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UF’s College of Law namesake has died after contracting COVID-19
He died Tuesday afternoon at the age of 83 Century Tower
UF alumnus Fred Levin died Tuesday afternoon of COVID-19 complications at the age of 83.
After graduating from the University of Florida College of Law, Levin became a practicing attorney in Pensacola in 1961. UF renamed its law school in 1999 to Fredric G. Levin College of Law after Levin made a $10 million contribution to the school the previous year. At the time his donation was the largest cash gift the university had received.
Levin Papantonio Rafferty, a law firm started by Levin s brother, announced his death on Facebook Tuesday evening citing COVID-19 complications.
Inspecting a boat ramp at the Ocklawaha River’s Rodman Reservoir are Jennifer Carr, president of the Florida Defenders of the Environment, and her daughter, Carmen, and the group’s executive director Jim Gross. Rodman Reservoir is plagued by a chronic growth of muck and floating weeds, as seen here at the boat ramp. Weeds have engulfed the ramp and dock.
A legacy of the hasty construction of the dam and reservoir in the 1960s is that it left many trees in the reservoir s boundary.
Part 3 of Special Series
Cannon Springs has spent a half-century entombed by a government blunder of a dam and reservoir on the Ocklawaha River. Every several years, authorities must dump the artificial lake to flush out a nonstop growth of muck and weeds.
Weeds block free flow of Ocklawaha River from Silver Springs to St. Johns River
Part III of the Orlando Sentinel series examines how human error helped choke this North Florida river.
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Inspecting a boat ramp at the Ocklawaha Riverâs Rodman Reservoir are Jennifer Carr, president of the Florida Defenders of the Environment, and her daughter, Carmen, and the groupâs executive director Jim Gross. Rodman Reservoir is plagued by a chronic growth of muck and floating weeds, as seen here at the boat ramp. Weeds have engulfed the ramp and dock. [Kevin Spear | Orlando Sentinel.] [ Orlando Sentinel ]
By Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel