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President Denise Gibson Welker '72 cAQumnug Vice President Marc A. Sprouse '70 Vice President Kenneth W. Smart '59 Secretary Cynthia A. Warren '70 Treasurer Vol. XXVI May 1985 Alan R. Simmons '71 No.1 Executive Director Linda S. Holmes '74 Published for Marshall Alumni by the Marshall University Alumni BOARD OF DIRECTORS Association in cooperation with the Marshall Offices of University Relations and University Publications Carolyne M. Brown '69 Max C. Burns '33 Dr. Sam E. Clagg '43 Philip E. Cline '55 June H. Deal '48 Jean A. Hamilton '73 Three chosen for Alumni honors ...... 4 J. Edward Hamrick III '80 Academic All-Americans ...... 5 William A. Heaberlin '68 Philip L. Hinerman '75 Center stage ...... 6 Sharon G. Houghton '67 'Delivering the goods' ...... 9 Joseph W. Hunnicutt III '57 Thomas E. Keeney '70 Tributes to Dr. Coon ...... 11 Michael R. Kiger '68 New MU medical school dean ...... 12 John K. Kinzer, Jr. '62 Patrick R. McDonald '65 'Gunner' ...... 14 Martha J. Merical '75 Herd does it again ...... 20 W. Donald Morris '39 Trish P. Nash '71 That great MU feeling ...... 21 Richard W. Ramell '78 Active membership campaign ...... 22 Mark Rhodes (student) Tammy Rice (student) Charles E. Romine, Jr. '58 Dr. Everett N. Roush III '55 John Salomon (student) CO VER: Students study on lawn in front of Old Main on a warm R. Gary Short '65 Diane L. Slaughter '79 spring day. Photo by Tim Grobe Richard C. Smoot III '79 Samuel H. Stanley '65 A. Keith Tomblin '82 CHAPTER PRESIDENTS and REPRESENTATIVES John L. Underwood '64 Atlanta Mason-Gallia Southern West Virginia Dr. Carole A. Vickers '55 Thomas A. Russell '66* Jan L. Haddox '71 Jane Ann Beard '79 Marietta, Ga. Point Pleasant Beckley MAGAZINE STAFF Central Florida Mid-Ohio Valley Space Coast Barry Farley '80 Don H . Foose '68* Margaret Beach Keyser '34 Alumni Editor Tavares Parkersburg, W. Va . Rockledge, Fla. Susan S. Peyton Editorial Staff Cinclnnatl-Dayton- River Cities Upper Ohio Valley C. T. Mitchell N orthern Kentucky Trish P . Nash •71 • Edward G. Sloane Jr. '82 Georgia Mathis '73 Huntington Wheeling, W.Va. Judith 0. Casto Cincinnati Beverly W. McCoy Southeastern Texas Washington, D.C. Photographer Greater Kanawha Valley Patricia Mahoney Moore '71 Aubrey C. King •73• Rick Haye John K. Merical '75 Spring Bowie, Md Poca Production South Florida •Indicates chapter representative Shirley Dyer Logan Greg Jarrell '73 Barbara Ransbottom Nikki Bailey '73 Boca Raton Rhonda Stennett McConnell

3 Three chosen for Alumni honors

Howard Bay

Caryl Toth Dixon Callihan

A nuclear physicist, a Broadway time and one of the great leaders in U.S. Army and Martin Marietta stage designer and an artist/ the development of atomic energy Energy Systems. educator were honored at the 48th for peaceful uses" (as noted in the Among his most recent honors annual Alumni Association Awards citation for an Honorary Doctor was the ANS Exceptional Service Banquet on April 27. of Science degree conferred by Mar­ award in 1983. Distinguished Alumnus awards shall in 1964). were presented to Dr. A. Dixon From 1965 to 1984, he was editor Callihan of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Howard Bay of New York City. a journal of the American Nuclear Distinguished Alumnus Distinguished Alumnus awards are Society (ANS), a society dedicated Howard Bay given to Marshall alumni for to peaceful applications of nuclear outstanding national achievements energy. He retired in 1973 after serv­ Leaving Marshall in the 1930s, in their particular fields of ing on the research staff of Union Howard Bay began a career which endeavor. Carbide Corp. 's Nuclear Division has made him one of the most emi­ for 28 years. nent scenic designers in U.S. Caryl Toth of Winfield, W.Va., history. He also has been a director, received a Community Achievement A Logan County native, Callihan film production designer, television award. This award is given to alum­ taught physics at Marshall, 1928-29, art director, educator, and author. ni for success in their particular prior to earning his M.A. degree fields of endeavor and personal con­ from Duke University and his Ph.D. Bay's credits read like a history of tributions to their respective com­ from New York University. He serv­ the American theater since the late munities. ed as a research associate at NYU, 1930s. He has designed more than 1933-34, and taught at City College 170 Broadway productions and has of New York from 1934 to 1948. received two Antionette Perry (Tony) awards, for Toys in the Attic He was a founding member of the (1960) and Man of La Mancha Distinguished Alumnus ANS Nuclear Criticality Safety A. Dixon Callihan (1965), a Variety Drama Critics Division and is a member of the award for Brooklyn, USA (1941) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board and two Donaldson awards, for Dr. Callihan, who received his Panel of the U.S. Regulatory Com­ Carman Jones (1943) and Up in B.S. degree from Marshall in 1928 mission and the Nuclear Standards Central Park (1945) . with honors in physics, is best Management Board of the Amer­ known to many for his work with ican National Standards Institute. Other design credits include the Atomic Energy Research Project He was a U.S. delegate to the first Music Man, The Little Foxes, The (Manhattan Project) with the Divi­ "Atoms for Peace" conference in Corn Is Green, The Eve of St. sion of War Research, Columbia Geneva, Switzerland, in 1955. Mark, Count Me In, Come Back, University, 1942-45. Dr. Callihan has served as an ad­ Little Sheba, Show Boat and The But, throughout the scientific ministrative judge with the U.S. Children 's Hour. world, he is known as "one of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission He was production designer for foremost nuclear physicists of our since 1963 and is a consultant to the such films as Douglas Fairbank's 4 The Exile (1947) and Balanchine's West Virginia College of Graduate Maryland. She also has had several Midsummer Night's Dream (1966). Studies, and a part-time art instruc­ one-woman shows. He served as television art director tor at Marshall. Mrs. Toth's work is in the perma­ on " The Pueblo Incident" (1973) She has been president of the Put­ nent collections of the Baltimore and many of the Hallmark, Om­ nam Arts Council since 1982 and is Branch of Federal Reserve Bank of nibus and Somerset Maugham a member of numerous art and Richmond, Oglebay Institute - Stifel series. educational associations. She has Fine Arts Center, the Brown­ Bay held the Alan King Chair at been a presenter at local, state and Williamson Tobacco Corp. in Brandeis University and has taught national education conventions. Louisville, Ky., Southeast Bank at Yale, Carnegie-Mellon, Banff Mrs. Toth has received many Corp. of Miami, Fla., First Hun­ Centre of the Arts, Cooper-Hewitt awards and honors, including a tington National Bank, Charleston Museum and others. Meritorious Service award from Art Gallery, Marshall University, West Virginia State College in 1982 Kanawha Valley Bank, and Putnam and the West Virginia Outstanding County Library. Art Educator award from the Na­ The award recipients were chosen Community Achievement tional Art Education Association in Caryl Toth by the Alumni Association's 1981. She was "Teacher of the Awards Committee, based on Caryl Toth, who received her Year" in Putnam County in 1982. nominations from Marshall alumni B.A. from Marshall in 1972 and her Her work has been included in and friends. M.A. in 1974, is an award-winning group exhibits across West Virginia Don Morris chaired the commit­ artist and an educator. Currently and in Virginia, Pennsylvania, tee. Members were Phil Cline, Rick she is a teacher for artistically gifted South Carolina, New Hampshire, Ramell, Tammy Rice, Everett students with Putnam County, Florida, Ohio, Kentucky, Montana, Roush, John Salomon, Gary Short, W.Va., schools, an adjunct instruc­ Washington, D.C., Kansas, Texas, Alan Simmons, Carole Vickers, and tor of special education with the Colorado, Wisconsin, and Cindy Warren.

