NEWSLETTER
Spring 2004

Note from Hardee Center Staff

The Hardee Center Staff is proud to announce the completion of another successful Hardee Center year. We were pleased to help facilitate a variety of professional development opportunities for the scholars as well as raise money to continue the work of the Center. As we reflect on our accomplishments during the past year we are also proud that we were able to secure new assistantships at FSU and in the Tallahassee area, as well as the funds to begin the Stryker Lecture Series in the fall. We had a successful recruitment year and the Center has approximately fifteen scholar positions for next year.

In March the Center Staff had the opportunity to present the history, work, and accomplishments of the Hardee Center at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Conference in Denver, Colorado. A panel of scholars and sponsors also participated, sharing their experiences. Panelists were Dr. Jon Dalton, Dr. Paige Crandall, Ashley Tull, Allison Hawkins Crume, Sally Kline, and Ivan Harrell. The presentation concluded with friends of the Center and former graduates of the program reflecting on their experiences with Dr. Hardee and the Higher Education Program. The first NASPA Melvene Draheim Hardee Dissertation of the Year award winner Dr. Marlesa Roney Vice Provost for Student Success was present and talked about how much it meant for her to meet and talk with Dr. Hardee. It was an experience that has forever impacted her professional development.

The Center will be in transition over the summer as Margo McClinton and Tracey Dowling graduate and move into exciting new jobs. We want to thank all the friends, scholars, sponsors, the Board of Governors, faculty, and staff who have continuously supported and participated in the Hardee Center events. As the year comes to an end, and we move forward into our new ventures, we wish each of you a wonderful, happy, and rejuvenating summer and the best of all life has to offer. Good-bye and thanks for making our jobs with the Hardee Center a wonderful, fulfilling professional experience.

Committee Updates

Professional Development Committee Highlights

Chair, Jennifer Buchanan

It has been a real pleasure to work with such bright, motivated graduate students on the Professional Development Committee this year, and to meet those of you who attend the professional development programs. I see the Hardee Center activities, particularly those designed by the Professional Development Committee, as valuable catalysts for all of us to examine our own career choices and to make the most of our academic and professional experiences.

Thanks for the opportunity to share in the work of the Hardee Center, and farewell to all of you who are leaving us for other opportunities. We will miss you.

Professional Development Committee Members:

Kema Gadson, Rod Colas, Kristie Davidson, Diane Weithofer, Alicea Forand, Emmanuala Pierre and Tracey Dowling

Current Hardee Scholar Reflections on Professional Development Programs

Scholars Mid-year Meeting-Kristie Davidson

For the Hardee Scholars getting together is one of the most important things we do. We often get wrapped up in our everyday lives that are full of classes and work, and roommates, and we don't often get the chance to just get together and see one another. That is why the meeting held after the winter holiday break came at such a perfect time. It was an excellent opportunity to see familiar faces and catch up on news!

We were all excited that Diane had started her job search and that Ashley is going to be a dad! Everyone had something new and exciting to share with the group. I think that having this particular meeting at this particular time is so important because it allows us to reconnect with one another over casual conversation. Often, Hardee events are focused on speakers or activities that just sitting and talking can be difficult. This meeting gave us the opportunity to relax and be social.

The meeting also had its educational moments. We were informed about the upcoming FAWE conference being held at FSU, and reminded about the precious travel funding the Hardee Center so kindly allots us. I know that most of us could use the funding with NASPA and ACPA being right round the corner. So with all that being said, this meeting was excellent, and too important to forgo. I am sure that next year's meeting will have just as much news and excitement!

Movie Night-Tracey Dowling

On Friday (yes, Friday!), January 23, Margo, Grahaeme, Alicea, Sally & I went to the movies at the Tallahassee Mall to see Mona Lisa Smile with Julia Roberts. Before the movie, we fortified ourselves with ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery & slurpees from the concession stand. The movie was about the life of college women at Wellesley in the 1950s and was very entertaining. We laughed and had a good time passing our purchases back and forth for everyone to enjoy.

