FEBRUARY MARCH 2001

NEWS NOTES

1950
Max M. Bayard Jr. (B.S., M.S. '57) has retired and ilives with his wife in Ponce Inlet, Fla.

1959
Curt C. Compton (B.S.) is chairman of the Butler County Services Board.

1961
Gabriel M. Brady (B.S.) has retired from Dobbs House in Atlanta after 36 years.

1965
Nancy S. Dale (B.A.) has two articles in Law and Order Magazine.

Ray Davis (B.A.) is board chairman of the American Cancer Society, Florida Division.

1968
Dr. Paul R. Raffoul (M.S.) received the University of Houston Alumni Organization's Outstanding Faculty Award.

1971
James Goodwin (B.S., Ph.D. '73) is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.

1972
Daniel B. Kirby (B.S.) is president of CapMark Services L.P. in Atlanta.

Philip D. Loveless (M.B.) is a personal lines underwriter of Liberty Mutual Insurance.

David E. Townsend (M.S., Ph.D. '74) is executive vice president of research and development for Reynolds Tobacco in Winston-Salem, N.C.

1976
Jim W. Goss (M.F.A.), director of Creative Productions for NBC in Burbank, Calif., has won an award for community leadership.

Lt. Col. James B. Pack (B.S.) is squadron commander of the 165th ASOS and a real estate investor in Georgia.

1977
Lt. Col. Joseph P. Haggerty (B.S.) is an active duty regular officer at Sheppard AFB, Texas.

Joseph Lewis Jr. (J.D.) has been appointed a First District Court of Appeal judge.

Ricky L. Polston (B.S., J.D. '86) has been appointed a First District Court of Appeal judge.

Dr. Vicki Mercer Ruiz (B.S.) is on the National Council on the Humanities.

Ruil T. Springer (B.S.) was promoted to principal in Ernst & Young's National Tax Consulting Practice in Tampa.

1978
Robert J. DeFranco (B.S.) is a senior vice president at Bankrate.com in North Palm Beach, Fla.

Roger W. Hart (B.S.) is a Boeing 767 captain flying with United Airlines.

1979
James M. Porter (B.S., J.D. '84), a partner in the Miami office of the law firm Holland & Knight LLP, is on the Executive Council of the Environmental and Land Use Law Section of the Florida Bar.

Kim Burdick Whitehurst (B.S.) has joined the staff of Rollins College in Winter Park as program manager for the Donors Forum of Central and North Florida.

1980
> Cynthia G. Imperato (M.S., J.D. '88) is on the Law School Liaison and Bench and Bar Committees of the Broward County Bar Association.

Leon E. Richardson (B.S.) is inside sales manager of Calamos Asset Management in Naperville, Ill.

James A. Ross (B.S.) is vice president, community investments, of Trident United Way.

1981
Larry Grossman (B.S.) directs recreational programming for Cordillera Resort in Vail, Colo.

1982
Cynthia L. Cox (B.S., J.D. '86) is administrative judge over the Family and Domestic Violence Division in Florida's 19th Circuit.

Edie Deane (B.S., M.S. '84) is a partner in a website for health-care professionals, www.care2learn.com.

Nita Bernier Downing (B.A.) has opened Not Just Babysitting, in Tallahassee.

1983
Betsy A. Delano (B.F.A.) was recently named member of the year by The Florida Public Relations Association in Stuart, Fla.

Timothy J. Little (B.S.) is executive vice president and chief credit officer of Republic Bancshares Inc. in St. Petersburg.

1984
Miles S. Buntin (B.S.) has joined Telseon Inc., as regional business manager in Atlanta.

Daniel F. Cone (B.S.) is managing business development for Incurrent Solutions, the financial industry's largest provider of Internet-based credit card services.

Susan E. Painter (B.S.), a former softball player at FSU, is in the Florida State Hall of Fame.

Brian J. Quirk (B.S.) has recently completed his M.B.A. with highest honors from Webster University and was promoted to director of ITT Technical Institute in Jacksonville, Fla.

Robert K. Shoemaker Jr. (B.S.) is executive vice president, eastern region of SYSCO Corporation, North America's largest food-service marketer and distributor.

