CHS Recognizes Alumni at Annual Honors & Awards Ceremony

The College of Human Sciences is pleased to announce its 2008 Alumni Award recipients. The annual awards are given to notable alums, who through professional or community service, are addressing the health and development of individuals, families and communities. CHS alumni are recognized as leaders in a variety of fields and industries. The 2008 Alumni Awardees include Edna V. Broyles, a financial planner and advocate for women, Kenneth A. Glover, an aspiring health and wellness director, Sandra L. Woodruff, an author, consultant and advocate for the nutrition profession, and William D. Clay, Jr., an international leader on food and nutrition. Congratulations to the recipients on your accomplishments and best wishes for continued success in all endeavors!

The Alumni Recognition Award honors alumni who have made significant personal and/or professional contributions to the College. Edna V. Broyles is Vice President of Investments for UBS Financial Services in Tampa. A 1972 graduate of the College with a bachelors degree in Fashion Merchandising, Broyles has achieved the Certified Financial Planner™ designation. She is actively involved in many professional organizations, including the Financial Planning Association, Network of Executive Women, Business and Professional Women and the Athena Society. Broyles was honored in March as the 2008 Executive Woman of the Year by the Tampa-based Network for Executive Women. While she has accomplished much in her career as a stock broker and financial planner, perhaps her greatest achievement is her heroic advocacy for women and their rights in the workplace. Broyles was a plaintiff in the largest sexual harassment lawsuit ever filed in the history of Wall Street, one that she and others launched in 1996 and which continues today. During her career as a high-producing broker with Smith Barney in Tampa, Broyles observed management insulting, intimidating and at times undermining the careers of dozens of women employees and joined others in legal action against the company. Her fight for equal treatment for women in the workplace is ongoing, but she is blazing a path that FSU students and other female business executives can follow. As a member of the College’s Development Board, Broyles was actively involved in the advocacy and fundraising efforts of her alma mater. In 2005, she was honored with a Centennial Laureate Award from the College for her sustained contributions to her industry, community and the students at Florida State.

The Outstanding Young Professional Award award recognizes an alum 35 years of age or younger who has a record of achievement in job advancement, entrepreneurial efforts or professional or community service. Kenneth A. Glover is the Director of Health and Wellness at CSX Transportation in Jacksonville, FL. Glover received a masters degree in Movement Science in 2003 from the College of Human Sciences and is a Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist with the American College of Sports Medicine. He worked as the Wellness Coordinator for Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, GA, then went on to serve as director of Tift Regional Medical Center’s Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Services. Currently at CSXT, Glover is pioneering the conception and expansion of behavior modification and disease management programs for the company’s 35,000 employees located in 23 states. He has implemented a comprehensive range of health-promotion initiatives: weight management, nicotine cessation, 15 on-site Wellness Centers, workstation & industrial ergonomics, biometric screenings and development of physical abilities tests for the company’s law enforcement division. Glover is a member of several national professional, scientific and clinical societies and has helped CSXT partner with the College to provide biometric lab equipment for student research and experiential education.

The Outstanding Service Award award recognizes an alum or friend of the College whose paid or volunteer work reflects the College mission and who has made significant contributions to families, communities or organizations. The recipient will also have demonstrated leadership at the local, state or national levels in areas that improve or enhance the quality of life for individuals, families and communities. Sandra L. Woodruff, MS, RD, LD/N, is an author, consultant and advocate for the nutrition profession. During her career, she has worked as the dietician for a hospital-based wellness center; consulted with medical groups, businesses, and food companies; taught college nutrition courses; and served as President of the Florida Dietetic Association. Woodruff has spoken at numerous workshops and seminars and has appeared on television and radio shows throughout the United States and Canada, including Oprah Winfrey, The Lifetime Network, and QVC. Her work has appeared in a variety of national publications including Prevention, Cooking Light, Shape, Better Nutrition, and Family Circle magazines, and is featured on the web-based Family Education Network. Woodruff holds a bachelors degree in Textiles and a 1987 masters degree in Nutrition and Food Science from the College of Human Sciences. Currently serving as a lobbyist for the Florida Dietetic Association, she has written over 15 cookbooks and regularly shares her expertise with students at Student Dietetic Association meetings and in courses taught in the College. She is a former member of the College’s Alumni Board of Directors and was a recipient of a 2005 Centennial Laureate Award from the College. As a mentor and practitioner, Woodruff continues to serve her community and the University by inspiring students and advocating for nutrition education.