After the movie, we discussed several pertinent points about the role and expectations of college women in that time period, relived some of the humorous scenes, and discussed what surprised us about the way woman were portrayed.

On our way out of the theater, Margo fell down the stairs. She played it off in true royal style in a way that even paparazzi wouldn't have been able to catch it on camera. We acted like proper graduate students should and represented the Hardee Center well.

FAWE -Allison Hawkins Crume

The Florida Association of Women in Education held its annual conference in Tallahassee, Florida. Several scholars participated in the conference by presenting, introducing keynote speakers and volunteering. Rod Colas volunteered and assisted with technological setup for speakers. Grahaeme Hesp introduced keynote speaker Dr. Patricia Whitely, Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of Miami. Allison Hawkins Crume introduced Sherrill Ragans, former FSU Associate Vice President for Student Affairs, the other keynote speaker. The Hardee Center staff, Tracey Dowling and Margo McClinton, presented research on women in leadership and communications styles. The conference was an excellent opportunity for scholars to meet women leaders in higher education. Other speakers included Dr. Debra Austin, Florida Chancellor of Colleges and Universities and Dr. Janet Lenz, Senior Research Associate, FSU Career Center, who discussed how to better advice students as they make navigate their career paths.

Values Institute-Ashley Tull

This year the Values Institute had several well-known scholars and speakers in the field of higher education. The focus of the conference this year was Soul Searching: Trends and Patterns in College Student Spirituality. Several Hardee scholars volunteered and took advantage of the opportunity to network with scholars in the field. Hardee scholars enjoyed the opportunity to introduce speakers and welcome Institute participants. Speakers included Drs. Alexander and Helen Astin of University of California--Los Angeles, Dr. Beverly Tatum, President of Spelman College, Dr. Roy Baumeister, an FSU Francis Eppes Eminent Scholar, and Dr. Jennifer Lindholm, Director of the UCLA Project on Spirituality.

Chop Stix Chat-Rod Colas

This spring was the first time that the professional development committee decided to have Chop Stix Chat instead of a Pasta Talk. The event took place on a Sunday evening at Supper China Buffet. During this occasion the Hardee scholars enjoyed an array of Chinese cuisines, and great conversation. The highlight of the event was our distinguished speaker Dr. Fancy Funk, FSU Associate Professor Emerita. I was honored to have had the opportunity to introduce such a wonderful person who has done so much in student affairs. The focus of Dr. Funk's speech was on "Celebrating Your Magic In Building School and Community Relations". She stressed to many of the scholars the importance of providing the best service to students in order to help them develop. Also, she mentioned how important it to stay connected to Florida State University because that is the only we can maintain a legacy of belonging. I think by doing the graduates of Florida State University will cherish the wonderful memories and education they have obtained from such a prestigious institution. I can honestly say that this was a wonderful learning experience that will be beneficial in my professional and personal development.

End of the Year Event- Allison, Ashley, and Margo

The End of the Year Breakfast Celebration held April 23rd culminated this year's events. This year the scholars, faculty, staff, and friends of the Center met at the Brokaw-McDougall House here in Tallahassee. The McDougall House is an historical southern home. It was the perfect size and atmosphere to host such an event. The celebration included breakfast catered by Jenny's Lunchbox, a small breakfast restaurant. Pancakes, home fries, bacon, sausage, eggs, juice, and coffee were served.

Dr. Bower opened the program by thanking all scholars, sponsors, and friends of the Center for their support throughout the year. This was followed by announcements and reflections from Dr. Jennifer Buchanan, Chair of the Professional Development Committee discussing the work of the committee and the various events it coordinated throughout the year. Bill Moeller, Chair of the Ragans Award Committee, congratulated the Sherrill Ragans Award winners--Allison Hawkins Crume and Sally Kline. Bill Moeller also took the opportunity to wish Sherrill Ragans a happy birthday and the group joined in singing the happy birthday song to Sherrill and graduating Hardee scholar Alicia Forand. The rest of the program focused on recognizing the eight scholars who were graduating, including four doctoral candidates who are planning on graduating in August.

