[2] Mary Lanier had graduated from college and intended to join her family's business but took time to visit an Aunt and Uncle in Ann Arbor, Michigan where she met John Champion.

[4][5] FSU's academic/facility milestones under President Champion: The censorship issue actually began in August 1967 when Student Publications Advisor Billy Boyles refused to allow an article to be published in the Smoke Signals literary magazine.

[6] A month later the column was printed unchanged and no lawsuit was filed but the editor was reprimanded by the Board of Student Publications (BOSP).

In early May 1968, Boyles was reviewing the short story "The Pig Knife" for the literary magazine A Legend and found an occurrence of the words, 'shit' and 'fuck'.

He agreed with Boyles and after the article was censored, the Administrative Council decreed that the university could not print four-letter words because doing so would constitute an endorsement of them.

[10] Soon after moving to Tallahassee, the Champions began a family, welcoming Sally Lanier in 1956 and John Jr two years later.

John's wife Mary was an Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) graduate in home economics.

[11] She was born and raised in West Point, Georgia and according to her FSU biography was a "Southern lady" who "brought grace and elegance to Florida State University".

[3] He was past president of the Downtown Rotary Club and a deacon and elder at the Faith Presbyterian Church where they were founding members.