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Mayor Moved To Song While Visiting Alma Mater

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 31, 2007

TEMPLE TERRACE - Balloons, posters and hugs welcomed Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio back to her alma mater recently.

Iorio, who grew up in Temple Terrace, visited her former school, Riverhills Elementary, to read to the students. The visit was a reward for some of the students for exemplary attendance.

Iorio said she felt like she was the one getting the reward by returning to her old school. Although about four decades have passed since Iorio attended classes at Riverhills, she remembered all her teachers' names and the school song - sort of.

When Iorio began to belt out the tune for the second-graders, she stopped after the first line, forgetting the lyrics. She quickly recovered and finished, to the astonishment of members of the current school staff, who had not heard the song. Iorio promised to write down the lyrics for them.

Iorio read the book 'Ugly Fish' by Kara LaReau to the students.

'I loved to read when I was here,' Iorio told the students. 'I would read everything, and all the time.'

Michele Sager

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