LAKELAND — The Florida Southern College Alumni Association honored
trustee T. Terrell
Sessums at its
Founders Day convocation in March with the Service to Florida Southern
College Award given for outstanding work on behalf of the college.
Sessums is the Florida Conference’s lay leader and member of
First United Methodist Church, Tampa. He is an attorney for Salem,
Saxon & Nielsen, P.A., and has served on Florida Southern’s
board of directors since 1989. He was a member of the Florida House of
Representatives from 1963 to 1974, serving as speaker from 1972 to
1974. He is a former member of the Southern Regional Education Board
and the Governor’s Citizen’s Committee on Education.
ORLANDO — Orlando District Superintendent Rev.
W. Dean Witten received
an honorary doctorate in divinity during Florida Southern College’s
baccalaureate service April 27.
A 1960 graduate of Florida Southern, Witten was recognized for his
distinguished career with the United Methodist Church. He has served
the church in Florida for more than 40 years as a pastor and
superintendent in the Sarasota and Orlando districts.
LAKELAND — Anne
Carlton Blanchard,
the wife of the Rev. Richard E. Blanchard, received the 2002 Alumnae
Award for Distinguished Service to the Church from the Wesleyan
College Alumnae Association. The award was presented April 20 at the
Macon, Ga., college. The Blanchards have served the Methodist Church
for 40 years in the Florida and North Georgia conferences.
DAYTONA BEACH — The Rev.
Dr. Oswald P. Bronson,
a member of the Florida Conference and president of Bethune-Cookman
College, was elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of
the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. The
association represents more than 900 private colleges and universities
on policy issues with the federal government.
ORLANDO — The Rev.
Paul Juvinall, a
deacon in full connection with the Florida Conference, is retiring
July 31. He has served as a pastor at First United Methodist Church,
Orlando, for 25 years, and is well-known throughout the conference for
his work with the Florida United Methodist Children’s Home, the
Mature Years Retreat and Christian Educators Fellowship.
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