NEWS NOTES / SEPTEMBER 1999

1963

C. Wayne Edwards (B.S.) is district governor for District 6940 of Rotary International. He is president of Professional Financial Planning Inc. of Tallahassee.

Harold D. Mixon (M.A., Ph.D. '64) has taught 34 years at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The LSU department of speech communication has named the LSU debate program for him.

1967

Carolyn Spencer Griner (B.S.) deputy director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., received the agency's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal, for her contributions to missions.

Richard E. Harbin (B.S.) is co-editor of the Core Curriculum for the Nursing Care of Children and Their Families. Retired from the Public Health Service, he is a primary care provider for the Indian River County Health Department.

1968

Marjorie Woolford Chanco (B.A.) is an English teacher at Lakeland Highlands Middle School. Her advanced eighth-grade class has won accolades around the nation for "Holocaust: The Outcome of an Economy Gone Awry."

1970

Mary "Kaye" Waldeck Derryberry (B.S.) is Oklahoma's Outstanding Technology-Using Secondary Teacher for 1999.

A. J. "Jim" Spalla (J.D.) has relocated his law practice -specializing in eminent domain, condemnation, mediation and transportation law - to the law firm of Young, van Assenderp, Varnadoe & Anderson in Tallahassee.

William E. Taylor (M.B.A.) has retired from NASA'S Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., where he was the director of Science and Engineering.

1972

Douglas J. Caylor (B.S., M.S. '79), at Ruediger Elementary School in Tallahassee, is a 1999 winner of Florida's Principal Achievement Awards.

J. Frank Voran (B.S., M.S. '74) is principal of Woodville Elementary School south of Tallahassee.

1974

Ben E. Koenig (B.S., M.S. '81) is the new principal at Godby High School in Tallahassee.

1975

Sachi G. Dastidar (Ph.D.) is a professor of politics and economics at State University of New York at Old Westbury and a scholar of Indian politics. He has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to study the emergence of a national identity in Kazakhstan, and he has the rank of Distinguished Service Professor.

1976

Merrybeth H. Ortega (M.S.), principal of Godby High for 10 years, is principal of the new Chiles High in Tallahassee.

Gregg H. Anderson (B.S.) is executive vice president of marketing for Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina and senior vice president of marketing for its parent company, ClubCorp Resorts.

1977

Iris C. Wilson (B.S., M.S. '95, S.P.E. '95) is principal of Kate Sullivan Elementary School in Tallahassee.

1978

Carol A. Ford (B.S.) has received a four-year, $240,000 Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Program Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Princeton, N.J. Ford is an assistant professor of pediatrics and medicine at the UNC-CH School of Medicine.

Curtis H. Martin Jr. (B.S.) was elected senior vice president of Norwest Financial Inc.

Roger A. Powell (M.S.) was the first Australian Army officer to study at FSU and is now the COMD of Training Command. Powell is a Major General and lives in Sydney.

1979

Virgil L. Lawson Jr. (B.S.) received a master's of elementary education from Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C.

Joan M. Ziegler (M.S.) is a founder of two interactive publishing companies, JAZZ Interactive and Hi Tech Expressions. Ziegler has a 15-year track record of building new media businesses around youth-focused software and video games.

1980

William M. Caldwell (Ph.D.) is an associate professor of music and director of choral activities at Georgia Institute of Technology. He was named Faculty Member of the Year by the Student Government Association.

H. Michelle Snow (B.M., B.M.E. '87, M.S. '96) teaches voice and piano in Medart, Fla.

James P. Wiber (B.S.) founded Triode Realty Advisors Inc., with offices in Florida and Colorado, in 1998.

1981

Kevin S. Sanders (B.S.) is running for the U.S. Congress, Florida District 4, against incumbent Tillie Fowler.

Delores D. Truesdell (B.S., M.S. '86) is a faculty member in the department of nutrition, food and exercise sciences in the College of Human Sciences at FSU. She received the 1999 Florida Dietetic Association's Public Service Award.

1982

David L. Beckley (M.A.) received a Ph.D. from Clemson University in South Carolina. Jimmy M. Woodward (B.S.) is vice president and chief administrative officer of Flowers Industries in Thomasville, Ga.

1983

Lt. Cmdr. Samuel E. Edwards (B.S.) received his second Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal while assigned to Canadian Fleet Pacific Headquarters, Esquimalt, Canada.

David K. Robertson II (B.S.) has been named chief operating officer for Reynolds, Smith and Hills Inc., a 425-person architectural, engineering, planning and environmental services firm in Jacksonville.

1985

Kathleen L. Combs (B.S.) is store manager at Sears, Roebuck in High Point, N.C.

Colleen R. Lundy (Ph.D.) has been named director of the School of Social Work at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.

Donald A. Roycraft Officer of the Year in 1998 in the state of Colorado.

Herman Y. Thomas (J.D.) is Circuit Court Judge for the Thirteenth Judicial District of Alabama.

1986

Peggy S. Youngblood (M.S.) will be the principal of Leon County's 25th elementary school, which is scheduled to open next year.

1988

Capt. Roland M. Edwards (B.A.) completed a year in Kuwait and is on his way to Luanda, Angola (southern Africa).

Alexander E. Jimenez (M.M., M.M.E. '90) will join the faculty of the department of music at San Francisco State University.

1989

B. Dan Berger (B.S.) graduated with a master's degree from Harvard University. He is the managing director of the Capital Group, a venture capital firm in Sarasota.

Laura D. Speake (B.S.) received a Ph.D. in applied economics from Clemson University.

Wendy L. Weber (B.S.) received a doctoral degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

1990

David C. Marlett (B.S., Ph.D. '97) is an Illinois Wesleyan University assistant professor of risk management.

1991

George S. Conley (B.S.) graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md., and is a Navy lieutenant.

Keith M. Driggers (M.B.A.) has joined the Orlando office of MARSH, a risk management consulting and insurance broking firm.

1992

K. Alan Jowers (B.S.) is audit manager at Snyder, Camp, Stewart and Company LLP in Norcross, Ga.

1993

Troy A. Kishbaugh (B.S.) is an associate at the law firm of Gray, Harris and Robinson, P.A.

Adam C. Mengel (B.S.) is planning director for the city of Palatka, Fla.

1994

Carlea A. Bauman (B.S.) has joined the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids as the communications associate for media relations.

Cpl. Josh A. Hinson (B.S.) is assisting the NATO/UN peacekeeping effort in Kosovo, aboard the amphibious assault ship and Amphibious Ready Group flagship USS Kearsarge.

Link Jarrett (B.S.) will be assistant Leon High baseball coach.

First Lt. Henry June Jr. (B.A.) completed a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Arabian Gulf, aboard the ships of the USS Boxer Amphibious Ready Group.

Sarah Boone King (B.S.) is director of alumni affairs and annual fund for the UNC School of Law in Chapel Hill, N.C.

William S. Marshall (M.S.) is working on the design of the 900 MHz NMR magnet at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Erin L. O'Brien (B.S.) began her residency in obstetrics and gynecology in Charleston, S.C.

1995

Theresea A. Louthain (B.S.) has joined the Headline Group, an Atlanta public relations agency, as an assistant account executive.

J. Scott Steverson (B.S.) has joined the North Highland Company in Atlanta as a consultant specializing in network administration.

1996

Robert A. Caragiulo (B.F.A.) won the Global Vision Award at the World Population Film and Video Festival in Massachusetts for the film "Blue Green," which he directed and wrote.

Aaron H. Clark (B.S.) is Leon High School's head baseball coach in Tallahassee.

Zachary B. Taylor (B.S.) received a J.D. from Mississippi College in Clinton.

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