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think and how todeal with differentkinds of people.

The result hasbeen profitable: Hehas a successfulcareer selling bondsin New York and afull personal life—wife, children, trav-el, fishing and yoga,to name a few of thepleasures.

Now he’s send-ing some of the profits—time,thought and money—back to

Florida State. He’s joined theBoard of Trustees and given regu-lar annual contributions, andnow he’s given $1 million instocks and bonds to undergradu-ate scholarships.

“They [FSU] gave me a solideducation, taught me how to dealwith different kinds of people,”he said in May. “They taught meto think, and I wanted to givesomething back to them.”

He put no restrictions on thegift.

“I let Sandy do what he thinksis right,” he said, referring to FSU

President Sandy D’Alemberte.D’Alemberte decided to use

the money in some of the depart-ments with great academic poten-tial and too little money.

“While some departments,such as the College of Business,receive generous contributionsevery year,” D’Alemberte said,“others, such as philosophy,math, history and physics, maynot get major gifts.”

So now they have a major giftfrom Ford, who graduated fromFSU in 1968 with a double major

Successful N.Y. broker thanks FSU for his education

David Ford

Florida State’s medical studentsdon’t seem to worry about hiringmore faculty, constructing build-

ings, getting accreditation and the otherstart-up chores that have the full attentionof the administration of the new Collegeof Medicine.

The students do talk about why theywant to be doctors.

There are 70 of them now (30 of lastyear’s freshmen and 40 new ones thisyear). They’re all Floridians. The Collegeof Medicine selection committee requiresit, although—or perhaps because—almost 90 percent of Florida’s newlicensed physicians are from outside thestate.

And the selection committeehas looked for students who wantto help the elderly, the poor, ruraland small-town people and oth-ers getting less medical care thanthey need.

The current students seem tofit that bill. Most of them, in fact,have already seen pain andworked to relieve it.

Aboy who loved science fiction and wanted toknow how toys work has grown into a man fasci-nated with the mysteries of life—and capable of

making a physics department one of the best in the country.To get from disassembling electric toys to experi-

menting with atoms, Kirby Kemper studied physics.Now he is chairman of the FSU physics department

and this year’s Robert O. Lawton DistinguishedProfessor. The Lawton honor is the highest that FSUawards to a faculty member.

“Some scholars may concentrate in one area, but Dr.Kemper does it all,” said Steve Edwards, FSU dean of thefaculties and himself a physics professor. “And he is ascholar with a world-wide reputation.”

That reputation has made students like Brian Roeder,23, want to come to FSU.

“I talked to him [Kemper]. He mentioned some very

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Three of Florida State's graduates have takencrucial roles in the resistance of the UnitedStates to the threats of terrorism. And a fourth,Marc Anderson, has given his life in a rescue

mission on the battlefield in Afghanistan.Dale Watson, a 1972 honors graduate, is leading the

counterterrorism and counterintelligence operations ofthe FBI.

Franklin Hagenbeck, who was an assistant foot-ball coach while he earned a master's degree at FSU,is in charge of the ground war in Afghanistan.

Eleanor Hill, an FSU law school graduate, is run-ning the investigation by Congress of the failures ofintelligence in the United States before Sept. 11.

Stories about Watson, Hagenbeck, Hill andAnderson are on pages 2 and 3.

… Dale Watson … Eleanor Hill … Franklin Hagenbeckin the FBI in Congress in battle

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Good wordsIt is very hard finding words that express

my love and appreciation for the part youhave played in making my 100th birthday thevery best birthday I have ever had. You havefilled my heart with joy… on the day I neverexpected would happen.

Love, FrancesFrances Horne MacKinnon

Glossy is goodPlease don’t accept the suggestion of

Susan Minnerly (March/April 2002) to printthe Florida State Times on regular newsprint

instead of glossy paper. It is such a pleasure toread such a classy publication on qualitypaper. It seems there are so many thingstoday that drive us to second best. Yes, firstclass costs more, but if you want to continueto have a first-class publication you have topay the price of excellence. Don’t reduce yourstandards to those of the common newspa-per! Sixty cents a copy is not exorbitant. Infact, it’s a small price to pay to present yourexcellent work to FSU graduates in a packageappropriate to the graduates of such a greatinstitution. Raise my dues if necessary, I’ll glad-ly pay, but don’t lower your standards.

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Letters to the Editor

Eleanor Hill was not lawmakers’ firstchoice to run the joint House-Senate

investigation into Sept. 11 intelligence fail-ures. Yet by all accounts, the soft-spokenbut relentless former Tampa federal prose-cutor should have been.

A former inspector general of theDefense Department with 15 years’ experi-ence working for Congress, the FSU gradu-ate has the breadth of experience to handlethis difficult job, observers say.

Her assignment: get to the bottom ofthe intelligence fiasco, juggling the interestsof the 37 members of the panel in a high-profile, high-pressure investigation.

“She’s also going to face all the classicobstacles anyone faces in investigating theintelligence agencies,” said lawyer JoeDiGenova, who helped investigate intelli-gence agencies in the ‘70s. “Are they going

After Sept. 11, the U.S. military forcesturned to a Florida State graduate

to lead the fight against perhaps the mostdangerous terrorists on earth.

Since ground troops arrived in theregion last winter, they have been under theleadership of Major General Franklin L.“Buster” Hagenbeck, commander of coali-tion ground forces in Afghanistan, andrecipient of a master’s degree in exercisephysiology from FSU in 1978.

Among his most important accomplish-ments was his role as commander ofOperation Anaconda, the U.S-led offensiveaimed at destroying the Al Qaeda strong-hold in eastern Afghanistan.

When the hunt for Taliban and AlQaeda members moved from precisionbombing attacks to a ground war lastMarch, the coalition forces turned toHagenbeck and his 10th MountainDivision, based at Fort Drum, N.Y.

During the month-long operation, U.S.

For several years, FSU graduate DaleWatson has been trying to change

the way things work at the FBI.It hasn’t been easy, not even to him, the

FBI’s top man in charge of fighting terror.But it’s more likely to happen since Sept.

11 than in the years before, when Watson’srecommendations went unheeded.

At 52, Watson is an unpretentious manwhose disciplined work habits werealready noticeable when he was earningacademic honors, holding a job, leading hisscholarship house and getting marriedwhile he was still in college in Tallahassee.

Now he has one of the top jobs in theFBI: executive assistant director of counter-terrorism and counterintelligence, justbelow Robert Mueller, the director.

And he finally has the go-ahead tomake his division the leader in a bureauthat has previously been best known forcatching criminals like bank robbers, drugsuppliers and car thieves.

Watson calls the FBI “a vocation onemust love.” In that vocation, he has had therole and the foresight to be ready when the

to tell you the truth? Are they going to acci-dentally lose documents? Are they going tohide people from you?”

[Hill was] hired by the inquiry’s co-chairmen, Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., andRep. Porter Goss, R-Sanibel.

“She’s tough as nails,” said AndreaGray, a spokeswoman for Sen. RichardShelby, R-Ala., vice chairman of the Senateintelligence panel.

Hill, 51, is married, with a son. She graduated magna cum laude from

FSU in 1972 and earned a law degree fromFSU’s College of Law two years later.

From 1975 to 1980 she was a federalprosecutor in Tampa.

Hill never lost any of the approximate-ly two dozen cases she tried in Tampa.

[In 1987, she became chief counsel ofthe historic Senate Government Affairs

As the story goes, David Anderson, adecorated veteran of Vietnam, looked at hisstrapping baby boy and thought he shouldbe named Marc Anthony, after the leg-endary warrior and statesman.

The name stuck, and Marc AnthonyAnderson grew up to be a scholar, a leaderamong athletes at Florida State University, ateacher and, ultimately, a legend as a sol-dier.

Whether young Anderson would havematured into a statesman will remainunknown. This March, the 30-year-oldRanger was gunned down while he wastrying to rescue a fellow soldier in easternAfghanistan.

“I’m proud of him,” his mother, Judith,told reporters. “He was a hero.”

Anderson always stood out from oth-ers. As a teenager in Alliance, Ohio, he set arecord for the shot put at his high school.

After high school, he moved toCleveland, Ohio, to attend Case WesternReserve University and play football.

But he soon transferred to FSU andmade his mark in discus throwing and shot

FSU grads—a fed, a soldier and a lawyer—

FBI had to make massive changes to protectthe country against more terror.

He started before most of us knew weneeded it. In 1999, Watson issued a reportrecommending the major elements that arenow in the FBI’s reorganization plan.

In June, after the FBI reorganizationwas announced, Watson said, “now we aremoving in the right direction.”

Under the new direction, announced byMueller in some detail on May 29, the FBIwill more than double the number of agentsassigned to counterterrorism, reassigningsome and recruiting more. The new agentswill include scientists, technicians and lin-guists fluent in Arabic and other foreignlanguages. A new unit at headquarters willwork with the field offices in putting piecesof information together and sharing themwith other agencies. The power of the FBI’scomputers will be vastly upgraded, and itwill be easier to conduct secret searches, getwarrants and tap electronic communica-tions. The reorganization also creates a “fly-ing squad” of investigators to drop into hotspots.

forces searched dozens of caves around theeastern Afghan city of Gardez under harshconditions that included 12,000-foot eleva-tions and freezing night temperatures.

