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Robert Stackhouse Snapshots of an Artist

The Right Balance Building a Legacy Here She Comes Achieving balance is the key to a healthy body Sculptor, painter, printmaker, Robert Stack- Miss America 1999, Nicole Johnson, `96, has and happy life, says Tampa’s premier “diet house, `65, discovered his talent as a member of made a career out of helping people with doctor” Jay Garcia, `68. PG 10 USF’s charter class. PG 12 diabetes live their lives to the fullest. PG 18 What happens when Knights, Bulls and Gators meet o f f the football field? RESEARCH Competitors on the Field – Industry Partners in the Laboratory Working Together to Discover Innovative Technologies

These successful alumni found research partners:

Antoine Khoury, UCF, ’88 Advanced Power Electronics Corp. (APECOR) provides leading research and development services in power electronics for renewable energy, electric vehicles, space power management and other applications.

Jim Donovan, USF, ’76 TempTroll Inc. developed a self-heating washcloth that has been used by hospital patients, American troops in Iraq and hurricane victims here at home.

Neil Euliano, UF, ’86 Convergent Engineering created an “electronic pill” that communicates with an external monitor when the pill is consumed.

More than 300 companies from across Florida’s High Tech Corridor have used Florida High Tech Corridor Council matching grants research dollars to partner with university faculty and graduate students on applied research to develop or enhance their company’s products since 1996.

Find your partner at FloridaHighTech.com/research. APRIL 2009

CONTENTS

FEATURES 8 10 8 Q&A with Marlee Matlin Academy Award winning actress Marlee Matlin wants people to understand that the only thing deaf people can’t do is hear, which is why she appeared on Dancing with the Stars and speaks extensively at colleges and universities like USF.

10 The Diet Doctor is In Jay Garcia, `68, was the first baseball player to attend USF on scholarship. Now the Havana native is a successful physician with a patented weight-loss program that has 12 18 helped tens of thousands of people change their lives.

12 Robert Stackhouse Growing up at his grandparent’s fish camp in Polk County, Robert Stackhouse, `65, never dreamed he would become an internationally renowned artist and sculptor. He credits USF with helping him unearth his talent, and in return, he gifted the University with an archive of his prints, both past and future.

18 In the Pink Nicole Johnson, `96, was a 19-year-old sophomore just 21 26 37 starting out on the beauty pageant scene when she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. She went on to become Miss America 1999, as well as an author, T.V. host and advocate for those who live with the disease.

COVER: American Print, 2001 Screenprint DEPARTMENTS

“This one is actually 2 President’s Message 27 That Was Then; collaboration with 3 USF Spotlight This Is Now Carol. One of the reasons I’m interested 4 News Roundup 28 Employ-A-Bull in making prints is 6 Where’s Rocky? 29 Featured Member Benefit because … prints are 8 Q&A 30 Class Notes an affordable way 21 Chapters & Societies 36 Athletics to collect blue-chip 26 Blast from the Past 37 Calendar artists. You can spend a relatively small bit of money and get a name artist. Graphicstudio has a wonderful sale every year.” -Robert Stackhouse

APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 1 Alumni Voice USF Alumni Association® Gibbons Alumni Center University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue, ALC100 president’s message Tampa, Florida 33620 [email protected] USFalumni.org Hello Fellow Alumni, Alumni Voice Editorial: Have you noticed the world seems to be getting smaller Karla Jackson, [email protected] or and more connected? It seems like every time I turn Rita Kroeber, [email protected] around, people are texting or emailing from their cell Advertising: Jim Gundry, [email protected] or 813-286-8299; Rita Kroeber, rkroeber@admin. phones, talking into their Bluetooth ear buds, listening usf.edu or 813-974-6312 to their iPods or downloading photos and music to their Design: Marilyn Stephens, University PC. Even many job candidates list their own professional Communications & Marketing websites on their resumes today. Contributing Writers in this Issue: Lisa Cunningham, `85 The world is changing. You may be asking, how did this Mia Faucher, `10 happen? What is driving the change? Nowhere is the change more obvious Anna Peters, `09 than among students and alumni. Consider the many recent advances in social Arleen Spenceley, `07 networking for USF alumni: Alumni Association Contact Information • Now you can connect the USF alumni website to your Facebook Executive Director: John Harper, `76 account. When you register for an alumni event, you can publish an Membership: 813-974-2100 or 800-299-BULL announcement to your Facebook profile and help give USF the exposure Alumni & Student Programs: 813-974-2100 it deserves. General Alumni e-mail: [email protected] • Just last month, the Bulls Country Network — your trusted social network Giving/Scholarships: Ron Sherman, [email protected] powered by inCircle, launched an application with Facebook. Now you USF Bulls License Plate: www.BullsPlate.org can go to your inCircle community directly through Facebook. Alumni Association website: USFalumni.org • You can also become a fan of the USF Alumni Association page on Facebook or join the USF Alumni Association group on MySpace. Letters to the editor are encouraged. Please write to Karla Jackson at kjackson@admin. • Some of you already are involved with LinkedIn, Twitter, Plaxo, hi5 … usf.edu or mail to the address at the top of the list goes on. the page. Views expressed in Alumni Voice do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the USF Community is no longer just the neighborhood in which you live. Alumni Association, the University of South Technology allows us to define community in different ways — many Florida or the editorial staff. of which have nothing to do with physical location. As a member of the Baby Boomer Generation, I’m new to many of these technologies. But I ALUMNI VOICE am thankful to my friends in Generation X and the Millennial Generation (USPS Alumni Voice) for opening my eyes to the power of these social networks. We’re able to Number 7 reconnect and stay connected with each other and our University. Alumni Voice is published quarterly in Janu- ary, April, July, and October as a benefit of You may already be part of a virtual community. Hopefully you’re already membership in the University of South Florida registered on our Bulls Country Network (https://incircle.usf.org). It’s a Alumni Association, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., great place to share a significant college experience and common affinity ALC100, Tampa, FL 33620-5455. Application to with other USF Bulls in a trusted and secure environment. Be sure to visit mail at periodicals postage prices is pending at Tampa, FL. POSTMASTER: Send address www.USFalumni.org/SocialNetwork to learn more about social networking changes to: University of South Florida Alumni opportunities with your fellow alumni. Association, Communications Department, If you have suggestions on other social networking opportunities that we 4202 E. Fowler Ave., ALC100, Tampa, FL should explore, don’t hesitate to email your idea to [email protected] 33620-5455. and put “Social Networking” in the subject line. New Address? Moving? In Bull Pride, Update your official USF alumni record at myUSFbio.org or email your information to [email protected]. You also may remove the magazine label and send it with your cor- Michele Norris, `79 rect address to Alumni Voice, USF Alumni As- President, USF Alumni Association sociation, 4202 E. Fowler Ave. ALC100, Tampa, FL 33620. © 2009 All rights reserved.

2 ALUMNIVOICE | APRIL 2009 University of South Florida Alumni Association Board of Directors

— PRESIDENT — USF Michele Norris, `79 Marketing — PRESIDENT-ELECT — Roger Frazee, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CPA, `71 Finance & Accounting spotlight — SECRETARY — Patrick Poff, Esq., `92 English — Co-TREASURERS — Marie Edmonson, CPA, CFE, `88 Accounting, M.A. `90 Accountancy Brad Kelly, CPA, `79 Accounting USFAA Spotlight: Athletics Council — IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT — This newly established council has a primary goal of identifying opportuni- Jeff Spalding, `87 Computer Science & Engineering ties for the USF Alumni Association and USF Athletics to work together — Board Members — more closely to serve and promote the constituencies of both organizations. Brandon Aldridge, `88 Communication The Council also developed, implemented and maintains the “Be Respect- Janice Sands Ash, P.E.,`87 Engineering Science, `89 M.S. Civil A-Bull” campaign, which sets the standards of Bull pride, sportsmanship Engineering and honor that ensure a safe and fun atmosphere at USF athletic events. Gene Balter, P.E.`77 Engineering Angie Brewer, `82 Management, M.S. `84 Management Shaye Benfield, `97 Marketing Athletics Committee Members Bill Eickhoff, `69 Business & MBA `73 • Angie Brewer, `82 & M.S. `84, Chair James Gossett, `98 Business • Brandon Aldridge, `88 Gene Haines, `97 Criminology • Gene Haines, `97 Lizz Harmon, `82 Mass Communications/Advertising • Rich Heruska, `99 Charley Harris, Esq., `87 Business • Mike LaPan, `81 Richard Heruska, `99 Business • Victor Lucas, `85 Anila Jain, M.D., MBA `81 Biology • Jim Ragsdale, `81 Mike LaPan, CFE `81 Management Mark Levine, Esq.,`74 Psychology • Carla Saavedra, `87 Victor Lucas, `85 Management Diana Michel, `88 Business Jim Ragsdale, `81 Management Carla Saavedra, `87 English Jim Weber, `77 Finance & MBA `82 The 2008-09 USF Alumni Association Board of Directors show off Derek Williams, CFP `00 Finance their Bull Pride. Pictured are, front row: Christi Womack-Villa- Christi Womack-Villalobos, `92 English lobos, Diana Michel, Dr. Anila Jain, Marie Edmonson and Angie — NON-VOTING MEMBERS OF THE BOARD — Brewer. Middle row: Brad Kelly, Thomas King, Gene Haines, Gene Judy Genshaft, University of South Florida President Balter, James Gossett, Shaye Benfield, Lizz Harmon, Jan Ash, Pat John Harper, `76 Mass Comm., Alumni Association Executive Director Poff, Carla Saavedra, Michele Norris and Mike LaPan. Back row: Thomas King, Student Government Vice President Jeff Spalding, Blake Singletary, Derek Williams, Roger Frazee, Leslie “Les” Muma, `66 Mathematics, USF Foundation Board of Jim Weber and Rich Heruska. Trustees Chairman Elizabeth Pitts, USF Ambassadors President Joel D. Momberg, University Advancement Vice President

APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 3 roundup

news The PharmD program will be housed under the auspices Award-winning Leadership USF President Judy Genshaft is the of the USF College of Medicine. The University expects to first woman to be awarded the Tampa apply to the Florida Legislature for program funding by 2011, Bay Regional Planning Council’s Herman so that its first PharmD class could be admitted later that year. Goldner Award for Regional Leadership. In addition, USF Research Park won the Creating a Greener organization’s Charles A. McIntosh, Jr. Award Power Grid of Distinction. Both awards were presented USF’s Power Center at the organization’s 17th Annual Future of the Regions Awards for Utility Explorations and luncheon in March. Progress Energy Florida were selected by Florida’s New Doctoral Programs Energy and Climate The Florida Board of Governors granted USF approval Commission to build the to establish new doctoral programs in history, government, largest and most comprehensive smart grid in the Southeast, sociology and pharmacy. serving at least 5,000 customers on the west side of St. The programs in history, government and sociology Petersburg and St. Pete Beach. are linked, which is different from traditional, discipline- The three-year, $15 million project will incorporate based programs. They focus on building sustainable, healthy alternative energy sources such as solar power and biodiesel communities in a global context. Ranging from global security, to fuel into the electrical power supply for the neighborhoods. population growth and land-use development, to understanding Incorporating cutting-edge technology, the program aims to the international financial crisis, the design of the programs develop a system that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, ensures graduates will be uniquely qualified to meet the needs create a power supply that better adapts to energy demands of a widening marketplace. USF will use existing resources in and one which serves customers with better reliability and each of these departments to support the delivery of the new efficiency. Ph.D. programs. Engineers Arif Islam and Alexander Domijan, pictured,

South Africa Escapade October 5-14, 2009

Space is limited! Find out more by calling Heather Galterio at 813.974.6099 or visiting www.USFalumni.org (click on BullsMall in the left-hand column, then select Travel)

