Suite 1041600 R

ed Barber Plaza Tallahassee, FL

32310-6068

No

n-P

rofit

Org

anizatio

nU

.S. Po

stage

PAID

Perm

it #2

96

Tallahassee, FL

Seth Miller was amongthe students gathered atthe D’Alemberte Rotun-da at the FSU College of

Law when New York attorneyBarry Scheck delivered anenticing invitation.

“You have the chance to makea huge difference in people’slives,” said Scheck, announcingthe creation of a Florida branch ofthe Innocence Project,a non-profit legal clin-ic he co-founded that

By Mark RiordanSpecial for the FSU Foundation

Its popularity is soaring among undergrad-uates eager to see if they have what it takesto make it in law school, and now the FSU

College of Law’s Summer for Undergradu-ates Program can double its enrollment,thanks to a gift from FSU alumnus WayneHogan and his wife, Patricia.

In July,the Hogansgave $1million to the law school to permanently dou-ble the size of the 12-year-old program toaccommodate 60 students a year.

“I am thoroughly impressed with theimpact this program is having on the stu-dents’ lives,” Wayne Hogan said. A 1972graduate of the law school, he is a partner in

the Jacksonville law firm Brown, Terrell,Hogan, Ellis, McClamma and Yegewel.

It’s not the first time the Hogans havegiven to the Summer for UndergraduatesProgram. In 2000, as part of a $2-million giftto the university (which received another $2million in state matching funds), the Hogansearmarked half of that gift to endow theSummer for Undergraduates Program.

The summer program offers collegefreshmenand sopho-mores an

intense law-school experience. They come tothe law school from throughout the country.The four-week program includes room andboard, books, materials and a stipend.

“The professors let you know that whatyou do as an undergrad has implications for

Big gift helps tomorrow’s lawyers

uses DNA tests to challenge con-victions.

“Being responsible for aninnocent person walking out ofprison would be a highlight in thelives of most lawyers,” he said.“You have a chance to see yourlegal career peak early.”

Miller, a 23-year-old third-year student at the College ofLaw, eagerly grabbed that oppor-tunity offered in April.

He was among

26 students who signed up forlaw Professor Meg Baldwin’scourse this summer called “post-conviction remedies.”

They learned about the vari-ous outlets of relief for peoplewho have been convicted andsentenced and have exhausteddirect appeals.

But the course went beyondbook-learning academics to theclinical experience of researchwith real inmates’ real cases.

“This is a wonderful opportu-

arms, to hold on tightly to thevirus and keep it from movingand infecting healthy humancells.

They are the human antibod-ies, and if FSU biology ProfessorKenneth Roux’s predictions areright, a recently discovered anti-body might help design a vaccineagainst HIV — the virus thatcauses AIDS.

They are hardworkinglittle warriors shapedlike a “Y.” When avirus enters the human

body, the immune systemsends an army of those little Ysto fight off the disease. Each Yheads for one small part of theinvader’s armor.

As the tiny warriors encount-er the invader, they use their two

Law students use DNA to sort the innocent from the guilty

Bizarre antibody may make AIDS vaccine possibleRoux and FSU Research

Associate Ping Zhu are amongthe 16 scientists who have solvedthe “bizarre structure” of the anti-body known by scientists as“2G12.” Their work was reportedJune 27 in the journal Science.

The 2G12 antibody “was iso-lated about a decade ago from anAustrian patient who was able tosuccessfully combat HIV,” Roux

have naturally produced 2G12.From that source, the 2G12 anti-body was cloned in test tubes andthe structure was determined byX-ray crystallography and elec-tron microscopy. The antibodyhas been shown to neutralizefrom 25 percent to 50 percent ofthe known strains of HIV.

The power of the 2G12 comes

said.Hermann Katinger, the

Austrian scientist who isolatedthe 2G12 antibody, is one of the 16who have studied it ever since,including Roux, Zhu and otherscientists in England and theUnited States.

Roux said the Austrian AIDSsurvivor was the only HIV-infect-ed person known at the time to

September 2003

Phill

ip M

. Po

llock

(Continued on page 16)

(Continued on page 16)

(Continued on page 5)

FSU biology Professor Kenneth Roux, left, and Research Associate Ping Zhu, right, tracking down the specifics of 2G12, an HIV antibody

Phot

os b

y Vi

da V

olke

rt

Wayne Hogan

Medical Students at FSU

Natosha Canty, above, plans to be afamily physician in a rural communi-ty. Her story and others about themedical school on pages 8-9

Cou

rtes

y /

FSU

Col

lege

of

Med

icin

e

“We had some of the toughest professors at the law school”

2 /September 2003

A year ago, Andrew Avileswas a senior at Robinson HighSchool, the student governmentpresident and a National HonorSociety member.

More recently, he was LanceCpl. Andrew Aviles, a Marinereservist who drove an amphibi-ous tank in Iraq.

He hated the sandstorms, butfelt lucky to be riding alongsidehis platoon commander. He fig-ured on being home by August orSeptember, he wrote in letters tohis friends and family.

“I’m a little excited, a littlescared about the whole thing,” hetold his best friend in March.“Everyone’s telling us that we’repretty much the tip of the spearand kicking the door down.”

Aviles was killed Monday[April 7] while crossing a bridgein Iraq. He would have turned 19in two weeks.

Now only his letters remain.And memories of the little things:

The way he once caught hisshoe on fire in chemistry class.The way he blasted the radio,scarfed meals from Checkersbefore football games, lovedvideo games. The way he madeeveryone laugh.

Andrew Aviles led the Pledgeof Allegiance at his graduation inTampa. He postponed a full col-lege [FSU] scholarship to join theservice.

His family and friends saythey know no other details abouthis death. They know only that ayoung man with a promisingfuture will come home in a coffin.

His high school resume isimpressive.

Student government presi-dent. National Honor Society.Beta Club honor society.Wrestling team. Cheerleader.JROTC. Rotary Club scholar.Graduated third in his class.

Aviles passed up a full aca-demic scholarship to Florida State

University to join the serv-ice.

“This was something hefelt he needed to do,” saidan uncle, John Aviles. “Itwas a moral obligation,something he wanted to ful-fill.”

He had two siblings,Kristine and Matthew.

Kristine Aviles saidTuesday that her youngerbrother started talking dur-ing his junior year of joiningthe Marine Corps, thoughhe planned to eventuallyearn a business degree fromFSU.

“He thought it would begood for him to learn some-thing new,” she said.

So he went. He finished bootcamp in September, then trainedin California. He was activatedfor duty in January.

But in letters from ParrisIsland, S.C., and from the MiddleEast, he never stopped handingout smiles to people back home.

“It’s freezing cold most of thetime and there are always gusts ofwind and heavy sandstorms,” hewrote to a friend last month.“And to think, my dumb a—thought it would be a waste ofmoney to get goggles.”

He signed a letter to anotherfriend, “From where there’s plen-ty of beach but no water, Andy.”

That sense of humor. It was

infectious — andconstant — friendsand family said,again and again.

“He probablycould have gottenstudent-body pres-ident and classclown at the sametime,” said KevinPeterson, Aviles’best friend.

There was asofter side, too.

“He stood be-hind me when noone else would,”said close friendMisty Abshear.“Even when he feltdown, your feelings came first.He wouldn’t question you. He’djust be there for you.”

Even after Aviles went to Iraq,even after he’d given his life, peo-ple couldn’t help but think of himas a kid.

A Robinson High School griefcounselor even called him a “kid”… before correcting himself.

It’s understandable.Pictures from high school and

in his military dress blues show ababy-faced Aviles staring back atthe camera, usually with a smile.

Then there’s the talk in his let-ters about girls back home, andthe stories people tell about party-ing at the Ybor night parade andwatching silly movies with his

friends.A letter to a friend that

Andrew Aviles sent from theMiddle East.

At the same time, it seemsclear that Aviles realized — evenif his friends did not — that beinga soldier in war was a serioustask, with grave risks.

In December, after completinghis training, Aviles returned toTampa. He and Peterson playedpool at Fatso’s on BuschBoulevard until 1 or 2 in themorning. Then Peterson drovehis best friend home.

Aviles wanted to say a longgoodbye.

“He was like, ‘I don’t knowwhat’s going to happen,’ “Peter-son said. “He was like, ‘I’ll be allright. But just in case.’ “

So they hugged.Now Peterson and the others

understand.“It’s the first friend I’ve ever

had close to me die,” said C.J.Clendenin, who gave Aviles aride to school every morning. “Ican’t understand why it had to behim.”

… When friends heard thenews, a group of them met at anapartment near the University ofSouth Florida. They told storiesabout their friend. They laughed.They cried.

Misty Abshear, who receivedmany of Aviles’ letters, wenthome and tried to sleep.

Hardly any came, just memo-ries and tears and the hauntinglast words he wrote to her: “Untilthe next time, be good and telleveryone I miss them and I’ll beback before they know it.”

“I thought we’d be friendsforever and grow old together,and now I have to go on withouthim,” Abshear said.

“At least he died a hero.”—Reprinted from the St.

Petersburg Times, by Brady Dennisand Ron Matus

Andrew Aviles, 18, a Marinereservist who died in Iraqinstead of going to FSU on a fullacademic scholarship, as he andFSU had planned, was declaredan alumnus anyway by FSUPresident T.K. Wetherell in a cer-emony in July.

Wetherell presented Aviles’family an “alumnus honoriscausa” certificate. He said it wasa new designation created forAviles.

“What it in essence says, “Wetherell explained, “is that youare forever an alumnus ofFlorida State University. It is thehighest honor that we coulddevise for someone of Andrew’snature.”

Aviles graduated third in hisclass from Tampa’s RobinsonHigh School.

He would have attendedFlorida State in January, hismother, Norma Tamayo-Aviles,said, but he put off collegebecause he felt he had a moralobligation to serve his country.

“Even though he did not geta chance to attend, I know hewould have done well,” OscarAviles said with teary eyes at theceremony at FSU honoring hisson. “That was Andy. In whatev-er he partook, he made sure hemade the best of it.”

Wetherell offered Aviles’brother, Matthew Aviles, a fullfour-year scholarship at FSU.

Matthew Aviles, 17, is ascholar like his brother, a 4.0 GPAsenior at the same high schoolwhere Andrew graduated.

Wetherell also gave Aviles’parents a ceremonial brick, areplica of the brick that will beplaced in their son’s memorynear the Westcott Fountain. —Vida Volkert

Andrew Avilesis FSU alumnus

He was ready to go to college—he went to war instead

Andrew Aviles

Norma Tamayo-Aviles and Oscar Aviles with their son’s remains beforeburial at Arlington Cemetery

©20

03 T

he W

ashi

ngto

n Po

st,

Phot

o by

Sus

an B

iddl

e. R

eprin

ted

with

per

mis

sion

Bill

Lang

ford

/ F

SUPh

oto

Lab

T.K. Wetherell, left, presents certificate to Oscar Aviles, Norma Tamayo-Aviles andMatthew Aviles, far right.

Vol. 9 No. 1 • www.fsu.edu/~fstime/FS-Times/Florida State Times is published 7 times annually by the Florida State University CommunicationsGroup, Alumni Association and the FSU Foundation to keep alumni, friends, faculty and staffinformed about FSU’s growth, change, needs and accomplishments. Views expressed in the FloridaState Times are not necessarily the views of university officials or the newspaper staff. Inclusion ofunderwriting does not constitute an endorsement of the products or services.

Design and Production: Ed AugustyniakManaging Editor: Bayard SternStaff Writer: Vida VolkertEditorial Assistant: Karl BrozynaPresident of University Communications: Franklin D. Murphy

To suggest news stories, write to the Florida StateTimes, 1600 Red Barber Plaza, Suite 104, Tallahassee,Fla. 32310-6068 or e-mail the editor:fstimes@mailer.fsu.edu. To submit address changes,news for NewsNotes or In Memoriam, call AlumniAffairs at 850-644-2761. Underwriting is handled bythe Florida State University Communications Group.For rates, call Frank Flynn at (850) 487-3170 ext. 317.Florida State Times is available in alternative formatupon request. It was published at a cost of $27,000 or60 cents per copy. It is printed on recycled paper.

3September 2003 /

Fitzroy Smith, 39, director ofrisk management in ArlingtonCounty, Md., is taking FSU’sonline master’s program in man-agement, with a major in riskmanagement/insurance.

“It’s no cake walk,” saidSmith, who is a husband and thefather of three children. “I’m uplate at night. It’s a lot of work, butthere’s a lot of built-in support.”

Born in Jamaica, Smith cameto the United States at age 11 andearned an undergraduate degreefrom the College of Insurance,New York City, now part of St.John’s University.

He had his own businessmanaging government risk-man-agement programs before hejoined the Arlington Countyadministration. Several times, hetried to continue his education,Smith said, but he didn’t have theluxury of resigning his job andreturning to campus.

So, when he stumbled acrossFlorida State’s online program inBusiness Insurance magazine,Smith was eager to sign on.

U.S. News and World Reportmagazine ranks FSU’s under-graduate program in risk man-agement and insurance among

the nation’s top 10. Themaster’s degree is chartingnew territory and creatingworldwide interest.

Another FSU on-linegraduate student, DaveSkup of Fort Wayne, Ind.,praised the lectures, theavailability of professorsand the online chat ses-sions.

“This program has beenterrific,” said Skup, whoearned a bachelor’s degreeat FSU in accounting in1974. Now chief operatingofficer for Aon ServiceCenter, which handlesinsurance sales for 19 com-panies, Skup is on theCollege of Business Alumni

Board of Directors. He returns tocampus three or four times a yearand still has season tickets forSeminole games.

“Now, if we could only addonline FSU football game cover-age,” he said.

