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This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University History: Campus Publications at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Crow's Nest by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Single copies free The student newspaper at USF St. Petersburg Sept 8-13, 2015 | Volume 50 | Issue 3

We could have been ‘Suncoast University’ 51-3 USF wins p. 2 p.3

USF St. Petersburg turns

By Kris Daberkoe Crow’s Nest Contributor and play volleyball near When it began, 50 years ago the pool. this week, it was a tiny place with The college grew through lead- modest ambitions. It was called the ership and community partners, “Bay Campus” of the University of such as the St. Petersburg City South Florida, a temporary out- Council and the vision of longtime post selected hastily because there St. Petersburg Times editor Nelson was not enough dormitory space Poynter. at USF’s campus in Tampa, where Once things were more estab- classes had begun just five years lished, students and faculty sought earlier. to expand academic programs and Nearly 260 turned out for the extracurricular activities. first day of class in St. Petersburg Fast forward to 2000, when the on Sept. 7, 1965. They lived and university began the process of attended class in old barracks that acquiring separate accreditation had housed training programs for from the Southern Association of thousands of young men in the U.S. College and Schools. The campus Maritime Service between 1939 and gained this level of autonomy in 1950. 2006. Students attending those first After all the development, ren- classes at Bay Campus were incon- ovations and achievements in the venienced by having to travel last 50 years, it may seem that there between the bayside barracks and is little left to be done. the Tampa campus, according to But as it turns out, Sophia historian James Anthony Schnur, Wisniewska, USFSP regional chan- the Nelson Poynter Memorial cellor, is leading innovations to Library’s special collections expand the university through a librarian. five-year plan called Vision 20/20. Though the campus served as “The plan’s purpose is to take an overflow site for freshman and inventory of where we are today sophomores, the role changed in and choosing how we are going 1968 when USF President John S. to develop for tomorrow,” Schnur Allen kept the facility as a place to said. offer a few upper­-level undergradu- ate and graduate programs for the convenience of Pinellas County residents. A year later, the legislature Future holds approved USF-St. Petersburg as the first branch campus in the Florida big changes public university system. By Caitlin Ashworth Throughout the ’70s, colle- Staff Reporter gial entertainment and academic opportunities grew for students, Ten thousand students in 10 faculty and staff. years. Students who attended during That’s the goal for USF St. this time may recall sharing one Petersburg - to nearly double in size another’s company while watch- by 2025, and to ultimately become ing the popular Friday Night Film a pedestrian campus by closing off series, or when Jacques Cousteau, Sixth Avenue S, Second Street and an internationally renown oceanog- Third Street. rapher, docked in Bayboro Harbor. Some may remember the women’s Changes have already begun. soccer team, the Sandspurs, and Courtesy of the Nelson Pynter Memorial Library The university is implementing their funny slogan “a pain in the The original campus consisted of buildings erected in 1939 for the U.S. Martime Service Training Station. the five-year strategic plan, Vision The univserity’s College of Marine Science and the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are grass.” There was a time when every- located there now. one would cool off between studies Continued on p.4 Continued from p.PB

