Emory E. "Pete" Dunn '72

A 1972 Stetson graduate, majoring in Physical Education, Pete Dunn transferred to Stetson in 1968 to play baseball. An outstanding catcher, he was team co-captain and earned NCAA All-Star honors. After graduating, he played professionally with the Kansas City Royals for two seasons, and then joined the baseball staff at Georgia Southern University, where he earned a master's degree in 1974. Moving back to Central Florida, he led the baseball team at Apopka High School to a district championship.

Returning to Stetson as an assistant coach in 1977, he became head coach in 1979, a position he still holds. During the 2000 season he led the Hatters to an Atlantic Sun Conference tournament title, a 48-16 record and an NCAA Regional Tournament appearance. In May 2006, he earned his 1,000th coaching win during the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship, which Stetson won for the second consecutive year.

Other honors include being named Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year for 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1996. Now 11th in overall victories among active NCAA Division I coaches, he has seen 61 of his Stetson players go on to play professional baseball. His vision and hard work also helped the university build a stadium which is considered one of the nation's finest collegiate facilities. Melching Field at Conrad Park, a $4.5 million stadium jointly built by Stetson and the City of DeLand, opened in 1999.

A frequent speaker at regional and national coaching clinics, he won a 25-year service award from the American Baseball Coaches' Association in 1997. He served as an assistant coach for the USA National Team at the World Championships in Italy in 1998, and spent the summer with Team USA, competing in the American championships in Nicaragua.

George C. Edwards III '69

George Edwards earned his degree in Political Science from Stetson in 1969, and went on to study at the National Science Foundation Institute for Law and the Behavioral Sciences. He later earned his master's degree and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds the Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M and has served as the Olin Professor of American Government at Oxford and the John Adams Fellow at the University of London. He has held visiting appointments at Peking University, Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He founded The Center for Presidential Studies at the Bush School, which he directed from 1991-2001.

A prolific author, he has written or edited 21 books on American politics and public policy making, including On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit (2003), Why the Electoral College is Bad for America (2004) and Governing by Campaigning (2006). He is editor of Presidential Studies Quarterly.

Honored by many, he received the Decoration for Distinguished Civilian Service from the U.S. Army and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His work has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Smith-Richardson Foundation and the Ford Foundation. A frequent speaker, he has also given hundreds of interviews to the world-wide news media and has served as a consultant on political issues in Brazil, Russia, Mexico and China.

Timothy Oyebode Olagbemiro '71

Not only was Timothy Olagbemiro a 1971 Stetson Chemistry graduate, he was also a top soccer player, and still holds the record for the most Stetson goals scored in a season. He went on to Fisk University, where he earned a master's degree in Chemistry, and to Howard University, where he earned a doctorate in Organic Chemistry. He received a National Science Foundation post-doctoral award to work at Howard on bioinorganic compounds of medicinal importance, followed by an appointment to teach at Fisk. He also worked as a research chemist for the American Cyanamid Company's Laderle Laboratories in New York, and synthesized a variety of medical compounds which have been patented as anti-tuberculosis and anti-psychotic agents.

Returning to Nigeria in 1978, he joined the faculty at Bayero University, moving to Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in 1984 as chair of Chemistry. He has collaborated for many years with scientists in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, East Africa and Europe and is published widely in international scientific journals. His current research involves new strategies for controlling the mosquito responsible for filariasis, as well as those which cause malaria and yellow fever.

Now vice chancellor of Nigeria's Bowen University, which equates to university president, he has received many honors, including British Council research grants, International Foundation for Science awards, the Third World Academy of Science Research Award and the Association of Commonwealth-U.S. Carnegie Research Award. He has been a visiting research professor in the United States, Kenya, Brazil and the United Kingdom.