1986
Frank T. Bethany (B.S.) is senior examiner, Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta.

1987
Rhonda D. Balenger (B.S., M.B.A. '89) is on the Board of Directors of the Central Florida Action Chapter of Florida Nurserymen & Growers Association.

April Harvey-Dozier (B.S.) is first vice president, CRA compliance manager, at Republic Bancshares Inc. in St. Petersburg.

Greg J. Nelson (B.S.) is licensee development manager at Duraswitch Industries Inc. Business Development Team in Phoenix, Ariz.

1988
Michael F. Ahern (B.S.) is chief technology officer of Streampipe.com.

1989
Dave F. Clark (B.S., M.S. '90) is a partner of RSA Ventures I at RSA Security Inc. in Bedford, Mass.

Penelope Bearry Deutsch (B.S.) is a marketing officer for Army ROTC Headquarters in Newport News, Va.

Christopher Jaskiewicz (B.S.) has transferred to Proskauer's Corporate Department from its Litigation Department.

1990
Dwight L. Cooper III (B.S.) and, Keith A. Frein (B.S.) are co-presidents of Professional Placement Resources.

James R. Galbraith (B.S.) has joined the institutional advancement staff of Lees-McRae College.

Jack Kerigan Jr. (B.S.) is one of the Baton Rouge Business Report's "Top 40 Under 40," the city's up and coming young executives.

1991
Sharon A. Liggett (M.P.A.) was special advisor to President Clinton and advisor to the special envoy for the Americas.

Meredith C. Trammell (B.S., J.D., '95) is on the FSU College of Law Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Richard L. Moore (B.S.) is the new executive director of investments at CIBC Oppenheimer in Ft. Lauderdale.

1992
Christopher T. Carver (B.S.) is vice president of finance at ING Americas in Atlanta.

Katherine E. Hoon (B.S.) is supervisor of the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genetics Research Lab.

1993
Daryl L. Cole (B.S.) will be honored by Florida M.A.D.D. for making more than 100 DUI arrests in 2000.

Kimberly Foster Wicker (B.A.) is the new retail manager for Lenscrafters in the Florida Mall in Orlando.

Marvin Jones ('93), a former linebacker at FSU, is in the Florida State Hall of Fame.

1994
Deborah G. Barnes (S.P.E.), is president of the Wakulla Classroom Teachers Association.

Derrick D. Brooks (B.S.), a former linebacker at FSU, is in the Florida State Hall of Fame.

Heidi Imhof Herrington (B.S.) has opened a law practice in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

Robert D. Long (M.S.) was awarded his second-degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, a traditional Korean karate.

Christy Donovan Pemberton (J.D.) is senior assistant (Pinellas) county attorney.

Paul A. Wilson ('94), a former FSU baseball star, is in the Florida State Hall of Fame.

1995
Kenneth T. Brewer (B.S.) is with CBS affiliate WISH in Indianapolis.

Tara G. Goodman (M.S.) made it to the hot seat of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" and won $32,000.

Sean P. Hurley (M.S.) is Librarian II at DeLand Area Public Library in Deland, Fla.

Jean Kinney Vargas (B.S.) is a therapist in a mental health center in Chicago.

1996
Rosalyn Sia Baker (B.A.) is an associate with the law firm of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley in West Palm Beach.

Alix Uhlfelder Barrett (B.S.) was appointed by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to the Florida Commission on Community Service.

Jeanette Watkins Jungreis (B.A.) was admitted to the North Carolina Bar and has joined a Wilmington, N.C., firm.

Doug Mientkiewicz ('96) was on the USA's baseball team of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

1997
Jesse Tan (B.M.E., B.A. '97) was named outstanding resource teacher from the Teacher's Network, Singapore.

Daniel W. Whitman (M.B.A.) was promoted to finance officer with AmSouth Bank Capital Management Group in Birmingham, Ala.

1999
Dr. Stephen R. Tilford (D.M.) won third place in the Palma d'Oro international piano competition in Finale Ligure, Italy.

Joseph B. Williams Jr. (B.S.) is sawmill supervisor at Gulf States Paper Corp. in Moundville, Ala.

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