assistantship at Kenyon College, in Ohio, and a year as adjunct professor of Philosophy at USF. While a doctoral candidate here, he taught for the Philosophy Department, Religious Studies and the Honors College. He is best known at USF for his service as president of the Students of India Association (2001-2002), co-president of Graduate Assistants United (2002-2003) and GAU Bargaining Chair (2003-2004.)
largest and most representative competition.
Rebekah Mason, `06, is a production assistant with the Largo city television channel.
Maite Mugica, `06, is a public relations assistant at Paula Robertson and Associates, a Fort Myers marketing and public relations company.
Amanda Sklar, `06, was selected
Christena Pyle, `07, was selected for the Multicultural Advertising Internship Program, sponsored by the American Association of Advertising Agencies. She interned at Arnold Worldwide in New York City. Arnold’s clients include Blue Cross/Blue Shield, ESPN, McDonald’s, Royal Caribbean Int'l., Hershey, Tyson Foods and USA Today.
Social Work Student of the Year for the State of Florida by the National Association of Social Work. Sklar was also elected as the Student Social Worker of the year by the Tampa Bay Chapter of the N.A.S.W.
Teresa Scordino, M.D., `07, graduated with
Anais Sori, `07, joined the Marketing and
WWSB television, the ABC affiliate in Sarasota.
Sklar founded Chocolate Studios in Ozona, west of Tampa, to serve as a community center for children, and to give people with disabilities an opportunity to learn job skills, budgeting and life skills. She volunteers nights and weekends at the Chocolate Studio and works as an advocate for people with disabilities at the Caring & Sharing Center for Independent Living, which serves Pasco and Pinellas counties. She is currently working towards her masters in Social Work.
Chantel Buck, `06, is a media placement
Chris Smith, `06, is a production assistant at
coordinator for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals national headquarters in Norfolk, Va.
WFTX television, the Fox affiliate in Fort Myers.
Cory Parsons, `05, is an uplink facility operator for the DirectTV Castle Rock Broadcast Center in Castle Rock, Colo. He previously was a microwave control operator for WFTS television in Tampa.
Kori Skaltsas, `05, is an advertising account team member for WestWayne advertising in Tampa. Previously she was production manager assistant at Dillard’s southeast division headquarters in St. Petersburg.
Jason Adams, `06, is a microwave control operator for WFTS television in Tampa.
Cortney Akridge, `06, is a news producer at
Elizabeth Cooper, MPH `06, was awarded a
Arlene Brown, `07, was named Summer Outstanding Senior by the USF Alumni Association.
Fulbright Research Scholarship. Cooper is a Ph.D. candidate in applied anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences. She’ll use the Fulbright to complete dissertation work within Sarawak state, non-peninsular Malaysia (Borneo) and to research nationalism, local nutritional programming, international health policy and their interrelations.
Margeaux Chavez, `07, was awarded a
Mandy Cretella, `06, is a writer at Home
Chad Cullen, `07, was awarded a National
Shopping Network. Previously she was Florida communications coordinator for the AARP in St. Petersburg.
Kendrick Hornack `06, won a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Germany on the impact of the Euro on the German economy. She is the first USF College of Business student to earn a Fulbright research grant.
Fatin Jacob, `06, won a prestigious Silver ADDY Award at the 2007 American Advertising Federation Student ADDY Awards Competition for her work on the Henckel Knives campaign. The ADDY Awards are the advertising industry’s
Fulbright Teaching Scholarship to study in Germany. Her area of expertise is German language and literature.
honors from USF’s College of Medicine in May. She joins her husband, Dr. Richard Kraus, to begin residency in the field of pathology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The couple were married on May 12 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Public Relations Department of Acoustiblok as a public relations associate. Sori was previously a corporate communications intern at Raymond James Financial Services in St. Petersburg. She is originally from Miami and currently lives in Temple Terrace.
Meghan Stewart, `07, is a news producer at WINK television, which is Fort Myers’s CBS network affiliate.
In Memoriam James Bishop, `71, April 10 James McNeill, `87, April 30 Manuel Mendoza, `63, May 4 Michael Williams, `05, May 5 John W. McCraney, Jr., `94 `98 & `04, May 23 Selma Brown, `79, May 30
Security Education Program Boren Scholarship. He is now enrolled in an intensive Thai course at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok through July 2008.
Jean Pearlstein, `92, June 6
Abby Dix, `07, is the new public relations and
Lynn Swilley, `81 & `95, June 16
communications specialist for Vince Vanni & Associates Inc., serving Hernando, Pasco and Citrus counties. She served as an intern for the company and also as an account executive for USF’s 2007 Advanced Public Relations Campaign Class.
Donald Thornhill, `88, June 24
Terra Hall, `07, is a student in the Graduate
Denise Libby, `04, June 9 Charles Young, `74, June 13
Cynthia Gonzalez, `98, June 25 Muriel Kocher, `72, June 27 Todd Morrison, `04, August 17
School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York City.
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