Academic All-Americans honored Two students also were honored national music competition last named MVP twice. at the Alumni Awards Banquet, in summer. The Cam Henderson Scholarship recognition of their academic ex­ Rusnak, golf team captain and was established by the Alumni cellence and athletic skills. three years an All-Southern Con­ Association in 1972 to recognize and Named as recipients of the Cam ference player, is a senior from honor Marshall students who excel Henderson Scholarships awarded by Painesville, Ohio. He is a marketing in academic, as well as athletic, the Marshall Alumni Association major with a 3.6 grade point endeavors. were Jacqueline "Jaki" Renee average. Nominees for the scholarship Copeland, a member of the At Riverside High School in must have a minimum 3.0 over-all volleyball and track teams, and Painesville he was a four-year letter­ scholastic average, have lettered at Gary M. Rusnak, a golfer. Both man in golf and was on the state Marshall, and display responsible made the 1984 Academic All­ championship team two years, being leadership and good character. America first team selected by the College Sports Information Direc­ tors of America. Ms. Copeland, a senior from Waverly, Ohio, is majoring in pre­ med/ exercise physiology, and has a 3.82 grade point average. She has been Most Valuable Player in volleyball and track at Marshall and earned All-Conference and All­ Tourney honors. While attending Waverly High School, she was MVP in volleyball, basketball and track and was Athlete of the Year in 1981. On campus she is a member of the Gamma Beta Phi and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies. Phi Epsilon Kappa resident advisory council, and Students for Christ. She also has written a series of 21 gospel songs and won first place in a solo singing performance at a Jaki Copeland Gary Rusnak

5 Center stoge Howord Boy's scenic designs spotlighted for 50 yeors

By BILL BELANGER

Five o'clock in the afternoon --Happy Hour in Manhattan -- the time to interview celebrities in a cocktail lounge, a time to be mellow and ask questions that will uncover some previously unpublished facts . But, interviewing a nationally known stage designer, who once painted flats for Marshall College plays, calls for a different scene. He prefers to be interviewed at home. Home for Howard Bay is on the West Side high above 53rd St. -- a studio apartment crammed with books, potted plants studded by a bright splash of colors from amaryllis, stereo albums. He has lived there amid sketches and prints of stage designs for the past seven years. Howard Bay greets a visitor at the door, and says, "You've arrived just in time. It's time for the bar to open." He hangs the visitor's coat on an old-fashioned (or homey?) coatrack. To have lived in the years when experiment in theater production was considered suspect down to to­ day's computerized design is to have known the days when the curtain opening and closing was de rigeur. At the beginning of his career, theater-in-the round was a novelty

Bill Belanger, Marshall Class of 1935, is retired fine arts editor of The Herald­ Dispatch. Pictures of some of his designs line the wall behind Howard Bay in his apartment.

6 From the bleak realism of a tenement setting for one-third of a nation to a string of Broadway musicals, Bay has shown innovation in stage and lighting design. He has created and re-created sets for the musical Show Boat -- the 1946 production (above), the 1954 revival and a 1960 version. He also designed and directed the show at Brandeis University, where he taught, in 1981.

(though it does back to experimentation and research, it 1930-31, where he was a member of Shakespeare's time). would be safe to guess that the bulk Freshman Players (a long since But Howard Bay, who has design­ of his autobiography would concern defunct organization), whose ed prize-winning sets for Broadway changes in American theater with memories of Marshall deal mostly plays from the 1930s to the present, the emphasis on development of with the late E. Turner Stump and challenged the times, looking for the stage design. G. Harry Wright, both professors new and achieving the best as two But, who could guess about of speech and play directors who Tony awards, two Donaldsons, and Howard Bay? left to go to Kent State University. a Maharam testify. And, although Judging from his previous Bay remembered them with more he says he does not like show biz writings, including a textbook on than respect -- still a sense of awe memoirs, he is writing his stage design and the "Staging" sec­ for their feelings about theater. It autobiography. As designer for tion for the Encyclopaedia Britan­ was the era when Otis Ranson (now films and television as well as New nica, it will not be run-of-the-mill a retired professor, living in Stuart, York theater, he has been well ac­ show biz. Fla.) was a student and the obvious quainted with celebrities. Seating himself on the big chair choice to play Abe Lincoln in His book might be chock full of close to a white sofa, he moves his everything from county parades to anecdotes, studded with the great glass between his hands, warming college drama. names of Broadway in those years. the drink in the old tradition, "I remember him well in Juno Having designed sets for plays such waiting for the reporter's questions. and the Paycock," the designer as The Little Foxes, doing sets for Designer, director, author, smiled. "I remember H .R. Pinckard dramas, comedy, and musicals, he educator, theoretician, union (editor of The Herald-Advertiser speaks casually and with neither organizer, crusader, father -- all are Sunday newspaper) in journalism. I deference nor pretensions about hats he has worn. (His son is a took a class in feature writing from Mary Martin, Lillian Hellman, freelance writer, doing mostly travel him, and one in book reviewing. Elizabeth Taylor, Bert Lahr, pieces. His daughter arranges pro­ And I remember Chet Anderson, Massard Short, Rodgers and Hart, fessional entertainment for prisons who was editor of The Parthenon Cole Porter, N.C. Wyeth. The list and old-age homes.) (and later a Herald-Dispatch goes on. This is Howard Bay, 50 years reporter before leaving Huntington But, with his known passion for after being a freshman at Marshall, (continued on next page)

7 to work for the Columbus explained. The cat jumped and, Bottom and Glengarry Glen Ross. Dispatch). with a minimum of acrobatics, land­ And, Cats? After leaving Marshall, Bay went ed in his lap, apparently satisfied no "Not really," Bay replied. "No to Carnegie Mellon (where he Gershwin would be heard while a self-respecting cat would like that returned as guest director 30 years visitor was there asking questions. show," he said as he smiled down at later although he never graduated). A variety of interests, most of Tillie. New York City was his next stop, them dealing with the theater, is What shows does he like to and from there he branched out in evidenced from the floor-to-ceiling remember? what was then called summer stock. bookcase jammed with volumes on I'm no opera buff, but I liked "Some of the best work to be seen stage craft, design and theater Carmen Jones. I loved the score and was at English Gardens, an amuse­ history, faded whodunnits. He col­ the book. It was so well done. It was ment park in Denver. I also did lects Dashiel Hammitt, whom he exciting.'' (He won a Donaldson design at Bucks County Playhouse knew well and greatly admired. award for his work with the 1943 in Pennsylvania." There, he says, Across the room is a high drafting production.) he received excellent training -- 29 table with T-square and the prover­ He also enjoyed Little Foxes. He sets in 12 weeks. bial jar of pencils, a bulletin board worked on all three versions, from And how does he feel about with a fanned-out display of the Broadway premiere (1939) with summer theater now? postcards, and a stereo. Tallulah Bankhead, through the "There is no good summer Mike Nichols revival at Lincoln theater now," he grumbled softly. To have gone from the horse and Center (1967) to the London version "There is some plodding along; but buggy to space flight in one lifetime with Elizabeth Taylor (1982). none that is really first class." is a remarkable span of time. Tired, or retired? What is next? A 12-year-old cat of in­ Howard Bay enjoyed doing the After more than 170 shows and 17 distinguishable family history, equivalent of that in the world of years' teaching at Brandeis Univer­ Tillie, climbed to a stand and theater. sity, he is not exactly "at liberty," draped herself gracefully across the How does he feel about theater as the unemployed actors say, but telephone, staring at the stereo op­ now? What shows would he recom­ just waiting for the next show. posite her. "That is where she likes mend? "Just give me an offer," he said to sit and listen to Gershwin," Bay He likes Ma Rainey's Black with a smile.