Patrick Maroney, professorand MBA faculty director forFSU’s College of Business, said anew online program for apMBA—professional master ofbusiness administration—wasdesigned for established profes-sionals who want more educationwithout leaving their careers.

The pMBA requires 14 coursestotaling 42 credit hours. The dis-tance-learning format will havethe same professors, content andbooks in the same credit hours asthe on-campus MBA.

Two courses will be offeredeach semester, beginning inJanuary. One is delivered com-pletely online. The other will beheld on FSU’s Tallahassee campuson five Saturdays.

“I absolutely love it,” saidHeather Maxwell, who plans topractice corporate law. “I couldn’tfind a better program than FSU’s,and the professors have been veryapproachable.”— Dorothy Clifford

Ever want to run offand join the circus?

Florida State Universityalumni Dan and ElizabethButler went a step further.

They ran off and found-ed a circus.

The Butlers, whoattended FSU from 1976 to1980, founded CircusJuventas, a circus school forchildren and youth, inMinneapolis/St. Paul, Min-nesota, in 1994.

Named for the Romangod of youth who was saidto rejuvenate children,Circus Juventas’ primarymission is to inspire artistryand self-confidence througha circus experience. Itpromises that every childwill perform “under the bigtop,” as the Butlers have.

When he was 15, DanButler walked into the big top ofSailor Circus in Sarasota andtrained with world-renownedflyer Faye Alexander. Now in itsfifth decade of operation, SailorCircus is a four-ring youth circuswhose acts are all performed bythird to 12th graders.

Dan Butler was with the FSUCircus from 1976 to 1980, whenhe was a student.

Betty Butler also began herbig-top training in Sarasota, with

Sailor Circus in 1972, where sheworked with the Flying WallendaFamily on the high wire. She alsoperformed with FSU’s FlyingHigh Circus during her four yearsat the university.

“If the circus hadn’t beenthere, I wouldn’t have four yearsof college under my belt,” DanButler said, adding that circusdirector Bob Brinson has had alasting impact on his life.

High-school sweethearts, the

Butlers also dated at FSU.She graduated in 1980 witha degree in internationalbusiness and Italian. Henever graduated, opting tomarry Betty and move toAtlanta because he “didn’twant to lose her” in 1980.

They moved to theTwin Cities in 1991. Theyhave 5 children. They soonbegan looking for ways topay back society for theirgood fortune.

They came up withCircus Juventas.

“We’re currently ayouth development pro-gram,” Dan Butler explain-ed. Circus Juventas hasappeared at the ScienceMuseum of Minnesota,Target Center, the OrdwayCenter for the performingarts, the Mall of America,

Roy Wilkins Auditorium, and theMinneapolis Institute ofPerforming Arts.

At Circus Juventas, DanButler said, everybody gets toperform.

“We’re fulfilling a niche toprovide the opportunity for kidsto not be cut from the team,” heexplained.

“They can’t believe these areneighborhood (local) kids,” DanButler said. —Sibley Fleming

Getting a master’s degreefrom FSU on the Internet

Alumni of Flying High Circusgive kids chance to perform

At College Flags & Banners Co., for $32.95plus shipping, Florida State fans can buy a popu-lar flag depicting the tilted head of what purportsto be a Seminole in full battle cry.

During football season, these types ofSeminole symbols dot the streets of Tallahasseelike blooming dogwoods in the spring.

But, for those wanting to fly an authenticSeminole flag, the tilted Seminole head isnowhere to be seen.

Until the 20th century, flags held little signifi-cance as symbols for the Seminole tribes inhabit-ing Florida. In fact, flags had brought nothing buttrouble to the Seminoles trying desperately tohold on to their Florida homes and land.

In 1818, for example, then-Gen. AndrewJackson flew the flag of Great Britain as a ruse tolure two Seminole chiefs into a battle that ulti-mately led to their capture.

Another more infamous episode of trickeryaccomplished with the help of a flag trappedOsceola, the famed Seminole warrior.

A couple of years into the second Seminole

War, the U. S. military flew a white flag of truceand enticed Osceola into a meeting. But, insteadof honoring the truce, the military took Osceolaprisoner, and, a few months later in 1837, he diedof an illness in a U.S. prison.

It’s believed that the first flag of theSeminoles was created in 1861 for those who,under pressure, migrated from Florida to thewest on the disastrous Trail of Tears. That flag, aLittle Rock, Ark., paper said, had a crescent anda green star on it and looked a lot like the flagpresented earlier to Creek Indians, who had alsomade the forced march to the West.

In 1979, the Seminole Tribe of Floridachanged the design of its flag, which resembledthe official flag of the state of Florida. Gone werethe red, white and blue chevrons on the flag’sblue background. In their places appearedstripes of yellow (some might say gold), red (or,shall we say, garnet), black and white, and theseal of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, showing aburning fire under a chickee, a palm-thatchedroof perched on stilts.

The chickee represents the heart of Seminolelife: the home. Today, of course, on reservations,Seminoles live in traditional homes with closed-in walls under tiled or shingled roofs.Nevertheless, the chickee remains ever-present,transformed into garages, coverings for patios,or storage huts. —Dana Peck

ORIGINAL SEMINOLES

Patrick Maroney

FSU

Phot

o La

b /

Bill

Lang

ford

4 /September 2003

Homeless surveyThe homeless population in

Tallahassee appears to be gettingyounger and more chronicallyhomeless, according to an FSUsocial work professor who sur-veyed the city's homeless.

Most of Tallahassee's home-less people are 41 to 50 years old,but the younger age group of 21 to30 is increasing, said WendyCrook, who wrote the surveyreport with FSU doctoral studentGerri DeLongGoldman.

" C h r o n i chomelessnessappears to be onthe rise in ourc o m m u n i t y, "Crook said. Thesurvey identified703 homelesspeople: 381adults and 322 children. Of theadults, most were not married.About one-fourth were veterans,and almost four-fifths earned lessthan $1,000 per month. About 7percent of the adults had collegedegrees.

Crook said she was disturbedto learn that there were so manyhomeless children in Tallahassee.

"More troubling is the fact thatwe don't know how many morehomeless we were not able toidentify,” she said. “What kind oflives do these children have? Arethey attending school regularly?Are they getting regular meals?Do they get a chance to play?"

The emergency shelter wasthe location mentioned most oftenwhen respondents were askedwhere they had spent the previ-ous night.

Hope had no fearRichard Fallon, dean emeritus

of FSU's theater school, spent timewith Bob Hope in London duringWorld War II.

Hope arrived to entertaintroops, and Fallon, who was a pri-vate first class in the Army at thetime, was assigned to make sureHope stayed out of harm's way.

"This was when the Germanswere launching buzz bombs intoLondon," Fallon said. "You wouldhear them coming ... when thebuzzing stopped, there was anexplosion."

After getting Hope safely tohis hotel for re-hearsals, Fallonfigured he'd donehis job.

Not so fast."I got a call

from the hotel,and they said:'Bob Hope isgone,'" Fallonsaid. "He'd wandered off, andnobody was with him. I scouredLondon to find Bob Hope."

Fallon found him shopping inswanky Harrods departmentstore. He reminded the famousentertainer that buzz bombs werefalling around him all the time.

"Oh, I can hear them; I'm fine,"Hope said.

"He didn't indicate anyfear," Fallon said. —Condensed from TallahasseeDemocrat, by Mark Hinson

FSU’s minority graduatesEven when traditionally

black colleges are counted,FSU ranks 10th in thenation—and third among tra-

ditionally white institutions—inthe number of African-Americanswho earn bachelor's degrees.

That's the report of BlackIssues in Higher Education maga-zine, which analyzed preliminarycollege data for the 2001-02 schoolyear.

FSU was projected as having694 African-Americans whowould earn bachelor's degrees.Only Georgia State Universityand Temple University, of thenation's traditionally white uni-versities, graduated more African-Americans.

"This survey shows that all ofour hard work in recruiting andeducating students from all back-grounds is paying off," saidLawrence G. Abele, FSU's provostand executive vice-president.—Elizabeth Copps

Ralston honoredPenny Ralston, dean of the

FSU College of Human Sciences,has won the highest award of theAmerican Association of Familyand Consumer Sciences.

The associa-tion cited Rals-ton's achieve-ments and lead-ership in familyand consumersciences.

"I am hum-bled because Ifeel I havereceived from this association and

this profession much morethan I have given," Ralstonsaid.

She was president of theassociation in 1996-97.

As dean of HumanSciences, Ralston has over-seen enrollment increases,more than 35 facultyawards, an endowment that

has tripled and grants that haveincreased six fold.

As author of more than 50 arti-

cles, abstracts, book chapters andreviews, Ralston's scholarly workfocuses on program development,including community organiza-tions for older people to sustaintheir independence, and highereducation programs.

The association has more than10,000 members, including educa-tors and professionals in businessand industry, non-profit organiza-tions and government.

'Humanitarian of the Year'Florida State's Humanitarian

of the Year for 2003 is MaryBalthrop, administrative directorof the FSU London Center.

She was described as a surro-gate mother with tireless devotionto students studying abroad.

Balthrop was praised in par-ticular for her work with two stu-dents whenthey had med-ical emergen-cies.

She stayedwith the stu-dents and actedas their advo-cate in the hos-pital. She alsokept their par-ents informed of their conditions.

"Words are inadequate to con-vey the sense of vulnerability ...when [a] loved one is involved ina life-threatening accident so faraway," Edward Wright, dean ofFSU's Panama City Campus, saidafter his son, Jude, was struck by abus while he was studying inLondon. "Nor can I adequatelyexpress the enormity of whatMary Balthrop did ... or our grati-tude to her for her selflessness."

Balthrop, who was a stu-dent during FSU's firstLondon program in 1971, hasmanaged the London Centerfor six years.

"I ... make certain that weprovide for the personal andacademic needs of the stu-dents," Balthrop said.

She also proposed andnow directs the Ireland program,which was established in the sum-mer of 2002.

"She's smart, she's sincere andthis award is a perfect fit," her sis-ter-in-law, Beth Switzer, executiveproducer of WFSU-TV/TheFlorida Channel, said of Balthrop."After all, there are very good rea-sons her family nickname is 'DearSweet Mary.'"

Hurricane shelterA researcher at the FAMU-

FSU College of Engineeringhas designed a hurricaneshelter that can be builtinside most homes to with-stand winds of 140 mph—aCategory 4 storm—even ifthe rest of the house isripped apart.

Nur Yazdani, a profes-sor of civil and environ-mental engineering, said the"retrofit room" involves fortifyinga bathroom or closet with hurri-cane straps, anchor bolts, ply-wood or steel plate walls, an inde-pendent ceiling and a steel door tokeep its occupants safe. All of thematerials are available at mosthome-improvement stores.

The shelter can be built forabout $3,000 in materials andlabor.

When there are chaotic evacu-ations, massive traffic back-ups and no vacancies at pub-lic shelters and inlandmotels, some people may besafer at home.

Others—people wholive directly in a strong hur-ricane's path or in floodzones—should evacuateeven if their homes haveshelters, said Craig Fugate,

Florida's director of emergencymanagement.

Information on flood zonesand shelters is on the state's emer-gency management Web page athttp://www.floridadisaster.org.

Addiction is treatableBeing trained to help people

with drug and alcohol problemsdoesn't guarantee that you won'thave them yourself.

Among social workers, forexample, 12 percent in a recentstudy were at serious risk of alco-hol or drug abuse, according toFSU Social Work Professor DarcySiebert. Another 25 percent wereat moderate risk.

Siebert surveyed 751 socialworkers in North Carolina aboutalcohol and drug use as well asdepression, burnout and otheroccupational concerns.

"Drug misuse actually is verylow in this sample, but these socialworkers report drinking at higherrates than other helping profes-sionals and the general public,"she said.

Denial is a characteristicdefense mechanism among peo-ple with alcohol or drug prob-lems, and the social workers inthis study were no exception.Only 9 percent of those at seriousrisk said they had a problem with

alcohol or other drugs; 28 percentsaid they either had recovered orwere in recovery, even thoughthey had been drinking extensive-ly or using drugs in the precedingfew weeks.

"Our social workers do verydifficult workhelping others,but there may betimes when theyneed assistancefor themselves,"Siebert said. "Wedon't have enoughtrained social wor-ers as it is. To lose

them to addiction would be a ter-rible thing, because it's treatable."

Mary Balthrop

Wendy Crook

Bob Hope

Penny Ralston

Darcy Siebert

Corrections for August Florida State Times

Scott Dailey's name wasspelled incorrectly in theheadline of his obituary. Weapologize to his family andfriends for the error.

In the News Notes, it wasreported that MichaelDreyton Saunders (B.S. '64)was named the 20th FloridaEnterprise Medalist byMerchants Association ofFlorida. Michael Saunders,who runs a large real estatefirm in Sarasota, is a woman,and the news note incorrectlyused the masculine personalpronoun.

FSU student PabloPantoja, shown above, wasincorrectly identified.

❖ ❖ ❖

5September 2003 /

how you’ll perform in lawschool,” said third-year FSU lawstudent Shenika Harris, whocompleted the program in 1998when she was a sophomore atFlorida A&M. “If you’ve relied onbad habits to get you throughundergraduate classes, they’ll seethem and help you correct them.”

Harris, vice president ofFSU’s national-champion moot-court team, says the month shespent immersed in legal educa-tion “changed the way I ap-proached all my classes.”

“We had some of the toughestprofessors at the law school,” shesaid. “You had to be able to dis-cuss the readings beyond a sur-face interpretation. You had to godeeper and get into the philoso-phy behind it.”

The idea behind the program,explains Don Weidner, dean of thelaw school, is “to train undergrad

students to use their college yearsmore effectively to prepare for lawschool, particularly students fromgroups historically underrepre-sented in the legal profession.”