Sept 8-13, 2015 | Volume 50 | Issue 3 crowsneststpete.com Once the southernmost state Compiled from the work of James Anthony Schnur, a historian and the Nelson Poynter Memorial university in Florida Library’s special collections librar- ian; websites of USFSP; the Tampa What about the rest of the almost all of the Bayboro buildings What’s the story behind the Is USFSP affiliated with the Bay Times; the Tampa Tribune; and campus? and programs there. bull statute on Harborwalk in Dali? “From Mangroves to Major League: The university began expand- Suncoast University? front of the University Student The university and museum A Timeline of St. Petersburg, ing to the north and west in 1978, Yep. That was the idea of a pow- Center? have a formal collaboration agree- Florida,” by Rick Baker. when it broke ground on the erful state senator named Don The 850-pound bronze statue ment. Students, faculty and staff buildings along the north shore Sullivan, who was unhappy with was installed in February 2013. have free access to the museum, Why is our school called the of Bayboro Harbor that are today St. Petersburg’s role as a stepchild The anatomically correct bull cost museum staff lecture at the univer- University of South Florida? St. called Bayboro and Davis halls. of the big Tampa campus (and who $10,000, which came from Student sity and the museum hosts regular Petersburg and Tampa are not in They supplanted a hotel, a venetian apparently had notions of becom- Government’s capital account. community conversations between south Florida. blinds manufacturer, marine repair ing an administrator at the new How long has Albert Whitted, faculty and members of the com- When the Florida Legislature shops and other businesses. As the institution). His idea was defeated, the nearby airport, been here? munity. When the museum moved authorized a new university in city of St. Petersburg bought more but it was a wake-up call for univer- Far longer than most of the into its new, $36 million home in Tampa in 1956, it became the land over the years, the expansion sity leaders on both sides of the bay. buildings and institutions in St. 2011, the university got its former southernmost university in the eventually reached its present day They agreed to expanded programs, Petersburg. The airport, which is quarters, now called Harbor Hall, state. (The existing universities boundaries of Fifth Avenue S on new buildings and increased auton- owned and operated by the city, at 1000 Third St. S. It is home for the were the University of Florida in the north and Fourth Street S on omy for the St. Petersburg campus. covers 110 acres. It opened in 1929, Department of Verbal and Visual Gainesville and Florida State and the west. In 2006, USFSP was awarded sepa- but the downtown waterfront had Arts. Florida A&M in Tallahassee). So the city of St. Petersburg has rate accreditation by the Southern seen aviation activity since 1914, St. Petersburg and its down- State Rep. Sam Gibbons (who later been a partner of the university Association of Colleges and when a Benoist “airboat” based town are known as a hip destina- served in Congress for many years) and its expansion? Schools. there began America’s first sched- tion for pleasure-seeking young thought the name South Florida Yes. City officials have long Who was Nelson Poynter, uled commercial flight service with people, tourists and opportunity- would help get the support of leg- embraced the university and recog- whose name adorns our library? twice-daily flights to Tampa. When seeking millennials. Has the city islators in the southern part of the nized its importance in the social, For 40 years, Poynter ran the the novelty wore off several months always been this cool? state. He was right economic and intellectual fabric of St. Petersburg Times (now the later, the flights ended. Hardly. For years, television the city. They were galvanized into Tampa Bay Times), which during Who was Albert Whitted? comedians and national maga- action in the mid-1970s when uni- his tenure became one of America’s He was a native of St. Petersburg zines derided St. Petersburg as best newspapers. Poynter was a fer- and aviation pioneer who was “God’s waiting room” and the “city vent champion of St. Petersburg killed when his plane crashed near of green benches,” where hordes of and education, and his support of Pensacola in 1923. seniors shared the downtown side- the university reflected both pas- Anything notable about the walks with pigeons. sions. He was a generous contribu- airport? (See images directly opposite) tor to the university. He died of a The tiny facility figures in avi- What happened? stroke on June 15, 1978, just hours ation history. Goodyear stationed A happy confluence of stuff. The after he proudly took part in the one of its famous blips there for Vinoy Hotel, which had been closed groundbreaking for the first major 15 years starting in 1930. One of for 18 years, was lovingly restored – expansion of the then-tiny campus. the nation’s first airline compa- at a cost of $93 million -- and when nies – National Airlines – was it reopened in 1992, it became a based there. And in 1985, the air- crown jewel of downtown. A now- port made national news when a defunct international museum retired couple from Chicago got brought hundreds of thousands of lost, mistook one of the runways