AUGUST 1999
FSU'S CAMPUS IN THE TROPICS
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In Panama, it's an hour's drive - by the highway that roughly
parallels the Canal - from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
A different hour's drive will get you from the city to the jungle.
At the Atlantic end of the Canal, a little boat can take you
in a few minutes to jungle islands occupied by isolated species
of primates and a few scientists who study them.
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SCOTT TO HEAD STUDENT AFFAIRS AT FSU
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Winston Scott - an astronaut, an engineer, a U.S. Navy Captain
and a Florida State grad - has agreed to become associate vice
president for student affairs at FSU, with the expectation of
becoming vice president for student affairs Jan. 1.
FSU Provost Lawrence G. Abele described Scott, 49, as "a
natural leader."
THE LONG AND THOROUGH EDUCATION OF AN ARTIST
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Those of us who have known Bill Walmsley - Professor Walmsley
- for a long time have become accustomed to his easy affability
and his enthusiasm for collecting art.
What we don't always know is his history, the determination he
mustered to set his own course, to study from the best there
ever was and to absorb centuries of art history as well as contemporary
art movements.
COMPOSER OF THE YEAR IS ZWILICH
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (B.M. '60, M.M. '62) has been named the
1999 Composer of the Year by Musical America, an international
directory of the performing arts.
Zwilich, 60, has held the Carnegie Hall Composer's Chair since
1995. Her "String Quartet #2" premiered at Carnegie
Hall in December. The piece is also being performed in music
festivals in Aspen, Ravinia and Tanglewood this summer by the
Emerson Quartet, for whom it was commissioned.
LANGUAGE OF MUSIC HE'S FLUENT
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Florida State's Leonidas Lipovetsky does not like being called
a "child prodigy."
"There was much music in my house," he says instead,
when confronted with the label. "My mother sang Mozart arias
to me at a very early age. That shaped my musical understanding."
When, at the age of 4, Lipovetsky played Mozart's C Major 545
Sonata on the piano, it seemed only natural to him.
"I was always playing."
"But," he laughs, "I was very lucky to have a
mother who didn't let me get fooled by talent."
FROM BAINBRIDGE TO FSU TO HOLLYWOOD, CANNES
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Thomas Wade Jackson, 32, has always dreamed of making movies.
"But I wanted to make movies about where I grew up and the
people I grew up with," he said.
It was a dream that tormented the Bainbridge, Ga., native for
almost two years before he was finally admitted to the Florida
State film school.
And it paid off. He is the first FSU student to win a Student
Academy Award.
LOYAL GRAD CREATES CHAIR
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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."
ALUMNI RAISING MONEY TO CONVERT PRESIDENTS HOUSE
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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."
SEMINOLES WERE BRAVE PROUD AND HARD TO DEFEAT
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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."
FSU'S HUMANITARIANS IN VIETNAM AND IN TALLAHASSEE
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TAKING MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO VIETNAM
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"Vietnam is a country, not a war."
So goes the mantra of Max Moody as he gently reminds Americans
that most Vietnamese people are destitute and, from education
to health care, are in need of aid.
As a senior telecommunications specialist with FSU, Moody is
an expert at wiring buildings and installing equipment to keep
the campus' telephones ringing. But his true calling lies elsewhere.
STUDENT
HOPING TO HEALSICK CHILDREN
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I read the paper the way most people do: When I see a photo
of someone I know even just a little, I read that story.
When I picked up the March 1 paper at the breakfast table and
pulled out the local section, that's exactly what happened.
"Hey, I know her," I said to myself. "That's Coach
Meredith."