Three of the four doctoral students started their doctoral studies together three years ago-- Allison Hawkins Crume, Ashley Tull, and Margo McClinton. Each of them commented on how much the Hardee Center has meant to them as they worked on their degrees. The fourth doctoral candidate, Karinda Barrett, was especially reflective because she served as the Hardee Center's first Associate Director. These doctoral candidates as well as the masters' students expressed their appreciation for the opportunities the Center provided in their professional development as graduate students.

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Fundraising Committee Highlights

Chair, Dr. Jon C. Dalton, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

The fundraising committee is proud to report that it has raised over the course of the year $10,000, which includes the Ragans Scholarship and The Stryker award of $5000 per year for five years. The donations from alum and friends has made a difference in continuing the life of the Center. The Center has enjoyed its strong partnership with the FSU foundation. The foundation has combined its database with the Hardee Center database to secure over 900 confirmed address and contact information of our past alum. We know there are more out there and we solicit your support in helping us keep up with past Hardee graduates. The Foundation has started a phone-a-thon as well as letters to solicit the support. The phone-a-thon and letters initiated by the foundation has been successful.

The Sherrill Ragans award recipient for the masters students was Sally Kline and for the doctoral students Allison Hawkins Crume. The two recipients of the award were given $250 each to assist them with travel to Spring conferences.

The Hardee Center for Women in Higher Education is pleased to announce the establishment of the Stryker Lecture in Higher Education. Funded by a gift from Laurey and Charlie Stryker, this new lecture series will for the next five years bring to the FSU campus well-known scholars and practitioners in the field of higher education leadership and other issues important to women in higher education.

Dr. Laurey Stryker, a 1992 graduate of the FSU Higher Education program, is CEO of the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee Campus and has served as Florida Assistant Commissioner of Education and Deputy Labor Secretary. Dr. Stryker has been a friend and supporter of the Hardee Center for many years and we are honored to receive this substantial gift from the Strykers in support of the mission of the Center.

Research Committee

Chair, Dr. Chanta Haywood Dean of the College of Arts and Science at Florida A&M

The research committee reassessed its goals and decided to focus its research agenda on graduate student experiences and retention. The committee met and reviewed FSU graduate student retention and graduation rate statistics in the University, the College of Education, and the Higher Education program. The committee also has read Beyond the Ivory Tower as well as collected articles about doctorate retention. The information collected was used to write a grant to support graduate student academic and professional development.

Alumni Spotlights & Adventures

David Persky

Dean of the School of Continuing Education at Saint Leo University.

I arrived in Tallahassee in mid August of 1977. I received a note from Dr. Hardee, my major professor, informing me that one of my new classmates, Jim Palcic, was living nearby and that I should meet him. I did and Jim and I became fast friends and pulled each other along through the doctoral program as part of the Hardee "life net" although she tended to refer to us as the "P's in the Higher Education pod."

We graduated from FSU in June of 1979 on a Saturday afternoon. I moved to Tampa on Sunday and started my new job at USF, where I had been before starting the doctoral program, as Acting Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs. It was a new area of college administration for me, having come from a Residence Life background. I quickly learned the that my new job was essentially a "golden gopher" job that did not require a doctorate (or arguably a graduate degree).

With a change in the Vice Presidency, the position became even more irrelevant. The Vice President for Student Affairs, who came to the VPAA and told him he wanted me back in Student Affairs, rescued me. So, in the fall of 1980 I became the Assistant to the Vice President for Student Affairs with responsibility for student discipline, alcohol education programming, emergency student loans, fee waivers and that all time favorite, "other responsibilities as assigned." I was very happy with my new job and it evolved into an Associate Dean of Student Affairs position with an internal reorganization a couple of years later.

