March/April 2002

NEWS NOTES

1950
Georgia Thomas Henry-Pearson (B.S., M.S. '53) is the writer and co-producer of "Seniors for Seniors," a monthly television program in Panama City.
1953
H. Morgan Smith (B.S.) is now a professor of environmental sciences at the Selwyn School in Denton, Texas.
1955
Harry W. Massey Sr. (B.S.) has been honored by the Florida Association of Insurance Agents (one of two out of 12,000 members) in West Palm Beach.
1957
Paul L. Redfearn Jr. (Ph.D.) was given the Award of Appreciation by Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield.
1958
Judge John R. Blue (B.S.) is Chief Judge of Florida's Second District Court of Appeal.
1959
Donald D. Pickett (B.S.) is one of the 2001 Top Ten Coldwell Banker realtors in Florida.
1960
Sidney A. Stubbs Jr. (B.S.) is board certified as a trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in Boston, Mass.
1961
James D. Dixon (B.A.) is retiring as a bankofamerica.com executive.
1964
Dr. Richard J. Erickson (B.A. '64, M.A. '65) has received the U.S. Air Force's highest award for outstanding career service. The award recognized years of contribution as senior attorney-adviser on international and operational law matters to the Pentagon.

Annette Hannon Lee (B.A., M.F.A. '73) is now director of university relations at North Georgia College and State University in Dahlonega, Ga.
1966
Marjorie Frick Tucker (B.A.), the Cisco Networking Academy instructor at Tri-County Community College in Murphy, N.C., was a torchbearer for the 2002 Olympics.
1968
Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacobs (B.S.) is the new dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing.

Sheila M. McDevitt (B.A., J.D. '68) was elected vice chair of the Saint Leo University Board of Trustees.
1969
Sharon G. Johnson (B.S., M.B.A. '73) received the Richard C. Chewning Award from the Christian Business Faculty Association. She will be the director of institutional research at Cedarville University in Ohio.

J. Lester Kaney (B.A., J.D. '72) is board certified as a trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in Boston, Mass.

Richard D. Mars (B.S., J.D. '82) is board certified as a trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in Boston, Mass.

Bill J. Montford III (B.S., M.S. '71) was named 2002 Florida Superintendent of the Year by the Florida Association of District School Superintendents.
1970
Peter V. Antonacci (B.A., M.S.P '75, J.D. '79) was appointed to the Commission on Ethics by Governor Jeb Bush. The Commission on Ethics oversees the conduct of public officers and public employees.

Marjorie Jean Meyer (B.A.) is president/CEO of Prime Site Inc. and has been elected vice chair of the Community Associations Institute.
1972
Victoria Box Emmons (B.A.) is director of development and communications at ALLIANCE for Community Care, a large, nonprofit mental health agency in San Jose, Calif.

Mary L. Pankowski (Ph.D.), at age 61, has graduated and received her law degree from FSU's law school.

Danny A. Pietrodangelo (B.A.) was a finalist in the New York Festivals and won silver awards in the Worldfest Houston and the national Telly Awards for producing the documentary, "Homeless in an All-America City."

Arthur E. Teele Jr. (J.D.) was elected to serve on the 11-member Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority Board.
1974
Jeffery C. Bryan (B.S.) has been appointed to the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Bryan will have a three-year term on the board.
1975
Lewis F. Collins Jr. (B.S.) is board certified as a trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in Boston, Mass.

Martha Taschereau Harris (M.S.) is senior vice president for external relations for the University of Southern California.
1976
Ellen M. Miller (B.S.) has received the Governor's Points of Light Award. Ellen Miller Day in Melbourne, Fla., was declared by the mayor and city council in a city proclamation. She is now doing a joint project, "The City as a Classroom," between a high school economics class and the City of Melbourne.
1977
Dee H. Andrews (M.S., Ph.D. '80) has been elected by his peers as a fellow of the American Psychological Associa-tion.
1978
James C. Hankinson (J.D.) was appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush to a new judgeship in the 2nd Judicial Circuit, which includes Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty and Wakulla counties.
1979
H. Wayne Clewis (B.S.) has been promoted to vice president of sales and marketing for DeSoto Mills, the sock operation of JERZEES Retail, based in Fort Payne, Ala.

