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Dean Mike Hartline poses under the College of Business\u2019 new stained-glass window with glass studio artist Larisa Cladakis and John Raulerson, director of FSU\u2019s Master Craftsman Program. (Kallen Lunt)\t\t<\/p>\n\t\tDean Mike Hartline poses under the College of Business\u2019 new stained-glass window with glass studio artist Larisa Cladakis and John Raulerson, director of FSU\u2019s Master Craftsman Program. (Kallen Lunt)\t\t<\/p>\n
The Florida State University College of Business<\/a> celebrated a history of excellence and a new era of preeminence on Friday with the unveiling of a stained-glass window in Dodd Hall\u2019s Heritage Museum.<\/p>\n The stained-glass window features Legacy Hall, the college\u2019s world-class new home, and refers to the college\u2019s founding as the FSU School of Business in 1950. The window \u2014 designed, fabricated and installed by FSU\u2019s Master Craftsman Studio \u2014 joins 42 other stained-glass windows that grace the museum, each \u201crepresenting beloved entities and events across our campus\u201d and \u201chonoring the vision and values of FSU,\u201d College of Business Dean Michael Hartline said.<\/p>\n \u201cThis window is more than art: It is a tribute to our legacy,\u201d Hartline told a crowd that included college students, alumni, faculty, staff and representatives of Legacy Hall architect Goody Clancy and construction manager Culpepper Construction. \u201cEach piece of glass, unique in hue and shape, fits together to form the greater whole, just as every student, faculty member, staff member, alumnus and friend has contributed to our extraordinary journey.\u201d<\/p>\n The window unveiling took place as the college continues its yearlong celebration of its 75th anniversary and stands poised to move into its futuristic new home. College officials expect the new facility to further elevate the college\u2019s national and international standing. Legacy Hall will open for classes this spring, marked by a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n Friday\u2019s ceremony launched a full day of celebration for the college, which afterward hosted a \u201cFarewell to Rovetta\u201d event that paid tribute to its decades-long home. The Rovetta Business Building opened in 1958, with the Rovetta Business Annex added in 1984. The college also hosted a \u201cToast and Tour\u201d event to honor alumni, friends and others who contributed to the funding and construction of Legacy Hall.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The College of Business\u2019 new stained-glass window joins 42 others that grace Dodd Hall\u2019s Heritage Museum, each \u201crepresenting beloved entities and events across our campus\u201d and \u201chonoring the vision and values of FSU,\u201d said Michael Hartline, dean of the college. (Kallen Lunt)Michael Hartline unveils the stained-glass window featuring Legacy Hall, the college\u2019s world-class new home. The window also refers to the college\u2019s founding in 1950 as the FSU School of Business. (Kallen Lunt)<\/p>\n \u201cAs we prepare to bid farewell to our beloved Rovetta Business Building and Annex, which has served so many, so well, for so long, we embark on a new era of preeminence,\u201d Hartline, the college\u2019s dean for the past decade, said during the window unveiling. \u201cEvery feature of Legacy Hall has been crafted to maximize learning, collaboration and growth, and the artistry of this window allows us to see and feel our new home\u2019s promise to deepen our mission of transforming lives through business education.\u201d<\/p>\n Hartline thanked Fred Tresca, a 2015 college Alumni Hall of Fame inductee, and his wife, Deborah, for serving as presenting sponsors of the unveiling event. He also thanked all alumni and friends whose donations \u201chelped fund this brilliant and radiant showpiece.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYour generosity ensures that all members of the College of Business family \u2013 past, present and future \u2013 see themselves reflected in our evolution into a world-class business school,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Also, Hartline thanked FSU\u2019s University Libraries, Master Craftsman Studio and the Heritage Museum Advisory Board for their \u201cpartnership in bringing this vision to life.\u201d<\/p>\n The Dodd Hall ceremony also featured comments from alumnus Jamie Harden (B.S. Finance \u201990), chairman of the college\u2019s Board of Governors, who told attendees: \u201cThis is amazing, and what a way to kick off our big event tonight \u2026 and 75 years of celebration of this school is a great, crowning moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dean Mike Hartline poses under the College of Business\u2019 new stained-glass window with glass studio artist Larisa Cladakis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-47756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}