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Fernando Gumucio, a former USF trustee for 10 years, a commencement speaker, and a member of the university’s President’s Club, remembers USF life, such as living at the Army barracks before moving to Phelan Hall when the university was an all-men’s school, attending the wonderful basketball games when USF had a National Championship team, going to Mass in the mornings at St. Ignatius Church, going for coffee to The Hole on Hayes Street, going up to Lone Mountain College (USF’s all-women’s sister school) to visit his dates, and going to Mel’s Drive-In for pie and milk. Part of a united fun group, he still gets together with about 20 of his classmates twice a year.

He played soccer for the Dons. He was a member of the Hispanic-American Club and graduated in Business Administration in 1957.