing and cycling. He said the job with the consulting firm earned a reputation for competence in the these books, which he had collected over shocked by the news of Speicher's family in the efforts by Speicher's comrades and loved ones to The mall is expected to be completed will require his expertise in dealing with top positions at Tallahassee Community several decades,” said FSU English his death when his jet to resolve the mystery, said she find him if he's alive," Miller said. "But I still by spring 2003. terrorism “at a lower speed.” College, has moved to FSU as assistant vice Professor Bruce Bickley. was shot down in Iraq believes Speicher is alive in a don't think there is any reason he survived According to FBI state- president for institutional effectiveness. Briley, a Tallahassee resident, attended on Jan. 17, 1991. prison in Iraq. that encounter. Why is all this coming up 10 ments, Watson was instru- One of her first projects will be to work FSU from 1957-61 before becoming a Navy Lt. Cmdr. Speicher, Army Capt. Tim years after the fact? You have to be naive to mental in the successful inves- with the Southern Association of Colleges pilot in the Vietnam War and later a com- then 33, was the first Connolly, who was think it is unrelated to the large, ambitious tigation into the bombing of and Schools during mercial pilot. casualty of the Gulf War. stationed in the Iraqi war drive that the government is now car- Khobar Towers in Saudi FSU’s re-accreditation Harris’ first published book in He is the only one still desert six weeks after rying out for a new invasion of Iraq." Arabia and, in 1995, he played process. She also plans 1880 introduced the world to Uncle unaccounted for. Speicher's jet went Laquidara said that motivation “may be a key role in the investigation to initiate a study of Remus and the celebrated trickster Although Speicher's down, has said he quite possible." But she hopes it’s more. n into the Oklahoma City bomb- FSU’s graduation and Brer Rabbit. body was never found, believes, Speicher "I like to believe the country cares about ing. d Ster retention rates. The story of “Brer Rabbit and the he was given full mili- FSU students in 1980, from left: a friend remembered as was captured by a soldier left behind," she said. In a statement to the public Austin has two Tar-Baby” is the world’s most recog- tary honors and a gran- Linda, Rick Bogle and Scott Speicher Bedouins and taken Born in Kansas City, Mo., Speicher has Bayar delivered in early August, FBI degrees from FSU. She nized trickster tale, said Bickley, who ite plaque at the Arlington National over whether to search the scene secret- to Iraqi military been described as a good athlete with a “This is a safety issue,” said Mark Director Robert Mueller said Watson is “a received an M.B.A. in has written extensively about Harris. Cemetery. ly—immediately—or negotiate with Speicher forces. great sense of humor and all the tools to be Bertolami, director of facilities planning. visionary, leading change in the FBI at a 1980 and an Ed.D. in Besides being the first to record the At FSU, the Scott Speicher Memorial Iraq for permission to make the search. Connolly said a Kuwaiti man told him successful. “Twenty thousand cars a day cut through critical moment in our history. He will be 1998. African-American stories told by ex- Tennis Center was built. His wife, Joanne The slower, safer choice prevailed, and he had been in a hospital south of Baghdad "He was not cocky," said Jim Stafford, a campus, and there are at least that many greatly missed, and we wish him continu- Austin began her slaves, Harris wrote the tales in a Armstrong Speicher, who went to FSU with in 1995, a Red Cross team found an altered and an American pilot was in a bed next to high-school friend who kept up with pedestrians crossing as well. This situation ing success.” Debra Austin career at TCC in 1981 as dialect often associated with unedu- him and graduated in 1980, started a new site, obviously sorted through and cleaned him. Speicher until just before the crash. "He is an accident waiting to happen. It’s also assistant director at the division of applied cated former slaves. Considered controver- life with her two children and remarried a up during the delay. Connolly sent a message to headquar- would never tell you how good he was, not a proper academic environment to Napoleon honor sciences. She steadily moved up in TCC’s sial for a time, the folklore and dialect of the year later. Speicher's jet showed evidence that he ters only to get a “we’re not missing any- and he was good at everything he did." have such heavy traffic on campus. When FSU history Professor Donald administration to executive vice president Uncle Remus stories are now recognized But in 1993, there was news that had attempted, at least, to bail out from the body” response. Nothing was done then to If Speicher is alive, Joanne Speicher and we’re finished, it will be a great place for Horward has been promoted to the highest in 2000, and then for six months she was for capturing the essence of slavery and Speicher might have survived the crash. plane—most succeed with that kind of try to identify or locate the pilot. her new husband, Albert Harris, who was students to meet, study and just be able to rank in the “Ordre des Palmes acting president when TCC president and Reconstruction. Some people close to the case concluded plane, though they are often injured, the In 1999 an Iraqi defector told U.S. inves- also friends with Speicher, were asked what enjoy a new area of campus that was very Académiques,” which was created in 1808 FSU graduate T.K. Wetherell (B.S. ‘67, M.S. that he is alive, in prison in Iraq. experts report—and there were no signs of tigators that back in 1991 he had been told the family would do if he came back. busy.” by Napoleon Bonaparte to recognize major ‘68, Ph.D. ‘74) left the office. New fall break A hunter had found Speicher’s downed human remains. Bedouin nomads gave the to drive to a town in Iraq to pick up an "First we'd throw a party, the biggest The Stults parking lot will remain contributions to the arts and sciences. This year, for the first time, Florida State jet in the desert in Western Iraq and notified team a flight uniform that appeared to be American prisoner of war and take him to welcome-home party ever,” he said. “Then accessible. Horward, who was promoted from Oprah likes the Boys’ Choir students will get a “fall break” of two days the Pentagon, which sent a spy satellite Speicher’s. The legs had been cut open in Baghdad. we'd figure things out." A few blocks south, at the corner of officer to commander of the order, is the Oprah’s Angel Network has recog- (plus 2 weekend days) in early October. plane over the crash site. the back, just as if the uniform had been Shown several pictures of pilots, the Harris said that he and Joanne told the Woodward and Jefferson Streets, construc- director of the Institute on Napoleon and nized FSU’s Earle Lee, director of the Boys’ University administrators said the pri- The satellite images showed the jet on removed, possibly by doctors treating an defector picked Speicher's photograph and children, "the worst thing that's going to tion is underway for FSU’s first new resi- the French Revolution at FSU. Choir of Tallahassee, with a $100,000 “Use mary reason for the break is to allow new the ground and a large man-made symbol injured man. identified him as the man he drove. happen is that somebody is going to come dence hall in almost 30 years. Scheduled to He is the Ben Weider Eminent Scholar Your Life Award.” students, especially freshmen, enough time on the sand, suggesting that Speicher had That was the beginning of a long search In 2001, the Pentagon changed back into your life who loves you more than open in fall 2003, it will house 600 students in Napoleonic History and the author of Winfrey presented Lee with the award for a long weekend at home. bailed out and drawn the symbol in the for Speicher, or at least for the truth about Speicher's official status from "killed in anything else. Having more than one per- in suite-style rooms. many books and articles on Napoleon. He during a May broadcast of “The Oprah Duke, Wake Forest, Cornell, Penn State sand to leave proof that he was alive. what happened to him. action" to "missing in action,” and the fami- son love you that much can't be bad." has appeared on television as a main Winfrey Show.” Perry Ellis America and other universities on the semester sys- An argument ensued in military circles Some of Speicher’s friends feel he was ly is pushing again for the status to be —Vida Volkert Watson leaves FBI speaker for the PBS production series, Formalwear also surprised Lee with a tem already have the fall break. After more than 24 years at the FBI, “Napoleon.” donation of 150 tuxedos for the choir. This year, the break comes on Oct. 3 Dale Watson, the bureau’s chief of coun- “I’m very grateful for this award,” said and 4. Victims had a friend on the force terterrorism and counterintelligence, is Outstanding young chemist Lee, an associate in the School of Social “For several years, we have been con- retiring. Jerzy Cioslowski, an FSU chemistry Work. He said the money will start an sidering the move,” said Larry Abele, When he retired in June, FSU Police Sgt. Jacqui Pequignot, director of the FSU Watson, 52, planned to leave the FBI in and biochemistry professor, has been endowment with the hope that it will provost and executive vice president for Bill Taylor did not go unnoticed. Victim Advocate program. September to take an named the “outstanding computation- attract matching grants. academic affairs. “Our students’ homes are He had just been recognized by the Taylor’s efforts have been acknowl- By Bayard Stern executive position in al chemist in the world under the age “Oprah recognized that we’re about so far from campus, with 90 percent of Florida Attorney General for exceptional edged by many of those he helped. the Global Strategic of 40.” making a difference in children’s lives and them living more than 250 miles from cam- work with victims of crime. The year One example was a 42-pound anorexic Security Unit of the Cioslowski received the 2002 Dirac strengthening the community, and that’s pus. In fact, Miami-Dade and Broward, before, Taylor won the student. Doctors told Student: Joe Landon, international consult- Medal, a major international honor what’s important to me,” Lee said. even though they are almost 500 miles James Fogarty Award, Taylor and fellow offi- 20, of Jacksonville, ing firm Booz Allen named for Paul A.M. Dirac, the Nobel Oprah’s Angel Network established given by the Florida cer Linda Riley that the from here, are the two counties supplying majoring in account- Hamilton. Prize-winning physicist who served Network of Victim- girl might have died the “Use Your Life Award” in April 2000 for the largest numbers of students to FSU. ing Having mixed on the FSU faculty from 1970 until his individuals who, through their charitable “Freshmen students and their parents Witness Services. within days had they feelings about leaving death in 1984. organizations, are making a difference in from those areas have been saying for some Taylor was the not brought her to the Bruce Billings Professor: Associate a bureau he served for “The Dirac Medal speaks in the the lives of others. Lee’s award came out of time that a break in the fall semester would lead investigator hospital against her Pofessor Bruce assigned to crimes of will. Taylor says she almost half his life, highest terms of Professor donations from “The Oprah Winfrey help them cope with the ‘first time in col- n

