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OFFICERS President Denise Gibson Welker '72 Immediate Past President John K. Kinzer, Jr. '62 Vice President Philip E. Cline ' 55 Vice President W. Donald Morris '39 Secretary Jean A. Hamilton '73 Vol. XXV May, 1984 No. 1 Treasurer Marc A. Sprouse '70 Acting Executive Director Bernard Queen Published for Marshall Alumni by the Marshall University Alumni Association in cooperation with the Marshall Offices of University Relations and University Publications

CONTENTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS That championship game ...... 4 Godwin C. Ariguzo (Graduate) Inez B. Atkinson '36 Micki R. Auer (Senior) Guru in a tuxedo ...... 6 Max C. Burns '33 Angie Collins (Freshman) Michael J. Farrell '69 Kenneth L. Gainer '64 Life coaches ...... 10 J. Edward Hamrick III '80 William A. Heaberlin '68 Philip Lee Hinerman '75 Team members ...... 11 Sharon G. Houghton '67 Joseph W. Hunnicutt Ill '57 Thomas E. Keeney '70 Stan Parrish ...... 13 Michael R. Kiger '68 Dr. David Kirk '58 Patrick R. McDonald '65 Martha J. Merical '75 High tech 's healing edge ...... 16 Trish P. Nash '7 1 Michael L. Queen (Junior) Richard W. Ramell '78 The man who 'runs' the bank ...... 20 Charles E. Romine, Jr. '58 Dr. Everett N. Roush III '55 CO VER: LaVerne Evans goes in for a dunk in the Tourna­ Alan R. Simmons '71 ment championship game against the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. Paul R. Skaff, Jr. '74 Kenneth W. Smart '59 (Photo by Todd Meek) Richard C. Smoot III '79 Samuel H . Stanley '65 John L. Underwood '64 Dr. Carole A. Vickers '55 CHAPTER PRESIDENTS Suzanne Walton '69 Cynthia A. Warren '70 Matt Zban (Sophomore) Beckley Rlver Cities (recently chartered) Mel Hancock '70 Trish P. Nash '71 , chairman Beckley Huntington

Central Florida Southeastern Texas MAGAZINE STAFF J. Thomas Russell Jr. '66 Carolyn Blake Plants '71 Deland Spring Alumni Editor Susan S. Peyton Greater Kanawha Valley Editorial Staff South Florida C. T. Mitchell Hughes Booher '62 Greg Jarrell '73 Judith Casto Charleston Boca Raton Beverly W. McCoy Photographer Logan Space Coast Rick Haye Anita Suarez '81 Margaret Beach Keyser '34 Production Peach Creek Rockledge, Fla. Shirley Dyer Barbara Ransbottom Mason-Gallia Pasteup Upper Valley Beth Frost Dr. Byron Nibert Louis J. . Costanzo III '69 Point Pleasant Wheeling That championship game. • •

As Marshall's Herd thundered through a victorious season, "Herd Fever" grew weekly. After the team won the Southern Conference regular season championship, pandemonium reigned. Then came the Southern Conference Tournament. "Huck's Herd" was greeted in Asheville, N.C., by a sea of green blazers, sweaters and caps as half the arena was taken up by Marshall fans . The fateful final game against three-time defending con­ ference champ UT-Chattanooga came on March 4, 1984. Could the "Cardiac Kids" beat UTC for a third time? If there ever was a Marshall basketball game like it, no one can remember it. In the second overtime Marshall emerged the victor by a score of 111-107. The Herd received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. MU fans say the MU-UTC game will live on in the history of MU basketball forever . And to prove their loyalty, 500 fans greeted the returning champs that night at Tri-State Airport and more than 5,000 welcomed the team to Henderson Center after its return from Asheville.

Sam Winley holds aloft the tournament trophy.

La Verne Evans accepts tournament's Most Valuable Player award.

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Coach Huckabay plots strategy with Sam Ervin and Don Turney.

LaVerne Evans goes for a dunk.

Don Turney and Bruce Morris take their turns at snipping down the net.

5 quRU Jn a tUX€bO:

Rick huckasay 1s moRe than a coach. he's a phenomenon.

In his first year as head basketball By STRAT DOUTHAT City," watched while shoppers went coach of Marshall's Thundering elsewhere and, more recently, stood Herd, Rick Huckabay generated un­ Richard David "Rick" Huckabay by helplessly while the city's in­ precedented excitement throughout has become a bona fide hero in dustrial base all but dried up. Huntington and the Southern Con­ Huntington, an economically Adding insult to injury was the ference. After leading the Herd to troubled Ohio River town that has fact that Marshall University's foot­ the regular-season conjerence cham­ needed a lift for a long time. ball team hadn't had a winning pionship, he was named the league's Fifteen years ago, Huntington season since the Dark Ages. Coach of the Year. "Huck's Herd" was a thriving community. Back Things didn't really hit rock bot­ won the SC tournament and was then, it was a regional shopping hub tom until last spring when Hun­ heading for the NCAA tournament vying with Charleston for the honor tington turned up with the highest at press time. of being West Virginia's most vital unemployment rate of any urban The following article, reprinted city. area in the state and Marshall's with permission of the Associated Since those halcyon days, how­ basketball team, a source of fierce Press, was written mid-season but ever, Huntington has fallen into the pride in these parts, choked in the captures the spirit of "Huck" and pack. The residents, who once opening game of a Southern Con­ his impact on Marshall fans. proudly called their town the " Jewel ference tournament after winning 20

