This spring, Saint Leo University’s Army ROTC program will be undergoing a change of command that will continue the tradition of growth and excellence that is characteristic of the Army core values. Captain Bryan Dunker will be relieving Major Stephen Wills as the head of the ROTC program. “I hope to take the outstanding ROTC program that Major Wills created in only three years and build from that strong foundation,” Dunker said.
Tuesday, February 22nd, the Town of Saint Leo’s Fire Marshall, Kerry Barnett, followed up with his second fire inspection for the year.
In the early hours of the morning on Friday, Feb. 11, a 20-year-old Dade City local was found dead. Christopher J. Gupta, a former Saint Leo student and marketing major, was found by a passerby around 6:20 a.m. Gupta appeared to have been thrown from his 2005 Suzuki motorcycle
For the last several years, Saint Leo University’s Campus Activities Board, or CAB, has hosted the annual Spring Fling – a concert aimed at bringing students together to enjoy music and a carnival-like atmosphere on campus, with only Saint Leo students allowed to attend.
Dr. Patrick Crerand from the department of English, Humanities, and Fine Arts is now the new Director of the Honors Program. Many students are unaware of the Honors Program that Saint Leo has to offer.
Over this past winter break, the Saint Leo community lost two students, Jamie Helbling and Luigi Leroy. They were two very different students, each with unique and distinctive personalities, but each was taken too soon.
Junior Amanda Cassar, president of the SGU, has made this year’s administration’s goal to be not only more accessible to students than prior administrations, but to change the way the students view their peers in government.
Zvosec, referred to as Coach Z, has an impressive resume. At 27, Zvosec became the country’s youngest head men’s Division I basketball coach at Saint Francis University in New York and soon after starting was named Northeast Conference Coach.
Senior swimmer Thomas Rey was born in Tampa, Fla. and is majoring in Communications at Saint Leo University. He has been committed to the Lions’ swim team all four years of his college career.
On Dec. 8, 2010, Paul Mangen and Melissa Miller-Mangen welcomed their first child into the world. The proud parents named their son John Michael Mangen and are nicknaming him Jack.
