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FSC faculty member elected
to Chesapeake Utilities board of directors 

LAKELAND, Fla. (Sept. 16, 2002) - Walter J. Coleman, assistant professor of business and economics at Florida Southern College, has been re-elected to the board of directors of Chesapeake Utilities Corporation of Dover, Del. 

Coleman was also elected to the audit committee and the governance committee of the board of directors. He will help with the implementation of the new rules and regulations instituted by the New York Stock Exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as those mandated by the recently passed Sarbanes-Oxley Act. 

Coleman is a former CEO and chairman of several business organizations and was a consultant in former eastern block countries. He now teaches strategic management and human resources at FSC. A recipient of the prestigious "Bankers Cup," awarded annually to the community's outstanding citizen, Coleman is a former Chamber of Commerce and Committee of 100 president, and currently serves on the board of the Central Florida Economic Development Council. He also serves on the Workforce Development Board created under the federal Job Training Partnership and Workforce Investment Acts.

Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is a diversified and integrated gas company with gas transmission pipelines down the eastern seaboard, water companies nationwide, gas distribution franchises throughout the eastern U.S. and is the nation's 20th largest propane company. It also operates a wholly owned information technology company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and provides real estate and financial services through a strategic business unit.

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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