SEPTEMBER 27 OCT O BER 11 JA N UARY 31 MARCH 13 Martin Dyckman Michael Grunwald Les Standiford John F. Marszalek St. Petersburg Times, Retired TIME Magezine Professor of English, Giles Distingished Professor of History, Florida International University Mississippi State University, Retired “LER O Y Coll I ns : Flo RIDA N of HI S CE N TURY ” “THE SW AMP : THE EVERG L ADE S ” “HE N RY FL AG L ER : LA S T TRAI N T O PARADI S E ” “THE PETTIC O AT Aff AIR : MA nn ER S A N D SEX I N AN DRE W JACK son ’S WHITE HO U S E ” Long considered the for his work, including the A native of Greenvale, N. reporting. In 2006, Simon Les Standiford is the Humanities. Last Train to A graduate of Canisius Washington Post, and USA dean of Florida political distinguished service award Y. and graduate of Harvard & Schuster published his best-selling author of 14 Paradise was read coast to College and the University Today. journalists, Martin of the Florida Society of College in 1992, Michael first book, The Swamp: The books, including the novels coast on NPR by Dick Estell, of Notre Dame, John F. He is a popular lecturer Dyckman reported on Newspaper Editors, the Grunwald is an award- Everglades, Florida, and Bone Key and Havana the Radio Reader, and was Marszalek taught at Gannon and has appeared on ABC, Florida government and Silver Gavel of the American winning reporter and the Politics of Paradise, Run. He has also authored one of the History Channel’s University, before coming to CBS, CNN, and NBC politics for the St. Petersburg Bar Association, the writer. Grunwald worked which won the Florida Book critically acclaimed works “top ten” picks. Meet You in Mississippi State University Television, the Arts and for the Boston Globe and the Award’s Gold Medal for of non-fiction,Last Train Hell was Crown publisher’s in 1973. A specialist in Entertainment Television Times for more than forty Associated Press Managing Washington Post, and is now Non-Fiction. Mike lives to Paradise: Henry Flagler 2005 nominee for the the U. S. Civil War, the Network, C-SPAN, C-SPAN years. Joining the Times Editors Association public a senior correspondent for in Miami Beach with his and the Spectacular Rise National Book Award and Jacksonian Period, and race 2, Showtime Television, staff soon after graduating service award, and the TIME magazine. He has wife, Cristina Dominguez, and Fall of the Railroad the Pulitzer Prize. A native relations, he is the author the History Channel, the from Florida State Medal of Honor Award of won the George Polk Award a former attorney who now that Crossed an Ocean and Ohioan, he is a graduate of or editor of thirteen books Voice of America and University, he served as the the Florida Bar Foundation. for national reporting, the runs a Marimekko boutique, Meet You in Hell: Andrew Muskingum College and and over 250 articles and Mississippi Public Radio. He newspaper’s Tallahassee Since retirement Dyckman Worth Bingham Prize for and their Boston terriers, Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick earned M. A. and Ph. D. book reviews. His most is the recipient of numerous news bureau chief from has put his journalism skills investigative reporting, Shamu and Candy. and the Bitter Partnership degrees from the University well-known books are teaching and literary awards, 1969-76. Admired for his to work in writing history and the Society of that Transformed America. of Utah. He is Professor of Sherman, A Soldier’s Passion including the Richard investigative journalism and and biography. His first Environmental Journalists He has received the Barnes English and Director of the for Order (1993); The Wright Literary Award and hard-hitting commentaries, effort is the award-winning award for in-depth & Noble Discover Great Creative Writing Program Petticoat Affair: Manners, the B.L.C. Wailes Award Dyckman’s reporting Floridian of His Century: New Writers Award, at Florida International Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew for national distinction in uncovered numerous The Courage of Governor NO VEMBER 15 and the Frank O’Conner University in Miami, where Jackson’s White House history. Marszalek is married Award for Short Fiction, (1998); and Commander scandals and ethical lapses LeRoy Collins. Currently he he lives with his wife, to the former Jeanne Kozmer, and Fellowships from the Kimberly, a psychotherapist, of All Lincoln’s Armies, A and they have three sons and in state government. In is at work on a biography Stuart Mc Iver National Endowment for and their three children, Life of General Henry W. three grandchildren. the