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Library catalog on information superhighway

Want to change jobs? Try professor's Web site

Derrick Bell, Stokely Carmichael to visit

Calling all alumni: Are you ready for Stetson Weekend?

This year's big alumni event on the DeLand campus — Stetson Weekend, Feb. 21-23 — is nearly here. Committees for the classes of '47, '52, '57, '62, '67, '72, '77, '82, '87, '92 have been busy organizing Reunion events for months, but remember that Ste tson Weekend isn't just for the Reunion classes.

"Stetson Weekend is new, and it's for everyone, combining the best aspects of Homecoming and Reunion. So plan to come even if you're not in a Reunion year; there will still be lots to do," said Gary Meadows, executive director of the alumni asso ciation.

Special events planned by co-hostesses Davina Yetter, a senior communications studies major from DeLand, and Jerra Fortner, a sophomore business administration major from Sebastian, include student skits, pre-game tailgate parties, and a 1940s-theme alumn i-student dance at a DeLand Airport hangar.

There will also be class dinners; a golf tourney and barbeque; alumni baseball, soccer, and volleyball games; receptions; a pep rally and basketball game; plus music and more.

In keeping with the construction theme of the weekend, "Hard Hats Required," you'll get to see the newly-completed Mandy Stoll Tennis Center near Hollis Intramural Field, and you can check out the new ambiance in the atrium of the duPont-Ball Li brary. Plus, the new Hollis Center is under construction between Griffith Hall and the swimming pool; and the new Wilson Center is going up west of the Edmunds Center.

Stetson is busy Building Opportunities for Students this year; come be part of it.

Library catalog on information superhighway

Stetson's library collection is now accessible through the World Wide Web, so off-campus users, including alumni, have access to its catalog. Students have access from their residence hall and lab computers; faculty, staff, and alumni have accerss fr om their office and home computers.

The new, state-of-the-art Unicorn Collection Management System integrates the library catalog with circulation, reserves, periodicals and acquisitions, said Library Director Sims Kline

The systems administration team implementing the automation system included Betty Drees Johnson, '59, associate director for technical services; David Everett, associate director for public services; and Debbi Dinkins, technical services librarian.

The fully-integrated Unicorn system allows users to find information on books, periodicals and other media through searches by author, title, subject and keyword. Information on the item found can be printed, downloaded, or e-mailed to the user's e-mail address. The system also lets users know if an item is already checked out.

The staff has had a big job bar-coding the library's collection of 250,000 books in order to automate circulation, Kline said.

The Unicorn system is the latest in many changes at thelibrary. The first phase of a three-phase, $4 million expansion was completed this fall. Book stacks that had stood for many years in the central atrium were moved to make way for new computer workst ations. The area was rewired, new carpet was laid and new furniture for service desks and a comfortable reading area for periodicals and new books were added.

The library's second phase of renovation and expansion calls for a north wing addition of around 13,400 square feet, additional seats for both individual and group study and additional stack space.

The third phase will include complete replacement of the heating and air conditioning system, improved access for people with disabilities and internal rearrangement of some book stacks, work areas and offices.

Want to change jobs? Try professor's Web site

Marketing professor Randall Hansen has compiled a World Wide Web site that enables students — and other job-seekers — to market themselves using the internet. The Quintessential Career and Job-Hunting Resources Guide , found at http://www.stetson.edu/~hansen/careers.html on the Web, provides more than 100 listings and links to resources that can help job-seekers, including alumni, find employment.

The site not only provides information about traditional job search techniques, such as resumes, cover letters and interviews, but also directs job-hunters to numerous sites at which they can post resumes on-line at low or no cost, network with profession als in their fields, and search on-line job listings.

"The Quintessential Guide offers one-stop shopping for job-seekers," said Hansen. "It doesn't just provide links to other resources; it provides helpful editorial content and links to even more invaluable information for job-seekers." ;

The frequently updated siteis also the only one to provide a comprehensive bibliography of career-related print resources, said Hansen, adding that he compiled the site after seeing his students struggle with job searches.