FBI photo Billings Watson said he has Cioslowski’s accomplishments to date, Show” viewers and Jeff Bezos, founder and lege’ experience.” sexual assault, stalk- later became grateful had a good but con- Dale Watson and of FSU’s brilliant scientific prom- chief executive officer of Amazon.com. The break also solves problems caused ing and domestic vio- that he had intervened. d Ster Subject: Financial suming career. ise for the future,” said Henry F. Schaefer lence. Taylor was also on accounting and The FSU School of Social Work created by an unusual Thursday, Oct. 3, NCAA Bayar “He has served as duty at the Chi Omega reporting I “I realized that this has been my life for III, president of the World Association of the choir in 1995 for boys 8 to 18 who live football game at Doak Campbell Stadium. n at least the past six years,” he said. “I am Theoretically Oriented Chemists in neighborhoods with limited social and “The game will involve more than a role model for fel- house immediately not tired, but it’s time to pass on the (WATOC), which presents the medal annu- economic opportunities. 80,000 fans coming to campus during the low officers by d Ster after the January 1978 What makes him great: Bruce Billings is a good communi- tremendous responsibility to someone else ally. demonstrating a gen- murders committed by cator, makes difficult material interesting and sometimes day,” said FSU President Sandy Bayar and start dedicating time to myself and my Cioslowski’s major research interests uine understanding of Ted Bundy. entertaining. Joel Chandler Harris books D’Alemberte. “A fall break seems to be the Bill Taylor family.” are computational quantum chemistry, ab the pain, suffering “The incident that “Mr. Billings was an excellent teacher. He made what FSU has acquired 49 rare books by Joel answer for both the long-term and short- could easily be just a dull and complicated subject inter- A 1972 FSU honors graduate, he super- initio electronic structure calculations, and fear confronting each victim,” chokes me up every time I think about it is Chandler Harris, writer of African- term challenges.” esting and sometimes actually exciting. Attorney General Bob Butterworth said the night the Chi Omega Chapter came vised investigations of the Sept. 11 terrorist development of algorithms for supercom- American folklore, journalism, novels, Essential services of the university, “It was important to him to make sure the class really attacks and the anthrax mailings. puters, development of new electronic short stories and children’s literature. including student health services, will when he named Taylor the Criminal Justice over to the Police Department and sere- understood the material and what it meant. He used a Watson was recently credited with structure formalisms and electronic struc- The family of former FSU student remain open on Oct. 3 and Oct.4. Officer of the Year for Victims’ Rights. naded us for helping them through the lot of real-world examples to demonstrate principles. He helping reorganize the FBI Counter- ture modeling of combustion reactions. Paxton H. Briley gave the books to the FSU The fall break applies only to the main “I’ve worked closely with Sgt. Taylor Bundy murders,” Taylor said. “There were Joe Landon also asked people questions so it was important to pay Terrorism Division. His research has been supported by the Librairies. campus. Classes will be held as scheduled and seen how he has a way of making vic- no heroes in that case, just a lot of people close attention. He also had a good sense of humor, Although he will detach himself from National Science Foundation and the U.S. They have immeasurable historical at other FSU campuses, including Panama tims feel they are the most special person in doing their best to find the person respon- which helps.” the FBI’s 24/7 consuming career, he said he Department of Energy. value, said Lucia Patrick, head of special City and the engineering school. the world and that they are now safe,”said sible. That we did.” “The class is one of the first classes for accounting majors that see if you can handle it, and I’m glad I had him.”

6 / October 2002 October 2002 / 7 FSU medical school showing no deficiencies in draft report Open books—scholars track one of democracy’s chief cornerstones board. remain optimistic,” said FSU President Instead of waiting until next year, the com- “The report is really a work in progress, Sandy D’Alemberte. The administration is mittee will decide whether FSU receives After the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, consult them.” and it’s not appropriate to comment hopeful that the school will receive accred- provisional accreditation at its October 2001, balancing America’s need for safety The practice continues today, and in because it may change,” said Barbara itation, but that’s all he would say. meeting. and the public’s right to know quickly fact has become the stock-in-trade for jour- Barzansky of the Council on Medical Accreditation officials prohibit the dean Initial provisional accreditation is the became a national issue. nalists throughout the Western World. Education, who led a four-member team and university president from making any first step toward full accreditation, which If nothing else, public debates over how Athens was an anomaly in the ancient reviewing FSU’s school. public comments on the site visit until the takes several years. Once provisionally the nation defends itself in this new, sure-to- world, says Sickinger. All other Greek city- Students graduating from accredited final report and accompanying letter of accredited, the school would be visited by be-long war on terrorism has produced states were ruled by oligarchs, and Persia— programs, among other things, have a bet- accreditation have been received, he said. officials each year to determine whether its healthy reflection on how America’s system the superpower to the east—was a monar- ter shot at the best residency programs— FSU failed in its initial bid for provi- status holds as the school seeks full accred- of governance came to be. chy. Literacy, open records and democracy more intensive training doctors undertake sional accreditation in February and itation. FSU’s school is the first to seek full Scholars tell us that we have the ancient were intertwined by the ancient Greeks. At d in their specialty area after medical school. appealed the decision in April. At that time, accreditation since 1978. —Condensed from Greeks to thank for much of what passes for the nexus of literacy and open records, The report praises Dean Joseph the board decided FSU still failed to meet the Tallahassee Democrat, by Melanie Yeager constitutional democracy in modern times. Sickinger finds self-government. Scherger’s leadership and says “an impres- two standards— In particular, the notion that every citizen “Record-keeping was crucial to the

Ray Stanyar sive cadre of highly motivated and experi- enough full-time fac- has a right to see public (government-creat- essence of democracy,” he said. “Written Kerry Bachista, FSU College of Medicine stu- enced administrators and faculty has been ulty in medical disci- ed) records comes from ancient Athens, the records preserved information and made it most celebrated city-state of ancient Greece. more available to citizens.” Scholars have dent giving a flu shot in Gadsden County. assembled.” Students demonstrate “con- plines and a clear siderable enthusiasm” in helping the administrative Twenty-four-hundred years ago, long puzzled over the origins of the so- d A draft report from accreditation offi- school develop, and the state has shown process for curricu- Athenians were making what today we call called open society, where people have a cials gives Florida State University’s med- “impressive commitment” by providing lum decisions. a public information request, says James right to reconstruct through the use of doc- ical school a clean bill of health. $60 million to construct a new building. The university Sickinger, a classics professor and noted uments what the government does and Ray Stanyar The report, received [in August] by Although it does not cite any weak- asked for another site Greek historian at FSU. A free flow of infor- how it does it. This oversight of transactions James Sickinger successfully challenged the assumption that literacy and public documents FSU, lists no areas in which the school fails nesses, the report outlines areas that should visit as soon as possi- mation between government and the gov- and procedures is unique to a free society were unimportant in Athens. His research shows that the right to inspect official docu- to comply with accreditation standards. be monitored, including how FSU imple- ble. FSU also threat- erned helped citizens keep an eye on the and is expressed in the sunshine laws of ments was central to Athenian democracy 2,500 years ago. That’s a positive sign for FSU’s bid for ments its curriculum this fall for second- ened possible legal d management of public resources and the many states, especially Florida’s. provisional accreditation that will be year students and the recruitment of future action. The accredit- performance of state officials, he said. Florida, in fact, is nationally renowned Since the days of ancient Greece, ly was quite efficient, says Sickinger. reviewed by the entire Liaison Committee faculty and administrators, such as the ing agency expedited “Athenians instituted safeguards to pre- for open government. State law provides bureaucrats have debated what kind of “We have over 100 speeches composed

