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College trustee receives
Service to Florida Southern College Award
T. Terrell Sessums has chaired the board since 1993

LAKELAND, Fla. (March 15, 2002) - Florida Southern College Alumni Association honored trustee T. Terrell Sessums at its Founders Day convocation today. Sessums received the Service to Florida Southern College Award given for outstanding work on behalf of the college.

Sessums, an attorney for Salem, Saxon & Nielsen, P.A., has served on Florida Southern's board of directors since 1989. He was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1963-74, serving as speaker from 1972-74. He is a former member of the Southern Regional Education Board (1970-74) and the Governor's Citizen's Committee on Education (1971-73).

Sessums' years of service have earned him many honorary degrees and awards. He received honorary Doctor of Law degrees from Florida Southern (1973) and Flagler College (1988), honorary Doctor of Public Administration from Rollins College (1974), and honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of South Florida (1995). In 1993, he was given the Distinguished Service Award by the Florida Association of Colleges and Universities. He earned the Francis Asbury Award in 1998 from the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry for his extraordinary contributions to the United Methodist ministries in higher education. He currently serves as the United Methodist Florida Conference Lay Leader.

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.

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