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Table of Contents

  • 3: President's Message
  • 4-7: Alumni Awards
  • 8-11, 22: Campus Briefs
  • 12-17: Unique Alumni
  • 18-19: Advancement
  • 20-21: Sports
  • 23: Homecoming
  • 26: Looking Forward--Looking Back
  • 27-30: Class Notes
  • 30-35: Obituaries

ETSU President

Paul E. Stanton, Jr.

Executive Editor

Richard A. Manahan

Managing Editors

Robert M. Plummer; Jennifer Barber

Contributing Writers

Anthony Aiken; Jeff Anderson; Jennifer Barber; Pat Barcel; Laure Craddock; Lee Ann Davis; Ben Daugherty; Pat Elledge; Carol Fox; Haleigh Garber; Chris Hackney; Tisha Harrison; Leisa Harvey; Donald Harvill; Chris Henson; Jennifer Hill; Pat Holland; Brad Lifford; Samera Litvack; Ashley Martin; Peggy McCurry; Jo Anne Paty; Dara Powell; Robert Plummer; Cyndi Ramsey; Shea Renfro; Jeremy Ross; Fred Sauceman; Carol Sloan; Joe E. Smith; Karen Sullivan; Mike White; Jenny Wilkins; Deidre Yowell

Photography/Art

Ben Daugherty; Bob Plummer; Jim Padgett; Larry Smith; Jim Sledge; Charles Warden

Publication Date

Fall 2010

President's Message

We have welcomed an all-time enrollment record this fall semester, exceeding 15,000 students for the first time in the 99-year history of the institution. here is no question that ETSU has become the dominant organization in this region. With enrollment higher than ever and a work force of some 2,300 faculty and staff, we currently contribute about three–fourths of $1 billion to the regional economy. It’s an amazing story, really. How a small school for teachers, originally enrolling 29 students on October 2, 1911, has evolved into the East Tennessee State University of today. ETSU has survived depression and war, the vagaries of state budgets, and competition in the higher education marketplace to claim our place as one of the nation’s preeminent regional universities. ETSU ’s remarkable history is replete with stories of people who have overcome odds, exceeded expectations, triumphed over adversity, and succeeded beyond imagination—people who hoped for something bigger in life and found the path to it here. Our students of today don’t dress much like those original 29 students did back in 1911. Their methods of studying and communicating are vastly different. heir places of origin are much more diverse. Yet the students from those two generations, separated by nearly a century, have at least one thing in common: hey came to this campus driven by the hope for something better. It is not an exaggeration to say that ETSU touches the lives of each person within a 100-mile radius of the campus in some meaningful way. Someone on your local police force likely has a degree from ETSU . Someone in your doctors office probably has a nursing or M.D. degree from here. here isn’t a public school in Eat Tennessee without a teacher who has studied at ETSU . When citizens attend an ETSU theatrical production, listen to a locally produced program on public radio, cheer at a basketball game, follow the regional economy through the detailed and informative studies issued regularly by the College of Business and Technology, or read a book by one of our professors, they are transformed on some level by ETSU . We shape this region and our world in a profound and pervasive way. We are here at a very special time in the history of ETSU . On Friday, October 1, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., we will officially begin the yearlong celebration of our centennial, culminating in October of 2011, when we will turn 100. Some of you, as I was, were here 25 years ago when we commemorated ETSU ’s 75th anniversary, which was a major turning point in the public perception of the university’s role in our society. Although the celebration officially begins on October 1, months and months of work have already taken place, and I want to thank and acknowledge the members of our Centennial Steering Committee for the enthusiasm, talent, and hard work that they have contributed to this historic observance. his widely representative, high-energy committee has been working since last fall to create the framework for our centennial celebration. I thank them deeply. And I encourage each and every voice, department, school, and college to seek its own creative ways to observe ETSU ’s 100th birthday. Our centennial theme, “P partnerships, Promise, and Hope for a Hundred Years,” underscores the symbiotic relationship that we have with the Southern Appalachian region. I t reminds us that as the Tri-Cities Tennessee/Virginia’s hospitals, chambers of commerce, industries, school systems, and reputation have grown, so has ETSU . Whenever I peak to community groups in our region, I always ask folks who have some direct connection to ETSU to raise their hands. Invariably, over 90 percent of the people in the room respond. P laced in the context of a 29-tudent enrollment jut a hundred years ago, the influence of ETSU is nothing short of astounding. Early in my administration, I set a goal of making ETSU the bet regional university in the nation. I f that goal has indeed come true, it has been because of partnerships—at all levels of the institution and throughout a service area that is indeed global, with partnering institutions in Australia, Azerbaijan, the People’s Republic of China, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Norway, Poland, Russia, and Scotland. Another pivotal word in our centennial theme is hope. N o other word in the English language captures so well our reason for existence, the motivation that we have to come to work every day here at ETSU . Every voice, every department, every college and school at ETSU is in the business of providing hope to someone—hope for a saner world, a cleaner world, hope for a better job, a livelier mind, a healthier body, and hope for a brighter future! Consider this your invitation to join us in the Centennial Celebration. Accept this as our heartfelt thanks for your part of this great legacy in the mountains. With sincere gratitude, - Paul E. Stanton, Jr.

ETSU Today - Fall 2010

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