The Florida State University Athletic Department Presents the Moore-Stone Award for Outstanding Service to Florida State Athletics to Daisy Parker Flory. As Florida State student, faculty member
and administrator, she has supported this university and its athletic programs. For half a century her intelligence, dignity and good sense have helped guide this institution. When Florida State takes
the field she is always there. President Sliger has said: "Daisy is the conscience of the university," and Seminoles everywhere thank her for her devotion to her alma mater and to Florida State
athletics.
Obituary for Daisy Parker Flory Published by Tallahassee Democrat on Mar. 9, 2006.
Daisy Parker Flory Daisy Parker Flory, 91, professor emeritus at Florida State University,
died Tuesday, March 7, 2006, at Westminster Oaks. A celebration of her life will be at 2 p.m. EST Monday at the Parry Center at Westminster Oaks, with a private burial at Roselawn Cemetery. Memorial
contributions may be made to FSU Foundation. A native of Charlotte, N.C., she came to Tallahassee in 1933 to attend Florida State College for Women. She retired from Florida State University in 1984
as dean of faculties, after an association with Florida State of more than five decades. She received her bachelor's degree in history from FSU in 1937 and did graduate work in government at the
University of Virginia, where she received a Master of Arts in 1940 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1959. Dr. Flory was the first woman to serve at the vice-presidential level at FSU after it became
co-educational. A noted scholar of governmental affairs, she taught in the department of government for more than 40 years. She was a member of several professional and academic honor societies,
including Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Mortar Board, Phi Sigma Alpha, Phi Alfa Theta and Phi Gamma Mu and held national offices in many of them. She received the Ross Oglesby Award for outstanding
service to FSU in 1981, the Moore-Stone Award for outstanding support of Florida State Athletics in 1982, the Herbert F. Morgan Award in recognition of individual service to further the advancement of
women's athletics at FSU in 1983, the distinguished service Alumni Award in 1983, and the Seminole Award for outstanding leadership and service in 1984. The university established the Daisy Parker
Flory professorship in her honor. Locally she was a member and past president of the Tallahassee Historical Society, the LeMoyne Art Foundation, the Tallahassee Branch of the American Association of
University Women and the FSU Faculty Club. She was also a member of the Anna Jackson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and St. John's Episcopal Church. Survivors include two sisters,
Mary Parker Burnett of Tallahassee and Nancy Parker Holt of Birmingham; two nieces, Mary Kay Nolan of Hamden, Conn., and Nancy Carol Black of Jackson, Miss.; and four nephews, Carey Parker Burnett of
Mt. Pleasant, S.C., Mack Parker Holt of Washington, D.C., Dr. Philip Holt of Atlanta and Stephen Holt of Birmingham. She was preceded in death in 2002 by her husband, Dr. Claude Flory.
