PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Welcome to the new academic year at Florida State University. This is going to be a great year for members of the Faculty & Friends Club. Our Vice President Barbara Elam has planned a superb variety of monthly events for us. Read about them on the back page of this newsletter. Several exciting new interest groups are being added to the old favorites that have been in existence for years. The interest groups can be intellectually stimulating or purely social. They offer friendships in small settings and can serve as support groups for our members.
We hope you will take advantage of what the Club has to offer and look forward to seeing you throughout the year, beginning with the joint Welcoming & Newcomers Reception on Friday, September 10. Come, renew friendships, and welcome newcomers to the university community. My charge to all current members is for you to invite and encourage new and current faculty colleagues from your departments to attend this special evening. The Faculty Band “The Polyploidz” will entertain us. Come listen and enjoy while partaking of delicious goodies provided by Club members and sign up for the many interest groups.
The Faculty & Friends Club has been an integral part of campus life since 1926 under a variety of names. The Club has given us the opportunity to make life-long friendships with members throughout the university community. Through the years, we have expanded the membership to include friends who support the aims and activities of the Club.
Annelise Leysieffer
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
The University Club Scholarship Fund was established in 1986 (the name of the fund remains unchanged). Since 1994, the Club has been awarding one or more $500 scholarships per semester to needy, returning, full-time, undergraduate students who maintain a GPA of at least 3.2. Thanks to your generous donations and our successful annual Billy Bowlegs 5k Run and 1 mile Walk, the Club has been able to award fifty-six scholarships during the past ten years. We are planning to award six more during the next academic year. Donations of any amount will be gratefully accepted and acknowledged. Please mail your donation together with your dues, with the check made out to the Faculty & Friends Club of FSU, to the treasurer Calvin Zongker, 601 Live Oak Plantation Road, Tallahassee, FL 32312.
Welcome & Welcome Back
Joint Fall Welcoming & Newcomers Reception
Friday, September 10 – 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Miller Hall
University Center Building C, 3rd Floor
This reception is an excellent opportunity to renew friendships, to welcome new faculty and administrative staff to Florida State, and to sign up for the Club’s many interest groups. Bill Landing is arranging for our own Faculty Band “The Polyploidz” to entertain us while enjoying delicious hors d’oeuvres prepared by some of our members. Wine and beer will accompany non-alcoholic beverages.
Parking should not be a problem after 4:30 p.m. on Fridays. Enter the tower to the left of the Sportsmanship Statue that stands in front of Entrance C at Doak Campbell Stadium. This is the entrance on the opposite side of the main campus.
Barbara Elam, Liz Payer (in charge of Newcomers) and Betty Serow are chairing this event. Please call Barbara at 385-9856 with any questions and/or with offers of food.
Theatre Party Benefit & Reception
Wednesday, September 22
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.”
6:30 – 8:00 p.m. – Reception & Silent Auction
8:00 p.m. – Performance
Tallahassee Little Theatre
1861Thomasville Road
The Faculty & Friends Club invites you to join the Tallahassee Little Theatre for the FSU International Center Benefit Night. The ticket cost is $25, which includes the play and the reception featuring world cuisines and refreshments. The event is sponsored by the FSU International Advisory Board to benefit international students at FSU. For ticket information, please call Mafe Brooks at 645-4793 or e-mail her at mbrooks@admin.fsu.edu or call Barbara Elam at 385-9856. The tickets are limited so reserve now. Send checks, made out to Tallahassee Little Theatre, to Barbara Elam, 3204 Brookforest Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32312 before September 15. Please pick up your tickets at the Box Office the night of the play.
Scholarship Recipients for Fall 2004
Heather Fritschle Information Studies Senior
Kathleen Harriman Social Science Education Senior
Marilyn McGhee Psychology Senior
MEMBERSHIP DUES $16/$12
Membership is open to faculty, administrative and professional staff, retirees, visitors, former members of this Club and similar clubs at other universities, religious directors, members and professional staff of the Board of Regents, spouses of all of the above, and friends who support the aims and activities of the Faculty & Friends Club of FSU.
All interest groups are part of the Faculty & Friends Club. Membership dues are due now for 2004-2005 from all attendees except from the occasional visitor. Please fill out and cut out the form provided below and bring it together with your check made out to the Faculty & Friends Club of FSU to the joint Welcoming & Newcomers Reception on September 10 or mail them to the Treasurer, Calvin Zongker, 601 Live Oak Plantation Road, Tallahassee FL 32312-2334.