To create the set for the 1956 Night of the Auk, Howard Bay did research at a computer convention. The show did not run long and the set was later transferred to an amusement park where visitors were charged admission for "flights to the moon." 8 'Delivering the goods' Retiring Dean Robert W. Coon says medical school is meeting the challenge

By BEVERLY W. McCOY

"If you don't stir up a little con­ troversy from time to time,'' says retiring School of Medicine Dean Robert W. Coon, "you probably aren't making any progress." No one will ever accuse him of not making any progress. Since 1976, his history and the history of the School of Medicine have been inseparable. Change has brought its inevitable controversies; challenges have inspired creative solutions. Under Coon's leadership, the School of Medicine has grown from a paper school with a few ad­ ministrators and a cloudy future to a thriving institution with solid teaching, health-care and research programs. He was the man to match Mar­ shall's mountains. Because of his many contribu­ Robert W. Coon tions to Marshall, Coon was named graduates of our residencies also and we see continuing this in the an Honorary Alumnus by the MU have done well. future," he added. "Most of these Alumni Association at the group's "It's very satisfying to see really physicians have affiliated with the April 27 banquet. The award, which good, stable, consistent educational Medical School, and I think these has been given only 15 times in the programs that are going to essential­ affiliations help provide them with a last 23 years, is reserved for ''very ly deliver the goods." feeling of satisfaction with what special people who are not Marshall The school also is "delivering the they are doing, and opportunities graduates but who give so much of goods" in health care, he believes. for sharing with their peers in im­ themselves to the University · that portant activities such as teaching." they seem like alumni," according "I think the School of Medicine's to Linda S. Holmes, director of most significant accomplishment Coon quickly notes that the West alumni affairs. has been the important leadership Virginia University Medical School role it has taken in developing and the School of Osteophathic Coon plans to step down around health services in the Huntington/ Medicine also have been active in July 1 but will keep Huntington as Tri-State area," he said. addressing the state's health-care his home base. He says he will spend He points to more physicians in problems, and share the credit for more time visiting his family, rural areas, with better access to many improvements. tending his garden -- and trying to continuing medical education op­ He's pleased with the cooperative keep up with the paperwork from portunities and consultation ser­ relationships that Marshall has with the state health coordinating coun­ vices. He points to new specialized the other two medical schools. cil, of which he is a member. services available to people It is with a certain quiet satisfac­ throughout the region -- a newborn "Our relationships with the tion that he pronounces his intensive care nursery, a burn unit, School of Osteopathic Medicine "patient" of nine years healthy. sophisticated surgery. from the beginning were always "I think in many ways the pro­ He points to "a very profound basically friendly and cooperative in gram has gone better than we had impact" on the Veterans Ad­ that we started out as the have-nots, any right to expect," he said. "We ministration Medical Center. ''The and there was strength in our com­ have a well-developed medical quality of care has improved mon have-nottishness," he said. school, it has full accreditation, and markedly, specialty services have in­ Despite the early negativism on we have developed residency pro­ creased considerably, every aspect the part of WVU, Coon said any grams. Our graduates have done of the program has improved,'' he residual antagonism there has all well in the 'big world' of competing said. but disappeared. "I'm not sure but for residencies at the nation's most "We have also helped place well­ what had I been a member of the prestigious institutions, and the trained physicians in rural areas, (continued on next page) 9 faculty there, I, too, would have been opposed (to another medical school in the state). "At the levels at which I com­ municate and at which I see our department chairmen com­ municating we have nothing but good cooperation and common in­ terests, and share common pro­ blems and goals." Coon believes that all three schools have a secure future. He also believes lawmakers will con­ tinue to introduce bills calling for merger, consolidation or even elimination of medical schools. "I think it's inevitable," he said. "I also think it has the salutary ef­ fect of keeping us all on our toes. I don't think that, as long as we're doing the jobs we should be doi.ng, any of us are in danger of being eliminated.'' Coon's listing of the School of Medicine's milestones reflects how Ezra B. Riber, 1984 medical school class president, awarded a special recognition vital the early years were in reaching plaque to Dr. Coon at the 1984 investiture. this position of strength: • The Liaison Committee on Medical Education's reversal of its leading a school dedicated to train­ primarily oriented toward the prac­ position of non-approval, and its ing primary-care physicians. A tice of medicine.'' subsequent granting of the long­ number of factors combined to He thinks the country needs awaited "letter of reasonable bring him to Marshall -- and to keep more, not fewer, medical schools, assurance of accreditation" -- the him nine years in a post for which and that larger schools should key that was needed to unlock state the average tenure nationally is reduce their enrollments. and federal funding; three. "I think there is a need for addi­ • The LCME's granting of provi­ Most of his professional career tional medical schools such as Mar­ sional accreditation, allowing the has been spent in institutions com­ shall's -- schools whose objective is school to enroll its first class in mitted to serving underserved rural to impact and to deliver quality January 1978; areas. He has considerable ex­ health care to underserved people; • The granting of full accredita­ perience and relationships with schools which can influence the tion in February 1981, and primary care. And health planning quality of care in their immediate • The graduation of the first class has been "a very important regions, as we have done; schools in May 1981. philosophical commitment" for which by their presence impact the He said many factors came him. quality of health care for a con­ together to assure the school's suc­ siderable distance around," he said. cess. "I've also been very concerned He added that many large "There was a real need," he said. that the majority of medical schools schools, as a result of now-outdated ''There was a very strong medical are located in large urban centers, government incentives, "have ex­ community in which to develop, yet and provide education for students panded beyond what are reasonable the Huntington area was 'under­ in an almost stereotyped environ­ sizes in terms of being able to offer doctored,' with no surplus of physi­ ment where the faculty have quality education." cians. relatively few programs involving Although it takes generations for ''Obviously it was very important outreach to more sparsely populated an educational program to develop that we had quality hospitals areas," he said. what Coon calls "the image we available to affiliate with. The "Another 'plank' in my associate with the ivory walls and presence and support of the philosophy, if you will, has been the halls," he says that Marshall is Veterans Administration played a belief -- the strong belief -- that being recognized as one of the good key role. society will not continue to pay for new small schools. "We're particularly fortunate to medical education in the fashion in ''The institutions to which our have been able to recruit a high­ which it has in the past; that is, pay­ students have gone have been very quality faculty that has shown a real ing for major 'ivory tower' medical pleased with them," he said. "A dedication to the school and a com­ centers in the name of medical number of them have contacted us mitment to the area and its goals," education," he said. "Although we and said, 'Send us all that you can; he added. do need research and research in­ we'd be happy to have them. You Coon is not immune to the irony stitutions, we also have a major people have done a fine job.' I think of a specialist (he is a pathologist) need for physicians who are this is probably the most satisfying

10 aspect of our results so far, but it is continue to be important, but I that our spouses make," he said. "I also extremely difficult to quantify. think the time is now appropriate to really can't say enough in terms of It's anecdotal in nature, but I think start re-examining the educational the support I've had from my own, it is very real." programs and to explore innovative or the support and encouragement I Coon says the School of Medicine ways of better accomplishing the see other spouses -- male and female is ready to enter a new phase. needs and goals of the region for -- giving to our faculty. "Frankly, in these early years health care." "Most of us could not have done we've had to be preoccupied with On a closing, reflective note, the things we've done or chosen the developing a funding base, develop­ Coon paid tribute to a sometimes­ career directions in which we've ing facilities, developing initial forgotten group. gone had we not had the very strong programs," he said. ''One of the things we all too support of our spouses -- and in this "Certainly these things will often overlook is the contributions case, my wife."