Clifton C. Curry Jr. (B.S.) was chosen to represent Florida on President Bush's National Business Advisory Board. He was one of the Bush-Cheney 2000 Election Attorneys for the Tampa area.
1980
Debra D. Austin (M.B.A., S.P.E. '92, E.D.D. '98) is acting president of Tallahassee Community College.
1981
George W. Heburn (Ph.D. '81) has retired from the Naval Research Laboratory after completing 30-plus years of combined active-duty military and federal civil service.

Debra Thompson Neal (B.A.) is writing for a local children's magazine, Colorado Springs Kids. She writes a monthly feature called "Bargain Central."
1983
Linda S. McCallum (B.S.) was appointed to Florida's 4th Judicial Circuit Court, which covers Clay, Duval and Nassau counties, by Gov. Jeb Bush.

G. Timothy Laney (B.S., B.S. '84) is president of Bank of America Florida. His office is in Jacksonville.
1985
Reginald Luster (B.A., J.D. '87) has joined the law office of Craig and Gibbs and is pleased to announce the establishment of Gibbs, Luster & Davis, attorneys at law, in Jacksonville.
1986
Jonathan E. Sjostrom (B.S., J.D. '89) was appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush to a new judgeship in the 2nd Judicial Circuit, which includes Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty and Wakulla counties.
1987
Braulio Vicente Jr. (B.S.) was recently promoted to vice president of facilities and support services at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa.
1988
Michael W. Jackson (J.D.) is vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the Selma (Ala.) Youth Development Center, which offers arts and crafts, dance, tutoring and boxing to troubled youth.

Linda Thomas Straus (M.F.A.) is interactive creative supervisor for RTC Direct in Washington, D.C.
1989
John H. Whitehead (B.S.) is a special agent with the FBI and has recently received a Meritorious Achievement Award for successful investigations of violent crimes in Kentucky.
1991
John D. Bauserman (B.S.) has worked as an economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics for 10 years and has recently transferred to Washington D.C.

Roger M. Dobson (B.S.) has won the 2001 World Police and Fire Games Championship race at 10,000 meters in Indianapolis, Ind. He serves on the Florida Department of Corrections Wellness Education Committee.

Kelly L. Elefant (B.S.) has joined the Denver law firm of Isaacson, Rosenbaum, Woods & Levy P.C. as an associate.

Stepen P. Kujawa (B.M.E.) teaches vocal music at Delgado Community College in New Orleans.

David L. Sollars (Ph.D.) was nominated by Chancellor Guin A. Nance as an outstanding business educator at Auburn University Montgomery.
1992
Kimberly Winter Cass (B.S. '92) was promoted to a senior manager of Ernst & Young LLP, a professional services firm.

Robert B. McCannell (B.A.) has covered high school and amateur sports for the Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis, as well as writing free lance sports articles about college sports, AAA baseball and the NBA for more than a dozen newspapers and magazines.

Christopher B. Noll (B.S.) recently became the director of career services at the University of Southern California School of Engineering.
1993
Daryl L. Cole (B.S.) has resigned from the Daytona Beach Police Department to return to graduate school at FSU, pursuing an M.S. in Adult Education.

Megan Nunnery Crampton (B.S.) was promoted to a senior manager of Ernst & Young LLP, a professional services firm.

U.S. Army Capt. Sean Pirone (B.A., M.S. '95) has completed Joint Air Operations training and is serving in Korea as a liaison to the U.S. Air Force.
1994
Cara Baldridge (B.A.) is public relations manager of the Seattle Art Museum.

