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Table of Contents

  • 1: The President's Perspective
  • 2: A New Campaign for ETSU Begins
  • 5: New Theatre Named in Honor of Bach
  • 6: From Massive Galaxies to Miniscule Neutrons
  • 10: Who's Teaching at ETSU?
  • 12: Who's Going to ETSU?
  • 14: Matthew Hill's Experience Nets Leadership Role in Tennessee House
  • 16: Gavin on Survivor
  • 18: Millennium Center Officially Under New Ownership
  • 20: Introducing ETSU Health
  • 21: Strength in Community
  • 23: One of Our Own
  • 26: Dateline: ETSU
  • 28: A Johnson City Sesquicentennial Spotlight on a Beloved ETSU Professor
  • 30: No Push-ups Required
  • 32: Treasures
  • 33: Guidance for Graduates
  • 34: Surrounded by Culture
  • 36: Daniel Sweeney: A Diamond in the Rough
  • 39: Benavia Jenkins Joins the ETSU Family as Head Volleyball Coach
  • 40: 2019 Football Schedule
  • 42: ETSU National Alumni Association Presents 2019 Alumni Awards
  • 45: Class Notes
  • 47: Obituaries

ETSU President

Brian Noland

Executive Editor

Fred Sauceman

Managing Editors

Joe Smith

Advancement/Alumni Editors

Pamela Ritter; Bob Plummer

Contributing Writers

Kevin Brown; Karen Crigger; Lee Ann Davis; David Driver; Mike Ezekiel; Jennifer Hill; Amanda Mowell; Brian Noland; Cyndi Ramsey; Fred Sauceman; Joe Smith

Cover/Graphic Design

Jeanette Henry

Photography/Art

Ron Campbell; Dakota Hamilton; Larry Smith; Charles Warden

Publication Date

Summer 2019

President's Message

Throughout our history, our alumni, donors, students, faculty, and staff have campaigned for East Tennessee State University. In fact, it was a campaign for improved public schools in Tennessee that led to the creation of East Tennessee State Normal School in 1911. During the Great Depression, President Charles Sherrod campaigned to keep the doors of the institution open. There were many missed paydays in the early 1930s. Revenues were dwindling. Appropriations were being reduced. In late December of 1932, Dr. Sherrod read in a Nashville newspaper that a senator was introducing a legislative bill that would abolish the teachers colleges. He began a campaign to show the value of those colleges to the state, citing figures on financing, qualifications of faculty, supply of teachers, and cost of attendance. Eventually the bill was killed. But the idea did not die. In 1936, the legislature debated closing the school and called it an “unnecessary luxury.” Dr. Sherrod fought tirelessly to keep the school open, even refusing increases in his own salary for several years. Another campaign some of you may not have heard about is the one for us to achieve university status. Burgin Dossett was President of East Tennessee State College when the push was made for the school to be recognized as a university. When this proposal was met with opposition, President Dossett marshaled civic leaders, service and professional groups, political leaders, school boards, owners of television and radio stations, editors, and publishers to join the campaign. He prepared a booklet filled with statistics on population and economic and industrial growth. Students and citizens wrote letters, signed petitions, and visited Nashville. The legislation to make ETSC ETSU passed both the House and Senate unanimously, and Governor Frank Clement signed the bill on March 5, 1963. Many other campaigns stand out in our history books. A movement during the early 1990s to establish an honors enrichment experience for undergraduate students led to the creation of the Honors Program, which began in 1993 with four students. A decade later, the program expanded to become an Honors College which, during the 2017-18 year, had 460 students enrolled in its programs. One of the most dramatic chapters in Tennessee politics was a campaign that resulted in the authorization of a medical school for ETSU in 1974. Campaigns led by our students helped bridge the return of football to our campus and also became the foundation for the renovation of the D.P. Culp University Center, which is currently underway. And, of course, there is the landmark campaign in 2005 when our community raised $5 million in just 58 days to start our pharmacy school. And now, a new campaign has begun. During our Distinguished President’s Trust Dinner this past April, we launched the Campaign for ETSU, a $120 million capital campaign that will transform our campus. Significant support for our students and faculty as well as for facilities, research, and for new and current academic programs will propel us toward our strategic goals and position our university as a destination for students seeking premier education to prepare for the careers of tomorrow. I invite you to join us for the Campaign for ETSU and help write the next chapter in our institution’s history. Thank you for all that you do for East Tennessee State University! Sincerely, - Brian Noland, President. Godspeed and Go Bucs!

ETSU Today - Summer 2019

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