Tributes to Dr. Coon

THE HON. ARCH A. MOORE and initial development of Marshall's School of Medicine. Governor of West Virginia He recruited a talented faculty and orchestrated a par­ ticularly strong relationship between the Veterans Ad­ Dr. Robert Coon's invaluable contributions to the State ministration and its health resources, the faculty of the of West Virginia are well-known to the people of this state. school, physicians of the immediate medical community, During my previous administration, Dr. Coon was in­ and the artful integration of physicians from rural com­ strumental in establishing a medical program at Marshall munities. University School of Medicine which will enhance the Perhaps one mark of his unusual talent is the fact that he system of rural health care. not only plotted the course, laid out its initial and pro­ Dr. Coon has performed in an exemplary manner in his jected budgets for a seven-year period, but also executed service to the Board of Regents and the medical school at that plan -- on course, continuously improving, and within Marshall University, all to the benefit of the citizens of the his stated budget. State of West Virginia. On behalf of my fellow West Virgi­ nians, I am indeed thankful and deeply appreciative of Dr. Dr. CHARLES YARBROUGH Coon's distinguished service. Clinical Faculty Member

Dr. Coon has not only shown outstanding leadership in Dr. DALE F. NITZSCHKE the rough road of the early stages of the medical school President, Marshall University planning and formation; he has shown a good ability to maintain the harmony of the school physician and the Anyone who has seen the Marshall School of Medicine community physician which might otherwise have been a has seen the fruits of Bob Coon's leadership. problem. His contributions during the school's difficult early He's allowed the process of education to continue years were incalculable, and he has done a remarkable job without the interference of dissension among the various of maintaining that forward momentum throughout his groups within the medical community. He has been able to nine years as dean. His vision for the School of Medicine bring groups together and maintain that harmony, which is and his determined pursuit of those goals have produced a essential. strong, vital educational program and a genuinely enhanc­ ed health-care system. Dr. ROBERT B. HAYES He is an unusually clear-sighted man. From a personal Professor, Educational Administration perspective, I can say that I have found his advice during Marshall President, 1974-1983 my first year as president extremely helpful. I'm sure I speak for his faculty, his students and the University at Nobody but Bob Coon could have put the Medical large in thanking him for coming to us -- and sticking with School on its feet, as far as I know. us. The strength of his personality is what made this school go. His personality was the special 'glue' that held things JAMES YOUNG, Ph.D. together. Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs He didn't have the luxury of time and money to take West Virginia Board of Regents risks, to make mistakes. He was a very strong controlling force, and I think that was an absolute necessity in the Bob Coon is a planner, a man of extraordinary vision early days of the school. and perspective. His dedication to the concept of a People have told me it normally takes 10 years to start a community-based school of medicine and his exceptional medical school. Between July 1974 and January 1978, he planning abilities enabled him to chart the organization did 10 years' worth of work. 11 New MU medical school dean 1s ready to adapt to changes 1n medical education

By BEVERLY W. McCOY economy and so on, obviously has a need for primary-care physicians, Anyone approaches a job such as and I am sure that Marshall Univer­ the Marshall School of Medicine sity has already addressed that need deanship with considerable hu­ in terms of the curriculum of the mility, according to the incoming medical school, in terms of the role dean. models that are presented to the "At least if he has any sense, he students, and even in terms of the approaches it with considerable selection of the students humility,'' deadpanned Dr. Lester themselves." R. Bryant, who is to succeed retiring Bryant said he plans to work with Dean Robert W. Coon this summer. faculty to provide an environment Change is no stranger to Bryant, in which medical students and 54, whose career highlights include residents clearly understand that starting open-heart surgery in Hong they are being prepared -- primarily Kong and establishing the depart­ -- to function as primary-care physi­ ment of surgery at his present cians. He also expects to work with school, East Tennessee State health leaders both in government University. Lester R. Bryant and in medicine to make practicing in West Virginia attractive to young Perhaps this is why he seems in­ physicians. vigorated rather than intimidated by the "significant changes" he sees "I don't propose that I have all around the corner in medical educa­ come to realize its trammg of the answers, but I certainly want to tion. residents and physicians is not be a part of finding them, with a preparing them to meet that need." tremendous amount of help from "The entire country is experienc­ Bryant also strongly believes in faculty and staff," he said. ing changes in thought about health­ finding ways to strengthen health­ care delivery," he said. "These Despite the overriding emphasis care systems in rural areas. changes obviously provide signals to on cultivating primary-care physi­ medical school faculty and ad­ "People who live in Granny's cians, patient care and research need ministrators to start looking for Neck, West Virginia, are just as en­ not be sacrificed, Bryant stressed. ways to meet the needs of the last titled to medical care as people who decade-and-a-half of this century live in urban areas, and they are en­ "It seems to me to be a real paradox to say that the Marshall and the first decade of the next titled to the same quality of medical School of Medicine, because of its century." care," he said. mission to provide primary-care Although he doesn't claim to ''This state, because of its physicians for West Virginia, can­ have all the answers -- or even all the geography and because of its not possibly have excellence in questions, yet -- Bryant says two key issues will be health care for the elderly and for rural people. "We must find a way to develop excellence in geriatric medicine at 'I don't propose that I have al I the answers, Marshall," he said. He noted that the elderly are a steadily rising pro­ but I certainly want to be a part of finding portion of our population, and even them, with a tremendous amount of help from now account for 40 percent of faculty and staff.' general hospital admissions. "Caring for those patients re­ Bryant quires very specialized skills," he said. "The medical profession has

