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Table of Contents

  • 1: The President's Perspective
  • 2: Country Current
  • 6: ETSU Paleontologists Celebrate the Centennial Digging in Saltville
  • 10: Arts Center to be a Reality
  • 13: DATELINE: ETSU
  • 14: Attacking an Epidemic
  • 16: ETSU's First Lady: Partnering for Excellence
  • 19: Who's Teaching at ETSU?
  • 20: An Opus for Dr. Aloia
  • 22: Who's Going to ETSU?
  • 24: It Takes a VILLAGE
  • 28: Leading the Journey Toward Team-Based Health Care
  • 29: A Legacy of Service
  • 30: Football Returns to Campus: A Photo Essay
  • 32: SoCon Champion Bucs Face Some of the Nation's Best
  • 33: Ezell Continues to Inspire Buccaneer Nation
  • 34: Meet New Head Baseball Coach Joe Pennucci
  • 35: Meet New Director of Tennis Martin Stiegwardt
  • 37: Treasures
  • 38: Back in Their Old Rooms Again
  • 40: A Foundation for Excellence
  • 41: Class Notes
  • 44: Obituaries
  • 48: Faculty-Staff Obituaries

ETSU President

Brian Noland

Executive Editor

Fred Sauceman

Managing Editors

Joe Smith

Advancement/Alumni Editors

Pamela Ritter; Bob Plummer

Contributing Writers

Marissa Avanzato; Karen Crigger; Lee Ann Davis; Mike Ezekiel; Jennifer Hill; Mitchell Miegel; Brian Noland; Cyndi Ramsey; Fred Sauceman; Joe Smith; Kristen Swing; Michael White

Cover/Graphic Design

Stephen Russell

Photography/Art

Ron Campbell; Dakota Hamilton; Larry Smith; Charles Warden

Publication Date

Fall 2017

President's Message

Where will your footprints lead? That was the question I posed to our freshmen during the 2017 Student Convocation, days before the start of the fall semester. It was the same question that I also presented to our faculty earlier that morning during our annual Faculty Convocation. The upcoming 2017-2018 academic year will be a celebration of the footprints being left by East Tennessee State University. Those footprints began in the fall of 1911 when 29 students—all aspiring teachers—arrived on our campus as the inaugural class of East Tennessee State Normal School. The original mission of the school was to strengthen our region and state’s public schools. Since then, our Clemmer College of Education has graduated thousands of teachers, school counselors, principals, and administrators who are serving here and around the nation. As the mission of the school expanded, so did our footprints. Consider our footprints in health care. We have been training nurses for over 60 years and now have one of the largest nursing enrollments in the state. Consider the footprints our faculty, students, and alumni from the Quillen College of Medicine have made since March 1974, particularly in rural, underserved areas. And consider the footprints made by the Gatton College of Pharmacy during the past 10 years following the arrival of the inaugural class. Consider our footprints in the arts. Our students and alumni of the ETSU Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies program have performed at venues as close as the D.P. Culp University Center and the Down Home and as far away as the Czech Republic and Japan. Our theater alumni have been on stage at Barter Theatre, on Broadway, and on London’s West End. Our graduates are accomplished artists, musicians, actors, storytellers, and educators. These footprints belong to our students, faculty, and staff, but they are also the footprints of our alumni and friends. Each of us leaves a lasting mark on this university, but our footprints go far beyond our campus in Johnson City, with over 92,000 alumni in all 50 states as well as 67 countries. This year, we celebrate the footprints of East Tennessee State University—the footprints from the past 106 years as well as the footprints we continue to make. So I will ask you the same question as I did of our students and faculty: Where will your footprints lead? - Brian Noland, President

ETSU Today - Fall 2017

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