for Medical Education board from Oct. 15 chairperson of geriatrics. the review process for Ray Stanyar vent malfeasance by public officials. There access to “any record of local and state offi- information to publish. Although Dracon, for delivery in Athenian courtrooms in was a bureaucracy that made public cials and offices, unless that record is specif- to 17. Any final decision rests with the “We’re pleased with the report, and we FSU’s next try. Sarah Fein, middle, and Dr. Jessie Furlow examining a child an Athenian lawgiver of the late seventh which laws and decrees are frequently read records available to citizens who wanted to ically exempted by law.” century B.C., gave Athens a written code of out. We never hear of problems finding or laws, it was Solo—the “Thomas Jefferson” locating documents, inscribed, archival or NEW BOOKS BY FLORIDA of ancient Athens—who popularized the otherwise,” said the professor. STATE GRADUATES Speak softly or else power of written law when in 594 B.C. he No one knows exactly how prevalent placed the control of the judiciary in the literacy was among the general population Want Something To Read? AND FACULTY It didn’t pay to be a public nuisance in early Athens hands of citizens, says Sickinger. of ancient Greece, but Sickinger says that lit- They’re reduced to a few broken Megakles, son of Hippokrates. He was “A citizen could get by without being eracy clearly was a tool in the administra- pieces of pottery today, but once long ago ostracized twice. First voted out in 486 literate, but if he intended to participate tion of the state. Athenians kept a meticu- they had the power to kick irritating peo- B.C., his inability to keep his opinion to fully in government, he would find that the lous account of the government’s perform- ple out of town for a long time. himself annoyed his neighbors such that ability to read and write would be extreme- ance. Scholars say the pottery shards— they told him to leave the city a second ly valuable if not indispensable,” claimed Sickinger cautions against drawing neat recovered since 1995 in the excavation of time, possibly in the early 470s. Sickinger. parallels between antiquity and today. It is the Agora, the central marketplace of The possible politicizing of In most other Greek city-states, a unknown what the Athenians did with ancient Athens—represent the curious ostrakaphoria reached its peak in the case “record” of official business was originally their public records on the verge of war. Athenian tradition of ostrakaphoria. of Hyperbolus, a populist of humble ori- maintained by official rememberers, people Sickinger said that some scholars believe Each year the good people of Athens gins who was a minor player in the polit- whose job it was to remember the law. whatever documents the Athenians had would decide whether to hold an elec- ical arena. When two rivals realized that Luckily for Athenians, their fate in political were abandoned and destroyed by the tion to banish someone from the city for one of them might be exiled, they con- and legal disputes didn’t rest upon the Persians when they sacked the city in 480 10 years. The reformer Cleisthenes con- spired against Hyperbolus. capriciousness of human memory. B.C. But there’s no concrete evidence sug- ceived the idea as a way to prevent politi- His banishment in 415 B.C. for rea- “This meant that a ruler no longer had a gesting what restrictions if any were placed cians from dividing the community and sons other than plotting to seize power monopoly of knowledge of the law and the on public records when faced with war and as a means to stop tyrants before they clearly demonstrated that ostrakaphoria convenience of remembering the clauses the impending fall of the city. had someone to point them in the right Reader: Jason Giles, Personal Best seized power. Anyone—a persuasive had evolved far from its original pur- that suited him to remember,” said Essentially, Sickinger has built a new direction. The book addresses topics such senior, department of dance by Mary Barley (B.A. ‘72) speaker, a wealthy man, anyone regard- pose. According to Plutarch, when the Sickinger. platform to view the role of the written as “What to do if your professor is hitting 1st Books Library Between the seventh and fifth century word in ancient Athens. He took what law enforcement and is a Mary Barley discusses seven character- ed as having outgrown his or her britch- citizens of Athens realized that on you?” “Should you let your roommate B.C., Athenians found more and more uses scholars agree about how daily life was security chief for a corpora- istics or steps that she thinks will lead peo- es—risked being the top vote-getter in Hyperbolus was the victim of a cam- borrow your clothes?” “What is the drunk for reading and writing. They graduated lived, examined the artifacts recovered and tion. He writes for people ple to healthier bodies and minds: aware- the city-wide referendum. paign, they abandoned the practice. bus?” and many others. from registering decrees and laws to mak- reviewed the texts that survived. He con- who want to protect them- ness, acceptance, desire, commitment, self- The first ostrakaphoria was held ing lists of assembly members, alien resi- cludes that when faced with rapid popula- selves and their families in discipline, perseverance and mentoring. in 487 B.C. On the appointed day, Redefining Teacher Education dents and military draftees and by the fifth tion growth in the seventh century B.C., any situation. Whether barriers were erected at the The Theories of Jerome Bruner and the Agora, and voters filed into one century were requiring reports from boards Athenians found that literacy enabled them they’re making an ATM Practice of Training Teachers African-American Concert Dance of the 10 entrances to deposit of directors that oversaw businesses such as to share information. It was then decided to withdrawal, driving in a by Diane D. Orlofsky (Ph.D. ‘86, music The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond the port, silver mines and so on. preserve in writing—a relatively young strange city, or jogging education) by John O. Perpener III (FSU dance pro- their ostraka, a ballot made

Lisa M. Corp The agenda and decisions of boards invention—the rules that governed their alone down a country lane, Peter Lang Publishing fessor ) from pottery. All citizens and the assembly were posted in all parts of community. the threat of danger—unlikely as one Diane Orlofsky, a professor of music University of Illinois Press were candidates. If at least EXTREME MEASURES the city on white boards, the mass media of Sickinger’s reputation is soon to carry hopes it might be—is real. Rawls gives education at Troy State University in Troy, This book provides biographical and 6,000 voters participated, cre- by Renee Halverson (B.S. ‘85) ancient Athens. him back to the very center of democracy’s advice to avoid harm. Ala., issues a call for reform from within historical information on a group of artists ating a quorum, then the bal- Leisure Books, New York City The citizens of Athens constructed a birthplace. He is the Andrew W. Mellon In Denver in 1879, a romance occurs each individual methods classroom. who worked during the 1920s, 1930s and lots were counted and who- 1940s to legitimize dance of the African ever received the most votes building, the Metroon, to store official Professor at the American School of between a saloon manager and a gambler. The Secret to Your College Success Teacher educators are challenged to use the diaspora as a serious art form. John O. had 10 days to leave Athens. records. Documents were archived on Classical Studies at Athens, a three-year 101 Ways to Make the Most of Your learning theories of Jerome Bruner as a cat- alyst for constructing their own narrative Perpener sets these seminal artists and When he returned a decade sheets of papyrus and wooden writing post. BE ALERT BE AWARE HAVE A PLAN College Experience their innovations in the contexts of African- later, his legal rights and politi- tablets. As supervisor of the school’s graduate The Complete Guide to Protecting by Toni M. Buxton (B.A. ‘95) concerning teacher education. This book American culture and American modern cal privileges were When a citizen requested a document, a program, Sickinger will be in a position to Yourself, Your Home, Your Family Writers Club Press provides practical applications of theory to member of the Metroon staff would find it, influence the academic development of the by Neal Rawls (B.S.W. ‘73) with Sue This book addresses questions and sit- improve pedagogical techniques. dance and explores their creative synthesis restored. copy it and deliver it. The system apparent- next generation of Greek classicists. Kovach uations college students might face. Buxton of material from European-American, One apparent- The Lyons Press says many students make dozens of fresh- Getting Fit from the Inside Out African-American, Caribbean and African ly effective Neal Rawls has 30 years experience in man blunders that could be avoided if they Seven Steps to Becoming Your sources. speaker was Stories on this page are condensed from stories by James Call in Research and Review