Hagenbeck directed more than 2,000coalition troops, about half of them Afghanforces. About 800 to 900 U.S. troops wereinvolved in rooting well-armed enemytroops out of caves.

“If you look back six months ago beforeour involvement, there is much more safetyand security in this country than there wasunder the oppressive and barbaric rule of

Watson, responsible for all the FBI oper-ations against terrorism since 1999—and forportions of the anti-terror effort for yearsbefore that—has urged those changes in aseries of reports.

He said it became clear to him almost 10years ago, when the World Trade Centerwas bombed, that the bureau was illequipped to prevent terrorism.

In 1999, Watson was ready with a planto identify the agency’s weaknesses incounterterrorism, and cure them. His firstreport came out. Others followed.

According to the New York Times,Watson’s most recent report describing thebureau’s needs was submitted to top offi-cials to be used in requesting more money.But on Sept. 10, Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft’soffice rejected a proposed $58-millionincrease to pay for the FBI’s counterterror-ism programs.

The next day, the entire nation was sud-denly more inclined to give counterterror-ism what it needed.

• Congress made it easier to get searchwarrants and otherwise conduct investiga-tions of terrorism.

• The General Accounting Officeagreed that the FBI reorganization plan wasnecessary, the Washington Post reported.

• Watson’s boss, Mueller, and his boss,Ashcroft, went on television and describedthe reorganization of the FBI.

Watson watched the announcement onthe television in his office, pleased that atlast he would have the money and theapproval of his bosses to do the job he hasbeen wanting to do for several years.

It’s a job that FSU career counselorsdon’t recommend to everybody.

“Some people… think that the FBI willgive them the excitement,” said CatherineDuncan, an FSU academic coordinator. “Itell them this is not about excitement.”

It’s about discipline, organization,

the Taliban here, and I think for the largestpart of the country that is true,” Hagenbecktold the Washington Times in late April.

He continued to direct the groundforces after Operation Anaconda, includingdaily patrols under harsh conditions withdebilitating summer wind and dustswirling through the mountain region.

Hagenbeck was uniquely qualified forthe sudden need for military action inAfghanistan. His record includes infantry,air assault and politico-military affairs at thePentagon. His decorations are many.

Now a well-known name in militarycircles, during his days at FSU he wasknown simply as “Buster,” a name his sistergave him. He is still called Buster.

He was commissioned from the U.S.Military Academy in 1971. After five yearsin the Army, he got an opportunity to fulfilla childhood dream.

“Growing up in Jacksonville, I alwaysknew that Florida State was my first choiceof civilian schools,” Hagenbeck said.“When the military gave me the opportuni-ty to go to graduate school and return toWest Point to teach, FSU was the only placeI wanted to go.”

A skilled athlete, he played defensiveback and was a Golden Gloves boxer.

As a graduate assistant at Florida State,he helped defensive ends coach JimGladden during the 1977 season.

“Character is displayed in adversity,”he said. “What we try to do is set the condi-tions for the tough times to help them

Subcommittee on Investigations—of whichJoe McCarthy was chairman in the ‘50s andRobert Kennedy was later chief counsel.]

In that job, Hill oversaw investigationsinto health-insurance fraud, narcotics traf-ficking and organized crime. Her naturaltact helped her succeed, observers say.

In 1995, she became inspector generalof the Defense Department.

In the Sept. 11 investigation, successmay depend on how willing lawmakersare to let Hill “do it right and ask the toughquestions,” as DiGenova put it.

“When you have a joint investigationlike this, compromises are made becauseyou have to keep people happy,” he said.“A lot of people don’t want to look at thisquestion because we’re at war.”

—Condensed from the St. Petersburg Times,by Mary Jacoby

Dale Watson has a plan and the OK to make the FBI better at preventing terrorism

Watson, left, and George Tenet, director of the CIA, on Capital Hill in June.

Eleanor Hill and Congress investigating how 9/11 could happen

Buster Hagenbeck commands the ground war against the terrorists in Afghanistan

Marc Anderson, 30, was an outstanding student athlete, a teacher and a brave soldier

Marc Anthony Anderson

Afghan Interim Chairman (now President) Hamid Karzai, left, and Hagenbeck talk to10th Mountain Division soldiers.

respond in a positive way.”Hagenbeck was also grateful for the

chance to join Bobby Bowden’s staff in thecoach’s second year.

“I respect the way he teaches individualskills in a team sport to collectively getsomething done. Coach Bowden exempli-fies the team approach, a technique he’sused over and over through the years.”

He says that he and Bowden, who iswell known for his knowledge of militaryhistory and strategy, often shared conversa-tions and books on the subjects.

“Coaching football and leading in themilitary have many similarities,”Hagenbeck said. “The military is aboutdevelopment and subordinance, and in thesame way, football is about coaching andteaching young folks. The average age inthe army is 19 to 25, about the same agebracket as the football players.”

Hagenbeck’s everyday connection toFlorida State may be gone, but his commit-ment and interest are not.

“I have developed a great network offriends at FSU through the years,” he said.“I like to stay in touch with the AlumniAssociation and get to a game at least oncea year.”

The fact that two of his children havegraduated from FSU doesn’t hurt either —his son in 1991 and daughter in 1993.

“I have a great fondness for FSU, bothbefore and after my time there, and it con-tinues today. My kids help keep that alive.”— Dave Fiore

maturity and patience, Duncan said. “Theylook for people who can live by the rules.”

They found Watson, who had knownsince eighth grade that he wanted to be partof the FBI.

To get into the FBI, he said, “you couldeither be a lawyer or accountant or join themilitary.”

His father was a World War II Navyveteran. His two older brothers went toFlorida State from their hometown inGroveland, Fla., and then joined the mili-tary. So did he.

He was president of his scholarshiphouse. He married during his sophomoreyear and worked in the film library.

Richard Shook, the FSU audio-visualspecialist who was Watson’s work-studysupervisor, remembers him as a friendly,honest and “hard-working kid who alwaystalked serious about stuff — the kind of kidyou hated to see graduate because he wassomeone you wanted around.”

In 1972, after he graduated with distin-guished honors in social studies education,Watson served five and a half years in theArmy.

The Army opened the door to the FBI,and he became a special agent in 1978.Seven years later he was assigned a fieldsupervisory desk at the Washington fieldoffice, and in 1991 he became chief of theIran Unit, Counterterrorism Section.

After other jobs of increasing responsi-bility, including a stint as deputy chief of theCIA’s Counterterrorism Center, he took hiscurrent position.

“This is not an 8-to-5 job,” he said.“Why do we do what we do?” asked

Watson, who has five children. “I don’twant to look back and say I made a lot ofmoney. I just want to look back and say Ihave done something for my country. Iwant to make this place a better place forour children.” — Vida Volkert

put, placing ninth in the overall history ofthe sport at FSU.

“He was one of the guys who allowedus to win our first Atlantic CoastConference championship,” said TerryLong, FSU’s head coach of track and field.

Anderson was also a member of PhiDelta Theta and a star in academics. Hegraduated in mathematics in 1995 with a 4.0grade point average. He was that year’s“most outstanding student athlete.”

“He was a big, strong, fast, lovable,good-natured guy who was very bright,”Long said.

After college, Anderson became ateacher.

David Childress, a friend and colleagueat the Fort Myers Middle School Academy,said that Anderson taught because he lovedit. He tutored his students before and afterschool.

But Anderson found that his pay didn’tcover his bills. He had student loan debtsthat, when covered with his monthly teach-ing check, left little for him to live on.

The need for money, then, and family

tradition steered him toward the military.In addition to his father, Anderson’s

two brothers, Steve and John, had alsoserved as military men.

Anderson signed up, but not for a rou-tine job that would be safe.

He trained as a member of the Rangers,a special operations force at Hunter ArmyAirfield near Savannah. As a Ranger, Spc.

Marc Anderson volunteered to be put inharm’s way, transported to any battlefieldwith 18 hours notice.

“I don’t know what led him into specialforces,” Long said, “maybe the same chal-lenges that are in sports.”

Whatever the motive, Anderson trainedsuccessfully as a Ranger attached to the 1stBattalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, for athree-year commitment.

Two months before his duty ended,Anderson found himself in an MH-47Chinook helicopter flying over snow-capped mountains in eastern Afghanistan.

His mission was to recover a NavySEAL who had fallen from a helicopter intoenemy hands and had been killed.

Enemy fire opened and Anderson wasgunned down. In all, the United States lostseven soldiers on the rescue mission.

Anderson received the Bronze Star andPurple Heart posthumously. His body wascarried in a silver casket in a military funer-al in St. Petersburg. He was buried in theFlorida National Cemetery in Bushnell.

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Correcting a wrongIn the last edition of

the Florida State times ithad incorrectly labeledmy book, “An Executionof Honor,” as a war novel.

“An Execution ofHonor” is an internationalthriller, portions of whichare set in Tallahassee; ofparticular interest to FSU

graduates is that some of the characters areNoles. ...

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ment produces changes in rivers.Gelb, an assistant professor of

chemistry, will receive $433,000 tostudy “Multi-Scale Modeling ofSol-Gel Materials.” He will try todevelop new ways to simulate thepreparation of sol-gel materialsand other real substances by

developing computer models and algo-rithms.

