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TRUSTEES OF ROLLINS COLLEGE Frank H. Barker ’52, Chairman of the Board Allan E. Keen ’70 ’71MBA, Vice Chairman of the Board F. Duane Ackerman ’64 ’70MBA ’00H Theodore B. Alfond ’68 William H. Bieberbach ’70 ’71MBA Julie Fisher Cummings Andrew J. Czekaj Lewis M. Duncan, Ph.D. Jon W. Fuller, Ph.D. Ronald G. Gelbman ’69 ’70MBA Rick Goings Warren C. Hume ’39 ’70H The Hon. Toni Jennings Peter W. Kauffman ’66 George W. Koehn Gerald F. Ladner ’81 David H. Lord ’69 ’71MBA John C. Myers III ’69 ’70MBA Blair D. Neller ’74 Charles E. Rice ’64MBA ’98H Joanne Byrd Rogers ’50 Phillip G. St. Louis, M.D. R. Michael Strickland ’72 ’73MBA ’04H Christabel Kelly Vartanian ’68 Kathleen M. Waltz Harold A. Ward III ’86H Winifred Martin Warden ’45 Victor A. Zollo, Jr. ’73
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Lewis M. Duncan, Ph.D., President George H. Herbst, Vice President for Business and Finance and Treasurer Patricia A. Lancaster, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Cynthia R. Wood, Vice President for Institutional Advancement Richard F. Trismen ’57, Secretary
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SPRING 2005
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Homecoming 2004 Photos by Robert Hartley ’91 ’01MBA
FEATURES Very Big Hit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 By Alan Schmadtke, Orlando Sentinel
Faculty Profile: Taking a Bow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Honorary Trustees : Barbara Lawrence Alfond ’68 Betty Duda ’93H The Hon. W. D. (Bill) Frederick, Jr. ’99H Joseph S. Guernsey OFFICERS OF ROLLINS COLLEGE
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Nexus: Where Living and Learning Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Page 12
By Suzanne Beranek
Homecoming 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 By Lorrie Kyle Ramey ’70
DEPARTMENTS Page 14 Campus News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Alumni of Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Michael G. Peterson ’74, President Raymond M. Fannon ’82, Vice President Taylor B. Metcalfe ’72, Vice President Kristin Marcin Conlan ’89, Secretary David B. Stromquist ’80, Treasurer Barbara Doolittle Auger ’89 Laurin Matthews Baldwin ’86 ’89MAT Robiaun Rogers Charles ’94 Brendan J. Contant ’89 Andrea Scudder Evans ’68 Jose I. Fernandez, Jr. ’92 Asunta D’Urso Fleming ’81 Teresa Greenlees Gelston ’97 Tamara Watkins Green ’81 Lawrence L. Lavalle, Jr. ’59 Robert B. Ourisman ’78 Craig E. Polejes ’85 Peter E. Powell ’77 ’78MBA Thomas R. Powell ’85 Sandra Hill Smith ’73 ’74MBA Linn Terry Spalding ’74 Ferdinand L. Starbuck, Jr. ’67 ’70MBA Burton G. Tremaine III ’70 Anthony L. Wilner ’82 Kurt M. Wells ’95
Alumni Association News . . . . . . . 24 Class News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Spotlight on Young Alumni . . . . . 33 Alumni Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Regional Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
EDITOR: Mary Wetzel Wismar-Davis ’76 ’80MBA ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Suzanne Beranek • CLASS NEWS EDITOR: Robin Cusimano CONTRIBUTORS: Tania S. Calderon ’03MLS, Elizabeth Francetic, Maureen Gallagher, Ilyse Gerber ’00HH, Dean Hybl, Leigh A. Lowry ’06, Leigh Brown Perkins, Lorrie Kyle Ramey ’70, Zaida Rios, Ann Marie Varga ’82 DESIGN: Design Studio Orlando, Inc.
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