4 ALUMNIVOICE | APRIL 2009 are spearheading the effort. USF’s proposal was chosen from broadcast schedules are set. Be sure to check the USF Alumni a field of 140 applicants. The project is funded in collaboration Association website, www.USFalumni.org for details as they between the Governor’s Energy Office, Progress Energy develop. Florida, Publix and HD Supply. 40 Years of Bull Pride USFAA Awards In 1969, Neil Armstrong walked Scholarships on the moon, more than a half-million Part of the mission of the people attended Woodstock and USF Alumni Association is the USF Alumni Association was to support students during incorporated. In the four decades since, their studies at USF. Toward the Alumni Association has become the that end, the USFAA awarded gatekeeper of USF’s enduring legacy, three scholarships in the spring of 2009. an organization that creates and maintains the University’s In January, two seniors, Elijah Cheeks and Sriram traditions and fosters a lifelong connection between the Madhusoodanan, each won $2,000 awards from the institution, alumni and students. association’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship fund. The In 1998, the Alumni Association moved into its permanent awards are presented to students who best represent the home, the Sam & Martha Gibbons Alumni Center, named in ideals and philosophies of Dr. King through their academic honor of the “Father of USF,” retired U.S. Congressman Sam achievement and community service. Gibbons and his late wife. The center serves as a “home Cheeks, pictured second from right, is a Business base” for more than 220,000 USF alumni and is a repository of major who is involved in Phi Beta Lambda, the Future historical items, such as the University’s first ceremonial mace Business Leaders of America, Financial Management and a bombshell casing from when the grounds served as a Association International and the National Association of Black World War II bombing range. Accountants. He works for Vector Marketing, and expects to The USF Alumni Association is a state-registered nonprofit become district manager in May. organization. Dues, which may be tax-deductable, are $40 Madhusoodanan is majoring In International Studies and annually or $700 lifetime, with discounts for joint membership, Economics. He is a volunteer student coordinator for the and include an array of benefits including access to the credit Center for Civic Engagement and Volunteerism, Coalition for union, recreation center, libraries and more. Check out the Global Justice and Students for Social Justice. He works for specifics at www.USFalumni.org. the Princeton Review, where he is a SAT, LSAT and MCAT instructor and tutor. 2009-2010 Alumni Board Elected In March, the Alumni Association also awarded its $1,000 The USF Alumni Association board members elected the LGBT Scholarship to Emma Makdessi, a senior majoring in incoming board of directors for the 2009-10 fiscal year, which International Studies. The LGBT Scholarship is awarded to a begins in July. Members of the new board are: student who demonstrates academic achievement, has unmet Roger Frazee, `71, President Gene Haines, `97 financial need and who has contributed to a welcoming climate Brad Kelly, `79, President-Elect Lizz Harmon, `82 for students of all genders and sexual orientations. Victor Lucas, `85, Treasurer Lisa Provenzano-Heugal, `83 Makdessi is involved with the Pride Alliance, Latin Rich Heruska, `99, Co-Treasurer Mark Levine, `74 American Student Association and University Area Community Anila Jain, `81, Secretary Diana Michel, `88 Leadership Development Program. She is currently a counselor Michele Norris, `79, Immediate Pat Poff, `92 at Community Tampa Bay, where she facilitates discussions on Past President Jim Ragsdale, `81 diversity issues with high school students. Janice Sands Ash, `87 & `89 Kimberly Choto Schmidt, `92 For a complete list of scholarships available from the USF Gene Balter, `77 & `02 Alumni Association, visit www.USFalumni.org > Students > Shaye Benfield, `97 Jeff Spalding, `87 Scholarships. Donna Brickman, `81 Alan Steinberg, `78 Rajiv Dembla, `92 Christi Womack-Villalobos, `92 SuperBull XIII is Set Bill Eickhoff, `69 & 73 Jim Weber, `97 & `82 It’s official: Homecoming SuperBull 2009 will Audrey Gilmore, `80 Derek Williams, `00 be Sat. Nov. 21, when your USF Bulls battle the Louisville Cardinals. Make plans to attend the Correction USF Alumni Association’s family friendly Parade In the January 2009 Alumni Voice, an incorrect title was given Watch Party on Friday, Nov. 20, and also Bulls for alumna Gail Carroll-Coe. She is a boom operator/sound Roast, the biggest tailgate of the year, before utility technician. We also incorrectly included “Million Dollar the football game on Saturday. Times will be Baby” on a list of movies she’s worked on. We apologize for announced as soon as the televised the errors. – Ed.

APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 5 rockywhere’s ? Take Rocky on your next trip and send your photos to: Karla Jackson at [email protected] or to her attention at the USF Alumni Association, 4202 E. Fowler Ave. ALC100, Tampa, FL 33620-5455.

Carissa Giblin, `95 & MBA `02, and her cousin, Lisa Giblin, `08, took Rocky along as they celebrated Lisa’s graduation with a trip to their ancestors’ homeland in Ireland. This is Rocky in front of the historic Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary.

Rocky accompanied the group on the USF Alumni Association’s trip to Peru. Pictured here at Sacsayhuaman, an Inca temple just outside of Cusco, Peru, from left to right are: Dr. Armando Gutierrez, `65; Dr. Margarita Gelpi; Nelson and Vivian Castellano; Hope Schechter and Rita Reger, `89.

Rocky’s ready for the lobster bake in Bar Harbor, Maine, with, from left to right: Kailash Jain; Dr. Mona Jain, Ph.D `84; Suzanne Ferlita; Dr. Anila Jain, MBA `81; Roger Frazee, `71; Janet Weiss (standing) and Frank Ferlita, `85.

6 ALUMNIVOICE | APRIL 2009 USF alumnus and Florida House Speaker Pro Tempore Ron Reagan, `77, right, introduces Rocky to World Golf Hall of Famer Greg Norman and his wife, tennis great Chris Everett. After being sworn in during the Legislature’s opening ceremonies, Rep. Reagan received a gag gift of a green and gold whip – perfect for taming unruly legislators.

Rocky took this photo of some Bulls fans at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq. From top: SFC Angel Quiroz and SSG Michael Hill. Bottom row is SFC Steven Garces and SGT David Rodriguez, all of the U.S. Army 40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion.

Barbara Bushnell, a Class of `91 Business grad, gave her “Bulls Mean Business” T-shirt the star treatment during her visit to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She also got a little messy while enjoying beignets and chicory coffee at Café DuMonde in New Orleans.

Rocky takes in the scenery in Central Park in New York City with Dr. Anila Jain, MBA `81, left and Janet Kelly, `80 & M.Ed `04.

APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 7 with Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin By Karla Jackson, Class of 1988

just to name a few. What’s the secret to landing such great TV roles? Who is the favorite character you’ve played on TV?

A. I loved playing the Lip Reader on “Seinfeld” and the Dancing Bandit on “Picket Fences.” They were funny, out- there characters. I also loved my character, Joey Lucas, on “West Wing.” Now that’s a woman who could’ve definitely become President! Ha!

Q. You’re also on Showtime’s “The L Word.” As a married mother of four, were your family, friends and fans surprised to see you in that role?

A. No, because I’m known for taking on roles that are challenging and that break the stereotype of what a person who is deaf can and cannot do.

Q. You’ve said that you have a brother who is gay. Was that a factor in accepting the role of Jodi on “The L Word?”

A. The creator, Ilene Chaiken, was a fan of mine and asked if I would join the show. My decision to do it had nothing to do with my brother, but I welcomed the op- portunity to use the visibility of the show to talk about the inequalities and discrimination that people who are gay Actor, author and advocate Marlee Matlin visited still face. I love my brother very much and wanted people USF in March as part of the University Lecture Series. to know that gay or straight, we all deserve to love and be A married, mother of four, Matlin, who is deaf, holds loved by whomever we wish. the record for being the youngest-ever Best Actress Oscar winner. Q. What did you think when you were first approached with the idea of competing on “Dancing with the Stars?” Q. You won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1986 at age 21 for your role in “Children of a Lesser God.” What A. I was flattered and honored because I knew that com- was it like to win such a prestigious award at such a young petition to be on the show was fierce. At the same time, it age in a debut performance? How did that role come about? was a reality show, and having not done that type of show, I was hesitant. But then my children said “Do it!” and I had A. In retrospect, I’m glad I won it back then when I was no choice. I wanted to be the coolest mom for them and it naive and young. I think if I was nominated now, I would turned out to be one of the best experiences of my life. be a wreck. The pressures and press are so much different now than they were back then. As for how I got the role, Q. How did you adapt to not being able to hear the music? I was spotted doing a local production of “Children of a Lesser God” in Chicago by a talent agent and they sent my A. I learned the dance and followed my dance partner. tape off to a Hollywood casting director. The director of the Simple as that. It’s not rocket science when I tell people film, Randa Haines, saw me in the background and asked that deaf people can do anything except hear. And dancing me to audition – for the lead! From then on, it was like a in ballroom really doesn’t require that you hear. You have runaway train. In only three short months, I was offered a partner who leads you and you learn the steps. It’s an the lead in a Hollywood movie. Me, just a regular gal from internal rhythm and clock that guides me. In the end, I told Morton Grove, IL. It was mind blowing and humbling. people that I was fortunate that my dance partner Fabian was my music. Q. You’ve been on so many excellent TV shows: “The West Wing,” “Pickett Fences,” “Seinfeld,” “My Name is Earl,” Q. What was the hardest part of the competition for you?

8 ALUMNIVOICE | APRIL 2009 A. The time away from my family and performing live in A. When I was 11, I told myself that I wanted to tell the front of 25 million viewers. As a film actor used to retakes, world that it was okay to be deaf. When I became a mother, that was tough! I decided then it was time so that my own children could read about the life of a young girl, just like them, who just Q. Do you feel like a real dancer now? happened to be deaf and who had a wonderful life, just like me! A. I am by no means a dancer, but I know how to dance now and love the art of it. I leave that title to the profes- Q. Do your kids and husband sign? How do you handle sionals! Ha! those little aspects of family life, such as knowing when the baby’s crying or your kids are calling for you? Q. You studied Criminal Justice in college and are married to a police officer. Did you seriously consider going into A. They all sign, but because I speak so well, we speak that field? and I read lips more than we sign. As for the baby crying, we had a baby cry alert attached to the lights in the house A. Yes. I was taught to believe that I could do anything I and when my kids are calling for me, they know to come to set my mind to. And because I wanted to be a cop, I said me. My husband also helps out. It’s really not so tough. I’d do it. Reality set in, however, when I found out that being a cop who was deaf would put me in danger. That’s Q. You do a lot of speaking engagements for different when I went back to acting. causes. What do you like to talk about when you’re in front of an audience as yourself, as opposed to in character? Q. You were instrumental in lobbying for Closed Cap- tion programming in the U.S. in the 90s and still serve as a A. That none of us should ever back down from the barri- spokeswoman for Closed Captioning. With so many deaf ers we have in life. I’m a good example of what it means to viewers who can read lips, why is CC so important? defy expectations and just follow your heart. I love that my story might inspire someone to overcome the barriers they A. Try watching TV without the words and see how much thought they could never overcome, even if they aren’t deaf. can be read from the lips of people. And there’s so much that takes place off screen, so lip reading there wouldn’t even be possible! No lip reading is 100 percent effective and deaf people should not be expected to settle for less when everyone else can watch TV without any barriers. Thank goodness Congress recognized that deaf people should not be denied the opportunity for the access to TV that we take for granted. They dictated that all TV should be 5Q uestions: captioned. Now it’s time for movies to be captioned. Why What’s your favorite movie? is it that people who can hear can go to the movies and I “The Wizard of Oz” can’t, simply because it’s not captioned? What’s the last book you Q. On a “Seinfeld” episode, George referred to lip reading read? as a “superpower.” What did you think about that? The Last Lecture

A. It was hilarious. The best way to poke at misconcep- Where is your favorite place in the world? tions and stereotypes is to embrace them in humor. I loved it. Any place with my husband and four kids. Q. How long have you worked with your sign language interpreter? With your busy schedule and travel, do you What superpower would have several interpreters? you like to have? Split myself in two like A. I have my interpreter and business partner, Jack Jason, Samantha Stevens on who has worked with me for 24 years. He also runs my “Bewtiched” production company. And when Jack is not available due What’s the best advice to personal commitments, I use a couple of other interpret- you’ve ever received? ers. I also use them during filming so Jack is free to run my “Follow your heart.” That came business affairs. from my dear friend and mentor, Henry Winkler, when I was 12 Q. You’re also an author of children’s books. What made years old. you decide to write?

APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 9 Profile: Dr. Jay Garcia TheDiet Doctoris Balance is the key to a healthy body and happy life, says Dr. Jay Garcia.In By Arleen Spenceley Class of 2007

r. Jay Garcia is known and settled in Tampa. They started a as Tampa’s premier family and he began practicing as an weight loss physician. OB/GYN. He has two thriving He enjoyed his work, but also clinics, and many medi- found himself fascinated by something Dcal professionals across the country else: weight loss. have adopted his patented Medi-Zone “[So many] programs out there method. But when asked if he saw this are just giving you something to lose sort of success coming, he laughs. weight, but don’t give you anything “Absolutely not,” says the 63-year-old to keep your weight off,” says Garcia, Cuba native. who is a fit-and-trim example of his It’s been a winding path for Dr. program. Garcia, who was born in Havana, Frustrated by the fad diet plans on where he lived until he was 13 years the market, Garcia started to explore old. He spent his undergraduate years what he could do to change things. at USF studying Natural Sciences. “I was very interested in nutrition, On campus, he socialized at the old weight maintenance, lifestyle,” he says. University Center, then known as the “[In the] late 90s, I stopped doing ob- U.C. He also spent a lot of time behind stetrics and … I started doing aesthetic says. “They’re not really feeding their home plate as catcher for the Bulls medicine, which led to the weight loss body in a balanced way.” first baseball team. As USF’s first-ever program I’m doing full time now.” The idea, Garcia believes, is two- baseball player on scholarship, he felt The Medi-Zone program Garcia fold: Feed the body what it needs, and obligated to make the sport a priority. designed is used by doctors at clinics feed it the right amount. “It’s a commitment,” he says. across Florida, Georgia, Alabama, the “You should eat three meals and “Playing a sport is like having job.” Carolinas, Arizona and California. It two snacks every day,” he said. “Every Throughout his years as an under- entails a combination of meal plans, meal should have a protein source, a grad, baseball remained his primary medicines, supplements and fitness low glycemic carbohydrate and a small job, second only to his studies. He regimens tailored to meet the specific amount of good fat, (such as) olive graduated with a Bachelor of Science weight loss needs of each patient. oil.” degree in Natural Sciences in 1968 and “We follow the patient very close- That’s the opposite of the typical taught for a year after that at Dowdell ly, but we also expect the patient to American diet, which is loaded with Middle School, where he met his wife, understand they need to change their processed foods and too much refined Loraine, before heading to medical lifestyle,” Garcia says. sugar. school at Temple University in Phila- With his help, patients learn to With Garcia’s plan, patients feel delphia. He returned to USF for his retrain their taste buds and appetites. full and still lose weight. Not only residency in obstetrics and gynecology “People try a lot of gimmicks,” he do they get into swimsuit shape, but

10 ALUMNIVOICE | APRIL 2009 Dr. Jay Garcia and his wife, Loraine, with their Chihuahuas: Peanut, Chico, Peaches and Max. their blood sugar balances and their medical school at USF, did his resi- Daughter, JoAnna, is an actor who stars metabolism can better handle a slice of dency in orthopedic surgery at Loyola on the CW’s “Privileged,” and starred cake now and then. in Chicago, and is finishing up a fel- for six years as Cheyenne on the sit- Weight loss is not just about ap- lowship in hand surgery at Harvard. com “Reba.” pearance; it’s also a quality of life “I spend a lot of time with them,” issue, Garcia says. Proof of that are his says the proud papa. “They know they patients, like the one who started the 5Q uestions: are the most important people in my Medi-Zone program last April, who is life.” now 120 pounds lighter and was able What’s your favorite movie? He also makes time to rejuvenate to stop taking diabetes medication. “Shawshank Redemption.” after a long week at work. “We’ve taken care of probably “I spend time at my Indian Shores 60,000 patients just in the Tampa Bay What was the last book you read? beach house, enjoying the outdoors, area,” Garcia says. Extreme Measures by Jeffrey Archer. swimming, running, walking on the Just as balance is important in a Where is your favorite place in the beach,” he said. “Just enjoying the healthy diet, Garcia also believes it’s world? Tampa Bay. sunshine.” important for a happy life. And when Monday rolls around, “Family is my number one,” he What superpower would you like to he’s recharged and ready to go. says. “That’s the essence of your life. have? “My centers offer a lot of quality Your family members are a part of A. Fly. medical services and it has really made you.” a lot of difference in people’s lives,” What’s the best advice you’ve ever been His wife, Loraine, has a Master’s he said. “This is what I was meant to given? degree in Special Education from USF bring to the community.” “Be ethical in everything you do in life.” and helps with the business side of his practice. Son, Michael, 31, went to

APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 11 Adrift, 1996 Lithograph on black paper

“It’s a ship on the ocean, but there’s no ship there. It’s just the wake. It’s about mortality or immortality – what do we leave after we go?”

12 ALUMNIVOICE | APRIL 2009 StackhouseSnapshots of an Artist

By Karla Jackson Class of 1988

n a renovated, art deco corset factory near downtown St. Petersburg, Robert Stackhouse contemplates flow: The flow of paint on canvas, the flow of ocean currents, the flow of his career and life, from his birthplace of IBronxville, N.Y., to his childhood at a Polk City fish camp, to his metamorphosis as an artist at a fledgling university with more sandspurs than students.

APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 13 Blue Augusta, 2000 Intaglio

“I draw boats because they’re fun to draw and they have all the components of figure drawing: concave and convex curves and volume and weight … all these images were all about, I don’t know where I’m going. The boat never went any- where … it was always in the middle.”

Under K.C. Way, 1999 Etching

“We did a line plate and a tone plate and there’s some spitbite in there, but what created the saturated color, we just inked up a piece of Plexiglass … straight ink right on a piece of Plexiglass. That was marvelous for [a] spitbite etching to [have] that kind of intensity.” – Robert Stackhouse Editions Archive

14 ALUMNIVOICE | APRIL 2009 Brooklyn Bridge, 1983 Lithograph

“New York City is a European town, culturally. I asked myself, ‘How do I be- come a long distance runner instead of a sprinter?’ In New York, you see a lot of sprinters. People come and go. I think I won acceptance from the outside sooner than I won acceptance from myself. I had to prove it to myself in my studio.”

“I never thought I was any good using analogies to poetry and music. cities for years until he left the Corc- at being an artist until I went to He hung out with the theatre majors, oran in 1987 to work full time as artist USF,” says Stackhouse, a member of building and painting sets and serving in New York. He also spent several the University’s charter class and a as a stand-in during stage direction years as a visiting artist at some of the world-renowned sculptor, painter and classes. best art schools in the U.S. — the Art printmaker. His work has been shown “In the old University Center Institute of Chicago and Philadelphia’s at the Museum of Modern Art in New there was an area called the Scrounge University of the Arts, to name but a York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Lounge and people would hang out few. He held three endowed chairs at Washington, D.C. — where he taught there — faculty and students — and the University of Hartford, the Univer- for two decades — and in countless everybody would interrelate. It was sity of Denver, and most recently, the other prestigious museums and galler- the best possible education I could’ve Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair of Art ies worldwide. received. I didn’t want to leave.” at the University of Georgia, where he “It was a great environment,” Just before graduation in 1965, served for three years before returning Stackhouse says of USF’s early days. Harrison Covington, then chair of to Florida in 2003. “Very open and inventive. A lot of the USF’s College of Art, asked Stackhouse Across the street from the Mickett- faculty were just a few years older what he planned to do after college. Stackhouse Studio in St. Petersburg, than us, right out of graduate school, “I said, I’m going to New York Old Tampa Bay sparkles like a sap- and the whole school was so young, to be an artist,’” Stackhouse recalls, phire. Inside, on a studio wall, rests a there was no territorial thing going chuckling at his own youthful bravado. 20-foot-tall painting swirled with blue, on.” “He didn’t say, ‘What are you, crazy?’ entitled “Flow.” The painting is about USF felt very much like a small, He said, ‘Oh, of course you can do the dynamics of the actual world and private, liberal arts college back then, that.’” its interrelationships, which is the ba- except at public university prices, But first, Stackhouse earned an sis of much of the current work done Stackhouse says. He received an im- M.A. at the University of Maryland and by Stackhouse and his wife, partner promptu chemistry lesson from the began teaching at the Corcoran, in ad- and collaborator, artist Carol Mickett. head of the biochemistry department dition to making, showing and selling “Carol has a Ph.D in Philosophy while mixing paints for a mural in the his art. He loved D.C. – “It was a small and a background in logic. She’s got a cafeteria. The head of the advanced southern town but also the center of different kind of hand and the back- mathematics department helped him the universe.” Still, New York City beck- ground of all that philosophy. We keep make sense of algebraic formulas by oned. He commuted between the two feeding each other creatively,” he says.

APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 15 teach, judge students’ works and col- laborate with the master printmakers at USF’s Graphicstudio. In 1993, Stack- house gifted his entire collection of prints — plus any that he and Mickett have done in the past and will do in the future — to USF. The Stackhouse Sources and Archives are housed at the Contempo- Structures, Naja, rary Art Museum on the Tampa campus 1988-89 and can be viewed online at www. Spitbite and soft- ira.usf.edu. The collection showcases ground etching Stackhouse’s elegant, minimalist style

and is rife with his signature motifs, “[I] mix spit with acid and draw boats and snakes, which are rooted in directly on the his childhood in Polk City. plate. To get the “I grew up in the orange groves color I wanted and I had many close encounters with I had to use a fangs,” Stackhouse says. “Fear is a big strong acid. part of it. I had to learn how to face The brushes it and I had to learn that my demons would sizzle and were actually my angels. The stuff I disintegrate in feared was the stuff that became art.” my hands. I had Stackhouse came to Florida when somebody stand- he was 12 with his grandparents, Won- ing next to me der Bread executive and world-famous with a bucket in sportsman Hoyt Holland, and his wife, case I spilled it Inez. Home was Lundy’s Fish Camp on myself.” near Auburndale, where Stackhouse went to junior high and high school. The new art center at Auburndale High now bears his name, which is ironic They moved into the former Bar- of the couple’s more recent works considering the school didn’t have art clay Corset factory upon their arrival include “In the Blue, 2008,” an expan- classes when Stackhouse attended. in St. Petersburg six years ago. Since sive cedar structure — 15-foot tall and “What I liked was just being then, the couple has spent nearly as 2,400-square feet — that is a tacit rep- by myself out in the middle of Lake much time renovating the spacious resentation of the shifting currents of Juliana, chasing an alligator or catching old building as they have making art. the Gulf of Mexico. Like many of their gar or wandering through the orange “We stripped out the ceilings and sculptures, it is interactive — requir- groves with a slingshot. I made my moved stuff and completely rear- ing the viewer to move through and own model airplanes and boats out ranged everything,” Stackhouse says, around the piece to experience it. Of- of sticks of balsa wood. I was inven- creating a studio downstairs and living tentimes, their sculptures are tempo- tive — I played inventively and that’s area upstairs. “The ghosts seem to be rary; built for display, then dismantled, a good thing - instead of going to art pleased with what we’ve done. We’ve to exist afterward only in the drawings, classes where they take all the play out had a lot of events here and there is a watercolors and prints created during of it.” great, warm feeling when all the lights the planning stages. He was fascinated by his grandfa- are on at night.” Over the course of his career, ther’s garage workshop, where Holland Stackhouse and Mickett began Stackhouse stayed connected to USF, built boats and fashioned beautiful fish- collaborating 10 years ago. Some returning occasionally to lecture, ing flies out of fur and feathers, opera

16 ALUMNIVOICE | APRIL 2009 Titanicprint, 1993 Silk screen collograph etching on paper

“I’m not interested in the Titanic as the Titanic, so much. I’m fascinated by this big thing down at the bottom of the ocean … what always got me excited [was] that sense of discovery.” – Robert Stackhouse Editions Archive

playing in the background, cigar and bourbon at hand. 5Q uestions: “I think I got a lot of my art from him. Growing up like that, being in What’s the last book a studio was nothing new to me,” he you read? says. “I can still smell the linseed oil Don Delillo, Underworld and mothballs.” Now at age 66, in the comfort of What’s your favorite movie? his own studio, Stackhouse sips coffee Orson Wells: “A Touch of and considers what’s ahead, opera Evil.” More contemporary: playing softly in the background. The Baz Luhrmann: “Moulin struggling economy takes a toll on Rouge.” everyone, including famous artists, but Where is your favorite he’s not really worried. place in the world? “We’re definitely going to be Wherever we’re making making art somehow,” he says, gazing art. through the windows at the waters of the bay. “It’s a good time for art. Uncer- What superpower would you like to have? tainty creates a lot of angst and energy Russia would be nice. — a lot of dynamic flow.” What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? “You can do it.” Said to me by Harrison Covington, then chair of the USF Art department, when, Robert Stackhouse and Carol Mickett as a USF undergrad, I outside their St. Petersburg studio with said I wanted to be an their dogs Hedy Lamar and Salvadorina accomplished artist in Dali. Stackhouse was awarded an honorary NYC. doctorate from USF in 2006 in recognition of his contributions and career as artist.

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Nicole Johnson wasn’t about to let a hot-pink insulin pump prevent her from becoming Miss America.