O’Brien praised by RutgersFSU meteorologist

James O’Brien was in-ducted into the RutgersHall of DistinguishedAlumni in May.

O’Brien is director ofthe FSU Center forOcean-AtmosphericPrediction Studies. He isalso the state climatol-ogist of Florida.

He is known best forexpertise on El Niño, the phenomenon thatoccurs when unusually warm water formsin the Eastern Pacific off the coast of SouthAmerica, affecting global ecosystems and jetstream location.

Sharing the weatherThe students can watch the profession-

als at work. The professionals can take aclass or teach one. It’s all pretty convenientnow that the National Weather Service andthe FSU department of meteorology aresharing a building. They moved in togetherin February.

It’s a brand-new hurricane-resistantbuilding, an addition to the James Jay LoveBuilding on Palmetto Drive.

The Tallahassee Weather Forecast officeis responsible for forecasts and warnings ina 120-mile radius of Tallahassee.

Student advocate honoredSteve Uhlfelder, a member of the FSU

Board of Trustees, was scheduled in July toreceive the first "Let Talent Shine" awardfrom College Summit, a national non-profitorganization that works to help low-incomestudents go to colleges and universities.

"Steve is an incredible champion ofCollege Summit," said Susan Bross, CollegeSummit's communication manager.

Uhlfelder has advocated changes in therankings of colleges, so that the scores ofstudents admitted will be less crucial.

More important in evaluating the quali-ty of colleges, he said, is the number of stu-dents who get financial aid and the reten-tion in college of students who receivefinancial aid.

Uhlfelder is chairman of Florida Gov.Jeb Bush's Mentoring Initiative and formerchairman of the Florida Board of Regents.

Thagard to train touristsNorman Thagard, an associate

dean of the FAMU-FSU College ofEngineering — who in 1994 spenta record 215 days in space with aRussian crew on the MIR mission— plans to train civilians beforethey travel to outer space.

Thagard, a physician, an aviator and anengineer as well as a college administrator,was hired by SpaceAdventures, the Virginiacompany that is sendingmillionaire tourists onspace travels.

Two tourists havealready made the flights,Dennis Tito of Californiaand Mark Shuttleworthof South Africa.

“These are no ordi-nary folks,” explainedThagard, who retiredfrom NASA in 1996 andcame back to FSU as an engineering profes-sor. “These are wealthy people who canafford to pay $20 million for a flight to outerspace.”

Thagard said he will go to a base inRussia and train the travelers in space sur-vival.

He will teach them how to operate thespaceship’s food, water and toilet systems,he said. They will not be taught how to walkon the moon, repair the station or conductresearch.

Thagard said the new job won’t affecthis responsibilities at FSU.

“They only hire me to go there for a cou-ple of days, for training a week or maybetwo weeks in a whole year,” said Thagard,who participated in five space flights withNASA, totaling more than 140 days inspace.

Originally from Marianna, he has abachelor’s and a master’s degree from FSUand an MD from the University of TexasSouthwestern Medical Center.

Tuition increasesBeing a student at FSU has just gotten

costlier.The FSU Board of Trustees in July raised

tuition as high as the Legislature allows.The Legislature required the state's 11

public universities to raise tuition this yearat least 10 percent for out-of-state studentsand 5 percent for in-state students. But itallowed universities to raise graduate andout-of-state tuition more.

The increases at FSU this fall will be 5percent for in-state undergraduate students,10 percent for in-state graduate students and20 percent for all out-of-state students.

Before the hikes, for a 12-hour class load,in-state undergraduate students paid $1,005per semester, not including fees. This fallthey will pay $1,074 per semester.

Out-of-state undergraduate studentspaid $4,160 per semester for 12 hours. Nowthey will pay $4,891.

An in-state graduate student last yearwas paying $166 per credit hour and thisyear will pay $183. An out-of-state graduatestudent was paying $573 per credit hour

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C O M P R E S S I O NC O M P R E S S I O N exciting opportunities working innuclear physics and connectionswith laboratories in Europe —France for instance — and Idecided that I wanted to workwith him.”

And now Roeder, a graduatestudent, is working with Kemperon a project that involves usinglasers to polarize nuclei.

“He is not only a hard work-ing and dedicated person, but healways makes himself availableto the students,” Roeder said.“Physics could get very compli-cated, but he has a way to put

things in simple ways that peoplecan understand.”

Kemper was born in LongIsland in 1940. Because his fatherwas in the Navy, Kemper said, he“never lived more than 20 milesaway from the ocean.”

It was in Jacksonville, one ofthose posts not far from theocean, that Kemper in his earlyteens discovered his true passionfor science. He spent hours in thepublic library reading science fic-tion and dreaming about being aNavy scientist.

He already had a curiosity forscience and engineering.

Lawton professor—Kemper—is the reason some students come to FSU“One Christmas my father

gave me one of those trains thatare winded with a key,” he said.“I did not even play with it. I justtook it apart.”

Still dreaming of the Navy, heworked his way through VirginiaPolytechnic Institute.

By the time Kemper got aPh.D. at Indiana University andcame to FSU for post-doctoralstudies, he had become a physi-cist instead of a Navy engineer.

His focus has been to studythe properties of the nuclear force,the force that holds protons andneutrons in the atomic nucleus

together.In his office, Kemper talks

enthusiastically about nuclearmedicine used against cancer,and he goes on to explore theessence of the origins of life.

In the lab, he and colleaguesrecreate what they think is hap-pening in stars to understand theorigins of the universe.

“We are recycled star materi-al,” he explains. “The elementsthat we are made of are producedin stars’ explosions.”

When he explains his findingsto undergraduates, he oftenencounters a belief that “there isan answer to everything.”

“When I tell them that wedon’t know where the universecame from, they get very dis-tressed. And when I tell them thatwe [scientists] spend all of ourtime telling people all the thingswe know, I also tell them how lit-tle we know.”

Kemper has been chairman ofthe physics department sinceAugust 1997. Under his direction,the FSU department has movedinto the top 25 percent of physicsprograms nationally in twoimportant rankings, one by theNational Research Council andthe other by U.S. News andWorld Report. —Vida Volkert

Ryan L'Homme,of Brandon, Fla.,once talked his fam-ily into taking avacation in Tallahas-see—just to see theFSU campus.

He made thedean's list his firstsemester at FSU,and he decided tostudy electricalengineering, hoping to become anastronaut.

He was a charter member ofthe newly colonized Pi Kappa

Alpha fraternity."He was involved

and doing every-thing he had to do tobe successful," saidTerri L’Homme,Ryan’s mother. Thatincluded playing onthe fraternity's intra-mural softball team—until a freak on-field accident ended

his life.On March 22, 2000, L'Homme

was playing in a game against theChi Phi fraternity. After reaching

Memorial Fund for FSU student

Ryan L'Homme

and will now pay $676.An in-state law student was paying $185

per hour and will now pay $204. An out-of-state law student was paying $609 perhour and will now pay $717.

For medical school, Florida residentspaid $12,408 last year and will now pay$13,685 a year. The school does not takeout-of-state students.

The increases are expected to bringin $4.5 million more revenue for FSU.According to FSU Provost Larry Abele,the money will be spent in several ways.

The FSU libraries will receive$500,000. Student financial support willget $2 million to offset the tuitionincrease; $1 million will reduce the stu-dent/faculty ratio; and $1 million will

hire additional Frances Eppes Professorsand other named professors.

Michelle Pletch, FSU student body pres-ident and trustee, cast the only vote againstthe tuition increases.

Despite the increases, Abele said Floridaschools are still a good deal compared withuniversities elsewhere in the nation.

Democrat acquires MarlettePolitical satirist and FSU graduate Doug

Marlette has hired on as an editorial car-toonist for the Tallahassee Democrat.

Marlette, 52, drew cartoons for the oldFlorida Flambeau whenhe was a philosophymajor at FSU from 1969-71.

“I’m one of his great-est fans,” former FSUPresident Stanley Mar-shall, frequently lam-pooned by Marlette inthe early 1970s, told theTallahassee Democrat.“He had a great sense ofhumor and characterized me perfectly, withthe big nose and all. Doug has an uncannyability to be funny and insightful, withoutbeing unkind or bitter.”

In Charlotte, Atlanta and New York,Marlette’s cartoons have won him majorjournalistic honors, including the 1988Pulitzer Prize, mainly for cartoons about JimBakker and his PTL teleministry.

Marlette, whose comic strip “Kudzu”appears in more than 300 newspapers, isalso the first and only cartoonist given aNieman Fellowship at Harvard. His book“The Bridge” was chosen as the best novelof the year by the Southeast BooksellersAssociation in April and has been bought byTom Cruise for film production atParamount Studios.

After 15 years in Charlotte, Marlettemoved to Atlanta and won a Pulitzer at theJournal-Constitution. He later spent 11 yearsat New York Newsday, then became a visit-ing professor at the University of NorthCarolina’s journalism school.

FSU police accreditedThe FSU Police Department is now one

of 95 Florida law-enforcement agencies—just four of them at public universities—tobe accredited by the Commission for FloridaLaw Enforcement Accreditation.

