Florida Citrus Hall of Fame Fellowship Program
The Florida Citrus Hall of Fame Fellowship Program was created in 2008 at Florida Southern College (FSC), in Lakeland, to help preserve and digitize citrus collections and memorabilia for inclusion in the State of Florida Citrus Archives held by the McKay Archives. This fellowship program is an opportunity for students to engage with collections about the citrus industry.
Each student is assigned a specific job during their fellowship term, ranging from handling intake of materials to scanning and appropriately cataloging the materials for research purposes and creating special displays. Projects currently underway include:
- Processing and preserving collections like the Waverly Growers Records or the John A. Attaway Papers.
- Scanning and adding select photographs to the Crate Label Database and Citrus Photograph Database.
- Researching and designing physical and digital exhibits about special topics of the Citrus Industry
- Researching and supplementing information on all of the Citrus Hall of Fame inductees.
- Processing and preserving the Lake Avalon Grove Business Proposal manuscript. Conducting research on individual businessmen named in the proposal, photographing the land as it is now, and creating a digital project site with additional components.
The Hall of Fame currently sponsors four permanent fellowship opportunities each semester and one summer fellowship. Three of the fellowships are named after late Hall of Fame members, Frank S. Bouis and D. Victor Knight, Sr., along with a fellowship named after the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame. Students admitted to the program are typically in their junior or senior year and qualify for the program through interviews with faculty members from the Library and Archives. They are supervised by the FSC college archivist in the McKay Archives Center.
To make a donation to help with furthering education in citrus history and preservation efforts of the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame and the State of Florida Citrus Archives, send checks made payable to Florida Southern College, 111 Lake Hollingsworth Drive, Lakeland, FL 33801 with the memo line to read: FCHOF Fellowship Program. For more information, to donate citrus memorabilia and antique artifacts, or to receive an invitation to Florida Citrus Hall of Fame events, please contact Brenda Eubanks Burnette at 561-351-4314 or [email protected].
Florida Citrus Hall of Fame Fellows
Fellowship | Academic Year | Fellow |
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Florida Citrus Hall of Fame | 2022-2023 | Blake Hale |
2021-2022 | Lauren Lassiter | |
2020-2021 | Unfilled because of Campus COVID-19 Employment Restrictions |
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2019-2020 | Peter Edgar | |
2018-2019 | Peter Edgar | |
2017-2018 | Kelsi Shanks | |
2016-2017 | Kelsi Shanks | |
2015-2016 | Meredith Kaffee | |
2014-2015 | Meredith Kaffee | |
2013-2014 | Meredith Kaffee | |
2012-2013 | – | |
2011-2012 | Holly Bennett Joshua Meadows |
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2010-2011 | Holly Bennett | |
D. Victor Knight, Sr. | 2022-2023 | Emily Allen |
2021-2022 | Karah Holt | |
2020-2021 | Karah Holt | |
2019-2020 | Emma Edgar | |
2018-2019 | Emma Edgar | |
2017-2018 | Caitlin Harper | |
2016-2017 | Caitlin Harper | |
2015-2016 | – | |
2014-2015 | Trudy Weber | |
2013-2014 | Trudy Weber | |
2012-2013 | – | |
2011-2012 | Dalton Davis | |
2010-2011 | – | |
Frank S. Bouis Established 2011 |
2022-2023 | R. Chandler Talkington Fletcher |
2021-2022 | R. Chandler Talkington Fletcher | |
2020-2021 | R. Chandler Talkington Fletcher | |
2019-2020 | Katie Poinsett | |
2018-2019 | Emma Morton | |
2017-2018 | Peter Edgar | |
2016-2017 | Kaitlynn Hoffman | |
2015-2016 | Anthony Woodside | |
2014-2015 | Anthony Woodside | |
2013-2014 | Justin Richards | |
2012-2013 | – | |
2011-2012 | Mary Yurso | |
Frank S. Bouis Family | 2022-2023 | Katie Poinsett |
2021-2022 | Katie Poinsett | |
2020-2021 | Christine Sells | |
2019-2020 | Christine Sells | |
2018-2019 | Rebecca Rowe | |
2017-2018 | Emma Morton | |
2016-2017 | Peter Edgar Emma Morton |
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2015-2016 | Emma Morton Selys Rivera |
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2014-2015 | Selys Rivera |
2022-2023 Florida Citrus Hall of Fame Fellowship Students at Florida Southern College
Emily Allen is the 2022-2023 D. Victor Knight, Sr. Student Fellow. She is a sophomore studying History and Pre-Law. As a new recruit in Summer 2022, she began learning about the Citrus industry by researching and editing social media posts while digitizing citrus recipes. She continues to write posts for the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame Facebook page and digitizing issues of The Florida Citrus Reporter.
Chandler Talkington Fletcher is the 2022-2023 Frank S. Bouis Student Fellow. He is a senior working towards his BFA in Theatre Performance and BA in Communications. In addition to re-housing citrus documents, he is working on inventorying and digitizing issues of The Florida Citrus Reporter.
Katie Poinsett is the 2022-2023 Frank S. Bouis Family Student Fellow. She is a senior studying Art History with a Museum Studies focus and is a Resident Advisor on campus. She researched items for the monthly Facebook posts in celebration of the Citrus Hall of Fame’s 60-year anniversary history as well as other topics.
Blake Hale is the 2022-2023 Florida Citrus Hall of Fame Student Fellow. He is a junior studying Biology. Also a new recruit, he is learning about the Citrus industry by creating metadata for The Florida Citrus Reporter project.
Mylena Ferman is a 2022-2023 John M. Kennedy Family Fellow. She graduated in December 2022 with a double major in Communications and English. During her fellowship, she completed researching and producing 36 videos of the Orange Bird series published on holidays for the FCHoF Facebook page and weekly on the Florida Southern College Roux Library Facebook, Instagram and TikTok pages.
Salvatore Ambrosino is a 2022-2023 John M. Kennedy Family Fellow. He is a junior studying Communications and English. Salvatore enjoys researching Citrus History to produce series of Facebook posts similar to the posts on the Orange Dome, when not working on refoldering and preservation tasks in Citrus collections.