Ernestine Hurlbert Grimm ’48 John W. Boyd ’49 Harmon E. Crossley ’49, LLB ’51 W. Harold Parham ’49 Frederick B. Karl LLB ’49 Harmon E. Crossley LLB ’49
Sandra McCord Lamar ’64, MA ’71 Alan D. Rowland, MA ’66 Murray Arnold, MA ’67 Samuel R. Branan ’67 Kathryn Edwards Lee ’68
’50s William R. Beaton ’50 Betty Kimmel Lanigan ’50 Earl W. Marsh ’50, MA ’51 Wanda Yoder Moree ’50 Nelda Helton Newsome ’50 James D. Perdue ’50, MA ’56 Alvin R. Schneider ’50 George J. Bettle ’51 William Birnbaum ’51 John I. Bishop ’51 Thomas O. Edmondson ’51 Evelyn Brizzi Knapp ’51 Evelyn R. Pollitz ’51 Fredda C. Winnefeld ’51 Robert G. Bamond ’52 Barbara Phillips Nuss ’52 John H. Schooley ’53 Allen D. Frame ’54 Dallas E. Pulliam ’54 Marge Ricker ’54 Nancy C. Hovarter ’55, MA ’60 Mark C. Hollis ’56 David G. Morgan ’56 Frank L. Slaughter ’56 Louis White Hirth ’57 Richard K. Weatherly ’57 James Leo DeMoully ’57 Raquel Little ’58 Professor J. Tim Reilly ’58 Thomas W. Graham ’58 Carolyn Peters McLaren ’58 Ray H. Crawford ’59 John C. Lancaster ’59 Jonathan W. Osborn ’59 Alfred E. Underberg ’59 B. Kenneth Gatlin ’59
’70s Michael E. Bitner, MBA ’70 Barbara Kahn Brady ’70 Alice S. Moore, MEd ’70 Suzan M. Wilson ’70 Frances G. Lewis ’72 Christopher K. Likes ’72 Carol Coleman Fuquay ’73 David Charles Park ’73 Elna Hendrix Hollowell, MEd ’74 William Morse ’76 Nancy Jean Aliff ’76 Winton E. White ’77 Hon. William James Green ’77 Frances McKinney Bailey, MEd ’78 Erwin A. Schubert, SPCEN ’78 Norman W. Allen BS ’71, JD ’79 Mary Grisham Husband ’78, MEd ’83
’60s Ed S. Watson ’60 Ann Leathers Botner ’61 Brooks H. Carpenter ’61 James S. Rogers ’61 Jane Wills Renick ’62 Joseph P. Smith ’62 Mildred Leslie Ulrey ’62 Mary Eddings Smith ’63 Mary J. Thomas, MA ’63 Marybeth Locke Cowden ’64, SPCEN ’81 James F. Littman ’64 Francis H. Emerson ’64 Terry A. Furnell, LLB ’64
’80s Joan Laplante Pariseau, MEd ’81 Dorothy B. Wiedrich, MEd ’81 Michael T. Lops ’83 James C. Putnal ’85 Jack D. Hendren ’89 Katherine Jean Looney ’89 ’90s Dorothy B. Adams, MEd ’90 Patricia R. Fay ’91 George Z. Mills ’93 Mary Elizabeth Smith ’98 ’00s Cynthia N. Chambers ’03, JD ’08
A Life of Integrity When asked to describe his late father, Dean Hollis (’82 Psychology) immediately responds with a single word: Integrity. “He was the quintessential example of integrity,” Hollis says. “Faith was the strongest thing in his life, and he truly cared for people. Philanthropy was a given — you must help those less fortunate than you are. It wasn’t an option for my father: it was an obligation.” Mark C. Hollis, Stetson University trustee emeritus, died last December in Lakeland, Fla. A 1956 Stetson graduate, Hollis served on the Stetson University Board of Trustees for 30 years, beginning in 1979. He received the title of trustee emeritus in 2009. He also served on Stetson’s School of Business Administration Board of Advisors and the Alumni Association Board of Directors. As a member of the university’s volunteer leadership, he was passionate about innovation in educational practice, as well as the importance of health and wellness. In 2009, he endowed the Lynn and Mark Hollis Chair of Health and Wellness, a position currently held by Michele Skelton, Ph.D., associate professor of integrative health science. “I remember Mark wanted Lynn’s name to come first,” recalls Skelton. “Every time I teach I can feel his spirit in me. It is a privilege to hold the endowed chair by such an incredible man and his family.” Skelton points to words carved on the wall of the Hollis Center, a health and wellness facility funded by the family that has served as the center of the university’s large intramural sports program. “The words indicate different aspects of wellness — physical, occupational, environmental, social, spiritual, intellectual and mental,” Skelton says. “Mark really understood and lived the wellness mode. He understood what it meant to be healthy.” Hollis and his wife, Lynn, also established the innovative Hollis Leadership Development Program that prepares Stetson students to lead meaningful lives of service in their communities. In addition, he funded the Nina B. Hollis Institute for Educational Reform, a model for reform that supports education. Hollis was an inspirational leader who received Stetson’s most prestigious awards, including the Distinguished Alumni Award; the Doyle E. Carlton Award for outstanding community service and contributions to higher education; the Distinguished Service Award for outstanding service to the university; and an honorary doctorate degree. In addition, he was named a “Champion of Higher Independent Education in Florida” by the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida. Hollis was the former president, chief operating officer and member of the board of Publix Super Markets Inc., who also found time to serve on the boards of BellSouth Telecommunications, SunTrust Bank of Florida and the Sikes Corporation. Most recently, he served as president and CEO of Hollis & Sons Inc. In his later years, Hollis became a sculptor using media such as wood, alabaster and marble. His most recent work, “Shalom,” hangs in the H. Douglas Lee Chapel at Stetson University. —Renee Garrison STETSON
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