The other accredited universitypolice departments are at the Universityof Florida, the University of NorthFlorida and the University of SouthFlorida.

Preventing corrosionThe same polymers used in sham-

poos that leave hair feeling silky canalso prevent corrosion in pipelinesbecause of a technique developed by anFSU researcher.

“Layering is the key to making poly-mers effective in protecting metals from cor-rosion,” said Joseph Schlenoff, a materialschemist and associate director of the FSUCenter for Materials Research andTechnology.

Shampoos leave a single layer of eitherpositively or negatively charged polymerson the hair, Schlenoff said. However, multi-layered polymers — with positively andnegatively charged electrolytes layered oneon top of the other — make a protective sealmore effective than paints or resins alone.

“It’s a new way to solve an old prob-lem,” he said. “It is difficult to coat theinside of a pipeline once it has beenbuilt. We can pump aqueous polymersthrough a pipeline in turn, first the plus,then the minus, so that all the nooksand crannies and crevices are coatedwith this multi-layer polymer. We canapply it in this way to the inside of apipeline that’s already in use.”

Science awardsTwo FSU researchers have received

the top awards that the National ScienceFoundation gives to outstanding junior fac-ulty who are expected to become academicleaders.

Mark Schmeeckle and Lev Gelb havereceived Faculty Early Career DevelopmentProgram grants. They are designed toreflect the NSF’s emphasis on integratingresearch and education.

Schmeeckle, an assistant professor ofgeological sciences, will be awarded$325,000 to investigate “Interactionbetween Turbulence Structures andSuspended Sediment in Rivers.” He will tryto gain a better understanding of how sedi-

SHORT TA K ES ON BIG SUBJECTS

base with a single in the fourthinning, he took off for secondwhen a grounder was hit to theshortstop. The ensuing throw tofirst base hit L'Homme squarelyon the temple, sending himstraight to the ground.

He died the next day.L’Homme’s parents set up a

scholarship fund for fraternitymembers in his memory.

The address for contributionsis the Ryan L'Homme Scholar-ship Fund, Platinum Bank, 802 W.Lumsden Blvd., Brandon, Fla.33511. —Dave Fiore

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2002 Seminole football scheduleAug. 24 Iowa St. at Kansas City, Mo. Oct 26 NOTRE DAMEAug. 31 VIRGINIA Nov. 2 at Wake ForestSept. 14 at Maryland Nov. 9 at Georgia TechSept. 21 DUKE Nov. 16 NORTH CAROLINASept. 26 at Louisville Nov. 23 at N. Carolina St.Oct. 3 CLEMSON Nov. 30 FLORIDAOct. 12 at Miami, Fla.

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By Jane Bea Williams Harmon(B.S. ‘44)

"Mo. .th. .er," my adult sondrawled in an irritated tone. "Iknow that even FSCW back in theearly '40s didn't do what you justsaid it did. That would be likepunishing someone for studying."

"Well, son, if one of the girlswas caught in the closet with aflashlight studying after lightswere out, she was in trouble. ...

"Despite the above, studyingwas important. That's why wewere there. Math and languagerequirements had to be met, and duringthe first two years, students were requiredto take four (4) five-hour credit coursescalled ‘integrated.’ (This designation hadnothing whatsoever to do with race.)These comprehensive courses coveredbiological and physical sciences, contem-porary civilization and an introduction toliterature, art and philosophy. ... Afteryears in education, I have never found abetter college curriculum.

"What else would you like to know?MONEY, of course. I went through fouryears at FSCW on $1800. That's eighteenHUNDRED, not thousand. During mysenior year in high school, my mother

received that amount from a 20-yearendowment policy taken out before I waseven conceived. I supplemented my per-sonal expenses by working in my home-town each summer. I even worked atFSCW interviewing freshman for 10¢ anhour. I had never heard of a credit card. Ididn't feel rich or poor. Some classmatesworked in the dining room or elsewhereon campus to help pay for their education.Some parents had to resort to sending aload of oranges or potatoes to pay theirdaughter's tuition and fees.

"SEX? I never heard the term.Romance, yes, but to my knowledge, sexbefore marriage was not approved. Myclose friends and I knew a few "naughty"

girls, but we didn't admire them.Two once slipped out to theSilver Slipper, and to us that wasalmost a sin. (At the 50th reunionof my class, we ate at the SilverSlipper, now a respected estab-lishment.) Until Pearl Harbor,there was a lot of traffic betweenthe University of Florida andFSCW, but after the war and gasrationing, that slowed down.More and more military menwere seen on campus and loveaffairs between the girls and mil-itary men were frequent andsometimes bittersweet.

"PATRIOTISM? It grew as the wargrew. Pearl Harbor, which occurred earlyin my sophomore year, shook people upin a way similar to recent terrorist activity.I probably would have been even moreconcerned had I known that my futurehusband, your father, was serving there inthe Army on that fateful day. Some of thegirls took war-related jobs or joined theservices. My classmate and I worked withthe American Red Cross at the handsomesalary of $175 per month. (Who says edu-cation doesn't pay off?)

"TEACHERS? We had some great onesand many had time for very personal rela-tionships. My child psychology teacher

Telling it like it WAS at Florida State College for Women 1940-1944

had my mother and me for breakfast theday of graduation. Another one arrangedfor me to have a summer internship at theMassachusetts State Reformatory forWomen. My organ teacher, when called toCalifornia because of the illness of herbrother, had me schedule the teachers tocover her classes. At that point I felt essen-tial to the life of the school, just a littleunder the president—well, maybe thevice-president.

"RULES AND REGULATIONS? Don'tyou dare laugh, but I guess that was oneof the big differences between your col-lege education and mine. We girls accept-ed quite cheerfully rules like freshman notriding in cars except with their parents.Dates had to be introduced to the dorm‘mother,’ and the girl had to sign in, indi-cate where she was going and what timeshe expected to be back on campus. Oncethe governor took a group of us from hishome county for a fancy meal downtown,and we were late getting back. I was fear-ful that his explanation would not satisfythe school. I was relieved when it did, andmy ‘record’ remained clear.

"Oh, son, my college experience atFSCW was so different from yours, but thesatisfaction and joy of it has sustained andbuoyed me throughout life. Now, flashthat light off and let me get to sleep."

The Florida State Times published two first-place winners of its contest for essays by alumni in March-April. Below isthe second-place winner in the nostalgia category. In succeeding issues we will publish three more winning essays.

Ceausescu, the Bojan family becamerefugees. David, his parents and his 10-year-old brother fled to a refugee camp inAustria.

“While we were in Austria we were putin a school where they only spokeGerman,” said Bojan, 24. “It’s amazinghow quickly you pick up a language whenyou have to.”

After a year in the camp, the fourBojans moved to Hollywood, Fla., wherean aunt was already settled and preparedto sponsor the family. David quickly

like a patient through all of my life—myfirst patient I guess.”

Other FSU medical students havealready had their “first patients.”

For Jacksonville native Shayla Smith,22, it was a niece who was badly hurt byhot water burns.

Smith had wanted to be a doctor sinceshe was a child, though she was seriousabout the band and played the flute.

“For a while I thought I would pursuemusic,” she said.

But she was sure about medicine whenshe was 17 and her niece Kyesha had hotwater burns. Kyesha spent two months atthe Shands Burn Center in Gainesville.

Smith helped take care of her after shecame home from the hospital.

“She was bandaged for a long time,and she had to regain agility in her limbs,”

Smith said. “It was a good learn-ing experience for me, and ithelped me to see what I believeGod has given me to help people.

“Her limbs were stiffenedbecause she didn’t move them forso long. A lot of times she wouldcry for long periods of time. ....It’snot an experience that anyoneenjoyed, but we were so happyshe was alive because she almostdied.”

Smith said Kyesha is now ahappy girl, doing fine, though shehas skin grafts over most of her

became fluent in English, and he decided tobe a doctor.

“During my late high school years Iliked science and anatomy,” he said. “Istarted volunteering at Memorial RegionalHospital in Hollywood, and I also got a jobthere. I helped out nurses, patient care, E.R.mostly. I did anything from helpingpatients get dressed, talking to them, bring-ing blood for trauma, a little bit of familyrelations, letting the family know how thepatient was doing, taking bodies to themorgue.”

At the University of Miami, he majoredin biology.

He got in the habit of taking care of peo-ple when his little brother needed help.

“I tried to hang with him and help himas much as I could,” Bojan said. “Besidesbeing my brother and my friend, he was

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One, for example, lived in a refugeecamp for a year and has taken care of hismentally handicapped brother most of hislife. Another saw her niece through thelong, painful recovery from a terrible burnaccident. Another was a physical therapistand now wants to “do all-inclusive treat-ment” as a doctor.

The former refugee, David Bojan, wasborn in central Romania. When David was12, as Romania was struggling desperatelyto free itself from the despotism of Nicolae

FSU medical students tell why—and when—theyThe famed warrior, Osceola, is widely believed to have had at least one wife, maybe

two or more, as was the custom among Seminoles in the early 1800s.But little beyond speculation is written of these wives. In fact, most accounts of

Osceola’s brief, but noted, existence, neglect details of the women in his life.One exception is the 1858 publication, “The Exiles of Florida,” written by Joshua

Giddings, an Ohio congressman and passionate abolitionist crusader. Giddings wrotethat Osceola’s feelings for his wife sparked the Second Seminole War. Osceola’s wifewas reported to be the “beautiful” daughter of a chief and an escaped slave.