Derrick Bell, Stokely Carmichael to visit

The 1997 Howard Thurman Lecture Series, sponsored by Stetson's Howard Thurman Program, a joint undertaking with New Birth Corp. of Daytona Beach, continues in February with talks by two prominent African American writers and activists. All events are open to interested alumni.

On Feb. 13-14, attorney Derrick Bell, activist, writer, and professor at New York University Law School will be on campus. He will meet informally for dialogue with interested faculty and staff members at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, in the Faculty Lounge on the first floor of the Carlton Union Building, and will speak at noon on Friday, Feb. 14, in the Stetson Room of the CUB, with a book signing for his new book, Gospel Choirs , to follow.

On Thursday, Feb. 27, civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael, former chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) will speak and answer questions at 4 p.m. in the Stetson Room of the CUB, followed by a book signing and an informal recep tion.

January speakers in the series were theologian/educator Samuel DeWitt Proctor, author of The Substance of Things Hoped For: A Memoir of African-American Faith ; and former U.S. Congressman Walter Fauntroy (District of Columbia), a former chair of th e board of directors of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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• 1908
  Rosamond James McCuskey, Stuttgart, Alaska, celebrated her 109th birthday on Nov. 4, 1996.
• 1943
  Dorothy Jennings Sandridge, Orange Park, represents the third generation of her family to be elected to Stetson University's Board of Trustees -- on Sept. 20, 1996.
• 1947
  James Frederick Fish, Memphis, Tenn., continues to write a column of memories entitled, "Sand in my Shoes" for the Daytona Beach News-Journal . If you have memories you would like to share, you may write to him in care of the Alumni Office.
• 1950
  John Lee Pelham, DeLand, director of church relations at Stetson University, was honored with the establishment of the new John L. Pelham Ministerial Scholarships at the university. Stetson's Religious Life Council (reconstituted from the former Church Relations Council) is assisting with the Scholarship Fund Campaign.
• 1956
  Alvin E. Smith, Ormond Beach, has been appointed by the Speaker of the Florida House to serve on the task force working to separate and reorganize the Department of Children and Family Services (formerly the Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services). The task force is developing a plan for how the local organizations will be structured.
• 1957
  John A. Morgan, Jr., Springfield, Va., is now Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. Tom Weightman, Dade City, retired as Pasco school superintendent Aug. 31, after 22 years at the helm of Pasco schools.
• 1958
  Billy G. Crayton, Kansas City, Mo., has earned inclusion in Marquis' Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare 1997-1998 .
• 1964
  Joseph Maxwell "Max" Cleland, Lithonia, Ga., is, we believe, the first Stetson alumnus to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Donald E. Coonley, New London, N.H., served as Stetson's delegate to the inauguration of Dr. Anne Ponder as Colby-Sawyer College's seventh president on Sept. 28. Jessanna Terrell Gartside, Deland, sixth grade counselor at DeLand Middle School, was presented the "Educator of the Year" award for her "outstanding dedication for professional development of Volusia County educators."
• 1966
  

  Sue Orrell, Houston, Texas, graduated from the University of Houston in Dec., 1996, with a Ed.D. degree in Curriculum and Instruction with a major in music education. Her dissertation topic was "Grace C. Nash in Music Education in the United States from 1960-1990 and Her Influence Upon Members of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association in the States of Arizona and Colorado."

