PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Greetings fellow members! I hope your summer break was rejuvenating and productive?
We have a great slate of events coming up this academic year, prepared by Pete Cottrell and your Board, including visits to the WFSU-TV Center, and to the FSU stadium for a baseball game in March. However, we do need more, younger members to carry on the great tradition of our special Interest Groups, most of which are active and vibrant, and we want to keep them that way. So please, everyone, try to encourage your younger colleagues and friends to visit with us, and try us out. We’re a great group, and a significant asset to the FSU community.
I look forward to meeting more of you in the coming year and am available by email at pmeredith@fsu.edu if you have suggestions or comments about our Club.
Pat Meredith
The University Club Scholarship Fund was established in 1986 (at the request of the FSU Foundation, 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. Two years ago, the board members voted to also add some partial scholarships to part-time students. Thanks to your generous donations and our successful, annual Billy Bowlegs 5k Run and 1 Mile Walk, we have been able to award ninety-five scholarships during the past fourteen years. For the fall semester, we will be awarding four full-time and four part-time scholarships. 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 Ed Schroeder, 806 Middlebrooks Circle, Tallahassee, FL 32312.
Check out the updated website at http://facultyclub.fsu.edu
Annual Welcome Reception
Thursday, September 3 – 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
FSU Alumni Center Ballroom
1030 West Tennessee Street
NOTE the change of date to Thursday, September 3
As always, we are starting the year with our Annual Reception to take place in the beautiful Alumni Center Ballroom. This event is a wonderful opportunity to visit with old and new friends. You can join or renew your membership and sign up for the many fascinating interest groups. These groups are a great way to get to know each other. Delicious hors d’oeuvres and desserts, in part prepared by some of our members, will be served. Please bring new faculty and friends and encourage current faculty to attend the reception in order to familiarize them with our organization. Also come meet and welcome our eight scholarship recipients.
Pete Cottrell is chairing this event. If you have special delicacies you would like to share with the group, it will be much appreciated by all in attendance. Please call Pete 893-3870 or e-mail him at rhinopete@mac.com if you have any questions. There is plenty of parking available with entrance either from Tennessee Street or from Brevard Street.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!
Programs for 2009-2010
Thursday, September 3 Annual Welcome Reception
5:00-7:00 p.m. – FSU Alumni Center Ballroom
Friday, October 30 Halloween Party – 6:30 p.m. until …
Hosted by Beth & Neil Charness
Saturday, November 14 Tour of WFSU-TV and Radio Station
10:00 a.m. – 1600 Red Barber Plaza off Pottsdamer St.
11:30 a.m. – Lunch at Renegade Grill – Seminole Golf Course
Saturday, December 5 Holiday Party – Time: TBA
Dorothy B. Oven Park – Main House – 3205 Thomasville Road
Saturday, January 9 Billy Bowlegs 5k Run & 1 Mile Walk FAMU/FSU College of Engineering – 9:00 a.m. with Brunch at 10:00 a.m. in Renegade Grill in the Seminole Golf Clubhouse
Sunday, February ? Chinese New Year Celebration
Location and time TBA
Saturday, March 6 Tour of FSU Football & Baseball Stadiums and Baseball Game Time TBA
Saturday, April 17 Spring Annual Luncheon & Meeting 11:30 a.m.- Cypress Restaurant – 320 East Tennessee Street
Board of The Faculty & Friends Club of FSU 2009-2010
President Pat Meredith 531-0839 Vice President Peter Cottrell 893-3870
2nd VPs (Membership) Annelise Leysieffer 893-1272
Fred Leysieffer 893-1272
Past President Carol Weissert 297-0111
Recording Secretary Ruth Pryor 531-0609
Corresponding Secretary Denise Ellingson 907-9992
Treasurer Co-Chairs Ron Blazek 893-3269
Ed Schroeder 386-2826
Nominating Committee Carol Weissert 297-0111
Newcomers’ Liaison Askim Okten 894-1151
Newsletter Editor Annelise Leysieffer 893-1272
Interest Groups Co-Chairs Barbara Elam 385-9856
Diane Olsen 386-5797
Friendship* Beth Charness 385-0500
Historian Neil Charness 385-0500
Scholarship Alice Nichols 385-9218
Diane Olsen 386-5797
Ex-Officio Virginia Wetherall
*Please notify Beth Charness about members who should be sent cards due to illness, birth of a child, congratulations or sympathy.
