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The Kelly Years (2014-2022)

On January 17, 2014, at the conclusion of a national search, the FAU Board of Trustees voted unanimously to name
Dr. John Kelly the university’s seventh president. Dr. Kelly came to FAU from Clemson University, where he held a succession of leadership positions over a 28-year period.

To say President Kelly hit the ground running would be an understatement. He arrived at FAU in March 2014 and immediately began meeting with key groups and individuals, including elected officials, business and civic leaders, university donors and friends, and members of the news media. His first major initiative was creation of a new strategic plan that would guide FAU steadily upward along a 10-year arc to 2025. His vision was clear: “Florida Atlantic will pursue, with Unbridled Ambition®, the intention of becoming the country’s fastest-improving public research university.”

After a four-month “listening tour” during which he met with faculty, staff, administrators, students and other stakeholders, Dr. Kelly discovered that FAU was filled with “hidden jewels” and it

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About 1860 an Oregon pioneer, Clinton Kelly (1808-1875), donated two acres of land to what soon became Multnomah County School District No. 2 with the stipulation that the property would always be used for education purposes or else it would revert back to his family or descendents. That land today lies between Southeast 26th and 28th Avenues, Powell Boulevard and Franklin Street. Clinton Kelly School, which was made of logs, had already been built on the property. The log structure was replaced by a simple wooden building, which was torn down in 1893 when a more substantial elementary school was built. This was done soon after School District No. 2 was annexed to Portland Public Schools.

The school was enlarged in 1910 and 1912. By 1929 the elementary students had been displaced and moved to Daniel A. Grout School on Southeast 31st Avenue and Holgate Boulevard. The empty school building then became the temporary home of the High School of Commerce, a school that had originally been located on what is now the PSU campus. The High School of Commerce was an independent high school

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Filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle return to the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, site of some of the scenes in their historical film Sons and Daughters of Thunder.

Earlier this month, the film Sons and Daughters of Thunder (2019) was screened at the Stowe House as a part of the 2021 Over the Rhine International Film Festival. Filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle attended and, following the viewing, participated in a conversation with audience members and a film festival host. The film was awarded the Harriet Beecher Stowe “Power of Voice Award” on Saturday, July 10, 2021. “We are thrilled,” commented Kelly and Tammy Rundle on Facebook. “This is the historic site where the true story took place (gives us chills).”

The feature film explores the stories of Harriet Beecher and Theodore Weld, who encountered each other during a fiery series of public debates at Lane Seminary regarding the morality of slavery. Beecher was ignited to oppose slavery, while Weld led a near rebellion after the seminary’s trustees attempted to shut d