8 / October 2002 October 2002 / 9 What does Islam really teach about war? Kelsay on the culture of Islam All the glory of drama—Sherin/Alexander team can teach it (Continued from page 1) one piece of that.” math (of Sept. 11),” he said. about her tenure entitled, “Command more about what the school’s objectives • “Islam stands currently, and has for a long time, both for Muslim militants and fundamen- Wide interest in the profes- “They were just curious, and I Performance: An Actress in the Theater of are.” what we would call a religion and for what we’d call a culture or talists who justify terrorism, sor’s research has switched on thought it would drop off.” Politics.” Though the NEA was poised to While defining his new role at FSU, civilization. Christianity has functioned that way at various times Kelsay said, “is to estimate to quickly since Sept. 11. It didn’t. His audiences grew shut down, Alexander managed to keep it Sherin plans to direct a new play in New historically—like Christendom in the Middle Ages—not just a what extent their religious cita- He was scheduled to deliver to about 275 people. alive, in spite of a 45-percent budget cut. Haven, an episode of “Law and Order” and religion but like an orientation mixed up in the ways people tions are true. six lectures on “Islam and the And, just as his lecture class While actresses typically enjoy better his wife in a new production of Ibsen’s dressed, the food they ate, the ways they conducted war.” “We’re in a time when the Political Future” last September filled up last fall, so have book- name recognition with the public than “Ghost” in the late spring. • The “suicide bombings” that Americans see on the news development of international in Cleveland, Ohio. stores all around the country. directors, Sherin’s work is equally recog- After 40 years, he says, he has “directed every day in Palestine and Israel are actually called “martyrdom rules governing the conduct of Organizers told him to expect Books on Islam and related topics nized in the movie/television/theater everything but traffic in Hong Kong.” operations (people who are sacrificing their life for a cause),” but states on human rights… to attract no more than 50 to 75 are no longer tucked away in the world. His feature-film-directing credits “In a practical way, my teaching is eclec- they are viewed by Muslims not as a terrorist tactic but as a mil- requires that we pay attention to people. At the first lecture he special-sections shelves but are include “Valdez Is Coming,” “A Marriage: tic, but in an objective way, it’s quite specif- itary tactic such as a weapon choice. “The problem, Islamically the diversity of international cul- looked out to a crowd of 175 to prominently placed on display Georgia O’Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz,” and ic—as an enabling force to help the young speaking, is an indiscriminate attack—soldiers and civilians tures as we try to carve out this 200 people. tables like the latest beach novels. “The Father Clements Story,” in addition to artist to maximize his creative impulses,” he alike… In Islam, soldiers fight soldiers. It’s not honorable to norm, and attention to Islam is “I thought it was just the after- “A lot of books you’re seeing dozens of classic and popular stage pro- said. intentionally kill civilians.” are journalistic as opposed to ductions and a broad range of television The couple had other offers to teach but • “Some scholars say Israel is a military society through and scholarly,” he said. They are programs from “L.A. Law” and “Moon- none that would bring them together. They through, so there are no civilians. Anybody except children is a “quickly put together, made for a lighting” to “Hill Street Blues” and “Law plan to commute to FSU from their various fair military target. It’s a scary approach. It means total war.” popular audience.” Kelsay said and Order.” professional jobs and then take up Florida • Another argument that is problematic for the scholar is the his current book will be of more At 73, the charismatic director—whose residence in January through the end of radical Muslim point of view that since the Palestinians are at interest to specialist scholars, teaching style is effective and unconven- April, when they will retreat to the such a disadvantage, they’re in a true emergency, so what they though he plans to write another tional—is no stranger to university life. Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, for for a broader audience later. He has taught at Columbia, Bennington “Ghosts.” do is okay. Historically, however, “Emergency situations do not allow you to attack civilians as well as soldiers.” He has also published “Islam College and the Oklahoma Arts Institute. After 35 years as a couple and 28 years and War” (Westminster/John Edwin Sherin He headed the theater department at of matrimony, Sherin says the marriage is Knox, 1993), “Human Rights and Boston University in tandem with an equal- as sweet as ever. Kelsay on American Muslims and U.S. policy the Conflict of Cultures” (co- (Continued from page 1) the National Stroke Association and ly distinguished position as artistic director He recalls a time when they worked in • “According to some estimates, Islam is the fastest growing authored, University of South the newly released John Sayles movie Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarma- of the Hartman Theater in Stamford, different cities in Spain, and he was forced religion in the U.S.” The credit for this phenomenon goes to Carolina, 1988) and “Just War and filmed in Jacksonville, “Sunshine State,” in ment. Connecticut. to make a treacherous journey over an old birth rates among immigrants as well as converts primarily from Jihad” (co-edited, Greenwood which she plays a birder and high school In 1993, she accepted Bill Clinton’s “My major concern is finding a pro- Moorish road along the coast. “You took the African-American segment of the population. Moderately Press, 1991). drama teacher working with disturbed nomination to head the National gram (for FSU) that will fit into the needs of your life in your hands to meet your mate,” speaking, there are about 4.5 million Muslims living in this coun- The Guggenheim Fellowship children. Endowment for the Arts, during a time that the school,” says Sherin, who is also nation- he said. “That’s one of the reasons that the try. was founded in 1925 to “promote Alexander’s best played part, however, the agency was being heavily scrutinized. al vice president of the Directors Guild of glue has been so formidable.” • “Historically, it (conversion among African-Americans) has the advancement and diffusion of according to her husband, is her role as Four years later, after stormy battles with America. These days, they spend their summers been a cultural statement—people feeling in some way cut out knowledge and understanding, activist. She is on the boards of the Wildlife conservative politicians, the actress-turned- “I’m not comfortable yet with imposing in Nova Scotia, where their children and of the mainstream of U.S. life find in Islam something that Middle Eastern wall hanging in Kelsay’s office and the appreciation of beauty, by Conservation Society, Project Greenhope, chairwoman resigned and wrote a book any notions of mine without learning a lot four grandchildren visit. —Sibley Fleming affirms their dignity. Taking new names—like Malcolm X—for aiding...scholars, scientists and them, is part of this business of finding an alternative culture that artists...in the prosecution of their affirms you. Theoretically, any name is an Islamic name.” FSU’s past Guggenheim fellows labors.” The John Simon Between Tallahasse and Sarasota, 21 plays to see Guggenheim Foundation was • As far as the “War on Terrorism,” Kelsay believes one of the I François Bucher, president, Nautilus Foundation, Lloyd, Fla.; Director named in memory of the son of Director more positive aspects has been President Bush’s insistence that Distinguished Professor Emeritus of medieval art and architec- John Degen this is not a war against Islam or Muslims but a war against peo- ture. Senator Simon Guggenheim and Ellen Jones Company wife, Olga Hirsch Guggenheim. ple who do things we cannot tolerate. On the other hand, Robert Olen Butler, writer; Francis Eppes Professor of October 9 - 12, 2002 O I outh English. The Laurance S. Rockefeller allon “Engaging militarily, as we did and are doing in Afghanistan, No GF fellowship is for outstanding v . Donald L. D. Caspar, professor of biological science. ember 14-16; and you in effect undo the government that exists there, you I d G e oman of scholars and teachers who spend A g I Bertram H. Davis, professor of English. har e have a lot of responsibility in terms of trying to help people tr Kathleen M. Erndl, associate professor of religion. a year at Princeton writing about CRic I ch 1, 2003 restore the possibilities of living an ordinary life, and I wonder if Mainstahea I Orville Goodwin Harrold Jr., deceased, professor emeritus of ethics and human values and par- T The Lab we are engaged enough in that.” His second reservation has to 20-23, allon Theatr mathematics. ticipating in some activities of the . F e do with domestic policies “that seem to have led to detaining Michael Kasha, professor of physical chemistry. University Center for Human 2002 e I Studio October 23 - 26, 2002 CHI people without charging them with crimes, without releasing Jill Quadagno, Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar JanuaryRichard 30-F G I Values, which was founded in Theatr y 19-22; 25-Mar F Mainstage their names to their families, in terms of our own sense of who This Is Our Y The Goodebruary 9 TheatreatW 2:30pm uar in social gerontology and professor of sociology. 1990 with a gift from Laurance we are and how we are administering justice.” Augusta Conradi Theatre Director Setzuan Febr Rockefeller. —Sibley Fleming Fred Chappell ebruary 1; 5-8, 2003 Director Tony Simotes The Lab About 30 miles upstream groans of the wounded and Director Jason Chimonides from the mouth of the dying, foretold the sad fate that The Illusion Apalachicola River on the Gulf of awaited them. The stout-hearted Mexico sits Fort Gadsden, built old men cheered and encouraged over the ashes of Negro Fort, a their friends, declaring that death Ap British stronghold in 1814 and Original Seminoles was to be preferred to slavery.” Director The new season at the Asolo in Sarasota ril 1 later a refuge for Seminoles, a It appeared to be insignificant Negroes had been living for gen- Jackson ordered Maj. Gen. Loomis reported that of the Rory Ledbetter In the Mertz Theatre: Scattered Belongings, by Mark Wheatley 7- erations in the Spanish Territory Edmund Gaines and Lt. Col. 19; 2 Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Jan. 8-26 group of Indians and Negroes, to the kidnappers that some of the 334 in the fort, 270 died instantly eam Nov. 1 - Feb. 22 Eye of the Storm, by Will Stutts who had been living in the area Indians and Negroes settled and had been accorded the rights Duncan Clinch to destroy Negro from the assault; three of the on 3- r ge 2 Brighton Beach Memoirs, by Neil Simon Jan. 31-Feb. 22, 2003 (in rotating repertory with Noel for generations. along the rich banks of the of citizens of Spain. Fort and return the Negroes to remaining 60 escaped without sta 6, 2 Nov. 8 - Feb. 23 The Shape of Things ain s D Coward at the Café de Paris) d C. Fall Lt. Col. Nichols of the British Apalachicola had been there since Although the events of the Georgia plantation owners. injury. ar M ht’ 00 You Never Can Tell, by George Bernard Shaw Noel Coward at the Café de Paris, by Will Stutts ch g 3 Ri i Nov. 15 - April 5 Jan. 31-Feb. 22, 2003 (in rotating repertory with Eye of the Army built Negro Fort, after he the 17th century, indeed, longer, day were ironic — the British Clinch, to some, seemed to Of those killed, 34 were Augusta Conradi r N A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, adapted by Barbara Storm) was dispatched to the Panhandle one historian says, than the building a fort in Florida to pro- back off his assignment, but Seminole Indian men, a toll with e Redmond and Eberle Thomas Le Malade Imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid), by Molière, as part of a widespread British Israelites had been in exile. In the tect the Seminoles, free citizens of Sailing Master Jairus Loomis took even more costly results: Nov. 30 - Dec. 28 translated by Morris Bishop The Corn is Green, by Emilyn Williams March 5-23 plan to recruit Indians and late 1600s, these “Exiles,” as they Spain’s territory, from slave- command of the attack, with the Seminoles believed that no souls TheatrStudio summ id Jan. 17 - May 24 The Heiress, by Ruth and Augustus Goetz Negroes to serve in the military. were called, had escaped slave catchers in Georgia — the events following results, according to could rest until their deaths had e ch 26-29, 2003 Filumena, by Eduardo de Filippo, translated by Vittorio April 9-27 Rossi Nichols also constructed the lands in Carolina and Spanish that followed the construction of Joshua Giddings’ “The Exiles of been avenged. As a consequence, Mar Syncopation, by Allan Knee A M March 14 - May 24 May 2-25, 2003 fort to protect the group from slave traders along the eastern Negro Fort were deadly. Florida”: the Negro Fort massacre prompt- The Philadelphia Story, by Philip Barry marauding slave-catchers, who coast to find freedom. Provoked by the fact that “Mothers and children now ed the First Seminole War, which March 21 - May 25 crossed the Georgia borders to It also seemed to make no dif- about 800 of those prospering in shrieked with terror as the roar of two bloody years later ended For more information about the Asolo Theatre Festival’s Director In the Cook Theatre: seize men, women and children ference in 1816 to Georgia planta- and around Negro Fort were cannon, the whistling of balls, the with the withdrawal of the U.S. Ian Borden The Blue Room, by David Hare, freely adapted from Arthur current season, call the Box Office at 941-351-8000 or toll- Schnitzler’s La Ronde free at 800-361-8388, or visit the Web site at and make money by selling them tion owners and their bounty escaped slaves from Southern explosion of shells, the war- military from Florida. Nov. 27 - Dec. 15 www.asolo.org. to plantation owners. hunters that the Indians and plantations, Gen. Andrew whoops of the savages, the — Dana Peck

