AUGUST 99
CHASTAINS
LOYAL GRAD CREATES CHAIR
By Melanie Yeager
Reprinted and condensed from the Tallahassee Democrat

J. Harold Chastain's love affair with Florida State University dates back to his undergraduate days in the early 1950s.
"I was just a young country boy out of rural Lake Wales," Chastain said. "They took me in and educated me sufficiently to compete in the business world. I finally got in the position to give something back."

The Bradenton resident has donated $600,000 (to create) the J. Harold and Barbara M. Chastain Eminent Scholar Chair within the College of Business.
College of Business Dean Melvin Stith said the new chair will bring nationally recognized scholars to the department of finance and to the real estate program.

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  A 1955 graduate of the College of Business, J. Harold Chastain served as president of First Environmental Services, a division of First City Federal Savings and Loan Association of Braden-ton, and chief real estate appraiser for that institution before becoming a private real estate investor. "Whatever successes I've enjoyed, I owe in part to Florida State. It's my alma mater. I love it, preach it, live it," said Chastain, 66. While he was being interviewed by phone, Chastain's computer screen saver played the Seminole song.
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