The Distinguished Alum Award recognizes an alum who has a record of significant and sustained career advancement, and has demonstrated exemplary professional accomplishments. William D. Clay, Jr. has over 30 years of experience in the area of international nutrition and has made major contributions toward improving global food security and nutrition, especially with regard to the impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Clay holds a 1971 bachelors degree in International Affairs and Biology from FSU, as well as a 1974 masters degree in Human Nutrition from the College of Human Sciences. He worked with the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations from 1987 until his recent retirement on policies and activities aimed at improving the capacity of people to acquire and utilize the food they need. His last position with FAO was as Special Advisor to the Division of Nutrition and Consumer Protection. In this role, he was responsible for re-structuring the former Division of Food and Nutrition, for which he had served as Chief of Nutrition Programmes Service for 11 years. Before joining FAO, he worked for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Botswana and the Peace Corps in Kenya and Liberia. He has proven to be a team leader and advocate with the ability to work effectively with governments at all levels, international agencies, NGO/PVOs, communities, and the private sector. He has edited and authored numerous publications on nutrition problems in developing countries and the development and implementation of food-based dietary guidelines. In 2007, Clay was recognized by his alma mater as an FSU “Grad Made Good” at Homecoming. He has recently relocated back to the Tallahassee area and continues to share his experience and expertise with students in the College and the University community.

For more information, or if you would like to nominate alumni for a future award, please visit www.chs.fsu.edu or contact Jen Albaugh at (850)644-1281 or jalbaugh@fsu.edu.

His latest study followed Ina and more than 100 other women to see if bone density could be improved just by adding dried plums or prunes to their diet. ...

Kay Pasley served as the recent Chair of the 2007 Theory Construction and Research Methodology Pre-conference Workshop prior to the annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations. Twenty-one working papers by various authors were selected and presented as part of the program.

Dr. Christine (Coco) A. Readdick has been elected as President-Elect of the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family, the nation's oldest professional organization devoted to scholastic, professional, and public policy developments in the field of marriage and family. Groves is an interdisciplinary organization of limited, invited membership of scholars and other professionals. Coco will serve as President from June 2008- May 2011.

Graduate student Michelle Craig was recognized by the Education and Enrichment Section of the National Council on Family Relations for the best student paper submission. Her paper titled, Parent Involvement at Home and School and Children's Learning-Related Social Skills was presented at the annual meeting in November. Craig is a doctoral student in Child Development in the Family and Child Sciences department. She plans to continue this research using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten (ECLS-K) national data set for her dissertation.

Dr. Elizabeth Goldsmith awarded grant from the National Association of Securities Dealers Investor Education Foundation.

Biggest grant ever awarded to faculty member in Textiles and Consumer Sciences. Dr. Elizabeth Goldsmith, as the personal finance expert, is part of an interdisciplinary team researching why some households are better at wealth accumulation than others even given similar incomes and circumstances. The 2-year $341,511 grant is from the National Association of Securities Dealers Investor Education Foundation.

Doctoral Student Receives Research Grant

J. Derek Kingsley
Photo by: Ryals Lee, FSU
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While maintaining high levels of academic achievement, J. Derek Kingsley is a recognized researcher who has garnered external funds to support his work. In March, 2007, he received a $5,000 grant from the American College of Sports Medicine. The recent award will partially finance his dissertation research.

His research is focused on the effects of resistance exercise in women diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a disease of unknown origin, characterized by chronic pain that affects primarily women. The current project will examine the effects of resistance exercise training on pain, autonomic function and endothelial function in women with fibromyalgia compared to healthy women. This research addresses a critical gap in the knowledge base as previous efforts have not tested these characteristics in women with fibromyalgia. Arturo Figueroa, M.D., Ph.D. serves as major professor for the dissertation research.

Kingsley previously received a student research award from the Southeast Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine for his master’s thesis. The research project was designed to test strength and functionality in response to resistance training in women with fibromyalgia. The findings have tremendous value to those affected by the disease and practitioners.

Kingsley received research training by working on projects led by faculty members in the College of Human Sciences. These studies examined pedometer use and lipoprotein metabolism in obese women, obesity’s effect on gait, and functionality in older adults and individuals with pulmonary disease.

Kingsley is a doctoral candidate in exercise physiology in the Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences at Florida State University where he completed the M.S. under the direction of Dr. Lynn Panton in the same discipline. He earned the B.S. in exercise and sport science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to coming to FSU in 2001 he managed a fitness consulting business. If you would like more information please contact Derek Kingsley at 850-644-3452.

