Hunter’s Creek Elementary School. Kevin writes, “My father, Coach Harry Meisel, is doing well and sends his best to all alumni he taught from ’64-’97.” Clayton Roth says hello to his friends and hopes all is well.
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Gregg Kaye was named the first full-time commissioner in the history of the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC), a 14-member NCAA Division III athletic conference based in Springfield, Massachusetts. He previously spent six years as associate commissioner of the Sunshine State Conference (SSC) in Orlando.
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Susan Clary was hired by Broad and Cassel to serve as business development manager. She lives in Winter Park and will work from the downtown Orlando office. In her unpaid elected office as Orange Soil & Water Conversation district supervisor, Susan was chosen by the state board to serve as associate vice president for region IV, an 11-county area in Central Florida. Virginia “Ginny” Mosbaugh Horne (see Weddings) and her husband, Lars, honeymooned in Longboat Key, Florida and currently reside in Indianapolis, where Virginia is employed by the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Lars is a full-time student at Butler University. Lisa Sigman Crouch (see Weddings) has relocated from Maitland to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. In 2006, Sheri Weinstein married Robert Kohnen, her triathlon training partner, after completing her first Ironman triathlon. They live in Sarasota, Florida, where Sheri practices internal medicine and has opened Sarasota Wellness & Medical Center. Sheri writes, “We have three cats, and I have three stepchildren.”
I 1990 Maria Agullo writes children’s books and poems and was recently offered a contract by a publishing company.
I 1991 Frank Campbell was named medical director of operations at Voorhees hospital in Virtua West Jersey Hospital Voorhees in New Jersey.
I 1992 After “too many blocking drills as a catcher on the Rollins baseball team,” Chris Mader had microfracture knee surgery last year. After extensive physical therapy, he achieved his goal of climbing Mount Washington. Chris reached the summit in four hours and two minutes and descended the mountain in three hours and 45 minutes.
I 1993 In May, Chad Phipps was promoted to senior vice president, general
counsel, and secretary of Zimmer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:ZMH). He resides in Warsaw, Indiana with his wife and two children.
I 1994 After four years in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Gregory Binney and his family have moved back to Atlanta, Georgia. He writes, “I look forward to reconnecting with friends and family.” In August, Yecenia Dawson Riley and her husband Gregory celebrated their 11-year wedding anniversary. Gregory continues with his embroidery and clothing manufacturing business in Los Angeles, while Yecenia works in the field of social work and is pursuing her master’s in counseling with the
University of Phoenix in Ontario, California. She writes, “Our 7-year-old son, Bishop, began first grade in August and 2-year-old son, Braxton, continues to keep us on our toes, bringing new adventures every day.” After 12 years as a sporting-goods buyer for Bostonbased City Sports, Erik Metzdorf made a big career change, switching to selling promotional products and importing consumer goods for Rad Interactive. He writes, “It’s more work, but I’m on my own schedule, which is a nice change.” Last summer, Tania Sebastian-Drew (see Family Additions) clerked for Hogan & Hartson, LLP, an international law firm based in D.C. She will be joining the firm’s tax group upon graduation from the University
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD PROFILE Tony Wilner ’82 MAN OF INTELLIGENCE ■ Tony Wilner ’82 has not forgotten his Rollins roots. Every November for the past 20 years, he has made the trip back to Winter Park to visit with faculty and friends in the area. Wanting to give back to his alma mater, Wilner accepted an appointment to the Alumni Association Board of Directors four years ago, and he has worked energetically on Rollins’ behalf ever since. Currently, he and his board colleague Asunta D’Urso Fleming ’81 are developing the Rollins Alumni Mentoring Program (RAMP), which will match board members with students based on their career interests. “Professors don’t always have the most updated career guidance to impart. We want to fill that gap,” Wilner said. “This is something we didn’t have during our time at Rollins that we could have benefited from significantly.” Wilner believes any board member’s role should be to leave an organization in better shape than it was when he or she started. He has applied this same guiding principle to his longtime career in intelligence. As a Rollins student, Wilner had no idea he’d work eventually in the intelligence field, but many of his psychology research projects— including one on hostage negotiation—applied behavioral science to law enforcement, giving him a good foundation. After graduating with a BA in psychology, he received an MA in criminal justice from the University of South Florida. He then was hired by the Department of Defense as an investigator and eventually transferred to the Operations Organization as an intelligence analyst, concentrating on counterterrorism and international organized crime. After that, he served as a liaison to the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Joint Intelligence Task Force– Combating Terrorism. Wilner is currently the liaison to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and to the U.S. Department of Justice, providing intelligence support.
With this background, it seems only fitting that Wilner would be the architect of a unique September 11 memorial soon to replace Rollins’ current marker. After discovering that Manuel “Manny” Papir ’89, then deputy chief of staff to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, had donated a piece of granite from the fallen World Trade Center to the College, Wilner went to work. Going through official channels, he was able to obtain a piece of salvaged Pentagon limestone and a fragment of shale from the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The Rollins memorial will feature the three stones arranged along with commemorative coins and inscription of a quote from President George W. Bush. What is remarkable about this 9/11 memorial is that it will be the first anywhere containing a touchstone from all three affected locales. In another project dear to his heart, Wilner has dipped into Rollins’ past to rescue and refurbish two components of the original Rollins College entrance marker, which was a gift of the Class of 1953. A “Fiat Lux” coat of arms and dedication stone inscribed with “Senior Class A.D. 1953” were part of the sign mounted at the corner of Park and Fairbanks Avenues until the addition of the McKean Gateway and reconfiguration of the fence surrounding Cahall-Sandspur Field a few years ago. “The surviving members of the Class of 1953 were solicited for their ideas about the proposed preservation,” Wilner said. “They were very thankful and enthusiastic that their gift will live on.” (twilner@cablespeed.com) —Russ J. Stacey ’05HH
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