Like many young professionals, I wanted to move up the administrative food chain and become a senior student affairs professional. I routinely sent out resumes and was involved in NASPA, ACPA and SACSA so that I could get my name out in the field and jump at the many offers that were sure to come my way. It was a tough job market in the mid 80's and I grew disillusioned. Like many people, I looked for alternative careers, both in and out of higher education. I applied to law school and was accepted at Stetson College of Law in St. Petersburg. I made the leap of faith and left USF to pursue a law degree. After 2 and a half years at Stetson, I graduated and found myself again looking for a job. After some clerking experience with the City of Tampa legal department, I joined a small law firm in downtown Tampa. It was there that I was contacted by a small liberal arts university regarding a position on the staff as General Counsel and Assistant to the President. This started me thinking of returning to higher education, along with the growing dissatisfaction with the practice of law. I began a serious effort to return to higher education and discovered that since I was no longer on a campus, I was at a competitive disadvantage in every search threw my name into. I came in a close second or third in many searches over the next several years.

In an effort to demonstrate my commitment to higher education, I taught Business Law at the local community college, volunteered with my fraternity and delivered education programs at the regional and national leadership conferences and rejoined NASPA. I knew I wanted to return to higher education, but I never expected the route to be so difficult.

In the spring of 1999, I spoke with a friend in Tampa whose business was doing some work with Saint Leo College in Pasco County, just north of Tampa. He passed along my name to the Saint Leo officials with whom he worked and they contacted me. In a very short time, they invited me to campus for an interview and two weeks later I was offered a position in Academic Affairs as Academic Programs Administrator for the School of Continuing Education and I jumped at the chance to join the staff at Saint Leo, which was undergoing significant restructuring and became Saint Leo University shortly after my arrival. My position changed in time with shifts in staffing and I soon became the Associate Dean of the School of Continuing Education. In July of 2002, I was promoted to Dean following the departure of the then dean to a small school in Ohio.

I thoroughly enjoy what I do at Saint Leo and have responsibility for a significant portion of the student population at Saint Leo. The School of Continuing Education has 14 locations (soon to be 15) in 5 states. We are a leading provider of voluntary education programs to the military and many of our students are deployed in the middle east at the time of this writing. We also have partnerships with several community colleges in Florida to allow community college graduates who are unable to relocated for family or work related reasons to complete their bachelor degrees without having to move to a new community.

It has been an interesting career, with lots of shifts and turns along the way. I am always grateful for the experiences that I had at FSU as a member of the Hardee "life net" as they gave me the confidence to strike out and undertake new challenges that I might not have attempted otherwise.

For any of the FSU "family" who are in the area of Saint Leo University for whatever reason, feel free to stop in for some of our Benedictine hospitality!

Kristi Durbin

Teacher Educator University of Canterbury

Pictured here with Barbara Mann during Mann's Dream Vacation to New Zealand.

I graduated from Florida State in August 2000, and approximately 4 days later, found myself traveling on a plane to Christchurch, New Zealand to start a great adventure. Although my husband and I looked forward to thoroughly exploring the natural wonders of the Southern Hemisphere, I was also hopeful that my newly minted doctorate would afford me some work opportunities (not an easy ask for a country where higher education is modeled on the British, rather than American, sensibilities!).

I was in luck, however; I have been tutoring and lecturing in the School of Education at the University of Canterbury since 2001. My current job is "Teacher Educator", a full-time academic position responsible for lecturing in and writing course materials for the Bachelor's in Teaching and Learning degree program. Currently, my teaching responsibilities include two research methods courses for prospective teachers, a course on teaching & learning, and two graduate/masters level courses, Career Development Theory & Practice, and Work-based Learning & Education.

I guess when I think of my time as a Hardee fellow, I am most likely to reflect on the friendships made and the camaraderie that was forged through common class experiences with fellow students. It was a fantastic way of building a support network with other women students, a network that proved invaluable later as I worked my way toward completion of a dissertation.

No matter what step of the process, there was always someone else who had been there previously and could lend advice and encouragement. Having now worked overseas where the process of completing doctoral study is extremely solitary and without shared coursework or common student experiences, I am truly grateful that I never had to "go it alone!"

