Welcome to the FSU Faculty and Friends Club! Posted below is the most recent club newsletter, and to the left are links to club photos, history, membership information, and more!
To contact the Faculty and Friends Club, you can send us an e-mail, call us at (850)-893-1272, or take a look at the board members page to view a list of everyone’s contact information.
Happy New Year!!!
We welcome the New Year and wish for all that 2012 may be a special year filled with good health, great friendships and much happiness. We thank you for your continued support of our varied events, interest groups and scholarship activities and look forward to seeing you in the New Year. We especially want to thank Josephine Ang, Barbara Elam, Diane Stuart, Carol & Bill Weissert and Dian & Charles LaTour for their dedicated work in making the Holiday Party at Dorothy B. Oven Park such a wonderful success. More than 100 attended making this our best Holiday Party in years. We also thank all who brought delicious hors d’oeuvres and desserts for members to share. We began the 2012 with a wonderfully successful Bowlegs 5k Run & 1 Mile walk on Saturday the 7th. The weather was perfect, and we had about 180 runners and walkers, making this our best attended Bowlegs possibly ever. We thank Larry Giunipero, who began this race in 1985 together with Leitch Wright, and Bill Hillison, who began helping not many years later. With the advent of the Bowlegs Brunch, now in its 8th year, many more Faculty Club members attend and either walk, run or volunteer. We thank you, and our scholarship recipients thank you. All six recipients are continuing full time this spring semester with the club awarding them a total of $7,200 this year, which is more than we have ever given out in any given year. We thank you for your generous donations with your membership and thank Anthony’s Wood Fire Grill and High Performance Magnetics for their generous sponsorship. We also thank AZU, MASA, Renegade Grill and Shaw’s Athletics for their wonderful gift certificates. These gift certificates are a great draw to the runners and walkers. We furthermore thank Brian Bachman for donating the mugs this year for this good cause
We encourage you to join us for another delicious Chinese New Year’s celebration at Lucy Ho’s Azu on Sunday, January 29. Follow this event by listening and dancing to the lively Tallahassee Swing Band at the American Legion Hall at Lake Ella on Valentine’s Day and then enjoy a festive Mardi Gras at the home of Barbara & John Elam on February 18.
Annelise Leysieffer
You will find the roster enclosed with this newsletter. We try to keep it as up-to-date as possible and apologize for any unintentional errors. Please let Fred & Annelise know of any changes at aleysieffer@gmail.com. Please note that the names appear alphabetically in horizontal fashion on the pages. We welcome the many new members to the Club.
Chinese New Year at Lucy Ho’s AZU
The Year of the Dragon
3220 Apalachee Parkway
Sunday, January 29
6:00 p.m. Cash Bar
6:30 p.m. Dinner
Cost: $30 per person (meal, tax, tip and non-alcoholic beverages)
Come celebrate the Chinese New Year with delectable dishes especially prepared for the members of the Faculty & Friends Club. This popular annual event is taking place at Lucy Ho’s AZU. It is located on the left side of Apalachee parkway when coming from Capital Circle about halfway between Capital Circle and Wal-Mart in the Big Oak Shopping Center. Please send your check made out to The Faculty & Friends Club of FSU to Annelise Leysieffer at 3720 Lifford Circle, Tallahassee, FL 32309 by Wednesday, January 25. You can reach Annelise via e-mail at aleysieffer@gmail.com or at 893-1272 if you have any questions about the evening.
Valentine’s Dance
Then on Tuesday evening, February 14 beginning at 7:30 p.m. celebrate Valentine’s Day by dancing or simply listening to the lively music performed by the Tallahassee Swing Band in the American Legion Hall by Lake Ella. Please mention that you are part of the Faculty & Friends Club. Beverages are available for purchase by Club members individually at the American Legion Hall with some refreshments provided by the Club. Please let Annelise know at aleysieffer@gmail.com if you are planning to attend so that we can reserve tables ahead of time.
Mardi Gras
Saturday, February 18 – 6:30 p.m.
At the home of Barbara & John Elam
3204 Brookforest Drive
Later the same week, join us at the Elams’ festively decorated house and enjoy Barbara’s delicious Gumbo and Jambalaya. Please bring your own wine if you wish and bring either hors d’oeuvres, salads or desserts to complement the main course. Please let Barbara know either at ble@neuro.fsu.edu or call her at 385-9856 by Tuesday, the 14th to let her know if you are coming and what dish you are bringing for planning purposes for Barbara and her committee.
Globetrotters
Saturday, January 21 – 7:30 p.m. NOTE the new beginning time!
Iceland & Norway by Jack Brigham
This promises to be a spectacular presentation with Jack having spent a week in Iceland and having visited numerous places in Norway.