Huckabay and his entire coaching staff showed up in tuxedos with green cummerbunds for the Marshall-WVU game played in Henderson Center on Dec. 3. (Photo by Rick Haye) 6 during the regular season. The loss, to lowly Furman, was especially painful since the tournament had been moved to Charleston expressly to lure in Thundering Herd fans, who stayed away in droves after their team's embarrassing defeat. Shortly after that dark day, Rick Huckabay -- cowboy boots and all -- became the spiritual leader of the Thundering Herd and its fervent but long-suffering fans. In the ensuing 11 months, Huckabay has converted a loyal legion of true believers among the some 60,000-odd folks who reside in the town laid out by New York financier Collis P. Hun­ tington about the time the sport of basketball was conceived. Currently riding the crest of a highly successful season that in­ cludes two victories over defending Southern Conference champion UT-Chattanooga, an easy stroll over West Virginia University, a creditable showing against highly­ rated Georgetown and a miraculous comeback against Marquette, Huckabay is basking in the heady warmth of the limelight. "When you're hot, you're hot," the 38-year-old Louisiana native drawled recently from a seat behind the desk of his green-carpeted office at the Henderson Center. Huckabay's wife Kay joined him in celebrating MU's Southern Con­ Clad in a colorful sportshirt, skin­ ference Tournament victory. (Photo by Todd Meek) tight Calvin Klein jeans and snake­ skin cowboy boots, with gold bracelets flashing on each wrist, Huckabay was the antithesis of Bob Zuffelato, the careful, conservative coach he succeeded at Marshall. Where Zuffelato was predictable in word and deed, Huckabay has dazzled followers. First, he and his staff showed up in tuxedos, complete with green Huckabay recalled, putting his rat­ If the town needed a lift, he said, cummerbunds at the WVU game. tlesnake boots up on the desk as he the players he inherited were starved Then came a fight with New Hamp­ talked. "I had heard all about Cam for discipline and self-respect. In shire Coach Gerry Friel, followed Henderson's fast break and zone years past, for example, he said, star by repeated criticisms of the defense but that's not me. I'm fast guard La Verne Evans was famous Southern Conference, about of­ break and pressure defense, and I for his pouts and senior forward ficiating and then about the lack of think an effective pressure defense David Wade used to engage in curs­ television exposure. automatically sells the crowd." ing matches with the coaching staff. Huckabay also thinks he has done The greatest difference between "That's all behind us now," a pretty good job of selling himself. Huckabay said. "Nobody's pouting Huckabay and Zuffelato, though, "I feel I've proven myself, to a appears on the basketball court, anymore. In fact, it's getting to be certain extent," he said. "I know fun." where "Huck's Herd" has been I've worked hard. I've hardly seen thrilling Marshall fans with my wife and kids since I got here. How did he turn around a team relentless pressure defense that in­ "This town was dead when I ar­ that had gotten a reputation for timidates opponents and creates ex­ rived. It was apparent they needed choking and how did he instill the citement galore. somebody to stir 'em up. So, that's discipline he said was lacking? ''One of the first things I had to what I did. Then, I prayed we would do here was educate the fans," win." (continued on next page) 7 "Simple," Huckabay replied. wanted to play." pecan pie right now that I got ttom "I've been completely open with Huckabay said his predecessor a teacher.'' them, completely consistent, and had been too soft. He also is being bombarded with consistently fair with every decision. "I let my players know that I'm calls and letters from adoring fans. When I do something involving a boss," he said. "I feel we're in the But, it was a letter from a fellow player, I tell him exactly why. entertainment business so I im­ Southern Conference coach that made Huckabay think he was doing ''For instance, when I got here I mediately tell them I'm the one who was in a difficult spot in that I had will be fired if we don't win, so I ex­ things right. never seen any of my players before. pect them to help me keep my job." "Dear Rick," begins the letter So, I told them that the ones who from VMI coach Marty Fletcher, "I Among other things, he said, he played best and hardest in practice had to write just a short note to con­ checks their class attendance daily. would be the ones who played in the gratulate you on the great job you games, that they would not be ''The teachers let me know each are doing not only at Marshall but branded or rewarded for anything time a player misses class. I'm get­ representing the Southern Con­ that had happened in the past. And ting great cooperation from the ference." that is what has happened. The ones teachers. In fact, their teachers love Huckabay said other coaches also who are playing now are the ones me so much that some of them even had told him they supported his ef­ who have shown me that they send me cakes and pies. I've got a forts to improve officiating and to

"Huck's Herd" carried the coach from the arena on their shoulders following their tournament win. (Photo by Todd Meek) 8 promote a conference television contract, the lack of which promp­ ted a "Mickey Mouse conference" remark during an interview at Chat­ tanooga. His remarks also have brought reprimands from the con­ ference commissioner and the athletic directors. "They say I'm creating an un­ favorable image outside the con­ ference," he said. "Then, too, I've been labeled as somebody who is outspoken. "I don't see anything wrong with saying how you feel. Look, the Southern Conference is just middle­ of-the-road and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't try and make it better. It's up to the coaches, as much as anybody else, to do this." As for his comments about con­ ference officiating, he refused to back down an inch. " It's just terrible," he said. "It's two cuts below the officiating in the Southeastern Conference and a good cut below the Metro and Sun Belt conferences. We pay our of­ H ficials well and I, frankly, don't see why we can't get more for our money.'' He said his past comments alien­ ated some conference referees. " At least two of them have stopped speaking to me. And, as far as I'm concerned, they're just being big babies. Believe me, I'm not used to officials who act this way." As for his image as a creator of Criticized for being outspoken about Southern Conference controversy, Huckabay said some officiating, Huckabay said, "I don't see anything wrong with of his actions have been calculated, saying how you feel." (Photo by Marilyn Testerman-Haye) such as the tuxedos and the com­ ments about the officiating. "But, that fight with Gerry Friel definitely wasn't planned," he add­ ed, somewhat sheepishly. And, as for his current hero status in Huntington, he said he knows that his throne would soon crumble if the Herd went into a nose dive. But, he also said he thought he was the right man for the Marshall job. "I'm a winner, always have at a bigger school they might have to "Why not build a dynasty in been," he said. "This town is look­ sit on the bench for a couple of Huntington? If the people want it ing for a winner so I ought to go years. He also tells them they will bad enough, the coach wants it, and over well here, and so far I have." have a chance to play in the NCAA he gets players who want it, then If that sounds egotistical, Huck­ tournament, year in and year out. why not?" abay accepts the mantle modestly. Whereas Zuffelato once said When recruiting blue chippers, he Marshall should expect no more Look out. The Southern Con­ said, he tells them they will have a than an occasional conference title, ference may have a new kingfish, chance to play at Marshall, whereas Huckabay dreams of dynasties. Louisiana style. 9 Life coaches

