VOL. 2 NO. 1
STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLORIDA
JULY 1973
3500 ATTEND MAY COMMENCEMENT
Annual Fund
Campaign Sets New
Gift Record
Stetson alumni giving totaled a
record high in the 1972-73 campaign of
$447,028, according to figures released
by W. Michael Chertok, director of
Development.
The university received a total gift
income of $1,546,000.
Alumni gifts included $73,082
unrestricted receipts during the Annual
Fund campaign. This total for the
DeLand campus combined with
unrestricted gifts to the College of Law
of $9,533 results in a total sum of
$82,615. This is a record high in
unrestricted alumni gifts, according
to Chertok, and tops last year's total
by over $23,000.
Jack Fortes is director of the Alumni
Annual Fund campaign and he cited
the "extraordinary efforts of Harold
Clark" in making the records possible.
Clark, now alumni association
president, has served as Annual Fund
Chairman for two years.
The record high unrestriqted gifts
were in addition to special building
fund campaigns which have also been
in progress. Restricted gifts for the
Health & Physical Education building
on the DeLand campus and the Dana
Library addition in St. Petersburg
totaled $364,412.
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Governor Speaks As 406 Receive Degrees
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MEASHAM SLATED TO CONDUCT
MUSIC INSTITUTE CONCERTS
David Measham, principal second
violin and frequent conductor of the
London Symphony Orchestra, will
conduct the Stetson Summer Music
Institute Orchestra in six central
Florida concerts in July, it has been
announced by Dr. Paul Langston, dean
of the School of Music at the DeLand
university.
Measham was with the London
orchestra in 1966 during their first
United States institute appearance in
Daytona Beach and at Stetson
University in DeLand.
A noted conductor in England,
Measham has gained international
acclaim in 1973 conducting the London
Symphony with rock ensemble in the
recording of the folk rock opera
"Tommy" which is ranked high in the
American records charts.
Measham has achieved critical acclaim
as a conductor substituting for Andre
Previn with the LSO, Leonard
Bernstein in New York and Oivin
Fjeldstad in Bergen during the
past year.
The young British musician
established close ties with Stetson in
1966 when his first visit resulted in
romance and marriage with a Stetson
co-ed, Susan Shoemaker.
The couple returned to England and
Measham has had a meteoric rise in the
music field of that country.
The London Times has described
him as a "conductor who has worked
closely with Leonard Bernstein and has
refused to become stereotyped as a
classical conductor!' The article
continues to favorably review
Measham's performance as conductor
of the London Symphony Orchestra in
concert with Jose Feliciano, the noted
guitarist.
Recordings by Measham as conductor
include "Skies of America" and
"St. Giles Cripplegate!' the latter
written by Jack Nitzsche, composer for
the Rolling Stones.
The six concerts this summer are
• scheduled in DeLand on July 11,18, and
27, and in Daytona Beach on July 12,
19 and 28.
Florida Governor Reubin Askew
delivered a message of hope to Stetson
seniors, calling on them to lead the
nation through a new era of maturity
and understanding which this country,
he said, is approaching.
Askew was the featured speaker for
the 90th commencement, held in the
Forest of Arden, in May.
Attendance at the colorful ceremony
was estimated at over 3,500. Dr. John E.
Johns conferred degrees upon 403,
awarded half-century diplomas, and
conferred upon the governor the
honorary degree Doctor of Humanities.
The Reverend James Graves, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of
St. Petersburg, was the Baccalaureate
speaker and preached on the general
subject of identity in the modern
world. Stetson conferred upon
Rev. Graves the honorary degree
Doctor of Divinity at the
Commencement ceremony.
Over seventy of the graduates
received honors designations with
their degrees.
Dr. Johns, addressing the large
commencement audience referred to
the ceremonies as "hopefully the
last when the fear of rain interferes
with the planning!' The reference was
to the health and physical education
building presently under construction
and scheduled for completion in 1974.
Addressing the graduates, Askew
said "my own feeling, and certainly my
great hope, is that your generation has
reached the threshold of political
maturity in this country, and that you
not only will cross that threshold, but
help your state and your nation to
cross it as well.
"You will decide if the decade of the
70's is to be dominated by an
enlightened approach to government...
and to the governed.
"You will decide if apathy is to be
displaced by commitment, if idealism
is to be accompanied by action and if
action is to be controlled by wisdom."
Americans don't claim to have all
the answers, the governor commented,
but at last, he said "we seem to be
asking the right questions!'
Determined questioning, sincere
concern and legitimate action by all
people will strengthen'the country, nol
tear it down, he said.
"Some of our oldest and most
cherished ideals are being remembered,
restated and rekindled with a commitment
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