CORPORATE CHATTER INFO BEAT St 2 Memorial Trees USF Most Engaged in Community to partnership effective January 2007. Blount & Curry Funeral Homes invite the public to visit The University of South Florida is one of Twenty-five associates and 10 senior counsel any of itsthree locations through December 31 and place an 76 U.S. colleges and universities that are the in various offices throughout the firm were ornament in memory of their loved ones on Memorial Tres. most engaged with their local communities. elevated. They include the following lawyers Participants can write the name of the person they wish to That's according to the Carnegie Foundation in Tampa Bay: remember, along with a message, on dove-shaped paper or- for the Advancement of Teaching, which has Lakeland naments that are provided free of charge. The trees will be selected USF for the foundation's new Com- Senior Counsel elevated to partership: on display in the lobby of the funeral homes, which are open munity Engagement Classification. Shelli Willis de Roos, a member of the Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The funeral USF, the only Florida university to receive Business Section, concentrates her practice homes locations are: Blount & Curry Carrollwood Chapel the classification, is one of only 10 public in the areas of partnership taxation, afford- at 3207 W. Bearss Ave., 968-2231; Blount & Curry MacDill research universities accorded this presti- able housing and real estate syndication. She Chapel at 605 South MacDill Ave., 876-2421; and Blount & gious status including the University of North received her B.A. from Bob Jones University Curry West Chapel at 6802 Silvermill Dr., 814-4444. Carolina Chapel Hill, UCLA, the University in 1993 and her J.D. from the University of of Minnesota, Arizona State University, and South Carolina in 1996. Energy Assistance Michigan State University. Tampa Hillsborough County is now offering Emergency Home Public and private institutions participated Associates elevated to partnership: Energy Assistance Program Funds. These funds are designed in the classification by submitting docu- John Marshall, a member of the firm's Real to help low-income households 60 yearsof age or older, who mentation describing the nature and extent Estate Section, practices in the areas of.civil have received a past due or final notice for their home energy of their engagement with the community litigation, land use and zoning. He received bill. The program is intended for those residents that are 150 local, state or beyond. Thus the Carnegie his B.A. in the Program of Liberal Studies percent of the federal poverty guideline or below. Foundation was able to address elements of from the University of Notre Dame in 1990, Eligibility Requirements: institutional mission and distinctiveness that his M.A. in government from the University At or below the 150 percent of poverty guideline are not represented in other national data on of Texas at Austin in 1994, and his J.D., with Age 60 or over colleges and universities. honors, from the University of Florida College Disabled or handicapped (homebound may qualify) For more information on the Carn- ofLaw in 1997. Hillsborough County resident egie Foundation's new Community En- Keith Shotzberger, a member of the firm's Past due or final notice electric bill Picture identifica- gagement Classification, go to http:// Litigation Section, focuses his practice on tion www.carnegiefoundation.org/news/sub. complex commercial-litigation. He earned For more information, contact your local neighborhood asp?key=51&subkey=2126 his B.A., with honors, in accounting from service center. 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