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Class of 2000<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”48″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-3-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]For students who have attended Eckerd after the turn of the millennium, Director of Student Activities Lova Patterson \u201900 is a constant presence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lova is the first person to admit she didn\u2019t expect it to turn out this way when she joined Eckerd as a non-traditional transfer student in 1997\u2014one of only five Eckerd music<\/a> majors at the time. She planned to go to graduate school and become a college professor, pursuing her first love of medieval Renaissance choral music.\u00a0 A love and respect for Eckerd\u2014and for now-Interim President Jim Annarelli<\/a>\u2014convinced Lova to change her plans. She is now one of more than 80 Eckerd alumni who call their alma mater their workplace.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got accepted to Eckerd, it was one of the most impactful moments in my entire life,\u201d she says, noting that she still has the handwritten receipt that Bursar Angie Noronow wrote when she made her deposit. \u201cI was ecstatic.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”3815″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”48″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”3819″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][vc_column_text]A photo of Lova (bottom right) as a student with the Palmetto Productions crew in 1999. <\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”48″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-3-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]During her time at Eckerd, Lova received work-study aid. She started off working on disability accommodations, and then eventually moved into housing and working for the dean of students. The course of her life changed, she says, when she applied and was accepted to be concert director for Palmetto Productions, the student activity board responsible for Eckerd\u2019s iconic events.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where I started learning everything I know about Campus Activities,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

After graduation, the Campus Activities job was open, but for months Lova said she wasn\u2019t interested because she knew the all-encompassing nature of student life work. She took a gap year and was watering office plants for a living when then-Acting Dean of Students Annarelli came calling. It was a time of great change at Eckerd: President Emeritus Donald R. Eastman had just started, and the student life program needed to be rebuilt from the ground up. She agreed to step in on a trial basis. Fred Sabota, now associate vice president for student life and interim dean of students, was also hired two weeks after she took the job.<\/p>\n

While she spent a lot of time that first year piecing things together\u2014campus activities didn\u2019t even have balls for intramural sports when she started\u2014Lova says the challenges were part of what made the job great.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got to be here for one of the most exciting moments. There was this huge bringing back to life that we were able to be a part of,\u201d she says. \u201cThe rest is literally history. 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She brought legendary African-American women\u2019s a capella group Sweet Honey in the Rock to the Palladium<\/a> with Palmetto Productions as a student, and then helped students bring them back a few years later as an adviser. 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Even back in 1997, she describes Eckerd as somewhere she always felt supported, and she says she feels that sense of the campus as an oasis to this day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so grateful that students know that my door is always open. There\u2019s always a safe place for all of our students in Campus Activities,\u201d she says. \u201cI hope everyone can feel that same way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lova says her Eckerd experience, from classes to work, has never been easy. A first-generation student, she graduated with degrees in music and German and calls her three years in school an intense experience. A commuter student living in Bradenton, she would drive up at 7 a.m. each day to make sure she could use the music practice rooms.<\/p>\n

The struggles, she said, have made her 25 years at Eckerd all the sweeter.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo come to a place where it not only felt like home but the academics were amazing and I was challenged to grow\u2014I had to put so much into my education but it came back to me a thousandfold,\u201d she says. \u201cI realized it then, but I realize it much more now.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”3817″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][vc_column_text]Lova with participants in the EC Queer\/Straight Alliance Spring 2019 Drag Show.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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