FALL 2018

FEELS LIKE HOME DEDICATED SPACE FOR MILITARY-AFFILIATED STUDENTS CULTIVATES CAMARADERIE

Entrepreneurs Put White Boards and Faith, Family, People First Glass Walls and Football Fall 2018 Feels Like Home From Mars to Cars 8 Military-Affiliated Student 26 Entrepreneurs Put Faith ETSU President Resource Center and People First in Sharing Brian Noland Blessings from Innovative White Boards and Technology Company Executive Editor Glass Walls Fred Sauceman 16 ETSU Opens New Faith, Family, Managing Editor Interprofessional Education 28 and Football Joe Smith and Research Center Randy Sanders Reflects on Coaching and Life Advancement/Alumni Editors Pamela Ritter Bob Plummer 1 The President’s 24 ETSU Day of Giving Perspective Contributing Writers 25 Five Questions about Kevin Brown 2 Who’s Going to ETSU? Planned Giving Karen Crigger Lee Ann Davis 6 Dateline: ETSU 32 How Kingsport and Jennifer Hill Hawkins County Helped Amanda Mowell 11 Making Service Brian Noland Win World War II Cyndi Ramsey a Lifetime Priority Fred Sauceman 34 ETSU Naturalization Joe Smith 12 A Return to ETSU Ceremony Welcomes 97 Amy Steadman Nicole Collins New Citizens Kristen Swing 14 Going Full Circle 37 Treasures Art Direction Sharon James McGee Stephen Russell 38 Basketball schedules 20 Celebrating Four Graphic Designer Decades of Educating 40 Class Notes Jeanette Henry Physicians 43 Obituaries Photographic Services Ron Campbell Dakota Hamilton East Tennessee State University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to Larry Smith award baccalaureate, master’s, education specialist, and doctoral degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097, telephone 404-679-4500, or http://www.sacscoc.org, for questions about the accreditation of Charlie Warden East Tennessee State University. ETSU is an AA/EEO employer. ETSU-UR-0049-18 93000 PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE

Since the founding of East Tennessee State University in 1911, the stories of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni have built upon each other to tell an even bigger story, of an institution focused on improving the quality of life for the people of the region.

Today, nearly 95,000 ETSU alumni live and work in 50 states and 68 countries. Each of you represents a part of our story as a university—from the chapters you helped write as students conducting important service, research, and educational missions to the chapters yet to be written, with compelling stories of our alumni making a difference here and across the globe.

You are leaders, guiding important workforce agendas in business, health, education, and other fields. You are innovators, researching the best and newest ways to address world problems and needs. You are masters of your craft, improving the quality of life through arts such as storytelling, music, theater, and dance.

No matter what major you pursued while attending ETSU or how you now choose to make a positive difference in the world, all of you have something in common: You are Buccaneers. You graduated from a university whose mission and values emphasize that people come first and are treated with dignity and respect. In an era when dignity and respect sometimes can be hard to find in the world, I encourage you always to remember and embrace your ETSU roots. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Thank you for all you do to make our world a more pleasant and productive place. Through your efforts, along with the work of our faculty, staff, and students, we continue to tell our ETSU story and to leave a lasting reminder of why this university is so important not only to the region but to our nation and world.

Godspeed and Go Bucs!

