News Tagged as 'Alumni'

As a Spanish and graphic design double major, Michelle never thought playing piano would be her "In" for graduate school. However, what's become an all-too-familiar refrain of the "Caring faculty" at Flagler, has continued to ring true, especially for this 2018 graduate.

If you haven't already listened, you should. New alumna and now staff member, Administrative Assistant in the Education Department Rachel Ihasz, '20, gets busy every Monday ensuring we make it through the day by hosting fun guests on her show, "A Case of the Mondays."

Some Flagler alums are seizing the moment we’re in to start their passion projects, businesses and nonprofits. We’ve asked a few of them to share about various aspects of their journey.

Alumna Katie Garwood has brought home another award from her time at Flagler’s student newspaper. She was awarded third place in the “Best Feature Story” category for the college division for the Society of Professional Journalists.

​For Christopher Catania, a 2001 alumnus of Flagler College and Wells Fargo at Work Regional Manager for Florida and the Southeast, giving back to his alma mater has always been an extension of his strong belief in the importance of higher education.

After graduating May 4, alumni from the class of 2019 are already out in the world doing great things. The Career Development Center has compiled some of the most exciting #FlaglerGradStories to share graduates’ plans after college. Here are their highlights:

At this year’s annual Alumni Weekend, a luncheon on Friday, May 17 recognized the Charter Classes and a ceremony on Saturday, May 18 honored 50 alumni of distinction.

Cathy (Forson) Rhoten '72, Nancy Sirmons '72, and Steven Shafer '03 were inducted as the 16th class of the Flagler College Athletics Hall of Fame Thursday evening at a banquet sponsored by Carrabba's Italian Grill at the Virginia Room in the Ringhaver Student Center. The event is part of the College's annual Alumni Weekend.

Approximately 400 Saints will return to their alma mater May 16 to 19 and reconnect with their Flagler family during the college’s annual Alumni Weekend.

The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum (CEAM) and Flagler College announced the third bi-annual Juried Alumni Exhibition, opening with a reception for the artists on Friday, May 17 in conjunction with Alumni Weekend. The opening reception will take place from 5-7 p.m., with a special performance by artist Kevin Mahoney, Class of 2014, at 6 p.m. This event is free and open to the public, and the exhibition will continue through June 14.

On Saturday, May 4, Flagler College will hold its spring commencement exercises and hand out more than 400 diplomas.

*Update* Student Hannah Pierce has been awarded the Young Non-profit Professional award: "I encourage everyone to go out and create art with a child. You’ll find that it’s a beautiful experience.” Alumnus Bo Bozard has been awarded the Young Private Sector Professional award: "We do common things, uncommonly well, and when you do things uncommonly well over a period of time, it endures, and when it endures, it becomes defining. And in Steven Thomas' business class at Flagler, we learned that if something defines it becomes a brand. I’m so glad to be a part of a brand that does common things uncommonly well.”

Flagler College alumna Lorna Bracewell, ’05, has earned a prestigious award for the best feminist political theory paper in the country.

Two Flagler College professors, four alumni and two current students recently attended a symposium commemorating the 800th anniversary celebration of the 13th-century Franciscan leader Saint Bonaventure. The conference, held at The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University in New York in mid-July, was dedicated to the cultural and religious dynamics that shaped the scholar’s theology and spirituality.

Managing disasters is not what Linda Stoughton envisioned she’d be doing 30 years ago. She had studied forestry, and wanted to pursue that field wholeheartedly. But in 1985, she took a job with St. Johns County as a fire rescue dispatcher, and before she knew it, had progressed to the role of emergency management director.

Flagler alumnus Jeff Philbin, ‘12, has claimed a spot in the “MasterChef” reality television show and will be featured in its eighth season, airing Wednesday, May 31.

Flagler College’s third annual Giving Day saw 233 donors (191 of those alumni) raise $67,844 at the college by the close of the day on May 9 — $19,900 more than last year’s Giving Day.

Three Flagler College alumni were recognized today during the 19th Annual Alumni Awards Luncheon for their outstanding contributions to the areas of service and professional achievement.

After 16 years, Flagler College President Dr. William T. Abare Jr. handed out diplomas to graduates for the final time on Saturday. Abare is set to retire as president this June, serving in the position since 2001. He has worked at the college for 46 years, and has the distinction of being at every Flagler graduation and seeing every one of the college’s nearly 17,000 alumni cross the stage.

Flagler College alumnus William Windle, ’16, will present a reading of his play “Will’s War,” adapted from his grandmother Janice Woods Windle’s novel of the same name on Tuesday, May 2 at 4 p.m. in the college’s Gamache-Koger Theater. It is free and open to the public.