12 research. I won't subscribe to that in Association. He has contributed to spent my career training young any way," he said. several medical reference books, has people to be surgeons. Now they are "My own philosophy of teaching written numerous professional jour­ scattered around the country, and administration has always been nal articles, and has made a number treating thousands of patients. that where there is the very best of teaching films. "In a very real sense, what I patient care there is very likely the Thoracic and cardiovascular would have been able to accomplish best in teaching and the best in surgery are his primary medical in a private career would have been research," he said. interests, and he doesn't plan to a certain volume of patients. As a Bryant cited the size of the school relinquish his scalpel altogether. "I trainer of surgeons, that effec­ and the community as major factors believe I can best serve this medical tiveness has been multiplied by the in his decision to accept the post. school if I continue in a limited way number of physicians I have train­ The youth of the school was another to function as a practicing physician ed." key consideration, he said. and surgeon," he said, adding that Bryant says he believes in having ''The School of Medicine is still a he will be working through the fun at what he does, and proves it young school where I will have an Veterans Administration Medical by working seven days a week. But opportunity to help it develop, help Center, which cannot now provide when he's not at a desk or an it reach its maximum potential in a reasonable number of years," he said. The primary factor, however, was the "outstanding" job done by Dean Coon. "I think more than anything else I was led to accept the president's of­ fer of the deanship because of the enormous job that Bob Coon has done in putting this medical school together," Bryant said. "He has assembled a magnificent faculty and staff and really developed the pathway upon which the medical school has been able to move toward its initial successes." Bryant brings to his new post more than two decades of university experience, the last eight years of it as chairman of surgery at East Tennessee. He said his years at ETSU's school of medicine, a sister school of Marshall's, will serve as an "ex­ cellent training experience" for Marshall President Dale F. Nitzschke and Dr. Lester R. Bryant, incoming working here. medical school dean, meet with news media. (Photo by Rick Haye) "I have had the opportunity to work through many of the same thoracic surgery for its patients. operating table, he enjoys traveling problems that Marshall has had to His biggest personal motivating with his wife Linda, skiing, walking work through," he said. "I ap­ factor, Bryant says, is people. and even "a little bit of tinkering in proach the job already knowing a "When you reduce any entity to the kitchen." lot about the school, about the its most fundamental components, Oh, yes. And college basketball. problems that had to be overcome, you find people," he said. "If you He said he was very impressed with and about the planning that had to enjoy relating with people and are the quality of basketball at Mar­ be done.'' interested in interacting with shall, calling the team's '84-85 He also has served at Louisiana patients, colleagues and even adver­ season "spectacular". State University, the University of saries, you get the most out of life." ''The team was rather unkind to Kentucky and the University of Accordingly, he expects to get to my own university, particularly in Cincinnati. He received the M.D. know his faculty and staff well. the last game (February 14, when degree (first in his class) from the "It's as important to know them as the Thundering Herd enjoyed an University of Cincinnati in 1955, to know the names of the in­ 81-59 victory over ETSU)," he said. and the Doctor of Science in surgery struments you need in surgery," he "It would have been humiliating if from the same school in 1962. said. "You can't get what you need it had not come after my acceptance He also has an impressive list of if you don't know the instrument to of the dean's position. professional memberships and ap­ ask for. "As it was, I could joke with my pointments. He is a fellow of the ''The essence of success in any colleagues that if they were in­ American College of Surgeons, the career is learning to work with those terested in a winning basketball pro­ American College of Chest Physi­ individuals who are going to extend gram, I would try to find them posi­ cians and the American Heart your effectiveness," he said. "I've tions in Huntington." 13 1 Gunner' Former Marshall center Frank Gatski named to Pro Football Hall of Fame

By BOB BARNETT saying a word on the field. Off the and field, Frank was nearly as taciturn, BOB CARROLL but allowed, ''You gotta be tough to On August 3, 1985, Marshall play football." It was a philosophy alumnus Frank "Gunner" Gatski that helped make him the top offen­ will stand beside Roger Staubach, sive center in pro football during the O.J. Simpson, Joe Namath and first half of "Pro Football's Golden Pete Rozelle on the steps of the Pro Age," the 1950s. Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Gatski came by his toughness Ohio, where they will be formally honestly. Born in Farmington, inducted as the Class of 1985. W.Va., in the heart of the soft coal Marshall University has sent 16 country on March 18, 1923, he grew players to the pro ranks. Of those up in Number Nine Coal Camp, one players Gatski had the longest and of those rugged Allegheny hamlets most successful career. But Frank where you're either tough or you're Gatski is hardly a household name nothing. He played four years of like the other four members to be in­ football at Farmington High School ducted or even Paul Horning and -- the same school that a decade Frank Gatski Fran Tarkenton who were later would produce another hard­ nominated but did not receive nosed all pro named Sam Huff. was in was activated. Anyway, Mar­ enough votes for induction. Then he went down into the mines. shall dropped football in 1943 Gatski, an offensive center, was That's what you did when you were because of the war." He played no not selected for induction because from Number Nine Camp. service ball either. ''After basic he was a famous college player or a A year later, Marshall Coach training, we were sent to England glamorous player in the pros. He Cam Henderson offered Gatski a and later followed the troops was selected because he was the best chance to "try out" for the through Normandy and into player of his era at his position. He Thundering Herd. Like many small Europe, but I wasn't in any heavy played on more championship colleges at the time, Marshall held a fighting." His nickname of "Gun­ teams than any "non-kicker" in pro ''survival-of-the-fittest'' pre-season ner" had been hung on him at Mar­ football history. But, more than tryout camp. The players who made shall and had nothing to do with his that, Gatski personifies an era when the team were given jobs on cam­ war service. pro football players were strong and pus. The others returned home to After he was discharged in 1945, stoic and played their games in open the mines. he played part of the season with stadiums on real dirt and grass. Gatski took Henderson's offer Auburn. "Marshall hadn't started Frank "Gunner" Gatski makes because, as he said recently, ''That back up and I hadn't played foot­ John Wayne seem like a talkative was the only chance I had." He not ball for two years," he explained. Milquetoast. only made the squad but played as "I didn't want to sit around and do As strong as the West Virginia the starting center on the freshman nothing, so I went to Auburn." hills where he grew up and as quiet team in 1940. Gatski was the start­ That might have been the end of as the deep coal mines where he and ing center and linebacker on the Frank's football career. He'd been a his father worked, the former All­ 1941 varsity team. That team, one solid player for some less-than­ Pro center for the Cleveland Browns of the best in Marshall history, won famous teams, but the National asked no quarter and gave none on seven of eight games and achieved League had a glut of returning the football field or in life. He left one of the high points ever in Mar­ veterans and famous college stars. the hills only to fight in World War shall football by defeating major But, as World War II was winding II and to play 12 rock-'em-sock-'em power Wake Forest, 16 to 6. down, plans were being made to seasons of professional football. Unfortunately the Japanese establish a new professional football He was so tough he never missed bombed Pearl Harbor shortly after league, the All-America Football a game or a practice in high school, the 1941 season, bringing the United Conference. college, or pro ball. He was so quiet States into World War II. The 1942 The Cleveland Browns of the new that Hall-of-Fame quarterback Otto season was a disaster for Marshall league were coached by Paul Brown Graham, his teammate for 10 because a number of players enlisted and one of his assistants was John seasons, cannot remember his ever or were drafted into the armed ser­ Brickels, a former high school coach vices. Gatski started at center beside in Huntington. Sam Clagg con­ Bob Barnett is a professor in Marshall's team captain Sam Clagg, but the tacted Brickels and arranged a Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation and is president of the Pro team won only one and tied one tryout for Gatski. Although Gatski Football Researchers Association. game in a nine-game schedule. lacked the All-American reputation Bob Carroll is a teacher at McKeesport "I didn't play my senior season at of some of his teammates, he sur­ (Pa.) Area High School and editor of "the Coffin Corner. " Marshall because the reserve unit I vived another "survival-of-the- 14 fittest" tryout to make the 1ost no efficiency as they rolled Leaguers. Then we beat the NFL­ Cleveland squad. undefeated through a 14-game champion Eagles, 35-10, in the first That 1946 Brown team was the schedule and then crushed Buffalo, game of the season. Now, that was a nucleus of one of sports' most 49-7, in the championship game. great game!" At the end of the fabled dynasties. In four seasons in Only the '72 Dolphins have matched season, the Browns were, once the AAFC, the Browns won 42, lost a perfect season and title-game win. more, champions -- this time of the only 5, and tied two games, while By 1949 the AAFC was on its last NFL. winning four straight league cham­ legs financially, but the Browns kept During their first six seasons in pionships. They were so good that the NFL, the Browns, with Gatski right on winning -- 9-1-2 and a 21-7 they literally destroyed their own the proverbial tower of strength at league, as fans around the circuit championship game over San Fran­ center, won six conference cham­ tired of constant Cleveland titles. cisco. "The highlight of playing in pionships and three league titles. In 1946 and 1947 Gatski learned the AAFC was winning four cham­ Gatski was named All-Pro in four pro football while playing behind pionships," Gatski recalls. "Unfor- of those years (1951, '52, '53 and '55). Many experts contend he deserved at least a couple more All­ Pro mentions, but, with so many ex­ cellent teammates, such as Otto Graham, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, Dante Levelli, and Lou Groza at more headline-making positions, he was a victim of a numbers game. No selector dared pick an end-to-end Browns All-Pro team. Nevertheless, Gatski racked up more All-Pro years than any other center of his time. All-Pro performers at center are better known to their opponents than to the fans, who only hear their numbers called when they make a mistake. During his career, Gatski's number was positively obscure! Still, at 6-3 and 240 pounds, he was hard to miss. "The way he plants his frame," wrote one reporter, "the enemy has to go around him, never over him. Cleveland's style of of­ fense, splitting the ends and massing the middle of the line, depends on an emplanted center like Gatski for down-the-middle anchorage.'' Quarterback Graham appreciated Gatski's blocking, "You never have to worry about anyone jumping over Frank or bumping him out of the way." But, he found another, more subtle, advantage to playing behind Gatski. "When he bends over the ball, I can stand almost Gatski as a center for the Cleveland Browns (1946-56) straight up and down and still get the snap properly. If he had short All-AAFC center-linebacker Moe tunately, such consistency was not legs, I would be forced to bend over Scarry. He did start several games in the league's best interest. After further to take the ball." He went when Scarry was injured and played the '49 season, the AAFC folded on to explain that standing regularly as a back-up. In 1946 he and the NFL absorbed the Browns, straighter allowed him to see scored his only touchdown. "We San Francisco, and Baltimore. defenses better, gave him an extra were playing the Chicago Rockets," Knowledgeable NFLers figured the split-second when dropping back to Gatski remembers. "Their quarter­ Clevelanders would now get their pass or hand off, and even kept him back, Bob Hoernschemeyer, threw come-uppance. fresher late in the game. me the ball and I decided I'd better "We welcomed the challenge of The Browns slumped in 1956 run. I think it was 55 yards, but I the NFL. We were ready to go," causing Paul Brown to look for had an open field all the way.'' said Gatski. "In the first exhibition youthful replacements for his aging Scarry retired after the '47 season game, we beat the Green Bay stars. Gatski was traded to the and Gatski took over as starting Packers, 47-0, and we felt we had a Detroit Lions for the '57 season. Far center and linebacker. The Browns chance to go with those National (continued on next page)