Brian Noland President

FALL 2018 x 1 WHO’S GOING TO ETSU? CARA CARTER’S CULMINATING DREAM

Cara Carter grew up on the south side of “I want to do a residency in pediatric Kansas City, Missouri. While she lived in a pharmacy after I leave Gatton,” she says. decidedly urban environment, Carter says “I have always wanted to do a little more the health care experiences in her hometown world travel, so I’d like to do Doctors are not that different than those found in Without Borders for a while, too.” rural settings. This fall, Carter will complete a rotation “It is definitely a health care desert so I know in Uganda, spending an entire month there what it is like for there not to be a doctor for to prepare for applying to Doctors Without miles,” says Carter, a fourth-year student Borders. pharmacist attending East Tennessee State University’s Gatton College of Pharmacy. At Gatton, she has been instrumental in “There are veterinarian offices and some creating a mentorship program within the clinics that take place for back-to-school national Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy physicals, but there is no real health care Group and attended the PPAG conference in facility there.” Utah. The mentorship program, which was established at her suggestion, brings together In fact, it is ETSU’s focus on serving the individuals at varying levels of practice to underserved that attracted Carter to the interact and learn from one another. She also Gatton College of Pharmacy. She says she recently took part in an event at ETSU called immediately saw the potential such an STEMposium, which invited girls ages 12-18 education could have on health care deserts. to the campus to explore opportunities and interests in science, technology, engineering, “Since the doctor is so far away, the only and mathematics. health care provider patients see may be their pharmacist,” said Carter about For Carter, becoming a successful health care residents in her hometown. “So I wanted to provider is not just her dream; it is a dream learn more about the role of pharmacists in that stretches back generations. primary care, in doing things like diabetic foot exams and hypertension management.” “Earlier this year, I went home and visited our family graveyard to see my Carter, who earned a dual undergraduate grandmother’s grave and the grave of degree in math and chemical engineering, my uncle who recently passed away from always knew she wanted a career in health cancer,” Carter says. “While I was standing care, but pharmacy became her specific path there, it was such an amazing feeling to look after she worked as a Hospice volunteer at around and see the graves of my ancestors the age of 14. and realize I am really and truly living their wildest dreams and going places they never Carter recently landed a prestigious could have. internship with the FDA—the first student from Gatton selected for the federal position. “It’s just remembering that you are doing this Through the internship, she will spend part for yourself but also for the culture, for the of next year learning from individuals in little black girl who looks up to you and for the Office of Clinical Pharmacology at the all these people who just never thought they FDA headquarters just outside the nation’s could do it. You are doing it for everyone.” capital. She says her ultimate goal is one day to become commissioner of the agency.

PHOTO BY CHARLIE WARDEN

2 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 3 WHO’S GOING TO ETSU?

STUART SHELTON: DEFINED BY A SENSE OF THE PAST

Stuart Shelton has always been a “history discussed and demonstrated many aspects buff.” The Newport News, Virginia, native of the daily lives of settlers at Fort Watauga, says that throughout his life, he has enjoyed including common occupations, fighting everything from his own family history to techniques and weaponry, fur trading, games world history. That lifelong passion now and diversions, and more. In addition, he fuels his goal to become an interpretive was one of several students who developed ranger within a state park system. a campus tour focusing on the history of student life at ETSU. “I love talking about history, so I really would love to have a full-time job as an interpretive Shelton, who now lives in Flag Pond, ranger,” he said. “This is something I can do Tennessee, earned his undergraduate degree very well, and my heart is in it.” in history with a minor in Appalachian studies at ETSU in 2017 and plans to Shelton got his first experience toward that graduate with his master’s degree in history goal as a volunteer at the Virginia Living within the next year. He is also working Museum in Newport News, where he talked toward a certificate in archival studies. about the animals that were on the trail outside, the animals in the touch tank, and “Archival certification is the next best thing those inside the exhibit. to actually getting a master’s in archival studies,” he says. “It will allow me to work in He has also enjoyed participating in Civil an archive while focusing at the same time War re-enacting. “Most of the time, it just on history. Archival work goes hand-in-hand involved me with other groups portraying with history and interpretive work, because a battle,” he said, “but we also did living if you don’t handle documents or preserve history events, like ‘The Military Through them or treat them properly, they will the Ages’ at Jamestown. My group also deteriorate until they’re unrecognizable. If portrayed Union marines and sailors at a that happens, there are gaps in the historical local museum. We’ve done a mixture of record. Losses can be the result of an interpretive and re-enactor work.” accident or fire, or just improper handling.”

Most recently, Shelton gained valuable In his spare time, Shelton enjoys playing on experience at Sycamore Shoals State Historic the computer and helping out in his mother’s Park in Elizabethton, where he spent his garden. “I also like to read books on historical second consecutive summer as a seasonal events,” he said, “and it doesn’t matter ranger. In that role, he led guided tours of whether it’s a specific battle or a time period. Sabine Hill and the Carter Mansion, two of I also collect fossils and physical artifacts that

the area’s historically significant homes, and are easier to preserve and to store.” PHOTO BY RON CAMPBELL RON BY PHOTO

