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FSC professor receives
Ben and Janice Wade Outstanding Teaching Award

LAKELAND, Fla. (May 6, 2003) - Dr. Malcolm M. Manners, FSC professor of citrus and environmental horticulture, received the Ben and Janice Wade Outstanding Teaching Award during the college's spring commencement April 26. Manners has been with Florida Southern since 1981. 

This award, established in 1997, is conferred annually upon the Florida Southern classroom teacher who has demonstrated outstanding classroom teaching performance, the encouragement of which was a priority of Dr. Wade during his fifteen year tenure as Florida Southern's chief academic officer (1973-77; 85-96). 

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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