“We like to bring them inearly, show them the rigors andjoys of pursuing a literary profes-sion that requires critical thinking.We expose them to role modelswho demonstrate the highest lev-els of competence and profession-alism.”

The program works, saidNancy Benavides, program direc-tor and assistant dean for studentaffairs.

One of it’s great successes, shesaid, is the number of participantswho return to their campuses asself-appointed recruiters.

Weidner said he is proud ofthe Hogans’ gift.

“Recognition is not importantto them,” he said. “Making a dif-ference is.”

Harris said the program theHogans are supporting gave herthe opportunity to see that shecould succeed in law school. Nowshe is itching to practice law.

From left, Clayton Knowles, Dionne Richards, Wayne Hogan, Carlos Trujillo and Melonie Davila

Program recruits undergrads to ‘the rigors and joys’ of law career

“Wayne’s what an alumshould be,” Harris said. “I thinkabout how much he gives backand the profound effect it had onme and many others. I feel I have

a personal responsibility now togive back. I owe this programsomething. I owe this law schoolsomething. I owe him some-thing.”

Desperate men wanted water, not the law—they got bothReturning to West Palm Beach

from the Bahamas [June 2], sixwomen [including two FSUgrads] in a 28-foot powerboatcame upon five desperate-look-ing men waving T-shirts in amakeshift raft.

There, in the rough, openAtlantic Ocean, the women—including a Jacksonville doctorand grandmother, a University ofNorth Florida administrator anda Gainesville police officer—hadto make a decision.

An unwritten rule of the seadictates that mariners give assis-tance to a boat in distress. Butwho were these men? Escapeesfrom Cuba or Haiti? Survivorsfrom a boat that had sunk? Andwhat were their intentions?

The women knew they had aboat that could easily outdistancethe paddle-powered raft. Andthey had a gun.

"We had 16 bullets," said KatieLeMaster [FSU, BS '79, MSW '82],a social worker from Ponte VedraBeach. "We knew we could out-power them with our boat. Wejust didn't know if they had anyweapons.

"They looked emaciated,dehydrated, all that. Ourquandary was, do we leave thesepeople or don't we?"

A call to the Coast Guardmade the decision for them. Stayon station until a cutter arrivesand don't get too close to the raft,the Coast Guard told the crew ofthe Seminole Wind.

Two hours later the cutterManitou arrived to rescue whatauthorities believe are Cubanmigrants.

"These guys were lucky they

women. Although they neverspoke, the men gestured with abucket that they needed water.

"We said agua—Spanish forwater—but they didn't say any-thing," LeMaster said.

The women fashioned abuoyant anchor ball and ski ropeto a jug of water, then dragged itin a circle so that it would inter-cept the raft. The men drank fromthe jug, then motioned for theSeminole Wind to leave.

"Most of them know that if aboater stays with them, they aregoing to be picked up by theCoast Guard," Carr said.

But by then, the Coast Guardhad given instructions to theSeminole Wind to remain in thevicinity of the raft. The crew regu-larly updated the Coast Guardwith GPS coordinates. New stoodby with her police-issue Glock pis-tol, just in case.

"They knew we had the gun,"LeMaster said. "She didn't point itat them; she just held it in thecockpit so they could see it."

Northup kept the boat's twinoutboards idling the whole timewhile waiting for the cutter toarrive.

"We put the bow into the seaand made lunch," Northup said.… Had the Seminole Wind notencountered the raft, there's notelling what the fate of the fivemen might have been.

"It was memorable," Northupsaid. "I guess those guys couldhave died."

"It was much more adventurethan we set out for," Ellingtonsaid.

Condensed from the FloridaTimes Union, by Joe Julavits

medical director for Prudential.Her crew consisted of LeMaster;Sgt. Kathleen New of the AlachuaCounty Sheriff's Department;nurse Nancy Ellington [FSU, B.S.'96]; Becky Purser, director ofrecreation at the University ofNorth Florida; and StephanieHardman, a saleswoman.

After an uneventful, 80-milecrossing to Bimini, the womenfished on Saturday [May 31] andspent Sunday diving. Theydeparted at 9 a.m. Monday for thereturn trip. The seas were 3 to 5feet, higher than forecast, makingfor a bumpy but not unmanage-able ride.

About an hour out of Bimini,the Seminole Wind encounteredthe blue, circular raft bobbing inthe seas. The five men had fouroars, and they were waving to the

allowed to stay in the country.Those detained on the water, evenwhile in the process of wadingashore, are usually sent back toCuba.

"The ladies did exactly whatthey should do—call the CoastGuard and give the people wateror food, but don't take themaboard your boat," Carr said.

When the women set out fromWest Palm Beach for a long week-end of fishing and diving atBimini, little did they know theadventure in store. The six areclose friends, professional womenranging in age from 40 to 60, whohad made the crossing from SouthFlorida to the Bahamas twicebefore.

Judith Northup, owner of theSeminole Wind, has four grand-children and is the life insurance

were found," said Petty OfficerScott Carr of the Seventh CoastGuard Public Affairs Office inMayport. "It sounds like theywere in the Gulf Stream, and onceyou get north of West Palm Beach,there's not a lot of boat traffic." …According to the Coast Guardreport, the five men were takenaboard the Manitou. They were tobe interviewed by an immigrationofficer, and given food, drink andmedical treatment if needed.

"It sounds like they wereCuban migrants, because they arethe only ones who receive inter-views from an immigration offi-cer," Carr said. … In the majorityof these cases, the people are repa-triated back to Cuba."

“Under the current "feet wet,feet dry" policy, Cuban migrantswho are picked up on U.S. soil are

Phill

ip M

. Po

llock

On the Seminole Wind, from left: Becky Purser, Stephanie Hardman, Nancy Ellington, Judith Northup, KatieLeMaster and Kathleen New.

Will

Dic

key

/ Fl

orid

a Ti

mes

Uni

on

(Continued from page 1)

6 /September 2003

Not many student interns have dailyexposure to the works of artists such asRubens, Velazquez, Poussin and Hals. Butat the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, theydo.

This summer five FSU students didinternships with the museum, and they allpraised their experience and the opportuni-ty to work with museum experts such ascurators, conservators and informationtechnology professionals.

During the first month, KatilynGormley, 23, and Stassa Edwards, 24, bothFSU graduate students working on mas-ter’s degrees in art history, had a taste ofworking on a large museum inventory.

The inventory included “everything

from prints, drawing,antiquities, furniture—everything,” said Fran-coise Hack, the museum’sintern coordinator.

The inventory partyhad to make sure thateverything was in the spotwhere it is supposed to beand then put the findingsinto the museum’s database.

The work requiredenthusiasm, which the stu-dents have, Hack said, andpatience to go throughevery single object in themuseum. “That is the best way to learn,”she said.

They had to learn fast —the work wasdone in six weeks.

And as they learned about the art col-lection, Gormley, of Ponte Vedra Beach, didresearch on the 17th-century Spanishpainter Antonio de Bellis and his painting,“The Flaying of Marsyas by Apollo.”

Gormley said she wants to do an aca-demic paper on the subject because “notmuch research has been done on this par-ticular painting.”

“The painting has not been out to thepublic in about 50 years,” Gormley said.While it was in the conservation depart-ment, she was in the library researching thetime period, the artist and the painting.

The museum library has more than60,000 items, including books, exhibitioncatalogues, periodicals, auction catalogues,a small collection of rare books from the16th - 20th centuries and the personallibrary of John Ringling.

“We are giving them the tools and theexperience to excel in those areas that theyneed to be successful in their career andeducation,” said Chrissy Kruger, the muse-

um’s public relations manager.Internships are open to students in any

major.Karen Fenton, 21, an advertising major

at FSU, is an intern.Originally from Sarasota, Fenton says

she has always had an appreciation for theRingling Museum and hoped to workthere. But there were no internship open-ings in her field, advertising—at least nopaid internships. So she called the museumand talked her way into a position. It washer first internship, and she said she “didn’tknow what to expect.”

Fenton was the only intern of the fivewho worked as a volunteer. She said herexperience was rewarding. She was able tointeract with museum workers at everylevel and with visitors, from the regularpublic to media representatives. After threemonths helping write letters to organiza-tions and dealing with the public every day,she said she felt “super prepared” to goback to school and continue working on hermajor.

The internship works both ways. Ithelps students expand their knowledge intheir field, and it gives the museum valu-

able help, Hack said.Another advantage of bringing interns

to work in the museum is that “we havepeople from different professions comingin,” she said.

Tom Kolodziey, for example, was work-ing on a master’s in information technologymanagement at the time of the internship.He helped redesign the museum’s Website. He contributed with technical supportand maintenance for about 150 computerstations and had to deal with software-relat-ed problems and system crashes.

The internship program is limited byoffice space, but some expansion isplanned, according to Jill Chamberlin, asso-ciate director of the Ringling Museum ofArt.

Chamberlin said FSU is also looking forhousing for future interns, including use ofdormitories of nearby colleges that don’tuse them in the summer. —Vida Volkert

FSU interns at Ringling work every day surrounded by art

Tom Kolodziey

Stassa Edwards, left, and Katilyn Gormley

Chrissy Kruger, left, and intern Karen Fenton

Rosa Bonheur to MarcelDuchamp: Highlightsfrom the Ringling’sCollection of 19th andEarly 20th Century ArtAug. 30—Oct. 5, 2003

The Ringling Museumpresents approximately 40works from its permanentcollection, which have notbeen on view for severalyears because of a lack ofgallery space. The exhibi-tion includes works byEuropean and Americanartists and considers therole of Realism and its varied interpreta-tions over a century. It documents the fun-damental geographical shift of the avant-garde center for art from Europe to theUnited States, closing with works byMarcel Duchamp.

Highlights: Robert Henri, Salome, 1909.Edward Hopper, Jenness House Looking

North, 1934.Carl Marr, The Mystery of Life, 1879.Thomas Hart Benton, Interior of a

Farmhouse, 1936.Marcel Duchamp, Trébuchet, 1917.

some of which haverarely been seen orpublished.

Renaissance toRococo:Masterpieces fromthe Collection of theWadsworthAtheneum of ArtJan. 31—April 25,2004

Looking at Italian,Spanish, NorthernEuropean, French andEnglish painting, this

exhibition chronicles the manyshifts in taste in Europe from 1518to 1850. It consists of approxi-mately 60 works of art.

Highlights: Zubaran, SaintSerapion, 1628.

Carravagio, Ecstasy of SaintFrancis, 1595.

Ribera, The Sense of Taste, 1614-1616.

Goya, Gossiping Women, 1790.Ruisdael, Bleaching Gourds

near Haarlem, ca. 1660-1665.

Early American ModernismMay 13—June 13, 2004

Approximately 40 objects make up thecore of this group of paintings fromLongboat Key’s Mark and Irene Kauffman.The show chronicles the development ofModernism from the Armory show of 1913into the mid-1950s.

Highlights: Stuart Davis, Mountainsand Molehills, 1915.

Ben Shahn, Hamilton Fish Park, 1940.Charles Burchfield, Clearing After

Storm, 1917.Romare Bearden, Uptown, 1962.Charles Sheeler, The Shower, 1948.

Upcoming exhibits at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

Dan

Mac

Don

ald

Dan

Mac

Don

ald

Dan

Mac

Don

ald

Margaret Bourke-White: The Photography of Design, 1927 -1936Oct. 25, 2003—Jan. 4, 2004

This exhibition, organized by StephenPhillips, curator at The Phillips Collection,Washington, D.C., explores the years ofBourke-White’s life and work before shewas hired by Life magazine. It was a peri-od when she formed her aesthetic visionand forged new territory in the field of pho-tojournalism. The exhibition includesapproximately 150 vintage photographs,

Trébuchet (Trap), 1917 (1964 edition) by MarcelDuchamp, French

Ploughing in Nivernais (1850) by Rosa Bonheur, French

7September 2003 /

SWEETFIREby Pat MacEnulty (M.A. ‘86 creativewriting)Serpent’s Tail Publishers, London

This debut novel of Pat MacEnulty fol-lows a young wo-man through the1970s in a perilousjourney of drugaddiction, stealing,cheating and aninevitable spiral tothe bottom. But thestory doesn’t endthere, and the maincharacter, Trish,

must find a way out of trouble that seemsto never end.

AND THE WIND BLEW COLDThe Story of an American POWin North Koreaby Richard M. Bassett (B.S. ‘57,M.S. ‘71, education)Kent State University Press

This memoirwas started in 1953when Richard Bas-sett returned fromKorea. He stoppedworking on it andtried to forget hisexperiences.

More than 20years later, hospital-

ized for acute post-traumatic stress disor-der, he started working on it again, nowincluding his postwar struggles with theU.S. government, his own wounded psy-che in addition to his days as a soldier anda P.O.W.

ERNST VON DOHNANYI A Songof Lifeby Ilona von Dohnanyiedited by James A. Grymes (M.A.‘98, Ph.D. ‘02)Indiana University Press

Ernst vonDohnanyi (1877 -1960) is credited withtraining a generationof musicians inHungary and helpingto shape the coun-try’s musical culture.

After WW II, hiscareer foundered

when he was falsely accused of being aNazi sympathizer.

In 1976 he made a “re-debut” atCarnegie Hall at the age of 76.

This book was written from a firsthandperspective by Dohnanyi’s widow and is acomprehensive biography of the artist.

BICYCLING with Kids inDownEast Maineby Roger L. Turner (B.S. ‘77,criminology)NICOLIN FIELDS PUBLISHINGINCORPORATED

“BICYCLING with Kids in DownEastMaine” is a 128-pageguide to family bicy-cling in some of themost scenic country-side on the EastCoast. The book con-tains 37 short, safeand scenic rides thatinclude maps, routenotes, breathtaking

views and fun activities to do with kidsalong the way.