By DENISE GIBSON WELKER the athletes out of mischief, the ses­ They also help the players with sions are real learning periods. valuable lessons of life, such as goal Is the stereotype that college ball Maynard and Perry conduct classes setting and personality develop­ players are "dumb jocks" all wash­ to improve the players' study, listen­ ment, as well as the extras like good ed up? Yes, if Don Perry and Stan ing, reading, and time-management table manners and how to match Maynard have anything to do with skills and act as academic advisors. clothes. it. "We counsel the basketball The men sandwich their athletic Perry, quality control training players and help them keep on track duties between busy schedules at manager at Huntington Alloys, with the classes they should be tak­ work and at home. They invest Inc., and Dr. Maynard, a Marshall ing to fulfill their requirements,'' dozens of hours each week in the education professor, are volunteers Maynard said. "We want these peo­ program and spend their own with the MU basketball coaching ple to graduate, not just complete money to go on road trips with the staff and the Athletic Department. their athletic eligibility and disap­ team. They receive free transporta­ They've helped Head Coach Rick pear.'' tion to away games but must pay Huckabay create a self-improve­ ment program based on the concept that today's athletes can no longer be one-dimensional. Along with athletic skills, they need to develop academically and personally. ''We believe that when athletes understand their potentials and know how to achieve them, then their parents, school, and the athletes themselves will receive the best possible educational ex­ perience, " Maynard said. He and Perry arrived at this con­ clusion after years of association with athletics as players, coaches, and parents, but the ideas really began to jell when they visited France, Switzerland and Luxem­ bourg last June with the U.S.A. Eagles basketball team. "We found that Europeans place a different emphasis on academics and sports," Perry explained. "Sports are important, but they are kept totally separate from schoolwork, and academics come first." When they returned from Europe, they talked over what they had learned with Marshall Assistant Coach Dan Bell. "He told us Coach Huckabay was interested in putting together a self­ improvement program for Marshall basketball players that would teach them how to be better students and human beings, not just better ball players," Perry continued. " One thing led to another, and, before long, we were creating our 'Student Athlete Model.' " Now all Marshall basketball players must participate in the self­ Don Perry (left) and Stan Maynard helped Coach Rick Huckabay improvement program based on the create a self-improvement program based on the concept that today's model. More than just a study hall athletes can no longer be one-dimensional. (Photo by Herald or "baby-sitting service" to keep McKeand) 10 their own lodging and meal ex­ from having to find out the hard the table manner things. But you penses. way like I did. If we can help them can tell by their behavior that They, their wives, and children see that life is full of opportunities, they're taking the lessons seriously. have become a part of an extended not just playing basketball, then our They'll correct each other and say, family for the players. Who but athletes will graduate, be successful, 'That's not how Mr. Perry told us to "family" would cook for a gang and have a good feeling about do it.' that later in the season cleaned out a themselves and our institution." "Don and Stan reinforce what seafood buffet at a Chattanooga, The program already has shown I'm trying to do, and the effect is Tenn., restaurant? But Rosanne results. At the end of the first just snowballing. We're seeing Perry and her daughters said ''it was semester John Amendola had a 4.0 young people who feel good about fun" working for days preparing grade point average and three themselves and can play better four pans of lasagna, 40 pounds of players were above 3 .0. Seven others basketball and be more successful in steak, and 60 pieces of chicken for a improved their grades. life because of what these men are team and staff dinner at their house Coach Huckabay praises the doing." during Thanksgiving vacation. work Perry and Maynard have The self-improvement program "It takes a lot to feed those done. also has attracted national atten­ guys," Perry said in obvious "They've had a tremendous im­ tion. NBC Sports filmed a segment understatement. "Sam Ervin could pact on our program," he said. "In on the program which aired March eat a truckload by himself.'' the two hours a day I have the team 11 at half-time of the championship The fellowship is one of the in practice, I work with them on game of the Athletic Coast Con­ payoffs of their efforts, but the men saying 'Yes, sir' and 'No, sir' and ference Tournament. admit there are sacrifices, too. Why being motivated and positive, in ad­ ''The national coverage is nice, make them? dition to teaching them basketball. but more important is the credibility Maynard, a Virginia Tech grad­ Then when I'm done with them, it gives the program," Maynard uate who received his master's in they get it for another two hours an noted. "We hope it will give us the education from Marshall in 1974, is evening from Don and Stan. chance to share our ideas with more also a Baptist minister and sees the "Our players are typical young people who will benefit from work as a chance to help others. people. We hear them joking about them." "When I look back on my college basketball career, I know that if I'd had a support system like the one we are developing at Marshall, I would have been able to maximize what lit­ tle athletic potential I had. My Team members proclaim whole identity was wrapped up in basketball. If I'd realized there were program works for them other aspects to Stan Maynard, it would have made the transition easier after school. "While this season has had its frustrating moments for my family, By DA VE PEYTON one of the players said as his eyes my wife Barbara and I believe that, got a dreamy look about them. in the long run, being able to share They talk of life and happiness. "Happiness is getting a degree first. values we believe in will benefit our They learn to tie their ties, how to Then it's playing for the 'Sixers [the two sons, as well as the players, the order and eat in a fancy restaurant, Philadelphia 76ers] and living in a community, and public education.'' how to act during a job interview. mansion and having a great big With undergraduate (1972) and There is much discussion, some car." graduate (1976) degrees from Mar­ argument and some heat as well as "Hmmmm," Maynard mused. shall, Perry obviously has strong light. "Fame! A mansion! Cars! That's feelings about his alma mater. And, But the self-improvement sessions what Elvis Presley had, wasn't it?" like Maynard, he wants athletes to for the Marshall basketball team are There was an uneasy pause in the have something he missed. changing attitudes and seem to be conversation. "I've always enjoyed athletics, making men out of boys. "Do you think Presley was hap­ but I wasn't a good student," Perry When the team meets in the Big py? Well, do you?" Maynard recalled. "When I was playing ball, Green Room in the Henderson queried. I didn't realize studying was impor­ Center, they discuss everything but The question went unanswered, tant. I thought I'd play basketball sports with Dr. Stan Maynard and forever. I didn't have anyone to tell Don Perry, originators of the Stu­ of course. But the point was made. Few people find happiness in things me about the realities of sports and dent Athlete Model program and and the proof of that abounds. life. the "life coaches" for the MU ' 'Once I started working for a liv­ squad's self-improvement program. There are indications that not all ing and went back to school to No one knows exactly what direc­ the team members are completely finish my degree, studying got easier tion the discussion will take at one sold on these self-improvement ses­ for me. I didn't get any smarter. It of these meetings. At one session, sions, though none of them lets their was a matter of maturity, motiva­ the talk turned to happiness and its feelings overtake their good sense. tion, and setting goals. nature. They know Coach Huckabay sup- "I want to prevent these guys "I'll tell you what happiness is," (continued on next page) 11 Stan Maynard (far right) and Don Perry involve Herd basketball team members in discussions on everything but sports. (Photo by Frank Altizer)

ports the program 100 percent. He in the classroom and brought my "A lot of you have got a lot of tells them so. grades up considerably. talent, but talent alone isn't going to And, as senior guard Sam Henry "At the time, I felt that all I could get it." explained, when he tried to buck the ever make in a ball game was about Henry knows the truth about program early on, Huckabay "call­ 12 points. But I decided that if I athletics. He knows that while he's ed me in and told me I had the op­ could make better than average playing ball at Marshall, everyone tion of cooperating in the program grades, I could make better than 12 knows his name, everyone wants to or not playing ball." Henry, points a game as well. And what be seen with him and wants to be his however, has since become totally happened? I made 27 points in one friend. sold on the program. game." He likewise knows that when his Henry, center Don Turney and ball-playing days are over, the fame junior guard Jeff Battle, in a recent Battle told the slightly stunned goes with it. student assembly at Huntington students that "being an athlete isn't "When they take the ball away High School, showed how the Stu­ the total thing." from you, nobody remembers your dent Athlete program has helped His advice to the high school name," he said. "That's why I try them. They spoke more about students listening -- "Get your head to choose my friends carefully. I try grades than basketball. on straight and put academics to keep the friends I think are my Turney caught the students' at­ first." friends because of me as a person, tention first by telling them that his not me as a ball player." outstanding performance on the And, while Battle said he was The Student Athlete program basketball court is tied directly to proud of his accomplishments on seems to be having a positive impact the better grades he had been mak­ the basketball court, he was on the basketball team members. ing in the classroom. proudest of the fact that during the But it will take time to tell the suc­ "It began the second semester of fall semester he made the dean's list cess, for the real proof won't come last year in the classroom for me," for scholastic achievement. until the athletes no longer find Turney said. "I decided I was going Finally, Sam Henry had some themselves in the limelight and are to have to start making better-than­ plain-spoken words for the high forced into the world of real people, average grades. So I applied myself school athletes in the audience: real decisions and real problems. 12 Stan Parrish:

Marshall's new football coach predicts winning '84 season

By HARRY FISHER Marshall and its followers to a more number one, I'm inheriting better wide-open brand of offensive foot­ players than any coach has previous Scenario No. l: Marshall Univer­ ball. He is committed to the task at to my tenure. sity is backed up on its one-yard hand. And he plans to win six foot­ "Secondly, I think my style of line, second-and- IO in the second ball games THIS year. He sees as a play and coaching is more con­ quarter. The quarterback rolls out long-range goal -- "but not too ducive to turning the program to the right, spots an open receiver long-range'' -- a conference around quicker -- by that I mean our in the flat and hits him for a first championship. ability to throw the ball and have a down at the 17. Oh, come on now. We've all wide-open offense. Scenario No. 2: Marshall Univer­ heard this kind of talk before. Op­ "Thirdly, I think maybe there's a sity has driven to the one-yard line timism, which has flared brightly in deeper commitment from the ad­ and, behind 6-0, faces a third-and­ the spring, has always seemed to ministration and, from what I sense, goal in the final quarter. The dim in the fall -- at least ever since a from the people than in the past. quarterback sprints to the left, Charley Snyder team finished 5-5 in Because I think people sense we're draws an opposing cornerback up, 1965. Not since 1964 when the Herd not that far away. The team won and hits a receiver in the end zone finished at 7-3 has Marshall had a four ball games last year. We have for a touchdown. winning record. to win two more this season. That No, not good old conservative Here's what Parrish says about would give us six wins. Marshall University, you say. Well, the situation: "That's our most immediate maybe you haven't heard about the "I believe there is a significantly goal. Personally, I think we can win new Thundering Herd football different climate here right now more than that. I might be the only coach, Stan Parrish. than there has been. I believe, (continued on next page) With the most immediate goal a winning season -- it would be the first in two decades -- Parrish is seemingly trying to perform a bal­ ancing act. And, according to the 37-year-old Ohio native, balance is what it's all about. ''Our philosophy is to never let them dig in defensively, keep them off balance, be willing to throw the ball from the one-inch line going out and from the one-inch line going in . . . and to sell the kids on that fact," Coach Parrish proclaims. The "them" will be, of course, the UT-Chattanoogas, the Fur­ mans, the Western Carolinas and the like in the Southern Conference. This man Parrish radiates an aura of confidence. He has come to Mar­ shall following success at the high school and collegiate levels. He has assembled a wide array of assistants-- and he believes in his ability and the abilities of his assistants to get the job done. He has inherited a group of talented football players from the departed , a fact that he readily Stan Parrish talked with news media about his coaching philosophy at a press admits. conference after taking job as head MU football coach. (Photo by Todd Meek) This man Parrish will introduce 13 'Our philosophy is to never let them dig in defensively, keep them off balance, be willing to throw the ball from the one-inch line going out and from the one-inch line going in . . .and to sell the kids on that fact.'

--Parrish

one in the world who believes it. spots, in particular before there "I'm disappointed we lost two or But, I'd better believe it. And, I do were some players injured. I think three really outstanding players believe it. the offensive and defensive lines are right at the end," he says. "But, I'm "By winning that many games big and strong. A lot of those kids pleased that we've upgraded several next fall, we'll get instant national have played a lot of minutes in the areas we set out to upgrade. recognition. There's no question last three years. "I believe the areas we felt we about that. And, the people deserve "I think these are two areas of the needed to improve the quickest are it. The community deserves it. The team where we can match up pretty the ones we feel we've supplemented college deserves it. And, the kids well with everybody we play on the in recruiting -- that's the speed and who have had to put up with all this schedule." skill players. losing and the ridicule that often What about the players Parrish "Now, just how quickly we're go­ goes with it, deserve it. will welcome to spring practice and ing to be able to tie all that together "I know the older kids in the pro­ another 20 incoming freshmen he'll remains to be seen. gram want to win very, very badly. I see in late summer? "The biggest thing that has to be think they have a new outlook on What are the prospects for next changed is the ability to sell the life -- a new coach, new optimism, season? Is a six-win season really a players on the fact that they can particularly if we get off to a good possibility? win." start. It's absolutely essential that "It won't be easy," says Parrish. With all this talk of wide-open of­ we get off to a good start next fall." "We'll have to play our rear ends fenses and Parrish keying on the And just how does Parrish plan to off every week. We'll have to be a quarterbacks, will a strong passing go about adding two more numbers consistent team. We'll have to be a attack be a hallmark of a Stan Par­ in the win column? It seems that the team that impresses from day one. rish team? politics of the Parrish plan embrace "I believe we can!" "I've tried to be flexible in my ap­ both liberal and conservative And the incoming freshmen? proach," he says. "If I had a great elements. A late winter trip to Florida ended tailback, he'd run the ball 30 times a "No basic offense," says Parrish. in the luring of several speed mer­ game. "We'll be in multiple sets, ranging chants to Marshall. "We were hap­ "I think here, with who we are from two backs in the backfield to py with our speed from the initial playing, the quickest way for us is to no backs in the backfield and from group we signed," Parrish says. implement a controlled passing two receivers to five receivers. ''After this trip, we feel great about game. But, yes, I've become more "And yet, it will be simple of­ it. I think it's better than we hoped and more an advocate of the passing fense -- the kids will have to learn a for." game as I've stayed in coaching. few basic routes. We'll try to fool The freshman group includes four And I think that, effectively them with multiple formations, receivers, three offensive backs, six planned, we'll pass to set up the run make them try to adjust. defensive backs, three defensive a~ opposed to run to set up the pass. "As wide open as we will be of­ linemen, two offensive linemen, and "And I think we need it here right fensively, we'll be just the opposite two quarterbacks. now," Parrish says. "I believe our defensively; very, very basic -- not "I think they will provide instant team can do those things. I think it giving up the big plays. I believe that depth," says Parrish. "I don't think will help us recruit the skill players gives us the best chance for they will provide instant help. There we need, and it will generate a lot of success.'' aren't any quick cures. fan interest. Parrish is somewhat reluctant to "By depth, I mean they can pro­ "It's like taking vitamins. It talk about his players individually, vide team speed and help the kicking might be the right tonic for this not having seen them perform in game and on special teams. Al­ place right now. I know the kids are person. though, I do believe two or three of excited about it." "I believe the defensive group last them have the talent to come in and One hears "I believe" and "I year by and large played very well in play right away. think" a lot when talking to this