Laura L. Jacobs (B.S., J.D. '97) has joined the Tallahassee firm of Lewis, Longman & Walker P.A.

Robert D. Long (M.S.) has received the "Instructor of the Year" award for Region 7 of the World Tang Soo Do Association, which includes more than 20 studios in six southeastern states. Tang Soo Do is a traditional Korean martial art.

Kristen Snyder (B.S.) has joined Southeastern Plastic Surgery as a physician's assistant in Tallahassee.

Brian S. Wood (B.S.) has joined the construction group of the law firm of Ober/Kalerin in Baltimore, Md.
1995
Amy E. Himes (B.A.) has received a master's degree in Theatre Arts from San Jose State University.

Jennifer C. Hunt (B.S.) has graduated from the University of Richmond School of Law and become an associate with Moran Kiker Brown PC, a products liability law firm in Richmond, Va.
1996
Brett T. Davidson (B.S., M.S. '97) recently accepted a position at the National Alliance of Business in Washington, D.C., as the director of corporate relations .

Rebecca A. Baynard (B.S.) was recently promoted to vice president of Bank of America's Jacksonville office as a commercial loan underwriter.

Melissa Russell McCullough-Campbell (B.S.) recently became an associate with the law firm of Rissman, Weisberg, Barrett, Hurt, Donahue and McLain. She now represents insurance companies, specializing in insurance fraud litigation in Orlando.

Craig B. Evans (B.S.) has received an M.B.A. from University of North Florida and become assistant vice president and credit manager with the Merrill Lynch banking group in Chicago.

Jennifer Bishop Shimek (B.S.) was promoted to a manager of Ernst & Young LLP, a professional services firm.
1997
Ellen Ignacio Burgett (B.S.) has received an M.B.A. from the University of Miami.

Cadra D. Culley (B.S.) has received a B.F.A. in art education from Georgia State University.

Peter O. Mason (B.A.) is president of the board of the Englewood Area Chamber of Commerce.

Michael R. Ohle (B.S.) recently joined the Tampa office of Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell as an associate practicing general civil trial defense.

Carolina Wibmer (M.A.C.C.) was promoted to a manager of Ernst & Young LLP, a professional services firm.
1998
M. Catherine Hough (Ph.D., M.S.N. '00) was awarded a Brooks Research Professorship for 2001-2004. The research grant for $54,000 is to test Hough's "Focused Reflection Model of Ethical Decision Making in Clinical Nursing Practice."

Thomas A. Warnock (B.A.) recently joined White and Williams LLP in Philadelphia, as an associate in the Commercial Litigation Department.
1999
Anthea Drew (B.S.) has been elected a regional trustee to the American Student Dental Association's Board of Trustees.

Cynthia E. Fussell (B.A.) recently received her commission as a naval officer after completing Officer Candidate School at Naval Aviation Schools Command, Naval Air Station in Pensacola.

Michele A. Martinez (B.S.) was awarded a $10,000 KPMG Minority Accounting Doctoral Scholarship at the University of South Florida for the 2001-2002 academic year.
2000
Jeremy S. Arnott (B.S.) recently received his commission as a naval officer after completing Officer Candidate School at Naval Aviation Schools Command, Naval Air Station, in Pensacola.

Barry E. Hudspeth (B.S.) recently received his commission as a naval officer after completing Officer Candidate School at Naval Aviation Schools Command, Naval Air Station, in Pensacola.

Valerie L. Linley (B.S.) is girls' basketball coach at Lawton Chiles High School in Tallahassee.

Jonathan Moore (M.S.) recently received his commission as a naval officer after completing Officer Candidate School at Naval Aviation Schools Command, Naval Air Station in Pensacola.

Richard A. Perry Jr. (B.S.) recently was commissioned after completing Aviation Officer Candidate School at Naval Aviation Schools Command, Naval Air Station, in Pensacola.
2001
Elisa M. Dekaney (Ph.D.) has been named assistant professor of choral music education in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

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