Florida Southern College - Interlachen Yearbook (Lakeland, FL)

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THE PRESIDENT DR. LUDD M. SPIVEY PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE From the vantage point of this historic year, we can look together with pride upon the paths we have trod, and with hope upon those yet to be traversed. Our pride is understandably full this year, the 100th Anniversary of Methodist Higher Education in Florida. It was in the little community of Micanopy just a century ago that our Methodist pioneers founded our College. Later, in Orlando, Leesburg, Palm Harbor and Clearwater, the fledgling institution progressed, withstanding adversities which would have discouraged the less resolute, and in 1923 was transferred to its present site in Lakeland. During twenty-nine of the thirty-one years which have come and gone since the College moved to Lakeland, I have written the President ' s Annual Message for our INTERLACHEN. It is with particular satisfaction that I do so this anniversary year. I am mindful, too, of the gratification which is the herit- age of the Class of 1954, for its members will carry with them through their lives the numeri- cal symbol of this anniversary year. The paths ahead are bright with expectation for the fulfill- ment of our mutual dream: the completion of our Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. Together we can carry our idea and ideal to reality, so that you and your sons and daughters can glory in America ' s most esthetically impressive campus, born of our shared devotion to wisdom and enduring art. LUDD M. SPIVEY President F. S. C. 1854 — 1954 ' ■ • ' ' . ..

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CHANCELLOR JOSEPH FAZZANO HONORARY CHANCELLOR O 1 FLORIDA S M ( III It COLLEdC Mr. Joseph Fazzano of Providence, Rhode Island, one of New England ' s most successful manufacturing executives, has reigned this year as honorary chan- cellor of Florida Southern College. As a patron of the arts, Mr. Fazzano owns one of the nation ' s most elab- orate art collections. He became acquainted with FSC during the 1952 Founder ' s Week when he attended the International Art Exhibition.

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THE T. THRIFT. JR, CHARLES T. THRIFT. JR. Vice-President V JAMES CLAUDIUS PEEL Dean