Dean at Scott’s medical school graduation in 1980. Keith at his medical school graduation in 1980, with his grandmother, mother and father and sister. Inset, Pam was an undergrad when Keith graduated.
Mary Pautler Martinasek, then and now.
f Bull Pride and Counting accepted to med school. “When you and Keith’s daughter, Ashley Pautler put nine kids through college, you Mitchell, B.S. Biomedical Sciences, `07, have to consider the best value and it is now pursuing a nursing degree at looked like a fantastic school.” USF. Linda Pautler King, The first Pautler graduated from USF now 52, lived in Epsilon the last in 2009, and there are more dorm – “Epsilon 3 West, where the women are the best” – and played basketball for a Like those relatives, the family’s year while earning a B.A. in Psycholmost recent USF grad, Scott’s daughter ogy, graduating in 1979. She followed Elise Pautler, 22, originally considered that up with a B.S. in Nursing in 1984. going into medicine until she discov“Mama was a nurse and that was ered USF’s degree in Environmental part of my reason for going in that Science and Policy. direction,” says Linda, who works at a “It was so inspiring,” Elise says of surgery center in Lecanto. “What’s nice the curriculum. “I’m really interested about nursing is that it’s very versatile. in practicing law pertaining to the You can work in a hospital or in the environment. I’ve grown up in Florida corporate world, days or nights, in in the outdoors. I love nature and I many different environments.” hope I can help protect it as much as Seven of the family members are possible.” in health-related fields: Oldest brother Elise, who graduated in May `09, Scott Pautler, M.D. `80, is an ophthalmologist; Keith Pautler, M.D. `80, is a pathologist; Linda is a nurse; Pamela Pautler Ligocki is a medical office administrator who just graduated from Stetson with a law degree; Mary taught respiratory therapy at Hillsborough Community College and is currently conducting research on asthma as part of her Ph.D; her husband Dushan Martinasek, M.D. `87, is a physician; Elise Pautler is the most recent USF grad.
recently took the LSAT and hopes to follow her aunts, Pamela, and Dawn Pautler Ellis, Psychology `90, to Stetson. Elise, Dawn and Ashley are all graduates of USF’s Honors in 1979, College, a specialized to come. program for high-achieving students with more rigorous coursework and graduation requirements. “They hold us up to very high standards,” Elise says of the Honors faculty. “We do an undergraduate thesis and they really push us to stretch outside our major. I was really nervous about it but once it was done, I was glad I did it.” Other Pautlers who have earned USF degrees are: Keith’s wife, Terri Jo Tagliarini Pautler, B.A. Education, `79; Pam’s husband, Frank Ligocki, B.A. Mass Communications `79; and Dean Pautler, B.S. Computer Engineering `89. Mary and Dushan’s son, Tyler, is a junior Finance major and Dean’s daughter Ellen started at USF last fall. “Actually, it had never occurred to me how many members of our family went to USF,” says Elise. She claims a special connection, though. “My mother went when she was pregnant with me, so I actually attended USF before I was born.” JANUARY 2010 | ALUMNIVOICE
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