Dr. Barbara Mann

Associate Professor Emerita of Higher Education and Former Director of the Hardee Center

New Zealand: My Dream Vacation

It only took 24 years, but I finally took my dream vacation to New Zealand. In 1979 Dr. Hardee asked those of us who were her doctoral students what place in the world we wanted to visit. She told us to hold on to our dreams and remember them to get us through prelims and the dissertation. Well Dr. Hardee, it took a while but I got to New Zealand.

Shortly after Kristi Durbin, one of my doctoral students, graduated, she and her husband moved to New Zealand to work at Canterbury University in Christchurch. I remembered my dream vacation and told Kristi I would visit someday. So at 7:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 the first of four flights that would take me to Christchurch on the South Island of New Zealand roared down the runway in Tallahassee. A nighttime flight on Qantas took me across the Pacific for a quick change in Auckland for Christchurch. As the sun rose I could see the Marlborough Sounds at the northeastern tip of the South Island. If that wasn't spectacular enough, we soon over flying over the Southern Alps with the cloud formations that give New Zealand its original Maori name-Aotearoa, The Land of the Long White Cloud. Kristi greeted me in the Christchurch airport at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, March 21 New Zealand time, 32 hours after I left Tallahassee. New Zealand is just across the International Date Line and 17 hours ahead of Tallahassee.

On Friday and Sunday Kristi showed me Christchurch (very British as you might guess from the name) and all it has to offer with an emphasis on scenery, arts and crafts, and my reacquired (since retirement) hobby of bird watching. Saturday we took a boat cruise of Akaroa Harbour in the Banks Peninsula, giving us a chance to see all kinds of birds and the beautiful harbour where some scenes from the movie "The Piano" were filmed. Returning to town, Kristi introduced me to the fabulous NZ ice cream that was to become a regular treat on the trip-I don't think it would pass any heart healthy tests!

On Monday I boarded the Tranzalpine Railroad for a roundtrip across the Canterbury Plains, up the Southern Alps across Arthur's Pass and down the other side (through 16 tunnels), past gorgeous Lake Brunner, ending up in Greymouth on the Tasman Sea-one side of the country to the other in four hours. Each section of the trip was different in scenery and climate and I was beginning to catch on that the small country of New Zealand has tremendous variety in scenery just like the US, but one can go from one type to another in two hours rather than two days.

On Tuesday morning I began my grand adventure on my own when the campervan I rented to tour the country for three weeks was delivered to me. I call this a grand adventure because I was to be entirely on my own, driving a stick shift, diesel powered, 5.5 meter long van with the steering wheel on the wrong side, with everybody on the wrong side of the road, while trying to read maps or follow directions, AND take in the sights. Every now and then when making a right turn I would end up in the wrong lane, but people were very understanding and mostly laughed. Each night I would find a holiday park, a combination of campgrounds and cabins, hook up the campervan, cook dinner, write in my journal, plan for the next day, and collapse into bed before 10 p.m. Of course it was fall in NZ, and the farther south and closer to the mountains the colder it was. I remember two nights in particular in Te Anau and Wanaka when the temperature was 2 degrees C (35 degrees F) but the heater in the van and a down duvet kept me warm.

My goal was to see as much of the beautiful South Island as I could in two weeks, then take the ferry across Cook Strait for a week on the North Island before ending up in Auckland for the trip home. My first stop was Mt. Cook, and the drive there established a pattern that lasted the entire trip. Around each curve and over each mountain was another incredible view with mountains, braided rivers, one-lane bridges, forests, lakes, and Maori and English names to learn. First I could see Mt. Cook (Aoraki) in the distance. Then I went around a curve and was on the end of Lake Pukaki with Mt. Cook 60 kilometers away reflecting in the other end of the lake. This kind of breathtaking scenery was repeated over and over.