Melinda McDaniel, CHS alumna and member of the College of Human Sciences Alumni Board of Directors, was recently featured in the Tallahassee Democrat. She was also recognized as one of the reader-selected 2007 Top Women in Business.

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Article published Mar 28, 2007, Tallahassee Democrat

Local treat blooms with age

Photo by: Steve Liner
Melinda McDaniel created The Marinated Mushroom 19 years ago.

By Steve Liner (Reprinted with permission.)
DEMOCRAT BUSINESS EDITOR
Boysenberry Bliss?
Regulars at The Marinated Mushroom's lunch cafe and customers of Melinda McDaniel's catering service of the same name know about Boysenberry Bliss and soon, McDaniel hopes, so will everyone else.

McDaniel started The Marinated Mushroom 19 years ago on April 1 in the same Capital Circle Northeast location where it is today. Over the years, the catering operation and the small cafe of the same name have come to do very well, but it was not ever thus.

McDaniel had arranged a loan to get her operation up and running.

\"On that April 1, I opened in the red,\" she said. \"I mean, I did not have a single dollar left.\"

It was a tough time, and, in fact, McDaniel said it took \"five to eight years\" for her business to catch hold. Now it is a Tallahassee institution, but the business remains very small and mostly involves family.

McDaniel said, \"I always wanted to cook and do something with food.\"

She remembers the Easy Bake Oven she received in fifth grade.

\"My parents joke now that if they had known how hard I've had to work, they would never have bought the Easy Bake Oven,\" she said.

Dreams of a career as a nutritionist were literally blown away in a laboratory explosion at Florida State University.

\"I left that lab, walked up the hill to my adviser's office and said, 'I've taken enough chemistry,' ” she said. She went on to get her degree in human sciences.

Marriage and motherhood followed along with part-time jobs (''I wanted to work so that I take charge of raising my son\") as a dental assistant and with the Red Cross. Ultimately, it was cooking at Faith Presbyterian Church and Thomasville Road Baptist Church that led most directly to her current career.

She started \"taking on a little party here and a little party there.\" Before long, this new catering role was beginning to pay the bills and make ends meet. That is, until the bubble burst.

\"You do realize you have to have a license, right?\" McDaniel recalls as the question that changed everything. The answer, of course, was no, she did not realize she needed a license.

What followed was a trip to the county health department and the city for the appropriate information and licenses. What she learned was she needed a \"chunk of money\" to go forward with the career she was enjoying and that met her son's needs.

It happened to be Christmas time, so when she visited her parents in Bonifay they knew something was wrong and asked about it.

\"I told them what I'd found out and said I'd really like to start a business but don't know how,\" she said.

Her father helped her get the financing together that she needed.

She said her business life since that time has been a journey of faith.

\"I remember when the display case came in I thought, 'Now everyone will know I'm in business,' ” she said. But it didn't work out that way. Still, today most of her business comes from referrals or word-of-mouth advertising.

But it was especially hard in the beginning without much of a customer base.

\"Here you go, God,\" she said one day. \"I know you gifted me to do this, and I feel I'm doing what you want.\"

She measures the turnaround from that moment.

She has become passionate about licensure for caterers (still required, but now from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation). It is a fairness issue, she said, as well as a health one.

\"We do what we know to do to ensure the health of our clients,\" she said recently. \"I have invested in the proper equipment as well as food safety training for every one of us on this staff.\"

\"It's costly to have a business,\" she said. \"There is a massive amount of money that must be spent to stay in business.\"

And she's not pleased to have to compete against caterers who are unlicensed and thus avoid the necessary investment.

\"It's not right - not fair, not good,\" she said. \"If there is a reason for a license, everyone should have one if they are doing that business.\"

For some time, she said, she has dreamed about getting at least some of her signature products out to a broader audience.

\"You know, I had gotten to the point I had given up,\" she said. \"I couldn't find a processor.\"

But, finally, the dream is coming true.

Within six weeks Boysenberry Bliss, a bottled version of one of The Marinated Mushroom's clients' favorite salad dressings, will be in hand and available for take-home sales. Not long after will come Fudge Pecan Pie, another customer pick. And there are plans on the drawing board for pralines, biscuits and McDaniel's mother's cornbread dressing.

The personal food line is called Family Traditions, and the salad-dressing bottle's label has a photograph from McDaniel's parents' wedding.

The food line should help even out what McDaniel calls \"a very seasonal business. We have four seasons in Tallahassee: wedding season (March through June and early fall), Christmas season (late November and most of December), legislative season (spring when the Legislature is in session) and dead season.\"