'I like Huntington. The people are a tough buy. They're supportive. They're pretty knowledgeable. If they're going to pay $8 for a ticket, they want $8 of product. I like that.' 14 man Parrish. Just who is Stan Par­ head coaching job to come here. spring, just waiting to be re­ rish? Who is this man just looking "I have not only good coaches, released. He likes the players return­ for a chance to win six games next but many built-in loyalties as well," ing. He likes the incoming recruits. fall? says Parrish. "And the one com­ He likes the town and the school. Stan Parrish, 37, is the son of a mon bond in all of them is that And, he most certainly seems to coach, Stan Sr. After playing for his they're smart. They're all good have warmed to completing the job father and earning all-city and all­ teachers, and we all believe in the at hand. league honors at Parma, Ohio, Par­ same thing." He's now looking to the turn­ rish played defensive back at Parrish, who's been on the job around time -- that sixth victory. Heidelberg College in Ohio. now for three months, has good "When I was recruiting, I com­ Upon graduation he became an vibes about Huntington, about pared our program to that of Miami assistant coach at Windham High Marshall and about the job. Even of Florida. It was such a great turn­ School in Warren, Ohio. He took the news that portions of Fairfield around. And I know he [Coach over as head coach soon after and Stadium are crumbling and are now Howard Snellenberger] sold them three years later guided his team in­ roped off has not made him falter. on the same thing, being there when to the state semifinals. He moved to "I believe that situation will be you get the job done. It's a very Purdue as a graduate assistant, leav­ remedied by the time we take the special thing, and it just doesn't ing Windham with a 20-9-1 mark. field in the fall," he says. "If it happen very often. Parrish stayed at Purdue for two isn't, there'll be major problems "I hope the kids think about what seasons before taking over as with this program. We cannot the atmosphere will be like, for ex­ quarterback coach at Wabash Col­ recruit in a stadium that is roped off ample, when we win the sixth game. lege. A year later he was named this fall. Those chances don't come along too head coach. In his five years at often, particularly if we do it at Wabash, Parrish was the winningest I have confidence in Lynn home -- that will be a day you never active coach at the NCAA Division [Snyder, athletic director]. He told forget.'' III level. He compiled a 42-3-1 me he would get it done, and he Marshall fans will never forget record, including a 10-0 season in hasn't been wrong with me yet." the Young Thundering Herd's vic­ 1982. The Little Giants had a string What about Huntington and the tory over Xavier in 1971. They'll of 24 games without a loss over the fans? never forget upsetting a strong 1979-81 seasons. "I like Huntington," he says with Bowling Green that same year. Parrish returned to Purdue as a a smile. "The people are a tough Marshall fans, players and quarterback coach in 1983 and came buy. They're supportive. They're coaches are now looking for another to Marshall after one season. pretty knowledgeable. If they're go­ unforgettable day, the day the Herd His assistants are an unusual ing to pay $8 for a ticket, they want hangs up victory No. 6. blend of youth and experience $8 worth of product. I like that." And Coach Stan Parrish seems underpinned with a foundation of With spring practice in the offing, determined to give them that day -­ loyalty. Ken Bowman, brothers this man Parrish is like a wound in 1984. Mike and Mark Deal, Dave Flegal, John Vogelbacher and Joe Red­ mond comprise his staff along with graduate assistant Jim Turner. "Kenny Bowman is 53 years old," says Parrish. "He has coach­ ed on all levels, including the pros. And I think he is one of the really great technicians I've ever known. Football 1984 ''At the other end of the spectrum is Dave Flegal. He's 26 and played Sept. 1 WEST VIRGINIA TECH 7:00 p.m. for me in high school on the very Sept. 8 MOREHEAD STATE 7:00 p.m. first team I coached. He was my Sept. 15 EASTERN MICHIGAN 7:00 p.m. quarterback. Sept. 22 FURMAN* 7:00 p.m. "Mike Deal was a high school Sept. 29 Western Michigan 1:00 p.m. coach in Indiana when I hired him Oct. 6 Open at Wabash and got him into college Oct. 13 APPALACHIAN STATE* 1:30 p.m. coaching. (Homecoming) "His brother Mark -- I gave him Oct. 20 The Citadel• 2:00 p.m. his first job when he was a grad Oct. 27 UT-CHATTANOOGA* 1:30 p.m. assistant for Lee Corso at Indiana. Nov. 3 Western Carolina• 1:00 p.m. "I met John Vogelbacher in an Nov. 10 Illinois State 2:30 p.m. interview at the national conven­ Nov. 17 East Tennessee State• 7:30 p.m. tion. He caught my eye because I thought he was such an intelligent •Denotes Southern Conference Game guy. BOLD FACE indicates games at Fairfield Stadium "I met Joe Redmond at a pro camp a couple of years ago. We ex­ changed a lot of ideas. He gave up a 15 High tech's healing edge: Medical School uses computers to teach, diagnose and assist