people downtown between 1995 for Interstate 275 and drove off and 2010. Major League Baseball the seawall into Tampa Bay. They arrived in 1998, and on-again-off- were fished out of neck-deep water, again auto street racing, which unharmed, by firefighters training began in 1985, morphed into a high- Courtesy of Gary Brown USF alumnus nearby. profile Grand Prix race in 2005 that The original entranceway to USF’s Bay Campus. Has the airport impeded the draws an estimated 140,000 fans growth of our campus? each spring. The 1990s brought How did Tampa become the versity leaders toyed with the idea Yes, at least vertically. Under city stirrings of an art renaissance that site of the main USF campus? Why of moving the campus to a larger codes, Florida law and rules of the has snowballed in recent years, and site in Clearwater. Federal Aviation Administration, numerous condo and apartment not St. Petersburg or another loca- Lowell E. Davis. tion in Pinellas County? There were proposals to move buildings that lie underneath towers have been built, with more In fact, there was spirited com- the campus to Clearwater? Who was Lowell Davis, the the airport’s flight patterns can’t on the way. petition between civic leaders Yes. But in February 1975, namesake of Lowell E. Davis exceed certain heights. Over the What role has the university and newspapers in Hillsborough voters in Clearwater rejected a pro- Memorial Hall? years, some campus leaders have played in St. Petersburg’s surge? County and their counterparts in posal that called for the donation of Davis, a biologist and aca- supported proposals to close the It’s been huge. The growth of the Pinellas. The St. Petersburg Times more than 100 acres for a campus demic administrator who came airport or at least close its east- university has brought thousands and its feisty editor, Nelson Poynter, there. That got the attention of St. to St. Petersburg from Syracuse west runway. Those proposals went of young people to the city, which campaigned to put the university Petersburg, which began condemn- University in 1986, was dean of the nowhere. led in turn to stores, restaurants here. But Tampa, which was bigger ing the land for a dramatically campus and its top executive for How did the impressive and night spots that serve them. than St. Petersburg and had more expanded campus footprint here. three years. It was a heady time for Salvador Dali Museum end up in The university itself is a partner to clout in the state capital, prevailed. Has our campus, which first the fledgling school, and the pop- St. Petersburg just northeast of a number of museums, hospitals Our campus now covers about opened for students in 1965, ular Davis led efforts to expand its campus? and research institutions that lie 52 acres, with plans for expansion. always been called USF St. ambitions, footprint and curricu- It’s an improbable story. In within a few blocks of the campus What used to be here? Petersburg? lum. The community was stunned 1980, a young St. Petersburg lawyer in an area that city leaders call the For the first 13 years, the campus No. For the first three years, it when he suffered a stroke and died named James Martin read in the “Innovation District.” was confined to about 11.8 acres was known as the Bay Campus. in 1989 at the age of 58. Wall Street Journal that a Cleveland What’s the story on those two on a finger of land that juts out Then in 1968, it became the Why isn’t Coquina Hall named couple were looking for a place to old homes on Second Street S just into Bayboro Harbor and today is Bayboro Campus of USF or USF for somebody? showcase their $70 million collec- south of the Welcome Center? home of the USF College of Marine Bayboro – monikers that stuck for Before the building was ded- tion of paintings by the famously They are two of the city’s oldest Science, the state Fish and Wildlife years. The name USF St. Petersburg icated in 1984, then-Dean John weird artist. Martin cold-called buildings. The Snell House, built in Conservation Commission and dates back to 1969, and until the Hinz and the faculty recommended them to pitch St. Petersburg, then 1904 by developer C. Perry Snell, our swimming pool. The first 1990s many called it the “USF St. that it be named in honor of Zora helped marshal a charm offensive was moved to the campus in August campus buildings had housed the Petersburg Campus,” a branch of Neale Hurston, a renowned author by civic leaders, city officials and 1993. It’s the headquarters for the U.S. Maritime Service Training USF. Separating USFSP academic and Florida native. But then-Pres- the state Legislature that ultimately university’s honors and Florida Station between 1939 and 1950 and programs and services from the ident John Lott Brown decided to persuaded the couple to pick St. Studies programs. The Williams the provisional campus of Florida direct control of USF Tampa came name the building after the shells Petersburg over Denver and Austin, House was built in 1890-91 by John Presbyterian College (now Eckerd after an unsuccessful legislative that covered it. Texas. C. Williams, a co-founder of the College) from 1959 until it moved effort to create a new school called city. It was moved here in March to its present location in 1963. Suncoast University and transfer 1995. crowsneststpete.com Sept 8-13, 2015 | Volume 50 | Issue 3

