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Table of Contents

  • 1: President's Message
  • 2: Alumni Awards
  • 6: Campus Briefs
  • 10: Unique Alumni
  • 16: Reaching HIGHER
  • 18: Advancement
  • 20: Looking Forward, Looking Back
  • 21: Sports Spectrum
  • 22: Homecoming
  • 26: Classnotes

ETSU President

Paul E. Stanton, Jr.

Managing Editors

Richard A. Manahan; Robert M. Plummer; Jennifer Barber

Contributing Writers

Jeff Anderson; Jennifer Barber; Amy Brown; Margaret Carr; Lee Ann Davis; Carol Fox; Kristn Clark Fry; Ashley Garris; Tisha Harrison; Leisa Harvey; Donald Harvill; Chris Henson; Jennifer Hill; Pat Holland; Richard A. Manahan; Marc Montgomery; Carol Ollis; Jo Anne Paty; Robert Plummer; Cyndi Ramsey; Shea Renfro; Pamela Ripley; Jeremy Ross; Fred Sauceman; Carol Sloan; Joseph E. Smith; Karen Sullivan; Leisa Wiseman

Photography/Art

Larry Smith; Jim Sledge; James Padgett

Publication Date

Fall 2008

President's Message

East Tennessee State University President Dr. Paul E. Stanton Jr. announced his retirement effective March 1, 2009. He made the announcement during the ETSU Foundation Annual Meeting at The Millennium Centre. Stanton became the eighth president of ETSU on Jan. 1, 1997, following his selection by the Tennessee Board of Regents, which is the university’s governing board and the largest higher education system in the state as well as the sixth largest in the nation. He came to the presidency from his ETSU post as Dean of the James H. Quillen College of Medicine and Vice President for Health Affairs, which he had held since 1988. In 1985, Stanton, a vascular surgeon from Georgia, arrived in Johnson City to direct the Division of Peripheral Vascular Surgery for the then Veterans Administration Medical Center and ETSU’s College of Medicine (a position he held for six years) and also to serve as associate professor of surgery at the university. The following year, he was named professor and chair of the Department of Surgery in the College of Medicine. Stanton indicated that, when his retirement becomes official, he will maintain strong ties with ETSU for years to come and hopes to serve the university in an emeritus status.

ETSU Today - Fall 2008

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