4 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 5  JULY 2018  AUGUST 21 DATELINE: ETSU Dr. Greg Ordway, with the Quillen  MAY 9  MAY 24 College of Medicine, Twenty-five students from the Department of Media and ETSU is awarded a $500,000 state appropriation to strengthen garners federal Communication are among just eight teams in the nation to earn the work of its Center for Prescription Drug Abuse and Treatment. funding to help the opportunity to compete in the American Advertising Federation President Noland believes that this donation will make a positive support his research National Student Advertising Competition in Chicago. The team wins impact on thousands of Tennesseans. in the biology of first place in its district and then advances to the semifinals where it depressive disorders is selected from 18 teams to move on to the national event. This is and is believed to the first time ETSU ever competed in the finals.  JUNE 12 have found a new method of treating Dr. Aaron A group of faculty members and students, led by Dr. Jonathan people suffering  MAY 11 Polichnowski of Peterson, announces the discovery of a specific protein in the from depression. the Department blood that has the ability to reduce the severity of certain kinds of of Biomedical liver disease. Pictured above from left to right: Ashley Degroat (MS Sciences receives Biomedical Sciences, 2018), Zachary Warren (Undergraduate, 2019), the 2018 Lazaro Dr. Peterson, Kendra Hagood (MS Biomedical Sciences, 2018), and CAMPBELL RON PHOTO: J. Mandel Young Greta Trogen (Undergraduate, 2019) Investigator Award for the outstanding  SEPTEMBER 6 promise he shows  JULY 27 in his physiology Joseph Kusi, a doctoral student in Environmental Health, is a research. He is also Alumni and current faculty members Dan Boner and Tim Stafford, as winner in the 2018 Association of Environmental Health Academic a member of ETSU’s well as alumna Becky Buller, of the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Programs Student Research Competition for his study on silver Center of Excellence Music Studies program, are honored for their work on Song of the nanoparticles. in Inflammation, Year and Recorded Event of the Year nominee “Calamity Jane” for Infectious Disease, the 2018 International Bluegrass Music Association awards. Two PHOTO: RON CAMPBELL RON PHOTO: and Immunity. other alumnae, Beth Lawrence and Haselden Ciaccio, are nominated  SEPTEMBER 17 for Emerging Artist of the Year. Faculty member Hunter Bailey is nominated for Fiddle Player of the Year, and faculty member Kristin Chun-Han Yang,  JUNE 28 Scott Benson is nominated for Banjo Player of the Year. Tyler Griffith, Taiwan’s number student and bass player, is nominated with his band as Instrumental one sprinter in track and field, spends a Lincoln Hensley, a sophomore majoring in Bluegrass, Old Time, and Group of the Year. month training at Country Music Studies, performs at the Grand Ole Opry with Bobby the U.S. Olympic Osborne and the Rocky Top X-Press.  JULY 24 Training Site on the ETSU campus. Dr. William Block, an alumnus of the Quillen College of Medicine,  MAY 11 is named Interim Dean of the medical school. Block held faculty Kathleen McGuire White, a first-year pharmacy student at the Bill positions at ETSU from 1998-2004 and was previously Chair of Gatton College of Pharmacy, is awarded an internship with the Quillen’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

 MAY 21

Dr. Tammy Ozment, CAMPBELL RON PHOTO: Research Associate Professor in the The men’s BucsWorth Choir ties for third place with Bob Jones Department of Surgery, University Choirs and Symphony with Rivertree Singers from receives over $1.4 Greenville, South Carolina, in the American Prize in Choral million from the Performance competition. National Institutes PHOTO: STEPHEN WOODWARD STEPHEN PHOTO: of Health to fund her  JULY 13 research related to  AUGUST 16 fungal infections. This ETSU receives approval to offer a Bachelor of Science in grant will help Ozment Rehabilitative Health Sciences degree to provide students with Students from the Bill Gatton College Pharmacy take home detect the role of overall knowledge of occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech- seven national awards from the Student National Pharmaceutical Dectin-1, which she language pathology, audiology, and more. Association, including Small Chapter of the Year. The students believes plays a role in also receive: the award for Chronic Kidney Disease Initiative of the fungal infection. Year, Operation Immunization of the Year, second place in overall presentations, and second place in the Walgreen’s HIV/AIDS Health Outcomes Award. One student is named Chapter President of the Year, and one student earns the Walmart Health and Wellness scholarship. 6 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 7 COVER STORY

FEELS LIKE Home is not always a physical space filled with familiar things. Sometimes it is a feeling. A newly renovated space for military-affiliated students at ETSU aims to be both.