10 / October 2002 October 2002 / 11 Tiny machines will race through your body delivering medicine and repairs If you like a story with a good end, try this one (Continued from page 1) hope to build a motor powered by the same Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is sup- Sometimes, things work out better than night before we play Notre Dame in My guess is that our alumni dig deeper how he had to teach him all his moves. To will be measured in nanometers—billionths proteins that muscles use. porting the biological/mechanical motor you hoped. Tallahassee. We’ll have that spectacular cel- because they embrace a common vision of one reporter who asked for the “coaching of a meter. The research could produce a device research with $800,000 for the next 18 Five years ago we invited a few major ebration we promised, but it won’t be in the our university. Our alumni feel that their secret,” Bowden said that when the time Physicists and biologists at Florida State that moves about in the body to perform a months. FSU is eligible for another $1.2 mil- contributors and potential large donors to Ballroom. The (now) Tom & Ginny Futch university’s leadership has great integrity, was right, he’d send specific, written are joining forces to advance medical sci- variety of functions, such as delivering lion to continue the research if the initial meet with us for lunch. There were only a Ballroom is too small to hold all the people spends money wisely and operates with a instructions to Simmons in the defensive ence and combat bioterrorism with tiny— powerful medicine at the center of a tumor phase shows promise. who have made such generous contribu- great deal of enthusiasm. We are all, as it huddle. “I’d write it down on a slip of paper nano-scale—devices. or controlling the flow of blood in a dam- Chase noted that engineers have yet to tions. We had to move it to the Civic Center. were, members of the same team. and send it out onto the field to be handed (The word “nanos,” ancient Greek for aged artery. produce a motor that operates with the effi- Five years ago we hired consultants, Now, we are within weeks of finishing a to Simmons,” Bowden laughed. “It just said “dwarf,” now means “a billionth.” The The second project aims to build a nano- ciency or the duration of motors produced Keeping Score specialists, and good ones at that, to assess campaign that has lasted for years. We took ‘Now!’” commonest measurement on that scale is size biological sensor that can detect single by Mother Nature. our chances of raising the needed dollars. an ambitious goal, and we will exceed it. And that is what I want to do with this done in nanometers.) molecules of various substances in the body Motors consisting of biological mole- By Charlie Barnes They studied and interviewed and poked The gorgeous park of first-class athletic October column. I’d like to put this paper Scientists from FSU’s biology depart- and viruses in the air. cules will also be more environmentally Executive Director around and kicked the tires and finally told facilities will have taken only around six into your hands with the gentle request ment, physics department and Center for Researchers hope to develop a portable friendly because the material is non-toxic Seminole Boosters us that we might be able to raise $35 million years from conception to completion. The that, in these final few weeks, if you have Materials Research and Technology blood chemistry test kit that doctors and and biodegradable. altogether over a five-year campaign. athletic scholarship endowment will have entertained any thought at all about pitch- (MARTECH) have grants for groundbreak- emergency medical technicians could carry Evolution has also provided many dif- They also told us that their study had been effectively tripled. ing in to help endow our scholarships, or ing research incorporating biological matter in their pockets. They could then determine ferent biological motors with unique char- turned up no potential contributions in the When the campaign went public two build the new facilities, the time to do so is into nano-scale machines. on-the-spot whether someone has suffered acteristics, such as ones that perform well in few dozen people, but they were the first to $1-million range, and they did not envision years ago, Coach Bobby Bowden agreed to now. Whatever you feel you can do, at “There has been a lot of speculation a heart attack by measuring in a single drop extreme cold, which has the military inter- hear the details of our Seminole Boosters’ any at that level. serve as chairman. We named it the whatever level, will be most appreciated. about how nano-scale devices in general of blood the level of certain proteins ested in FSU’s research. capital campaign for athletics. By the time we made the public Dynasty Campaign because this, as much You can reach me, or any member of the will improve our lives,” said biology released after a heart attack. A lengthy lab The partnership of the biology and Booster President Andy Miller present- announcement of the campaign three years as his football dynasty, is really his legacy. It Seminole Booster staff, by calling 644-3484. Professor Bryant Chase, coordinator for one test is now required. physics departments sets a precedent for ed the case for a capital campaign based on later, we had already raised more than $40 is the legacy for future generations of men Or, write us at Post Office Box 1353, of the two research projects the scientists The National Science Foundation FSU and other research institutions, said the needs of our program. Money was million. We also announced a campaign and women student-athletes in all sports Tallahassee 32302. Advertisements in this will undertake. “If even only 1 percent of awarded FSU $1 million over the next four Peng Xiong, a MARTECH physicist and a needed to pay for the athletic scholarship goal of $70 million. At the end of the who will know only Bowden’s name and magazine will give you more detail about the speculation turns out to be correct, our years for the biological sensor research. Bryant Chase team member on both projects. endowment and build new facilities that Dynasty Campaign, we will have recorded will never know the man. the various giving opportunities. lives will be greatly improved.” While the primary objective is to build the nationwide to develop rapid alarm systems “This says that we’re really at the fore- would make us competitive with other, nearly 40 individual gifts of at least $1 mil- This August we sent letters from Coach The big celebration will take place at the One project involves the creation of a prototype blood chemistry test kit, the same to protect our homes from bioterrorism and front of these exciting areas of research,” older schools. lion each, and we will have met and passed Bowden to all Seminole Boosters who had Civic Center on Friday night before the biological/mechanical actuator, like a tiny technology could aid the fight against other hazardous biological substances,” Xiong said. “Everybody talks about con- We arranged the tables in the center of our $70-million goal. not yet made a pledge to the campaign, to Notre Dame game. We’ll have a Las Vegas motor powered by protein. bioterrorism with devices that detect virus- Hong said. “Like smoke detectors in homes ducting interdisciplinary research, but it’s the cavernous ballroom of the University One of the interesting bits of informa- give them one final opportunity to con- show, and lots of fun. It’s not open to the Using a nickel rod 100 nanometers in es in the air, said physics Professor today, our future homes may be equipped usually really hard to get that ball rolling. In Center Club. I told them, “This is our core tion churned up by the consultants was the tribute before the conclusion. In the letter, public, but all contributors to the Dynasty diameter—about 1,000 times smaller than Seunghun Hong, coordinator of the project. with various virus detectors.” this case, we’ve done it.” —David Cox, FSU group. Five years from today we’ll all meet fact that our alumni contribute to Florida he told about having coached the legendary Campaign will receive an invitation. Trust the width of a human hair—the researchers “This project reflects the enthusiasm The federal Defense Advanced Communications Group in here again to celebrate the end of a suc- State University at a markedly higher level Ron Simmons 25 years ago. me, it will be the best show in Tallahassee cessful campaign, and this beautiful room than people of comparable age and means Simmons, you’ll recall, was a nose that night. will be filled to capacity with people who who are alumni of other institutions. guard of phenomenal ability, probably the This is a story with a good ending, one Two-Step Giving Smith studied government at FSU have made contributions.” “Your alumni really stretch to give more best at his position in college football in the even better than anticipated. Florida State’s You can arrange a gift to Florida State University now and defer its com- two terms from 1979 to 1986 as Attorney Now, it’s five years later. Our Dynasty than they should,” they said. They could late 1970s. Bowden used to joke about how loyal and passionate alumni deserve noth- (Continued from page 1) pletion until later. For example, when you include Florida State University in confidence that this election will go off fair- General. In 1986, he was defeated in a bid Campaign will end this month, Oct. 25, the offer no reason for that, so I’ll offer my own. hard he worked to coach Simmons, about ing less. your will or living trust, you have made a deferred or two-step gift. ly and impartially,” said Bob Poe, chairman for governor, but returned to the Cabinet, The first step occurs when you make a testamentary of the Florida Democratic Party. appointed by then-Gov. Bob Martinez as Paula Fortunas provision for the ultimate benefit of Florida State Within 24 hours of his appointment, Secretary of State. Then he was elected University within the academic unit or program of your Smith, a Republican, defused a fury in the twice to the job. In 1988, he was the first choice. The second step takes place, after your life, when Florida State receives the bequest. Democratic Party by negotiating an agree- Republican elected to the Cabinet. Other two-step gifts occur when you name Florida State University as a beneficiary in a ment on the wording of printed ballots life-insurance policy or when you designate Florida State University to receive the residual In 1994, Smith made headlines in a run in your retirement-plan assets. used in the September primary. for governor. But Bush became the nominee Those two-step gifts have one important thing in common: they can be cancelled, or Smith acknowledged that day that there that year in a race that ultimately was won revoked, prior to completion. They are called revocable gifts. would be problems in the upcoming by the late Lawton Chiles. Bush later asked Revocable gifts provide donors with the satisfaction of establishing a contribution plan statewide elections. When the problems Smith to be co-chairman of an election- while adding the assurance that the asset can be retrieved should an emergency occur. The came in two counties, Smith gave the elec- reform committee, charged with studying trade-off for that flexibility is that revocable gifts do not qualify for an income-tax charitable tions officials a grade of “F-minus.” the 2000 debacle and making recommen- deduction. Such is not the case with irrevocable deferred gifts. Once initiated, such two-step The Democrats have liked his style, an dations for improvement. gifts cannot be undone. Consequently, the IRS allows an income tax charitable deduction. approval Smith attributes to his past. On his first day back in office, the press Irrevocable deferred gifts include those from which the donor can receive a life income, “I used to be a Democrat, and now I’m noticed his demeanor and attire. for example, the charitable gift annuity, the charitable remainder trust and the pooled income fund. Donors can also give their personal residence and retain the right to lifetime a Republican,” he said. “I kind of under- Although he and his wife had just com- occupancy. Though these gift arrangements differ in various respects, they all provide stand both sides.” pleted a hurried drive with two pets from immediate income tax charitable deductions as well as other benefits to the donor. Smith’s career climb began when he their vacation home in Colorado, Smith felt To learn more about these and other two-step giving programs, please return the form below. “I used to be a Democrat, and now I’m a Republican,” he said. Note: Prospective donors should not make final gift decisions without first consulting “I kind of understand both sides.” their personal legal and financial advisors. majored in public administration at Florida that, despite fatigue, meeting with the press J Please send free literature about gift and estate planning. State. was imperative. So he put on a clean white J Please contact me about a personal visit or other assistance. He said he chose FSU “strictly looking at shirt, a comfortable pair of jeans and loafers, J I have provided for Florida State University in my gift and/or estate plans. catalogues” of colleges. At the time he was a and conducted the interview in a casual, J Please send information about the James E. Westcott Legacy Society of Florida State high-school student in Libya and Spain, but competent, manner. University’s President Club. where his father was in the U.S. Air Force. “Because of recent history with this After graduating in 1962, Smith spent department—openness with the press Name ______two years in the military and then attended problems—I felt I had to go to the meeting,” Address ______City ______State ______Zip ______law school, first at the University of he said. “I think if you want to be in politics, Phone ______Fax ______Tennessee and then at Stetson. you ought to be accessible to the media.” E-Mail______After college, he practiced law briefly in As for a future in elective office, Smith South Florida, but was drawn back to the kind of, sort of, says no. Please send this form to: politics of Tallahassee. “I’m 100 percent cured from running for Office of Planned Giving “I was intrigued by state government,” elective office,” he said. Then, acknowledg- Florida State University Foundation, Inc. he said. “The rest of it is kind of history.” ing that his return has been heralded, he left 225 University Center, Building C, Suite 3100 That “kind-of history” is long and a sliver of an opening for his future. Tallahassee, Florida 32306-2660 loaded with accomplishments. “Let’s wait till it’s all over,” he said. Telephone: (850) 644-6000 Fax: (850) 644-6211 e-mail: [email protected] Smith’s first Cabinet post was serving — Dana Peck

