USD Magazine, Summer 1992

"I told my wife, 'I'll retire when I'm 50.' Then it was 55, then it was 60. Now here I am at 65, and I'm finally getting around to it.'' Sitting back in his chair and running his hand over his thatch of white hair, Boyce's voice catches as he says, "The friends I've made here are what made me stay. And I believe in this place, and in what we're trying to do. I just couldn't let that go.'' "Jack has al-w·ays been conservative with the university's finances, he has a strong sense of fiduciary responsibility and never takes risks, and every year he balances the budget ... Our solid financial base and this beautiful

Jack Boyce has supplemented his USO leadership by taking a leading role with the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, a Catholic group aiding Arab Christians in the Holy Land.

He also keeps abreast of the financial markets by reading con– stantly and talking to his colleagues in the financial world. "It's a bal– ancing act," Boyce admits. "I guess I just have a knack for timing and a little Irish luck."

His financial timing is one thing, but Boyce admits that his career timing is something else. "I really never planned to stay at USD this long-just long enough to turn it around.

physical plant are Jack's legacies to this university."

- President Author E. Hughes

• Purchase and installation of a state-of-the-art phone system. • Expansion of the print shop, bookstore and mail center.

• Renovation of biology and electrical engineering labs.

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