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ALUMNI USF Ulumni Association Mission 2 0 0 7 ALUMNI USF Ulumni Association Mission 2 0 0 7 - The mission of the USF Alumni y Association is to foster a mutually beneficial, lifelong relationship j u l between the University and its alumni; to inspire loyalty and a publication by & for usf alumni association members pride among current and future 6 alumni and to advocate for excellence in teaching, research and public service. CONTENTS President, Board of Directors Jeff Spalding, `87 President’s Message 2 Greetings from Jeff Spalding, `87, President Executive Director of the USF Alumni Association Board. John Harper, `76 8 News Round-up 3 A brief recap of the top news and research Membership/Giving from USF. Opportunities (813) 974-2100 or Movers & Shakers 4 USF faculty, staff and administrators are making (800) 299-BULL their mark in the community. AlumniVoice is published four Q & A 6 Betty Castor, Executive Director of the Dr. Kiran times annually by the USF Alumni Association C. Patel Center for Global Solutions, talks about the center’s future. Submit story suggestions, 12 comments, photos and Blast from the Past 8 A look at USF and the world in… 1974 Class Notes to Publications Editor Karla Jackson at Share a Memory 9 Read excerpts of memories from USF alumni over [email protected] the past 50 years. USF Alumni Association Gibbons Alumni Center That was Then; 9 Junior Natalie Shultz gives her perspective on This is Now University of South Florida how college is different today than when her 4202 E. Fowler Ave. ALC 100 mother and uncle attended USF. Tampa, FL. 33620-5455 19 Phone: (813) 974-2100 A Bull in Baghdad 10 U.S. Army 1st Lt. Jeffrey D. Oliveira, `04, paints Toll-free: (800) 299-BULL the embattled city Green and Gold. [email protected] www.usfalumni.org Alumni Profile 12 For State Representative Peter F. Nehr, `00, becoming a Bull is a family affair. Life Member 14 The Alumni Association’s annual tribute to our Honor Roll lifetime members. Athletics 19 Your favorite Bulls teams have big things in store. Class Notes 20 See who’s earned a promotion, opened a business, written a book, had a baby and more! Calendar 25 Events and activities coming up at USF in the next new months. FEATURE STORY: Visit Jeffrey Oliveira in his tour of Iraq through the embattled streets of Bahgdad. PAGE 10 JULY 2007 I ALUMNIVOICE 1 president’s message Hello Alumni, Please allow me to take a moment of your time to introduce myself: I’m Jeff Spalding, the 2007-08 president of your USF Alumni Association Board. I’m a Class of `87 graduate and a 17-year member of the alumni association. Since I’ve been away from Tampa for a number of years, I’ve found that being involved in the association is a great way to reconnect with old friends, meet new ones and give back to the university that helped me get where I am today. When I do get back to campus, I’m awed by the phenomenal change at USF. Our alma mater has evolved from a “commuter” school to a top-tier state university. We should all be proud to be USF Bulls. Your alumni association is growing and changing, too. This new magazine you’re holding is just one of the many new benefits of membership. It will become even bigger and better in the upcoming months as we chronicle the lives and careers of so many USF alumni who are doing amazing things at home and abroad. With all these positive changes comes new challenges for your alumni association. USF is a young university with a large and diverse alumni base. We must work hard to reach out to all of our graduates. My goals as president are to: - Increase the value of your USF degree. - Share my passion for USF. - Increase the involvement of my fellow alumni and the future alumni - students. It all boils down to three words: Passion, Pride and Value. I challenge all USF alumni to get involved in some way. Whether it’s with a local alumni chapter, a national society or by attending alumni association events, you can make a difference. I hope I can count on your support to help improve our university through your participation with the USF Alumni Association. Go Bulls! Your Friend, Jeff Spalding, `87 Life Member Charlotte, N.C. 2 ALUMNIVOICE I JULY 2007 roundup newsJudging by the numbers, USF China ruled in 2001 that only 5 percent of Chinese children could be has admitted its smartest adopted into single-parent families. The policy tightened even more in freshman class ever. Students May, barring anyone who is single, overweight, depressed, married less who scored an A-minus average than two years, divorced and remarried less than five years, or over 50 or better in high school make years of age, from adopting a child from China. up the majority of this fall’s prospective freshman