15 from washed up, he played every for their first practice, he had them pro football. Having babies and down on offense, as the Lions won line up 20 yards apart. At his signal, raising kids (he's the father of the Western Conference champion­ they'd run at each other as hard as seven) and getting in the ship, then, as fate would have it, they could. "That's the way I was mainstream, that's the real ball smashed the Browns, 59-14, in the taught," he explained. After the game. Football's easy because you title game. boys had exhibited their courage have plays, but there are no plays Gatski retired after that season. with head-on collisions, the coach when you get out on the street. In his 12-year career, he was named was ready to have them scrimmage. Frank Gatski probably wouldn't All-Pro four times, but, more im­ After a couple of hours of that, he'd fit in modern pro football because portant, he played in 11 champion­ take them to a nearby hill with a he couldn't give glib television inter­ ship games and his team won eight sheer, 25-foot drop. Gatski stood at views or call attention to himself by of them. That would be five cham­ the bottom while the boys went to dancing triumphantly over a fallen pionship rings on his left hand and the top and took turns charging to opponent. He lives by a forgotten three on his right! No other non­ the edge of the abyss and leaping code of working hard, being tough, kicker in pro football history can out into space. Those who sailed the and letting accomplishments speak match that record. "Once you win farthest might receive a gruff "Way for themselves. All those champion­ one championship," he said, "you to go!" Coming from an ex-All­ ships and All-Pro selections speak want to win the next one. Then, it Pro, that was better than a medal. for Frank Gatski -- the man in the just kind of builds up." Gatski's game regiment was no middle for some of pro football's Gatski kept his hand in scouting less severe. No one was allowed greatest teams. for the Boston Patriots until 1961 water and no ankles were ever wrap­ Surprisingly enough, Gatski was when he took the job of head foot­ ped. Sometimes they scrimmaged at not inducted into the Marshall Hall ball coach and athletic director at halftime. "I tried to make them of Fame with the first group of in­ the West Virginia Industrial School tough, and they loved it. They felt it ductees last fall. It was not an over­ for Boys at Pruntytown, the state gave them a psychological edge.'' sight. Sam Clagg explained, "We reform school. Gatski was given the When Pruntytown was closed in sent him a letter, but he didn't reply responsibility of taking delinquents 1982, Gatski retired. Today, he lives in time for us to get him in." In and making them football players. near Grafton, W.Va. "All I do now retrospect, that delayed reply was a "Those kids were tough to work is hunt, fish and ride horses," he blessing because it will give Marshall with because very few of them had says. "When I retired from pro football fans a chance to see Mar­ ever played football," he recalled. football, I missed it because I had shall's most famous football alum­ But, he had some unique coaching played so long, but, it doesn't take nus this fall at Fairfield Stadium methods. long to get in the mainstream of life. when he is inducted into Marshall's When the candidates assembled There's a whole bunch of life after Hall of Fame.

Marshall players among the Pros Fifteen former Marshall varsity players, in addition to Frank Gatski, have played with professional football teams. They are: Name Position Season Team Bob Adkins Back, End, Guard 1940-41, '45 Green Bay Packers Jim Barton Center 1960 Dallas Texans (AFL) (Later Kansas City) 1961-62 Denver Broncos Ev Elkins Back 1940 Chicago Cardinals Tom Good Linebacker 1966 San Diego Chargers Frank Huffman Guard/Linebacker 1939-41 Chicago Cardinals Jackie Hunt Back 1945 Chicago Bears Romney Hunter End 1933 Portsmouth Spartans (Later Detroit Lions) John Mattiford Guard 1941 Detroit Lions Jack Morlock Back 1940 Detroit Lions Reggie Oliver Quarterback 1974 Jacksonville Sharks (WFL) Jim Pearcy Guard 1946-49 Chicago Hornets/ Rockets (AAFC) John Stephens End 1938 Cleveland Rams Ed Ulinski Guard 1946-49 Cleveland Browns Norm Willey End 1950-57 Philadelphia Eagles

Currently Active Carl Lee Back 1982- Minnesota Vikings

Sources: Pro Football: The Early Years and The Official NFL Encyclopedia of Pro Football.

