Vol.
14, Issue 3 Winter 2005
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Tech TODAY is published three times
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There will be no direct
mailing of Homecoming brochures this
year.
You may register
for Homecoming ’06 online
at www.merchantamerica.com/fit/echopay See you in February! |
In 1958 to train professionals working
in the space program at what is now
Kennedy Space Center.
In Melbourne, Fla. on 130 subtropical
acres, including a picturesque
botanical garden. The campus
is 5 minutes from
the Indian River, 10 minutes from
the Atlantic Ocean and 50 minutes
from Kennedy Space Center.
• The only independent, scientific and
technological university in the Southeast
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Located in Florida’s High Tech
Corridor, home to more than 5,000 high-tech
companies and the nation’s
5th largest high-tech workforce
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Classified by the Carnegie Foundation
as a Doctoral Research Intensive University,
a classifiction separating it from
institutions that only offer degrees
at the bachelor’s or master’s
level
• One of just five Florida schools selected
in Barron's
Best Buys in College Education
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For the 15th consecutive year, U.S.
News & World Report has ranked
Florida Tech among the nation’s
best doctoral universities and among
the top 7% of America’s colleges
and universities
• Named one of the top
14 technical institutions in
engineering in the Fiske Guide
to Colleges
Chairman, Board of Trustees Allen
S. Henry, Ph.D.
President Anthony James Catanese,
Ph.D., FAICP
Provost and Chief Academic
Officer T. Dwayne McCay, Ph.D.
Sr. Vice President for Advancement
Thomas G. Fox, Ph.D.
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Liz Schaefer ’85, profiled in the Florida Tech TODAY Spring 2005 cover
story, was one of many alumni directly affected by Hurricane Katrina in August.
The eye of the storm passed over her home, located five blocks from the beach
in Bay St. Louis, Miss. Liz and her husband, Harold, took refuge with friends
in Melbourne while awaiting the damage report and visited with Ken Droscher,
executive director of the alumni association.
When Florida Tech TODAY
last caught up with her, she was en route
back to Mississippi to assess the damage
and salvage belongings. She had gratefully
received word that her home sustained
minimal structural damage. But, unfortunately,
it was inundated with water, damaging
most of the contents with moisture and
mold.
“I don’t
know where we’ll live while this
is getting fixed,” she said. “I
don’t know yet what’s happened
to the firm where I worked, either.” |
This year will be the 25th anniversary
of my graduation from FIT. Time sure
flies. I am not sure that any words or
speech could ever express how much the
education I received at FIT has meant
to me. At the Jensen Beach campus, we
often had to improvise and make do with
what was available. I have found throughout
my career that the experience gave many
of the graduates of FIT the upper hand
in the business world. Most grads can
be found in leadership positions and
generally in the situations that are
the most difficult … and our grads
excel.
Now it’s way past the time
to give back. I am committed to help
Cindy (Dwyer
Pratt ’97) and Bob (Pratt ’95, ’97
M.S., ’98 M.B.A.) put together
this alumni chapter in California.
Most of all, I would like to speak
to prospective
students and high school students and “light
that fire” to inspire them to
pursue their education at FIT.
It’s
a great school, and Ken Droscher’s
visit to California gave the alumni
an opportunity to meet our outstanding
leadership
up close and personal.
Jack Kelly ’80 |
The first issue of the Pelican, the
voice of the students at Brevard Engineering
College.
It was published “on a weekly,
biweekly, monthly, bimonthly, quarterly
or yearly basis, depending on how many
people decide to join the staff.” See
what’s new with the current
student newspaper, the Florida
Tech Crimson. |
Tell us what you’d
like to see and give
us your responses to the articles that
you’ve read in the magazine. We’d
love to
hear from you. Send your comments to
jowilson@fit.edu.
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