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Outline of a hand placing a rose down in front of a single candle.

In Memoriam | September 2023

Alex P. Digges, II | BSBA ’71 | 1949-2023 | Digges, of DeBary, Florida, passed on September 2. He was a proud graduate of the University of Florida, remaining a fan of the Gators. The majority of his career was

Outline of a hand placing a rose down in front of a single candle.

In Memoriam | February 2023

Sigmund Levine | BSBA ’49 | 1925-2023 | Levine, of Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey, passed on January 28. Although Levine was born in Florida, he grew up in Israel and lived in many other places around the world, including Egypt

Outline of a hand placing a rose down in front of a single candle.

In Memoriam | July 2022

Charles Kerekes | BSBA ’50 | 1925-2022 | Kerekes, of Clearwater, Florida, passed on May 30. Born in Ft. Pierce, Florida, he served in the Navy during WWII as an EOD technician and later graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in

Joe Hair

Joe Hair (BSBA ‘66, MS ‘69, Ph.D. ’71) | June 2021

Hair (BSBA ‘66, MS ‘69, Ph.D. ’71) is Distinguisher Professor of Marketing and Director of the Ph.D. in Business Administration Program at the University of Southern Alabama.  He has written more than a dozen books on marketing and is the

Thomas Olmstead with his coffee can collection

Thomas Olmsted (BAA ’65, MBA ’71) | January 2021

Olmsted (BAA 1965, MBA 1971) retired from the accounting industry after 25 years of working at a Gainesville firm. He is an avid collector, with over 100 collections in his possession.  Read more about Olmsted and his collections, from coffee

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