The Military-Affiliated Student Resource Center, or MARC, located in Yoakley Hall, is a space designated specifically for students who have served in the military or are members of military service families. It was previously known as the Veterans Lounge since its opening in 2013. The name change is more inclusive and reflects the move to a larger space with additional resources available to the growing number of military-affiliated students at ETSU.

“People who were trying to study or have a tutoring session wouldn’t have the ability to HOME concentrate,” Col. (Ret.) Tony Banchs, Director of Veterans Affairs, said of the former lounge More than 600 military-affiliated space. “We wanted it to feel welcoming, but it felt cramped.” students—veterans and family members— The MARC, which officially opened in September, is almost three times larger and offers separate study and social spaces where students can connect through academics and shared experiences, as many have lived across the country and the globe. A giant world map covered are enrolled at ETSU this fall. in colored pins on a wall of the MARC is a visual reminder of the diverse life experiences of students who have served or who have lived with a service member.

8 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 9 “Veterans are different, even family members of veterans are different,” Banchs said. “They have a different perspective and world view. The MARC is a place where people who have had similar experiences can talk about them in a non-critical way.”

Many military-affiliated students are non-traditional and often start or resume their studies following military service, which was the case for Yong Yang, known to his comrades as Steve. Seeking a career change inspired by four years of service as an Army combat medic, the former high school teacher says the MARC offered the support he needed as he transitioned to college for a second time.