Faculty & Friends Club Interest Groups 2009-2010
Book Discussion Group Kea Herron 422-0881
Co-Chair TBA
Globetrotters Co-Chairs Diane Olsen 386-5797
Diane Stuart 893-3466
Jane Waggaman 576-8427
Gourmet Sampler Beth Charness 385-0500
Investment Club Rose Zongker 385-4848
La Table Française Annelise Leysieffer 893-1272
La Mesa Española Jo Stepp-Greany 383-3970
Lecture Series – PUC Bob Spivey 894-5242
Lunch Bunch Denise Ellingson 907-9992
Outdoors Explorers Barbara Elam 385-9856
Christel Heil 385-8879
Restaurant Roulette Jan Flake 383-7505
Shakespeare Reading Group Ernie Rehder 385-4016
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Bettina Tesón 385-2092
Stitch and Chat Cherie Fenstermaker 386-1000
If you are interested in joining an interest group or in forming a new one, please call either Barbara Elam or Diane Olsen.
La Mesa Española – Thursday. August 27 – 6:30 p.m.
At Los Amigos – 2736 Capital Circle NE – This new and growing interest group generally meets the 4th Thursday of each month.
Please contact Jo Stepp-Greany at 383-3970 or at jstepp@fsu.edu
La Table Française – Saturday, August 29 – 7:30 p.m.
At the Home of Annelise Leysieffer – Please either call Annelise at 893-1272 or e-mail her at aleysieffer@gmail.com to attend
Stitch & Chat – Tuesday, September 15 – 7:30 p.m.
At the home of cherie Fenstermaker – 385-1000.
Lunch Bunch – Tuesday, September 15 – 11:45 a.m.
Atlanta Bread Company – 1408 Timberlane Road
Please call Denise Ellingson at 907-9992 by September 14
PUC – Tuesday, September 15 – 12:15 p.m. – “Brown Bag”
Dean Beck-Dudley: “Shared Governance in Higher Education.”
Contact Bob Spivey at bspivey@foundation.fsu.edu for more info.
Restaurant Roulette – Tuesday, September 22 – 6:00 p.m.
Julie’s Place -2901 N. Monroe Street – Deadline: September 16
Please let Jan Flake know at jflake@fsu.edu or at 383-7505
Gourmet Sampler – Friday, September 25 – 6:00 p.m.
At the home of Beth & Neil Charness
Contact Beth at 385-0500 or at beth_Charness@hotmail.com
Book Discussion Group – Monday, September 21 – 7:30 p.m.
The Best Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov (ed. Jon Kulka) (Note: Used copies of this edition may still be available inexpensively at Amazon.com.) Hostess and discussion leader: Bonnie Armstrong. Please call her for directions (893-6141).
“Chekhov is arguably the first writer to employ understatement and suggestion to convey stabbing pathos… he captures moods and feelings through the details of his characters’ lives. . . Part of Chekhov’s genius lay in knowing exactly when to summarize thought, when to reveal it in dialogue, and when to merely suggest it through detail.” (from John Kulka’s introduction.)
Kea Herron is the new co-chairperson. You can reach her at kea.snuffy@gmail.com or 422-0881.
Betty Serow at bettyserow@yahoo.com and Sharon Hagopian at hagopian@hep.fsu.edu are collecting nominations for 2010 books.
Globetrotters will be meeting in October. Please let Jane Waggaman know at 576-8427 if you have an interesting program you would like to share with the group for later in the year.
Scholarship Recipients for Fall 2009 With their planned graduation dates
Trisha Bierbaum Nursing Dec. 2009
Brian Counts Interdisciplinary Social Science Dec. 2010
Ashley Duke Nursing Dec. 2009
George Edwards Russian & East European Studies Dec. 2009
Sheila Fretterd Humanities May 2010
Michael Kline Political Science & Sociology Dec. 2009
Carole Robards Interior Design Dec. 2009
Susan Thornton Nursing Dec. 2009