Paula Duke Raymer ’58 Glen H. Thompson ’58 Thomas C. Weldon ’58, MA ’64
▲ Lauren Guindon Peacock ’08, and husband Reese, a daughter, Penelope Grace, in June 2014. Mark J. Rose, MBA/JD ’08, and wife Cali, a daughter, Emma Jane, in May 2014.
In Memoriam ’20s Kathryn Moore Rhinehart ’29, MA ’30 ’30s Voncille Mercer Shepard ’34 Margaret MacDonough Shaw ’38 John G. McCall ’39 ’40s Robert E. Karns ’40 Margaret Wegner Dyson ’45 Betty Williams Owens ’47 George Borysewich ’49 Phoebe Faulkner Humphries ’49 Roland L. Jarrard ’49 Julian McInnis ’49, MA ’50 Thomas L. White, LLB ’49 ’50s Herschel P. Barrington ’50 Bland B. Simmons ’50 Marvin H. Tinsley ’50 Margaret Oldford Waddell ’50 Mary McCullough Weeks ’50 Edna Schmidt McEwen ’51 David C. Murray ’51 Virginia Davis Spencer ’51 Helen Lowe Torbert ’51 Martha Finney Aug ’52 Larry G. Bottom ’52, MA ’62 Ernest M. Breed, LLB ’52 Annette Willcox Gillespie ’52 Cliff B. Gosney, JD ’52 Basilia Haygood ’52, JD ’68 Kelby E. McColister ’52 U. H. Parrish ’53 Nancy Smith Yarbrough ’53 Donald E. Bohren ’55 Charles A. Cook ’56 Caroline Hodges, MA ’56 James B. Annis ’57 Betty Flood Foy ’57 James W. Winters, LLB ’57 Carroll J. Abernathy ’58, LLB ’63
’60s Thomas A. Cleary ’60 Ben Daniel ’60, LLB ’60 Norman B. Fizette ’60 Robert L. Munn ’61 Charles A. Belote ’62 Ann High ’63 Linda Gilder Morgan ’64 Anthony J. Visconti ’64 Wayne I. Bowen ’67 Zane Y. Dekoenigsberg ’67 Owen H. Holmes ’67 Michael Kuziv, MA ’67 Michael A. Reichman ’68 Joseph F. Hand, JD ’69 Andrew L. Ringers, JD ’69 ’70s Jerome L. Adams ’71 Pamela Morris Adams ’71 James E. Taylor, JD ’72 Robert L. Burt, MBA ’73 Ronald W. Drathman, JD ’73 Richard T. Merrill ’73, MBA ’74 Pamela Bachman ’74, MEd ’80, SPCen ’85 Arthur Johnston, JD ’74 Mary Taylor, JD ’75 Michael D. Allison ’77 William T. Morris, MEd ’77 Patrick K. Caddell, JD ’78 Russell P. Martin ’79, JD ’82 ’80s Mark V. Harllee ’81 Patsy Ruth May, MEd ’82 Brian E. Durst ’83 Larry D. Houston, JD ’83 Nina Regor ’84 Gale Silbermann, JD ’84 Lois Chatham, JD ’87 Charles A. Lundell ’87 Robin Elliott ’88 John J. Von Staden, JD ’88 Mary Sue Hawkins, MEd ’89 ’90s Glenn Gilpin, JD ’94 James C. Dauksch, JD ’96 Alexander E. LaTour ’96 Jacqueline Mazza ’98 ’00s Diane Kauffman-Boyer, JD ’00 Trevour G. McIntosh ’06 Lawrence S. Aarons, JD ’08
Four Esteemed Stetson Professors Die Rev. Jefferson Parramore Rogers, former founder and director of Stetson University’s Howard Thurman Program, died Friday, Aug. 1, in Daytona Beach. Born in Quincy, Fla., on Jan. 24, 1917, he was 97. Rogers lived a lifetime devoted to social justice and civil rights. In 1996, Rogers, with the support of Stetson’s then-President H. Douglas Lee, established the Howard Thurman Lecture Program honoring the legacy of Rev. Howard Thurman (1899-1981), a theologian originally from Daytona Beach. Stetson’s Thurman Lecture Series, designed to unite people in a search for social justice and an end to discrimination wherever it exists or persists, featured world-class scholars, authors and civil rights stalwarts. These lectures broadened the understanding of the civil rights movement and strengthened Stetson’s commitment to social justice and community engagement. In 1998, Stetson honored Rogers with an honorary doctorate of divinity. In 2004, Rogers received the Stetson Doyle E. Carlton Award, one of the university’s highest honors presented annually to an alumnus or friend of Stetson University in recognition of devotion to Christian higher education. Rogers founded the Church of the Redeemer in September 1958 and was its pastor until 1970. He was also head of the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The Rogers home often served as a center for strategy sessions with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young, Wyatt T. Walker, Jesse Jackson and other leading members of the civil rights movement. In 1981, Rogers and tennis legend Arthur Ashe founded New Birth Corporation to promote Thurman’s teachings and foster a cultural renaissance in the African-American community. Another esteemed professor, Edwin Channing Coolidge, Ph.D., was a former chemistry professor at Stetson University (1961-95), who died Aug. 15. Coolidge was born Jan. 30, 1925, in Gambier, Ohio. After working as a research chemist with Procter & Gamble Co. and service in the U.S. Army Chemical Corps (Dugway Proving Ground, Utah 1950-53), Coolidge became a chemistry educator, teaching at Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. (1954-58), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, N.M. (1958-61), and Stetson University (1961-95). During his tenure at Stetson, Coolidge was active in many university committees, including long-term service on the Faculty Senate (four terms as chair), director of faculty adviser for the Year Abroad Program in Freiburg, Germany, and returned to Freiburg (1982-83) as Fulbright Lecturer in Chemistry at the Paedagogische Hochschule. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi honorary societies. For several years, Coolidge played viola in the Stetson Symphony Orchestra. He had an abiding love of classical music, particularly German lieder and chamber music. In lieu of flowers, a remembrance should be made to: Stetson University (for the Chemistry Department in memory of Dr. Coolidge), 421 N. Woodland, Blvd, Unit 8286, attn. Kate Pearce, DeLand, FL 32723. Edgar Bryan Gillespie, Ph.D., former professor of English at Stetson University from 1966-95, died Sunday, Aug. 24, at the age of 82. Diagnosed in 1995 with Parkinson’s disease, Gillespie had worked with the DeLand Area Parkinson’s Support Group. In 2009, he received Stetson’s George and Mary Hood Award, one of the university’s highest awards presented annually to a member or friend of the university community in recognition of his/her passion for, and commitment and contributions to, Stetson and its core values. Stetson University College of Law Professor James J. Brown, J.D., Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund Professor Emeritus, died at his home on May 26 in London, England. Brown was the first Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund Professor at Stetson, where he taught property, real estate law, land use planning and local government for more than three decades.
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