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Athletic Director |
 FAMUAN, November 9, 2007 Back to the hill Gaines returns to his alma mater Ebonie Ledbetter Roland Gaines, VP of FAMU Student Affairs His name might not ring a bell. And few Rattlers know the scope of his impact on campus. For more than 30 years, Roland Gaines has been instrumental in increasing enrollment numbers and recruiting National Achievement Scholars to Florida A&M University. After a brief hiatus at North Carolina Central University with President James Ammons from 2001 until 2007, he has come back home. Rattler 'Til I Die His two young grandchildren excitedly rush to envelop Gaines in a bear hug as his son Craig looks on. One might think this scene takes place in Gaines' home-and in a way-his office on the third floor of Foote-Hilyer is home. "There is a lot of history at FAMU in our family," Craig said. Craig was even born in Foote-Hilyer in 1967 back when the administration building was a hospital. In 1965-before moving up the administration chain to become vice president of student affairs-Gaines was just a regular student on campus. "Because he was a student at FAMU he has a feel for the campus life, and he can relate that to the students he recruits," said his sister, Kay Gaines. "He's lived in Tallahassee all of his life." And when he was considering where to go for college, Kay said: "Nowhere but FAMU. There was no other school for him." Gaines, who is 18 months older than his baby sister, was already busy as a sophomore sociology student whenKay enrolled at FAMU in the mid '60s. The two rarely got the chance to hang out on campus. This is partly because he was pledging Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. "There was a big brother dating a girl across town, so each Thursday night when I was supposed to be in a history session, he would make me take him to visit her," he said. "I would have to sit in the car until he came out." But then the girl began to flirt with Gaines. "I wouldn't say anything to her; I wouldn't even look at her," he said. "And of course, (my big brother) got jealous. So each Thursday night when I got back on campus I got the 'wood.' And each Thursday night I had to take him back over there." During this time, he was also married to his college sweetheart Johnnie. They lived in Polkinghorne Village. Life was hectic for the young couple, but Gaines said his parents helped out a lot. They had Craig in 1967, but divorced in 1972. "We were married too young," he said. "We just went our separate ways." Papa Gaines During those college years Gaines managed to balance a family, his studies, fraternity life, the ROTC and his job in the registrar's office. "I don't know how he balanced it, but he did," Kay said. He also managed to take the role of his sister's father figure. "He was always overprotective of me-even when I dated," she said. "Oh, we fussed. If I came home late, he was the one who wanted to discipline me instead of my daddy." Once when she went out on a date during college, she came home to find her brother waiting up for her. "I just asked my daddy if it was OK, and he said, 'Well, you're grown, you know how to take care of yourself.' And I looked at Roland and said, 'So now what?' " She said he always had that father figure trait in him. When he was about eight years old his father got sick and could no longer work. So the family depended on his mother, who was a cook, and the money his dad received from Social Security. "She spoiled me…" Gaines reminisced about his mother. "And my dad spoiled my sister. She was his baby and could do anything she wanted to do, so I stepped in to stop that from happening." "The two of us are only 18 months apart," she said. "So we played together and we fought together. (And now) he'll confide in me, and I'll confide in him." Gaines assumed the father figure role early on, and even in childhood he was the one the family always depended on. Moving Forward Even in high school, Gaines always had a leadership role. He was section leader of the French horn section in the marching band, and eventually became president of the entire band. Everything was going fine for Gaines, who was then a sophomore at Lincoln High School, an all black school in Tallahassee during the time of segregation. But then a group of Florida State University students completing their doctorates came to campus and counseled members of his class for a couple of months. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ DREAMER |
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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about." - James Baldwin " ... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little notice in the national press. That allows the public to sustain its faith in a just America, while hard-nosed security and economic interests are still protected in secret. ": Robert Parry, investigative reporter and author "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." - Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945 |
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Thanks for posting the article, Dreamer. We were hanging out in his office for a minute last Thursday!
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His wife is MY GIRL!!!! We hung out this past Christmas Eve and had a BALL!!! I LOVE THAT FAMILY!!!
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ This is how the toy comes. "To thine own self be true..." William Shakespeare Words of Wisdom: Never make a man a 1st priority when all you are to him is an option!  |
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They seem like a beautiful grounded family.He will do well.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THE ONLY POTENTIAL GREATER THAN OURS IS YOURS...FORT VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY....A HAVEN FOR HUNGRY MINDS!! |
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Athletic Director |
I love my family.
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Yeah, we do grow on people, don't we? 
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Assistant Coach |
I thought that last name looked familiar
BTY, I have yet to have a rattler grow on me. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  Bison Ambre Anderson |
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Give it time. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about." - James Baldwin " ... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little notice in the national press. That allows the public to sustain its faith in a just America, while hard-nosed security and economic interests are still protected in secret. ": Robert Parry, investigative reporter and author "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." - Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945 |
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Assistant Coach |
"Sure you have!" ...  We've simply been stompin' yo' @ss into the ground for so long ... you've just become so conditioned that you don't even realize it anymore!  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Just Remember... "One Person's Happy Hour ... Is Another Person's DINNER!" "So ... Don't Always Believe the Hype!"  |
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Athletic Director |
So this is why u are da prez of the "100 Alumni Band".  Just sent the article to former prez Hump. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ DREAMER |
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All-American |
DK all these years and I still ain't put that together.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ""When the dark clouds gather on the horizon, when the thunder and lightening fill the sky, when fate is but a glimpse in the eye of a fallen RATTLER, and hopes are lost friends. When the sinew of the chest grows weary from the hard charging linebackers, and the muscles of the legs grow tired from those hard charging running backs, you must remember that...the RATTLERS will STRIKE and STRIKE and STRIKE AGAIN!!!" |
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ALL UH Y'ALL IZ KRAZAY!!! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ This is how the toy comes. "To thine own self be true..." William Shakespeare Words of Wisdom: Never make a man a 1st priority when all you are to him is an option! |
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LOL He's my cousin.
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