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Thank You for Changing My Life calendar “The Association’s Legislative Internship Program gave me an opportunity at a time when I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my future, and changed my life forever.” Evelyn Hale, Legislative Intern, 2002 The Legislative Internship Program is just one of the important programs that your membership makes possible. The Legislative Internship Program is designed to cultivate tomorrow’s leaders. Through your membership, the Alumni Association provides financial support and mentoring to enable students to participate in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a part of the legislative process while working at the local and district offices of Florida’s United States Senators and Congressmen, members of the House of Representatives, the Tampa City Council, the Hillsborough County Commission, state agencies, lobbying organizations, and other local government offices. WWW.USFALUMNI.ORG CONTENTS FEATURES 10 16 24 College Sweethearts They enrolled at USF for an education, but were lucky enough to find the love of their lives while earning their degrees. With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, this seems like the perfect time to introduce some USF couples who share their lives and their Bull Pride. 10 From USF to the FBI More than two decades with the FBI took William Esposito, `70, from America’s underbelly to its marbled halls of justice; from undercover work with Midwestern mobsters to some of the highest profile criminal cases in modern history. 18 24 16 An Envoy of Hope Eric Bost, M.A. `85, U.S. ambassador to South Africa, feels like he is making headway on the main initiatives between the U.S. and South Africa: HIV/AIDS, economic development, education and counter-terrorism. 18 Delivering the Dream As a Cuban immigrant himself, Emilio Gonzalez, `77, leads the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service into a new era and brings a personal perspective to the hot-button topic of 3 7 20 immigration reform. 6 Q&A with Itzak Perlman The violin virtuoso talks about The Perlman Music Program, which recently held a two-week winter residency at USF’s Sarasota-Manatee campus. DEPARTMENTS 2 President’s Message 13 Chapters & Societies 3 News Roundup 20 Blast From the Past 4 USF Spotlight 21 That Was Then; This is Now 5 News Roundup 21 Share a Memory 6 Letters to the Editor 30 Class Notes 7 Where’s Rocky? 35 In Memoriam 8 Movers & Shakers 36 Athletics 9 Travel Program 37 Calendar JANUARY 2008 I ALUMNIVOICE 1 Alumni Voice USF Alumni Association Gibbons Alumni Center University of South Florida president’s message 4202 East Fowler Avenue, ALC100 Tampa, Florida 33620 [email protected] Hello Fellow Alumni, USFalumni.org Alumni Voice magazine is published What a great time to be a USF Bull! With the academic and four times a year in January, April, athletic achievement of the past year, our name recognition is July and October by and for members at an all-time high. Now it’s time for the Alumni Association of the USF Alumni Association. A $40 to seize that momentum and take USF to the next level. The membership fee includes Alumni Voice good news is that you can help. magazine as a member benefit. Alumni Voice Magazine Editorial: Our University has so many enthusiastic alumni who want to Karla Jackson, give back to their alma mater, but because we’re such a young [email protected] or institution, many people are unsure of how to help. You don’t Rita Kroeber [email protected] have to fund a building or endow a professorship to make a Advertising: Rita Kroeber, 813-974-6312 difference in USF’s future (although we’d be thrilled if you did.) There are so or [email protected] many ways to support your university, such as: Design: McShane Communications Contributing Authors in this Issue: Get involved with an alumni chapter or society. The Alumni Association has two dozen chapters from as far away as Barbados to as close as Pinellas, Sarasota- • Kathy L. Greenberg Manatee, Polk, and, of course, Tampa. There’s also a roster of special-interest • Barbara Perkins • Natalie Schultz societies, including the Black Alumni, Geology Alumni, Business Alumni and • Mary Patrick Walker several more. And, since the Alumni Association is a state-chartered nonprofit organization, some businesses will even give employees a few hours off each Alumni Association Contact month to volunteer. Visit our website at www.USFalumni.org to learn how Information to get connected. Executive Director: John Harper, `76 Membership: 813-974-2100 or Fund a scholarship or sponsor an event. You don’t have to be wealthy to make 800-299-BULL a real difference in the lives of our students.There are plenty of scholarship and Alumni & Student Programs: sponsorship opportunities