Published: February 06, 2018
UT's Sykes Hall of Fame Speaker Series Welcomes John Gainor and Nick Friedman on Feb. 15
On Thursday, Feb. 15, The University of Tampa will welcome John Gainor, former president and CEO of International Dairy Queen, and Nick Friedman, president and co-founder of College Hunks Hauling Junk & Moving, as part of the Sykes Hall of Fame Business Speaker Series. This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
The presentation, "Driven to Succeed: Who Needs Customers When You Have Fans?" begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Crescent Club, located on the ninth floor of the Vaughn Center.
Dairy Queen practically invented the quick serve restaurant more than 75 years ago. Despite fierce competition, DQ now has more than 7,000 franchise stores around the world. Gainor, who served as CEO and president of International Dairy Queen from July, 1, 2008, to the end of 2017, says Dairy Queen doesn't have customers, only fans.
Friedman turned a summer job hauling junk into a nationwide business with more than 100 fast-growing franchises across America. Unconventional thinking and fun are the rules on the road at College Hunks Hauling Junk & Moving.
Register for the event by Tuesday, Feb. 13, at www.ut.edu/buisness/sykeshalloffame. For more information, contact Whitney Vance, coordinator of Sykes College of Business operations, at wvance@ut.edu or (813) 257-3782.
On Sunday, April 8, The University of Tampa’s 2017-2018 Sykes Chapel Concert Artist Series will conclude with a performance by the Philadelphia Brass, called “one of the gems of Philadelphia’s cultural life” by NPR’s Martin Goldsmith. The concert begins at 2 p.m. in the Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values and is free and open to the public.
The concert will have a special emphasis on American music, featuring works by Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Copland, Duke Ellington and Frank Loesser, among others.
On Friday, March 30, The University of Tampa will welcome pianist Frederick Moyer — hailed by The New York Times as “first-class” and The Milwaukee Journal as “a superstar pianist” — for a guest recital. The concert, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Plant Hall Grand Salon.
The program for the performance will include works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Oscar Peterson.
“There are a lot of stereotypes and studies that say boys aren’t as good in second language acquisition as females,” said Harrington, who worked with Assistant Professor Andrew DeMil on the research project, “Gender differences in Spanish Language Learning: Speaking Exams,” which they presented at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference in February and to the UT Board of Trustees March 22.
“We wanted to do a study of our own here at UT. In the previous year (DeMil) had studied reading comprehension of girls versus boys, so we wanted to study speaking this year,” said Harrington, of Maple Grove, MN. “The results were the same though. The boys aren’t any worse, if not the same, as females. They are just extremely underrepresented.”