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Man who's seen it all leaves his mark on parkBy JULIANNE WU, Times Staff Writer© St. Petersburg Times published January 15, 2003 SEMINOLE -- Freedom Square resident David Delo, president emeritus of the University of Tampa, was honored Dec. 3 by the university, which named a campus park in his honor. Delo, who turned 97 on Dec. 20, was UT president from 1958 to 1971. He was chancellor for an additional two years. Delo worked to bring the Reserve Officers Training Corps to the UT campus. "It finally happened the year he was retiring as president," said his wife, Estelle. Before Delo came to Tampa from New York in 1958, he was a professor of geology and geography at several Midwestern colleges and universities and held administrative posts in Washington, D.C. From 1952 to 1958, he was president of Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y. His late wife, Elsie "Sunny" Delo, started the Chiselers Market in 1959 to foster fundraising for the restoration and beautification of UT. Mrs. Delo asked friends to help her chisel old mortar from tiles that were salvaged from fireplaces of the old Tampa Bay Hotel. This year's event will be in March. Dr. Delo has written or co-authored several books, including The Last Rites Never Came, a chronology of his tenure at the University of Tampa.
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