“You can actually get a lot of information and support from veterans who have had the same struggles you’ve had in life and in school,” Yang said. MAKING SERVICE Several staff members from ETSU’s Office of Veterans Affairs were able to move their offices beside the MARC, making them A LIFETIME PRIORITY more accessible than ever. A “Where is Rachel?” sign hangs on the office door of Veterans Outreach Coordinator Rachel Fogg so she can let students know when she’ll be returning to the MARC. ETSU has a long history of preconceived notions they may unknowingly more than one viewpoint in the world and we She and other staff members assist with everything from the GI harbor to their core beliefs and values.” need all of those viewpoints to come up with involving students in solutions to the challenges in the world.” Bill® to campus resources and advice. social causes and needs Since its inception decades ago, the Before he even stepped foot on campus, Yang said attending around them. Alternative Spring Break program at ETSU Like Fulkerson, Scott has been inspired by ETSU felt like the right choice for him and his family due to has hosted service trips to more than 15 her service experiences thus far and wants cities, providing in the last year alone an to encourage others at ETSU to volunteer the personalized support he received from the Office of When Joy Fulkerson was an undergraduate estimated 250 students with the opportunity their time in meaningful ways. Currently, Veterans Affairs. student attending ETSU, she found herself on to address and better understand everything she serves as the President of Volunteer a trip to New York City where she completed from poverty and hunger to environmental ETSU, a student organization that started in “They were very welcoming and have showed so much hospitality two service projects that forever changed the conservation and food injustice. the1980s and helps match students wanting to me and my family,” he added. “Other places told me the same way she views the world. response from their website. It felt cold.” to volunteer with opportunities within Kyla Scott, now a junior pre-med student at “I was born and raised in Rogersville, organizations needing the help. ETSU, was among the students to take part As he began tackling the necessary coursework to enter the Tennessee, and this was my first time in a in one of those service trips in 2016 as a In addition to serving as a liaison and medical field, Yang discovered the value of the MARC. It’s a quiet big city,” she recalls. “We stayed in Harlem at college freshman. connecting hundreds of students to service study spot with a separate computer lab where he can write and a home for individuals recovering from drug experiences, the group hosts blood drives, print papers. It’s a social space where he can attend a meeting in and alcohol addiction, working to get a soup “We went to Atlanta for a harm reduction a Salvation Army Angel Tree, and conducts the conference room, share a meal with friends, or take a break kitchen set up there. Every day, we woke up and syringe exchange program where we set Service Saturdays each month in which between classes to watch TV. There’s also a charging station for and did devotion with these individuals and up tables on the street to exchange people’s approximately 50 students fan out among a Yong “Steve” Yang devices and a space for working service animals to rest alongside really got to know them and their struggles.” their military-affiliated owners. dirty needles for clean ones,” she says. “It handful of organizations to accomplish day was extremely eye opening. People came For part of the trip, Fulkerson also worked projects that better the community. with their needles in everything from cereal Yang has bonded with students at the MARC who also have with an organization called God’s Love We boxes and detergent bottles to the bottoms “Working with Volunteer ETSU, we see young children and spouses who supported them during Deliver, a non-profit that provides meals for of their shoes. There was also a very well students become more advanced in their deployments. individuals and families living with HIV dressed man who arrived in a luxury car and own social justice efforts,” Scott says. “They and AIDS. “Everyone there knows what the military feels like,” Yang said. swapped out his needles.” actually think about their service and how “You have that brotherhood once you’ve talked to them for a It is what she learned on this trip that it relates to them. They realize volunteering Last year, Scott took part in her second while. You use the same military language and it’s easy to get the propelled Fulkerson to help other college is much more than adding something to Alternative Spring Break trip, this time to information you need. It’s a community.” students gain similar experiences. As Director your résumé. It’s about helping people in a work in the area of immigrant rights. She of Leadership and Civic Engagement at sustainable way.” More than 600 military-affiliated students—veterans and family and several peers collaborated with refugee ETSU, she collaborates with the campus members—are enrolled at ETSU this fall. The Office of Veterans settlement agencies and visited detainees That moment when students begin making and the surrounding community to develop Affairs is over halfway to its goal to have 1,000 military-affiliated at a deportation center in Lumpkin, Georgia. meaning out of their experiences is what and implement service-learning, community students by 2026. The new MARC is an investment by the She spent time visiting with individuals keeps Fulkerson coming to work every day. service, and civic engagement activities. She university to support the growing number of military-affiliated detained at the center, listening to their life also serves as the advisor for the student students and their needs. stories, and also worked with the agencies “That is what it is all about. It’s about group ETSU Volunteers and coordinates the helping to resettle refugees. understanding what each person brings to “I love the sense of family at ETSU,” Banchs said. “Veterans university’s Alternative Spring Break program. the table,” she says. “We are a lot alike in a who have completed several tours of duty, combat veterans, and “These trips have definitely broadened my lot of ways. Each of our challenges may be “I am very passionate about it because I know families with loved ones currently serving are coping as best they perspective on things. I was raised in a very different, but there are certainly similarities.” how it opened my eyes and how it shaped can. This is a space for them. They know help is here.” socially conservative, traditional, religious my beliefs about things,” she says. “These home,” says Scott, who this spring will travel service experiences provide opportunities for Kristen Swing is the former Director to Washington, D.C., to address religious Amanda Mowell is Communications Specialist in the ETSU Office students to clarify their career choices and of Communications at ETSU. | Photo plurality and intolerance. “All of these of University Relations. | Photos by Larry Smith a lot of other things, from stereotypes and contributed experiences have taught me that there is 10 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 11 Years before she served in the U.S. Navy And she was also enticed by the opportunity Her duties at Vanderbilt included oversight and U.S. Marine Reserves, was among the to be a cryptologic technician for the U.S. and responsibilities with communications, first group of women to serve on an aircraft Navy, a position that gave her top secret professional standards, internal affairs carrier, led field operations at New York clearance and one she held for four years. investigations, Clery coordination, University, and became ETSU’s top police Because she was considered a top-tier accreditation, campus community relations, official, Nicole Collins began her career as performer, Collins was selected to be part the RAD program, and records. a fast food employee in her hometown of of a test pilot group of women who were Knoxville. And it was on that job where she allowed to serve on a Navy aircraft carrier, While Collins was serving at Vanderbilt, the began honing a skill that she has carried with the USS Eisenhower. school became the first institution in the her throughout her career. state and one of only a few in the nation to In 1994, Collins began her undergraduate receive the Gold Standard Excellence Award “I’m a process person, and I enjoy stepping studies at Savannah State College while from CALEA. back and looking at how things are done and also serving in the U.S. Marine Reserves. developing methods to make improvements,” After moving to Florida and working in “Going to Vanderbilt was an exciting Collins said. child abuse investigations for two years opportunity in that the job involved security and to California, where she worked as a on three different levels, including the For her first job, it was identifying a way to get Project Manager for a logistics company, campus but also at its hospital and its retail a hamburger lunch to the customers quicker. she returned to Tennessee and worked as clinics,” Collins said. “But it was also a an Employment Career Specialist before difficult decision because it meant moving But more recently, her efforts have focused becoming a law enforcement officer with the my kids from Knoxville where I have family.” on processes and system policies in University of Tennessee. While working at university law enforcement as they relate A single mother, Collins was very close to the UTK police department, she served as the to accreditation. In fact, while on the public her father, who helped care for her two Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) Coordinator safety team at the University of Tennessee – children while she worked. She made every and was responsible for the implementation Knoxville, she helped the school gain, for the effort to see her father as often as possible. of the RAD for credit program that allowed first time, accreditation from national and On Sunday mornings, she would load her students to earn credit while learning to international agencies. sleeping children in the car and drive from defend themselves. Nashville to Knoxville to go to church with And now she is back in her home state where She also assisted the university in creating her family and have lunch. she recently became Chief of Police and policies and procedures that positioned the Assistant Vice President of Public Safety at In March 2017, she accepted a position department to become the first in the state ETSU, replacing Jack Cotrel, who retired at New York University as Assistant Vice to achieve initial and reaccreditation status June 30 following 40 years of service to the President over field operations and strategic with the Commission on Accreditation for university, including 17 years as Chief. initiatives. While there she led NYU’s efforts Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) and the in pursuing a new level of accreditation International Association of Campus Law Before making the decision to pursue a by CALEA that recognized agencies with PHOTO BY CHARLIE WARDEN CHARLIE BY PHOTO Enforcement Administrators. career in law enforcement, Collins spent unsworn public safety officers. seven years in the military. “I had a partial After seven years at UTK, Collins accepted a scholarship for college, but I wanted to Collins admits that she never thought the sergeant’s position at Vanderbilt University, explore and be on my own and be in a chance to return home would come so soon, where she eventually was promoted up the position to pay for school myself,” she said. but when she learned that ETSU was seeking ranks to Executive Police Captain. a new Chief of Police, it was an opportunity she could not turn down. Being back in East Tennessee means she is closer to her daughter, who is now a college student, and she also gets to cheer for her son at high school football games in Knoxville. A RETURN TO “Our campus is a community in itself and the university police division is part of that,” Collins said. “We have a new population joining us every fall, and we have the opportunity to interact with them, build relationships, and see them grow over the EAST TENNESSEE years. Our public safety officers are invested in our students, and it’s an investment that ETSU’s well-traveled police chief continues long after our students graduate.” Joe Smith is Executive Assistant to the President for University Relations and Chief comes back to the region she loves. Communications Officer at ETSU. PHOTO BY RON CAMPBELL RON BY PHOTO Terry Story and Jack Cotrel welcome Nicole Collins to ETSU.