By BEVERLY W. McCOY the wound heals. You may go to the figure can be used to predict nutri­ operating room three or four or five tional requirements, plan surgical Just days before Christmas, Mrs. times [Mrs. X had made seven trips strategy and evaluate the patient's X was struggling to roof her house. by late February] and the whole progress. On Christmas, she was fighting time you're there you're trying to • • • for her life. get the wound closed fast. Some­ Although the burn program is a The tar she and her husband were times you feel like you're in a race particularly dramatic example of the using caught fire, leaving her with you're never going to be able to use of personal computers in burns over 70 percent of her body. catch up on. While you're running medicine, it is far from the only one, In the weeks that followed, she had the race to get closure, there's no according to Dr. Stephen Tzankoff, several episodes of pneumonia and a good yardstick to show how fast director of biomedical computing minor stroke. She was on a respi­ you're going. for the School of Medicine. rator. Her kidneys couldn't keep up "It's easy to sort of get lost in all "Aside from the generally well­ with her body's needs. the operations and other known computer implementation in But by late February, it looked problems," Dr. Scott-Conner said. diagnostic procedures and practice like she would, indeed, be going ''With this kind of major surgery management -- usually on a large­ home -- probably soon. One of the [patients may lose four to six units scale machine supported by com­ tools that aided in her recovery was of blood], the tendency is to let the puter experts -- computer applica­ a standard personal computer, patient recover fully from one tions in medicine have emerged as a equipped with a special program operation before going on to the direct consequence of the relatively developed at the Marshall Univer­ next. It's very easy to keep postpon­ inexpensive personal computers, sity School of Medicine. ing it for a week. . .and another which have become increasingly The program was created by Dr. week. more powerful and 'user Carol Scott-Conner, assistant pro­ "The computer is kind of a friendly,' " he said. fessor of surgery; Dr. James Coil, reminder that you have to keep "Many physicians have en­ professor of surgery and head of the pushing week after week to get the thusiastically embraced this oppor­ Cabell Huntington Hospital burn burn closed," said Dr. Scott­ tunity to organize the wealth of unit, and Dr. Harry F. Conner, Conner. "It's a real help." patient-related information they assistant director of biomedical The computer program took generate and depend on in a format computing. about a year to develop, she said, unique to their needs." With it, physicians can store and was written using an Apple The personal computer is a ver­ detailed information about a pa­ computer. A grant from the Hun­ satile tool, as well, he added. The tient's burn as it heals. How deep is tington Clinical Foundation funded same computer can inexpensively the burn? Is there infection? Has the purchase of an IBM personal serve as a powerful connection via skin been grafted on? Using the computer with a color monitor for telephone lines to outside informa­ answers to these questions, the com­ the burn unit. tion sources. With it, physicians can puter draws a human-shaped form The program is based on the reach libraries for citations of perti­ colored (or shaded) to reflect the pa­ Lund and Browder chart, a human­ nent publications, obtain updated tient's condition. With regular up­ shaped "map" which divides the medication lists with information on dating, the charts show how the body into 33 sections, each assigned known or potential interactions, or burn wound is healing. a certain percentage of body surface even use electronic mail exchange to The computer also can produce a area. The computer asks, for each communicate with other doctors, graph showing the healing rate. As section, the status (degree of burn, laboratories or hospitals. Dr. Scott-Conner puts it, the com­ whether it has been grafted, whether The personal computer also has puter helps doctors "walk a it is healed) and the percentage of academic applications, Tzankoff tightrope'' between pushing the pa­ that section affected. The informa­ said. "The School of Medicine has tient faster than the traumatized tion is stored as a four-digit code. encouraged student interaction with body can stand, or postponing too About 100 records can be stored on computers practically from their long the surgery that is vital if the a single floppy disk -- about six first week of instruction," he said. patient is to survive. months' worth when used at the cur­ "Self-paced computer-assisted in­ "In any burn case, rapid closure rent rate. struction can impart a dimension to of the burn wound is the goal," she The computer not only draws the learning that neither lecture, tape said. "Yet there's no easy way to actual chart, but also computes the nor text can successfully document the changes that occur as total amount still unhealed. This reproduce." 16 Graphs of a patient with burns similar to those of Mrs. X show healing process. Graph 1, made the day of the burn, shows the patient with burns over nearly 65 percent of his body. The horizontal lines indicate second-degree burns, and the vertical lines on his back denote third-degree burns. The second graph, made five weeks after the burn, shows grafted areas with cross-hatching. The third graph, made five-and-a half weeks after the burn, shows healed areas and last remaining grafts.

The school also is offering to can ask how many Mis [heart at­ on the patients we have," he said. second- and fourth-year students tacks] there are, or how many have With the new system, doctors who medical computing electives which had positive treadmill tests after want to study patients 40 to 60 years he said have been met "with great their first heart attack when they are old with specific conditions can enthusiasm." treated with a certain drug. We can quickly scan the system and get a see how patients using Drug X are comprehensive list. "From there, * * * going a year later.'' we may be able to sit down and A system set up by Dr. Andrew Without computerized record­ develop a worthwhile study." Burger for storing cardiology pa­ keeping, Burger said, it is difficult The system should also expedite tient data illustrates the computer's even to retrieve information, patient care, Burger said. "If a doc­ value. The program, implemented because there is no centralization of tor calls three months after we do a this spring, has implications for records -- a patient may have test test and asks what a test on Mr. So­ research as well as record-keeping. results scattered among several and-so showed, we can just say "For all the patients with a hospitals. In addition to the obvious 'Wait three seconds,' press a few significant disease to be followed, problems this can cause in looking buttons and have a report right we'll include important demo­ at a single patient, Burger said there." graphic data, the results of the car­ meaningful research is "virtually Burger is using an IBM personal diology tests we do, and any perti­ impossible.'' computer with a hard disk, which nent medical history,'' said Burger, "We're not the size of the big allows storage of 10 million letters. an assistant professor of medicine. medical centers, and we don't hope His software is Dbase II, a database "This will give us easy access to to compete for numbers of patients. management system. "Anyone can specific information," he said. "We We have to make better use of data (continued on next page) 17 walk into Computerland and buy way to learn. They offer rapid feed­ said. "But you can't just reach out it," he said. "It's not the tool you back. They let students choose an and grab these programs. I don't see use, but it's how you use it that option for therapy and get quick the wheel available." makes it unique. In this case, it has response. And it gives students ex­ been adapted to cardiology.'' Part perience in simulated therapy situa­ • • • of that adaptation, he said, involved tions, where there is no risk to pa­ inventing codes for all diagnoses tients." The School of Medicine has ob­ and possibilities to assist in test in­ The committee hopes to gather tained a laser-disc player which is terpretation. more "patient" software which being used to field-test two features common problems, such as pathology teaching programs for • • • heart disease or diabetes, for the National Library of Medicine. students to use. It also, said Sivitz, In exchange for the disc and pro­ For the last two years, first­ hopes to broaden the computerized grams, the Department of Pathol­ semester medical students have been education horizon a bit. ogy will review the programs and making the acquaintance of Bill and "We want to do what has not create an additional program, ac­ Lisa -- two computer "patients." By been done -- at least we haven't been cording to Dr. Stebbins Chandor, asking questions, making choices able to find it -- and interface these department chairman. and deciding on diagnoses in a 'patient' programs with laser The " Cell Injury" program starts game-like format, students can rein­ discs," he said. A laser disc, similar off with a 20-question pre-test on force their knowledge of to the record-like discs on which the Apple computer. Once it is com­ biochemistry and relate it to patient movies are sold, contains up to pleted, students can watch the full care. 50,000 video frames, any one of video disc program or use the " in­ Dr. William Sivitz would like to which can be located in a second. teractive module,'' in which they see computers take an expanded role "For example, if a student look at slides from the full program in teaching. An assistant professor chooses an option to do an elec­ and respond to the computer's ques­ of medicine, he heads up a Cur­ trocardiogram, the EKG itself can tions. riculum Committee subcommittee be flashed up on the screen," he Even with correct answers, the on computer education (laughingly said. "If the student wants to ex­ computer usually offers a sentence referred to as the "Star Wars" com­ amine something, that slide can be or two of additional explanation mittee). Computers, he said, are flashed up." --often preceded by a " Definitely" really on the frontier of medical With enough enthusiasm and or "You bet!" The perplexed stu­ education. financial support (making a master dent who chooses the "help" option "I think they will have a marked laser disc can run $2,000), Sivitz gets the message: "OK. Sit back, influence with medical education thinks Marshall could have some of relax and watch the TV.'' The disc --and all education -- within the next these programs within a year. player then locates and plays the 10 or 20 years," he said. "Com­ "A lot of colleagues are saying portion of the program relating to puters provide a convenient, fun 'Don't re-invent the wheel,' " Sivitz that question. "This offers another method­ ology for teaching pathology to students,'' Chandor said. "I think students tend to respond best if there is more than one way a subject is taught. We have lectures and labs, and now interaction with a TV module." Although the program arrived too late for classroom use this year, Chandor says he thinks second-year students will use it this spring to study for Part I of their National Board Examination. • • • Yet another variation on the com­ puter education theme will be available to School of Medicine faculty members through a work­ shop planned for this spring. It is offered through the non-profit Health Sciences Consortium, of which Marshall's director of contin­ uing medical education, Dr. Charles W. Jones, is a board Senior medical student James Banks III works with computer during fourth-year member. elective. (Photo by Rick Haye) Developed at the University of 18 Dr. Stebbins B. Chandor, chairman of pathology, compares two slides as part of a laser disc-computer teaching package on cell injury. (Photo by Rick Haye)

