And so it has for 100 years at Orlando Family Stage and its various progenitors. But it might instead have been curtains without timely help from key Winter Parkers.
Jim Pugh, for decades Dr. Phillips Center’s chief champion, gets a thank you in bronze from the same sculptor whose statue of Fred Rogers graces Rollins College. In fact, Winter Parkers have always been crucial to the arts center’s success.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Winter Park Magazine’s Most Influential People, we’ve selected 10 “All-Time Influentials” whose impact has spanned decades.
Meet John A. Rice, the pugnacious prof who roiled Rollins and birthed a new college in North Carolina that still sparks fascination decades after it closed and passed into legend.