Courtesy of the St. Petersburg Museum of History University librarian has lived and chronicled campus history

By Jeffrey Zanker “He was such Staff Reporter a focused and lik- able student,” said Just a few weeks before the first Mormino, 68. “He THEN In the early 1940s , Central Avenue was the domain of senior citizens and the city’s often- classes at USF “Bay Campus,” James exemplifies the best in derided geen benches. Anthony Schnur, 50, was born at a scholarship research hospital three blocks away. here.” For 13 years Schnur has been Schnur graduated the special collections librarian in 1989 and later went at the Nelson Poynter Memorial for a master’s in his- Library, but he has been at USF St. tory and library sci- Petersburg for much longer. ence in the early ’90s while he worked as a “What started out as a histori- Courtesy of James Schnur cal coincidence seems very fateful graduate student assis- Much of Schnur’s work for the 40th anniversary exhbit was used today,” said Schnur. tant for the Nelson in this issue. He grew up in Redington Beach, Poynter Library. graduated from Boca Ciega High He participated in “I want readers to understand School in Gulfport and went on historical works during his stu- Florida more vividly without to earn an A.A. in history at the dent years such as restoring the watered-down academic talk,” he University of Tampa. Snell and Williams houses in the said. “I was more of a Viking histo- mid-’90s. Schnur considers teaching stu- rian,” said Schnur, whose history “There is much rich history for a dents his best achievement. He classes were mainly on medieval very small area,” Schnur said. assists graduate students in the Europe. In 1996, Schnur married his wife USFSP Florida Studies program and At first, Schnur pursued a bach- Phuongdung on campus in front of teaches part-time at the USF Tampa NOW Central Avenue thrives with trendy night spots for fun-seeking millennials. elor’s in education at USF Tampa, Davis Hall, room 130, and in 2002, School of Information on archival but later decided to study history at Schnur joined the USFSP faculty management. He also serves as an The University Advancement major league franchise in 1998, the the St. Petersburg campus in 1986. as the special collections librarian adjunct history instructor at Eckerd staff has offices on the second floor; Tampa Bay Rays (first called the “I enjoyed the smaller classes where his still works today. College. the first floor is used for meetings Devil Rays) played spring train- and dedicated faculty at the time,” Schnur preserves and provides “One of the things I appreciate and special events. ing games here until 2008. The he said. “The campus was really tai- USFSP history, along with the St. the greatest is being here today to How long has the Tampa Bay Rowdies, who on most nights draw lored for people like me.” Petersburg community, through support the academic needs of our Rowdies soccer team played at Al several thousand fans – and lots of After working with history archival collections of historical current students,” he said. Lang Stadium, three blocks north USFSP students – moved into Al professor Gary Mormino in writ- artifacts. USFSP has become a home to of the campus? Lang in 2011. ing two award-winning histori- He has also helped create the Schnur and he looks forward the For five years. The stadium is Babe Ruth trained in St. cal essays on former Florida Gov. library’s digital archives and exhib- days to come. much better known as a home Petersburg? LeRoy Collins and a witch-hunt its on historical periods such as “It never gets boring here,” he for Major League Baseball spring Yes. And nobody enjoyed the group called the Johns Committee, World War II and has published said, “and if it does, I need to take a training. It is named for Al Lang, city more than the Bambino. He Schnur was inspired to take up five books on Pinellas County little vacation to clean the dust out a former mayor who persuaded the played golf, fished in the gulf, went Florida studies. history. of my ears.” St. Louis Browns to train here in to the dog track, visited sick kids in 1914. Over the years, seven teams the hospital, partied with the ladies trained at Al Lang and its predeces- and drank gallons of Prohibition- sor, Waterfront Park, including the era hooch. Oh, and he also played a St. Louis Cardinals of Stan Musial lot of baseball. According to legend, Defense dominates in season (1938-1942 and 1946-1997) and the he hit a home run here that trav- New York Yankees of Babe Ruth, eled more than over 600 feet. That opening win Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle would make it the longest blast in (1925-1942, 1946-1950 and 1952- Major League history. By David Stoner of the second half. Bench went 8 of of 30,434 at Tampa’s Raymond 1961). When St. Petersburg got a Crow’s Nest Contributor 10 passing. Sophomore running James Stadium. back, Marlon Mack, rushed for 131 Up next for the Bulls is a The 2015 football season got off yards. This was his second highest trip to Florida State University to a winning start Saturday night. total of his career including a 1 yard in Tallahassee to take on the The Bulls posted a 51-3 home win touchdown run. Seminoles. Students can enjoy over the Florida A&M University The student section was nearly a watch party at the University Rattlers. The much vaunted new full as part of an overall attendance Student Center as part of the 50th up-tempo offense was upstaged by a new swarming defense that allowed just one first down in the first half. The defense was led by sophomore linebacker, Auggie Sanchez, with 10 tackles. Scoring by the Bulls was started with a field goal by Emilio Nadelman late in the first quarter. By the middle of the second quar- ter, the offense began to roll. The offense benefited from great start- ing field position ending up with five scoring drives under a 1:06. Sophomore starting quarter- back, Quinten Flowers, made his second career start and went 12 Courtesy of the St. Petersburg Museum of History of 16 passing. Senior quarterback, When he wasn’t carousing, Babe Ruth - shown here with twin bat boys from the circus - played a Courtesy of Travis Pendergrass little baseball. Steven Bench, played the majority USF quaterback Quinton Flowers attended Miami Jackson highschool. Sept 8-13, 2015 | Volume 50 | Issue 3 crowsneststpete.com

This chronology is based largely on the work of James Anthony Schnur, a historian and special collections librarian at the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Information from the Tampa Bay USFSP over the years Times, Tampa Tribune and websites of USF St. Petersburg was used in this report.

