Class Notes 1970s
EDWARD J. PAGE, Criminal Justice ’78, had his 21-year anniversary with the law firm of Carlton Fields in Tampa. He is a former state and federal prosecutor and Federal Aviation Administration certificated flight instructor. He practices criminal, civil, and aviation law in Carlton Fields’s Tampa office. LESLIE REICIN STEIN, MA History ’73, Life Member, received the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s 2021 Top Corporate Counsel Lifetime Achievement Award. Stein is the managing attorney for
MARCIA CRAWLEY, Management ’89, was appointed director of philanthropy at New College Foundation in Sarasota. Previously, she served as a consulting vice president with Grenzebach, Glier and Associates, a philanthropic consulting firm based in Chicago. JUNE DENTON, Accounting ’88, has joined Seaside Bank and Trust in Sarasota as senior vice president and regional treasury solutions officer. She previously served as senior vice president for cash management at ServisFirst Bank in Sarasota. RANDY WARNER, Marketing ’86, has joined LG Electronics USA’s home appliance businessto-business division as vice president of sales. Most recently, he was the sales vice president at Samsung’s luxury division.
Leslie Reicin Stein PL. GAIL BORNSTEIN YOST, Special Education ’72, and ROGER YOST of Logan, Utah, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary May 2. The two were officers in USF’s chemistry club when they met at a dinner hosted for the club by a professor. Gail went on to earn a doctorate in family and human development and worked as a teacher, behaviorist and human services specialist, while Roger became an institutional locksmith supervisor at Utah State University.
1980s LAURA LIONETTI BARTON, Mass Communications ’83, has been appointed chief business officer to lead strategic and business operations initiatives at Odyssey Marine Exploration in Tampa, where she also serves on the board of directors. She was previously executive vice president of Communications for the company. DR. JANE BENTON, MD ’87, has joined the board of the nonprofit Space Coast Health Foundation in Rockledge, Fla. Benton is a pediatrician with Brevard Health Alliance in Melbourne, Fla.
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1990s JENNIFER (GLEASON) ADAMS, Visual Communications ’95, has joined MindEdge Learning as managing director. She previously worked for the University of New Hampshire focusing on project and process management, communications strategy and brand awareness. NIKKI ALVAREZ-SOWLES, Political Science ’97, was appointed to the Florida Clerks of Court Operations Corporation Executive Council. She is the Pasco County Fla. clerk and comptroller.
FRED HEID, Biology ’99 and MEd Educational Leadership ’03, was selected as the Polk County (Fla.) Public Schools superintendent effective July 1. He was previously superintendent of Algonquin, Ill., public schools. JENNIFER HIGGINS, Nursing ’97, has been named chief nursing officer for Lee Health in Fort Myers, Fla. She has been with the hospital system since 2000, most recently serving as interim chief nursing officer. JOHN MCKAY, Accounting ’91, has joined Neal Land & Neighborhoods in Lakewood Ranch, Fla., as financial and community development manager. McKay previously provided asset management services for Rizzetta & Company, Inc. DAVID ROOS, Political Science ’91, was invited to present “COVID-19 and Workers’ Compensation” at the Insurance Management Consultancy Group’s XCelleration seminar in Lakeland, Fla. Roos serves as the chair of the Workers’ Compensation division at Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A., a law firm based in Fort Myers, Fla. TRACI E. TIMMONS, MA Art History, ‘96, has published “The New Art Museum Library,” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), which addresses the issues facing today’s art museum libraries through a series of scholarly essays written by librarians in the field. REX TROCHE, Criminology ’94, was promoted to deputy chief of the Sarasota Police Department. He made history as the first Hispanic deputy chief in Sarasota Police
CHAD CAMPBELL, Marketing ’97, has been named president of Seaside Bank and Trust’s Gulf Coast market and middle market banking Florida, based in Sarasota. He previously served as Florida market executive for commercial banking at BMO Harris Bank in Chicago. Department history. DAVID FILER, Finance ’93 and MBA ‘98, was appointed chief information officer at ProVest in Tampa. He was an executive consultant at FCM, a private equity consulting firm.
LEONARD WEBB, Criminology ’90, has been named Allegany County’s Next Generation Scholars program coordinator for the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education.
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