By Cara Trump Class of 2008 Inn the fall of 1993, a 19-year-theinsulin into her body.Pinkrunner-up two times in a row until old University of South Florida “I think it’s hilarious that it’s pink,” finally winning the $1,000 scholarship sophomore sat backstage in she says, “I try to help people figure on the third try. “Right after that is an auditorium, vomiting and out ways to cope, and one of those when I was diagnosed with diabetes. fatigued, waiting to sing in a ways is to find something that just Then there became a different reason Icompetition. The pretty brunette fell tickles you. For me, it’s having a pink for participating,” she said. during her performance, but got back pump. Every time I look at it I can’t At that point, pageant contestants up, determined to finish her song. As help but smile.” were beginning to be able to have soon as she left the stage, she was platform issues. rushed to the hospital, near death. “I knew that if I could win Miss The incident marked the beginning of Virginia that I would be able to Nicole Johnson’s life journey with Type advocate for diabetes in a way that 1 diabetes. was totally unique,” said Johnson, who Now an international diabetes came to USF from Virginia. advocate, health consultant, author She was the first Miss USF in and talk show host, Johnson, 34, 1996 and went on to win the title of has dedicated her life to educating Miss Virginia in 1999. Johnson then people about diabetes. About 1 million competed in the Miss America pageant Americans have Type 1 diabetes, a in 1999, despite the detractors who told genetic disease in which the pancreas her that she’d never be able to do it. stops producing the insulin needed “People told me I would never to maintain a normal blood glucose win because I wore a device, saying level. More than 14 million have Type ‘You’re never going to be chosen,’ 2 diabetes, which is caused by being ‘You’re not perfect,’ and ‘They don’t overweight and inactive, and has want someone like you,’” she said. become a national health crisis. They were wrong. Johnson For the past 15 years Johnson won the 1999 Miss America pageant. has coped with the obstacles Type But she still experienced some 1 diabetes presents in her life. In a discrimination. The organization was pink-and-green floral bag that could Nicole Johnson, Miss America 1999 nervous about her health, she said, and be mistaken for a makeup bag, she wanted her to choose a platform other carries a glucose meter to check her Before being diagnosed, Johnson than diabetes advocacy. blood sugar up to eight times a day. was an active college student: living “It was all because they were not Also in her bag is a small needle for on campus, president of the Baptist educated and well-informed about injections of Amylin, a hormone used Student Union and a member of diabetes, which was the very reason I to metabolize glucose. the campus choir. That’s when she was there,” Johnson said. “As it turns She wears a pager-sized insulin discovered pageants. out, I became the busiest Miss America pump on her waist, attached to her “It originally started because I in history. I traveled for 335 days stomach by a small tube, 24 hours a needed scholarship money,” she said. straight.” day. The hot-pink pump serves as an She entered in a local competition Winning the Miss America pageant artificial pancreas that slowly drips for the title of Miss Seminole, getting provided Johnson with opportunities

18 ALUMNIVOICE | APRIL 2009 Nicole Johnson is collaborating with USF Health on helping to raise awareness of the University’s clinical trials tracking children with diabetes. she wouldn’t have had otherwise. She is so small, Hoad added. Inside the Johnson and daughter, Ava, 3, has been to 48 states and 15 countries. tiny facility, Dr. Jeff Krischer, a USF already participate in some research Her college bills for her Bachelor’s professor and internationally renowned trials. So far, Ava has not been in English from USF were paid, she diabetes researcher, is leading a diagnosed with the illness. Johnson pursued a Master’s in Journalism from decade-long, $189 million global study feels strongly about doing whatever Regent University in Virginia and a that analyzes the causes of Type 1 she can to advance a cure for diabetes Master’s in Public Health from the diabetes. With a larger center, Krischer and is thrilled that her alma mater is University of Pittsburgh. and his team could conduct their own leading the way. Johnson has written four books: research trials and expand the scope of “I want to help them build her autobiography, Living with the groundbreaking study. themselves into a more significant Diabetes and three cookbooks. She standing in the world of diabetes,” has helped raise approximately $20 Johnson said, “There’s a lot of talk million for diabetes research and 5Q uestions: about creating a diabetes center at the programs. Her television talk show, University, and I’ve been involved in “dLife” on CNBC, has nearly 467,000 What’s the last book you read? a lot of those talks. I want to be very viewers per week and has won 13 Be All You Can Be by John Maxwell involved in that process whenever it Telly Awards. Her most recent projects happens.” include working with USF on research What’s the last movie you saw? Johnson currently sits on a trials and promoting the University as a “Sex & the City” wellness council at USF and is excited destination in diabetes research. about reconnecting with the University, Where is your favorite place in the world? Michael Hoad, the vice president Washington, D.C., or the Great Wall of some 16 years after that life-changing of Communications for USF and China, because it’s the most inspiring. performance on stage. the associate vice president of “I thoroughly enjoyed my time Communications for USF Health, What superpower would you like to have? spent there,” Johnson said of her days recently began working with Johnson Wisdom. at USF. “It has changed so much, it’s on these projects. incredible. I am so inspired by the What’s the best advice you’ve ever “She is very good at knowing leadership at USF right now. President received? what the patient needs,” Hoad said. “Character cannot be developed in ease Genshaft and Michael Hoad really have “She helped develop patient support and quiet. Only through the experience the best interests of the students and groups and understands how important of trial and suffering can the soul be the University at heart. I have slowly strengthened, ambition inspired and advocacy is at a national level.” success achieved.” - Helen Keller gotten involved and want to do more. It’s important for USF to expand, Also, my pastor, who says: “Let God be in It’s a good thing.” because the existing diabetes center control.”

APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 19 ACROSS Test Your USF Knowledge Have fun solving this crossword puzzle. 4 School Colors If you get stumped, you can find the Haveanswers fun solving on page this 35. crossword puzzle. 6 Number of Female USF Presidents Test Your USF Knowledge 7 Name of WWII Air Field where USF’s Tampa If you get stumped, you can find the answers online at: www.USFalumni.org/crossword campus is now located 8 Name of the harbor where USF St. Petersburg is 1 2 3 located 10 Where USF is ranked with regard to the largest 4 5 public universities in the nation 12 NBC Correspondent and Alumni Award winner 14 Name of the USF Golf Course

6 17 Name of the Student Newspaper at USF St. Pete 18 1160 is the average ______score of the 2008 7 8 USF first-timein-college freshman 20 USF has more than ______thousand alumni 9 23 Number of Colleges at USF in 1971

10 11 12 13 26 Known as the First Lady of USF 29 USF’s Athletic Conference 30 New name of the USF Lakeland campus 31 The name of the student pub located in the 14 15 16 original Marshall Center 17 18 ’ DOWN 19 1 Longtime U.C. director 2 USF’s motto 20 21 22 3 What building on the Tampa campus originally 23 had an inflatable roof 5 Avenue where the main USF entrance of the 24 Tampa campus is located 9 Name of USF’s Marching Band 25 26 11 USF’s Original Mascot Name 13 Campus that offers classes for juniors, seniors and grad students only 27 28 15 Traditional boat building material for USF St. Pete’s Homecoming boat race 29 16 Day of the week when the Flea Market is held 30 on the Tampa campus 19 Current USF President’s Last Name 31 21 First Word of the USF Alma Mater 22 Anniversary that USF celebrated in 2006 24 Last name of USF’s 1st football coach 25 Last name associated with the Alumni Center 27 Number of USF Campuses ACROSS DOWN 28 Name of USF Mascot 4 School Colors 1 Longtime U.C. director 6 Number of Female USF Presidents 2 USF’s motto 7 Name of WWII Air Field where USF’s Tampa campus is now located 3 What building on the Tampa campus originally had an inflatable 8 Name of the harbor where USF St. Petersburg is located roof 10 Where USF is ranked with regard to the largest public universities 5 Avenue where the main USF entrance of the Tampa campus is in the nation located 12 NBC Correspondent and Alumni Award winner 9 Name of USF’s Marching Band 14 NameHow of the USF Golf Course will you leave 11 USF’s Original Mascot Nameyour mark at USF? 17 Name of the Student Newspaper at USF St. Pete 13 Campus that offers classes for juniors, seniors and grad students 18 1160 is the average You______scorecan of the become 2008 USF first-time- a permanentonly part of USF’s history by participating in in-college freshman 15 Traditional boat building material for USF St. Pete’s Homecoming 20 USF has more than ______thousand alumni the USF Alumniboat race Center Brick Program. 23 Number of Colleges at USF in 1971 16 Day of the week when the Flea Market is held on the Tampa 26 Known as the First Lady of USF campus 29 USF’s Athletic Conference 19 Current USF President’s Last Name 30 New name of the USF Lakeland campus 21 First Word of the USF Alma Mater 31 The name of the student pub located in the original 22 Anniversary that USF celebrated in 2006 MarshallBricks Center starting at $100! 24 Last name of USF’s 1st football coach An engraving to celebrate 25 Last name associated with the Alumni Center you or a loved one! 27 Number of USF Campuses 28 Name of USF Mascot

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20 ALUMNIVOICE | APRIL 2009 chapters &societies Members of the Pinellas Alumni Chapter brought the Bulldorado to the magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl. Pictured from left to right are: Edwin Maisonete; Julie Jones; Art Jones, `73 & M.A. `75; Jason Shelton; Emma Hubbard; Alison Hubbard, `98; Pat Jones, `72 and Jason “Mutt” Hubbard, `04.

About two dozen Orlando area alumni met for dinner, drinks and networking at Seasons52 in January. Pictured here, from left to right, are: Cat Coates, `86; Huyen Ta Nguyen, `98; Nicolette Lloyd, `08 and Aisha Pitcan, `06.

Members of the D.C. Regional Alumni Chapter made a road trip to the West Virginia game last fall. Pictured are, front row, from left: Ashley Hajian, `07; Sabsina Karimi, `09; Scott Barnett, MSPH `94 & Ph.D `98; Brooke Doerfler, Tania Shinohara and Connor McCartney. Back row: Todd Maxwell, `95; Erin Bereit; Ana Recuero, `92; Scott Haag, MSPH `95; Jody Glassman, `96; Rajiv Dembla,`92; James Doerfler, `06 and Austin Shinohara, `79 & MHA `04.

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Comedian Vickie Shaw, center, headlined the LGBT Society’s Scholarship Fundraiser and had the audience roaring with laughter at her stories about being a gay woman and mother from Texas. With Vickie on the left are: USF Alumni Association Director of Chapter & Corporate Relations Merrell Dickey, and Professor Mark R. Hafen, Ph.D. On the right are Center for Autism and Related Disabilities Director Dr. Karen Berkman, who endowed the LGBT Scholarship, and USF PRIDE Alliance President Kristin Shalosky.

About 50 alumni turned out for a New York Alumni Chapter happy hour at Local West in New York City last month. USF President Judy Genshaft and College of Business Dean Robert Forsythe spoke briefly to the group about the importance of spreading Bull Pride nationwide.

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No matter where youThe USFlive, Alumni Association you’ll has alumni alwayschapters all over the be country. a We Bull! also have college and special-interest societies for like-minded alumni. It’s easy to get involved. Just email the contact person of the group you’d like to visit. Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, Societies Jacksonville Camille Thompson Louis B. Richardson [email protected] center, recently announced a [email protected] Architecture Alumni D.C. Regional $25,000 grant from Verizon Adam Fritz Ellen Rosenblum Rajiv Dembla [email protected] to promote Internet safety [email protected] [email protected] Black Alumni Manatee/Sarasota Dallas for people 50 and older. USF Felecia Brantley Ross Allen Lisa Lacy Sarasota-Manatee will develop [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Brian Campbell Miami Rob Smith Internet safety workshops [email protected] Carlos Rodriguez [email protected] [email protected] to be held throughout the Shomari Sanford Denver Mile High region to educate people [email protected] Monroe (Key West) Mark A. Thompson Business Alumni Kristen Condella [email protected] [email protected] about online risks such as Jamie Ellison Houston credit card and computer [email protected] Ocala/Marion Alan Goldsmith Brian Buckley Kathleen & William Bellamy [email protected] fraud, banking transactions [email protected] [email protected] Michael Peppers and identity theft. Pictured with Jerald “Jerry” Grimes [email protected] Education Alumni [email protected] McCollum are USF Alumni Freda Abercrombie Indianapolis [email protected] Orlando Kelly Brummet Association Ambassadors Kevin Krause [email protected] Engineering Alumni [email protected] Chase Hagaman, left, and Gene Balter Jeremy Sims [email protected] Palm Beach [email protected] Adan Fregonese. Scott Teich Entrepreneurship Alumni [email protected] Los Angeles Chris Kluis Catherine Clinch [email protected] Panama City [email protected] Janet Caragan Geology Alumni [email protected] Anthony Rogers Los Angeles Alumni Chapter Mike Schackne [email protected] [email protected] Pasco County/New Tampa members Catherine Clinch, Annaliese Sergent Nashville Honors Alumni [email protected] Jen Thompson left, and Selina Pagan, right, Lisa Provenzano Heugel [email protected] [email protected] Paul Pimperl share a laugh with College [email protected] New York Jewish Alumni Valerie Berrios of Arts and Sciences Interim Nicky Spivak Pensacola/Spanish Fort/Mobile [email protected] [email protected] Nick Kessler Dean Eric Eisenberg during [email protected] Michael Simpson Kosove Alumni [email protected] a visit to California. Justin Geisler Peter Kemp [email protected] Philadelphia/South Jersey [email protected] Joe Ebner LGBT Alumni Pinellas [email protected] Marion Yongue Audrey Gilmore [email protected] Pittsburgh, PA [email protected] Robb Myers Lynne Carlson Polk [email protected] [email protected] Randy Dotson [email protected] Portland, OR Jerry L. Miller Scott Chamberlain [email protected] St. Lucie [email protected] Frank Pennetti Marine Science Alumni [email protected] Raleigh, NC Bruce Barber Bob Cohn [email protected] Tallahassee [email protected] Tara Klimek Beau Suthard [email protected] San Antonio, TX [email protected] Ruben Matos [email protected] Florida Chapters National & International Chapters San Francisco Arthur Ringness Tampa [email protected] Dennis Evans Atlanta [email protected] Denise Dimbath Seattle-Tacoma, WA [email protected] Jared Capouya Brevard [email protected] Todd Bonanza Austin [email protected] Brad Heath St. Louis [email protected] Mark Greenspahn John Carpenter [email protected] [email protected] Chicago Kelly Gitchel Barbara Lyn [email protected] Corporate Affinity [email protected] Nolan Shaeer Group Broward [email protected] Sara DuCuennois Lockheed Martin – Oldsmar [email protected] Cincinnati Barbara Julian Atlanta Chapter member Chris Kiley [email protected] Alan Steinberg [email protected] Denise Dimbath, `94, center, throws the [email protected] Cleveland/Akron/Youngstown Bull horns with a couple of Green & Gold Fort Myers Matt Maxwell Sanjay Kurian [email protected] Santas whom she met during a tailgate [email protected] outside Tropicana Field before the Columbia, SC Hernando Doug Currier St. Petersburg Bowl last December. Belinda Nettles [email protected] [email protected] APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 23 Admissions What It Takes to be a Bull Lisa Cunningham Class of `1985