Giddings’ history is based on the belief that white pirates would travel into Seminolevillages to abduct blacks who had escaped slavery or were slaves of the tribe. Thepirates would sell their bounty or return escaped slaves to plantation owners.

Seminoles, on the other hand, had established a tradition of protecting freed slavesand making them part of their villages, as well as making some their own slaves.

Osceola, the son of a white trader and a Seminole chief’s daughter, was vehement-ly opposed to slavery, Giddings said. “He hated slavery, and those who practiced theholding of slaves, with a bitterness that is but little understood by those who have neverwitnessed its revolting crimes,” he wrote.

As Giddings’ concept of legend has it, Osceola, in 1835, had traveled with his wifeand other Seminoles to Fort King, near today’s Ocala, to conduct trading business.

At the trading post, Osceola’s wife was pirated away by a slave hunter, and Osceolahad no recourse to prove that she was taken unlawfully. In the eyes of the law, Osceola’swife was an African slave because of her mother’s blood. As a slave with no papers indi-cating she was free, she was legally possessed by the man who stole her.

Many historians agreed on the events, which erupted at Fort King between Osceolaand the Indian agent, Wiley Thompson. Osceola became furious and directed his furytoward Thompson, who had been witness to the abduction of Osceola’s wife, Giddingssaid.

Thompson decided to teach Osceola a lesson about proper behavior and had him putin jail. After six days in captivity, Osceola apologized to Thompson for being rude andwas released.

But, history shows that the apology lacked sincerity. Within days Osceola had round-ed up Seminoles and ambushed Thompson and a host of other white people, includingsettlers and U.S. soldiers, beginning the Second Seminole War.

There is no indication that Osceola and his wife were ever reunited. Within a year, a

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Tom Van Brunt, a resident of Westminster Oaks Retirement Community, talks withShayla Smith.

body (except her face,which was not burned).

While she helped herniece, Smith majored inchemistry at FAMU.

She likes medicalschool.

“Our class is very goodabout … having fun witheach other when we can,”she said. “But it’s a lot ofwork, and it should be,because the medical profes-sion isn’t something to betaken lightly… . I usuallystudy a few hours a day atleast and sometimes more.”

Smith plans to work infamily practice, primarycare, pediatrics or geri-atrics.

Julie Gladden is anoth-er second-year medical stu-dent who has already had a“first patient”—hundredsin fact, when she was aphysical therapist at aTallahassee orthopedic clin-ic. Her patients included the aged and vic-tims of industrial injuries.

She has also administered several clinics.“I wanted to be able to help patients

more, because my hands were tied as atherapist,” said Gladden, 33, the oldestmember of FSU’s inaugural class. “I want-

ed to do all-inclusive treat-ment.”

The daughter of JimGladden, a long-time FSUfootball coach, she grew upin Tallahassee aroundphysicians, athletic trainersand injuries.

“I’m a big fan and wentto all the games,” Gladdennoted. “I knew all the ath-letic trainers and physi-cians. I looked up to themand what they did.”

Gladden graduatedfrom FSU with a B.S. inphysical education and anemphasis on physical reha-bilitation, and she went onto FAMU for a degree inphysical therapy. Shewants to practice in or nearTallahassee.

“I really like the idea offamily practice in additionto maybe a sports medicinefellowship afterwards,” sheexplained. “I don’t want to

do just sports medicine, because I reallylike working with geriatrics. I like women’shealth issues and dealing with families.”

Brief profiles of all the College ofMedicine students are on the FSU web site:http://med.fsu.edu/students.asp.

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1935Dr. Mary E. Mooty (B.A.), a retired profes-

sor, has donated $100,000 to the devel-opment of Heritage Park in WinterHaven.

1949Margaret Strum Allesee (B.A.) has

received an honorary doctorate fromKendall College of Art and Design inGrand Rapids, Mich.

1950Mallory E. Horne Sr. has joined the

Douglass law firm, which representedAl Gore in Florida’s presidential ballotrecount fight in Tallahassee.

1957Herbert F. Reinhard Jr. (B.S., M.S. ‘60) is

president emeritus of Slippery RockUniversity.

1963Patricia Shaw Crosby (B.A.) is principal of

Patch American High School inStuttgart, Germany.

1964Frank M. Ryll Jr. (B.A.) is the 2001-2002

chairman of the board of the AmericanChamber of Commerce Executives.

Bert W. Westbrook (E.D.D.), a professor ofpsychology at N.C. State University inRaleigh, was recognized by theUniversity Honors Council for “out-standing academic performance.”

1966Arthur A. Kingsbury (B.A.) has a Fulbright

Research Fellowship to study in La Paz,Bolivia.

Circuit Judge John C. Lenderman (B.A.)spoke on child contact and visitation tothe British Law Organization atLondon’s Royal Society.

1967Ann T. Burks (M.A.) is on the Virginia Bar

Association’s Board of Governors.Ronald H. Heginbotham (B.S., M.S. ‘68)

has retired to Kentucky after a 33-yearcareer, mostly in the petroleum industryin Alaska and Saudi Arabia.

1968Ivo Dominguez (M.A. ‘68, Ph.D. ‘69) is

professor emeritus of foreign languagesand literature at the University of

Delaware in Newark.Sheila M. McDevitt (B.A., J.D. ‘78) is vice

chair of the Saint Leo (Fla.) UniversityBoard of Trustees.

1969Wayne Godwin (B.A.) is chief operating

officer of the Public BroadcastingService in Alexandria, Va.

Jane Bray Nelson (B.S.), who teaches atUniversity High School in Orlando, hasbeen inducted into the NationalTeachers Hall of Fame.

Michael B. Smithee (B.A., M.A. ‘70) is asso-ciate director of Syracuse University’sSlutzker Center for InternationalServices.

1970Marjorie J. Meyer (B.A.), president of Prime

Site Inc., has been named Volunteer ofthe Year by the Greater HoustonChapter of the Community AssociationsInstitute.

George L. Waas (J.D.) has written a chapterin the recent book “Mapping Florida’sPolitical Landscape: The Changing Artand Politics of Reapportionment andRedistricting.”

1971Richard B. Finnegan (Ph.D.) a Stonehill

College Distinguished Faculty Scholar,has an Irish American Cultural InstituteResearch Fellowship at the NationalUniversity of Ireland, Galway.

1972Dagmar E. Bardo (B.A.) is director of the

Performing Arts Center at GeorgiaSouthern University in Statesboro.

P. Edwin Eleazer Jr. (B.A., M.A. ‘80, Ph.D.‘84) was given the Award for Excellencein Teaching at Francis Marion Universityin Florence, S.C.

1973David G. Gilbert (M.S., Ph.D. ‘78), a psy-

chology professor at Southern IllinoisUniversity, Carbondale, studies nico-tine’s effects on smokers. His mostrecent study appeared in the February2002 Journal of Consulting and ClinicalPsychology.

Bernadette McGuire-Rivera (B.A., M.S.‘75, Ph.D. ‘79), director of the U.S.Commerce Department’s Office ofTelecommunications, received theSusan G. Hadden Award from theAlliance for Public Technology, a con-sumer interest organization.

Jean L. Thomas (M.S.), assistant dean oflibraries, is Faculty Member of the Yearat the University of Maine at Augusta.

1975Sandra W. Rackley (Ph.D.) has received an

Arts and Sciences Distinguished AlumniAward from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Leo S. “Sandy” Selvey (B.A., J.D. ‘78),Yellowstone County’s chief publicdefender, received a Lawyer of the Yearaward from the Montana Association ofCriminal Defense Lawyers.

1976E. Claude Mattox (B.S.) is vice mayor of the

Phoenix City Council.Kay Taylor Urban (B.A.) is chief operating

officer of Amadeus North AmericanOperations in Miami.

David W. Wilcox (B.S., J.D. ‘79) is chairmanof the board of Coast Bank of Florida inBradenton.

Lettie J. Bien (B.S. ) is president and CEO of

the Coral Gables Chamber ofCommerce.

1977Alena King Buggs (B.S.), immediate past

president of the FSU Black AlumniAssociation, is on the Newberry(Alachua County) City Commission.

Deborah V. Burgess (B.S.) is scheduled toteach 10 weeks in 2003 at theInternational College of Beijing, China.

Deborah True Shepard (B.S., M.S. ‘91) aliterature and composition teacher atLincoln High in Tallahassee, was the2002 District Teacher of the Year.

1978Ronald D. Barton (B.S.) will be director of

economic development and realty serv-ices for St. Petersburg, Fla.

Cathy S. Griffin (B.S.) is a managing direc-tor at Korn/Ferry International in NewYork, N.Y.

1979Gregory Ferrell (B.S.) is group president of

the Haskel Company in Jacksonville.

1980Robert P. Diffenderfer (B.A.), a sharehold-

er in the law firm of Lewis, Longman &Walker, has been awarded the “AV”rating, the highest rating of Martindale-Hubbell.