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Consultants, wrote an essay in the Robert H. Dedman, 76 book, “Taking the Initiative,” by J. Russell Reaver, 86 D’Alemberte wants more time $7-million gift from the Howard R. Ernst. Heritage Award for Robert and Nancy Dedman for FSU projects he started his research, writing Foundation made it possible 1980 - 1989 and teaching about for FSU’s hospitality adminis- Jeff Sluman (A.A. ‘80) won the Greater folklore at FSU. tration department to become Milwaukee Open golf tournament in “He is, and has the Dedman School of July. It was Sluman’s sixth PGA Tour vic- been for more than 50 Hospitality in October 2001. tory and the biggest paycheck of his years, an outstanding The school is part of the uni- career at $558,000. Sluman played advocate for the study versity’s College of Business. golf at FSU. and advancement of “There were so many our state’s folk cul- Lynne Thomas Winston (J.D. ‘83) was employees of our company ture,” Gregory Han- named inspector general of the Florida who were educated at Florida sen of the state Bureau Department of Juvenile Justice in July. State that he appreciated pro- Alumni Association of Historic Preserva- grams there, and how Elinor H. Grabar (B.S. ‘85) has an exhibit tion, said of Dr. Reaver employees contributed to the of photographs of Florida seasides in last year in recom- , FSU success of the company,” said J. Russell Reaver the Florida State Capitol Meeting mending him for the n

vey Taylor, who is also an execu- Room and in the new office of the J. Russell Reaver, 86, a professor emeri- Folk Heritage Award. “A pioneering tive vice president of

