SCSC NEWS

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Your E-Newsletter for August 3, 2007 

In this issue:                     

1.      President’s Message

2.      Support FSU

3.      News from SCSC Members and FSU Alums

4.      News from FSU – What’s Cooking

5.      Football Isn’t the Only Sport at FSU

6.      Your Board, Officers, and Committees

7.      Visit Our Website

8.      To Unsubscribe from Broadcasts

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1.      PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: 

Football season is less than a month away!  Watch for your print newsletter coming soon to your mailbox which will provide details about our viewing sites and coordinators.  It’s gonna be good!!!

2.      SUPPORT FSU

To increase your support of Florida State University, please join these organizations:

A.  Become a member of the FSU Alumni Association by going to www.alumni,fsu.edu.   Click

      on membership.  You can join online.  The annual cost is $ 35.00/individual or  $ 45.00 joint

      membership.  Better yet, take out a life membership for $ 650/individual or $ 750/joint.  This can be paid via 10 payments.

B.    Become a Seminole Booster by going to www.seminole-boosters.com.  Membership begins at $ 60.00 for an Iron Arrow and can go to thousands, for those who have the dough.  You can join online.

3.      NEWS FROM SCSC MEMBERS AND FSU ALUMS

·         Amy Oliver Writes that she is the Sync Coordinator in the Music Licensing Division of Warner Music Group (www.emg.com) and Keyboardist / Singer in the band “Moving Picture Show.  Amy graduated from FSU in 1999 with a Bachelor of Music Therapy.  She suggests that you go to their website (www.themovingpictureshow.com) to sign up on their mailing list and be notified of any concerts. When you come to a concert, tell Amy that you’re a Seminole and receive a free CD. 

·         FSU Grad Makes … Furniture.   While working in a high-tech PR firm he had co-founded in Santa Ana, Fred Golightly did woodworking projects for his home on weekends.  One day his neighbors found him in his garage making a remarkable four-poster castle bed for his daughter, Olivia.  The bed had hand-carved three-dimensional towers with built-in nightlights, hand-carved “stonework” mimicking castle walls, and a genuine crystal crown mounted in the headboard.  His neighbors were awed and prodded him to go into business building the beds.  He opened an office and shop, ordered larger woodworking equipment and began creating castle bedroom sets.  He couldn’t build enough beds working alone and ended up outsourcing the woodworking – to Vietnam.  (Checking on the manufacturing is giving him a very impressive number of “frequent flyer” miles.)  Today his company makes 2 collections of furniture featuring castle beds, the Princess Olivia Collection and Will’s King Arthur Collection, the later named for his young son, and he is working on 2 other designs.  He tells us that he is offering the heirloom-quality castle beds to Seminole Club members at the wholesale price of $895 (about half the retail price). For this and other wholesale pricing, contact Fred at 949-547-5288 or go to his website at www.oliviaandwill.com.

·         John Hines, former SCSC member and former president of the Boston Seminole club, wants to get back to So Cal.  He states that his resume can be found on www.Monster.com and www.CarrerBuilders.com.  He is looking for a job in the writing field or in Office Management.  John’s e-mail is NESeminole@aol.com. 

·         We want YOUR News Here!  Please send your news (personal, business, whatever) to Sheila Riley to be included in our next E-Newsletter.  Send to sheilaandruss@aol.com.  Please, send us some information so we’re not just reporting on the FSU alums out here in the Entertainment Industry.  We want to report on what our Entertainment Alums are doing.  We also want to report on what lots of alums are doing.  We want to report on lots of various Nole activities here in SoCal!

