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Debbie Nye Sembler – Class of ’56 Award Recognizing a non-USF graduate who has provided outstanding service to USF and the Tampa Bay community Former marketing executive Debbie Nye Sembler grew up in Daytona Beach and graduated from the University of Florida, but has dedicated years of volunteerism, leadership and philanthropy to the Tampa Bay area and the USF System. A member of the USF Foundation board of directors, she served on the USF board of trustees for 13 years and as chair of the USF St. Petersburg campus board from 2005-16, for which the university named the Sembler Student Success Center in her honor. Her vision and gifts created the institution’s dramatic entrance, The Sembler Family Fountain and surrounding tropical promenade.
In the community, Sembler is a member of the Florida Holocaust Museum Advisory Board and the boards of All Children’s Hospital, the Florida Governor’s Mansion Foundation, Shorecrest Preparatory School and Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services Agency, among other groups. She is a former member of the Florida Commission on the Status of Women. In 2004, she and her husband, Brent Sembler, received the Florida Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “To Life” award in honor of their efforts to teach tolerance and fight racism. The couple have three children: Tayllor, Preston and Logan.
To nominate alumni or special friends of the USF System for the 2018 Alumni Awards, visit www.usfalumni.org/alumniawards.
She has been a member since 2012 of USF Women in Leadership and Philanthropy, which supports USF System women and women’s initiatives.
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