September Because the 5-year-old June University of South Florida The Legislature makes the new Civic leaders from both sides of Tampa in Tampa had admitted campus official and gives it the Bay join university officials in a ground- more freshmen than it could name University of South Florida breaking for the expansion. house, nearly 260 frosh begin – St. Petersburg. It is the first their college careers in St. branch campus in the state uni- Petersburg. They live and versity system. January attend class in buildings on The Campus Activities Center a small peninsula in Bayboro (now called the Student Life Harbor where the univer- The city of St. Petersburg acquires and Center) opens. It is expanded in sity’s College of Marine clears land along the north shore of 1994 to include a fitness center and Science and the state Fish Bayboro Harbor for an expansion of the racquetball court and remodeled and Wildlife Conservation campus. in the summer of 2015. Commission are today.

1965 1968 1969 1975 1976-77 1978 1980-86 1981 1984 1989 1990

Summer February USFSP is very much April June Moving without the approval Voters in Clearwater reject a a commuter campus. Coquina Hall is dedicated. The U. S. Geological of the Legislature, USF proposal calling for the city to Up to 85 percent of the Survey’s new Center for President John S. Allen and a donate land for a new home for students are juniors Coastal Geology moves dynamic young administra- the campus there. and seniors, and well into a historic build- tor named Lester Tuttle begin over half take classes ing that once housed a creating a “Bayboro Campus” in the evening. Studebaker auto dealer- on the 11.8-acre peninsula. ship at 600 Fourth St. S. Among their first moves: In the years that follow, offering classes to juniors, the USGS and the uni- seniors and graduate students versity forge a collabora- in a “2+2” partnership with tive partnership. St. Petersburg Junior College.

May Officials dedicate two new buildings – the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library (now Bayboro Hall) and Bayboro October Hall (now Davis Hall). Student editors produce the first issue of the USFSP Bay Campus Bulletin. The mim- eographed publication is renamed the Crow’s Nest in 1970 and adopts a newspaper format in 1993.

20/20, and updating the master to socialize and relax, as well as a Classrooms are used an average renovation and that there is a need Continued from front cover plan, as required by Florida law. new dormitory geared toward tra- of 29 hours per week, well below the for new and updated biology labs as Revision of the master plan is ditional campus living instead of Florida guideline of 40 per week. well as a formal writing center for led by Joe Trubacz, the regional the apartment-style housing in cur- Paulien & Associates suggests students. The vice chancellor for administrative rent dormitories. the university utilize classrooms However, with the growth of and financial services, and the con- In the next 10 years, the univer- more efficiently. the campus there are no plans for university’s sulting firm Gould Evans. Plans are sity plans to have a total of 1,400 Dennis Strait from Gould Evans expansion of the library, and the tentative, but are set to be revised in beds on campus. met with faculty and staff in June crowded parking garage could expectations the coming year. With the rapid growth planned and August to discuss the master mean restricting freshmen who The university plans on increas- to the future, Paulien & Associates plan and get a firsthand look at the live on campus from having cars. for the years ing the retention rate by height- Inc. conducted a utilization study wants and needs of the campus. This is the policy at many large ening the “freshman experience.” and found a limited need for addi- Faculty have suggested that universities. to come This means more space for students tional classrooms. Davis Hall is outdated and needs

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Numbers of acres Numbers of Number of Number of colleges Number of USFSPby the numbers the campus acres today campus buildings - Arts and Sciences; undergraduate covered in 1965 Business; and Education programs Source: University of South Florida St. Petersburg crowsneststpete.com crowsneststpete.com Sept 8-13, 2015 | Volume 50 | Issue 3

September The USF Board of Trustees approves a strategic plan – called Vision 20/20 – Early August that would increase USFSP’s enrollment State Sen. Don Sullivan, The school’s first dormi- to 10,000 over the next decade while R-Seminole, peeved at the way tory, Residence Hall One, strengthening the university’s commit- the Tampa campus governs the opens at the corner of ments to teaching, research and ties to the St. Petersburg campus, shakes Fifth Avenue S and Second local community. things up with a startling pro- Street. posal: He files legislation that September would transfer most of the St. International entrepreneur Petersburg programs to a new April Kate Tiedemann donates school that would be called Scientists at the College $10 million to the uni- “Suncoast University.” of Marine Science are versity – the largest gift June among the first research- in its history. The univer- Bill Heller, who led the campus ers to begin researching sity names its College of Business in her honor, and Fall as dean and CEO for a decade, the impact of the disas- is ousted by USF President Judy trous Deepwater Horizon late in the year it breaks The campus accepts its first ground on a new building freshman class since the Genshaft. He goes on to cham- oil spill in the Gulf of pion higher education during Mexico. Their findings along Seventh Avenue S at “overflow” classes of 1965 Third Street. The building and 1966. four years in the Legislature and make national news. Their is now dean of USFSP’s College of studies continue today. is scheduled to open in fall Education. 2016.