class. College of Education In addition, USF has invited in Top 50 hundreds more students to the USF’s College of Education is one of the nation’s Honors College, the university’s top 50 graduate schools of education, according academic crown jewel, than to the annual U.S. News and World Report rank- last year. ings of the nation’s best graduate schools. More than 5,000 freshmen The College of Education’s ranking, at No. 48, admitted to USF so far have GPAs that exceed 3.7, an A-minus average, up included in the magazine’s report on “America’s Best Graduate Schools from 3,300 at the same time last year. The average GPA of those freshmen 2008,” places USF’s college among the top 20 percent of graduate schools is 3.8. Of the 8,200 prospective freshmen offered admission for this fall, of education. It’s the fourth consecutive year that the college has been about 1,740 were invited to USF’s Honors College, which requires at least ranked. The previous year, the College of Education’s graduate school a 3.7 GPA and a 1270 SAT. ranked 60th in the U.S. It was one of only two colleges of education in Florida to be included in the ranking. USF on iTunes U The College of Education and USF Health Alzheimer’s Vaccine debuted on the USF on iTunes U website in Patch the spring. The site opens up a new world of possibilities for sharing digital content Researchers with USF’s Department of among students and faculty. Psychiatry report that a novel, needle-free vaccine approach is effective and safe “Soon, USF students will be able to access in clearing brain-damaging plaques from a password-protected area of USF on iTunes a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. The transdermal, or across the U to get course materials, lectures, seminars skin, vaccination, may offer a simpler way of preventing or treating the and a variety of valuable information related to their studies,” said James devastating neurodegenerative disease with less likelihood of adverse Welsh, at the Florida Center for Instructional Technology in USF’s College immune reactions. of Education. “This will change the way students access and review course materials and prepare for tests.” The study was published in January in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Check it out at http://itunes.usf.edu/. USF Lakeland Going Single Women Make Good High-Tech Adoptive Moms, USF Study Shows If things go as planned, USF-Lakeland could become Florida’s first public university specializing A single woman in the United States can raise a child in applied technology. adopted from China just as well as a married couple, The idea, says USF-Lakeland CEO Marshall says a study by a USF professor, countering claims by Goodman, is to focus resources on teaching and the Chinese government that single parenting is bad for children. research in information technology, applied health USF psychologist Dr. Tony Xing Tan compared 144 Chinese girls aged 1 ½ and biotechnology, manufacturing technology, to 11 years old who were adopted by 126 single-mother families, with business and education - with an emphasis on producing math and science 509 Chinese girls adopted by 415 families with two parents. teachers. “Overall, the present study found no evidence that the adjustment of the With plans underway for a new, 500-acre, 16,000 student campus at the adoptees from single-parent families differed from their peers from dual- interchange of I-4 and the Polk Parkway within the next decade, USF- parent families,” Tan said in his study, presented in March at the Society Lakeland could become a vital link in the emerging high-tech corridor for Research in Child Development conference in Boston. between Tampa and Orlando. News Roundup continued page 4 JULY 2007 I ALUMNIVOICE 3 roundup CONTINUED movers news shakers USF Health Web- USF Foundation Has New CEO site Goes Global The USF Foundation has new leadership: In order to make its J. Jeffrey Robison began his term as vice groundbreaking research president and chief executive officer of available to a worldwide the USF Foundation June 11. audience, the USF Health Research website can now be Robison came to USF from Case Western translated into nine different Reserve University, where he served as vice president for develop- languages. ment. He also served as president of the Florida State University Foundation for more than a decade. Before that, he was associate In addition to English, the director of university development at the University of Florida site can be viewed in Arabic, and has spent a significant part of his career at Ohio State Univer- Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, German, Korean, and sity, The Ohio State Development Fund and Ohio University.
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