Cynthia G. Imperato (M.S., J.D. ‘88), chair-person of the Italian American CulturalCenter, is on the board of directors ofthe Broward Chapter of the ItalianAmerican Bar Association.

1981Paul E. Lund (B.S., J.D. ‘85) was named

interim dean of the Appalachian Schoolof Law in Grundy, Va.

Wilbur J. Stiles II (B.S.) has joined the firmof Katz, Kutter, Alderman, Bryant & Yonin Tallahassee.

Dawn Guerro Wilson (B.S.) is vice presi-dent of educational advancement atSouth Florida Annenberg Challenge.

1982Alan B. Brents (B.A.) has become a share-

holder of Katz, Kutter, Alderman, Bryant& Yon law firm in Tallahassee.

Dr. Scott E. Conard (B.A.) has earned thestatus of Diplomate of the AmericanBoard of Bariatric Medicine.

Gary A. DeLapp (B.S.) is president and CEOof Homestead Studio Suites, a nationalextended-stay hotel chain.

1983Debra Levy Dubin (B.A., M.S. ‘83) was

named Assistant Principal of the Year byMiami-Dade County Public Schools.

Art A. Garcia (B.S.) is vice president ofRyder System Inc. in Miami.

Brian M. Rowland (B.S., B.S. ‘86) graduat-ed first in the summer 2001 class ofFlorida Coastal School of Law inJacksonville. He is now an associate inthe firm of Milam & Howard.

1984Ira S. Handelsman (B.S.) is president of CSI

Hospitality Systems in Crystal Lake, Ill.Todd E. Taylor (B.S.) is vice principal of

Patch American High School inStuttgart, Germany.

Mark G. Winiarski (M.S., Ph.D. ‘88) has aFulbright Scholar Award to teach andconduct research in 2003 at theUniversity of Namibia.

1985William K. Thomas (B.S.) recently founded

MBT Consulting Inc., a forensic

accounting/litigation support CPA firmin Casselberry, Fla.

1986Kenneth E. Dimitry Jr. (B.S.) is a lieutenant

junior grade in the U.S. Coast GuardReserve at Coast Guard Group CapeHatteras in North Carolina.

Ken P. Johnston (M.B.A. ‘86, Ph.D. ‘94) isteaching at Georgia SouthernUniversity.

John A. Medina (B.S.) is the new local pres-ident of First Union National Bank inTallahassee.

1989Dexter Chase (B.S.) has opened E.B.S.

Investigations, a private investigativeagency.

James P. Fairfield (B.S.), a TAC Team assis-tant leader and trainer with theTallahassee Police Department, wasnamed Law Enforcement Officer of theYear by the Committee of 99.

Katherine E. Giddings (B.S., J.D. ‘92) hasjoined the Katz, Kutter, Alderman,Bryant & Yon law firm in Tallahassee.

Anna Blair Hatchett (B.A.) has earned amedical degree at the Case WesternReserve University School of Medicinein Cleveland, Ohio.

Lt. Cmdr. David A. Quirk (B.S.) is the com-manding officer of Naval and MarineCorps Reserve Center in Eugene, Ore.

1990Gregory L. Byrd (M.A.) has received a doc-

toral degree from the University ofNorth Carolina at Greensboro.

David Carter and other Fort Lauderdalefirefighters were deployed to the WorldTrade Center to conduct Urban Searchand Rescue Operations after the Sept.11 disaster.

William R. Snarr (B.S.) is a pilot in theOrange County Sheriff’s Office.

1991Wendy Morris (J.D.) is Florida Gulf Coast

University’s general counsel.Guy E. Quattlebaum (B.A.) is a partner

with the law firm of Arnstein and Lehr inWest Palm Beach.

David E. Ramba (B.S., J.D. ‘94) is a share-holder in the law firm of Lewis,Longman & Walker.

Michael G. Stephens (B.S.) is vice presi-dent/president elect of the AtlantaAssociation of Legal Administrators.

Meredith C. Trammell (B.S., J.D. ‘95), anattorney for the Florida Department ofInsurance, is on the boards of theTallahassee Bar Association and theLegal Aid Foundation.

Harrison C. Whitman II (B.S.) is projectmanager of Shaw Environmental &Infrastructure in Phoenix.

1992Gerasimos “Jerry” Gianakis (Ph.D.) is

associate professor of public administra-tion at Sawyer School of Managementat Suffolk University.

Joshua M. Lenzini (B.S.), a major in the U.S.Army, is an operations research analystworking with logistical modeling andsimulations in Fort Lee, Va.

Christopher S. Pearson (B.A.), a major inthe Florida Air National Guard, is serv-ing at the Southeast Air Defense Sectorat Tyndall AFB in Panama City.

John K. Waddell (E.D.D.) is the eighth pres-ident of Saint Paul’s College inLawrenceville, Va.

in engineering and math.He grew up in the Florida Keys, where his father was a

Navy commander. At FSU, he joined the intramural wrestling team and

worked for the Navy through the work-study program. In1967, he was elected a student senator.

A plain-spoken man who thinks before he answers aquestion, but then delivers the answer quickly, Ford saidhis experiences at FSU “gave me confidence to compete inlarge groups.”

After he graduated from FSU, Ford earned an MBA at

FSU gave him confidence; he’s giving back money and timethe University of Pennsylvania.

He interviewed for a sales and trading position atGoldman Sachs and got the job.

“I sold institutional bonds for 20 years,” he said. “WhenI came to Goldman Sachs, I was the only one from FSU.Actually, I think I was the only one from Florida.”

Ford said his “realization of high expectations is havingkids and getting married.”

He has recently retired from Goldman Sachs, and nowhe will have more time for travel and his family.

And for the education world. — Vida Volkert

After more than four years of heroic efforts, it appearsthat the Boosters’ $70-million Dynasty Campaign goal iswithin reach. The plan to build new facilities and renovateold ones has unfolded magnificently.

Florida State had never conducted a capital campaignfor athletics, but we wanted to use the opportunity afford-ed us by Coach Bowden, then in his 20th year as theSeminoles’ head football coach.

Young recruits were coming to Florida State notbecause of our facilities, but in spite of them. They came forBowden.

But one who didn’t come taught us a crucial lesson.National Defensive Player of the Year Ahman Brooks

said about FSU in public, “I thought the facilities weregoing to be better, more up to date…Virginia Tech has bet-ter facilities.”

Brooks signed with the Virginia Cavaliers.How can that be possible? Does not the massive brick

fortress of University Center compare to any stadium inthe country? Is not our brand-new Manny Garcia LockerRoom the envy of college football?

The answer is yes, but the things that struck Brooks asnoncompetitive—and rightly so—include the FSU weighttraining room and sports medicine facilities. Those are theplaces where the student-athletes actually spend most oftheir time.

Here’s the way capital campaigns work. The leader-ship gifts, large enough to make an impact, are solicitedfirst. Then, years are spent going after other large gifts.Finally, in the last year of the campaign—the period we’rein now—all those who love the institution are given theopportunity to contribute to the final victory. In just the fewmonths since we’ve begun mailing out Dynasty CampaignBrochures to the general public of alumni and Boosters, thelarge number of gifts flooding in so far totals nearly $1 mil-lion.

Bulldozers have dismantled the old Moore AthleticCenter. A splendid new Gothic building will rise in itsplace. There will be a modern and expanded Roger HollerWeight Training Facility and a spacious new home forsports medicine. The recruits will be impressed.

We are no longer lulled by the illusion that our rivalsdid not move ahead of us. They did, but the athletes cameto FSU anyway to work with Bobby Bowden. This entireDynasty Campaign is in a sense a race to finish our workbefore he finishes his.

Keeping ScoreBy Charlie Barnes

Executive DirectorSeminole Boosters

The Dynasty Campaigngives FSU security insuccessful recruiting

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1993John H. Dickson (M.P.A.) is a governmental

analyst in Governor Jeb Bush’s Office ofPolicy and Budget.

Carlos A. Kelly (B.A.) has been re-elected tothe 20th Judicial Circuit Young LawyersDivision Board of Governors.

Russell S. Sobel (M.S., Ph.D. ‘94) has beennamed the 2002 “outstanding alum-nus” of Francis Marion UniversitySchool of Business in Florence, S.C.

Mary Alyce Summers (B.S.) is president ofPrivate I Investigative Services Inc.

Jennifer L. Watson (B.S.) has joined Fordand Harrison, a national labor andemployment law firm.

Christi Ostendorf Woodworth (B.S.) isthe major gifts officer for the HeiferProject International’s Campaign for theFuture in Little Rock.

1994Eric T. Dillner (M.M.), general director of

the Shreveport Opera, is a voice teacher

and director of Seagle Music Colony.B. Scott Klees (B.S.) is defensive coordina-

tor at Wakulla High School.

1995Alice M. Tillotson (B.M.) won the Oxnard

Gold Medal Prize at the 2002 AmericanTraditions Competition for Singers inSavannah.

Kris Cano Whitman (B.S.) is a DNA tech-nical leader with the Scottsdale, Ariz.,Police Department.

1996J. R. Harding (S.P.E. ‘96, E.D.D. ‘99) has

been appointed to the U.S. AccessBoard by President Bush.

Melissa Walters, lead copywriter at RappCollins Worldwide in Dallas, is presidentof the Seminole Club of North Texas.