·         News from The Warren Report

o        From Roger Ghaman (MFA ’96):  “I’m back on America’s Next Top Model for another year, which is a lot of fun to cut, as the editors get to come up with the story structure.  I’m working on the 2 hour premier episode that will air in September, which is going to be a very fun episode. 

o        From Susan Shackleford Dawes (MFA ’93)  “I’m happy to announce that I’ve spent this year working as a co-supervising sound editor on “Hairspray” which recently opened.  As a big fan of the original John Waters films, and also given that my MFA project was a musical, well, this was really a dream-come-true job…”

o        From Jennie Jarvis (BFA ’00):  “Just found out that my short film, PlayDate, will be screening at Comic Con 2007 in San Diego on Sunday, July 29^th.  Any of you who are planning on being in the area, please be sure to check it out! “

o        From Taylor Feltner (BFA).  Bi-Coastal boutique talent management and production company seeking interns in our Culver City office.  You will be helping to assist both managers and producers as well as in constant contact with our New Your office.  We are looking for a team player that is hungry to learn and grow in talent management.  This position offers the potential of a full time paid position for the right candidate in a very short time.  … We represent clients in GREY’S ANATOMY, JOHN FROM CINNCINNATTI, and UGLY BETTY.  … With so much moving forward we need a second assistant in the office to handle our management side and interns to provide support and I would love for these people to be FSU alums.  … taylorfeltner@gmail.com

o        From Mel Soria (MFA ’07):  “I’m about to graduate the MFA program at FSU and I just got a 2 month job as a director’s assistant in LA.  I plan on taking the job in LA and then moving back to Philadelphia for a few months…. So I’m looking to sublease or find a place with monthly rent for August – Sept/Oct while I’m working in LA.  Anybody got any leads or know of a place?  You can contact me at msoria@film.fsu.edu. 

o        CAMION DE CARGA (BFA ’06 – John Sebastian Jacome & Crew) has just been selected to screen at LA Shorts Fest which runs September 1-14, 2007.  For more information, go to www.lashortsfest.com.

o        THE CARESS OF THE CREATURE (MFA Thesis 2006 – Stewart McAlpine & Crew) and WOLF (BFA F-3 – Alex Durham & Crew) have been accepted to screen at the 13^th Annual Palm Springs International Festival of Short films scheduled for August 23 – 29, 2007.  More FSU entries are still pending.  For more info go to www.psfilmfest.org. 

4.      NEWS FROM FSU – WHAT’S COOKING

• FSU Researcher Studies Harry Potter’s Magical Hold on Young Readers.  The recent release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” marked the magic moment for millions of Harry Potter fans worldwide.  The 7^th and final book in the wildly popular series signaled the end of a literary global phenomenon and Colette Drouillard, a doctoral student in FSU’s College of Information, is asking young people about their experiences of growing up with the boy hero and documenting how they influenced their desire to read.  (More information may be available at www.fsu.com.)
• Double Trouble:  Hopelessness Key Component of Mood Disorder.  There’s depression and then there’s double depression.  Sound bad?  It is, according to Thomas Joiner, FSU Distinguished Research Professor and the Birght-Burton Professor of Psychology, who has identified hopelessness as a distinguished feature of double depression in a new paper published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.  The finding could help therapists diagnose and treat the mood disorder.  (More information may be available at www.fsu.com.)
• The “Atlantic” Lists FSU’s creative Writing Program Among “Best of the Best”.  FSU’s Creative Writing Program has long been considered top-notch, and this summer, its award-winning faculty and students actually got that in writing.  FSU has one of the nation’s top 10 graduate-level creative writing programs and ranks in the top five for Ph.D. seekers, according to the annual special fiction edition of “The Atlantic” now on newsstands.    (More information may be available at www.fsu.com.)

5.      FOOTBALL ISN’T THE ONLY SPORT AT FSU

Unless noted otherwise, additional information on the following stories can sometimes be located at www.cstv.com.  Click on teams; and then click on FSU.  Some stories may still be available in depth and some may not.  We hope you’ll find what you’re looking for. 

6.      YOUR BOARD, OFFICERS, AND COMMITTEES

Information about your board and how to contact them as well as committee chairs can be found at www.SeminoleClub.com. 

9.  VISIT OUR WEBSITE

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