OCTOBER 2001

NEWS NOTES

1961
Betty L. Siegel (Ph.D.), president of Kennesaw (Ga.) State University, has been named a "Most Influential Atlantan" by The Atlanta Business Chronicle.

1963
Tai-Wan Kwon (Ph.D.), a professor of food science in Korea, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists.

Midge E. Tindale (B.S.) is with Coldwell Banker 1st Choice Realty in Crystal River.

1964
Barry L. Cobb (B.S, M.S. '66), director of Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support, was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame.

Dr. Richard J. Erickson (B.A., M.A. '65) has retired as senior-attorney adviser (International), Headquarters U.S. Air Force.

1968
William S. Cheek Jr. (B.S.) has retired from the FBI after 30 years as a special agent. He was a police officer at Florida State and for the city of Tallahassee while earning his bachelor's degree in criminology.

Richard D. Wright (B.S., M.S. '69) has earned a doctorate from Arizona School of Health Sciences, a division of the Kirksville School of Osteopathic Medicine.

Sheila McDevitt (B.A., J.D. '78) is a senior vice president, general counsel and chief legal officer of TECO Energy. TECO Transport named a recent vessel acquisition, a 40,000-ton bulk carrier, the M/V Sheila McDevitt. She is on the Board of Visitors of the FSU College of Law and was appointed this year to the Judicial Nominating Commission for the 13th Judicial Circuit in Florida.

1970
J. David Campbell (M.A.) is president of Northeast Alabama Community College.

1974
Howard A. Kusnick (B.S.) has been elected to the Board of Directors of Leadership Broward Foundation Inc.

1977
Stanley A. Murphy (B.S.) is a certified insolvency and restructuring adviser.

1983
J. Michael Duduit (Ph.D.), executive vice president of Union University in Jackson, Tenn., and editor of Preaching, a professional journal for preachers, will be profiled in the 56th edition of Who's Who in America.

1984
Anthony H. Quickle (B.S.) sculpted "Guardians," a life-size bronze K-9 German Shepherd and his handler. The sculpture was dedicated on Memorial Day in Streamwoods Veterans Memorial Park in suburban Chicago.

1985
Joel Beaman (B.F.A.) has scholarships from the Union League Club of Chicago's Civic & Arts Foundation and from Columbia College Chicago to pay for a summer odyssey taking pictures to "record the current texture of our country through our landscapes, signs and symbols, and people."

Michael S. Long has been re-elected to the Commission of the City of Lighthouse Point, Fla., where he is commission president.

1989
Michelle R. Burke (B.A.) received the 2001 Distinguished Staff Award at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., where she is director of student leadership and activities.

1993
Gabriele M. Beyer (B.S., M.A.C.C. '95) is a senior audit manager at Deloitte & Touche in Jacksonville.

1997
Juan Guardia (B.S., M.S. '01) is assistant director of Hispanic student affairs at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.

1998
Mason A. Reeves (B.A.) was admitted to The Order of the Coif for academic excellence in the top 10 percent of the graduating class at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.

2001
John R. DeSotel (Ph.D.) has joined the full-time faculty of Bridewater College in Virginia as director of instrumental music.

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