1997Jennifer C. Tindall (J.D.) has joined Jackson

Lewis Schnitzer & Krupman in Hartford,Conn., a firm representing manage-ment in labor, employment and bene-fits law.

1920-1929Pearl Cail Smith (A.B. ‘22), Margaret Savary Brannen (L.I. ‘27), Treva Lou Blanton Hall (B.S.‘28), Bernice Nickerson James (L.I. ‘28), Wilma Ruth Montgomery Schiller (B.A. ‘29)

1930-1939Thelma Goodbread Flanagan (B.S. ‘30, M.S. ‘51), Alma Mathews Bass (B.A. ‘31), EmilyMarshall Marston (B.S. ‘31), Marian Rawls Harrison (L.I. ‘32), Elizabeth Parker Autrey (B.S.‘33), Willie “Diane” Wilson Carnes (B.M. ‘33), Virginia Crenshaw Lewis (B.S. ‘33), KatherineTomkies Becker (B.A. ‘34), Mildred Boerckel (‘34), Elizabeth Finlayson Boyd (L.I. ‘34, B.S. ‘64),Sarah Hulsey Hays (B.S. ‘34), Cornelia Garrick Hanna (B.A. ‘35), Betty B. Komarek (B.S. ‘35),Ruth Love Powers (‘35), Annie Shelley Vereen (‘35), Jo Beth Foreman McClellan (B.S. ‘36),Susan Lester Smoak (L.I. ‘36), Ellen Greer Griffin (L.I. ‘37), Martha Makemson Gutman (B.A.‘37), Lois Collins Hendrix (B.A. ‘37), Lady Anna Glen Robertson (B.A. ‘37), Barbara WomackKennedy (B.A. ‘38), Evelyn Bagley Davis (‘39), Ruth I. Hobby (B.A. ‘39), Margaret EcklandLockhart (B.M. ‘39), Charlotte Kerns Quina (B.M. ‘39)

1940-1949Jamesine Brown Sears (B.S. ‘40), Dorothy W. Parks (B.S. ‘40), Betty Jane Lewis Westberg (B.S.‘40), Letitia Johnston Bond Croft (B.S. ‘41, M.S. ‘72), Mary Naomi Townsend Covington (B.S.‘42), Jane Tarr Smith (‘42), Vera Robinson Stevens (B.S. ‘42), Emma Louise Boone (B.A. ‘43,M.A. ‘50), Sarah Alice Bedsole Hughes (B.S. ‘43), Ruth Smith Bishop (B.S. ‘43), Ruth BoydHenderson (‘44), Vicki Lewis Woodward (B.S. ‘44), Eloise M. Boyles (B.S. ‘46), Nancy AnneMcLaurin Cox (B.S. ‘46), Doris Dunaway Hurst (B.S. ‘46), Jean Whigham Jones (B.S. ‘47),Jack W. Gramling (B.S. ‘48), Helen M. Willis (B.A. ‘48), Ruth Fiezl Staskus (B.A. ‘49)

1950-1959Harry G. Landrum (B.S. ‘51), Robert D. Peacock (‘51), Elva Thacker Adkins (B.S. ‘52), ShirleyAtwell Fletcher (B.S. ‘52), Herbert A. Nasrallah (B.S. ‘52), Richard L. Trobaugh (B.S. ‘52),Bonnie Wilhelm LoVerde (‘53), Ruth T. Marshall (M.A. ‘53), Donna Gray Myhre (B.S. ‘53,M.A. ‘55), Ida Marcia Middleton Ragan (B.S. ‘53), Elizabeth Ann Shiver Eubanks (B.S. ‘54),Frances Johnson Gilbert (B.S. ‘54), Ashley M. Costin (B.S. ‘55), Harry W. Massey Sr. (B.S.‘55), John H. Corcoran Sr. (B.S. ‘56), Richard A. Morrow (B.S. ‘56), Paul M. White (B.S. ‘56),Mary Lois Edwards King (B.S. ‘57), Robert C. Marky (B.S. ‘57), Frank E. Moody (B.S. ‘57),James E. Nettles (B.S. ‘57, M.S. ‘59), Charlotte Cross Phillips (B.S. ‘57, M.S. ‘62), Minnie OlaTodd Arrant (B.S. ‘58), Marilyn Shepard Waller (B.S. ‘58, M.S. ‘60), Alfred H. “Fred”Baldwin (B.S. ‘59), Dr. Paul B. Carpenter (Ph.D. ‘59), John D. Grow (B.S. ‘59, M.S. ‘61),Robert M. “Pete” Peterson (B.S. ‘59)

1960-1969Douglas N. Allen Sr. (B.S. ‘60), Patricia Nathe Fenton (B.S. ‘60), Richard D. Pickering (M.S.‘61), Edwina Bordeau O’Hara (M.S. ‘62), James E. Wierichs (B.S. ‘62), Dr. Thomas C. Davis(Ph.D. ‘63), Douglass R. Cooke (B.S. ‘64, M.S. ‘66), Davey L. Edwards (B.A. ‘64, M.A. ‘71),Charles E. Huber (B.A. ‘64, M.A. ‘65), Michael J. Muley (B.S. ‘64), Terry E. Porter (B.S. ‘64),Dr. Mary Frank Merritt Hancock (M.S. ‘65, Ph.D. ‘77), Douglas W. Kerley (B.M. ‘65, M.M.‘67), Thomas S. Nelson (B.S. ‘65), Bonnie Moore Pappas (B.A. ‘65, M.S. ‘66), Myra HancockSears (B.S. ‘65, M.S. ‘66), Audrey Isom Sullivan (B.A. ‘65), Lyla Davis Fitzgerald (B.S. ‘67),Sylvester A. Norris (B.S. ‘67), George L. Peter (B.S. ‘67), William L. Durrant Jr. (M.S. ‘68),Joy Ahrendt Herriott (M.S. ‘68), Carol Ann Patterson Ramsey (B.S. ‘68), Linda Prince Davis(B.S. ‘69, M.S. ‘70)

1970-1979Donna Vogt Adamson (B.S. ‘70), Nancy Coxwell Byrd (M.S. ‘70), Linda Wilson Cain (B.S. ‘70),Cecil M. Curles (B.S. ‘70, M.S. ‘71), Ronald D. Shaffer (B.S. ‘70), Margaret Hamilton Grayson(B.S. ‘71), Victoria Shelley Szalay (B.S. ‘71), Martha Jane Brooks (B.A. ‘72), Lonnie Cain Jr. (M.S.‘72), Ruth Robinson Corbin (M.S.W. ‘72), Dr. Barbara Brown Wind (M.S. ‘72, Ph.D. ‘80),Thomas A. Bruch (B.S. ‘74), Michael F. Iaukea (B.S. ‘74), Dr. Ann Marie Cooper Hooper (Ph.D.‘75), John G. Sheffield (B.S. ‘75), Arthur C. “Skip” Wallberg (J.D. ‘76), Grace Georgia MetzColberg (B.A. ‘77, M.A. ‘79), Theodore J. Eckhoff (B.S. ‘77), Jerry C. Logue (B.A. ‘77)

1980-1989Michael A. Mick (B.S. ‘78, M.S. ‘80), Greg P. Holm (‘80), Jeffrey R. Andrick (B.S. ‘81), Dr.Nathaniel Heggs (Ph.D. ‘83), Thierry E. Kobes (B.S. ‘83, B.A. ‘85), Thomas H. Harley (B.A.‘84), Edgar F. Ivey (M.S. ‘84), Roger K. Oakes Jr. (B.A. ‘84), Robert E. Ralston Jr. (B.S. ‘84),Randy W. Davis (B.S. ‘85), Jerry E. Tatum (B.S. ‘85, M.S. ‘87), John C. Andrews (M.S. ‘86),Thomas E. Woods Jr. (‘86), Ruperto J. Moreno (B.A. ‘88, Ph.D. ‘99), Dr. Paul F. Kirsch (Ph.D.‘89, J.D. ‘95), Dr. E. Warren Tyler (Ph.D. ‘89)

1990-1999Dr. Charles W. Maughan (Ph.D. ‘91), Karyn Teske Mullholand Schellhase (B.S. ‘91), ElizabethJ. Stetson (B.F.A. ‘91), Jeffrey M. Smith (B.F.A. ‘93), Laura Pooley Walker (B.A. ‘94), Bradley J.Love (M.S. ‘95), Jo Ellen Ward Whaley (M.S. ‘97), Pat Sullivan Katona (B.S.W. ‘98, M.S.W. ‘00)

2000-2010Michael E. Trojnar (B.S. ‘00)

STUDENTSSteven M. Jackson, Chandler Muller Jr. , Scott R. Seldomridge, Paul J. O’Pry, Seralyn Pink,Danielle Struzziery

FACULTY & STAFFDonald Bolds, Marvin Ann Byrd, James A. Hathway

In Memoriam

Charles Billings, Tallahassee’s “Profes-sor of the City Commission,” died (May 2)of pancreatic cancer. He was 63.

A Florida State University political sci-ence professor since 1974, Billings was elect-ed to the City Commission in 1998.

“Charles was a bridge builder—notonly between the races but between thelocal governments,” said Leon CountyCommissioner Cliff Thaell. “He’ll be impos-sible to replace.”

