Bruce Berkowitz '76

Dr. Bruce Berkowitz is currently Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, has been a consultant to the Department of Defense and the intelligence community, and frequently lectures on national security issues at the National Defense University. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1990, he also serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.

Dr. Berkowitz earned a bachelor's degree in both Political Science and Psychology from Stetson in 1976, and went on to earn a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Rochester. He began his career at the Central Intelligence Agency and served as a professional staff member for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

A prolific author, his most recent books include The New Face of War (2003), Best Truth: Intelligence in the Information Age (2000), and The Need to Know: Covert Action and American Democracy (1992). He has published many journal articles on foreign affairs and writes frequently for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. He is a contributing editor for the Foreign Policy Research Institute journal, Orbis.

He received an Eisenhower Fellowship in 1979 from the Eisenhower Memorial Foundation, the Frederick Thomas Fellowship from the retired diplomatic and consular officers' group in 1980, and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1983-84. In 1985-86, he was both an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. In 2001-02, he was the first Sherman Kent Scholar in Residence at the CIA's Sherman Kent Center for Analysis.

J. Craig Crawford '78

J. Craig Crawford is currently a columnist for Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C., his non-partisan column, "White House Trail Mix," which focuses on the 2004 Presidential race, appears weekly in CQ Today, which provides current news on legislative and public policy activities on Capitol Hill. He also serves as a news analyst for MSNBC, CNBC, and "The Early Show" on CBS.

Crawford is an Owensboro, Ky., native but grew up in Orlando and is a dual degree Stetson alumnus. He earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Stetson in 1978, and a law degree from Stetson's College of Law in 1981. During his Stetson days, he worked in the White House press office for President Jimmy Carter while attending Stetson's Washington Semester program at American University.

For six years, from 1997 to 2003, the veteran journalist ran The Hotline, a daily online political briefing published by the National Journal Group. Previously he covered law and politics for the Orlando Sentinel, and was the newspaper's Washington bureau chief from 1989 to 1997. Before becoming a journalist, he served in 1984 as Alabama State Field Director for the John Glenn presidential primary campaign and as Georgia State Field Director for the Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro general election campaign.

He practiced law in Orlando until 1984, and remains a member of the Florida Bar, although he is no longer in practice.

Amy Horton '77

This Washington, D.C.-based attorney with wide experience in the practice of law, including working in the non-profit, governmental, and private sectors is a 1977 graduate of Stetson, where she earned her degree in Psychology. She served on the Debate Team, where she was a state finalist in 1975; and the Forensics Team, where she was a national finalist in 1975. She also studied in Spain at the University of Madrid in 1977, and is fluent in Spanish. She lived and worked in Madrid for two years after graduation, working as an English teacher. Before going to law school, she also spent several years as a photo editor for several national magazines, including Time, Vanity Fair, Forbes, and Rolling Stone.

She graduated summa cum laude in 1992 from the University of Miami School of Law, where she was editor for research and writing at the Law Review, held a full scholarship, was a member of the Order of the Coif, and named a Public Interest Fellow.

Currently legal advisor to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, she provides technical legal assistance on law reform activities in developing countries, including the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, and Honduras, to assure legal systems that enable the establishment and operation of non-governmental non-profit organizations. Her governmental work includes serving as associate general counsel to the Peace Corps, providing legal opinions and policy advice to agency management at headquarters and overseas posts around the world; and as clerk to a judge on the Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In private practice she engaged in multi-party complex litigation and provided advice on regulatory compliance at the law firm of Shea & Gardner.

Active in community volunteer work, she serves on the board of directors of CrisisLink of Arlington, Va.; has volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and Everybody Wins, both in Washington, D.C.; and served as a counselor on women's issues in Florida and New York City.

Carroll E. Lewis '53

Carroll E. Lewis is an enterprising businessman, who was president of the Ocala-based SEMCO Division of Leggett & Platt Company of Missouri, before his 2003 retirement.

A 1953 graduate of Stetson, Carroll Lewis was a campus leader during his student days, serving as president of the student body, president of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, and president of the Junior Class. An active member of Scabbard and Blade, a national military honor society for ROTC cadet officers, he was also named an Outstanding Senior and selected for "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities."

Grateful for his Stetson education, which he feels contributed greatly to his success, he currently serves on the Stetson University Board of Trustees, and is proud that his grandson, William Carroll Lewis, graduated from Stetson in 2002. A Challenger Scholarship donor and Stetson Society member, he has established annual and endowed scholarship funds to assist students who wish to attend Stetson. He also is a generous supporter of Stetson's Gillespie Museum of Minerals.

He began his career as a partner in the newly formed Southeastern Manufacturing Company, or SEMCO, in 1966 in Ocala. In 1973, he formed a second company, Florida Pak, which produced a Dow Chemical-franchised packing material called 'loose fill peanuts' to protect electronics, lamps, and other fragile items. When both companies were sold to Clairson International Corporation in 1985, he continued as president of the packaging division. Four years later he bought SEMCO back from Clairson. Under his leadership, SEMCO grew steadily until its sale in 1994 to Leggett & Platt Company of Missouri, a Fortune 500 company. He remains involved in numerous other business ventures.

Active in his community, he is a past president of the Exchange Club of Ocala and has served on several committees of the Ocala Chamber of Commerce. He is an avid outdoorsman and scuba diver, as well as a licensed pilot.

William J. Schneider '66

William J. Schneider is a physician who shares his expertise in plastic surgery with those in need around the world, and credits the habits of serving and leading he developed at Stetson with his movement into such "deeply satisfying work."

A Miami native, Dr. Schneider graduated from Stetson University magna cum laude in 1966, majoring in Chemistry. Active on campus, he was president of his freshman, sophomore, and junior classes and headed the student body as a senior. He was also president of the Wesley Foundation and was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa leadership honorary, the Men's Judiciary Council, and Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.

He went on to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where he earned his M.D. degree, followed by a year's internship and a year of general surgery residency at the University of Florida. He moved to Atlanta for three more years of general surgery residency and two years of plastic surgery residency at Emory University. A diplomate of the American Board of Plastic Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, he has also published widely in his field. He and his wife, the former Rebecca Phillips, a 1967 Stetson graduate, have three grown sons and a granddaughter.

Dr. Schneider practiced plastic surgery for 23 years in Knoxville, Tenn., where he was chief of surgery at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center and at East Tennessee Children's Hospital. President of the Knoxville Surgical Society, he also headed the Tennessee Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons for two years. He spent several years on the board of directors of the American Cancer Society in Knox County; and - with three sons - coached youth baseball for seven spring seasons.

In 1992 he began volunteering with Interplast, a non-profit group providing free reconstructive plastic surgery in developing countries, repairing cleft lips and palates and helping those with burn deformities. Leaving private practice in 1999, he became more active in Interplast, and now serves full-time as its Chief Medical Officer, planning and coordinating medical services on three continents.