After a champagne toast, Jay was presented with a gift basket of gift cards for all his favorite local restaurants, several bottles of nice Italian red wine and about five pounds of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Dr. David Gay spoke on behalf of the department.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter fifteen years of service as the Department Chair Dr. Jay Corzine stepped down in August. Jay joined the department as Chair in the fall of 1996. At that time there were seven sociolo- gists and five anthropologists. Anthropology now has their own department and four of the sociologists who were here when Jay arrived are still here.\u00a0Under his\tleadership we pursued and obtained a\tdoctoral\u00a0program. The success of our Ph.D.\tprogram is evidenced in the track record of the\tsuccess of our newly minted Ph.D\u2019s. In addition, a\tnumber of universities now refer to us as their aspirational peers. UCF Sociology is alive and well on the national scene. Jay\u2019s leadership style was democratic. As Chair he was easy to approach, and he listened to what we had to say. He represented the department well within and outside the university.”<\/p>\n
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