DeLand, Florida
December 1977
STETSON UNIVERSITY
HISTORY DEPARTMENT NEWSLETTER
SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF OLD DeLAND
Fall came with the "clank, clank" of the old LaFrance fire engine that the Pi Kappa
Alphas use as their roving symbol. The weather has been warm,and dogs have regularly
splashed in Holler Fountain. One afternoon students assembled in the quadrangle and
watched as others used the spouting fountain as a goal post for a field goal against
a non-existent foe.
The crowd of students gathered around the parked car of Altamonte Springs
trustee Ken Kirchman '58 were merely curious about his new Jaguar rather than
exercised over university policy.
Two Alaskans have tentative plans to convert the empty Athens Theater into a
dinner theater. Attorney Edwin Sanders '65 is seeking variances for the venture.
The John B. Stetson manor on Camphor Lane was sold in early November. The
purchaser, Michael J. Marino, a Sebring hairdresser,will make his home there.
Morris's Restaurant failed to reopen this fall. For many years the restaurant
catered to Stetson students, and several of the Morris children, Susan '70, Diana '63, Lynn,
and Cynthia '66, attended Stetson. The restaurant was sold to a Connecticut investor
in 1973. The cause of southern soul food has been dealt a blow!
THE MAILBAG
Thanks for the compliments on the Newsletter. My favorite comment came verbally
from Education Professor Joyce Brunk (wife of Psychology Professor Paul Brunk): "You
make us feel more like a family."
June Burton '65, Associate Professor at the University of Akron (not Toledo or
Cincinnati as variously reported here) is an ascending star in academic circles. She
writes: "I was in Europe for seven weeks this summer, mostly in Paris and Strasbourg....
In addition to my Rockefeller grant, I have won a fellowship from the Institute for the
Study of World Politics to write a textbook on human rights. I am thereby relieved of
most of my teaching. My manuscript, "Napoleon and Clio," has been accepted by Carolina
Academic Press.... Malcolm will be able to pass out cigars for being the grandfather
of a book on French history."
Bill Baggett, Dean of Students at Georgia State University, the same position
that he once occupied at Stetson, writes of his maturing family: "...Jeff will be
entering Georgia Tech this fall. Beth will be a tenth grader. My wife, Lee, has
gone to work for four hours a day which should not interrupt social activities."
Several history majors have recently entered M.B.A. programs since the history
field is so crowded. Charles Matousek '76 entered Stetson's M.B.A. program. David
Bannister '76 entered the M.B.A. program at the University of North Carolina. David
writes: "...I found a liberal arts background extremely helpful. The perspective
and capacity to think in terms beyond 'profit and loss,' I feel, will become increasingly
important."
William J. Guess '51, a speaker for the Baptist Convention at the October
denominational emphasis dinner for ministerial students and Stetson faculty, writes:
"At the time of our recent move to Jacksonville...we met so many [of our former
classmates] that our fifteen-year-old daughter said, 'Daddy, I didn't know we were
moving to Stetsonville.'"
B. Virginia Fishpaw Cornelia '66, a government personnel specialist, wrote to
advise students who want to go into government service: "There is no better education
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