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Late October February Sullivan’s proposal comes to Citing Ebola-related fears Officials dedicate the Florida naught in the Legislature, but it from students and faculty, the March Center for Teachers build- helps spark fundamental changes university cancels the visit of The USF Board of ing, which today houses the for the St. Petersburg campus – 14 African journalists trav- Trustees approves the Department of Journalism an expansion of course offerings eling to the U.S. under the purchase of nearly 4 and Media Studies and Florida and degree programs, increased State Department’s Edward acres from the Poynter Humanities Council. In 2010, autonomy, and planning for sepa- R. Murrow program. Twelve Institute for Media the building is named in rate accreditation. of the Africans – minus two Studies for $6.2 mil- honor of Peter Rudy Wallace, from countries where Ebola lion. The land, between a St. Petersburg lawyer, former August had become a serious prob- Eighth and 11 avenues speaker of the Florida House of The new Nelson Poynter lem – come to St. Petersburg S and Third and Fourth Representative and longtime Memorial Library opens. anyway when the Poynter streets, might eventu- friend of the university. Institute for Media Studies ally be the site of a new agrees to play host. building for science, June technology, engineering After 43 years under the control and math. of the Tampa campus, USFSP is July awarded separate accreditation Sophia T. Wisniewska, For more information and photos by the Southern Association of 61, a scholar of Russian on the university’s history, see “From language and literature Colleges and Schools – the state’s August Fiddler Crabs to a Harbor with Class,” and chancellor of Penn first regional campus to earn The University Student Center, a 32-panel display prepared by James State Brandywine, is that distinction. Accreditation is which features a dining facil- Anthony Schnur and the Nelson Poynter crucial to a school’s credibility. ity, banquet hall, meeting named regional chan- cellor at a salary of Memorial Library for USFSP’s 40th Without it, recruitment suffers, its rooms and six-story dormi- anniversary: degrees lose their value and stu- tory, opens at Sixth Avenue S $265,000. dents are not eligible for and Second Street. http://dspace.nelson.usf.edu/xmlui/ financial aid. handle/10806/387

In commemoration of the lives the USC ballroom, followed by a reflection,” said Kaitlyn Mollo, stu- lost in the 911 attacks in 2001, “A performance of the Star-Spangled dent government secretary of vet- Day of Remembrance” event will Banner by USFSP’s Autumn eran affairs and event coordinator. A day of take place on Friday, Sept. 11, Hollowell. There will be multiple And for Mollo, there is more to remembrance hosted by Student Government’s tables to make donations to 9/11 the day than just sadness. She wants Department of Veteran Affairs. memorial organizations. her peers to feel that, too. A memorial for the The ceremony will take place The event is open to all of the “Even though Sept. 11 marks a lives lost in the Sept. from 1-3 p.m., beginning with a USFSP community. cheerless day, I also wanted to make 11 terrorist attacks soft opening of the new Military “My goal and reasoning in cre- sure there was some fun involved,” and Veterans Success Center in ating the Day of Remembrance is she said. “I deeply hope that this Terrace 301. The event will con- to have an event on campus for all event will fulfill all of these goals.” By Alex Gomez tinue at 6 p.m. with a complimen- of us to be able to have an uplifting Crow’s Nest Contributor tary Carrabba’s catered dinner in day full of unity, remembrance and