Billings was the city’s lead commission-er on issues of economic development andwater quality. He was the founding forcebehind a sister-city program with theCaribbean island nation of St. Maarten, acommittee aimed at preventing turmoilduring major civic events, and the GreaterGaither Golf Games Gathering golf tourna-ment.

“He was a very thoughtful man whowas well-educated and had vast interests,”City Commissioner Steve Meisburg said.

Billings received a bachelor’s, master’sand Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.In 1977, he published “Racism andPrejudice,” which became a heavily usedcollege textbook.

He was a popular instructor at FSU whospecialized in urban and minority politics,voting rights and political socialization. Hespent (his) last weekend completing gradesfor the spring semester, despite offers by hiscolleagues to help.

“He loved Tallahassee and its people,and he encouraged us to get involved in ourcommunity,” said FSU graduate DarylLevine. “The most important thing hetaught me was civility. He was the epitomeof a professor.”—Condensed from theTallahassee Democrat, by Gerald Ensley

Robert Mills Gagne, the author of“Conditions of Learning” and a leader ineducational psychology, died April 28. Hewas 85.

Dr. Gagne, a native of North Andover,Mass., graduated from Yale University and

Willie Hugh Hinely, 83, a retired FSUdepartment chairman in industrial art andvocational education, died April 4.

Dr. Hinely moved to Tallahassee in1952 to teach education leadership at FSU.He retired in 1998.

He was president of the FloridaIndustrial Arts Association.

He had graduated from GeorgiaSouthern University and received a doctor-ate from Teachers College of ColumbiaUniversity in New York, N.Y. He was alsoa World War II Army veteran.

Dr. Hinely was a deacon, elder andchairman of Christian education at FaithPresbyterian Church. He was an avidhunter and farmer and in 1996 was namedGeorgia Tree Farmer of the Year.

Memorial contributions may be madeto the Hugh and Louise Hinely EndowedScholarship Fund, FSU College ofEducation.

By James Skofronick,FSU physics professor

Robert H. Hunt, an emeritus physicsprofessor at FSU and a leader in infraredspectroscopy and molecular structureresearch in the physics department, diedApril 18.

Russell J. Keirs, 86, a former chairmanof the FSU chemistry department, diedFebruary 17.

In 1950, Dr. Keirs came to the chemistrydepartment, where he established aresearch program in phosphorescence oforganic compounds for analytical purpos-es. He was chairman of the departmentfrom 1958 to 1960 before becoming associ-ate dean of the graduate school.

Andrew C. Palmer, 48, of Lenoir, N.C.,an FSU graduate who dedicated his life toathletics, died Feb. 2 of a heart attack whilerunning in Moses Cone State Park inBlowing Rock, N.C.

After earning a Ph.D. in sports psychol-ogy from FSU in 1985, Palmer became asports psychologist and performanceenhancement specialist. He was a motiva-tional speaker and a coach.

He owned the Maine Running Camp inBar Harbor, was chairman of the RoadRunners Club of America and was in theRunning Hall of Fame. He set the Amer-ican record for 30k for 29-year-olds and thetenth fastest American time (47:52) for 10miles in 1981.

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John Boda, 79, a retired FSU music pro-fessor whose compositions are performedinternationally, died April 14.

Already a distinguished musician, Dr.Boda came to the FSU faculty in 1947 toteach piano performance. He later taughttheory and composition.

Dr. Boda was also a founding memberof the Southeastern Composers Leagueand the Epiphany Lutheran Church inTallahassee.

He directed 50 dissertations in compo-sition at FSU, and many of his studentshave become acclaimed composers.

His scientific contributions applied theelegance and precision of mathematics tothe heart of problems.

He was an early contributor on the cal-culation of the scattering of infrared andmicrowave energy by water and ice. Healso was one of the first to apply variation-al calculus to analysis and forecast prob-lems.

Robert Urich, 55, an FSU graduate, can-cer-awareness advocate and Emmy-win-ning actor, well known for his action-heroroles on television, died April 16.

The popular actor was one of 10 formerfootball players who in 1996 pledged$50,000 each to help found the FSU VarsityClub at Campbell Stadium.

Born in Toronto, Ohio, Mr. Urich wasan offensive lineman for the Seminoles, butmidway through the 1965 season, in agame against Alabama, he received a kneeto the head that knocked him out of thegame.

The injury moved him behind the cam-era—filming games for coach Bill Peterson.

He also became active in theater and hadhis own talk show on the FSU TV station.

He received a bachelor’s degree incommunications in 1968, and went toMichigan State University for a master’s inbroadcasting.

He worked as a salesman for Chicago’sWGN until he was offered a role on thestage as Burt Reynolds’ younger brother in“The Rainmaker.”

His acting career became secondary asMr. Urich turned to advocacy for cancerawareness and research. He was namednational spokesman for the AmericanCancer Society in 1998.

Jerry Stephens

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1998Lance Cpl. Omar D. Alcala (A.A.) is a

Marine Corps personnel clerk at CampLejeune, N.C.

Tim W. Reynolds (B.S.) is employed ingroup strategy at Westpac BankingCorporation in Sydney, Australia.

1999Alex M. Soto (B.A.) is on the executive

committee of the IndependentInsurance Agents of America.

Steven G. Woods (Ph.D.), director of foren-sics at Western Washington University,coaches a debate team.

2000Michael E. Beck (B.S.) is competition chair-

man of the Moot Court Board atMississippi College School of Law.

Chad R. Hamlin (B.S.) has completedOfficer Candidate School at NavalAviation Schools Command inPensacola.

Jason E. Whitaker (B.S.) is the new head

coach at Robert F. Munroe Day Schoolin Quincy, Fla.

Ensign Jason M. Witt (B.S.) has completedOfficer Candidate School at NavalAviation Schools Command inPensacola.

2001Ensign Alexander R. Helms II (B.A.) has

completed Officer Candidate Schoolat Naval Aviation Schools Command inPensacola.

Ensign Greg J. Hracho (B.S.) has complet-ed Officer Candidate School at NavalAviation Schools Command inPensacola.

Ensign Barton L. Jordan (B.A.) has com-pleted Officer Candidate School atNaval Aviation Schools Command inPensacola.

Ensign Joy R. Yu (B.S.) has completedOfficer Candidate School at NavalAviation Schools Command inPensacola.

received a Ph.D. in experimental psycholo-gy from Brown University.

He became the research director for theperceptual and motor skills laboratory ofthe U.S. Air Force in 1949 and studied mil-itary training problems. He was also a con-sultant to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Before he came to Florida State in 1969,he held academic positions at Princeton,the University of California at Berkeley andConnecticut College for Women. Dr. Gagnestayed at FSU’s Department of EducationalResearch until 1985.

Besides the five editions of “TheConditions of Learning,” he wrote numer-ous other books on principles of learningand instructional design.

Dr. Hunt developed state-of-the-artsophisticated research instruments andused them to conduct fundamental studies.

One allowed his group to study theproperties of some of the important gasessurrounding the earth.

His work contributed to a better under-standing of the energy levels and interac-tions of those gases and served as a basisfor understanding more complicated mole-cules.

Many of his graduate students becamedistinguished infrared scientists in acade-mia, at NASA and the Jet PropulsionLaboratory.

Allen Morris, 92, clerk of the stateHouse of Representatives for 20 years andcreator of the Florida Handbook, the bibleof state government, died April 22.

The family suggests memorial contri-butions to the FSU Foundation, AllenMorris Professorship in Florida History.

Also a distinguished newspaperreporter and political columnist, Mr.Morris was best known as a legislative his-torian. While serving as House clerk andfor years afterward, he recorded the richand colorful history of Florida government.And every other year he published theFlorida Handbook, an encyclopedia ofstate government.

It led to the state’s PhotographicArchives, which contains upward of 50,000pictures showing how people lived inFlorida over the past century.

Mr. Morris first went to Tallahassee in1941 for the Miami Herald. Subsequently,he reported 25 sessions.

A high school dropout, the Chicagonative came to Florida in 1921 with his wid-owed father. When he was 15 he answeredan ad for a “bright boy” and became a copyboy at the Miami News.

He later worked for the AssociatedPress, which sent him to Tallahassee.Injured in a car wreck, he married the nursewho cared for him, Dorothy Hedley. Theyhad two children. She died of cancer in1966, the year that Mr. Morris becameHouse clerk.

Leaving the AP, Mr. Morris joined theHerald in 1940 and returned to Tallahasseefor the 1941 legislative session. When theHerald turned down his idea of establish-ing a permanent bureau in the capital, Mr.Morris struck out on his own with“Cracker Politics,” a political column pub-lished in 20 daily newspapers.

He later married Joan Perry, an assis-tant clerk at the FSU library, where Morrisdid research for the Florida Handbook.

Condensed from the St. Petersburg Times,by Craig Basse and Lucy Morgan

Jerry Stephens, 68, FSU professor emer-itus of meteorology, died of cancer Feb. 5.

During the Korean War, he was anAerographer’s Mate in the Navy. Later, atthe University of Texas, he received a B.S. inmeteorology and an M.A. degree in math-ematics. He had a Ph.D. from Texas A & MUniversity.

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