After the trip to Mt. Cook I head to Oamaru back on the Pacific coast south of Christchurch. I followed the coastal highway south to where it ended in Bluff. On the way I stopped to visit the blue penguin, yellow-eyed penguin, and royal albatross colonies. I met wonderful New Zealanders (Kiwis) who love to talk to visitors from The States, particularly those who really take the time to see their country and show an interest in them. I made friends with other travelers from Australia, Wales, Canada, and Germany-we were traveling the same route south and then north. And I saw fabulous untouched beaches, took gravel roads up cliffsides to get to lighthouses, and walked in rain forests that went to the edge of the ocean.

After indulging my love of fried oysters with the unbelievably good Bluff oysters, I head north to Te Anau and the Fjordlands. A tour bus took us to Milton Sound where we boarded a nature cruise. The trip over the mountains and on the Sound in the rain led to more natural wonders of waterfalls everywhere we looked. This trip was a definite high point, particularly when it quit raining on the boat trip back into Milford Sound and dolphins and fur seals played in the water for us and the impromptu waterfalls gradually stopped.

I moved north to Queenstown, a thoroughly delightful tourist town. A mountain range called The Remarkables, visible from Queenstown across the lake, is a featured backdrop in several scenes in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. I was on my way to the west coast of the South Island through Wanaka and Mt. Aspiring National Park. This is one of the most beautiful drives I have ever taken anywhere. Rain forest, native birds, beautiful rivers, lakes the color of the blue sky, and mountains right down to the Tasman Sea. Sometimes the two lane highway was high on a cliff above the sea, at other times running along pristine deserted beaches, but always beautiful and interesting. I finally reached Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers and camped near Fox, which I saw gleaming in the sunset and again at sunrise. I followed the highway up the coast stopping for bird colonies, craft shops, and pancake rocks and blowholes.

Next was Motueka on the edge of Able Tasman National Park on the northwest corner of the South Island where I spent a day on a boat going up and down the coast of the park. The beautiful beaches are gold in color from the particular granite that is the source of the sand, and the water is a deep green. My next stop was Nelson at an arts & crafts center and I made the connection between the blues, greens, yellows, golds, and sunset reds used by the potters and weavers and the natural beauty in which I had been immersed for two weeks. The Marlborough Sounds were as beautiful from the highway along their ridges as they were from the flight in two weeks earlier. I backed the campervan aboard the ferry in Picton (no easy feat) to cruise through Charlotte Sound, across the Cook Strait, and to drive off forward into the traffic of Wellington, the capital of NZ, on a workday afternoon at 5 p.m. I survived-by now I had driving in the left lane well under control.

In Wellington I got to visit the Te Papa National Museum, which featured an exhibit from "Lord of the Rings"-costumes, swords, miniatures of the castles, and displays concerning the stories. The display is coming to the US and if you are interested in these aspects of movie-making be sure to see it. After more sightseeing and people watching in Wellington, I moved north to the Lake Taupo and Rotorua (geothermal) areas. These are the tourist centers of NZ, but I still enjoyed myself. The Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland smelled like sulfur but was full of geysers and wonderfully colored pools of hot water. A visit to the NZ Maori Arts & Crafts Center gave me a chance to see the carving school and a gallery of Maori wood carvings, a Maori cultural performance at the Ta Aronui a Rua Meeting House, and more geysers in the geothermal area.

Then I had to head to Auckland after an overnight at Omokoroa, soaking in the holiday park's geothermal pools and watching the moon (a quarter moon is on the opposite side in the southern hemisphere-a constant amazement to me.) Kiwis on the North Island had not been as relaxed or as talkative as people were on the South Island. The North Island is far more populated and has more tourists. There was a heavily traveled four lane divided highway all around and through Auckland. I surrendered the campervan in Auckland and was delivered to my hotel on the harbour next to the America's Cup Marina. I spent two days seeing everything I could in Auckland, including a trip to the top of the Sky Tower and a great harbour cruise. Auckland is NZ's largest city at 1.2 million, and there is one sailboat for every eight Aucklanders! Sailboats were everywhere! So was a NZ artists' version of Cow Parade, which was great fun.