12 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 13 Before starting graduate school, Dr. Sharon director of the first-year writing initiative James McGee was in a job she says was not which focused on the training, evaluation, right for her. She was uncertain about what and professional development for graduate she wanted to do or what her next move teaching assistants. would be. And she admits that when she applied to be a graduate student at ETSU, In 2017 she left SIUE to become Associate she barely made the application deadline. Dean of Graduate Studies at Western Carolina University, where her duties included However, after starting the master’s program having oversight over curriculum, policies, in the Department of English, McGee says recruitment, retention, and admission. her future began to have more clarity. “While I was at Western, I felt I was ready That future would eventually include earning to move into a deanship, but I had no plans a doctoral degree from one of the top two on leaving anytime soon,” McGee said. “But programs in the nation, holding faculty then I heard that ETSU was looking for a appointments at three institutions, serving graduate studies dean, and I could not pass as a department chair, writing three books, up the opportunity to apply. I saw this job as and becoming an associate dean—all that the ‘cherry on top of a sundae.’” before McGee came full circle and returned to her alma mater as Dean of the School of McGee was back on the ETSU campus this Graduate Studies at ETSU. past July and said she was impressed by the changes that had transpired since she was Her new office in Dossett Hall is across the last a student there in 1991. street from University School where McGee was a student from 7th through 12th grade. “ETSU has truly embraced graduate education,” she said. “The experience of “It was the faculty at ETSU that made the graduate students today is much different difference,” said McGee, who earned her than it was 25 years ago. Many more “IT WAS THE M.A. in English from ETSU in 1991. “I owe programs have been added, but there is a a lot to them. They saw something in me greater offering of services and support for FACULTY AT ETSU and they helped guide me in my decision these students.” to pursue a career in academia. When it THAT MADE THE came time to apply for a Ph.D. program, my Graduate enrollment at ETSU has witnessed DIFFERENCE.” professors encouraged me to aim high.” record growth during the past four years. And she did. “I was also amazed by the changes that have Sharon James McGee taken place on campus,” McGee added. “As After crossing the commencement stage a student, I spent a lot of time in the library, at ETSU, McGee packed up and moved to but that building is now home to the College West Lafayette, Indiana, where she began of Nursing and we have a new library. And her doctoral studies at Purdue University who would have known that we would have in the fall of 1991. For her dissertation, a bridge with ETSU letters connecting the she continued the work she conducted for campus to the other side of State of Franklin?” her master’s thesis at ETSU in which she examined the types of instructor comments McGee is the co-author of three books: on student writing that students found Writing at Risk: Writing Instruction in the helpful or not helpful for revision. Age of Common Core State Standards McGee graduated from Purdue in 1999 and and Standardized Testing (University of would spend the next 22 years in various Colorado Press); Discord and Direction: capacities within higher education, including The Postmodern WPA (Utah State 17 years at Southern Illinois University University Press); and Feminism and Edwardsville. During her tenure in SIUE’s Empirical Research: Emerging Perspectives Department of English Language and on Qualitative and Teacher Research Literature, she rose from Assistant Professor (Heinemann-Boynton/Cook). Going to full Professor and led the department of 40 tenure and non-tenure track faculty as Joe Smith is Executive Assistant to the Assistant Chair for three years and as Chair President for University Relations and Chief from 2010 to 2016. Communications Officer at ETSU. | Photo by She also continued to work closely with Ron Campbell the graduate students as a mentor and co- 14 x ETSU TODAY Full Circle FALL 2018 x 15 WHITE BOARDS & GLASS WALLS New Interprofessional Education and Research Center Creates a Learning Environment Second to None