At the Maguire Learning Center at Westminster Oaks.
Please contact Diane Olsen at m.diane.olsen@gmail.com or at 386-5797 for more information and to offer to help with refreshments.
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
Friday, January 20 – 7:00 p.m. Please note the time!
Liederabend at Toni Fuss Kirkwood-Tucker’s house.
Please contact Toni at tkirkwoodtucker@comcast.net or at 656-9514.
La Mesa Española
Thursday, January 26 – 6:30 p.m.
At Morelia – 1355 Market Street Note Morelia’s new location!
Please contact Jo Stepp-Greany at jstepp@fsu.edu or at 383-3970.
La Table Française
Saturday, January 28 – 6:30 p.m.
The annual ever-popular Soirée Crêpe with delicious French dishes.
At the home of Elise Bollier & Anuj Srivastava.
Please contact Annelise at aleysieffer@gmail.com or at 893-1272.
Lunch Bunch
Tuesday, February 14 – 11:45 a.m.
At MASA -1001 North Monroe Street.
Please contact Denise Ellingson at mdeniseel15@yahoo.com or 907-9992.
Restaurant Roulette
Tentatively scheduled for Thursday, February 16 – 6:30 p.m.
At Georgio’s – 3425 Thomasville Road.
Please contact Jan Flake at jflake@fsu.edu by the weekend or at 383-7505.
Book Discussion Group
Thursday, February 23 – 7:30 p.m. Note the Thursday for this month!
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot… by Irene Pepperberg
Home and discussion leader TBA
Please contact Kea Herron at kea.snuffy@gmail.com for more information about the 2012 book list and the various meeting places. We welcome a number of new members to this fascinating interest group.
MEMBERSHIP DUES $20/$15 per household
As the 2011-2012 academic year has begun, to the 1/3 of our members who have yet to renew, we hope you plan to join us and will submit your membership dues. Please be aware that all interest groups are part of the Faculty & Friends Club of FSU. Whether you only belong to one interest group or take advantage of all that our Club has to offer now is the time for ALL attendees except for the occasional visitor to submit dues. Please fill out the form provided below, enabling us to keep accurate records, and mail it together with your check made out to the Faculty & Friends Club of FSU to the Treasurer Calvin Zongker, 601 Live Oak Plantation Road, Tallahassee FL 32312.
Name(s): ___________________________________________
Address: ___________________________________________
Zip: ___________ Home Phone: ________________________
E-mail address(es): __________________________________
Department(s): __________________________________
(Please indicate department(s), if retired, or if you are a friend)
Membership Dues per address: $20($15 for retirees): $_______
Voluntary Contribution to Scholarship Fund: $_______
Total Amount enclosed: $_______
Please indicate if there are changes to last year’s roster or if you have additions you would like us to add. If so, please call 893-1272 or e-mail to aleysieffer@gmail.com
Outdoors Explorers
With such a huge group of Outdoors Explorers members, please don’t let this group fold. Maybe some of you could get together to plan a couple of outings in the spring, whether a hike or a visit to an interesting site. If you have an idea, please let me know, and I will be happy to advertise it for you.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Dear All,
Thank you so much for making our annual reception at the Brokaw-McDougall House such a success. The weather was beautiful, the food and drinks were plentiful and nicely complemented this gathering of friends. Thank you all, especially to those who helped and brought those delicious foods to the reception. Thank you especially to all those who helped to set up and cleaned up the place. The reception was a success because of this very organized and harmonious cooperation from these devoted members, during and after the reception. I had taken notes of your names, but I could not name all of you here. Please know that I am very grateful.
We have several new members who seemed very please to have joined. We have met the recipients of the Scholarships, all listed below, and their families. Our speaker, Jennifer Buchanan, was very inspiring and spoke about the university’s mission.
Please remember to invite potential members to join our Club. We have an upcoming Halloween Party at Beth & Neil Charness’s house on October 29. The Holiday Party on December 3 at Dorothy B. Oven Park is always a wonderful gathering before the end of the year. Let us continue to support our Club’s activities and those of its many interest groups.
All the best,
Josephine
Alice B. Nichols Scholarship recipients for Fall 2011:
We thank you for your generous contributions, which have not only enabled the Club to raise the full-time amount to $600 to each student, but also to give six scholarships this semester.