• 1967
  James Byron Gibson, Ormond Beach, has been re-elected Public Defender for the 7th Judicial Circuit.
• 1968
  Dwight Morrow, DeLand, is selling his 1967 Mercury Comet automobile after 30 years, about 212 oil changes, and more than 636,671 miles -- and plans to buy a new car.
• 1969
  Jane Gilbart Dallager, Yigo, Guam, washonored with her husband Major General John R. Dallager with "The General and Mrs. Jerome F. O'Malley Award for 1996," for meritorious service to the nation and the U.S. Air Force while he served as commander of the 52nd Fighter Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, from January-December, 1995. In addition to his military leadership, they were cited for exerting leadership as a military couple. She was active in various charitable enterprises and in the Deutsch-Amerikanischer Frauenklub, a women's club encouraging understanding between Germans and Americans. Evelyn Grimm Lynn, Ormond Beach, has been re-elected State Representative for District 27 in the Florida House of Representatives. David E. Sumner, Muncie, Ind., has written a reference book entitled Graduate Programs in Journalism and Mass Communications . He was notified of his selection for the 1997-98 edition of Marquis' Who's Who in the Midwest.
• 1970
  William E. Mathewson, West Lawn, Pa., has retired after teaching in the Wilson School District for 33 years where he was a guidance counselor and former director of the band.
• 1972
  Mary Jane Andrews, Daytona Beach, director of behavioral services for Intracoastal Health Systems Inc. has been appointed to the board of directors for the Mental Health Association of Palm Beach County Inc. Kevin F. Donohue, Ellicott City, Md., has been appointed underwriting sales manager and director of development at WJHU-FM, the NPR-affiliated public radio station licensed to The John Hopkins University. He will also supervise the station's membership development and major gift solicitation.
• 1973
  W. Henry Bryant III celebrated his tenth anniversary as owner of Bryant Art Direction, an advertising and graphic design firm. He is currently designing corporate identity materials for Premier Bank, located in suburban Atlanta. Elizabeth Minkley Jarrard, Zirconia, N.C., has a new position as a financial consultant at Merrill Lynch.
• 1974
  Michael R. Fronk, Lake Mary, is president of Fronk-Hartman and Associates Inc., of Winter Park, a national advance planning marketing company, specializing in funeral home marketing.
• 1978
  Freddye Clay Moore, Daytona Beach, was re-elected to the Volusia County Council, District 3.
• 1979
  Henry "Hank" J. Langknecht, Etobicoke, Ontario, has enrolled in a doctoral program in homiletics at the Toronto School of Theology and accepted a teaching position at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. Kee Fortes Strong, Brooklyn, N.Y., teaches drama in a Brooklyn middle school, and recently directed "A Christmas Carol."
• 1980
  Shirla Pinder Langknecht, Etobicoke, Ontario, works for Hudson Bay stores. John H. Pelzer, recently received an AV rating from the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, signifying that an attorney's legal abilities are of the highest standard and that his ethics and conduct are above question. At Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell, P.A., he concentrates his practice in litigation, particularly appellate work, administrative litigation and ad valorem taxation. He is board certified by The Florida Bar as a specialist in appellate practice.
• 1981
  James M. Dinsmore, Tampa, is a personal financial advisor at American Express Financial Advisors in Tampa.
• 1983
  Don Feuerbach, Vero Beach, a second year student in the Master of Divinity program at Columbia Theological Seminary, is the recipient of a Merit Scholarship for the 1996-97 year. This scholarship is awarded on the basis of academic achievement, leadership ability, and potential for ministry.
• 1986
  Ann Staub McFall, Deltona, was re-elected to the Volusia County School Board.
• 1987
  James John Bange, Jr., Flagler Beach, has been promoted to vice president-branch coordinator for Southtrust Bank's new Daytona Beach office. David B. Cope, Rockville, Md., has been named vice president of marketing for the Baltimore Ravens football team. Marcia Mayberry Clark, Oviedo, is a buyer at Universal Studios in the merchandise division. John Ivo Putnick, Taylorsville, N.C., is the new director of information systems for Catawba Memorial Hospital.
• 1988
  Barbara Courturiaux, DeLand, has rejoined Barnett Bank, N.A., Volusia-Flagler staff as vice president and relationship manager.
• 1989
  Christina Karas, Boca Raton, has been promoted to first vice president/investments at Prudential Securities.
• 1991
  Eva Kristina Calero, San Antonio, Texas, was promoted on April 1, 1996, to the rank of Captain in the Medical Service Corps of the U.S. Army. She serves as chief of hematology and processing for the Clinical Laboratory of Brooke Army Medical Center.
• 1995
  Laura Karin McCall Eckert, Ponce Inlet, was honored along with five other members by the Athens of Florida Business and Professional Women , DeLand, during National BPW Week, for outstanding work in the community and for promoting women in the work place and in the club. Tami Coe Elton, DeLand, is the new music director of Emmanus Lutheran Church in Orange City. She is the organist for all services, leads the children's and bell choirs, and also teaches private piano lessons. Jennifer Moran, Wrightsville, N.C., and a fellow hiker, Kyle Graham, raised more than $1,000 for Habitat for Humanity while hiking the Appalachian trail in four and one-half months. Sean Richter, DeLand, has been appointed public relations account executive at Gilbert & Manjura Marketing in Orlando. He was formerly with Yesawich, Pepperdine & Brown (YPB), Orlando. Steven L. Survance, Hobe Sound, is the First United Methodist Church of DeLand's new youth/children director.
• 1996
  Kristin Ludecke, Eustis, Miss Florida 1995, will recreate a Lily Pons concert in 1998 at the Lily Pons Water Gardens in Buckystown, Md., to mark the 100th anniversary of the opera star's birth. Gardens officials have asked her to don the same dress Pons wore at her 1936 performance. Lily Pons's size 2 dresses fit Ludecke perfectly. Ludecke's parents have acquired Pons' flamboyant costumes, sheet music, letters, business contracts, wedding albums, stage makeup and even preserved locks of her hair. Mark Reed, Dade City, is attending Indiana University to pursue a master's degree in organ performance and literature, with a minor in music theory.