I left Auckland on April 16 reversing the trip across the Pacific at night (altitude 37,000 ft., minus 74 degrees F outside, ground speed 617 mph, and a long night to LA). To help my mature body adjust to the time changes, I stayed at an LA airport hotel overnight and arrived in Tallahassee on Thursday, April 17 to real humidity and a lot of wonderful memories.

OBSERVATIONS

• My trip started the day the US moved on Iraq and ended as the first phase was winding down. The war was not supported by the NZ government nor the majority of the people, yet they were polite in asking questions, circumspect in ascertaining my views and sharing theirs. NZ news broadcasts come from the BBC and the few I saw were balanced and factual. It was a different way for an American to look at the US and the war.
• Kiwis are wonderful, warm, and generous people, especially if they live in small towns. In big towns they are as busy as anybody here in a big town, and spend less time talking to strangers. They dream of visiting the US, and many save a lifetime to do so. I hope we are as gracious to them as they are to us.
• There are many geographical similarities between NZ and the US. The difference is in size and distances. A trip to a geothermal area will take us 3 days and the Kiwis 3 hours. They find the immensity of the US hard to fathom.
• It was not easy to tell a Kiwi accent from an Aussie accent. Conversely, neither of them could tell a US accent from a Canadian accent. All tactfully used the generic term "American" until they could ascertain whether one was from the US or Canada.
• Kiwis are a very politically correct people. They say it is racist to call the Maori's "Indians." One lady even apologized for using the term "Indian summer" to describe the weather. Their history with indigenous people is as bad as our own.
• NZ was settled largely by immigrants from England and Scotland who gave home names to the places they settled. As NZ makes amends for displacing the Maori, the original names are again being attached to the land. It's an interesting brew for a visitor to experience and try to comprehend-and to pronounce.
• Kiwis do with a lot less than we have in the US, but do not generally want for anything basic. Their homes are adequate but not large (unless they are Peter Jackson). They drive small cars (very fast). There are fewer brands of everything in the grocery stores, but everything you need. They grow their own food, make marvelous wines, but import all their vehicles, mostly from Japan. They get three TV channels on cable, but dish TV is moving in. The young look and act like young people in the US. I was even called an "old woman" by a couple of 11 year old boys. Guess my silver head was a dead giveaway!
• One sees lots of young drivers speeding on the two lane roads that cover the entire country. One does not see mature drivers speeding. There are a lot of white crosses on the sides of the roads. There is a major drive underway to curb speeding.
• Levi's, Coca-Cola, Canada geese, and house sparrows are taking over the world!
• Don't get American foods like Subway or pizza. They are made with NZ foods to NZ tastes-much too sweet for most of our tastes. Stick with their foods, but resist "chips" (french fries) that are served with each meal. Some 60% of Kiwis die of heart disease and one can see why.
• The flora and fauna and the culture: I loved bird watching in NZ! My favorites: royal albatross, yellow-eyed penguin, black swan, paradise shelduck, spur-winged plover, kea, fantail, tui, and bellbird. There are several birds found in both the US and NZ; they were all imported from England to both countries. There are lots of the same garden flowers in the US and in NZ. Guess where they came from? There are many cultural similarities due to our common heritage from England. The different flavors in our cultures are a result of the native peoples and immigrants from different places drawn to the two countries.
• The architecture: NZ is a mixture of British, Scottish, and modern earthquake proof building styles, sometimes side by side. The big cities of Auckland and Wellington, accounting for half the population of NZ, are the most modern. There are only 4 million people in New Zealand, half of them in these two cities. We look and dress alike.
• In spite of the long flight, I would go back in a heartbeat. What a dream trip! (I have lots of pictures if you want to see them.)

Alum Recent Achievement:

Dissertation Defense: Sarah C. Latham, Public Administration & Policy, Anticipatory Socialization and University Retention: An Analysis of the Effect of Enrollment at a Faith-based Secondary School on the Progression of Students Through a Faith-Based University. Florida State University.

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