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Businesswoman, civic leader joins USF board
By wire services
Published February 25, 2005
Sherrill M. Tomasino, who runs a Temple Terrace engineering and land surveying firm with her husband, is the newest member of the University of South Florida board of trustees.
The Board of Governors, which runs the state university system, appointed her Thursday. It named 23 others to college boards.
The board also reappointed Robert Soran, president of Uniroyal Technology Corp. of Sarasota, to a second term on the USF board.
Tomasino, 60, said Republican state Sen. Victor Crist asked if he could nominate her.
"I had no time to make up my mind, so I said yes," said Tomasino, who does not have a college degree. "We prayed about what would happen."
Tomasino is president of the Pleasant Terrace Civic Association in a neighborhood on the east side of the USF campus. She also is active in the Temple Terrace Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Business and the First Baptist Church of Temple Terrace.
She and her husband Paul also are active in Republican politics, she said. Records show they have donated to House candidate Bill Bunkley, former House Speaker Johnnie Byrd and Hillsborough County Commissioner Brian Blair.
Couple who stole from charity get 18 months
JACKSONVILLE - A woman who said she embezzled nearly $200,000 from a charity she worked for to support her abusive husband's cocaine habit was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison plus three years' probation. Her husband received the same sentence.
Michele and Kevin Harris of Green Cove Springs were sentenced Wednesday. She stole from Social Security accounts she managed at Lutheran Social Services. Her husband cashed the fraudulent checks.
Michele Harris told U.S. District Judge Harvey Schlesinger she thought that by giving her husband money to feed his cocaine habit, she could keep him from hurting her or their teenage daughter. "I was always scared of what he might to do us or himself," she said.
Kevin Harris, 41, admitted having a drug problem.
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