The Florida Community College District Board
of Trustees, in a unanimous show of support, elected to keep
the same Board officers from the past year at the first meeting
of the 2004-2005 fiscal year, held on August 6
Fernandina Beach resident Suanne Z. Thamm will again serve as
Board Chair. She is retired from the Library of Congress in Washington,
D.C. An advocate for local historic preservation, Thamm serves
on the Historic District Council of the City of Fernandina Beach
and the Historic Nassau County Courthouse Trust. She currently
serves as Secretary to the Board of Trustees of the Amelia Island
Museum of History. She is also a current member and past president
of the Nassau Federated Republican Women. Thamm is a graduate
of Syracuse University and attended Georgetown University.
M.F. “Mike” Mass, M.D., serves as Vice Chairman for
Duval County. Mass is a physician and partner with Allergy, Asthma
and Immunology Associates. He has served as chairman of the Environmental
Protection Board of Duval County, and formerly served as president
of both the Duval Medical Society and the Florida Rheumatology
Society. He serves as associate clinical professor of Medicine
at the University of Florida, is a fellow of the American College
of Physicians and a principal investigator with the Jacksonville
Center for Clinical Research. Mass is current president of the
Jacksonville branch of the International Wine and Food Society.
He earned his B.A. degree from Brandeis University and his M.D.
degree from the University of Florida.
Linda H. Asay continues to serve as Vice Chairman for Nassau County.
Asay retired as vice president for external affairs at Tulane University,
after a career in government and international business. She is
a director of INMED—Partnerships for Children. A member of
the Bars of Kansas and New York, she completed undergraduate work
at Mills College, Oakland, California and received the Juris Doctor
degree in 1965 from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas.
The Board’s six other trustees include Earlene T. Lockett,
Thomas R. McGehee, Jr., Emily B. Smith, Michael B. Weinstein
and N. Wyman Winbush, II serving Duval County; and David F. Miller,
Jr. serving Nassau County.