Rochester, this computer patient changing the ones necessary to fit one- or two-day workshop to pro­ simulation concept has two twists. your problem." duce a dozen or more programs," First, the computer records the In essence, the workbooks he said. "We've talked to a lot of students' tests, diagnoses and describe history and findings for people here, and they're definitely treatments. It even keeps track of normal patients in six categories interested -- in fact, they're chomp­ how long the student takes to com­ --newborn, child/ adolescent and ing at the bit." plete the program and totals the adult, each in male and female ver­ The workshop's step-by-step ap­ cost of the tests ordered. Second, sions. By focusing only on the proach also will provide faculty the program's creators have devised medical problem at hand, a doctor members some insight into the workbooks that, when filled in by a with no computer experience can technology involved in program­ doctor, will be transformed into a complete the 120-page workbook in ming, Jones said, which will help as computer program by the Consor­ as little as four to six hours. the school moves on to developing The Consortium then takes the tium. laser-disc interfaces. The Consortium will have its first workbook and plugs the informa­ problem-writing workshop at the tion into its program. After peer "Computers are so valuable Marshall School of Medicine, Jones review and field testing, a final flop­ because of the way they can increase said. py disk is made. The author receives the quality of our students' educa­ "What's really neat is the author­ a copy and the Consortium markets tion," Jones said. "They can help ing package," Jones said. "What the disk. students develop diagnostic skills they have done is develop a step­ At the MU workshop, the Con­ and logic in approaching problems. wise 'cookbook.' All the author has sortium will help interested faculty They also can expose students to a to do -- and it's a good bit of work -­ members (and there are many, ac­ much broader range of patient pro­ is choose a problem and go through cording to Jones) write up their own blems -- probably even more than the workbook, checking the cases. they would see if we went out and statements that are appropriate and "We hope we'll be able in this built a giant tertiary-care center." 19 The man who 'runs' the bank: Marshall grad Dick Jackson jogged way to bank presidency