police department until October 7. Photo Lab tus in the FSU English department and an Florida folklorist, he is one of our state’s d Ster ClubCorp. expert on Florida’s folk culture, died Aug. foremost cultural advocates.” Maj. Frank S. Dougherty (B.S. ‘87) com- When Dedman visited Bayar 2. A native of Phoenixville, Pa., he earned pleted a master of science degree in FSU’s campus last fall, most Dr. Reaver established the first course a bachelor’s degree at Miami University in Sandy D’Alemberte tutoring an elementary school student health service administration at Central yals Lee/FSU of his time was spent interact- R in folklore at FSU. He also wrote and pub- Oxford, Ohio, and a master’s and Ph.D. at blend in with the historic old buildings, Michigan University. ing with students, said Robert (Continued from page 1) Robert H. Dedman lished numerous books and articles on the Ohio State. greatly increased the faculty, including a trees are planted and sculptures are Bosselman, director of the Julie A. Bowland (B.F.A. ‘89), an often- subjects of folklore, humanities and He taught at the Citadel and the record number of new professors with installed throughout the outdoor places. Robert H. Dedman, a generous sup- Dedman School of Hospitality. exhibited landscape artist, has started American and English literature. University of Illinois and came to FSU in international reputations as scholars. Before he became a university presi- porter of Florida State University’s “His whole philosophy was to give at Valdosta State University as a gallery Dr. Reaver received the 2002 Folk 1947. Under D’Alemberte, FSU has moved dent, D’Alemberte had several other distin- Dedman School of Hospitality, died [in back,” Bosselman said. “He felt he’d been Compiled by Kathy Har director and art professor. ahead quickly with technological advances, guished careers, beginning with a success- August] from a long illness. He was 76. given so much in life that he wanted to give offering distance learning to growing num- ful law practice. “I have seen Robert talk with senators, back.” 1990 - 1999 bers of students with different needs and He was one of a well known group of and I’ve seen him talk with maintenance Dedman was chairman of the Jean Sheddan Downing (B.S. ‘91) will join using technology in almost magic ways for reform legislators who made substantial 1950 - 1959 workers,” said Terry Taylor, a spokesman ClubCorp board of directors at the time of the law office of Rhonda S. Clyatt (B.S. research. changes in Florida in the late ‘60s and early Herbert F. Reinhard Jr. (B.S. ‘57, M.S. ‘60) for the Dedman family. “He treated each his death. ‘79, J.D. ‘82) in Panama City. He opened centers on civic service and ‘70s. He was chairman of the Florida gave the commencement address at with the same level of dignity and respect Among its golf properties are: human rights and launched several other Commission on Ethics in the mid ‘70s, dean Slippery Rock University in Pennsylva- Scott T. Wright (B.S. ‘94) is national sales and humor and was genuine in his appre- Pinehurst, the Village of Pinehurst, N.C.; research, arts and service projects. of the FSU College of Law in the late ‘80s nia and was awarded President manager for WCTV Channel 6, the CBS ciation for each.” Firestone Country Club, Akron, Ohio; and D’Alemberte has also taken care of the and president of the American Bar Emeritus status by the council of affiliate in Tallahassee. Dedman, a Dallas businessman, phi- Indian Wells Country Club, Indian Wells, beauty of the campus. New buildings now Association in 1991-92. trustees. lanthropist and entrepreneur, was founder Calif. Jennifer Morgan (B.A. ‘95) is an associate of ClubCorp Inc., the world’s largest owner In an interview on the 45th anniversary at the law firm of Barnes, Richardson 1960 - 1969 and operator of golf courses, private clubs of ClubCorp in 2002, Dedman said he and Colburn in New York City. In Memoriam Mary “Bebe” Fearnside (B.S. ‘62) was and resorts. would like to be remembered as “a giver, given the “Nancy D. Thomas Holly Rice Feliciano (B.S. ‘96) received a He also was a major financial support- not as a taker.” —Reprinted from the 1920 - 1929 Collaboration Award” by the One Goal er of FSU and some Texas universities. A Master of Arts from the College of Tallahassee Democrat, by Kim McCoy Maude E. Cone (L.I. ‘26) Conference for Early Childhood Education at San Jose State University. Educators in Tampa in July. The award Ray Green Jr. is given annually for sustained state- Kez McCorvey (B.S. ‘95) is director of oper- 1930 - 1939 wide effort to promote and maintain ations for Titus Sports Academy in ple heard of him, Marjorie Anderson Doran (B.A. ‘33), Claudia Martin Ayer (L.I. ‘34), Evelyn collaboration among programs and Tallahassee. McCorvey was drafted by which is good,” said Clark Reeves (B.A. ‘34, M.A. ‘55) agencies serving young children. the Detroit Lions and played three sea- Homer Ooten, who sons in the NFL. He also played in the worked with him at Larry W. Thompson (B.S. ‘62), founder Canadian Football League. FSU. “With his job, 1940 - 1949 and former president of the Seattle the only time people Mary Cotton Schatzman (B.A. ‘43), Mildred Sadlon Warner (B.S. ‘44), Seminole Club, has moved to Largo, Diana M. Orrick (B.S. ‘96) wrote a guest said something is Harriett Dews Cluster (B.A. ‘48) Fla., with his wife, Windy, and their two column for “The Profession” entitled, when something children. “Toward Adequate Online Privacy Safeguards,” published in IEEE maga- was wrong.” 1950 - 1959 Dr. Steven J. Schang Jr. (B.S. ‘64) practices zine “Computer,” volume 35, number But the people ViJeanne Ellis Miller (B.A. ‘50), Marjorie Hiatt Kynes (B.S. ‘51), Betty J. cardiology in Pensacola and is chief of 8, August 2002. who worked with Atchley (B.S. ‘52), Dr. Floyd I. Brownley Jr. (Ph.D. ‘52), Addie Rushton Lewis the cardiology section on internal med- him remember him, (M.S. ‘53), Gerald P. Everton (B.S. ‘57), Tom B. Overstreet (B.S. ‘58), George Brian C. Anweiler (B.S. ‘97, M.S. 2000) is icine at Sacred Heart Hospital. Ooten said. E. Lambros (B.S. ‘59), Sarah F. Monroe (B.S. ‘59) Tallahassee Community College’s new “He was fair, Stanley L. Ulanski (B.S. ‘68, M.S. ‘71) is a athletic director. He will monitor TCC’s honest and trust- geology professor at James Madison compliance with state and NJCAA reg- worthy. He was the 1960 - 1969 University and avid fly-fisherman. ulations, coordinate fund-raising proj- classic Southern Dr. Joseph F. Metcalf (M.S. ‘62, Ph.D. ‘74), John A. Chaffin (M.S. ‘64), Sara M. ects and conduct graduate exit inter- gentlemen. He never “Madge” Adams Groover (B.S. ‘64), Dewey C. Crosby Jr. (B.S. ‘65), William E. 1970 - 1979 views. Ray Green Jr. yelled or screamed, Blakeley (B.S. ‘67), Michael J. Kelly (B.S. ‘67) Victoria Box Emmons (B.A. ‘72) is director but he expected the of development and communications Adam A. Faurot (B.S. ‘97) is CEO of Titus Ray Green Jr. did a good job during his best and insisted on it.” for Alliance for Community Care, a Sports Academy in Tallahassee. He is a 1970 - 1979 long career at FSU. As a result, not many, Mr. Green was in the U.S. Navy during nonprofit agency serving people with former FSU baseball player and spent even on campus, knew his name. World War II and served 20 years in the Daniel H. Murphey (B.S. ‘70), Janett Spraggins Martin (B.S. ‘72), Kenneth R. mental illness. five years in the minors in the Miller (M.M. ‘72), Dr. Nicholas E. Gaymon (A.M. ‘73, Ph.D. ‘75), Dennis W. Milwaukee Brewers and Boston Red As director of the physical plant and Naval Reserves. He graduated from the university planning for 30 years—from U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1945 Pollock (B.S. ‘77), Suzanne Shoemaker Hill (B.S. ‘79) Diahann W. Lassus (B.S. ‘76) is practition- Sox organizations. 1949 to 1979—Mr. Green was in charge of and received a B.S. in civil engineering er and president of Lassus Wherley & Jason P. Mooney (B.A. ‘99) has received his keeping the physical plant in good opera- from North Carolina State University in Associates, a wealth-management firm 1990 - 1999 commission as a naval officer after tion. As long as everything worked well, he 1949. Shawn M. King (B.S. ‘92), Kendrick M. Laguardia (‘94) with offices in New Providence, N.J., completing Officer Candidate School drew no attention from the public. In Tallahassee, he had been a member and Naples, Fla. at Naval Aviation Schools Command, He died in Tallahassee July 26. of the Rotary Club and the First Church of STUDENTS Doug M. Guetzloe (B.S. ‘78), a political Naval Air Station, Pensacola. “Ray did a great job, but not many peo- Christ Scientist. Christopher J. Fugate (‘02) consultant with Advantage

