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NEWSLETTER Fall 2004
Message from the Library Director
This was the fall that Florida fought back against
those of us who had become complacent about
the weather. We have had many rain storms
(replenishing a depleted water table and
surprising many who unfortunately had built on
low land during dry times). Three hurricanes
came through Volusia County, causing Stetson
to close down for days. The University was
without power for eight days during and after
Hurricane Frances. We are still trying to catch
up with lost class and work days.
We have one of the largest classes in our
history, and from what we've seen in the Library,
these are serious students. The Library is
always busy, especially at night.
Be sure to read the articles on the presentation
by famed journalist Joe Galloway and the
upcoming Library exhibit, Frankenstein:
Penetrating the Secrets of Nature. The Library
is pleased to be able to bring such opportunities
to our campus.
Betty D. Johnson, Library Director
Get to Know Some Special Faculty Members
At our annual fall reception the Library honored
University faculty who were promoted and/or
granted tenure. In spite of a thunderstorm just
as the reception was about to start, we had a
good turnout of friends to celebrate with our
honorees. As a lasting tribute to the honored
faculty, we asked them to select an author who
had been most influential in their lives and to
provide a statement on that selection. Special
bookplates were placed in the chosen books,
and the books were displayed with the
statements. Below are the statements of those
who participated.
Larry Belcher- Business Administration:
Finance - Promoted to Professor
LIFE IS A MIRACLE
WENDELL BERRY
"My choice of a book is Life is a
Miracle: an Essay Against Modern
Superstition, by Wendell Berry.
The reason for this is that Berry
makes a pervasive and eloquent
argument against the belief that all
knowledge can have an empirical
basis. We know that there are lots of things in
this world that science alone is incapable of
explaining and rather than continue to try and
deny that fact, we should embrace it even if it
forces us out of our comfort zone. Berry does a
good job of examining this in a very good
essay."
Barbara Costello - Library - Promoted to
Associate Professor and Awarded Tenure
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"I first read Hiroshima, by John Q |N hhkm-.y
Hersey, as a young teenager. Up
until then, most of the reading I had
done in history had been from
school textbooks, which tended to
be a dry recitation of facts and
dates and famous names.
Hiroshima was the first book I read that brought
history alive, and looked behind a big historical
event to give names and faces to the people
affected. For all its horror, Hiroshima was a
revelation to me, and launched a lifelong love of
exploring the personal stories behind the
historical facts."
Michelle DeMoss - Business Administration:
Marketing - Promoted to Professor
"The title of the book is The Heroine's Journey
by Maureen Murdock. The journey is not about
gaining power over, about conquest and
domination, but is about bringing balance into
our lives through marriage of both our feminine