MONITORING ECOSYSTEMSInterdisciplinary Approaches forEvaluating EcoregionalInitiativesEdited by David E. Busch andJoel C. Trexler (M.S. ‘82, Ph.D.‘86)Island Press

In this book, scientists and research-ersoffer a groundbreak-ing synthesis of les-sons learned aboutecological monitoringin major ecoregionalinitiatives around theUnited States. Con-tributors present in-sights and experi-ences gained from

their work in designing, developing andimplementing comprehensive ecosystemmonitoring programs in the PacificNorthwest, the lower Colorado River Basinand the Florida Everglades.

Want something to read?Want something to read?N e w b o o k s b y F S U g r a d u a t e s a n d f a c u l t y

Reader: Jennifer Agwunobispecial projects manager, FSU University Relations

8 /September 2003

It’s been almost 50 years since anybodyfrom Perry, Fla., (population 7,000) hasgone away to medical school and comeback home to practice.

Now, three medical students fromPerry are promising to do that.

The difference is that Doctors’Memorial Hospital in Perry came up witha new strategy: offering full medical-schoolscholarships at $60,000 a student, if the stu-dent would come back to Perry to practicefor at least four years.

Another difference: The new medicalschool at FSU is recruiting that kind of doc-tor-to-be, the kind that wants to practice insmall towns or otherwise be a doctor forthe underserved.

And Perry is officially underserved.Perry is in Taylor County, one of 21

Florida counties that are federally designat-ed as medically underserved, primarilybecause there aren’t enough doctors.

Three more are in the pipeline now forPerry and Taylor County.

The first was Joda Lynn, a third-gener-ation Perry native who was the first stu-dent admitted to the FSU College ofMedicine. Lynn will graduate in 2005.

The next year, Shannon Price will grad-uate. In 2007, it will be Josef Plum, whobegan his first semester in May.

In Perry, the three new doctors—and all

the others who follow—willhave a state-of-the-art 48-bedhospital, opened in May thisyear and financed by a one-cent sales tax the votersapproved in 1999.

But it will require morethan the brand new hospitalto take care of the medicalneeds of Taylor County.

“If you’re in hospitaladministration, you have tosolve your problems todayand make the bottom linecome out, but we took amore long-term approach tosolving those problems, andthat was to recruit our own, train our own,and bring them back here,” said JimMcKnight, CEO of Doctors’ MemorialHospital.

“It makes a lot of sense because cur-rently we spend anywhere from $200,000to $300,000 to recruit a physician, and insome cases they stay three or four yearsand they leave,” McKnight said. “We caneducate four medical students for thatamount of dollars.”

For Lynn the scholarship will make iteasier to pursue the goal he’d already setfor himself—to practice medicine in hishometown.

By Abby CruzInformation intern,FSU College of Medicine

In sixth grade Natosha Canty wasasked to write an essay on what she want-ed to be when she grew up. Canty, now athird-year medical student at FSU, distinct-ly remembers writing about wanting tobecome a physician, and looking back, shethinks she knows why.

Growing up in rural Concord, Fla.,Canty was aware that, like her mother and

grandfather, most people from her com-munity worked in agriculture for a livingand didn’t have health insurance.

“Even though there were programsavailable to people, such as Medicaid andMedicare, a lot of people didn’t take advan-tage of them,” Canty said. “It was just notone of their priorities.”

As a result, a lot of people in her townwent without adequate care.

“I saw a lot of conditions that could’vebeen treated, but there were other thingsthat were more important than taking off

Perry finds a way to bringhome-town doctors home

“I think it’s going to be like a dominoeffect for other hospitals in the state insmall towns and rural communities to startup similar programs,” Lynn said. “I thinkit’s a good investment for the hospital tobring in good physicians, and a goodinvestment for the community to ensurethe quality of their health care in thefuture.”

Dr. Ocie Harris, dean of the FSUCollege of Medicine, says he hopes otherrural hospitals in Florida will see theadvantage of putting medical studentsthrough school, instead of paying dearly torecruit doctors who may or may not like

life in a small town.“Our mission is to educate physicians

who will work with medically under-served populations,” Harris said. “That’swhy partnerships with institutions likeDoctors’ Memorial Hospital are so impor-tant to us, and why we’d like to see othersfollow their lead.”

Dr. John H. Parker, a Perry native whowas Lynn’s childhood doctor, set up hispractice in Perry in 1954. Every doctor inPerry since has come from somewhere else.

“It was overdue, you could modestlyput it,” Parker said of the current successfuleffort to bring the doctors home.

She grew up in the country wanting to be a country doctormy community, and I think that’s whatmakes me different from a lot of the peopleI grew up with,” Canty said.

During the summer after her junioryear at Florida A&M University, Canty

worked at the NationalInstitute for OccupationalSafety and Public Health inepidemiology and publichealth. She went on to earn amaster’s of public health atFAMU.

Canty says she chose theFSU College of Medicinebecause of its mission toaddress the needs of theunderserved, including ruralFloridians.

Canty says she wants to be a familyphysician in a rural community

“Most people aren’t lying in a hospitalbed,” she said of the rural people like theones she grew up with. “Most people aresuffering from things that are silent, likehypertension or diabetes, that don’t affectthem until years down the road.

“But if these health conditions are dis-covered and treated early, and communi-ties are educated about them, then you cansave some people, or at least improve theirquality of life. And I think that’s important.That’s what I want to do. I can’t see myselfdoing anything else.”

work to go to the doctor,” Canty said.In spite of the obstacles, Canty’s moth-

er insisted that Natosha visit a dentist everysix months and a doctor once a year. Inaddition to teaching her daughter goodhealth habits, her motheralways encouraged her togo on field trips and becomeinvolved with after-schoolprograms.

“My mother, I think, sac-rificed a lot so that I couldexperience things outside of

FSU medical school begins

FSU medical students, from left to right, Joda Lynn, Shannon Price and Josef Plum, all Perry, Fla., natives.

Karen Miles, FSU College of Medicine student, with children af migrant workers in Quincy, Fla.

Natosha Canty

Photos courtesy / FSU College of Medicine

9September 2003 /

[After two years of a combi-nation of classroom and clinicaleducation], FSU’s first medicalstudents will begin their thirdschool year spending the major-ity of their time working along-side doctors.

“I know the experience isgoing to be unlike anythingwe’ve done for the first twoyears,” said student ShaylaGray, originally from Jackson-ville. “We get to apply the thingswe’ve learned.”

The FSU College ofMedicine opened its first threeregional medical school cam-puses [in July] in Tallahassee,Pensacola and Orlando.

Students have six-week oreight-week rotations in internalmedicine, psychiatry, familymedicine, surgery, pediatricsand obstetrics/gynecology.

“They can see patients; theycan develop relationships withpatients,” Dr. Les Wilson said.“A lot of teaching involves fol-low-up.”

Student Lorna Fedelem, anative of Naples, … began herfamily-practice rotation at Wil-son’s Miccosukee Road practicethat he shares with his wife, Dr.Vicki Erwin-Wilson, and a nursepractitioner.

“She’ll be like a part of our practice,”Wilson said of Fedelem.

Five of the med school’s original class of30 students are in Tallahassee. Of the rest, 14have been assigned to the Orlando campusand 11 to Pensacola. One student assignedto Orlando, Kevin Raville, has been calledup to active duty as a pararescue jumper inthe Air Force. He still hopes to graduatewith the first class in 2005.

Wilson said third-year students atFSU’s med schoolwill get more hands-

on experience than he did as athird-year student at theUniversity of Florida. Heremembers his first experiencesin surgery involved just hold-ing instruments while fourth-year students andresidents got thebetter view of theprocedure andhands-on tasks.FSU third-year stu-dents will workone-on-one withspecialty doctors.

Because no stu-dents have gonebefore them, third-year students saythey aren’t com-pletely sure what toexpect in the daysahead.

Students don’thave upperclass-men giving them“pearls” of advice,said student GarrettChumney, a nativeof Apalachicolawho starts his rota-tion schedule with internalmedicine. But no one is stress-ing students out with horrorstories of rotations gone wrong,either, he said.

Students said they’ve received a warmwelcome from the Tallahassee medical com-munity. When clerkship directors intro-duced rotations to students during orienta-tion this week, each doctor said his or herspecialty was the best one. The same level ofenthusiasm has been seen in Pensacola andOrlando, said Mollie Hill, director of com-munity and clinical relations.

Each city has an office site similar to the

third-year clinical trainingrenovated 5,000 square feet at 3331 CapitalOaks Drive amid the medical offices close toTCH [Capital Regional Medical Center, for-merly known as Tallahassee CommunityHospital]. The regional campus office pro-vides office space for clerkship directors,

technology and student sup-port staff, a conference roomand a classroom. It also givesstudents 24-hour access to alounge and library.

Dr. Eugene Trowers,Tallahassee regional campusdean, said students will meet asa group Wednesday afternoonsfor lessons and discussions onspecial topics. They also willspend time following patientswith chronic diseases over thecourse of the year.

“I feel confident this isgoing to work,” said MichaelHernandez, a student fromJacksonville, of the fledglingmedical school—the first to beestablished in the United Statesin the past 20 years.

The Tallahassee regionalcampus plans to eventuallyhouse up to [10] … studentseach in years three and four.

Additional campuses are planned for FortMyers, Jacksonville and Sarasota. Thefourth year of curriculum includes rotationsin advanced family medicine, advancedinternal medicine, emergency medicine andgeriatrics—plus electives for further study.

After preparing for the national boardexam and taking it in June, students took afew weeks off. Now they’re in the nextphase of their medical-school career.

“Getting in there and getting your handsreally dirty is what it’s all about,” said stu-dent Christie Sain of Orlando.

Condensed from the TallahasseeDemocrat, by Melanie Yeager

Third year will be completely different

The FSU College of Medicine—inaddition to turning out a stream of doc-tors who will practice in rural parts ofFlorida—is also performing research onrural medical care.

With a gift of $750,000 from BlueCross and Blue Shield of Florida, theschool has created the “Blue Cross andBlue Shield of Florida Center for RuralHealth.”

The center will study the specialneeds of more than 1 million people wholive in Florida’s 33 rural counties.Nineteen of them are federally designat-ed as “medically underserved.”

Dr. Robert Brooks, associate dean forhealth affairs at the College of Medicine,said the center will help make the collegea national leader in rural health policyand research.

BCBS makesmajor gift forresearch center

Robert Brooks

Florida ranks near the bottom when itcomes to having enough doctors certifiedas specialists in caring for the elderly, arecent study shows, but the FSU Collegeof Medicine is out to change that.

One of the nation's most popularretirement destinations, Florida has just3.4 certified geriatricians for every 10,000residents over the age of 75, according toa study published in the Journal of theAmerican Geriatrics Society. Only sixstates have fewer geriatrics experts perelderly resident.

The FSU medical school recentlybecame the first in the state—and one ofonly four in the country—to devote adepartment to geriatric medicine.

"Although older people make up onlyabout 13 percent of the U.S. population,and 18 percent of Florida's, they consume30 to 40 percent of all health-care servicesand use 36 percent of all drugs pre-scribed," said Dr. Ken Brummel-Smith,chairman of the new department.

New geriatrics department

First-year medical student Nick Seeliger listens to a baby’sheart at a clinic in Palmas Bellas, Panama, one of the threesites visited by FSU medical students participating in theFSUCares 2003 spring-break medical mission.

First-year medical student Danielle Bass madefriends in Panama while there with FSUCares spring

break medical mission in March.

Kevin Raville

Lorna Fedelem

Shayla Gray

Michael Hernandez

Garrett Chumney

Phot

o co

urte

sy /

FSU

Med

ical

Sch

ool

10 /September 2003

Keeping ScoreBy Charlie Barnes

Executive DirectorSeminole Boosters

ing total of more than $76 million—from only about 160 people.

We concentrated on thatvery small universe of donorsfor five years. We’llalways focus on large, cap-ital gifts. But now, ourattention turns to our base ofannual donors as well.

Most of the $76 millionfrom the Dynasty Campaignis going to gorgeous newfacilities at Florida State: ourall-new Golf Center, the all-new basketball practice building, dramati-cally enhanced Dick Howser BaseballStadium, an all-new Moore Athletic Center.

This entire park of first-class athleticfacilities was created in only six years. Thatis a stunning accomplishment.

Now our attention turns to scholar-ships, which cost around $5 million a year,and every increase in tuition increases thecost.

The solution is an endowment largeenough to produce the required amount inannual earnings. Projections show thatmeans between $80 million and $100 mil-

lion. That’s possible. We alreadyhave about $20 million in cash

under management, withpledges for more.

Some schools are wayahead, but we can catchup.

The other main em-phasis now for our staffwill be increasing the

number of annual donors,and strengthening the rela-

tionships between the Boosterorganization and our donors.

We have great supporters in equallygreat numbers. More than 3,000 individualsgive at least $1,000 per year.

Last year, we had 613 Golden Chiefs($5,500-$11,000), 574 Silver Chiefs ($2,750)and 1,824 Tomahawks ($1,100). Our mini-mum contribution for benefits is $55.

Our staff looked at the numbers, stud-ied the names and realized we have thou-sands of donors we have never met.

That was the inspiration for our trips toAtlanta and South Florida.

People were glad to see us, enthusiastic

and happy to have their contri-butions appreciated. We’d

talk about FSU sports andanswer their questions asfar as we were able.

We thanked them,and we asked for theirhelp.

Everyone had ques-tions.

Let me give you thegood news as I told it to them.We have the best fans, and the

most generous. In the more than 25 years Ihave been with Seminole Boosters, we havenever had a year in which the contributionswere not greater than the yearbefore.

