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Fall 2000 INSIDE: Alumni Award Winners The Campaign for ETSU Tomorrow Homecoming Preview teaching • research • service ETSU NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS CONTENTS Mr. John A. Jones ’69, President Mr. Michael J. Carrier, ’73 ’83 Dr. R. Michael Browder, P.E. ’93, President-Elect Mr. Jonathon Fields ’02, SGA Vice President Award Winners...................................................4 Mr. J. Daniel Mahoney ’66, Vice President Mr. L. Quinton Fisher, Jr. ’83 Mr. Bob V. Hardin ’68, Secretary Mr. Richard L. Green ’73 Unique Alumni....................................................8 Dr. Stephanie Leeper ’83 ’87, Treasurer Mrs. Dorothy L. Grisham ’74 Dr. Clyde H. Farnsworth, Jr. ’60 ’61 Past President Lt. Gen. Ronald V. Hite ’64 Dr. Paul Stanton, Jr., ETSU President Mr. Jack A. Parton ’78 ’79 ’82 Campus Notes and Briefs.................................10 Dr. Richard A. Manahan, ETSU Vice President for Mrs. Pereda R. “Pete” Paty ’48 University Advancement Mr. Gary D. Poe ’68 Advancement.....................................................14 Mr. Robert M. Plummer ’84 ’87 Mr. R. Lynn Shipley ’72 Executive Director of ETSU National Alumni Association Mr. Mickey E. Tyler ’69 Special Features.................................................17 Mrs. Shirley H. Berk ’72, ’74 Mr. Derreck Whitson ’02, SGA President Ms. Eleanor E. Yoakum ’65 Sports Spectrum................................................25 ETSU FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Class Notes.........................................................28 Mr. Dennis Powell*, President Mr. Louis Gump Mr. Stuart E. Wood*, Jr. ’60, Past President Mr. John A. Jones ’69 Homecoming Preview.......................................36 Mr. Tim Jones*, Vice President Mr. C.C. Marshall ’56 Dr. Steve Conerly*, Secretary Mr. W. Cal McGraw ’60 Activity Calendar...............................................38 Mr. Charles Steagall ’66*, Treasurer Mr. Scott Niswonger Dr. Paul E. Stanton, Jr.*, ETSU President Mrs. Leslie Parks Pope** Dr. Richard A. Manahan*, Foundation Executive Vice President Mr. John Poteat ETSU Today Dr. David Collins ’96*, Assistant Treasurer Mr. James J. Powell Mr. Frederick H. (Pal) Barger, Jr. ’55 Mr. Stan Puckett UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Mr. Wayne G. Basler* Mr. Donald R. Raber FALL 2000 Mr. James D. Bowman* Mr. K. Newton Raff Mr. R. Wiley Bourne, Jr. Dr. J. Shelton Reed Paul E. Stanton, Jr., M.D. Mr. Dan Brooks ’65 Mr. Herbert R. Silvers University President Mr. Gene Burleson ’64 ’72 Mr. R.T. Summers Mr. Jeff Byrd Mr. J.D. Swartz Richard A. Manahan, CPA Mr. Phillip Carriger Mr. Raymond R. Thomas ’59 Vice President Mr. Claudius Clemmer ’34 Judge Shirley Underwood Mrs. Betty DeVinney Mr. Robert E. Walters for University Advancement, Mr. J. Richard Diehl Mr. Lewis P. Wexler Executive Vice President, ETSU Foundation Mr. Al Fatherree Mr. Keith Wilson Mr. Thomas J. Garland ’59 Robert M. Plummer * Executive Committee Member Dr. James W. Gibson Associate Vice President for University ** Board of Regents Representative Advancement/Executive Director of ETSU TENNESSEE BOARD OF REGENTS National Alumni Association The Honorable Don Sundquist, Governor Tennessee Technology Center at Crump Dr. Charles Manning, Chancellor, Nashville Mrs. Jane G. Kisber, Jackson ETSU Today Mr. Edgar R. “Buddy” Bowers, Harriman Mr. W. Keith McCord, Knoxville Mrs. Demetra Godsey Boyd, Clarksville Mrs. Leslie Parks Pope, Kingsport Managing Editors The Honorable Vernon Coffey ’73 ’75 ’78 ’92, Dr. Richard G. Rhoda, Nashville Richard A. Manahan Commissioner of Education, Nashville Mr. J. Stanley Rogers, Manchester Mr. Noble Cody, Cookeville Dr. Maxine A. Smith, Memphis Robert M. Plummer Mr. Robert Jack Fishman, Morristown Mr. William H. Watkins, Jr., Memphis Mr. Arles B. Greene, Goodlettsville The Honorable Dan Wheeler, Commissioner of Contributors: Mr. Clifford H. “Bo” Henry, Maryville Agriculture, Nashville Jeff Anderson Mrs. Julia W. “Judy” Johnson, Faculty Regent, Mr. James “Ashley” Woods, Student Regent, ETSU, Johnson City Becky Buller TENNESSEE HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION Jamey Campbell Mr. Wm. Ransom Jones, Chair, Murfreesboro Ms. Debby Patterson Koch, Nashville Carol Fox Dr. June Scobee Rodgers, Vice Chair, Signal Mountain Mr. Joe Lancaster, Columbia Kristn Fry Mr. A. C. Wharton, Vice Chair, Memphis Ms. Wanda McMahan, Knoxville Simon Gray Mayor Dale Kelley, Secretary, Huntingdon Mr. John Morgan, Nashville Jennifer Hill Richard G. Rhoda, Executive Director, Nashville Mr. Nathan Tudor, Cookeville Patricia Holland Mr. Steve Adams, Nashville Ms. Lisa P. Verble, Sevierville Mr. Riley C. Darnell, Nashville Dr. Brad Windley, Tullahoma Donna Howard Mr. Fred Patrick Gattas, III, Memphis Dr. Douglas E. Wood, Nashville Vicky Lee Lynn Long UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT Richard A. Manahan Dr. Richard A. Manahan, Vice President for University Jamey Campbell ’86, Assistant Vice President for Mary Ellen Miller Advancement/Executive Vice President, ETSU Foundation University Advancement Robert Plummer Wanda Butler, Administrative Assistant Ted Hughes ’59, Assistant Director Pamela D. Ripley Pat Holland, Administrative Coordinator/Executive Assistant Mary Ellen Miller, Director Office of University Alumni Pamela Poletti, Secretary Fred Sauceman Robert M. Plummer ’84 ’87, Associate Vice President for Office of University Alumni Records Edie Shealy University Advancement/ Executive Director of ETSU Joseph Smith ’93, Director Joe Smith National Alumni Association Pat Barcel, Information Research Technician Craig Whitaker Donna Howard ’00, Secretary Donald Harvill ’92, Computer Operations Coordinator Lee Ann Willis Vicky Lee, Executive Aide Carol Ollis, Technical Clerk Lynn Long ’98, Graduate Assistant Office of ETSU Foundation Pam Wilson Edie Shealy ’00, Graduate Assistant David D. Collins ’96, Assistant Treasurer of the Foundation/ Lee Ann Willis ’91, Alumni Coordinator Associate Vice President for Business and Finance Photographs By: Pam Wilson, Information Research Technician Kathy Carder, Account Clerk Jamey Campbell Office of Advancement Leisa Wiseman ’84, Foundation Accountant Jeff Anderson ’83, Associate Vice President for David Greear etsu today fall 2000 University Advancement Donna Howard Lynn Long Vance W. Cheek, Jr. photo, p. 6, courtesy of the City of Johnson City. Robert Plummer Photos of the Alps and the Great Wall, p. 8, courtesy of Maj. Michael Lynch. Gary Cooper story, “A Labor of Love,” p. 9, courtesy of LB Wilson. Drawing of original residence, 431 West Locust St., courtesy of Gary Cooper Edie Shealy and the Long family. Jim Sledge Photos on ages 18 and 19 are presented courtesy of the James H. Quillen collection at the Archives of Appalachia, the Charles C. Sherrod Library. Larry Smith Photo of Bill Carlyle, p. 31 courtesy of Walters State Community College. Photo of Siclinda Canty-Elliot, p. 34, courtesy of Hollins University. Craig Whitaker Photos of Steve Hawkins and Merrill Moore, p. 35, courtesy of WCYB-TV5. Lee Ann Willis Photo of Mary Lynne Howell, p. 29, courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Pam Wilson East Tennessee State University is one of 45 institutions in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, the sixth largest system of higher education in the nation. The Tennessee Board of Regents is the governing board for this system which is comprised of six universities, thirteen community colleges, and twenty-six area technological centers. The TBR system enrolls more than 80 percent of all Tennessee students attending public institutions of higher education. East Tennessee State University is fully in accord with the belief that educational and employment opportunities should be available to all eligible persons without regard to age, sex, color, race, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation. TBR: 160-021-00 57M. Conceptual design and print production by Digital Impact Design, Inc., Cornelia, Georgia. “Partnerships within the university and around the region continue to grow and gain in stature.” greeting elcome to the beginning of at Chapel Hill. A new Challenge Course has sizable donation for the refurbishing of the academic year 2000-2001 at been completed, again made possible by a theatre that now bears his name in Gilbreath ETSU! partner, Wayne Basler of Kingsport, who has Hall. The $14 million Center for Physical It is my great pleasure to lent his name and his financial support to a Activity, now under construction, represents a W announce that, for fiscal year number of other campus causes, including a major partnership with our students, whose 1999-2000, the faculty set an all-time ETSU highly visible Chair of Excellence that has fees will make this 100,000-square-foot build- record for the most money ever brought in to brought to campus several outstanding writ- ing a reality by the fall of 2001. The center will support research and sponsored programs-- ers and actors. forever change the nature of campus life and $26.7 million. That exceeds the previous A partner in Greeneville, Scott will be a tremendous boost to our recruit- year's total by $4.6 million. Redoubling our Niswonger, stepped forward this spring with ment of students. efforts in research support has been not only a $1.5 million gift which will allow us to As we look toward the new academic a boon to our faculty and to the reputation of name and enhance even further our interna- year ahead, it is important that we challenge ETSU but also a necessity because of inade- tionally known Advanced Visualization ourselves to forge even more partnerships quate state support. I also announce