16 The Hall of Fame:

Marshall's version becomes a reality

By SAM CLAGG the concept, however, as the poten­ bridge between the institution and tial for a hall of fame must go back the alumni. Someone once wrote that to the beginning of games. The Athletic Department was well ''nothing is so powerful as an idea Perhaps the most persistent ad­ aware of the value of a Hall of Fame whose moment has come.'' The vocate of establishing a Hall has organization within the institution. Marshall University Athletic Hall of been Otho "Doug" Greenlee, a Big Other schools had them. Fellow Fame was one such idea whose Green baseball player of the early athletic directors cheered the merits moment had come, and come, and 1930s. He was even instrumental in of the endeavor. The honored in­ come. having the Central Florida Alumni ductees had potential for contribu­ And then, Eureka! A football and Chapter endorse a resolution of sup­ tions, recruiting contacts, a focal basketball induction came within port to be communicated to the point for increased athletic spirit half a year of each other. The ball, Athletic Department. Doug squeez­ and advantages too numerous not to fully inflated, was bouncing prop­ ed the idea the way he coached his be developed. erly. Huntington High School players to It was a drum heard, but with The thought of a Marshall Hall of hold on to a ninth-inning third out. nobody willing to march to the beat. Fame had bounced around campus Most alumni chapters are highly Athletic departments are busy for so many years the originator had supportive of athletic endeavors and placed involved in as great a variety been lost. There was nothing new in collegiate games serve as a durable (continued on next page) .tge)

Marshall Hall of Fame ring 17 was being compiled. This was a repeat of the football experience and produced 253 names. In time, they also would be informed of the basketball induction and be asked to submit nominations for possible honorees and to return for a examine old pro- Lettermen's Weekend. grams, scrapbooks, archives It was recognized early in the pro­ materials, alumni records and any cess of planning that qualifications other printed sources. Names from for Hall of Fame recognition would the memories of old fans came with need to be established. Universities of activities as can be found in any a fascinating array of verbal ac­ similar to Marshall with experience facet of higher education outside of counts of feats associated with each. in this activity were contacted and the president's office. The football names finally totaled asked for guidance. Clemson, What was needed was a person 713 . Miami and Ohio Universities along with time available and a long ac­ Then came the arduous process of with the University of Toledo pro­ quaintance with Marshall athletics. matching the names with addresses. vided extensive information in terms Neal B. "Whitey" Wilson, retired Whitey was unrelenting in this, and of qualifications and process. athletic director and lifelong resi­ short of the deceased list, was un­ Marshall University Hall of Fame dent of Huntington, was such a per­ willing to accept that we had lost qualifications involve a considera­ son. athletes. The subcommittee formed tion of the following: The recruitment of Whitey for the for this task exhausted every -- The athlete must have earned task contained but one provisio possibility for addresses. The "lost" two or more letters in the sport. --Sam Clagg must be willing to ones were finally listed in the Hun­ -- The athlete must have assist. This was no major obstacle as tington Herald-Dispatch which graduated at least five years prior to Whitey and I have been friends for resulted in a last best effort for consideration for selection. Excep­ over thirty years and had once serv­ addresses. tions to graduation may be made ed together in the Athletic Depart­ A mailing to each football player under unusual circumstances. The ment. explained the activities associated athlete must have demonstrated With administrative services pro­ with the initial Hall of Fame induc­ good citizenship attributes after vided by the Athletic Department, tion and asked for nominations of leaving Marshall. we began the task of organization. worthy individuals. It was also ex­ -- The record of the individual The most immediate assignment, an plained that a Lettermen's Weekend must be of such outstanding merit in unending one, was to compile a list would be held in conjunction with the sport that there can be no ques­ of all past football players and to the induction. tion as to the individual's qualifica­ provide for each a current address. While this was in progress, a mail­ tions for the Hall of Fame. A sub-committee was formed to ing list for former basketball players Therefore, each candidate must be 18 approved with not more than one Bob Adkins '39, Jackie Hunt '41, ministrator and Coach Whitey negative note from the Selection Jim Pearcy '41, Jim Cure '64, Tom­ Wilson '51-'67. Committee. my Good '65, Reggie Oliver '73, Those inducted received a citation -- No more than ten lettermen and Coach Cam Henderson '35-'55 which briefly stated their and one non-letterman coach or ad­ (posthumous). achievements and specified that ministrator may be named in any in­ The January, 1985, basketball in­ each "is elected to the Marshall duction session. (In future years the duction named: Jule Rivlin '38, Bill University Hall of Fame, the highest number selected shall be fewer.) Hall '47, Gene James '47, Bill athletic honor that the University There is no limit as to the number of Toothman '47, Andy Tonkovich can bestow.'' times a person may be considered '48, Walt Walowac '54, Charlie The Hall of Fame ring was pro­ for the honor. A coach, athletic ad­ Slack '56, Hal Greer '58, Leo Byrd vided for each. The gold ring has a ministrator or trainer must have let­ '59, Russell Lee '72, and ad- green setting containing the letter tered at Marshall, or served on the M . Around the setting in raised let­ staff for at least seven years. tering is Hall of Fame. On one side -- Posthumous recognition is of the ring the sport played is in­ possible. scribed below a buffalo charging The plan now in progress calls for out of the front entrance to Old a separate football and basketball Main. The other side features the induction in each of the first two John Marshall crest and the name of years. Following that, there would the individual awarded the ring. be an annual induction ceremony in­ A photograph of each is on volving a combination of all sports display in the Hall of Fame section including women's athletics. Wilson of the Henderson Center across the In the September, 1984, football corridor from the Big Green Room. induction, the following were named This seemed the least that to the Hall of Fame, Tom Stark could be done for those '27 (posthumous award), who had given the John Zontini '33 fans and Mar­ (posthumous), shall so much.

19 The Herd does it again! MU athletes make it a year to remember

By MAC YATES Southern Conference Tournament, Wood, a Fayetteville, W. Va., Sports Information Director 88-76. freshman, who participated in the All-American Karen Pelphrey of NCAA Zone B Diving Qualifiers in Paintsville, Ky., scored a team­ Knoxville, Tenn. He competed leading 728-points, while averaging against the best divers in the The Thundering Herd basketball 25 .1 points per game. Pelphrey, a Southeast, and narrowly missed team finished its 1984-85 season junior, has a career scoring total of qualifying for the NCAA Division I with a trip to Albuquerque, N.M., 2,014. She is the first Marshall championships. He defeated divers and its second straight NCAA Tour­ basketball player, either male or from the Universities of Texas, nament appearance under Head female, to score over 2,000 points. Auburn, Alabama, Clemson and Coach Rick Huckabay. The Herd Another outstanding achievement several other prominent institutions. lost to Virginia Commonwealth, this winter was by diver Robert 81-65, in the first round of the tour­ nament and closed the season with a 21-13 record. Highlighting the season was the Herd's three-game sweep in the Southern Conference Tournament in Asheville, N.C. Skip Henderson, the Herd's leading scorer, and junior Jeff Guthrie of Oakman, Ala., were named to the SC All­ Tournament first team squad, while senior teammates Jeff Battle of Philadelphia, Pa., and Bruce Morris of Deerfield, Ill., were honored on the second team. Henderson set a freshman scoring record with 584 points and was the first freshman in eight years to be named to the Southern Con­ ference's All-Conference first team. Henderson, of Cartersville, Ga., also received the conference's freshman player of the year honors and was an honorable mention to the Associated Press' and Basket­ ball Weekly's All-America squads. Morris brought national attention to Marshall when he sank an 89-foot, IO-inch shot at the end of the first half in Marshall's 93-82 win over Appalachian State on Feb. 7. If accepted by the Guinness Book of World Records, Morris' shot will be recognized as the longest shot in basketball. Marshall's women's basketball team also enjoyed success in the 1984-85 season. The Lady Herd compiled a record of 19-10 and finished in a first-place tie with University of Tennessee­ Chattanooga in the Southern Con­ ference. The Lady Moes defeated Skip Henderson goes in for two of the 584 points which earned him the Lady Herd in the finals of the Marshall's freshman scoring record.