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: $16($12 for retirees): $______
Voluntary Contribution to Scholarship Fund: $______
Total Amount enclosed: $______
Please highlight changes/additions to last year’s roster.
Board of The Faculty & Friends Club of FSU 2004-2005
President Annelise Leysieffer 893-1272
Co-President (May-Aug.) Ann Libert 668-0059
Vice President Barbara Elam 385-9856
2nd VP (Membership) Fred Leysieffer 893-1272
Recording Secretary Sharon Adams 562-6193
Corresponding Secretary Denise Ellingson 907-9992
Treasurer Calvin Zongker 385-4848
Nominating Committee Shirley Zahn (chair) 576-4721
Liz Payer
Martha Spivey
Cindy Wise
Past President Tom Hart 385-7550
Newcomers’ Liaison Liz Payer 893-0336
Newsletter Editor Tom Hart 385-7550
Interest Groups Kathleen Rose 385-6997
Friendship* Mildred Trezza 878-5551
Historian Sherry Hart 385-7550
Scholarship Alice Nichols 385-9218
Representative to ARF Julia Goldstein 877-7075
ARF Representative Al Trezza 878-5551
Ex-Officio Virginia Wetherall
*Please notify Mildred Trezza about members who should be sent cards due to illness, birth of a child, congratulations, or sympathy.
Faculty & Friends Club Interest Group Chairs 2004-2005
Globetrotters Sherry & Tom Hart 385-7550
Gourmet Club Mafe Brooks 383-0724
Investment Club Rene Burnett 893-1488
Lecture Series – PUC Bob Spivey 894-5242
Lunch Bunch Denise Ellingson 907-9992
Moms & Tots TBA TBA
Online – Ask me Anything! Kermit Rose 385-6997
Outdoors Explorers Dot & Jim Skofronick 222-8544
Paperback Book Discussion Maxine Weiss 893-1891
Restaurant Roulette Al Trezza 878-5551
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Ursel Homann 386-2012
Annelise Leysieffer 893-1272
Stitch and Chat Cherie Fenstermaker 386-1000
Table Française Annelise Leysieffer 893-1272
Jo Stepp-Greany 383-3970
World Events Annelise Leysieffer 893-1272
Hans Plendl 894-1842
*If you are interested in joining an interest group or interested in forming a new one, but are unable to attend the Welcoming Reception, please call the chair or Kathleen Rose at 385-6997.
PROGRAMS FACULTY AND FRIENDS CLUB 2004-05
Tuesday, August 17 New Faculty Luncheon 12:00-1:00 p.m. Turnbull Center/CPD Board & Other Club members
Friday, September 10 Welcome & Welcome Back!
Miller Hall -University Center C, 3rd – 5:30-8:00 p.m.
Entertainment: Faculty Band “The Polyploidz”
Wednesday, September 22 Tallahassee Little Theatre
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forumâ€
FSU International Center Benefit Night – 6:30 p.m. …
Friday, October 1 First Friday Gallery Tour
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Meet at Chez Pierre to carpool – 5:30 p.m. …
Wednesday, October 6 UCC Wednesday Social for FCC
A Newcomers Exclusive! 5:30-6:30 p.m.
University Center Club – Board & Newcomers.
Saturday, October 30 Halloween Party 7:00-10:00 p.m.
Hosted by Barbara and John Elam
Friday, November 12 Film School Tour & Film Screening
by Dean Ray Fielding – 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 4 Holiday Happening 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Home of Linda and Steve Leach
Sunday, January 23 Chinese New Year – Lucy Ho’s – 6:30 p.m
Tuesday, February 8 Valentine’s Dance 7:30-10:00 p.m
American Legion Hall by Lake Ella
Saturday, February 19 Billy Bowlegs 5K Run & 1 Mile Walk
Scholarship Event in Innovation Park – 9:00 a.m.
Start and end by FAMU/FSU College of Engineering
followed by Brunch – 10:30 a.m.
in Renegade Grill in Seminole Golf Clubhouse.
Saturday, March 26 FSU Moore Center Sports Facility Tour by Angela Segal – 2:00 p.m.
preceded by Lunch, Renegade Grill – 11:45 a.m.
Thursday, April 21 Annual Dinner & Business Meeting Capital City Country Club – 6:30 p.m. …
Entertainment by Don Rapp
Please send all contributions to the newsletter to Annelise Leysieffer at all9002@fsu.edu or call her at 893-1272
Send information to the website to:
Peter Jörgensen: pjorgens@mailer.fsu.edu