How appropriate. The name Iorio is back at the University of South Florida.
For years John Iorio, the late father of Mayor Pam Iorio, was a popular and revered English professor at USF. Now his daughter has agreed to teach an honors class on mass transit at USF in the spring. She also agreed to forego the position’s $2,300 stipend.
The course will doubtless be, in part, a forum for light rail, the mayor’s most passionate priority. Moreover, nothing will be off the record. And it may presage something more permanent down the road for the mayor, who is known to be intrigued by a post-politics, higher-ed calling. She leaves City Hall next spring.
But for now, it means the Iorio name literally lives on at USF. As it should.