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Food for Thought Lecture The nifty fifty Watch the documentary “The Search for Celebrate USF St. Petersburg’s 50th General Tso,” and discuss the film with the history and future with special events director. March 21, 7 p.m. // USFSP University Student that are scheduled throughout the year. Center Ballroom By Angelina Bruno Staff Reporter TEDx USFSP Florida Food Conference Speakers will be selected from the campus at USFSP community to speak at this event. April 2, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. // University Student Editor-in-chief Innovation Panel Nov. 13, 5–10 p.m. // USFSP University Center Ballroom Samantha putterman Listen to a panel on innovation and learn Student Center Ballroom Managing Editor answers to big questions like ‘What is inno- USFSP Celebrates 50! caitlin ashworth vation?’ The panel will include business lead- MLK Day Parade at Downtown A fundraising ball to celebrate USFSP’s 50th Creative Director ers and entrepreneurs, such as the founder of St. Petersburg year. Erin morgan Groupon, Shawn Bercuson. Students can march in this annual parade April 7, 6-10 p.m. // University Student News editor Sept. 10, 2-3:30 p.m. // USC Ballroom with an on campus club or organization. Center Ballroom Emily Tinti Jan. 18, 11 am to 1 p.m. News assistant USFSP Block Party Jeffrey Zanker Celebrate USFSP turning 50 at the USFSP Arts & Life Editor Block Party. The event will feature food angelina bruno trucks, live music, and free t-shirts. Come Arts & Life assistant Editor out and meet Mayor Rick Kriseman and see julia marcuzzo the co-naming of Second Street S, soon to Staff Reporter also become University Way. Lauren Hensley Sept. 12, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. // USFSP CROSSWORD Photo editor Sean Le Roux Screen on the Green Advertising manager Watch a movie on Harborwalk lawn with Jessica Jagodzinski your friends. Grab a blanket and head over Web Manager and enjoy the show. Food and free gifts Liz Howard will be provided. 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Facebook: The Crow’s Nest at USF St. Petersburg Twitter: @USFcrowsnest crowsneststpete.com crowsneststpete.com Sept 8-13, 2015 | Volume 50 | Issue 3 Sept 8-13, 2015 | Volume 50 | Issue 3 crowsneststpete.com Alums have fond memories, big jobs Pioneers recall For many, special times, diplomas led By Julia Marcuzzo Staff Reporter special people to achievement

By Ivelliam Ceballo Crow’s Nest Contributor

A 13-time sailing world champion. A Guinness world record holder. Several current and former elected officials. A marine biologist renowned for her study of Florida’s red tide. And a former marine, blinded in Iraq, who now works with guide dogs. These are some of the many USF St. Petersburg alumni who went on to achieve success after earning their degrees. As the university celebrates its 50th anniversary, the alumni rela- tions department published a section on its website called the “Green and Golden” to recognize successful alumni.

