Setting fire to imaginations

The courtyard of the Department
of Psychology building may bear
their name, but alumni Stan and
Paula Warmath aren’t done yet.
A sense of giving
Ray Stanyard
Stan and Paula
Warmath
are deeply
committed to the
Department of
Psychology
By William Lampkin
These days, when not traveling
with his wife, Stan Warmath
turns wooden bowls and crafts
wooden toys in his garage
workshop. The Warmaths give
many of those creations to friends and family.
That sense of giving extends to their alma mater,
Florida State University, and to the Department
of Psychology in particular. Stan and Paula
Warmath have funded two endowments in
the department and the legacy benches in its
9,000-square-foot courtyard, which bears their
name. They have committed to another major
endowment as a deferred gift.
Paula, who earned her B.S. in psychology in
1980, worked for the department for two years
after graduation, which is where she and Stan
met. Shortly after that, Paula began a long career
at the Florida Department of Transportation.
She retired in 2012 and currently enjoys playing
violin with the Big Bend Community Orchestra.
Stan retired from FSU in 2011 after 42 years,
most of it spent working for the department.
He arrived as a freshman at FSU in 1965.
“Even in high school, I knew I wanted to
major in psychology,” Stan said. “At that time
I wanted to be a clinical psychologist and work
with juvenile delinquents. I even got my minor
in criminology.”
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