hen Katelyn Levine sought out her father’s alma mater, USF, to fol- low in his footsteps to a Wlaw degree, little did she know that her experience would be vastly different from his. She applied online, whereas her dad, Mark Levine `74, went to the Uni- versity back in the days when comput- ers were in their infancy and students mailed in their applications. Another big change from her dad’s day is USF’s tougher new admissions standards. There are now more high school seniors competing for fewer spots than ever before. Due to deep state budget cuts in higher education, universities all over Florida are freezing enroll- ments and ratcheting up admittance standards. USF waitlisted some 1,300 potential freshmen last year and de- nied about two-thirds of that number. “I was pretty nervous; I’m not going to lie,” Katelyn said about her application to USF, which was her first- choice school. Katelyn was concerned about her SAT scores, which were “pretty much in the middle.” She carried a 3.5 grade point average, a variety of extracurricu- lar activities, such as cheerleading and softball, as well as honor clubs, such as Key and Beta. It turned out to be enough to make the cut. She was accepted. She’s both thrilled and relieved. “I’m extremely excited,” said the Tallahassee teenager, who applied to Florida State University as a back-up. She toured USF’s Tampa campus two summers ago and has been attending Alumni Association board meetings with her father since she was 5 or 6 years old.

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“I was a single parent until she trends in their junior and senior years, was about 12,” Mark Levine says. “Ev- Bollinger says. His office also measures USF Admission Guidelines erywhere I went, she went with me. As the type of courses students take in she got a little older, we would go to high school against the college-level Homecoming, see the parade.” requirements of a research-intensive Even though he has remained institution like USF is now. n Applicants must finish at least 18 connected to USF, Levine says he was During the `90s, USF began cam- units in five core high school subjects surprised at the tougher admissions paigning to be known as a nationally and three approved academic standards. As a former Student Govern- prominent research institution and electives. ment vice president, he recalls “a lot those efforts are coming to fruition. n Those graduating high school in 2011 more openness” from faculty and staff Many highly-qualified applicants are or later must finish four math units, circa 1970. Their attitude, he says, was choosing USF over UCF and even Flori- including one course higher than “We want you here, we want to keep da and Florida State, Bollinger says. He Algebra II. you here.” advises high school seniors to apply in n After 2011, potential freshmen may “There’s a lot of anxiety now — August or September for a better shot take one fewer academic elective people not able to go to college and at getting in. Younger students should unit, but applicants who have the get in,” says Levine, a trial lawyer who start planning their algebra and other specializes in commercial law. college-prep courses as early as middle best shot at being admitted typically At a time when Florida’s Bright school. Getting admitted is not likely to complete at least 20 courses, or five Futures scholarships make it easier for get any easier, he says. per year in grades nine through 12. more students to afford college, univer- Bollinger hears from lots of USF sities are trying to stem the tidal wave alumni who can’t believe their son or Standardized test scores are considered by raising academic standards. Classes daughter might not make the cut. along with a student’s grade point average can only be so big, and it doesn’t help “They wonder if they’d get in and the rigor of the completed courses. that Florida is losing professors to today, based on the standards. I even Admissions officers balance higher GPAs states with better compensation pack- think about that. I wonder if I’d get with lower test scores or, occasionally, ages. Universities only have so much into USF now. I’d probably be more of higher test scores with lower GPAs. room to grow and less funding with a waitlist.”

which to expand. The recession is a major Florida has a minimum sliding scale for factor, says Rick Bollinger, as- admission to its 11 public universities, but sociate director of Undergradu- USF’s requirements are more stringent. In ate Admissions. “Years ago, USF fall 2008, new students had: was admitting students based on state minimum requirements. n A mid-range GPA of 3.5 to 4.1, If you met the minimum, you n An SAT score of 1100 to 1270 in got in. Over the last five years, critical reading and math admission requirements have be- n An ACT score of 24 to 28 come increasingly competitive.” Admissions staff now focus For complete details on admission on students’ curriculum, looking standards, visit http://usfweb2.usf.edu/ for competitive coursework such Admissions/ as Advanced Placement, Interna- Incoming freshman Katelyn Levine, with tional Baccalaureate and dual enroll- her father, Mark Levine, `74, and her ment courses, as well as overall grade younger sister and brother.

APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 25 A Blast from the Past !

1U.S. President: William9 Clinton 97 Vice President: Albert Gore Average Income: $37,005 Unemployment: 4.9%

First Class Stamp: 32 cents IN THE NEWS: Tiger Woods breaks multiple records in the Masters golf tournament; Princess Diana, 36, is killed in a Paris car crash; Oklahoma City IN SCIENCE: In February, bomber Timothy McVeigh is convicted Scottish researchers announced and sentenced; Mother Teresa dies on that, for the first time, they Sept. 5; Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey had cloned an adult mammal, become parents of the world’s only a sheep named Dolly; Comet surviving septuplets on Nov. 19. Hale-Bop came the closest it will be to Earth until 4397; U.S. spacecraft begins exploration of Mars.

IN THE ARTS: At USF: For the second time in the “Titanic” crashes College of Medicine’s history, 100 into theaters. percent of USF’s med students pass the It is the most national first-step exams. Nationally, 93 expensive film of percent of medical students passed the all time, costing exam. USF begins its first-ever season $250-$300 million of NCAA football. The Bulls, playing in to produce and Division I-AA, open with an 80-3 win at market; Spice Girls win Tampa Stadium over Kentucky Wesleyan Billboard Music Award for before 49,000 fans. The Tampa campus Best Album and New Artist library is named the state’s distance of the Year; Ellen DeGeneres learning reference center. USF announces outs herself. She becomes the first openly gay its largest fund drive ever, a capital woman to have her own sitcom. campaign called “Great Achievements, Great Expectations,” with a goal of raising $220 million.

26 ALUMNIVOICE | APRIL 2009 By Marguerite Faucher “I was already working but I took on a second job and it was Class of 2010 a lot of work for me to do on top of school. So I decided to drop my most stressful class to give me more time to work, even at the While the state of our national risk of putting off graduation,” Glick says. “It’s like I can’t win — I economy is affecting everyone, alumni drop classes to work more so that I can go to school at all.” included, students of all academic years at Despite the difficulties USF students face, they are hopeful the University of South Florida have come that things will turn around for them with regard to finding work up with some unusual methods for coping after graduation and for society as a whole. with their financial woes. “I have confidence in my future job prospects, I’m just not Candace Braun, who was scheduled sure if I will land one in my major area of magazine journalism,” to graduate from USF with her Bachelor’s Glick says. degree in print journalism in May of this year, is delaying her Braun added that everywhere she looks, she sees more graduation plans an entire term due to immediate job prospects people trickling in to restaurants, stores and businesses. being “grim at best” in her eyes. “Maybe I’m just foolishly optimistic, but I think within the “College is a buffer for me now — I’m applying for next few years we can pull out of this slump and things will ease scholarships and working part-time to make ends meet so that I up,” Braun says. can stay in school and get a business minor and take more Mass Although no one truly knows where our nation is headed Communications electives that will make me more marketable with respect to the economy, I think that Braun’s so-called and more competitive for when I do decide to enter the job “foolish optimism” and a positive attitude for all Americans in market,” Braun says. these desperate times can make a world of difference. In addition to these plans, Braun worked extra last summer Students who are in danger of dropping out because of recent to give herself a sort of “nest egg” in case she acquired an unpaid economic disadvantages can contact USF’s Don’t Stop, Don’t Drop internship position this term, but she admits that the recession is program at http://www.sa.usf.edu/dontstopdontdrop/ for information about not quite as harsh on college students as it is for professionals. their options. “People who have been in positions all their lives are getting laid off and having to face an abysmal job market,” Braun says. “And whereas they didn’t need a degree to get that position they held for so long, their opportunities are even more limited now since most average-paying jobs require a degree of some kind.” Our current economic atmosphere has impacted the life of SHARE Excerpts of memories from y Javier Gonzalez-Cotto dramatically. After being a USF Bull for A Memor three years in Tampa, Gonzalez-Cotto made the tough decision to members of the USF Alumni Association. return home to his parents in Puerto Rico and lessen the financial strain his family was feeling with him attending school abroad. “I think the impact that the recession is having differs from My favorite memory was a production of “Mama Don’t Make case to case, depending on what your career aspirations are,” Me Go to College – My Head Hurts,” performed in the Education Gonzalez-Cotto says. building and student-directed. I received a standing ovation after As a biology major who plans to attend medical school after my performance. It was a comedy – a first-time, student-written graduation, Gonzalez-Cotto says that the options available to production – it was hilarious. My greatest moment at USF. many students that can keep them in school don’t apply to him. Martha Agers Fuentes, `69 “I thought about getting loans to offset my living expenses so I could stay at USF, but most students start paying off their loans The best class and instructor was “Study of the American Dream’ after getting their Bachelor’s degrees. with Knocky Parker. Interesting look at the American Dream If I’m graduating and then immediately rushing off to medical school, where I am not allowed to work because of my through movies. Professor Parker would play the ragtime piano and obligations to clinical sessions in an actual hospital, that means tell about his history with jazz and ragtime greats. Great class! adding to my already expected $100,000 in loans without any Great instructor! income,” Gonzalez-Cotto says. “It just didn’t make sense for me.” Gary Coe, `78 The decision weighed heavily on Gonzalez-Cotto’s mind throughout his Fall semester, leaving him depressed and affecting One of my favorite memories is a Homecoming event at the College his performance in class. of Visual and Performing Arts. I was fortunate to be standing by “I went from consistently getting As and Bs to someone that First Lady Kay Borkowski and singing the Alma Mater. My great was relieved to get Cs and Ds,” Gonzalez-Cotto says. love of the University is due to many individuals but notable among Yet Gonzalez-Cotto acknowledges that he, too, is not the them is President and Mrs. Borkowski, Mrs. Grace Allen, Phyllis most-stricken by the economy. Marshall and Mary Lou Harkness. “I fear for the people who are graduating and don’t have Marion Takaaki Yongue, `91 graduate or medical school to look forward to because fixing our economy is going to be a very long, tough process,” he says. In contrast, junior magazine journalism major Andrea Glick Share your USF memory with us. E-mail [email protected] did decide to accept loans in an effort to pay her living expenses, and write “Memory” in the subject line. but it still wasn’t enough.

APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 27 The Big Interview: How to Nail It

Employ-A-BullEmploy-a-Bull Resources team to develop a set of seekers. This process will be repeated until questions to help them evaluate your a hiring decision is made. qualifications. These questions will be open Employers using a structured ended; designed to have you speak to your interview-and-selection process usually real-world experiences, not hypothetical don’t make job offers after the first visit. Get ahead of the pack situations resulting in theoretical answers. They will cull the candidate pool down These questions are aimed at your to three or four to be invited back for a with these tips from problem-solving skills and your ability to second visit. The process for the second learn from experience. Examples of the visit will be the same, however, you will executive recruiter type of questions you may encounter are: likely talk with different people probing “Tell me about a time when you had to different issues. Depending on the level Jim Weber. resolve a difficult customer complaint.” of responsibility for the job you seek, you Class of `77 & MBA `82 Or: may visit with peers of the hiring manager. After this visit you will likely move to the “Tell me about a time when you job offer phase, assuming you are the top had a pressing deadline to complete a contender. If your references have not ast month I talked about ten keys major project, and one or more of your been checked before this point, they will to help you land your next job. This key subordinates were not meeting their be called now. You will also be asked to Lmonth I will help you prepare for commitments.” sign a release authorizing the company to that all-important interview. Planning and Note that these examples are not do a thorough background check which preparation is required for success in really questions, but invitations to talk may include a drug screen. If you have any any endeavor. Convincing a prospective about accomplishments and challenges skeletons in your closet, now is the time employer to hire you requires you to you’ve met. to bring them out. Nobody likes surprises, understand their selection process. especially your employer. Success in a structured interview By now you have probably had demands that you to be prepared to define Every step along the way, be sure to a telephone screening interview and the situation you faced, alternative courses thank your interviewer, recap why you are possibly even an online assessment. of action considered, the rationale for the the best qualified person and ask for the Obviously, you’ve met those criteria. You decision you made, and the results of job. Get a business card from everyone you have an appointment for a face-to-face that decision. Your interviewer is looking meet. Send each a follow up letter thanking interview. How to stand out among the for STARS; an acronym for Situation, them for the opportunity to interview for other candidates is the question. Again, Alternative solutions considered, and the job and recapping the reasons why you preparation is key. Results achieved. If you can learn to do are the best person for it. Above all, ask for Let’s assume that the target of your well with this type of question, you will the job. job interest is a solid business with a be considered a “star” by the employer. A final thought: Your resume is the great future, run by a buttoned-down Remember; speak to experiences most story of your career. Make sure it speaks to management team using an effective relevant to this job. They will resonate with significant achievements that you can talk employee selection process. If this your interviewer. about in the interview. assumption is not correct, that’s all right Employers using a structured too. The thoughts in this article will help interview process typically you shine in any interview situation. Most have you talk with a number of USF Alumni companies I work with, and those that employees, possibly representing a Association Board I want to work with, use a structured cross section of job functions. They Member Jim Weber interview process resulting in an objective have the same list of questions, is the founder of New candidate evaluation. Each candidate is so anticipate answering the same Century Dynamics, scored and ranked against all candidates. questions repeatedly. The purpose Inc., an executive The candidate with the best score gets the of this part of the process is to search firm for the job offer. In this process, objectivity and evaluate your consistency. Each of food service industry. fairness is the goal. your interviewers will be scoring If you have career Fundamental to the structured your answers, looking for STARS to questions for Jim, interview process is a well-crafted job determine if you are a star. When e-mail them to us at description that includes the attributes your interview is completed your [email protected]. and experience required for success. In interviewers will compare notes, preparation for your interview, the hiring give you a composite score, and manager will work with the Human rank you against the other job-

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APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 29 notes 60s Sylvia Cantrell Albritton, M.Ed `76, recently annual fundraiser, a tailgate before the final Bulls classearned her Ed.D in Educational Leadership from home football game last fall. The event raised Herb Yohner, Business Administration `69, is serving as director of administrative services for Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Albritton enjoyed $20,000 in support of the 10-year old program which the Division of Rehabilitation and Liquidation within a 35-year career with the Hillsborough County assists grandparents and other relatives who raise the Department of Financial Services. Yohner School District as a teacher and administrator. She 345,000 children in Florida. Ann is a valued social was one of the first USF alumni to begin a state served as the principal at both Robinson and Tampa work volunteer for the Family Care Clinic at Tampa government career in Florida’s capital immediately Bay Technical high schools, as well as the general General Hospital. upon receiving his degree. Prior to his current director for Career and Technical Education before post, Yohner served for 26 years as the director of she retired. Today, she teaches with the Youth 80s human resource management for the Department of Services Program, working with students in the Robert “Bob” Gordon, Engineering Financial Services. Yohner is a member of the USF Department of Juvenile Justice System at the Orient `80, became the director of the Alumni Association and Varsity Club. Road Jail. Hillsborough County Public Works Department in 2003. He began his 70s Richard ‘Gil’ Kerlikowske, career with Hillsborough County in Criminology`78 & M.A. Criminology William Hamilton, Zoology `70, has served 1986 as the manager of the Drainage Section of `85, was nominated by President as Florida’s 8th District medical examiner since the Engineering Department. During his tenure, Barack Obama to be Director of the 1981 and is now a clinical associate professor of he also served as the county engineer/director of Office of National Drug Control Policy, pathology at the University of Florida’s College of the Engineering Division, a transportation project better known as the nation’s Drug Czar. For the Medicine. Kathleen (Christian) Hamilton, Special manager, manager of the Projects Management past nine years, he has served as the chief of Education `73, is an Exceptional Student Education Section, and director of the Capital Projects police in Seattle. Kerlikowske has 36 years of law (ESE) teacher with 27 years of experience. The Department. During his career with Hillsborough enforcement experience, serving as the highest Hamiltons have six children, including an oral County, Bob has been responsible for managing ranking law enforcement officer in four U.S. cities. surgery resident, a pharmacy student, a nursing water, wastewater, stormwater, transportation, and He is president of Major City Chiefs Association and student, a paramedic/firefighter and a USF graduate facilities construction programs. was deputy director of the COPS program at the U.S. working as a registered nurse. Their youngest son is After graduating from USF, Bob served for four years Department of Justice. an aircraft mechanics student. as an engineer with the Southwest Florida Water Management District, and subsequently took a Dan McLaughlin, English `78, is the deputy William F. Meyer, Special Education `70, is a position with a private engineering firm as the chief chief of staff and communications director for retired educator who is currently selling real estate drainage engineer performing master drainage plans U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson. Prior to that, he served as a in Atlanta and North Georgia. He is also preparing for large residential and commercial developments. spokesman for the Florida Insurance Department to start construction on an oil refinery and biodiesel He has been a registered professional engineer in when Nelson was insurance commissioner. Prior to plant in Lake Charles, LA. the state of Florida since 1985. his government service, McLaughlin was executive news editor for The Tampa Tribune. Mark Stark, Sociology `72, is the author of Wild My Harrison, Criminology `80, has had a 24-year Angel, published in 2003. The novel was inspired by career with the FBI. She is based in Memphis and is Ann Lindell Sheppard, Accounting `79 & MSW 1930-era news accounts of a young Alachua County special agent in charge of the Memphis Field Office, `07, is a member of the Florida Kinship Center’s boy, Rufus Lee Jones, whose life was saved by a overseeing a staff of 250 in six offices in mid and charter Advisory Board and organized its first beautiful angel with long, wild red hair. Stark met western Tennessee. My has two daughters: Natika, Jones a few years before he died in 1970, learned the story and based his novel on it. Wild Angel is now out of print.

Mark Carroll, Management `73, was a doctor of Have you included USF in your estate plans? chiropractic medicine for 25 years in Naples before becoming a Realtor. Carroll is a graduate of the Life If so, THANK YOU! Chiropractic College and a member of the Naples Planned gifts play an essential role in the long-term goals of the University, helping to sustain and enhance Area Board of Realtors, Florida Association of the quality of our students’ educational experience while providing important resources for our faculty. Realtors and the National Association of Realtors. By making an estate gift to USF, you are creating a lasting legacy that will support the mission of the Sandra L. Hinckley, Accounting `74, was University beyond your lifetime. The President’s Council Legacy Society recognizes those donors who have promoted to manager at Goldstein, Lieberman & committed their support to USF through their estates or other types of planned gifts. Company, based in Mahwah, N.J. She is a member The Office of Gift Planning will be happy to provide you and your professional advisor with information of the firm’s specialized recession-expert accounting about the many advantages, including tax and other financial incentives, that can be realized through a consultant team. Hinckley, a CPA, is a member of the deferred gift to USF. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Please contact the Office of Gift Planning to ask questions or to let us know your intentions. We’d like to and the New York State Society of CPAs. demonstrate our gratitude for your generosity. University of South Florida Foundation Office of Gift Planning | (813) 974-1570 [email protected] or http://www.giving.usf.edu

30 ALUMNIVOICE | APRIL 2009 Don’t be shy Alumni! We’d like to include your news and photos in Class Notes. Send in your information to: [email protected] or you can mail your information & photo to: Karla Jackson USF Alumni Association Gibbons Alumni Center University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave., ALC100 Tampa, FL 33620-5455 who is a Hillsborough County deputy, and a USF his career as an air traffic controller for the Federal Marcus Stevens, Esq., Criminology alumna with a B.A. and M.A. in Criminology, and Aviation Authority in Tampa and now lives in Pueblo, `90 and M.A. Criminology `95, is Ronnee, who is majoring in forensic science and CO. a partner at the law firm of Ruden corporate security at Augusta College. Harrison, a McClosky in Fort Lauderdale, a full- Tampa native, began her career with the USF police U.S. Army Lt. Col. John Drag Jr., Finance `80, service firm with 11 offices throughout department. She then served with the Hillsborough recently returned home to Coral Springs from a tour Florida and one in Venezuela. As a member of the County Sheriff’s Office as a deputy, patrol corporal, of duty in Iraq. Drag was welcomed home by his firm’s litigation practice group, Marcus represents undercover narcotics detective, prescription fraud wife Emily and his sons, as well as the students at clients in multiple areas of business and commercial detective and Internal Affairs investigator. She Broward Community Charter School West, where litigation, including large and small corporations retired from the sheriff’s office in February 1985, he is principal. The welcome home celebration in various industries, developers and property after which she joined the FBI. She served as a was attended by the mayor of Coral Springs, a city owners. Stevens earned his law degree from Nova special agent in the FBI’s New Orleans Field Office, commissioner and the American Legion 9th District Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center during which time she earned an M.S. in Criminal Symphonic Band. Drag has been in the military for (J.D., cum laude, 1999.) While at law school, he Justice from Grambling State University. She also 24 years, and plans to retire as a full colonel, after served as a senior staff member of the Nova Law served in the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office before another two years of service. Review and participated in Nova’s Alternative being promoted to the position of Supervisory Dispute Resolution internship program. He is a Special Agent within the Civil Rights Unit at FBI Nancy (Harrison) Dault, Art History `87, has member of The Florida Bar and is admitted to Headquarters (FBIHQ) in 1995. Upon completion published her first book, My Experiences with practice before the Northern, Middle and Southern of her headquarters assignment, Harrison was Animals, which is available at www.publishamerica. Districts of Florida, and before the Eleventh Circuit transferred to the Houston Field Office where she com and other online bookstores. Court of Appeals. Stevens currently serves on the assumed a supervisory position over the Economic board of directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Crimes and Health Care Fraud squads. In November Michael Rao, Natural Sciences Foundation (JDRF), South Florida Chapter, where he 1999, she was promoted to unit chief of the Hate `87, is the new president of Virginia actively participates in the recruitment of corporate Crimes Unit at FBIHQ; in September 2001, she was Commonwealth University. He has also sponsors and fund-raising events. He is also a appointed assistant special agent in charge of the been appointed as president of the member of the Broward County Bar Association and Newark Field Office; and in April 2004, she was VCU Health System and will teach as a the Greater Plantation Chamber of Commerce. appointed to the senior executive service (SES) ranks tenured professor in the School of Education. as section chief within the Administrative Services Barbara Bushnell, Management `91, is a Division, FBIHQ. Michael W. Neidhart, Political fiscal and business analyst for the USF College of Science `89 & M.A. Economics `92, Business. In May 2008, she was named as a 2007 Steven Pantieri, Mass Communnications joined Gannett Fleming, an international Gabor Award Employee of the Year, one of only two & General Business `81, opened Tastings, a planning, design, and construction USF employees chosen annually for the honor. Wine Experience, in the Dynetech Centre at 111 management firm as a senior N. Magnolia Ave., Suite 175, in Orlando. The project manager. Based in the firm’s Tampa, Fla., Christina Wimmer, Elementary Education establishment offers a wine bar, tasting stations, office, Neidhart manages several transportation `91, has been appointed as principal for Rebecca imported beer and light fare. planning projects for the Florida Department of Minor Elementary School in Lilburn, Georgia for Transportation, transit agencies, and metropolitan the 2009-2010 school year. She was previously Charles E. Sullivan, Finance `81, was named planning organizations. Neidhart has 18 years of an assistant principal at Parsons Elementary in as head of global operations for ProLogis, a global experience in the industry. In addition to his B.A. Suwanee, Georgia. Wimmer is a member of the provider of distribution facilities. Sullivan most and M.A. from USF, he also holds a Ph.D in public 2009 Quality-Plus Leader Academy, a Gwinnett recently was managing director for ProLogis, with affairs from the University of Central Florida. He County Public Schools initiative to address overall responsibility for the company’s operations in is a member of the American Institute of Certified succession planning. After earning her degree from North America. He has been with the company since Planners, American Planning Association – USF, Wimmer also earned an Ed. S and M.A. in 1994 in various capacities and previously served Transportation Planning Division, and the Institute of Early Childhood Education from Piedmont College. as ProLogis’ regional director of operations in the Transportation Engineers, Florida Section. Wimmer has worked in education for 16 years, Southeast. Prior to that, he was based in Monterrey, including three years in regular education, five years Mexico, where he served as ProLogis’ country 90s teaching self-contained ESOL, three years as a local officer. Sullivan earned an MBA from the University Arthur Ringness, Finance school technology coordinator and five years as an of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and serves on the `90, is head of fixed income assistant principal. This is Wimmer’s 10th year with boards of the Metro Denver Economic Development institutional sales for the Gwinnett County Public Schools. Corporation and the Denver Area Council of the Boy Morgan Stanley West Scouts of America. Coast division. He is the Rajiv Dembla, Electrical Engineering third generation of his family to attend USF. His `92, is a program manager for Glenn Magner, American Studies `82 received father was a professor in the art department; his Lockheed Martin in Arlington, Va. the National Order of the Legion of Honor, France’s grandfather taught in the music department; his Prior to this, Dembla worked as the highest award. He was honored with the rank mother, Cheryll Woodbury, left, earned a B.A. functional manager for the company of Knight at a private ceremony in Beverly Hills, in Art Education in 1974 and his grandmother, and supervised a group of systems engineers. He California on Dec. 5. The presentation was made Patricia Walters, right, earned an M.A. in Aging accepted his promotion to program manager in by visiting French Ambassador Pierre Vimont, in Studies in 1979. His grandmother also established a October 2008. As program manager, Dembla directs recognition of Magner’s distinguished service in scholarship in Ringness’ name to support business a multimillion-dollar program to integrate and France during World War II. Magner retired from students who need financial assistance. develop IT systems for the Office of Technology at the Environmental Protection Agency.

APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 31 notes Paula Fenzau, Sociology `92 & M.A. Rehabilitative Senior Center in Clearwater, which leads the country computer modeling, and Geographic Information classCounseling `92, received her Ph.D in Leadership and in numbers of retirees within a major metropolitan Services (GIS)/engineering related services. Glaser Education from Barry University in Miami Shores in area. has developed flood control facilities for the 1997. Currently, she is employed at the Suncoast Pinellas Park Water Management District as well Center for Community Mental Health, Inc. in St. Joanna McCormick Burch, M.D. , Medicine as projects for municipalities including the cities Petersburg, Florida as senior manager of utilization `95, is an assistant professor of Dermatology and of Dunedin, Tampa, Safety Harbor, St. Petersburg management. Pediatrics at the University of Colorado, Denver. and Clearwater, and counties such as Manatee, She was voted as a “Top Doc” in 2007 and 2008 for Sarasota, Pinellas, Hillsborough, and Pasco. Kevin L. Jarman, B.S. Finance `93 & MARC `98, Pediatric Dermatology by Denver’s 5820 magazine. Additionally, Glaser has provided environmental is a registered architect and a partner at Johnson She is married and has a son, Wyatt, who is 4. engineering assessments for the MacDill Air Force Cartwright Jarman Architects in Tampa. Kevin is a Base. In addition to being professionally licensed in member of the American Institute of Architects and Shelby M. Hill, Communications `96, is a engineering, Glaser is the president of the Florida the National Council of Architectural Registration relationship empowerment coach who helps people Engineering Society’s Pinellas Chapter, and an active Boards. His firm’s recent projects include private develop strong, long-term, healthy connections member of the Florida Stormwater Association. residences, classroom buildings at four schools, within their personal lives and careers. He is a the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurant in Madeira member of the Tampa Bay Professional Coaches Lee Goldberg, Communications `97, Beach, a black box theater, and Let’s Eat! franchises Association (TBPCA), Ambassador of iPECs has won two Associated Press awards throughout Florida and Georgia. He and his partners Life Potentials Program and a member of the for best sports reporting in Florida, in also appeared in a recent broadcast of “The Mayor’s International Coach Federation (ICF). He also has addition to a Sunshine State award Hour” on City of Tampa Television which focused an MBA from the University of Phoenix and is a for best sports reporting. Lee was on Tampa’s Historic Cigar Buildings in Ybor City and certified Master Sales Facilitator in tele-cross sales. also named Orlando’s Hunkiest Hunk by listeners West Tampa. Jarman and his wife Amy, MARC `97, of the “Scott and Erica Show” on MIX 105.1 FM. reside in Tampa with their two children and they are Vince Honc, Accounting `96, joined the office of Goldberg is the weekend anchor for WKMG Local proud USF Bull football season ticket holders. Re/Max Realty Group Fort Myers as a commercial 6 in Orlando. He joined the station in 2002 as a and residential associate. After graduating from USF, sports reporter. Prior to that, he worked at WXLV-TV Jonathan Blaha, Accounting `94, was he began his career buying, selling and developing and WFMY-TV in Greenboro/Winston-Salem, N.C. promoted to vice president of finance residential and commercial property. He developed and KWES-TV in Midland, TX. Goldberg also does for TBE Group. Blaha joined TBE in 1999 and sold several small residential communities and “Midnight Magic”, the Orlando Magic’s weekly as corporate finance manager and was has also assembled, permitted and sold multiple show, which airs Sundays at midnight on Local 6. named corporate controller in 2000 and mine sites in Lee and Charlotte counties. As an assistant vice president in 2006. Previously, he was excavation contractor, he was responsible for the Cathrine Hunter, Business `97, consultant/project manager for BST Consultants site work on home sites throughout Cape Coral and joined the Henderson Franklin workers’ in Tampa, where he supported, implemented and Lee County; planned communities such as Cape compensation division, a law firm trained national and international clients on BST’s Harbour and Tarpon Point Marina and commercial headquartered in Fort Myers. Hunter finance/project management software. centers, such as the Publix in Cape Coral. received her law degree from Stetson University College of Law in 2001; and, her Theodore Couch Jr., Communication Nicole Salazar, Elementary Education Masters in Taxation from the University of Florida `94 & EMBA `05, was elected chairman `96, gave birth to a baby girl named in 2002. She was also awarded the Florida Bar of the board of Tampa’s Life Enrichment Ashley in July. She joins big sister Tax Section Scholarship and the William F. Blews Center, a nonprofit organization that Kaylee, who will be 3 in June. Pro Bono Service Award in 2001. Prior to joining provides continuing education classes Henderson Franklin, Cathrine was in-house assistant to active seniors. Couch also serves as a trustee Alison Freeman, MACC ‘97, joined the board of compliance counsel to WCI Communities, Inc. of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center and The Children’s Home of Florida. She is a licensed At Henderson Franklin, she represents insurance the University Area Community Development CPA, a partner at The CFO Alliance and a board carriers, third-party administrators and employers in Corporation, and is president of the Suncoast member of the USF Accounting Circle. the defense of workers’ compensation claims. Flatlanders 4x4 Club. Daniel Glaser, P.E., BSE `97, was named Tim Shoby, Business Administration `97, is the Lorie A. Kittendorf, Visual engineering department manager for Dewberry, deputy director of procurement for the Hillsborough Communications `94 and a privately held professional services firm. Glaser County Aviation Authority at Tampa International M.Ed `99, and her husband will be responsible for the department’s overall Airport. He holds Certified Public Procurement Richard D. Rosengren, management, including client services, staffing, Officer (CPPO) and Certified Professional Public Creative Writing `92 and and engineering services. He will also be involved Buyer (CPPB) certifications and is also the current M.A. History `96, were high school sweethearts in expanding the office’s capabilities to better president of the Tampa Bay chapter of the National who married in October 2005. They welcomed their serve existing and future clients. His 20 years of Institute of Governmental Purchasing. daughter, Olivia Rhianne, in September 2007. experience as a civil and environmental engineer include specialization in stormwater system Germaine Gibbs, MBA `98, is the new chief Kerry Kimball Marsalek, `94 & M.A. and facilities design, flood and erosion control financial officer at Animus Solutions Inc. She is Geronotology `95, directs Clearwater’s Office on design, water systems design, contract document responsible for the company’s finances, forecasting Aging. The office recently won a grant to form a development, watershed master planning and and the controller’s office. Animus Solutions, based

32 32 ALUMNIVOICE | APRIL 2009 Don’t be shy Alumni! We’d like to include your news and photos in Class Notes. Send in your information to: [email protected] or you can mail your information & photo to: Karla Jackson USF Alumni Association Gibbons Alumni Center University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave., ALC100 Tampa, FL 33620-5455 in Tampa, provides information technology services, Ryan and Susanna Renzy, Political The group offers members the chance to develop including consulting, support, training and coaching. Science `99 and Elementary Education, their plays with peer support, form collaborative Gibbs has taught corporate finance at USF and held cum laude, `97, respectively, welcomed relationships and build a strong sense of community brand and financial positions at the Eckerd Corp. their new son Riley in March 2008. within Ars Nova. In addition, members receive dramaturgical support and artistic matchmaking Erica McCray, Psychology `98, M.A. Special advice from the Ars Nova artistic staff, priority Education `02 & Ph.D Curriculum & Instruction 00s consideration for Ars Nova’s reading series (Out `06, was named the 2009 University of Florida – Megan Hendricks, MBA `00, is chair Loud) and industry exposure through a culminating College of Education Teacher of the Year. Erica is of the E3 subcommittee of the Tampa group production at Ars Nova. Members of Play an assistant professor of special education at the Chamber of Commerce. E3 stands for Group `09 will create a show to be presented in University of Florida. Education, Employment and Economic January 2010. New members were selected after Development. The committee focuses a competitive open application process and join for Terrance “T.W.” Anderson, on leveraging the interdependency and linkages a two-year residency. Lopez’s play, “Tio Pepe,” was Business `99, has joined the Miami between education, employment and economic presented at the Public Theater as part of Summer office of GrayRobinson, P.A. as an development for both our members and the Tampa Play Festival 2008. “The Whipping Man” received associate. Prior to joining the firm, Bay community. its world premiere at Luna Stage Company in April Anderson was an associate at Fowler 2006 and was presented in February at Penumbra White Burnett, P.A. He is a commercial litigator. Matthew Lopez, Theatre Performance Theatre Company, under the direction of founder Anderson’s experience includes real property, `00, was named to Ars Nova’s 2009 Play and artistic director, Lou Bellamy. Other Lopez plays construction, landlord-tenant, homeowner and Group and Artists-in-Residence. Play include “Reverberation,” “Noble Street,” “Between condominium association litigation, and complex Group is Ars Nova’s group of emerging Us” and “Phemmi Klompers, Agent to the Stars.” His judgment enforcement. He earned his J.D. from St. writers who gather twice a month at work has been seen and developed at the McCarter Thomas University School of Law. Ars Nova to share new work and get peer feedback. Theatre, The New Group, The Lark Play Development

In the Bulls Eye… Charles Trippy, Communications, `08, Tampa, FL By Anna Peters In fact, he’s produced more than Class of 2009 150 videos for his YouTube account on a variety of topics from farting in public places to his first skydiving ex- few years ago Charles Trippy, 24, perience. In another, his friends and A bet he would make more girlfriend shoot paint balls at a giant MySpace friends in one month than bull’s-eye target painted on his chest. one of his buddies. That bet won him “It’s usually completely random,” a 12 pack of beer and also jumpstart- Trippy said. “If something silly comes ed his career as an Internet mogul. to mind, I’ll do it, or I’ll brainstorm Trippy went on accumulating with a few friends.” friends on Facebook, YouTube and Although he often gets people other social sites. Now, he’s such an that know him on the Internet but not Internet superstar that he gets paid for in real life coming up to talk to him, his clicks. Trippy said, for the most part, being “I kind of just had more and this new Internet star is really not that more fun with it and more opportu- big a deal. He said his job can be just nities came from it, so I dove into a as stressful as working any other, but business,” Trippy said. it definitely has its pluses. Trippy has more than 79,000 Internet celebrity Charles Trippy works on “The fact that I don’t have to deal MySpace friends, about 5,000 on Fa- his dog training skills with Lilly and Zoe, with a boss is pretty nice,” Trippy cebook, 20,000 Twitter followers, and who star in many of his YouTube videos. said. “I just like the fact that I don’t almost 130,000 YouTube fans. He’s have to go anywhere to do my job. I even created his own Web site, www. paid for posting videos and updating can do it anywhere, that’s what I like charlestrippy.com, and he now gets his pages. most about it.”

