Where's Rocky?

Rocky and besties Stephanie Ruiz, ’18, left, and Taylor Feulner-Hamada, ’19, Life Member #8652, hang with deerly beloved friends at Nara Park in Japan. The trio bonded back at Cooper Hall.

Rocky joins Tina Johnson, ’80, Life Member #868, and Dan Johnson, Life Member #869, in the mouth of Admirals Arch at Cape Du Couedic on Kangaroo Island in Australia. Tina is a 2020 USF Distinguished Alumna.

Steve Fessler, ’77, Life Member #7607, left, and Randy Lord, Life Member #7608, introduce Rocky to Mozart’s birthplace, Salzburg, Austria. Steve is the 2023 USF Donald A. Gifford Service Award recipient and serves on the USF Foundation Board of Directors.

Rocky and Avalon Jade Theisen, ‘20, Life Member #5496, make a waddle of friends while exploring Antarctica, Argentina, the Falkland Islands and Uruguay on a cruise. Avalon aims to take Rocky to all seven continents and had just two remaining by last September.

Relishing “Wonder and Awe: A Week Celebrating Chautauqua’s Sesquicentennial” at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, Rocky joins, front row, Jan Roberts, ’74 and MA ’76, and former USF President Betty Castor, Life Member #161, and back row, Kathy Betancourt, ’67 and MA ’70, Life Member #55; Candy Olson, MBA ’76; and Patti Breckenridge.

At Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard in Waterbury, Vermont, Rocky and future Bull Josie Grovac mourn the brief earthly sojourn of Wild Maine Blueberry. Josie is the great-granddaughter, granddaughter, niece and great-niece of USF alumni Peggy Tyre, ’77 and MS ’86; Tracey Shadday, ’80 and MPH ’94; Penny Carnathan, ’82, Life Member #4600; Armand Vallone, ’82; Joe Vallone, ’88, Life Member #7879; and Lisa Kennedy, ’10 and MA ’15.