Upper SC Seminole Club Newsletter

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Champs Sports Bowl Game Watching Party: Join other club members at the Bynum's on December 27th at 4pm to watch the 'Noles take on Wisconsin. Ann and Matt have graciously offered up their home to the club again this year. They have a large theatre in the basement that makes you feel like you are part of the game and is as close to a front-row seat experience that you can have without actually being at there. [directions]

This event will also serve as our Holiday Party this year. We will have the NOLE gift exchange -- basically a yankee gift exchange where FSU gifts are encouraged. If you want to participate, please limit the value of the gift to no more than $20.

Also - due to this being after Christmas, our annual Toys for Tots campaign has been replaced with the Salvation Army's Winter Blanket/Coat drive. If you have any older coats/blankets that you no longer use, please consider donating them to this worthy cause.

If you are planning on coming out, please RSVP to Diane ( DianeErvin@charter.net ) by Dec 22nd. This event will be catered so it is important that we get an accurate count of those planning on attending. All you have to do is bring your post-holiday cheer and any adult beverages that you might want to enjoy / share.

For those of you lucky enough to be attending the game, you might find the following links helpful in your planning the weekend festivities:

Warchant.com Pre-Game Party

Champs Sports Bowl Information

FSU license plate: A fellow Seminole Fan sent us an email to gauge interest in campaigning for a SC FSU plate. We thought that we could start with our club and if there was a positive response we would expand to the other SC clubs and then work on getting the university involved to try to reach all the folks that don't get regular updates thru the Seminole Club network.

After reading the documents from the DMV, it would appear that in addition to filling out the proper forms and getting a design approved, we would need to secure either 400 people that are committed to getting a custom license plate or raise $4000.00 to cover the cost of an initial run. I believe that with almost 1000 FSU fans in our coverage area, we should be able to generate quite a bit of interest. An added benefit is that we could work with the state to create a scholarship fund for any SC resident that attends FSU. I don't believe that this would be something that our club manages (we have our own scholarship) but it would be a selling point towards adoption.

Do you have any comments or thoughts on this? If so, please send them to DianeErvin@charter.net

Florida State Finishes Third At 2008 NCAA Cross Country Nationals: Despite temperatures dropping below 40 degrees Fahrenheit right before races began, Florida State fought through the bitter cold and was able to post three All-Americans and have eight student-athletes set personal records, one of which who took second place at the 2008 NCAA Cross Country Nationals. Host Indiana welcomed the nation's top collegiate runners to Terre Haute this weekend to run at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course for elite competition. [more...]

Soccer America Recognizes Four Seminole Student-Athletes: Four Florida State student-athletes were honored for their efforts this year as Soccer America announced its postseason awards for the 2008 women's college season on Tuesday, December 16. The quartet of Seminoles include sophomores Sanna Talonen and Amanda DaCosta and freshmen Tiffany McCarty and Casey Short. [more...]

Record Breaking Weekend Earns Hodgson ACC Performer Of The Week Award: Sophomore Andy Hodgson's dominant weekend has earned him ACC Performer of the Week honors on Tuesday, December 09. [more...]

Seminoles' Singleton Earns ACC Rookie Of The Week Honors: Chris Singleton, who scored 11 points and pulled down three rebounds in Florida State's victory over Georgia State on Saturday, was named the ACC Men's Basketball Rookie of the Week as selected by a blue ribbon voting panel and release by the ACC. [more...]

For more Athletic News:
www.seminoles.com	The Official Athletic site of Florida State University
www.warchant.com	The Official online home of The Osceola

Rolle is Florida State's third Rhodes Scholar in four years: High academic achievement? Check. Integrity of character? Check. A spirit of unselfishness, respect for others, potential for leadership and physical vigor? Check, check, check and check. Florida State University student-athlete Myron Rolle, 22, is seemingly the living embodiment of the criteria established more than 100 years ago for the Rhodes Scholarship - one of the oldest and most prestigious awards for international study. [more...]

FSU professors win prestigious Fulbright grants for study abroad: Florida State University professors are doing their part to promote leadership, learning and understanding between cultures, thanks to Fulbright Scholar grants that are allowing them to study abroad this year. The Fulbright Scholars are Joseph Hellweg, assistant professor of religion, and Marcia Rosal, professor and director of the art therapy program in the art education department. [more...]

Three Florida State researchers named American Physical Society fellows: Their scientific research takes them in different directions, but three faculty members at The Florida State University now have one important thing in common: Each has just been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). [more...]

For more Academic News:
www.fsu.edu	The Florida State University News and Marketplace Web site
http://www.fsu.edu/~unicomm/news/	FSU Headlines Around the World
www.research.fsu.edu/index.html	The Office of Research at FSU
www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/	The Research in Review magazine that highlights some of the academic accomplishments of the Faculty and students (this is only published a few times a year).

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