Vires - Volume III, Issue 2 (Fall 2011) - Florida State University

The Moment

Friday, November 18, 2011
8:58 p.m.

Catching Up With...

Jeff Shaara (B.S. '74)

He's become America's wartime time-traveler, taking readers on a journey through epic battlefields ranging from the American Revolution to World War II. Jeff Shaara pens historical fiction, and this writer is as true to the characters as he is to the setting.

From The Publisher

A message from Alumni Association President Scott Atwell

As any collector knows, it takes patience to build a store of treasures. Patience, and a little luck.

Jimmy Callaway has plenty of both. As equipment manager for the Florida State University football team during most of the Bobby Bowden era, he also had access to the ephemera of college athletics - the game-day programs, the roughed-up jerseys, the forgotten photographs, the worn-out and cast-off pieces a team leaves behind as it plays opponents and moves through the schedule.

Three FSU Space Explorers Look Back on an Era of Greatness

When the NASA space shuttle program came to an end last July after more than 30 years of triumph and tragedy, an era of American leadership in space exploration also seemed to be ending. Three FSU graduates — launch commander Calvin Fowler (M.S. ’67) and astronauts Norman Thagard (B.S. ’65, M.S. ’66) and Winston Scott (B.M.E. ’72) — played key roles in the history of NASA’s space voyages.

New Organization Aims to Make Real Property Gifts a Primary Part of Florida State Fundraising

Like many Florida State College for Women alumnae of the World War II generation, 1941 graduate Frances Cushing Ervin's greatest legacy may well be her family and their accomplishments, from her husband on down to her grandchildren.

CEO-U

With more than 50,000 graduates of its College of Business, The Florida State University has established itself as a not-so-hidden source of talent for corporate boardrooms.

Advertising

Share your message with more than 45,000 Alumni and Friends of Florida State University: advertise in the Spring 2012 issue of VIRES.

Ten Questions With...

Drake Anderson

Just 34 years young, Florida State's Osceola and Renegade program was recently tabbed college football's greatest tradition in a nationwide poll. The responsibility of portraying the Seminole leader falls on the sturdy shoulders of FSU junior Drake Anderson.