Consider that FSU isone of only a very fewschools whose football sta-dium averages more than100 percent of capacityevery season.

The 90 luxury boxesare all filled. We are addingseven this year, and they arealready claimed.

One very large luxury box inthe center of the stadium contains 238 seats,licensed in pairs to Golden Chiefs. There isa long and impatient waiting list.

The FSU Varsity Club is already themost successful varsity club at any majorcollege or university.

The numbers of Seminole fans and the

success of our athletic program are alwaysgrowing.

Now here’s the other story, the reasonwe’re focusing on boosting our numbers.

Over the last 10 years, and especiallyduring the last five, our total number ofdonors has dropped. To be sure, more thana little of this can be traced to our elimina-tion of the $25 giving level. Our minimumgift today is $55 a year.

The amount of money we raise everyyear has increased, but the number ofdonors has dropped.

Now, it’s time to take back our standingas the largest collegiate booster club inAmerica, and here’s why. We have always,

at Florida State, been proud ofthe fact that we accomplish

with numbers what otherschools do with a few bigdonors. Our coaches bragto Seminole recruits thatwe have one of (used to be“the”) largest boosterclubs in the country.

But here’s the mostimportant reason, at least to

me: I want to be able to lookanyone in the eye and respond

that this year we have raised more moneythan ever before, and we have moreBoosters than ever before.

Seminoles don’t scatter. Never have.And I want to be able to make that veryclear to all who wish it were otherwise.

contribute money to the program from along way away.

There are thousands of good Seminoleswho may not be able to attend many gamesin Tallahassee or a bowl game, basketballtournament or baseball regional. But theygive money to support Florida State andmake all our programs stronger.

They’re not looking for a lot for them-selves, and they’re surprised when some-one calls in person and says thank you.

After Atlanta, we went to Dade andBroward Counties. Atlanta and SouthFlorida are home to the largest con-centrations of FSU alumni, andmany thousands of fans andBoosters.

The populations are sohuge, and the distances aredeceiving on a map.Seminole Clubs in thoseareas sometimes find ithard to draw substantialcrowds, because of the dis-tances and the inclination ofmany to stay home after a longworkday. That is understandable, and ourvolunteer Club leaders do a wonderful jobof leading the faithful.

Even so, there are tens of thousands ofgood Seminoles, people with a great deal incommon, who never see each other. What’smore, we have never met many of thedonors to our athletic program.

We have nearly 16,000 active donors tothe Annual Fund. Staying in touch withthem, keeping them informed and beingavailable to them is challenging.

The five-year Dynasty Campaign, con-cluded last October, produced an astonish-

Our entire fund-raising staff, all eight ofus, spent an intense week in Atlanta callingon Boosters. We tried to concentrate on peo-ple we didn’t already know, on people who

FSU donors are a varied and generous support group

2 0 0 3Seminole Football schedule

Aug. 30 at North Carolina ABC 8:00 PMSept. 6 MARYLAND ESPN2 7:15 PMSept. 13 GEORGIA TECH. ABC 8:00 PMSept. 20 COLORADO 3:30 PMSept. 27 at Duke Pay Per View 7:00 PMOct. 11 Miami (TBA)Oct. 18 at Virginia (TBA)Oct. 25 WAKE FOREST (TBA)Nov. 1 at Notre Dame NBC 2:30 PMNov. 08 at Clemson (TBA)Nov. 15 NC STATE (TBA)Nov. 29 at Florida CBS 3:30 PM

11September 2003 /

1920-1929Elsie Jones Carter (B.S. ‘24), Lucile Reece Grove (B.S. ‘25), TheodoraGrimaldi Scotty (L.I. ‘27), Carlyne Boykin Daffin (‘28), MarthaMcKim Minault (L.I. ‘28), Hazel May Flower Newell (B.A. ‘28), Frances Richards Abbott(B.S. ‘29), Irene Mays Connell (B.A. ‘29), Dorothy Russ Ford (B.A. ‘29)

1930-1939Loyola McLaughlin Convey (A.B. ‘30), Jane Bazler Thames (L.I. ‘30), Betty BrownlowBerry (B.A. ‘31), Helen M. Collins (B.A. ‘31), Irma Magill Moseley (B.A. ‘31), Faye SaferSilverman (L.I. ‘32), Julia Dickinson Watts (B.A. ‘32), Livonia Congdon Holstine Burgan(B.A. ‘33), Edwina Jackson Howell (B.A. ‘33), Florence Cameron Morris (B.M. ‘33), MableWalters (B.A. ‘33), Sarah Caroline Bone Winter (B.A. ‘33), Evelyn Bowen Abstein (A.B.‘34), Florence M. Beever (B.S. ‘34), Carleen Vinal Haskell Hodgdon (B.A. ‘34), Viola YatesWaldorf (B.S. ‘34), Helen McDonald Zaun (L.I. ‘34), Dorothy Moorhead Dillard (B.A. ‘35),Dr. Marjorie Carter Dillingham (A.B. ‘35, Ph.D. ‘70), Elizabeth Shumate Brown (B.A. ‘35),Hazel Manuel Brice (L.I. ‘36), Ida Corabell Fay (B.A. ‘36, M.A. ‘42), Melba HutchisonMackin (B.S. ‘36), Mildred Hudmon Shaver (L.I. ‘36), Jamie Jones Culp (B.S. ‘38), BettyLeach Alexander (‘39), Evelyn Anderson Laurent (B.S. ‘39), Kathryn Ward McCampbell(L.I. ‘39)

1940-1949Louise Thomas Boyd (B.S. ‘40), Marjorie Jessup Garrett (A.B. ‘40), Marie Rountree Wells(A.B. ‘40), Florence Willis Ziegler (B.S. ‘40, M.S. ‘56), Lois Alexander Congdon (A.B. ‘41),Amelia “Mimi” Schneider Mendelson Fiordalisi (B.A. ‘42), Mary Martha Sears Sprinkle(B.S. ‘42), Dorothy Hord Boylan (B.S. ‘44), Dr. Lois Nina Knowles (‘44), Dottie BryantMcGahagin (B.S. ‘44), Lou Alford Dellinger (H.S. ‘46), Clare Boisfeuillet Gray (B.A. ‘46,M.A. ‘61), Nancy Mease Norton (attended in ‘46), Katherine Jackson Tolman (B.S. ‘46),Ida Louise Patterson Dana (B.A. ‘47), Betty McCallum Emmons (B.A. ‘47), Mary JaneInabnit Koesy (B.A. ‘47), Thelma Bowers Swilley (B.A. ‘47, M.S. ‘69), Hazel EddyWilliams (B.A. ‘47), Helen Campbell Asbell (B.S. ‘48), Marguerite Reynolds DeSpain (B.S.‘48), Charles A. Dyson (B.S. ‘48), Marion Hazel Johnson Seberg (B.S. ‘48), Grace BryanWatts (B.S. ‘48), M. Jean Bates Villareal (B.A. ‘48), Evelyn Youngblood Baugh (B.S. ‘49),Henry J. Coburger (B.S. ‘49), Arsenia Rodriguez Estevez (A.B. ‘49, M.A. ‘50), KathleenBarker Hubacker (B.A. ‘49)

1950-1959James L. Calhoun (B.S. ‘50), Mildred Zalka Hipsman (B.S. ‘50), Lofton Scott Merritt (B.S.‘50), Carolyn Turnage Rhea (B.S. ‘50, M.S. ‘54), John B. Stewart (B.S. ‘50), Bobbie JeanHayes Topper (B.S. ‘50), Lt. Colonel William C. Walker (B.S. ‘50), William F. Weigel (B.S.‘50, M.S. ‘52), Steve Zalumas (B.S. ‘50, M.S. ‘57), Fredrick P. Gillmore III ( attended in‘51), D. Glen Gresham Sr. (B.S. ‘51), Russell B. Hicken (B.S. ‘51), Martha Ann WalkerPuri (B.A. ‘51), Perry C. Rutherford (B.S. ‘51, M.S. ‘70), Eva Johnson Wilson-Bradford(B.S. ‘52), Kathryn E. Brown (B.S. ‘52), Gloria Edelman Crump (B.A. ‘52), Alan MarteenHekking (B.S. ‘52), Dr. Claude J. Johns Jr. (B.S., ‘52, M.S. ‘53), Harriet Paul Smith (B.S.‘52), Leo Storz (M.A. ‘52), Bennie White Addison (B.M. ‘53), Cecil M. Creel (B.S. ‘53),Clelia Lancaster Grider (B.A. ‘53), Paul B. Hodges (B.S. ‘53), Mary L. Larcom (B.S. ‘53),Lynn Wesley Walker (M.A. ‘53), Bar Stirland Bond (M.A. ‘54), Rainey G. Cavanaugh (B.S.‘54), Annie M. Farish (B.S. ‘54), Lee K. Hildman (B.S. ‘54, M.S. ‘58), John “Jack” R. MillarJr. (Ph.D. ‘54), Frederick Harold Cummins (B.S. ‘55), Martha A. Cunningham (B.S. ‘55),Juanita Lee DeBerry Geary (B.A. ‘55), Clydie Aman Jones (B.S. ‘55), Howard C. Robertson(B.S. ‘55), Douglas J. Scott (B.S ‘55, M.S. ‘60), William Kent Benda (B.S. ‘56, M.S. ‘61),Quenton R. Farr (B.S. ‘56), Mary Emmaline White McCall (M.S. ‘56), Mary A. Meadows(M.A. ‘56), Thomas Ian Robertson (B.S. ‘56), Alla Brackett Spear (B.A. ‘56), MildredSherrer Andrews (M.S. ‘57), Harvey H. Casey (B.S. ‘57, M.S. ‘72), Warren S. Gailbreath(M.S. ‘57), Jane Davis Kelley (‘57), Talmadge V. Metts (B.S. ‘57), John Kenneth Schwartz(B.S. ‘57), James McWaters Stafford (B.M. ‘57), Marcello Truzzi (B.A. ‘57), Thomas J.Babjak (B.S. ‘58), Troy E. Barnes (B.S. ‘58), Rachel Greene James (M.M. ‘58), Anthony E.King (B.S. ‘58), E. Bruce Woodruff (B.S. ‘58), Elizabeth Sue Wren (B.S. ‘58), Dr. RandolphEdward Cone (M.S. ‘59), Max D. Goza (B.S. ‘59), James Edward Hooks (B.S. ‘59), HarryHowell (M.S. ‘59), Carl Guess Petteway (B.S. ‘59)

1960-1969Labon F. Chappell Jr. (B.S. ‘60), Carl H. Butler III (B.S. ‘61, M.S. ‘66), Thomas H.Densmore Sr. (B.S. ‘60), Thomas H. Carl Edwin Wall (B.S. ‘60), Charles C. Benbow (M.S.‘61), Nicholas Erneston (Ph.D. ‘61), J. Karen Gordy Gerrell (B.S. ‘61), Dr. J. ByronMcKissack (M.S. ‘61), Marilyn Field Sharp (B.S. ‘61, M.S. ‘90), Benjie Aaron Lebow (B.S.‘62), Marion Grantham Mowat (M.S. ‘62), Cathryn Ayers Smith (B.S. ‘62), Mary FrancesTipton (M.S. ‘62), Paul A. Vaillancourt (B.S. ‘62), Dorothy A. Beck (B.S. ‘63), Robert H.Browning (B.S. ‘63), Annette Gross Conklin (B.A. ‘63), Lucy D. Engelhard (M.S. ‘63),Samuel A. Kahn (M.S. ‘63), Boyd D. Peak (Ph.D. ‘63), W. Gary Vause (‘63), James ThomasWise (M.S. ‘63), Randall M. Buchanan (B.S. ‘64, M.S. ‘72), James Gardiner Gould (B.S.‘64), Carlton K. Mead (M.S. ‘64), Naomi Simmons Perkins (B.A. ‘64), EvangelineKillinger Callahan (B.S. ‘65), Dr. George R. Curlington (M.M. ‘65, D.M. ‘72), Dr. RobertI. Edelman (M.S. ‘65, Ph.D. ‘67), Eugene F. Frere (B.S. ‘65), James Ralph Jim Hogg (B.S.‘65), William George “Buddy” McCue (B.S. ‘65), Patsy Lyle Ruddell (M.S. ‘65), Betty NeillSommer (M.S. ‘65), Christina Clarke (B.A. ‘66, M.A. ‘69), Judge James R. Jorgenson (B.S.‘66, J.D. ‘68) Patricia Boyd McLain (M.S. ‘66), Pauline E. Randle (B.A. ‘66, M.S.W. ‘72),Dr. Frank Atkinson Rickey (Ph.D. ‘66), Dr. Yvonne Ewell Rider (B.S. ‘66), Ethel I.

Chatham (B.M. ‘67), William A. Friedlander (B.A. ‘67), Judith A.Lutzer Frost (B.S. ‘67), Jennifer Black Johnson (B.M. ‘67), Dr.Theodore “Jerry” Runkle (B.A. ‘67, M.A. ‘71, Ph.D. ‘77), Phyllis P.