14 / October 2002 October 2002 / 15 Zollar’s teaching seeks to break through the mask and If a good story leaps off the page, does audiences weren't used to seeing dances her limbs and torso that her floor-skim- you know"—sage advice that became the The Florida State TWritingimes has published four winning contest essays by alumni. The essayswinners below are the third-place winners. a good dance leap off the stage? that might combine stripped-down mod- ming leaps cover yards, and her mobile rib title of an hour-long segment of Free to Most definitely, if Jawole Willa Jo Zollar ern dance movement ("no affectations," cage seems untethered from her spine. Dance, a PBS Dance in America special. and her six Urban Bush Women are the Zollar says), African ritual, Caribbean Zollar's role in the company is no Not until her bachelor's study at The Snake and the Man in the Santa Claus Suit leapers—who also spin, kick, shake, sing, styles, hip hop, street games, jump rope, longer full-out dancing, but you wouldn't University of Missouri/Kansas City did by Earlynn Vance Grant, Class of 1954 shout and tell stories like the famous, rule- club dancing, bursts of a capella song, on- know it watching her teach. In a class at she discover modern dance and take ballet, I am the younger daughter of Earl L. Dr. Bellamy was a great friend of ours. breaking dance troupe they are. stage percussion, brilliant improvisation FSU, she demonstrates (and repeats and and though she reveled in her dance major, Vance, who taught at FSCW/FSU from Among his extraordinary talents were Art that gets off the stage and into and Zollar on a stool telling her own arrest- repeats) a long sequence including "ice she kept true to what she knew. 1928 until 1974. He was the founder of the those of a superb naturalist, and the matter everyday life is what Jawole Zollar set out ing stories. skater" turns, direction shifts, quick jumps, "Everybody was so neurotic about their School of Journalism there and was for of a gigantic, venomous reptile in a friend’s to create more than 20 years ago. Her vision But first things first. Zollar is a dancer; backward shuffle-kicks, and a final, one- bodies. I suddenly became aware of this many years its head. car was no problem. began taking shape when she was a gradu- dance starts with the body; and every cho- legged relevé balance (on the toes). She whole idea that my body wasn't right. But One day in the mid-thirties, several Using a piece of string and a forked ate student in FSU's top-ranked dance reographer starts with her own. looks free. The young dancers (incredibly the African idea is that you celebrate your- FSCW professors, my father among them, stick he was soon calmly leading the dead- department in the late Jawole (JAH woe skillful, plus enthralled) look posed. self through movement." were quail hunting and chanced upon an ly beast up the hill along College Avenue, '70s. In 1984, in the form of lay) Willa Jo Zollar, 51, Zollar sees it: "What I'm getting is too Urban Bush Women is a terrific name. enormous diamondback rattlesnake. After through the gates in front of Westcott, and a company named Urban is small, compact, clean. You're showing me shapes. Be fluid. "I think of our name in the sense of 'bush' as beating it with sticks, they decided to take it on to the biology laboratory. Bush Women, it took New powerfully low to the Listen to the jazz. Get into its weight." They incredibly dense, tangled growth; deep for- home to show their children. It was just at the time of the morning York dance by storm. The ground—yet anything do. est. Growing up in the inner city, I was also My father slung it over the barrel of the when students were hurrying to their first same exuberant vision d but earthbound. So Zollar grew up in urban Kansas City, in a dense, thickly populated place, rough. gun he carried on his shoulder, and they all class of the day, and the sight of Dr. Bellamy brought her back to much suppleness and Missouri. Her upbringing rooted her But people tried to make gardens out of it. walked the mile or so back to his car. After leading his dreadful “pet” along the side- Florida State in 1996 as strength lie coiled in deeply in African American art and tradi- When they did, it became something else stowing the body of the snake in the trunk walk stopped them in their tracks. artist-in-residence and Ray Stanyar tions. Because her entirely. of the car, my father drove to the home of When the snake reached its destination professor. mother had been a "I call the process diving for pearls. The one of his colleagues, who called his chil- in the biology department, it was dis- "I love teaching,” she dancer and singer journey down into yourself and life's prob- dren to see the huge snake. patched with chloroform. I suppose the stu- says. “ I'm good at nurtur- and played piano, lems is dangerous; you can get stuck. But When the car trunk was opened, the dents also studied what was truly a remark- ing creative talent, pulling out of peo- Jawole at a young going into that muck is how UBW finds snake was alive! After taking the other men able reptilian specimen, and then someone ple what they don't know they have, age took dance each work." to their houses and showing their families skinned it and returned its skin to my par- breaking through the mask." classes in a com- Nancy Smith Fichter, retired head of the the monster, my father returned home. I ents. If you haven't been lucky enough munity center. She dance department, who watched the stu- remember what was in the trunk of our Dr. Bellamy was a many-sided genius: to see Urban Bush Women (UBW), learned Afro-Cu- dent Jawole's "exact and striking" works car—a long, thick snake with its tongue great teacher, sociologist, poet, artist, excel- live or on television, whatever you're ban dance that and lured her back to teach, believes darting in and out and its tail making a dry, lent cook, horticulturist, humorist, creator imagining right now doesn't do them was all about tim- Zollar's art "addresses the human condi- rattling sound. It gazed at us with eyes that of the most astounding quilts I’ve ever seen justice. As New York Newsday's critic d ing, flow, pure tion and so it is full of wit and grief and were cold and decidedly unfriendly. and a kind, caring, very lovable human put it: "given the breadth and freedom movement. silliness and depth, and always compas- My father drove the snake to the home being. Raymond Bellamy, the man in the of their art…Urban Bush Women are Jawole's moth- sion. Her choreography reflects the person

of Dr. Raymond E. Bellamy, the man for Santa Claus suit at our annual Christmas in a category unto themselves." Ray Stanyar er sent her onstage herself." —Condensed from Research in whom the Bellamy Building is named. parties, was truly a Renaissance Man. Breadth is right. Early New York Jawole Willa Jo Zollar with "Go for what Review, by Ellen Ashdown DORMS, DISRUPTIONS AND DOGWOODS

By Lucy Fuchs, M.S. ‘73

I was at Florida State University from just to go to the beach. Idealism is never 1969-1971, working on a master’s degree in quite all it is cracked up to be. sociology. At the same time, I worked as a As a residence counselor, I was much residence counselor at Cawthon Hall. involved in all of this, meeting with stu- Those were the days of the student protests dents and groups often late at night. Dorm against the War in Vietnam. I, along with meetings were usually held at midnight, thousands of others, marched on the cam- the only time we could get together. pus and on the streets of Tallahassee, carry- The dorms were the battle grounds of ing candles and singing the Battle Hymn of other changes around the country at uni- the Republic, calling for an end to the war. versities. Some of the dorms, including Protests of all kinds took place during Cawthon, were to become coed. Someone, those two years. in a published article, called the dorms Most of my classes were held in “Taxpayers’ Whorehouses.” Bellamy Hall and nearly every week, there Students reacted in a number of ways, would be a bomb threat. Finally a decision sometimes funny and sometimes border- was made. At the beginning of each class, ing on obscenity. For my part, as counselor the professor would announce where we of the dorm, some called me the Madam. would meet if there was a bomb threat, Interesting, was my response, so where is usually outside under a tree. No classes the money I should be making? would be stopped. I was engrossed in it all, in my studies, But of course they were stopped. It was in daily meetings and frequent conflicts, hard to discuss social problems or systems but the dogwoods were in bloom, and I analysis outside with bugs crawling on our was in love. One eventful day I met Frank, legs and laughing students passing by. and he still is with me today, 30 years later. Still, the War in Vietnam was no joke, I consider myself fortunate to have and repercussions were real. Four students been at a university during those times, were killed at Kent State, and students all being involved with students while study- over the United States quickly responded. ing sociology. Nothing could have made At FSU, student leaders often called strikes my learning more practical. Years later I on classes. hear some young people idealize those For every student who was sincere years and wish they had been there. about skipping class to protest the war, Maybe, maybe not. All I can say is I was there were perhaps 10 who skipped class there.

16 / October 2002