20 By DENISE GIBSON WELKER volunteer to represent Marshall at President our local high schools' "career MU Alumni Association days." We can cultivate our friends' and A strange thing happens to Mar­ relatives' interest in the school. shall alumni each spring. Thousands When folks realize how many of us of us pack our green clothing into are on the Marshall bandwagon, suitcases, decorate our cars and they want to hop on, too. vans with green streamers, and drive for hours to watch basketball We can write letters to the editors games. of our local newspapers to en­ courage media coverage and sup­ The chance to enjoy a Herd vic­ port for Marshall. We don't hide tory in the Southern Conference our light under a bushel in Tournament is the main reason for Asheville, N.C. Why should we the mania that affects Marshall allow our University to be ignored people in March. in our home states? But, a stronger force pushes the We can help the Marshall Univer­ Herd Faithful to Asheville, N.C. sity Foundation identify potential It's the opportunity to show our contributors. We can nominate pride -- or, as Marshall critics called Denise G. Welker potential members to the Alumni it this year, "arrogance." Association board of directors and Our two consecutive champion­ suggest worthy recipients for the ships and the mob of vocal fans that Distinguished Alumnus, wash over Asheville in a green wave Distinguished Service, Community Asheville, Marshall's alumni are her make the other conference schools Achievement, and Honorary Alum­ envious. They begrudgingly admire most effective public relations nus awards. representatives. the spirit and enthusiasm Marshall We can -- and must -- let West grads show their alma mater. There's a direct correlation be­ Virginia legislators know that we tween the amount of interest we hold them accountable for the finan­ Curious, isn't it? While much of take in the University and the degree the time MU alumni can claim, with cial support Marshall needs to con­ of recognition Marshall receives or tinue offering quality education. justification, that we get little obscurity it must endure. Respected respect, for three days each March educational programs, graduates' Individually, we can make an im­ our school is "the big kid on the accomplishments, athletic wins pact. Through the Alumni Associa­ block" -- and not only because we --three hallmarks of a school -- will tion's chapter organization, we can play good basketball. At the go unrecognized unless we celebrate have an even greater influence on Southern Conference Tournament them. Marshall's future. Chapters across Marshall's sons and daughters West Virginia and in Florida, display a loyalty that rivals that of Simply by displaying Alumni Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Kentucky much larger, better known institu­ Association active membership and Washington, D.C., offer tions. Unfortunately, when many of decals on our cars and wearing our graduates a framework through us return home, the spirit fades. active membership pins, we tell which we can promote the Univer­ people we're proud of our Marshall sity. It doesn't have to. We can keep University heritage. But, we can do --and spread -- that great MU feel­ If 3,000 of us can, for one more to improve Marshall's visi­ weekend in March, turn a North ing all year long. How? By pro­ bility. moting Marshall. At home, as in Carolina city into a temporary We can promote Marshall to "branch campus," think what all prospective students. Alumni can 37 ,000 of us exhibiting our pride 365 Denise Gibson Welker (B.A . '72, M.A .J. '78) has served as president of the A lumni encourage academically talented days a year can do to elevate the Association for the past two years. students to attend MU . We can University's status. 21 Active membership campaign adds 343 new MU friends

The Alumni Association's Look­ systems analyst with the U.S. Army Moffat's book Marshall University: ing for 1,000 New Friends active Corps of Engineers. An Institution Comes of A ge. membership campaign, which began The three new annual members Although the campaign has end­ Nov. 1, 1984, ended on Feb. 1. who won life memberships were: ed, the drive for new members will Suzanne Chapman ('78) of St. not, according to Sprouse. "We are pleased with the success Albans, W.Va., Gene Damron "We will continue our efforts to encourage alumni and friends to although we fell short of our goal,'' Gleim ('50) of Richardson, Texas, become active, dues-paying said Marc A. Sprouse, vice presi­ and Marion Jeanne Kopp Eaton members of the Alumni Association dent of the Alumni Association ('36) of Wellsley, Mass. Board of Directors and chairman of and to help us in helping Marshall. the active membership drive. Also during the campaign, alumni Support of our alumni and friends becoming full-life members received plays a vital role in the future of our "The Alumni Association gained a limited edition of Dr. Charles H. Alma Mater," he concluded. 326 new annual members and 17 new life members. We would like to thank all of those alumni who join­ ed during the campaign for their support of Marshall University, the Alumni Association and its pro­ grams," Sprouse continued.

"Even though the campaign has officially ended new memberships continue to be received daily. This is very encouraging. It signifies an in­ creasing awareness among alumni of the programs of the Association which benefit Marshall University," he added.

As part of the campaign, new full-life members were eligible for a drawing for a trip to the Southern Conference and new annual members could receive a life membership.

A drawing by Linda S. Holmes, alumni director, determined the winners. The winners were an­ nounced at the last home basketball game on Feb. 16.

Huntington residents Sam Kinker ('81) and his wife, the former Anna M. Hood (B.B.A. '79, M.B.A. '80), who became life members during the campaign, won the trip -- two Anna and Sam Kinker (center), new life members of the Alumni Association, tickets to all Conference tour­ won tickets to the Southern Conference Tournament and hotel accommodations nament games plus two nights' lodg­ for two nights in Asheville, N.C., during the recent MUAA membership ing in the Inn on the Plaza at campaign. Denise G. Welker (right), president of the Alumni Association, made Asheville, N.C. He is controller at the presentation prior to the last home game on Feb. 16, while Linda S. Holmes, C.I. Thornburg Co., Inc. She is a alumni director, looked on. (Photo by Rick Haye) 22 GO HERD! Marshall University Sports"W"ear

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The mysteries of the Orient - with its wealth of ancient culture and history and a multitude of shrines, temples and gardens mingling with Western ideas - unfold to Marshall travelers on this 23-day tour of eight cities. First, to the Land of the Rising Sun . Spend three nights in Japan's capital city, Tokyo. Then ride the famous " Bullet Train" to Kyoto, Japan's finest repository of ancient arts and culture, for two nights' stay. Proceed to the People's Republic of China for eight nights -three in Beijing (Peking), three in Xian (Sian), and two in Shanghai. Peking is China's administrative, political and cultural capital. Sian is noted for its antiquities and Shanghai, one of the world's largest cities, is known for its skyscraper­ lined waterfront. Next, on to Hong Kong, a mixture of Oriental and British cultures, for three nights. Then to Thailand's capital city, Canal in China Bangkok, for three nights' stay. Bangkok, the City of Kings, is the site of the magnificently ornate Grand Palace. Last stop is the island nation of Singapore for two nights' stay. Then return to Tokyo for a final night before heading home. Price for the tour is $4,430, based on double occupancy and Huntington departure. Included in the tour package are round­ trip airfare, deluxe lodging, transportation between cities, breakfast and dinner daily and all lunches in China. Sightseeing trips included are: two full days in Peking, where you will see the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs; a full day in Sian, where you can explore the 6,000-year-old Banpo Village and the Emperor's Tomb, and half-day city tours of Tokyo, Kyoto, Shanghai, Hong Kong (Circle Island Tour), Bangkok (Rice Barge Cruise), and Singapore. Transfers between airports and hotels, baggage handling, taxes, tips, and group visa for China also are included in the tour price. For complete details, contact: Alumni Office, Marshall University Huntington, WV 25701-5499 Telephone (304) 696-3134 Grand Palace in Bangkok

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