Philip “Ed” Baird, B.A., General Business Administration ’82 J.M. “Sudsy” Tschiderer Eileen D’Angelo Mattioli Sue Porter Class of ’71 Class of ‘89 The sailing competi- Class of ‘68 tor and coach is a 13-time Environment: Environment: world champion. Environment: A sailing career was not Her last name is Tschiderer, but In those days, all campus build- The small campus size made it three generations of university stu- ings were barracks, having been an difficult to “goof off” because the something he imagined dents know her as “Sudsy.” When old military port, and classrooms professors affectionately knew all possible, according to the she was a student, she said, it was were plain. “People there came their students. The school’s layout Quantum Racing Team Courtesy of the Ed Baird “a brand new entity” with a diverse from all careers and lives to get that in the late ’80s differed significantly helmsman. Baird in Geneva, Switzerland in 2007 holding America’s student body that included return- Cup after winning the Alinghi syndicate. elementary [education] degree,” from today’s campus - many of “When I was a kid the ing veterans, local parents and Mattioli said. junior college grads. today’s buildings didn’t exist and sport was amateur only. It Education professors took this there was a bookstore where the Friendly faculty and an average program seriously and kept a strict wasn’t until after I got out of the made available from the school,” class size of 15 to 20 students cre- environment that was focused on Grind is. university that the sport changed its he said. “That makes that school ated a family-like environment at getting their students involved in Hangout Spots: rules and allowed professionalism,” very, very special. There aren’t the Bay Campus. local elementary schools to teach Porter enjoyed spending time at Baird said. “I’ve always loved it.” a lot of universities in the world Hangout Spots: children. the same tables that still sit along After completing his first two that can provide you that unique In the early ’70s students Hangout Spots: the harbor today. During her first noticed a pool littered with leaves years of college, Baird took two opportunity.” With Mattioli’s busy schedule week of school, she sat there as a years off to join an Olympic cam- The sailor is competing with a and animal carcasses. Determined in the education program, which small plane headed straight toward to fix it, students rallied together; paign in sailing. He said USFSP was 22-man crew in Sardinia, an island was similar to an internship with her. they dug for plumbing, cleaned the right place for him to complete off the Mediterranean, in the Maxi hands-on teaching at local schools, “I could see the pilot inside the and repainted the neglected pool. his education. Yacht Rolex Cup, a 12-day world it left her with little extra time. plane,” she said. Having no idea “While people didn’t live on However, she found excite- that a small airport was next to “I would suggest to anybody championship race for 72-foot campus, they lived in the commu- ment around lunchtime because of who’s going to school at USF St. boats. nity, and the pool was the real hub Freddie Crawford, who would join the campus, she thought her life of our social life,” Sudsy said. would end at the age of 40. Luckily, Pete to make sure to take the oppor- Baird isn’t the only bull whose her and her friends. “He was the tunity to enjoy the waterfront that’s passion is to be out at sea. School Activities: first black policeman in this area the plane flew off, and she could As a new campus, a student to kind of mingle with whites,” she breathe again. affairs department didn’t exist. said. “He protected us...it was very School Activities: When Sudsy saw an invitation exciting and I’m so glad I had that Porter got involved on campus David Mearns, M.A, to start developing student life, experience.” Marine Science, ’86 she joined the Student Affairs in the ambassador program and Committee in 1969, which later honor society. As an ambassador, School Activities: her obligations included helping As director of Blue served as the foundation for the Mattioli found herself more Student Government Association. involved in her job at Davis out and participating in various Waters Recoveries Ltd., an That same year, Sudsy started Elementary than at the campus. campus activities. In the late ’80s, ultra deep-sea operations the Bay Campus Bulletin, the “It was a really great experience she attended a homecoming con- company, Mearns has led the campus newspaper. A year later, to work with the other teachers cert by the band Chicago at the discovery of more than two Professor Bill Garrett won a con- – it was team teaching,” Mattioli Sun Dome in Tampa. Ambassadors dozen major shipwrecks. test that changed the name to what said. Her professors, Dr. Shannon were expected to act a certain way, He and his company it is today, the Crow’s Nest, refer- and Dr. Bubois, discussed meth- but she couldn’t resist being the encing the on-site marina. A crow’s hold three Guinness World Courtesy of the Tampa Bay Times ods on how to properly teach chil- first one to take off her shoes and nest is the tower atop a ship that dren, which was especially impor- records for the discoveries. One was Mearns is one of the world’s most acclaimed serves as the lookout. green jacket to start dancing on a the German World War II block- shipwreck hunter. tant during a time period that chair. Memorable Moment: public schools were being deseg- ade-runner Rio Grande at 5,762 “One of the most profound sto- regated. They would tell her, “You Memorable Moment: meters, the deepest shipwreck would wind up having when I grad- When “Dr. Rich” interrupted ries to me is when we broke ground don’t have to know everything as located in history. uated,” Mearns said. “I can only say for phase one of campus expan- long as you know where to look it Porter’s class to announce her sion – which is today’s Davis Hall appointment into the ambassador As a student, Mearns switched what has worked for me and that up.” This motto was considered the disciplines and worked several part- is to follow your interest and pas- and Bayboro Hall,” said Sudsy. basis for most of the program: find- program, she first took no notice, After the 1978 ceremony, univer- ing knowledge. and was busily chatting away with time jobs to pay his way through sion because by nature you’ll do far sity people, civic leaders, and St. Memorable Moment: her friends. But the moment Porter school. But most of his time was better in a field you truly love.” Petersburg Times editor Nelson One of Mattioli’s most trea- spent at sea, collecting and analyz- Alumni relations officer Heidi Poynter went to lunch at the Yacht realized what he had said, she sured memories was in 1967, couldn’t believe it. Having been the ing geophysical data. Hamlin has the opportunity to Club. when Shannon and Bubois Hours later, Poynter tragically oldest person to interview for one The aspiring marine scientist connect with some of the universi- published a book, Pyramid of sent about 80 resumes after earn- ty’s distinguished alumni. suffered a stroke. He was taken to a Learning: Physicians, Visions and of three positions in the program, hospital and died soon after. Propositions, which was comprised she never expected to be chosen. ing his degree. Only three compa- “It is impressive to know what “Breaking ground was his of papers written by the educa- nies showed interest in him. One different folks have done with their dream come true,” Sudsy said. tion class. Mattioli had contrib- was performing groundbreaking degree since graduating,” Hamlin “He accomplished what he wanted uted a piece called “Reorganize the work, and offered him opportuni- said. “They’ve done some incredi- to do. It was his unfinished busi- Elementary school.” ties to become an expert in his field, ble things.” ness, and when it was finished, it was okay.” “There is no way I could have imagined what kind of career I