Weddings & Anniversaries

• Edward Furlong, '38, and wife Charlotte "Peaches" celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary on July 27, 1996. Bill Whitaker, '51, to Patti Staub, Nov. 15, 1995.
• Tina Louise Raleigh, '91, to Scott Christian Lerro, '93, Nov. 9, 1996.
• William Clay Shackelford, '91, to Tricia Pellegrini, April 27, 1996.
• Brady Evanda Sweet, '92, to Lisa Mincey, July 7, 1995.
• Tara Hill Thomson, '92, to Jim Sequine, '87, Aug. 3, 1996.
• Lara Klund, '93, to Bradley Wheeler, '94, Nov. 23, 1996.
• Beth Wactlar, '93, to Thomas A. Koller, Jr., Nov. 16, 1996.
• Jean Renee Johnson, '94, to Anthony Sherlock, July 20, 1996.
• Eric Owen Remington, '94 to Kymbrough Leigh Zurstadt, Nov. 9, 1996.
• Lisa Michelle Katt, '95, toJoseph Allen Watson, June 16, 1996.
• Cija Marie Novak, '95, to Richard John Werblo, Aug. 10, 1996.
• Sven L. Smith, '96, to Yovannie Noelle Rodriguez, Aug. 3, 1996.

Births

• Joyce Kenfield Curvin, '81, and husband Chris, a son William Kenfield, Nov. 29, 1995.
• James M. Dinsmore, '81, and wife Kathryn, a son Robert Christian, Aug. 28, 1996.
• Deborah C. Corrigan, '87, and husband Brad, a daughter Emily Caroline, March 4, 1995.
• Mary Sages Haluch, '88, and husband David, a daughter Andrea Marie, May 31, 1996.
• Brady Evanda Sweet, '92, and wife Lisa Mincey, a daughter Taylor Lauren, June 5, 1993, and a son Brady, Feb. 14, 1996.
• Eric Owen Remington, '94, and wife Kymbrough Leigh, a daughter Jordan Leighann, Sept. 7, 1996.

In Memoriam

• Helen Harrison Welch, '27
• Louise Beadle Karel, '30
• Elizabeth Badger Gilbert, '38
• Charles T. "Skeet" Cobb, '39
• Frank Minehart, '40
• Don H. Black, '43
• Edna Parrish Fernandez, '47
• William H. Thomas, '49
• William H. Naff, '51
• Nancy J. Theriot, '51
• Francis J. Tobin, '52
• Thelma E. Miller, '52
• James W. Olson, '55
• James D. Young, '56
• Thomas A. Tierney, '65
• James O. Hodges, '70
• William G. Panakos, '74
• Sandra Brown Summers, '74
• Stuart P. Thompson, '80