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notes Center, Luna Stage, Backhouse Productions, Luis Perez, Information Technology `02, was who currently resides in Spring Hill, she is presently classMonarch Theatre and Breedingground Productions. selected for the Apple Distinguished Educator seeking licensure as an advanced registered nurse Program, Class of 2009. He is a graduate assistant practitioner, as well as national certification as a Donna-Lee Anderson, MARC and provides faculty and student support in the family nurse practitioner. `01, has joined RLF as a project Florida Center for Instructional Technology. ADEs architect. Anderson has more than are a select group of 1,500 education professionals Melissa Kelly, Marketing `05, was included 15 years of experience in hospital worldwide committed to the promise of educational in Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Up & Comers management, a Master’s degree in technology to improve teaching and learning. roster for 2008. She is in e-commerce marketing at Architecture from USF and a Master’s in Hospital Thompson & Co. Inc Administration from Tulane University. She is Greg Sausaman, M.S. Management `02, recently a registered Florida architect and a Leadership became a partner in the soft ice cream franchise, Mitzarie Carlo, Au.D `06 & Ph.D `08, is the first in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Topper’s Creamery. Prior to that, he worked in Doctor of Audiology/Doctor of Philosophy graduate accredited professional. RLF is a Winter Park-based management for Domino’s Pizza, Dunkin Donuts and of the Department of Communication Sciences architecture, engineering and interior design firm. Beef O’Brady’s. & Disorders (CSD). Dr. Carlo is now an assistant professor at the University of Puerto Rico. Cary Hopkins Eyles, M.A. Criminology `02, and Adam McKay, Accounting `03 & MACC `05, her husband, Eric Eyles, welcomed their new son, was included in Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Up Andrea Ferguson, MFA `06, was hired as a Jefferson Darwin Eyles, on Feb. 10, 2008. Cary is & Comers roster for 2008. He is a tax manager at digital editor at the Louisiana Endowment for the the director of residential services at DAACO, the Pender Newkirk & Company LLP. Humanities in December 2007. In 2008, she was treasurer of her community association and the chair awarded a 12-month studio residency at Louisiana of several Hillsborough County committees. Eric Daniel McLean, Mass Communications `03, Art Works and was invited to join an artist collective is a teacher for Hillsborough County schools and a joined Transitions Optical as a marketing specialist and gallery in New Orleans called The Front. soccer coach. for consumer communications. He previously worked She had a solo exhibition at The Front Gallery in for ChappellRoberts Communications. December 2008 and also exhibited new artwork at the Winkleman Gallery in New York City’s Chelsea Debra Van Bemden, Independent District in early 2009. Studies `03, was promoted to vice president of BB&T Corporation, the Colin Bock, Accounting `07, joined Kirkland, Russ, nation’s 14th largest financial holding Murphy & Tapp, PA as an audit intern. company. Van Bemden, who joined the bank in 2003, is a financial center leader at the 2211 Theresa Lynn Collins, EMBA `07, president U.S. Highway 19 office. of M/I Homes, was quoted in a recent M2M ConstrucTech article on upscale home electronics. Heldy Abueg, Management `04, received a Bronze She also presented a session during the Star for his 15-month deployment in Iraq and was International Builder’s Show & NEXTBUILD held in promoted to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army. January in Las Vegas entitled “Home Electronics: Real-World Research and Case Studies into Which Anoopa Jaikaran Dhalu, Marketing `04, was Technologies Add the Most Value.” Have you seen the awesome Bull included in Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Up & Comers roster for 2008. She is a regional business Hiram Garcia, Accounting `07, joined Kirkland, topiary in front of the new Marshall development manager at Nodarse & Associates Inc. Russ, Murphy & Tapp, PA as a tax intern. Student Center on the Tampa campus? The installation was done Cassandra (Denten) Mattison, English Education Gordana Kekenovska, M.M. Musical by A & A Electric Services, Inc., `04 & M.A. Reading Education `07, was voted Performance `07, sang the title role in “Rita” by which is owned by Andy DeLaParte, Teacher of the Year at Spoto High School. She also Donizetti, and Oscar in “Un Ballo in Maschera” by achieved National Board certification. Verdi, at the National Opera House in Macedonia. `78, who is also a Sigma Nu brother. Last fall, she performed the role of Rasquite in Design was by Jim Johnson, V.P. Theresa M. Meloche, Nursing `04, “Bizet’s” Carmen there. of estimating with A & A Electric is a registered nurse and holds B.S. and Services, Inc., in cooperation D.D. degrees, in addition to recently Christopher Messer, Marketing `07, has joined with Andy Nogueira, USF Project earning a Masters of Science degree in CMA CGM (America) LLC as an account executive Nursing from the University of Tampa. for the Florida market. Messer has 12 years of Manager. A dedication ceremony Dr. Meloche is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau experience in sales and sales management, as well was held April 15 for the 4-story, International Honor Society of Nursing Delta Beta as an extensive background in shipping that includes 230,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Chapter and the Golden Key International Honour prior work with Crowley Maritime Corp. and CP student center. Society. Dr. Meloche is also an alumnus of Benet Ships. Most recently, he worked for Conway Freight Check it out at http://msc.usf.edu/. Academy, `75 and St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital as an account executive. He will be based out of Center School of Nursing, `80. A Chicago-area native CMA CGM’s Miami office.

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Doug Miles, Professional/Technical Writing ‘07, is Donald Vance Jr., Interdisciplinary Sciences `07, the Economics department; another as a research owner of Milestone Productions, a media production is 1st Lieutenant currently serving with the 82nd assistant to Geoffrey Potts, assistant professor company. He is a broadcaster for WSLR Radio and Airborne Division assisting the Iraqi Security Forces. in the Psychology department, and he is also a hosts “Political Roundtable,” a radio/television teaching assistant to Bradley Kamp, associate program. He is also a technical writer for Gyrocam Keri Bolivar, M.A. Teaching `08, a professor in the Economics department. Klinowski Systems. language arts teacher at Davidsen hopes to become a university professor. Elementary, won the Florida Council of Along with two of his classmates, Klinowski co- Derek Pupello, MBA `07, was included in Tampa Teachers of English (FCTE) Beginning founded the Graduate Economics Forum, a student Bay Business Journal’s Up & Comers roster for 2008. Teacher of the Year Award. The organization that provides an environment for He is executive director/CEO at Florida Orthopaedic St. Petersburg Times published a profile on her academic discussions for graduate students in Institute Research Foundation. journey into teaching, from her birth as a biracial the economics department. As a former Electrical Vietnamese orphan to career as an award-winning Engineering major, he became a member of Jordan Starr-Bochicchio, Studio educator. the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Art `07, cum laude, joined a group of 24 (SPHE) and after two years, he was elected the master artists from throughout the U.S. Justin Garvin, Accounting `08, joined Kirkland, organization’s president for 2007-2008. He also does to assist in the major exhibition, “Sol Russ, Murphy & Tapp, PA as an audit intern. community service with SPHE. He helped create the LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective” first SPHE high school chapter in the Florida, South at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Ayumni Hattori, M.A. Mass Communications `08, Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia region. (MASS MoCA). The exhibit opened November 2008 is the White House correspondent and producer and will run until 2033. The installation comprises for TV Asahi, one of Japan’s largest broadcasting forty years of work by Sol LeWitt, one of the most conglomerates. She covers the news mainly in influential artists of the last half century. Conceived Washington, D.C. and New York, reporting on In Memoriam by the Yale University Art Gallery, in collaboration current events of interest to Tokyo. June K. Bowen, `64, 12/24/08 with the artist before his death in April 2007, the Pamela Dunn, `72, 12/26/08 project occupies a 27,000-square-foot historic mill Aimee Jacques, Accounting `08, joined Kirkland, Mike Gomez, MBA `67, 3/15/09 building. Starr-Bochicchio worked with the Sol Russ, Murphy & Tapp, PA as an audit intern. Roy Gonzalez Medero, `69, 12/29/08 LeWitt Studio to execute a variety of wall drawings, Cynthia A. Nuhn, `88 & M.A. `96, 12/29/08 perfecting the techniques and creating the images David Klinowski, Economics & Physics, `08, Barbara Parker, `73, 3/7/09 now on view. He was versed in the process of taking summa cum laude, is a Master’s student in the Vicki Lynn Santa, `74, 12/09/08 LeWitt’s original instructions for a wall drawing and School of Economics, while at the same time holding John E. Seago, `94, 1/28/09 following it through to completion. three graduate assistantships: One as a research Artia Small, `99 & M.Ed `01, 11/28/08 assistant to Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, chair of Stephen Hopkins Snow, `71, 12/27/08 Mary Jean “M.J.” Jarrett Wall, `70, 12/27/08 Corey White, `07, 2/7/09 Robert C. “Bob” Winship, `85, 2/25/09 Amelita Marie “Lita” Yellin, `77, 12/18/08

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APRIL 2009 | ALUMNIVOICE 35 athletics Know Your Pros

You’ve probably seen that NCAA commercial: “There are over 360,000 student-athletes and just about all of us will be going pro in something other than sports.” But what about those who do? Dozens of USF athletes have turned pro. Can you match the former Bull with the professional team that drafted him or her? Answers are at the bottom of the page. (This is by no means a comprehensive list.)

Player Team

A. Jason Dellaero 1. Kansas City Wiz B. Amber Wright 2. Oakland Athletics C. Mark Chung 3. Jacksonville Jaguars D. Trae Williams 4. New England Riptide A E. Scott Hemond 5. Chicago White Sox F. Tiffany Stewart 6. Columbus Crew G. Jim Grandholm 7. Tampa Firestix B H. Jeff Cunningham 8. San Antonio Spurs I. Kenyatta Jones 9. Washington Bullets J. Tony Grier 10. New England Patriots

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Jason Dellaero (Shortstop, 1997) 15th overall Chicago White Sox MLB Amber Wright (3B, 1997) Tampa Firestix WPSL F Mark Chung (Midfielder, 1996) st1 round, 6th overall Kansas CityWiz MLS Trae Williams (Cornerback, 2008) Jacksonville Jaguars 5th Round - 24th pick NFL Round Scott Hemond (Catcher, 1986) 12th overall Oakland Athletics MLB Tiffany Stewart (OF, 2006) New England Riptide National Pro Fastpitch Jim Grandholm (Center, Year Drafted: 1984) 4th Round, Washington Bullets NBA Jeff Cunningham (Forward, 1998) 1st round, 9th overall Columbus Crew MLS Kenyatta Jones (Offensive Lineman, 2001) New England Patriots 4th Round NFL – 96th Pick Tony Grier (Guard, 1982) 4th Round, San Antonio Spurs NBA

36 ALUMNIVOICE | APRIL 2009 What happens when Knights, Bulls and Gators meet o f f the football field? your membership RESEARCH in action calendar April 25 New York Alumni Chapter: Hands on New York Volunteer project. E-mail [email protected] or Competitors on the Field – Industry Partners in the Laboratory [email protected] for details. Working Together to Discover Innovative Technologies May 1 USF Tampa Commencement, 6 p.m. Sun Dome, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa. These successful alumni 2 USF Tampa Commencement, 9 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 6 p.m. found research partners: Sun Dome, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa. 3 USF Sarasota-Manatee Commencement, 2 p.m., Manatee Conventional Center, One Haben Blvd., Palmetto. Antoine Khoury, UCF, ’88 3 USF St. Petersburg Commencement, 6 p.m. Advanced Power Electronics Corp. (APECOR) progress Energy Center for the Arts, Mahaffey Theater, provides leading research and development 400 First St. South, St. Petersburg. services in power electronics for renewable 4 USF Polytechnic Commencement, 7 p.m., energy, electric vehicles, space power Lakeland Center, 701 W. Lime Street, Lakeland. management and other applications. 13 tampa Alumni Chapter Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Lee Roy Selmon’s, 4302 W. Boy Scout Blvd., Tampa. 16 the Bulls Stampede: Broward Alumni Connect. Jim Donovan, USF, ’76 E-mail [email protected] for details. TempTroll Inc. developed a self-heating 18 orlando Alumni Chapter Networking Event, 6 p.m., washcloth that has been used by hospital Seasons 52, 7700 Sand Lake Road,Orlando. patients, American troops in Iraq and hurricane victims here at home. June 10 Tampa Chapter Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Lee Roy Selmon’s, 4302 W. Boy Scout Blvd., Tampa. 12 USF Alumni Association Executive Committee Meeting, 6 p.m., Gibbons Alumni Center Board Room, USF Tampa. Neil Euliano, UF, ’86 13 Convergent Engineering created an USF Alumni Association Alumni Academy, 2 p.m., “electronic pill” that communicates with an Gibbons Alumni Center, USF Tampa campus. external monitor when the pill is consumed. 13 new York Alumni Chapter: 2nd Annual Circle Line Harbor Lights Cruise, 7 p.m. E-mail [email protected] for specifics. More than 300 companies from across Florida’s High Tech Corridor have used Florida High Tech Corridor Council matching grants research SAVE THE DATE: USF Night: Tampa Bay Rays vs. dollars to partner with university faculty and graduate students on applied Kansas City Royals, Aug. 1, 6 p.m. Go to www.USFalumni.org > Events for details. research to develop or enhance their company’s products since 1996. SAVE THE DATE: Homecoming SuperBull XIII 2009 is Nov. 21 Visit www.USFalumni.org for details as they develop.

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