Marianne Arbulu – Sr. – Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Tamiko Daniels – Sr. – Social Work
Shawn Gordon – Communication Science Disorders
Michael Hancock – Sr. – Geography & History
Stephanie Henderson – Sr. – Literature & Humanities
Gale Morgan – Sr. – Social Work
Celebrate Halloween with Beth & Neil Charness
Saturday, October 29 – 6:30 p.m. until…
Join us for a festive and fun-filled evening at the home of Beth & Neil Charness at 1325 Peacefield Place off Thomasville Road near Woodgate. Beth will be making Bone Crunching Beef as the main course, creepy-crawly coleslaw as a side dish, and a lobotomy elixir punch. The attendees are requested to bring spooky sides, body part bites, or spooktacular sweets. Please let Beth know, preferably by Monday, October 24, either to beth_charness@hotmail.com or by calling her at 385-0500 to let her know if you are you planning to attend and what you are planning to bring. Beth would like an early count for planning purposes. We also need to give Beth and her committee a general idea of how many people to expect.
Annual Holiday Party!!!
Saturday, December 3
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Dorothy B. Oven Park
3205 Thomasville Road
Come join us and start the holiday season at our annual holiday party in a lovely setting. The Club will provide wine, beer, non-alcoholic punch and hot mulled cider. Contributions of sweet and savory treats would be much appreciated by the committee. If you have questions, please contact the chair Diane Stuart at 893-3466. We thank Barbara & John Elam, Carol & Bill Weissert and Dian & Chas LaTour for serving with Diane on the committee. The holiday lights at Dorothy B. Oven Park are spectacular and not to be missed. There is plenty of parking near the main house with overflow parking in the office building lot at the end of the Oven Park Drive.
Book Discussion Group
Monday, October 17 – 7:30 p.m.
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
At the home of Judy Goldman
Monday, November 14 – 7:30 p.m.
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Please contact Kea Herron at kea.snuffy@gmail.com or at 566-5610 for information about this interest group and where to send your recommendations for the 2012 reading list. The book suggestions from March 2012 will be voted on at the annual December potluck. Please provide a brief synopsis together with name, author and number of pages. The book format should be paperback or trade back.
Globetrotters
Friday, November 4 – 7:30 p.m.
Westminster Oaks – Maguire Center on Commencement Lane.
India by Betty Serow
Please contact Diane Olsen at m.diane.olsen@gmail.com or call her at 386-5797 for further information.
Gourmet Sampler
Friday, November 11 – 6:30 p.m.
The meetings will alternate this year between the Westminster Oaks Pool House and members’ homes – Joannie Poulson is making the arrangements for the November gathering and is in need of a couple of more people. Please contact Jane Grosslight at janegrosslight@mindspring.com or call her at 385-5822.
La Mesa Española
Thursday, October 20 – 5:30 p.m.
Potluck at the home of Diane & Dale Olsen
Please contact Jo Stepp at jstepp@fsu.edu for more information about the group and contact Diane at m.diane.olsen@gmail.com to let her know that you are coming and what you are bringing.
Lunch Bunch
Tuesday, November 8 – 11:45 a.m.
Mozaik, 1410 D-1 Market Street
Please contact Denise Ellingson at mdeniseel15@yahoo.com or at 907-9992 by Sunday evening, November 13 to attend.
La Table Française will meet again in January & February.
PUC – Faculty Luncheon Series
Tuesday, November 8 – 12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
Neal Lane, senior fellow in science and technology policy at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, the Malcolm Gillis University Professor, and a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, all at Rice University, will discuss “How the Natural Sciences May Inform, And Be Informed By, The Humanities and Social Sciences.” Lane served as an assistant to President Bill Clinton for science and technology and as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from August 1998 to January 2001. He also served as the director of the National Science Foundation and as a member (ex officio) of the National Science Board from October 1993 to August 1998. Please call 222-6320 the week before. $9 per luncheon.
Restaurant Roulette
Thursday, November 10 – 6:30 p.m.
Harry’s Seafood & Bar, on Kleman Plaza
Please contact Jan Flake at jflake@fsu.edu or at 383-7505.
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
Friday, October 21 – 7:30 p.m.
Kurt Hofer will speak about Nobel Prize winner and famous physicist Paul Dirac
At the home of Bettina & Fernando Tesón
Please contact Toni Fuss Kirkwood-Tucker at kirkwoodtf@aol.com to get more information and to attend.
Digital Photography already has a large group of members interested in this new group. Neil Charness and Calvin Zongker are in the process of planning the first meeting. Please contact them at either neil_charness@hotmail.com or czongker@fsu.edu if you wish to be added to the email list of members who are interested in the group.
Please make sure to mark your calendars for the Annual Billy Bowlegs 5k Run and 1 Mile Walk to be held Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. followed by the Annual Bowlegs Brunch beginning at 10:00 a.m. in Renegade Grill across from the FAMU/FSU College of Engineering.
Barbara & John Elam have graciously offered to host their popular Mardi Gras with date in Spring 2012 TBA.