Alumni Affairs
Alumni Celebrate 2006 Football National Championship |
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This photo was taken at 8 a.m., right after the Gators won! The game was aired on Armed Forces Network and started at 4 a.m., but we all watched the whole thing! On the right is myself, Captain Peter Jennison (JD 04) and on the left is Major Charlie Vanzant, who is a second-generation Florida alum and is also the former chairman of the Clay County School Board. We are both deployed with the Florida National Guard's 1-111 Aviation Regiment ("Mako Sharks") out of Jacksonville in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and will be here until October 2007. Submitted by Peter.j.jennison@kuwait.swa.army.mil | |
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This photo is us shaking hands after hoisting the flag here at our base. The Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Ben Lacy, also a big Gator fan, and who's wife is a UF alum from 1989, said we should fly it all day! What a day it was! We are all so proud of the Gators and watching the game here really made us feel like we were at home, if even just for a little while.
CPT Peter Jennison HHC 1-111 AVN (GSAB) APO AE 09330 Submitted by Peter.j.jennison@kuwait.swa.army.mil |
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| A live 6-foot, 85-lb. lady gator who is the official mascot of the UF's(Arizona) Desert Gators alumni chapter. Although she now lives in the Phoenix Herpetological Society's sanctuary in north Scottsdale (www.phoenixherp.com), she was raised as a house pet in California -- she walks on a leash, is housebroken and utterly acclimated to human contact. She comes to occasional game viewing parties with the Desert Gators, visits many area schools to help her handlers teach kids about ecology and our environment, and was a huge hit during both the recent Gator pep rally and the Sunshine Network's pre-game show.
Submitted by Susan Fuchs, BS JM '66 Vice President, UF Desert Gator Alumni chrleysmom@aol.com |
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Submitted by Susan Fuchs, BS JM '66 Vice President, UF Desert Gator Alumni chrleysmom@aol.com |
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My wife and I watched the game on Latin American Directv with commentary in Spanish. We celebrated by flying the Gator flag here in Costa Rica. Walter Taylor Moore, III, JD, 1965
Submitted by Walter Taylor Moore, III, JD 65 Taylor and Freda Moore Hacienda Dos Aguilas Ocotal, Costa Rica Taylorgato@aol.com |
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| For Christmas, my parents gave my boyfriend and I tickets to the National Championship game and the trip to go along with it. The four of us went and had a great time at the game! Submitted by susan@thebexleys.com | ||
| After the game, still inside the stadium, my boyfriend proposed! It was really a special time for all of us. Go Gators!!! Submitted by susan@thebexleys.com | ||
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This is Thomas, who is 6 weeks old. He is definitely the cutest Gator fan EVER!!!! Can you tell? He's thrilled that we won!! I found out I was pregnant with him the night the Gators won the NCAA basketball championship. He's destined for UF in 18 years.
AND he was born the day of the Florida State game! (My hubby is a die hard Nole- we just try to ignore him.) What else could a Gator fan ask for???
Submitted by Erin Charlton Achey, JD '01 Eechrltn@aol.com |
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| Three Gator grads, Chris Sensenig, UF Law Class of 95, Sherri Johnson, UF Law Class of 97, UF B.A. Class of 94, and Alyssa Sells, UF B.A. Class of 97, at the Sarasota County Gator Club National Championship Game Watching party. Our friend Kate, in the Ohio State shirt, is a dues paying member of the UF Alumni Association as she adopted the Gators despite not being a Gator grad (Her daughter went to OSU).
Submitted by Chris Sensenig, President, Sarasota County Gator Club christinesensenig@gmail.com |
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I'm President of the Sarasota County Gator Club, UF Law class of 95, my husband Jeremy is Vice President of Community Service for the Club, Class of 96. We planned a party at Buffalo Wild Wings here in Sarasota and had over 400+ Gators join the Club in cheering the Gators on to victory! What a party, what a game!
Submitted by Chris and Jeremy Sensenig: christinesensenig@gmail.com jeremysensenig@verizon.net |
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Sherri Johnson (B.A. '94, J.D. '97) watches the national championship game in Sarasota with fellow attorney and Buckeye fan Kate Halvorsen. Submitted by attysherri@yahoo.com | |
| Submitted by Tina Monteath Bird JD '96 btbird@wideopenwest.com |
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Submitted by Tina Monteath Bird JD '96 btbird@wideopenwest.com |
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Submitted by Tina Monteath Bird JD '96 btbird@wideopenwest.com |
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| Submitted by Tina Monteath Bird JD '96 btbird@wideopenwest.com |
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Two Gator Alums, father (undergrad and law school) and son, Hamilton, celebrating the awesome victory field-side in Arizona.