By DERYL R. LEAMING president for First National Bank of Atlanta. Sanders became convinced Although the desk nameplate and Jackson was the man to head the the business cards of the president troubled First Georgia Bank. of the First Georgia Bank in Atlanta Jackson, a man who thrives on read "Richard D. Jackson," to challenges, accepted the offer and everyone he is simply "Dick" -- not neither man has ever regretted it. just to the highly-placed business Despite Jackson's achievements and government officials who visit and hectic schedule, he has not his pleasant office, but to the forgotten Marshall, making time to youngest and newest bank employee keep up with campus changes and as well . helping out when asked. His And, of course, the diploma he secretary, for example, said she has earned from Marshall in 1959 bears been instructed always to make the more formal name which he was room on his schedule for anyone given at birth. Jackson, who earned from Marshall. his Marshall degree in marketing Even though Jackson grew up in and retailing, is president and chief Huntington, attending Marshall was executive officer of one of Georgia's more of an afterthought than a most progressive banks. carefully thought-out decision. As The bank, however, was not view­ an outstanding high school football ed in those terms before Jackson Dick Jackson player at Huntington High School, became president in 1975. Indeed, it he was recruited by large universities was a troubled bank before he such as Indiana, Kentucky and engineered a remarkable, much North Carolina. After visiting these talked about turnaround which saw schools, he was bothered by their assets soar from $75 million to $341 president. And speaking of his hair, bigness which caused him to delay million by the end of 1983. it looks just as neat when he runs his any decision. Even then Marshall If you look at the assets, they fingers through it -- which he often was not considered. speak for themselves. There is more, does during relaxed conversations In late August after he finished however. In 1975 the bank suffered --as it does just after combing. high school, he attended a wedding, losses of close to $5 million, and by Staying fit is an obsession with with Kentucky, North Carolina and the end of 1983 it recorded profits in Jackson who jogs 40 miles a week, Indiana pressuring him to make a excess of $3.4 million. Profits and takes vitamins and stays away from decision. assets continue to climb. red meat. His regimen must work, "At an after-the-wedding party, I Figures, as everyone knows, don't for he is 20 pounds lighter than ran into who was then tell the whole story. Dick Jackson when he played football for the Marshall's football coach," he has become the talk of Atlanta Thundering Herd. recalled. "Royer walked up to me business circles. Atlanta newspapers It was his jogging that helped him and asked me why I just did not and business publications have to land his present job. While he forget the other schools and go to chronicled his success in glowing was vigorously running laps at the Marshall. terms, often giving as much atten­ downtown YMCA, Jackson was "I looked at him and said, 'Okay, tion to his personality as to his noticed by former Georgia Gov. I'll go to Marshall, and the only banking accomplishments. Carl Sanders, chairman of the consideration is I need to move into If you could spend some time board of First Georgia. a dorm since my parents are moving with him, you would quickly see "I watched him run around the out of Huntington.' why. He is Johnny Carson-slim, track at the YMCA and I never saw "Royer said, 'If that's your only handsome, friendly, sincere and full a more persistent man in my life,'' condition, you're on.' " of energy. Except for his gray hair, Sanders recalled. Jackson entered Marshall in the he doesn't look the part of a bank At the time Jackson was a vice fall of 1955. "I think we had about 20 4,000 students on campus then," he said. "And the key thing I remember about Marshall is that it was small and very friendly, and that everyone was warm towards one another. It just gave you a good feeling. I know the first couple of years I found it very tough aca­ demically, and it took me a while to get my bearings." At Marshall, he played football for four years and had dreams of becoming a professional football player. Football, however, was not his only sports interest, as he ran track for four years and played basketball for three years. It was in sports that he made most of his friends, including Sonny Allen, now basketball coach at the University of Nevada, Reno; Dana Kirk, present­ ly basketball coach at Memphis State University, and Bob Markum, currently the athletic director at the University of South Carolina. It is Markum he talks to most often these days, though he follows the careers of Allen and Kirk. In his second year of school, he met a freshman coed whom he later married. She was Mary Elizabeth McLean who graduated from Mar­ shall in 1960 with a degree in educa­ tion. Today they are parents of two children, Kimberly 22, and Christopher, 20, both students at the University of Georgia. Jackson doesn't get back home as often as he would like, but when he does, it's to visit his mother who lives in Huntington's West End. He Jackson jogs 40 miles a week, takes vitamins and avoids red meat. (Photo also sees some old friends from courtesy of Atlanta Journal and Constitution.) Huntington High days, many of whom attended Marshall with him and his wife. He was last in Hun­ tington this past Christmas, atten­ ding a Marshall basketball game and seeing Henderson Center for the first time. "Whenever I do get back, I always go up to Marshall and walk around the campus," he said. ''The student center now is not things that I guess you could "When I visit campus now, the anything close to what we had. Then remember about Marshall. biggest change is the student it was like a small club. It was ''The intimacy that it brought to center," Jackson pointed out. "We unique in that you could just walk all relationships was, I am certain, used to go over to little old Shawkey through and know everyone there. significant and meaningful. It was Union and sit in the little booths and People used to come to Marshall just a unique environment, to say the whole world would pass and spend their entire first semester the least. You could sit out in the through. That was the place on cam­ in Shawkey Union and maybe flunk springtime on the union steps, on pus where everyone would gather. If out because they stayed at the union the grass or on the benches on cam­ you wanted to see anyone or if you all the time," Jackson remarked pus. It was just a homey type, a wanted a date, you went there. with a smile. "I always thought, great little arrangement that you "They always had a couple of big however, that they probably learned had as far as just enjoying a college dances two or three times a week," something just through osmosis by campus and college life. he continued. "It seemed every time just being involved. "My time at Marshall was impor­ you went in there people were danc­ "I think Shawkey Union and its tant to me. I met my wife there and ing. activities were the most significant (continued on next page) 21 that's stuck, and I must have come the center of the long, open expan­ heavily recruited basketball high away with a pretty good sive corridor you encounter upon school seniors. education.'' entering. There he makes his friends While he hoped to sign on with from Marshall welcome, and if they Jackson's character -- his essen­ the Baltimore Colts upon gradua­ need the latest report on the for­ tial idealism and warmth -- was tion, he faced a military obligation. tunes of the Thundering Herd, he summed up not long ago by a He joined the U.S. Marines and can provide it. reporter: "He's straighter than went off to officer's candidate His caring for Marshall became Straight Arrow, eats his Wheaties, school, playing football eventually evident most recently when he loved the 1950s and thinks the at Camp LeJeune rather than in assisted in recruiting Rodney American Eagle is a symbol of all Baltimore. As with any Marine, he Holden, one of Georgia's most that's good." was trained for war, and by the mid 1960s he was in Vietnam as a rifle company commander. He speaks of his Vietnam tour no differently from the way he discusses banking, according to a local reporter. "It was exciting and taxing," Jackson said. "It's not the type of thing you remember, like the good times in high school and college. But I thought I might be a better person for it. It did drain and strain every mortal faculty." He says he won the Silver Star "for keeping myself and 200 troops alive," and he routinely describes what a Marine company does in the field. But pressed, he admits, in an almost off-hand way, that he cap­ tured a North Vietnamese soldier with a knife. "I was stupid," he said. "We were on a search and destroy mis­ sion and we stopped, and I was walking around about 200 yards away from the rest. . .and I looked at the tree line and I started probing the ground with my knife. I popped a hatch and out popped an NV A. "I didn't know whether to stick it in him or me. But I captured him and took his carbine home as a remembrance.'' Jackson didn't leave part of himself in Vietnam as so many of the war's veterans did. He had other matters to concern himself with -- carving out a career. After eight years with the Marines where he attained the rank of major and won Silver and Bronze Stars and the Cross of Gallantry for duty in Vietnam, he became what he terms as "probably the oldest management trainee in bank history.'' He learned fast. In just six years he was a vice president, and not long afterwards he took over his present position with First Georgia Bank. The first part of this year, First Georgia marked its progress with the completion of new headquarters Dick Jackson (right) walks through downtown Atlanta with former Georgia Gov. in downtown Atlanta. It's a Carl Sanders, who sought Jackson for the presidency of First Georgia Bank after beautiful building, with trees lining watching Jackson running at the YMCA. 22 maRshall un1veRs1ty:

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The Alumni Association, Marshall University, Huntington, W.Va. 25701-5499 Vreci1111 Adve11t11re -- fl1111e 1985

By land and by sea, Marshall alumni and friends will have an opportunity to explore Greece, its antiquities, myths, and natural beauty, in 1985. A 15-day tour, set for mid- to late-June, 1985, offers land tours of Athens, Delphi, Nauplion, Mycenae, and Epidaurus. The cruise portion of the tour, aboard Sun Line' s Stella Solaris, departs Pireaus for Dikili, Istanbul and Izmir, Turkey, and then on to a few of the more than 1,400 Greek Isles - Rhodes, Crete, Santorini, Delos, and Mykonos. Prices for the land and cruise package, based on dou­ ble occupancy and Huntington departure, begin at $2 ,251 . Rates include round-trip airfare, lodging, six con­ tinental breakfasts on land and seven American breakfasts on the cruise, six lunches, and ten dinners (in­ cluding one at an Athens taverna with wine, music and entertainment). Lodging will be four nights in superior tourist hotels in Athens, one night in Delphi an<;! one night in Nauplion in the best provincial hotels, and seven nights on ship in an air-conditioned inside cabin with lower berths and private shower. Land tours included in the package price are a half­ day guided tour of Athens with admission paid for The Acropolis, the Temple of Winged Victory and the Par­ thenon, and all sightseeing in Delphi, Mycenae and Epidaurus. Shore excursions are optional. Transfers between airports, piers and hotels in Greece, baggage handling, taxes, and tips also are included.

For complete details, contact: Alumni Office, Marshall University Huntington, W.Va. 25701-5499 Telephone (304) 696-3134

Traveling with Marshall Alumni is a privilege open to Active Members of the Alumni Association.

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