Marilyn Kay Volker, Ed.D., sexuality educator for the past twenty-eight years, is a diplomate of the American Board of Sexology and an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists. She is on the faculty at the University of Miami, Barry, St. Thomas, Florida International and Lynn universities, where she teaches medical, nursing and counseling students about sexuality and HIV/AIDS issues. Dr. Volker helped to establish the Health Crisis Network, Florida’s first community-based AIDS project, by directing its Education Division. She also helped to establish the Institute on Sexism and Sexuality, which addressed gender issues under Title IX in Miami-Dade County, and hosted a daily live call-in radio show entitled “Sex with Marilyn” for two years. She serves on a number of boards addressing mental health issues, including Educational Task Force of the Girl Scouts of South Florida and the Outreach Institute for Gender Studies. She has worked with deaf children during her teaching career and continues to serve as sexuality consultant to a variety of special education programs, organizations and community groups addressing body changes, diseases and disabilities. Her doctoral video and facilitator’s guide, Sexuality: A Process in Decision-Making, highlights eight deaf students from the Miami area.
Gepsie M. Metellus, Executive Director of the Haitian Neighborhood Center, community activist and educator, has worked to strengthen and foster increased awareness, understanding and appreciation of the Haitian community of South Florida. She chaired the Haitian Refugee Center Board and the Society of Haitian American Professionals and Entrepreneurs. She co-founded the Association of Haitian Educators of Dade, the Haitian American Grassroots Coalition, and the Haitian Women of Miami. She presented on the plight of Haitian women at the International Women's Conference in Beijing, China. Among her publications are The Haitian Presence in the U.S. and Haitians: Their History and Culture.
President, Chase Federal S&L Assoc. 1966 united fund president. 1990-089-10
Senior Vice President, First National Bank of Miami. 1961 United Fund campaign chairman.
Vice President Flight Operations, Eastern Airlines. 1966 United Fund campaign chairman.
Roy E. Keeler first learned flying from a Chicago-based correspondence school. He was a mechanic for the U.S. Signal Corps during World War I. After his discharge, he worked as a mechanic for a barnstorming team and soon learned to fly. He joined the Ford Motor Company
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CEO of Miami-Dade Junior College, South Campus.
Sentenced a Communist.
Located near U.S. 1 and SW 100 Street, Pinecrest, Fla.
Frank Leslie Fraser ran the Eastern Steamship Lines between 1952 and 1961 and was instrumental in the development of year-round cruises from Miami to the Caribbean. The line operated several well known vessels, including the Queen of Nassau, Yarmouth Castle, Evangeline and Bahama Star.
Todd M. May and Jeffery A. Delsol were married by Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel on January 5, 2015 in Miami. They were the second couple to be married in Miami on the afternoon that the ban on same-sex marriage was overturned in the state of Florida. In 2014, Zabel overturned the 2008 amendment that required marriages to be between a man and a woman. See the
The property is located at 1581 Brickell Avenue, Miami, Florida.
American editor, novelist, and essayist known for his iconoclasm and pessimism. Howe's most famous novel is Story of a Country Town.
Paul Muni played the part of Dr. Samuel Mudd in this radio drama about a Maryland physician who was caught up in the events following the assassination of President Lincoln. Mudd was accused of complicity because he set the assassin's broken leg, and was subsequently imprisoned in Ft. Jefferson, the Dry Tortugas.