Submitted by Thomas M. Clark, Esq. tmc@thomasmclarkpa.com |
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Here is a photo taken at Fassett, Anthony & Taylor, P.A. in Orlando the day after the 41-14 victory. Ladd Fassett is 5th from the right, Rob Anthony is 2nd from the right and Beth Ann Gause is 3rd from the right--all three are UF law graduates. John Taylor, 8th from right, and Phil D'Aniello, holding the stuffed gator on the left side, are both UF undergrads and law school elsewhere. Ben Swift, another UF law grad, is not pictured, but is sad that he missed the photo op.
Submitted by Robert Anthony ranthony@fassettlaw.com |
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Submitted by Jeanne T. Tate P.A. of Mark Tate and friends jeanne@jtatelaw.com |
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Submitted by Michael Minton MMinton@deanmead.com |
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This is our little convenience store in NW Greensboro. Our club president was kind enough to lend the group's Gator banner for us to use, with our marquis, to celebrate the big win.
Submitted by Stephanie Roberts SuRoberts@wcsr.com |
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Monique Agia, JD 94, and Tony Fineman, JD 94, are getting ready to go inside to watch the Gators destroy Ohio State. We were definately out numbered in terms of the OSU to UF fan ratio, but there were very few OSU fans still in the stadium at the end. Go Gators!!
Submitted by Tony Fineman tfineman@thefinemangroup.com |
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This picture was taken early and Matt Borstein, Ohio friend, was still confident. His confidence didn't last long as the crushing Gator offense and defense destroyed the Buckeyes.
Submitted by Tony Fineman tfineman@thefinemangroup.com |
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What an incredible game! Never had a doubt! It's great to be a FLORIDA GATOR!
Submitted by Tony Fineman tfineman@thefinemangroup.com |
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(right to left): Kaylee Grippando, Natasha Strump, Marielle Ogilby, Wesley Strump, and Ryan Grippando are all future Gators (and present Gator fans) that were allowed to stay up way past their bedtime to watch the Gator whooppin' of Ohio State.
Marielle Ogilby is my stepdaughter and the daughter of Margaret Gonzalez Ogilby and the granddaughter of US District Court Judge Jose Gonzalez (all Gators).
Kaylee and Ryan Grippando are the children of Jim Grippando, a 1982 graduate of the law school.
Wesley, Natasha, and Georgia Strump are the kids of Walter Strump, a Gator (but not a lawyer!).
Submitted by Carlos Sires and Jim Grippando csires@BSFLLP.com james@jamesgrippando.com |
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(right to left): Marielle Ogilby and Kaylee Grippando cheer on the Gators during halftime.
Submitted by Carlos Sires and Jim Grippando csires@BSFLLP.com james@jamesgrippando.com |
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Ryan Grippando all decked out in Gator attire.
Submitted by Carlos Sires and Jim Grippando csires@BSFLLP.com james@jamesgrippando.com |
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I had a Buckeye snap a picture of me to prove that I was there; I would have thought it was all a dream.....I was at every game the year we were 0-10-1 and I think the tie was against Utah, at Homecoming that year!!!!
Submitted by Bob Tankel condolawyer@aol.com |
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Here's how we celebrated the BCS Championship on the 9th row and 48-yard line at the game. Pictured are Jon Crowder, JD 94, Dr. Ben Crowder, BS and MD, and Dr. Scott Crowder, brother and Gator fan but not a UF alum. Two generations of Gators at the BCS Championship.
Submitted by Jon Crowder jon@peakrhythms.com |
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| I have to share a scene I witnessed upon leaving the stadium. A University of Florida student, (sober, I might add,) wearing blue jeans and a gator sweatshirt, was just leaving the stadium about an hour after the game. He was walking by himself with both hands held high, both forefingers extended. Speaking to no one in particular, he chanted, over and over, "We are #1; # 1 in basketball, #1 in football, first time ever. We are #1; # 1 in basketball, #1 in football..." His heavy accent clearly disclosed he was originally from India. He was wearing a button, similar to many, indicating that he was a member of the Gator Nation, except his button had been carefully and quite professionally altered. Nation had a line through it and overlaying it was the word "WORLD". This young man was clearly part of the GATOR WORLD! If there had been a camera crew around, this scene would have preserved for prosperity that the influence of the school is not limited to a mere nation! It was wonderful! Submitted by Paul Raymond JPR@macfar.com |
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| I listened to the victory while cuddling with my fiance' in our basement under the covers and staring into her eyes. The victory over Ohio State was the dot over the "i" of a wonderful night.
Submitted by Mike Alexander '03 alexander5220@yahoo.com |
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