PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
With fall right around the corner, we can look forward to cooler weather and some very exciting new programs planned by Joannie Poulson, Barbara Elam and me. They include attending the dress rehearsal of the FSU’s 60th Anniversary of the Flying Circus with Mrs. Haskins as our special guest, a visit to San Luis Mission, and a tour of the Claude Pepper Museum with brunch following the event.
We were thrilled to get the Alumni Center Ballroom again this year for our Annual Joint Welcoming Reception and Newcomers Party to be held September 8th. Two days before that on September 6th at the Tallahassee Little Theater is the FSU International Center Benefit Night with a terrific Neil Simon play “45 Seconds from Broadway”. Those who have attended in previous years enjoyed the international cuisine and amazing prizes offered in the silent auction.
Other programs to look forward to in 2006 include: the Halloween Party at Barbara and John Elam’s home on October 28th, and the Holiday Happening on December 9th at the home of Homer and Yvonne Ooten. Make sure you mark your calendars now.
This year we are pushing for new members and hope to recruit some of them at the New Faculty Luncheon to be held at the Turnbull Center on August 22nd headed by the very capable Liz Payer. We are asking everyone in the club to help bring new people to our events or interest groups. If everyone could bring just one person or a couple to our programs, we could increase our membership in no time. Of course we want “real members” who pay their dues, so we have money to keep our club up and running.
Beth Charness
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 sixty-nine scholarships during the past eleven years. We are planning to award six or seven 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.
Joint Fall Welcoming & Newcomers Reception
Friday, September 8 – 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Alumni Center Ballroom
1030 West Tennessee Street
We are starting our year with the annual Reception, which is an opportunity to visit with old and new friends. You can join or renew your membership ($20/$15 for retirees [per household]), and sign up for an interest group. Interest groups are a great way to get to know each other, because the groups are usually smaller. We will be giving out our three scholarships, and the Dean of Faculties, Anne Rowe, will say a few words. President Wetherell will be giving his State of the University Speech at 3:30 p.m. at the Medical Building, and our group has been given an invitation to anyone who might want to attend. After the speech, proceed to our reception. We will have wine and beer, sponsored by Westcott Lakes, and delicious hors d’oeuvres and lemonade prepared by some of our members.
Beth Charness, Liz Payer, Joannie Poulson and Jan Thomas are chairing this event. Please call Joannie at 385-8028 with any questions and/or offers of food.
Theatre Party Benefit & Reception
“45 Seconds From Broadway”
Wednesday, September 6
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Catered Gourmet Reception & Silent Auction
8:00 p.m. – Performance
Tallahassee Little Theatre
1861 Thomasville Road
The Faculty & Friends Club invites you to join the Tallahassee Little Theatre for the FSU International Center Benefit Night. The ticket cost is $35, 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 Barbara Elam at 385-9856. The tickets are limited so reserve now. Send checks, made out to the FSU Foundation, to Barbara Elam, 3204 Brookforest Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32312 by September 4. Barbara will mail you your tickets, or, if too late for that, you may pick them up at the Box Office the night of the play.
Request to all interest group chairpersons!
Please announce to your interest groups that the membership dues are due at this time. The interest groups are the backbone of our organization, and we need all their memberships to enable the Club to function properly!
MEMBERSHIP DUES $20/$15 per Household
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 of the University’s Board of Trustees, 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 the 2006-2007 school year 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 8 or mail to the Treasurer, Calvin Zongker, 601 Live Oak Plantation Road, Tallahassee FL 32312.
Board of The Faculty & Friends Club of FSU 2006-2007
President Beth Charness 385-0500
Vice President Joannie Poulson 385-8028
2nd VP (Membership) Fred Leysieffer 893-1272
Recording Secretary Dot Skofronick 222-8544
Corresponding Secretary Denise Ellingson 907-9992
Treasurer Calvin Zongker 385-4848
Nominating Committee Virginia Grigg (chair) 385-7528
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Past President Barbara Elam 385-9856 Newcomers’ Liaison Liz Payer 893-0336 Newsletter Editor 893-1272 Interest Groups Co-Chairs Friendship* Mildred Trezza 878-5551 Historian Neil Charness 385-0500 Scholarship Alice Nichols 385-9218 Website Corinne & Peter Jörgensen 574-0776 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 2006-2007Book Discussion Group Maxine Weiss 893-1891 Future Programs 2006 – 2007 Saturday, October 28 Halloween Party – 6:30 p.m. … Hosted by Barbara and John Elam Sunday, November 12 San Luis Mission – 2:00 p.m. Tour, Demonstrations & Snacks Saturday, December 9 Holiday Happening – 5:00-7:00 p.m. Home of Yvonne & Homer Ooten Saturday, January 13 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 – 10:15 a.m. in Renegade Grill in Seminole Golf Clubhouse. Sunday, January 28 Chinese New Year – 6:30 p.m. Lucy Ho’s Oriental Bistro Saturday, February 24 Claude Pepper Museum -10:00 a.m. Brunch in newly renovated Suwannee Room March/April TBA FSU Flying High Circus – 60 Years Wednesday, April 18 Annual Dinner & Business Meeting Silver Slipper – 6:30 p.m. …
Interest Group Information (Call Chairpersons)
Joint Table Française& Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Saturday, September 2 – 7:30 p.m. at the home of Anneliese & Robert Doherty Restaurant Roulette Wednesday, September 13 – 6:30 p.m. Chez Pierre Presbyterian University Center – Lecture Series Tuesday. September 12 – 12:15 p.m. Dr. Pamela “Sissi” Carroll Here is the full year’s schedule (in pdf format) suitable for posting 2006 University Distinguished Teaching Award Book Discussion Monday, September18 – 7:30 p.m. “The Periodic Table” by Primo Levi Discussion Leader: Penny Gilmer At the home of Bonnie Armstrong Lunch Bunch Tuesday, September 19 – 11:45 a.m. Mozaik Stitch & Chat Tuesday, October 10 – 7:45 p.m. Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Friday, October 13 – 7:30 p.m.
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