that match whatever you want to give. Contact Ron 813-974-2100 Sherman or Zakia Carr at (813) 974-2100 to see how you can help. General Alumni Email: [email protected] Become a Life Member. Life member dues go toward the Alumni Association’s Giving/Scholarships: endowment, ensuring that there will always be an organization devoted to [email protected] or keeping alumni connected to each other and the University. Plus, you get extra [email protected] points toward priority seating at sporting events. USF Bulls License Plate: www.BullsPlate.org Show your Bull Pride. Wear USF apparel on game days and casual days. Alumni Alumni Association website: Association members get discounts at BullsOutfitter on Fowler Avenue. USFalumni.org (Visit BullsOutfitter.com.) Talk up USF to prospective students and their Letters to the editor are encouraged. parents. They may not realize that USF is ranked as one of the “Best 366 Please write to Karla Jackson at Colleges” in Princeton Review's 2008 Guide, or that it’s one of the top 63 [email protected] or mail to the research institutions in the country. address at the top of the page. Views Recruit fellow graduates. Tell your USF friends about the Alumni Association and expressed in Alumni Voice magazine how they can reconnect with their alma mater. Have them go to www.myUSFbio.org do not necessarily reflect the opinions and update their contact information so they can get the latest news. of the USF Alumni Association, the University of South Florida or the With your help, we can show the world that it’s great to bleed Green & Gold! editorial staff. New Address? Moving? Your Friend, Update your official USF alumni record at myUSFbio.org or email your correction to [email protected]. You also may remove the label and send it with your correct address to Alumni Voice, USF Alumni Association, 4202 East Fowler Ave. ALC100, Tampa, FL 33620.© 2007 All rights reserved. Jeff Spalding, `87 Life Member Charlotte, N.C. 2 ALUMNIVOICE I JANUARY 2008 newsroundup Understanding Leadership and Policy Studies ranked tenth in faculty productivity. Red Tide The rankings are based on scholarly publications, citation counts, research and grants. Studying the causes and forecasting outbreaks of red tide is the purpose of the new Center for Prediction USF Rises in of Red Tides, which opened in Research Rankings November at USF St. Petersburg’s College of Marine Science. The University is rocketing to the top ranks of the nation’s research A five-year, $1.25 million contract universities. The National Science from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Fish and Foundation’s survey of federally Wildlife Research Institute will help finance the center. USF is matching financed research & development the state’s contribution with a $400,000 computer cluster, along with expenditures at universities and staff support for the center. colleges for 2006 shows the Red tides are natural phenomena caused by a microscopic organism, University of South Florida at number 63, up three places from the Karenia brevis, which produces a toxin that can kill fish, birds and marine previous year and the second highest-ranking university in Florida. mammals, such as dolphins and manatees. It can also cause respiratory The rise of USF is dramatic — it was ranked 130th in 2000 when Judy problems in people. Genshaft became president at USF. High-tech Military Help for Juvenile Center Opens Diabetes The new C.W. “Bill” Young The National Institutes of Health Hall has opened on the Tampa awarded $169 million to USF Health to campus, a 53,000-square-foot, coordinate and analyze results from a state-of-the-art facility that will 10-year international study to determine be the new home of the Joint the environmental causes of juvenile Military Leadership Center (JMLC) diabetes. Its goal is to prevent, delay or reverse type 1 diabetes mellitus. and USF’s ROTC programs. Congressman The 10-year award, to the team led by Jeffrey P. Krischer, Ph.D., is the Young sponsored the federal grant largest in USF history. At clinical sites around the world, the study will that funded the building and screen 360,000 newborns in order to track 8,000 babies — eventually its operation. analyzing more than 100,000 lab tests. The building has five classrooms and three lecture halls equipped for The study will seek to explain why some children get juvenile diabetes and video conferencing for distance learning classes, as well as a weapons why the incidence has doubled since the 1980s. Known as TEDDY, its the simulation room, joint cadet/midshipmen lounge, computer lab and official title is “The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young.” library, public meeting spaces and office and storage spaces for the ROTC programs.

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