Pat Hogan 
Full Name:  Patrick Wayne Hogan
     Born:  August 12, 1932
     Died:  February 18, 2026, Tallahassee, Fla.

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   1990 Adminsitrator HOF - Loc 49


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Member of the FSU Hall of Fame
Elected into the FSU Hall of Fame in 1990
Although he finished his 33-year career at Florida State as a Vice President, Pat Hogan's roots were in athletics and the Seminole sport program has always been his true love. Upon his retirement he was affectionately called the University's Chief "Friend-Raiser." But people in and around could have given him that tag as early as 1952 when he first stepped onto the FSU campus as a student, taking a job as an assistant in the Sports Information Office. While Florida State's athletic program bounded from new-born to major college contender, Pat Hogan cultivated the public image and opened wide the FSU gates to a statewide press corps that for years had known only one college program. He literally set the standard for which all college SID's strive. The student-athletes, coaches, administrators and colleagues from his days in the world of sports still fondly recall his friendliness, hard work and ability in the public relations field. During his climb to the Vice Presidency he never forgot his roots in FSU sports, helping the Seminole program virtually on a daily basis with his behind-the-scenes goodwill and thoughtfulness. Pat Hogan has truly been an invaluable cog in Florida State's drive to national prominence.
Patrick Wayne Hogan Obituary.
Posted by Bevis Funeral Home & Crematory.

The world has lost one of the truly great public relations masters, storytellers, and collectors of indispensable information of our time. Patrick Wayne "Pat" Hogan died February 18 at Tallahassee's Westminster Oaks Retirement Community, his home of more than 20 years. He was 93.

Pat Hogan was associated with Florida State University for 37 years, serving six presidents dating back to Doak S. Campbell in the 1950s. When he retired in 1990 as Vice President for Public Affairs, the University called him FSU's "number one friend raiser."

A 1955 journalism graduate of Florida State, he administered the University's governmental programs, community relations, alumni affairs, media relations, publications, special events, WFSU-FM and WFSU-TV. Earlier, he had served as Director of Sports Information, Public Relations, University Relations, Executive Assistant to the President, and Associate Vice President.

A native of Little Rock, AR, he was a staff writer for the oldest daily newspaper west of the Mississippi, The Arkansas Gazette. Hogan came to Tallahassee to attend FSU in 1952. Shortly thereafter, he met and married Sarah Nell Hancock. They were married 58 years before Sarah's death in 2012. Pat and Sarah welcomed a son, Wayne in 1956, who would also become an FSU graduate and work in the exact same position as his dad, Sports Information Director, more than 30 years later.

Pat was a member of Gold Key, Alpha Phi Omega (national service fraternity), and the Circle of Gold. He received the Alumni Association's Distinguished Service Award in 1985, was honored by the national Council for the Advancement and Support of Education in 1988 for his 25 years of distinguished service and received the Faculty Senate's Mores Torch Award in 2011.

In 1990, Hogan was inducted into the FSU Athletics Hall of Fame for his significant contributions to the national prominence of the Florida State sports programs.

A Rotarian since 1963, he received the Tallahassee Rotary Club's Frederick Clifton Moor Award in 1995 and was recognized for more than 50 years of service to Rotary International. Pat was a lifelong member of the Church, worshiping for decades at the Timberlane Church of Christ.

In retirement, he was an active community volunteer, caregiver, and a certified memory coach. He was an Ambassador for the Westminster Oaks Retirement Community, and a founding member of the Westminster Alzheimer's Action Group (WAAG). WAAG was recognized in 2015 for its role in the unveiling of the Florida Dementia Care and Cure Initiative. This initiative, beginning in Tallahassee, is engaging communities across the state. Pat and his late wife, Sarah, have one son Wayne (Dawn), three grandchildren, Lindsay Elliott (Jason), Kelly Bench (Jason) and J.P. Hogan (Elizabeth),and four great grandchildren Leighton, Dayton, Knox and Sutton.



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