Bosco (B.S. ‘68, M.F.A. ‘76), Dr. Owen Clinton Bush (B.A. ‘68), Charles A. Clement (M.S.‘68), Wilma I. Cooper (B.A. ‘68), Leroy E. Garber (M.S. ‘68), James W. Norman (M.S. ‘68),Calvin K. Qualls (M.S. ‘68), Donald D. Wogoman (B.S. ‘68, M.S. ‘70), Dr. BarbaraChaddock (M.S. ‘69, Ph.D. ‘71), Alva L. Cyphers (M.S. ‘69), Jerome Lee “Jerry” Gilmore(B.S. ‘69, M.S. ‘74), Charles A. Pedigo (B.A. ‘69), Denton A. Stephenfield (B.S. ‘69, M.S.‘84, S.P.E. ‘90), Mildred Freeman Van Aken (M.S. ‘69)

1970-1979Luana Day Barth (B.S.N. ‘70), Drennen A. Browne (M.F.A. ‘70), Asa F. Cooper (B.S. ‘70),Esther A. Dickson (M.S. ‘70), Dr. Donald F. Hood (Ph.D. ‘70), Melville C. Jennings (B.S.‘70), Charles Ernest Karrick (M.A. ‘70), Katherine Hibbs Latimer (B.S. ‘70), Byron D. Long(B.W. ‘70), James R. Tarr (M.S. ‘70, Ph.D. ‘77), Joanne Danforth Adams (M.S. ‘71), StevenW. Carter (B.A. ‘71), Joseph C. Christie (B.A. ‘71, M.A. ‘74), Dr. Arthur J. Collier (M.S. ‘71,Ph.D. ‘74), Don L. Cozort (B.S. ‘71), Mason B. Davis (B.S. ‘71), Fred A. Dierks (M.S. ‘71),Lila M. Gayton (M.S. ‘71), Steven W. Matheny (B.A. ‘71), Afsar H. Qazilbash (Ph.D. ‘71),Dr. Dorvan T. Rust (M.S. ‘71), Norman H. “Scrappy” Scawthorn (M.S. ‘71), EleanorElizabeth Wright (M.S. ‘71), Norman L. Choice (M.M.E. ‘72), Wilson E. Clements (B.S.‘72), Lawrence W. Cook (B.S. ‘72), John N. Dickinson (M.B.A. ‘72), Marie Lauray Jackson(M.S.W. ‘72), Jeffrey A. Jones (B.A. ‘72, M.P.A. ‘74, J.D ‘77), Victor M. Louden (B.S. ‘72),Frank P. McMichael Jr. (B.S. ‘72), Richard W. Cayll (M.B.A. ‘73), Michael E. Chapla (B.A.‘73), Cecil S. Clark (M.S. ‘73), Toni Craven Davis (B.S.W. ‘73), Stephen A. Deutschle (M.S.‘73), Franklin C. Fetter (M.S. ‘73), Donald L. Kohlenstein (B.S. ‘73), Patricia Clafee Miller(‘73), Hope Gillman Peterson (B.S. ‘73), Diane Echols Rush (B.A. ‘73), John M. Toole (M.S.‘73), Mary Lou Allen Bourassa (B.S. ‘74), James U. Bush (M.S. ‘74), Karole R. Butterfield(M.S. ‘74), Hilda G. Campbell (B.S. ‘74), Billy T. Chaney (B.S. ‘74), Curtis D. Cossairt(B.A. ‘74), Dr. Gary L. Davisson (Ph.D. ‘74), James D. Denham (B.S.W. ‘74), JenanDorman (M.S. ‘74), Michael J. Dubaldi (M.B.A. ‘74), Vickie A. Ledue (B.S.N. ‘74), GloriaElaine Caruso Paine (B.S. ‘74), Michael H. Siede (B.F.A. ‘74), Larry G. Shelfer (B.S.), JeffreyM. Cerreta (B.S. ‘75), Richard A. Counts (M.A. ‘75), William E. Hignite (A.D.V. ‘75),Karen Simpson Hylan (B.S. ‘75), Susan Deem Kennedy (B.S. ‘75), Ann Cassady Pounds(B.S. ‘75), David C. Roberts (B.S. ‘75), Alice Miller Sullivan (M.S. ‘75), Frederick AllenBloodworth II (B.M.E. ‘76), Deborah L. Canny (B.S. ‘76), James W. Cassiano (B.S. ‘76),Doris Overstreet Clark (B.S. ‘76), James Gary Fisher (‘76), Thomas C. Hodges (B.S. ‘76),Dr. Jane Martha McClellan (Ph.D. ‘76), James Roye ( attended in ‘76), Kathleen Z. BottomSegal (B.S. ‘76), John M. “Bud” Walker (B.S. ‘76), Paul R. Campbell (B.S. ‘77), David R.Clinard (M.S.W. ‘77), Julie D’Andrea (B.S. ‘77, M.S. ‘81), Michael J. Delegan (’77), JosephFrank Fernandez (‘77), Daniel Duff Stephenson Hart (B.S. ‘77), Susan L. Register (B.S. ‘77,M.S.W. ‘84), Keith R. Stahl (‘77), John Terrence Bechstein (B.S. ‘78), Ronald J. Fernandez(B.S. ‘78), George Ann Johnson (B.A. ‘78, M.S. ‘79), Edward J. Fallin (B.S. ‘79), CharlesFrazier (‘79), Denny G. Hutchinson (B.S. ‘79), Andrew P. Kibler (M.S. ‘79), George S.LaRoche (M.A. ‘79), Clara A. “Tim” Smawley (B.A. ‘79)

1980-1989 Daryl Ann Ellison Belcher (B.S. ‘80), Angela Gaskins Carter (attended in ‘80), Andrew J.Chabrol (B.A. ‘80), Evette Sheppard Demerritte (B.S. ‘80), Jane Wheeler Willson (B.S. ‘80),Lois Lufkin Chase (B.S. ‘81), Rev. Leon C. Cooks (B.S. ‘81), Michael D. Crosby (B.S. ‘81),Denise M. Cuciak (B.A. ‘81), Dr. Mary Allen Ellzey (Ph.D. ‘81), Archie V. Hannon (‘81),Laurie Cerni Yant (B.S. ‘81), Cliffordean R. Carr (M.S. ‘82), Dr. Dwight D. Davis (Ph.D.‘82), Ben D. Humphrey Jr. (B.S. ‘82), Neil C. Brooks (B.M.E. ‘83), Mary Baker Morris(M.S. ‘83), Kimberly Scarboro Britt (B.S. ‘84), Rory H. Davis (B.S. ‘84), David F. Friedkin(B.S. ‘84), Cavin R. Councilor (B.S. ‘85), Michael J. Harris (B.S. ‘85), Susan Hale Nigg (B.S.‘85), Robert Russell Rutter (M.S.W. ‘85), Peter J. Chance (B.S. ‘86), Rene Victor Cooper(Ph.D. ‘86), Kim Deckelbaum Kozak (B.S. ‘86), Demetri N. Christoulou (B.S. ‘87), Jerry G.Croley Jr. (B.S. ‘87), Paul L. Delaune (M.S.W. ‘87), Bonnie R. Davis (B.S. ‘88), Dr. IrvingJ. Fleet (‘88), Terrall E. Durden (B.S. ‘89), Cynthia D. Hamrick (M.S. ‘89), Lorena JoyDumper Suber (B.S. ‘89)

1990-1999Renee Byrne (B.S. ‘90), Dorothy Fawcett Castleberry (B.S. ‘91), Alice M. Daly (B.S. ‘91),Kelly Roy Delong (B.S. ‘91), William Joseph Markley (B.A. ‘91, B.S. ‘94), C. Jill HarshbargerSmith (B.S. ‘91), Matthew L. Sperry (B.A‘91), Neil W. Christensen Jr. (‘92), Ann H. Calvert(B.S. ‘93), James C. Gear (B.S. ‘93), Gary W. Delcher (B.S. ‘94), John J. McNutt (M.F.A.‘94), John R. Burleigh (‘95), Lethuy T. Hoang (B.S. ‘95), Kimberly A. Kryter (M.S. ‘95),Michelle Lyn Davidson Agerton (B.S. ‘96), Dr. Sharon L. Corey (Ph.D. ‘96), Kimberly J.Elkin (B.S. ‘96), Alan Kirby Gosnell (‘96), Donavan Keith Strickland (B.S.N. ‘98), James R.Stokes (J.D. ‘96), Michael A. Thomas (B.S. ‘97), Carla R. Mathis (M.S. ‘98)

2000-2003Jason E. Arnold (B.S. ‘00), Amy Madden Carrier (‘02), Jonathan F. Drackett, Erik H.Grieve, Tonya D. Francis, Suzanne Gonzales, Carmen E. Harris (B.S. ‘03)

FACULTY AND STAFF

Dr. I. David Bono, Dr. Willis Caldwell, Dr. Fay L. Kirtland, Marion Windham LaBar,

Jerome W. Milliman, Isiah Pye, Dr. Minnie R. Pyle

In Memoriam

12 /September 2003

Iconoclastic artist, printmaker, profes-sor and avid art collector WilliamWalmsley died July 29. He was 79.

“Everything is art unless proven other-wise” was the creed Walmsley lived by.

“He lived, breathed and ate art,”daughter Mary Sacco said. "My mother

told me that when they were young, if theyhad 25 cents in the bank, he'd go out andget a $50 piece of art."

Walmsley, who taught painting andprintmaking at FSU from 1962 to 1989, wasprobably best known for his "Ding DongDaddy" series of Day-Glo prints.

The fluorescent works sometimesincluded fragmented self-portraits, squig-gly amoebas or psychedelic maps of theUnited States.

Walmsley’s playful subversiveness andironic wit masked how technically difficultthe art was to make.

Walmsley learned printmaking on thejob in the early 1960s when Gulnar Bosch,

By Mary Lou Norwood (FSU '47)

When May Alexander Ryburn was atFSU for her 50th class reunion in 1997, shewas delighted to find an old-fashionedcard catalog in Strozier Library's SpecialCollections. To a traditionalist like May, thelong slender drawers holding honest-to-goodness typed cards one can thumbthrough were like a homecoming. She latersingled out that experience as an importantmoment in her decision to include abequest to Strozier Library in her will.

Dr. Ryburn died June 25 in Glen Ellyn,Ill. Her husband, James E. Ryburn, diedsome years before.

She majored in journalism and Englishliterature.

She was a writer for the Miami News,then earned a master's degree from theUniversity of Miami in Coral Gables andtaught there for several years. Later, sheearned a Ph.D from the University ofChicago and taught English at the Collegeof DuPage in Glen Ellyn for 17 years.

Dr. Ryburn was a generous benefactorof FSU. Under her estate plan, she provid-ed for a $100,000 endowment. Half is forstudent awards in the English department.The other half is for the Strozier Library, topreserve or replace books, especially in theareas of British and American literature.

Several of Dr. Ryburn's classmates haveadded memorial donations to her bequestand invite others to join them. Donations tothe FSU Foundation, Suite 3100, UniversityCenter, Building C, Tallahassee, Fla. 32306-2660 should be clearly indicated for theRyburn bequest fund.

Strozier's Special Collections has a com-puterized catalog, but the old card catalogwill probably be retained. It has becomesomething of a special collection itself.

Florida State's original bow-tie man,Stephen Winters, died July 5. He was 83.

Winters was one of FSU's legendary"49ers," faculty members hired in 1949 tokick start research and doctoral programsafter FSU was converted from a women'scollege.

A professor of geology, Winters was ahighly personable academic and a tirelessadministrator. He retired in 1990.

He earned a bachelor's degree fromRutgers in 1942, then served in the ArmyAir Corps during World War II. Later heearned a master's and a Ph.D fromColumbia.

He helped build FSU's reputation in thehard sciences and was an immensely pop-ular instructor. "I believe the undergradu-ate experience is the primary prerequisiteto becoming a good citizen in the world,"Winters said. —Condensed from theTallahassee Democrat, by Gerald Ensley

Henry Louis Hill Sr., acommunity leader whoplayed major roles in edu-cation and in passing legis-lation promoting studentloans, died July 23. Aretired banker, he was 88.

Hill was on the boardsof Leon County Schoolsand Tallahassee Com-munity College. He alsowas a member of theFlorida A&M UniversityFoundation. He was twice president of theSeminole Boosters and was in the FSUSports Hall of Fame. Last year, he and hiswife, Mart Pierson Hill, received the FSUAlumni Association's Circle of Gold.

Hill was a "banker with a heart," saidSandy D'Alemberte, who praised his con-tributions to education, sports, governmentand community causes.

"Lou really cared whether young peo-

Frances H. MacKinnon, 101 (L.I. '22, B.A. '49), died in May. A retired school teacher inMarianna, Mrs. MacKinnon was FSCW's oldest known alumna and was a dedicated FSUfootball fan. She was visited by her friends, Ann Bowden and Mickey Andrews, at herMarianna home several times.

Mrs. MacKinnon taught second grade for 25 years. In 1950 she became the first full-time woman principal in Jackson County. She remained in that position for 14 years andretired in 1964.

William Bruce Weale, 91, a professoremeritus at the FSU College of Business,died May 30. Dr. Weale joined the FSU fac-ulty in 1950.

Dr. Weale was born in Sunberry, Pa.,and earned a bachelor's degree at BucknellUniversity and his master's and doctoratedegrees at Columbia University where hetaught before coming to FSU.

He specialized in teaching marketing.

Ralph W. Yerger, 80, an FSU biologyprofessor emeritus, died in May. Dr. Yergerwas curator of the FSU fish collection andidentified a speckled puffer fish,Sphoeroides Yergeri, named after him.

He was a professor at FSU from 1950 to1984. Dr. Yerger was also head of thedepartment of zoology and associate deanand acting dean of the College of Arts andSciences.

He had extensive publications.Dr. Yerger received a Ph.D. in verte-

brate zoology with a minor in botany andgeology from Cornell University.

He joined the military in 1943 andfought in the Battle of the Bulge andreceived several medals and three battlestars.

the head of FSU's art department at thetime, decided to start a lithography studio.

Walmsley said, “we sort of figured itout together,” before a major retrospectiveof his art was shown at FSU in 1999.

His work is included in permanent col-lections at the Tate Gallery, the Museum of

Modern Art, theHigh Museum ofArt, the Library ofCongress, the Smith-sonian Institution,the Brooklyn Muse-um of Art andnumerous others.