early 1970s Dyckman’s of former Florida governor Author, Lighthouse Point, Florida the Arts and the National Jeremy, Hannah, Halleck (2004), all History investigative journalism Reubin Askew. His “DEATH I N THE EVERG L ADE S - Endowment for the and Alexander. Book Club selections. His exposed a corruption forthcoming work, A Most THE SL AYI N G of GUY BRAD L EY ” publications have been the and ethics scandal on the Disorderly Court: Scandal FEBRUARY 28 subject of major news stories *Annual Stahl Lecture Florida Supreme Court. and Reform in the Florida in Crimal Justice in national newspapers After a brief stint in the Judiciary, will be released in David H. Jackson including the New York Times’s Washington bureau, 2008. Dykeman and his wife, Times, Wall Street Journal, A graduate of the of which, Alligator, won Florida A&M University he returned to Florida in Ivy, reside in Waynesville, University of North a Silver Medal at the 1979 to join the paper’s North Carolina. Carolina and native of Venice (Italy) Film Festival. editorial board. Dyckman the Tarheel state, Stuart His other books include “Boo KER T. WA S HI N GT on CO ME S T O Flo RIDA ” has won numerous awards McIver is the author of Hemingway’s Key West 14 books and nearly 500 and the Florida Chronicles magazine articles. Before Series: Dreamers, Schemers, moving to Florida in 1962, and Scalawags; Murder in A highly sought-after Jackson won the Rattler Banks of Mississippi agencies, including the McIver worked at the the Tropics; and Touched public speaker, Atlanta Pride award for Community (Gainesville, 2002), Florida National Register Greensboro Daily News, the by the Sun. McIver edited native, David Jackson holds Leadership and the FAMU Retrieving the American Review Board and the Florida Charlotte News, and the the South Florida Historical degrees from Florida A Teacher of the Year Award, Past (2003), and Go Sound Historical Commission. He Baltimore Sun. Mclver’s Magazine for 22 years and & M (B. S. and M. S.) and and was named Advanced the Trumpet! Selections in is currently Chairman of latest book is Death in the is a former president of from the University of Teacher of the Year in 2006. Florida’s African American the Board of Directors for Everglades, the story of the Florida Chapter of the Memphis(Ph. D.). Before He has published over History (Tampa, 2005). He the John G. Riley House the murder of Audubon Mystery Writers of America joining the FAMU faculty a dozen scholarly articles is currently at work on a Museum and Cultural Center warden Guy Bradley in1905. and the Writers Network Jackson worked in private and presented papers at book-length study of Booker in Tallahassee. Jackson His fascination with the of South Florida. McIver industry and as a high school numerous professional T. Washington’s southern and his wife, Sheila, live in Everglades dates back to the and his wife, Joan, are the teacher, earning accolades conferences. He is the travels from 1908 to 1912. Tallahassee with their two 1960s when he was active parents of five children and as Memphis City School author or co-author of Dr. Jackson has served as children, David III and Daja. in writing and producing live in Lighthouse Point, just system’s “Most Influential AChief Lieutenant of the an historical consultant to documentary films, one north of Fort Lauderdale. Teacher” for two years. Tuskegee Machine: Charles many organizations and ORIGI NATED I N 2001 SPECIA L THA N K S THE CE N TER fo R Flo RIDA HI S T O RY AT Flo RIDA Dr. Anne B. Kerr, President of Florida Southern College 2007 2008 SO UTHER N Coll EGE S TRIVE S T O E N HA N CE THE TEACHI N G , Dr. Susan P. Conner, Vice President for Academic Affairs Schedule S TUDY , A N D W RITI N G of Flo RIDA HI S T O RY . and Dean of the College THE CE N TER S EEK S T O PRE S ERVE THE S TATE ’S PA S T Lee Mayhall, Vice President for College Relations SEPTEMBER 27 THR O UGH C oo PERATIVE E ffo RT S W ITH HI S T O RICA L Dr. Robert H. Tate, Vice President for Advancement MARTI N DYCKMA N so CIETIE S , PRE S ERVATI on GR O UP S , MU S EUM S , PUB L IC “Leroy Collins: Floridian of His Century” PR O GRAM S , MEDIA A N D I N TERE S TED PER sons , A N D THR O UGH David Clarke, International Video Projects, Inc. OCT O BER 11 C on DUCTI N G TRAI N I N G fo R Flo RIDA HI S T O RY fo R S CH ool The Annual Robert and Rose Stahl Criminal Justice MICHAE L GRU nw A L D TEACHER S . THI S U N IQUE CE N TER I S N EITHER A L IBRARY no R “The Swamp: The Everglades” A MU S EUM ; IT I S A so URCE of C on TI N UI N G I nfo RMATI on Lecture honors the memory of Robert and Rose Stahl.