Walmsley servedfor two years in theArmy in England,Germany and Franceduring World War II.

Upon his returnhome, he went to theUniversity of Ala-

bama on the GI Bill. He returned to Europeto study at the Academie Julian in Parisfrom 1949-50.

"I think I shocked Tallahassee when Istarted," Walmsley said of his work.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, his nation-al reputation grew.

His status in his home town began tochange in 1979 when he had his work in atwo-man exhibition with Ron Yrabedra.

"When you met him you didn't get hissense of the absurd, but when you saw hisart you got it immediately," Yrabedra said.—Condensed from the Tallahassee Democrat,by Mark Hinson

William Walmsley, 79

ple had enough money togo to school," D'Alembertesaid.

During World War II, heserved with the U.S. Armyin the South Pacific and inpostwar Europe.

When he later returnedhome, he was president ofMiddle Florida Ice andChemical Co. He was afounding member of thePeople's Bank of Tallahas-

see and was its second president. He alsowas president of American Guaranty andFlagship banks.

An energetic outdoorsman, he loved tobe in the woods and fields. He was an avidhunter and fly fisherman. Duby Ausley, afrequent companion on bird shoots, saidthat even in his 87th year Hill could out-shoot all his friends. —Condensed from theTallahassee Democrat, by Dorothy Clifford

Henry Louis Hill Sr., 88

Frances H. MacKinnon, 101

Stephen Winters, 83

William Weale, 91

Bruce Weale

Ralph Yerger

Lou Hill

William Walmsley

Stephen Winters

Ralph W. Yerger, 80

May Alexander Ryburn

13September 2003 /

14 /September 2003

each honoring the work of empow-ered women whose lives are partner-ships with the earth.

Douglas M. Windham (B.A., M.A. ‘67,Ph.D ‘69) is an educational policy andmanagement information systemsconsultant to the Ministry of Educationand the Ministry of Higher Education inAfghanistan.

1965James K. Oliver (B.A., M.A. ‘66) has been

honored for advising and mentoringgraduate students at the University ofDelaware.

1966John E. Hodges Jr. (B.S.) is retiring after 37

years at Gulf Power Co. in NorthwestFlorida.

1970A. Wayne Rich (J.D.), a land developer, is

city attorney in Orlando.Brenda Campbell Slappey (B.S.) has

spent most of her career in publichealth in Gadsden County, Fla., andrecently has been working for theColorado Health Department.

James R. Swanson (Ph.D.) retired in 1998as associate professor of aviation busi-ness administration at Embry-RiddleUniversity in Daytona Beach.

1972Donna T. Campanella (B.S.N.) is chair-

woman of the nursing program atTallahassee Community College.

Terrence Leas (BS, Ph.D ‘89) is president ofRiverland Community College inMinnesota.

1973Modesto E. Abety (B.S.) is chief executive

officer of the Children’s Trust, a newMiami-Dade County agency that willdistribute millions of dollars in chil-dren’s services tax money.

Janet E. Hagemann (B.S.N.) is CEO ofCactus Clinical Research in SanAntonio.

Virginia McCrary Schrenker (M.A.)retired June 13 after 30 years with theMiami Dade County Schools.

Dennis A. Williamson (B.W.) is the 29thU.S. Marshal for the Northern Districtof Florida.

1974Cynthia Yoder Banicki (B.A., M.S. ‘75)

graduated in May with a Master of Artsin legal administration from Mary-mount University, Arlington, Va.

The Rev. Anne L. Burkholder (B.A.), aMethodist minister, is director of con-nectional ministries in Lakeland, Fla.

Stephen J. Dovi (B.S.W.) has retired fromthe DeLand Police Department.

Tim Moore ( B.W.) started as a fingerprintclerk at the Florida Department of LawEnforcement 30 years ago and retiredin July as commissioner of the agency.

1975Donna Grubbs Dirks (B.S.) is a missionary

in New Guinea with her husband.

1976Diahann W. Lassus (B.S.) is president of

Lassus Wherley and Associates, awealth management firm in NewProvidence, N.J., and Naples, Fla.

1977Ilka Burgos Tataryn (B.S.) is a school

nurse consultant with the MuscogeeCounty school system in Midland, Ga.

1978Arlene Chech Halsted (B.S.) has been a

professor in an associate degree pro-gram in New Hampshire for the last sixyears.

1978Louis G. Pol (Ph.D.) is interim dean of the

University of Nebraska College ofBusiness Administration. Pol has beenassociate dean of the college for threeyears and joined the faculty in ‘84.

1979Mary Ann Mcguire Leavitt (B.S.) trans-

ferred to the cardiac catheterization labat the Boca Raton CommunityHospital. She has worked mostly in crit-ical care over the last 20 years.

1981William T. Cornwell III (B.A.) is chief exec-

utive officer of the Texas HousingFinance Corporation in Austin.

Craig T. Lynch (B.S.) is a member of theboard of directors of the NationalMultiple Sclerosis Society. Lynch is apartner in the law firm of Parker PoeAdams and Bernstein L.L.P.

1982Joel Garren (B.S.) is director of parks and

recreation in Pinellas Park, Fla. Gina Genualdi Kleino (B.S.N.), has

worked for Motorola since 1995, ismanager of occupational health pro-grams for the global telecom solutionssector and lives in Plantation, Fla.

Linda Spaulding White (B.M., J.D. ‘85), amember of the FSU College of LawAlumni Association board of directors,will be chairwoman of the communityoutreach committee. She was alsoelected to the Broward County BarAssociation board of directors and isvice president of Pinon Inc., the sup-port and fundraising arm of SpecialOlympics of Broward County.

1984Timothy T. Ramsberger (B.S., J.D. ‘87), an

attorney, is the new general managerof the St. Petersburg Grand Prix.

1985Kevin D. Gordon (B.S.) is principal of John

Hopkins Middle School in St.Petersburg.

Willard I. Pope (J.D.) is a circuit judge inFlorida’s 5th Judicial Circuit.

Janice Wynn Salares (M.S., S.P.E. ‘88),principal of Arnold High School, is anadjunct professor at FSU-Panama CityCampus, where she also mentorsyoung teachers.

Petty Officer 1st Class Gerald F. Scannell(B.S.) graduated from the IntermediateCommunications Signals AnalysisCourse at the Naval Technical TrainingCenter in Pensacola.

1986Vivian Arenas (J.D.) is on the board of

directors of Tampa Hispanic Heritage. David M. Caldevilla (J.D.’86), a sharehold-

er in the Tampa law firm of de la Parteand Gilbert, has been appointed by theHillsborough County Commissionersto be hearing officer to preside overadministrative hearings on water andwastewater franchise matters.

1987Hon. Michael F. Andrews (B.S.) became

the first African-American circuit judgein Pasco county after being appointed

by Gov. Jeb Bush. Andrews is expectedto preside over a felony criminal divi-sion in the West Pasco Judicial Center inNew Port Richey.

Daniel S. Tantleff (B.S.) mayor of BalHarbour Village, is on the board ofdirectors of the Florida League of Cities.

1988Andrew L. Chapin (B.S.) has joined the

Orlando law firm of Lowndes, Drostick,Doster, Kantor & Reed as an associate.

Kevin P. McCartney (Ph.D.) is behind theproject of one of the world’s largestscale models of the solar system thatstretches 40 miles along the northern-most reaches of U.S. Route 1 in Maine.

Kelly Windus Southard (B.S.N.) has beendirector of nursing of a psychiatric hos-pital in Greensboro, N.C., for six years.

1989Alan Abramowitz (J.D.) is deputy district

administrator for Palm Beach County’sDepartment of Children and Families.

Bridgett F. Broxton-Mosley (B.F.A.) wasnamed by Gov. Jeb Bush to theJefferson County Commission toreplace a commissioner who died inMay.

Richard F. Candia (B.A.) is assistant vicepresident for government relations atthe University of Miami.

Penelope Bearry Deutsch (B.S.) retiredafter 27 years with the federal govern-ment. She is president of the ExecutiveBoard of the Movement DisordersSociety of Southwest Florida, whichfocuses on Parkinson’s disease andrelated disorders.

Daniel B. Moisand (B.S.) has announcedhis firm’s merger with Spraker,Fitzgerald & Tamayo in Maitland, Fla.

1990Brian L. Bingham (Ph.D), director of the

Shannon Point Marine Center’sMinorities in Marine ScienceUndergraduate Program, received theDiversity Achievement Award fromWestern Washington University inBellingham, Wash.

Lisa M. Raleigh (J.D.), is senior assistantattorney general in Florida.

1991Maude Andrews (B.S.N.) is a new mem-

ber of the Florida Nurse AssociationBoard, a nurse educator at OrlandoRegional Healthcare and a clinicalinstructor at Valencia CommunityCollege.

Michael H. Becker (B.S.) has opened abusiness called Fred’s Beds andFurniture in Cumming, Ga.

John C. Coggiola (M.M.E., Ph.D. ‘97) is anassistant professor in teaching andleadership in the College of Visual andPerforming Arts at Syracuse University.

Brett DeHart (B.S.) has been awarded theSherman Scholarship to attend CandlerSchool of Theology at EmoryUniversity. DeHart will be pastor ofUnderwood United Methodist Churchin Atlanta while going to school.

Gilbert L. Evans Jr. (B.A., M.S. ‘93) hasjoined the law firm of Lowndes,Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed inOrlando as an associate.

Jose M. Lezcano (Ph.D.), professor ofmusic at Keene (N.H.) State College,

1954Eddie Norris (B.S.) is retiring after more

than 20 years with the FloridaDepartment of Transportation.

1955J. Vern Williams (B.S.), CPA with Carr,

Riggs and Ingram, is chairman of theValuation and Litigation ServicesSection Conference Planning for theFlorida Institute of Certified PublicAccountants.

1958Billie D. Gamble (B.S.) has retired from

Michigan State University.

1958Ed T. Hida (M.S.W.) was presented a Salute

to Volunteerism award by theMetropolitan Milwaukee Civic Alliance.

1963Linda Rae Dafoe (B.S.) gave the FSU

School of Nursing a historical collec-tion, uniforms, a graduation programand several pictures.

Michael J. DiBisceglie (B.A.), retired after30 years as a teacher and schooladministrator with the New York CityBoard of Education, is now director of achild-care program in Merrick, N.Y.

Charlotte Comer Dison (B.S.) is vice pres-ident emeritus of the Baptist Hospital ofMiami.

Billie Ann Linscott Kreuger (B.S.N.)retired in 1997 from the VolusiaCounty Schools.

Lucille Wriglesworth Swanson (B.S.,M.S.P. ‘74) has retired as director of theNorthern California Healthcare Systemof the U.S. Department of VeteransAffairs.

1964Robert D. Long (M.S.) was elected to the

board of directors of the South CarolinaEconomic Developers’ Association.

Lyndol Michael (B.A.) produced her firsttelevision pilot, “Earth and Women,”by her company Differentia Inc. It pre-miered June 1 at the Enzian Theater inCentral Florida. She plans 10 episodes,

15September 2003 /

won the award for faculty distinction inresearch and scholarship.

Travis L. Miller (B.S., J.D. ‘94) is one of theattorneys who have formed the newRadey, Thomas, Yon & Clarke law firmin Tallahassee.

Timothy O’Shaughnessy (B.S.) is vicepresident/owner of CommunicationSouthEast Inc., which provides realestate and construction services to thewireless industry in Florida. He lives inWinter Park.

Marsha L. Player (B.S.N.) is the director ofNursing Women and Children’sServices at Tallahassee MemorialHospital.

Holly A. Schwartz (B.S., M.P.A. ‘93) waspromoted to assistant county managerfor Lee County, Fla.

1992Donna E. Blanton (J.D.) is one of the attor-

neys who have formed the new Radey,Thomas, Yon & Clarke firm inTallahassee.

Maj. Frederick J. Hughes IV (B.A.) gradu-ated from the U.S. Army Commandand General Staff College at FortLeavenworth.

Christopher S. Kochtitzky (M.S.P.) is thedeputy director of the U.S. Center forDisease Control and Prevention’sDivision of Human Development andDisability.

Lt. Monica E. Mitchell (B.S.), a formerinstructor at the U.S. Naval Academy inAnnapolis, is now with the MilitarySealift Command in Bahrain.

Eric J. Reading (B.A., M.A. ‘93) is deputychief of party of the USAID/EgyptSecondary Cities Project managed byChemonics International Inc. in Cairo.The project is helping provide sustain-able water and sanitation services inseven cities in Egypt.

Anne M. Rebuck (B.S.N.) is a case manag-er for the Tallahassee PediatricFoundation

Jason Stallcup (B.S.) opened Fred’s Bedsand Furniture in Cumming, Ga.

Vincent R. Tino (M.S.) of Camp Dresser &McKee Inc. has won the CertifiedConsulting Meteorologist (CCM) des-ignation from the AmericanMeteorological Society.

1993Daryl L. Cole (B.S., M.S. ‘02) is an analyst

and law enforcement liaison for thePublic Safety and Crime PreventionCommittee of the Florida House ofRepresentatives.

Bert L. Combs (B.S., J.D. ‘96) is one of theattorneys who have formed Radey,Thomas, Yon & Clarke firm inTallahassee.

Carlos A. Kelly (B.A.), an associate with thelaw firm of Henderson, Franklin,Starnes & Holt, wrote “The Pen isMightier than the Sword or Why theMedia Should Exercise Self-Restraint inTime of War,” which was published inthe January Florida Bar Journal.

Kimberly A. Kerns (B.S.) is vice presidentfor corporate communications withCablevision Systems Corp. in Beth-page, N.Y.

Michael J. McGee (B.S., M.S. ‘94) is a part-ner in the Chicago intellectual-propertylaw firm of Cook Alex McFarron ManzoCummings and Mehler.

Edward G. Rawls Jr. (B.S.) is a seniorinspector in the Inspector General’sOffice at the Florida Department ofCorrections.

Kurt M. Varricchio (B.S.) has started KurtVarricchio and Associates in San Diego.It will focus on sports, entertainmentand legal representation.

James W. Zealor (B.S.) is an FBI specialagent assigned to the New York Cityoffice. Zealor was a deputy sheriff anddetective with the St. Lucie CountySheriff’s office for seven years.

1994Toni L. Craig (B.S., J.D. ‘97) is city attorney

of Fort Walton Beach.James P. Golsen (B.A.) is U.S. commercial

attache to the U.S. Consulate inShanghai.

Keith A. Hopkins (B.S.) is on the board ofdirectors of the Sunshine State CreditUnion and is director of transactionservices for the Florida Credit UnionLeague.

Robert D. Long (M.S.) is on the board ofdirectors of the South CarolinaEconomic Developers’ Association.

Deborah Myers Mest (B.S.) is a technicalrecruiter for CDI Professional Services inPhiladelphia.

Amanda Murphy Storie (B.S.) is vice pres-ident of media services at CotterIntegrated in Baltimore.

1995Paul E. Bueker (B.A., J.D. ‘99) has joined

the firm of Marks Gra, P.A. as an associ-ate in Jacksonville.

Gustavo A. Giraldo (B.S.) has joined theinternational expatriate benefits opera-tions of CIGNA International inClaymont, Del., as vice president andchief financial officer.

Jeff B. Gray (B.A., M.S. ‘01) is associateproducer of “Journey to PlanetEarth”—a three-part PBS documentarythat aired on WFSU-TV.

Travis R. Hopkins (B.S.) received an M.B.A.from the University of South Florida.

Ted L. Roush (B.S.) is principal at Branford(Fla.) High School.

Jeremy R. Sprenkle (B.S.) will open Po’Boys Creole Cafe, a Tallahassee fran-chise, on Howard Avenue in Tampa.

Lt. j.g. Michael L. Warner (B.S.) has partic-ipated in a six-month deployment tothe Arabian Gulf while assigned to theguided missile frigate USS Thach,home ported in San Diego.

1996Damien M. Burdick (B.A., B.S.) will open

Po’Boys Creole Cafe, a Tallahassee fran-chise, on Howard Avenue in Tampa.

Blythe L. Carpenter (B.A.), was selectedby Rotary International to visit JapaneseRotary clubs to promote CentralFlorida.

Sean M. Dever (B.S.) is starting to producea film “300 Large,” in Cape Coral, Fla.

Patrick A. Fegan (B.S.) will open Po’BoysCreole Cafe, a Tallahassee franchise, onHoward Avenue in Tampa.

James R. Harding (S.P.E., E.D.D. ‘99) wasselected by Wright State University inDayton, Ohio, as one of 50 outstand-ing alumni, highlighted in their firstcapital campaign.

David H. Sinason (Ph.D.) won anExcellence in Undergraduate Teachingaward at Northern Illinois University.

John M. Webb (M.F.A.) directed the film“Vampire Clan” in Southern California.

1997Janette M. Everette (B.S.) is vice president

of Event Production for Breakfast ClubAmerica (BCA.). BCA is a businessdevelopment company that operatesin five markets.

Juan R. Guardia (B.S., M.S. ‘01) has beenadmitted this fall to Iowa StateUniversity to pursue a Ph.D. inEducational Leadership and PolicyStudies.

John A. Jones (B.S.) was named employeeof the year at Nationwide Publishing, inLeesburg, Fla., for the second time inthree years.

Julia E. Smith (J.D. ) was one of severalattorneys who presented “CurrentDevelopments in Florida Assisted LivingFacilities Law” at a conference of theFlorida Assisted Living Affiliation inMiami.

1998Jeffrey A. Adelman (B.S. ‘98) is a partner

in the plaintiff-civil-litigation law firm ofAdelman & Adelman in Coral Springs.

Melissa J. Burke (B.S. , M.B.A. ‘02) waselected to the Duval County (Fla.)Democratic Executive Committee inJanuary and is a member of the com-mittee’s Strategic Planning and Waysand Means committees.

Anita M. Mayer (B.S.), a compliance offi-cer and credit manager for Vision Bank,has received the Certified InternalAuditor designation from the Instituteof Internal Auditors.

Allison C. Williams (B.S., M.S. ‘00) isenrolled at the College of Law atSyracuse University.

Shannon Shamburger Pate (Ph.D.) ispresident of the Illinois Association ofFamily and Consumer SciencesAssociation.

1999Barbara O’Horo-Benton (B.A., J.D. ‘02)

has joined the law firm of Lowndes,Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed as anassociate.

Hope M. Pattey (J.D.) is a prosecutor in theState Attorney’s Office in Bartow.

2000Elizabeth L. Baldwin (B.S.) is enrolled at

the College of Law at SyracuseUniversity.

Natalie E. Blackwell (B.S.) received herCPA license in May 2002.

Felicia M. Brabec (B.S.) won the ServicePride Award given by Florida Powerand Light.

Bert R. Charan (B.S.) joined News 9 in SanAntonio Tex.

Brock A. Johnson (B.S.) is senior vice pres-ident and administrative officer ofAxcess Sports and Entertainment inJacksonville.

Richard M. Vidal (B.S.) was awarded the2003 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowshipfor New Americans—immigrants andchildren of immigrants. The Fellowshipis designed to help assist NewAmericans in furthering their careersthrough graduate education.

2001Shauna D. Pender (B.A.) was the runner-

up to be Miss Florida and won a$5,000 scholarship.

Lauren P. Scott (B.S.) is an administrativeassistant at the advertising agencyKilgannon McReynolds in Atlanta.

Ensign Kristopher J. Schulte (B.S.) wascommissioned to his current rank aftercompleting Aviation Officer CandidateSchool at Naval Aviation SchoolsCommand, Naval Air Station,Pensacola.

Courtney Ewing Tinch (B.S.N.), a secondlieutenant in the army, is stationed inKuwait as a combat nurse. Tinch isassigned to a combat support hospitalwith the 82nd Airborne Division.

2002Bethany L. Bilsky (B.F.A.) landed her first

job on the movie set “Mission WithoutPermission” and is an intern at MadChance Productions in Los Angeles.

Jorge Franchi (Ph.D.) is the new presidentand CEO of the Hispanic BusinessInitiative Fund of Greater Orlando.

Samantha K. Garrett (B.S.) was certifiedas a child life specialist by the Child LifeCouncil and is in the master’s programof early childhood development atFSU.

Gabrielle N. Hebert (B.S.) completed U.S.Navy basic training at Recruit TrainingCommand, Great Lakes, Ill.

Montrae R. Holland (B.S.) was drafted bythe New Orleans Saints. Hollandplayed in two Sugar Bowls and was anoffensive guard for FSU.

Alonzo B. Jackson (B.S.) was drafted bythe Pittsburgh Steelers. Jackson was adefensive end for FSU.

Adam P. Miller (B.S.) completed U.S. Navybasic training at Recruit TrainingCommand, Great Lakes, Ill.

Michael A. Oliver (B.S.) is part of the ArmyNational Guard infantry and wasassigned to protect Patriot missile loca-tions in Kuwait near the Iraqi border.

Karen M. Stribling (B.S.) was hired towork at the Wakulla County ExtensionOffice to coordinate the nutrition pro-gram.

Thomas R. Sullivan (J.D.) has joined thelaw firm of Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster,Kantor & Reed in Orlando as an associ-ate.

Brett W. Williams (B.S.) was drafted bythe Kansas City Chiefs in the fourthround. Williams played tackle for FSU.

Todd L. Williams (B.S.) was drafted by theTennessee Titans in the seventh round.Williams was an offensive lineman forFSU.

2003Anquan K. Boldin was drafted in the first

day at No. 54 overall by the ArizonaCardinals. Boldin was a wide receiverfor the Seminoles.

Talman Gardner Jr. was drafted in the sev-enth round by the New Orleans Saints.Gardner played receiver for theSeminoles.

Kristen G. O’Rear (current student) wasthe fourth runner up to be Miss Floridaand won a $2,000 scholarship.

Tony J. Richie (A.A.) signed a pro contractand was assigned to the Chicago Cub’sClass A minor league team in Lansing,Mich.

16 /September 2003

nity for our law students to learn howwrongful convictions occur and be part ofthe solution for Florida inmates who areinnocent of the crimes they were convictedof,” Baldwin said.

Using science to open cell doors hasbeen successful for 127 inmates nation-wide that the Innocence Project has han-dled since 1992, including two in Florida.

At the Florida Innocence Project,housed at FSU’s Cawthon House at 425 W.Jefferson St., Miller volunteers his time.

“I can use my legal skills to try to besure if someone is in jail for a heinouscrime, and they lose their life and familyand spend their life in jail, to make surethat conviction was not incorrect.”

The criminal-justice system is not per-fect, he said, and “there’s nothing wrongwith saying we made a mistake.”

There’s plenty of work to do in Florida.That’s why Scheck, who gained promi-nence as the DNA expert on the O.J.Simpson murder defense team, broughtthe Innocence Project to the Sunshine State.

“This state has the third largest inmatepopulation in the country, and we’ve iden-tified more than 500 cases where DNA evi-

dence might affect a conviction,” Schecktold those gathered at the law school.

“The second reason is that all of thecriminal appeals records are in Tallahassee,and the law school provides us with a greatresource of research talent.”

That talent pool now includes Millerand many of his classmates. Boxes andboxes of transcripts and investigative files

are meticulously searched for details of bio-logical evidence—such as blood, semenand saliva—that could be tested for DNA.

“DNA is really the only thing we knowof at this time, scientifically, to say some-body is innocent,” Miller said.

Although the Innocence Project dealsexclusively with claims involving DNAevidence, Scheck said he hopes that success

in genetic testing will focus attention onother areas of criminal evidence. Notingthat some crime labs have been shut downrecently for shoddy work, Scheck said stan-dards vary from state to state.

The Florida Innocence Project is direct-ed by Jenny Greenberg, a 1988 FSU lawgraduate and former director of theBattered Women’s Clemency Project andthe Volunteer Lawyers Resource Center.She raises money and helps decide whichcases will be researched.

“I would say that her job is pretty over-whelming,” Scheck said.

More than 1,000 Florida prisonerswrote to the New York office asking forhelp, and the Innocence Project decided toinvestigate 400.

The Innocence Project has two success-ful cases in Florida so far.

After serving 22 years of several lifesentences for multiple murders in SouthFlorida, Jerry Frank Townsend walked outof prison a free man in 2001.

And the Innocence Project cleared thename of Frank Lee Smith, wrongly convict-ed of a 1985 murder. But his 2000 exonera-tion came too late. Smith had already diedof cancer in prison. —Jan Pudlow

Law students looking at 400 Florida convicts—some may be innocent

from two of its peculiarities: it recognizesthe camouflage coating on the virus and itsarms have a more powerful grip when itattacks.

Like every antibody, 2G12 has twoarms, but, in 2G12, they look different fromthe others. The 2G12’s arms are lockedtogether — so they don’t look as much likeYs as the others, but they have morestrength to attach to the surface of HIV.

“Where these two arms come together,it forms some additionalbinding surface,” Roux said.

What makes HIV so men-acing to humans is that thevirus works like a criminal.

It sneaks into the bodyunhampered by the immunesystem, breaks into the bodyimmune cells and steals theircarbohydrate coats, whichmake the HIV virus lookfamiliar—non-foreign—tomost antibodies.

And when the typicalantibody does attack the HIVvirus, it can’t hold on verywell “because they [carbohy-drates] are soft and fuzzy,”Roux said. “Antibodies pre-fer to bind to hard andsolid things likeproteins.”

So HIV isable to spreadquickly, ulti-mately killing Thelper cells, “thevery cells that areresponsible for coor-dinating the immuneattack,” Roux said.

Without T helper cells, many pathogens

can become lethal.But because of the additional binding

strength in 2G12, the antibody is able tobind to the carbohydrates on the surface ofHIV and neutralize the virus — one day,perhaps, before the virus kills the T helpercells and therefore the person.

The mapping of the structure of the2G12, Roux said, may help produce anAIDS vaccine because it reveals what theneutralizing antibodies should look like.—Vida Volkert

FSU scientists move in on key antibody

Roux, left, and Zhu use an electron micro-scope to examine a regular antibody, (topleft), a 2G12 antibody (middle left) and the2G12 antibody binding to an HIV-I carbohy-drate molecule (bottom left).

Student:

Michelle Dahnke, sophomore, Davie, Fla.,

communications and political science majorTeacher:

Barry Solomon,

associate in communicationsSubject:

Principles in advertisingWhat makes him a favorite:

He makes a class interesting; he's an exciting teacher; he conveys what it's like to

work in the real world of advertising.

"He's an incredible teacher and really cares about his students. He makes sure every-

one understands what advertising is really about and how it works in the real world.

"He was an advertising guru and very successful in his career, but he admits he was-

n't happy. But he loves teaching and what he's doing at FSU, and it shows in the

classroom. I think that's very admirable, and I respect his honesty."

(Barry Solomon was another student's choice for favorite professor in the Florida

State Times in 1999.)

Michelle Dahnke

By Bayard Stern

Barry Solomon

(Continued from page 1)

Phill

ip M

. Po

llock

Phill

ip M

. Po

llock

(Continued from page 1)

Baya

rd S

tern

Baya

rd S

tern

Vida

Vol

kert

Barry Scheck Meg Baldwin