“WE HAVE BEEN LIVING INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION SINCE THE 1990s HERE AT ETSU, BUT THIS BUILDING GIVES THAT CONCEPT A PHYSICAL HEADQUARTERS . . . .” Wilsie Bishop

16 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 17 The dream of transforming an historic building into a state-of- “We have been living interprofessional education since the 1990s here future roles in the health care system,” Bishop said. “Team-based care the-art interprofessional education center on ETSU’s Veterans at ETSU, but this building gives that concept a physical headquarters is the future of health care, so we must ensure our students are taking Administration campus became a reality over the summer as the on our campus and that is very exciting,” said Dr. Wilsie Bishop, part in team-based learning and will be ready to enter into the work doors of the new Interprofessional Education and Research Center ETSU Vice President for Health Affairs. “We are excited about what force as the best trained health care professionals.” officially opened to health sciences students, faculty, and staff. the future holds in this building and all of the interprofessional learning that will take place here.” The new building also focuses on providing the best learning Building 60, as it is commonly called, once served as a environment, period. In just about every area, white boards can be quartermaster’s storehouse for the Veterans Administration and then The IPER Center boasts 17,000 square feet of space that includes found, and they have proven extremely popular among students a fire station. In November 2016, ETSU leaders broke ground on a four floors of simulation laboratories, research space, classrooms, as they work in groups to solve problems and study for upcoming $13 million renovation of the structure to transform it into ETSU’s conference rooms, student study space, administrative offices, and exams. Some areas even feature glass walls to provide additional Interprofessional Education and Research (IPER) Center. a café. The design intentionally provides significant opportunity for writing spaces. interaction among students in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, public The renovated and repurposed building does not belong to any single health, and clinical and rehabilitative health sciences. “Today’s learning environment is much different from what it was health sciences college at ETSU but instead represents a space where even just a few years ago,” Bishop said. “We dedicated significant students, faculty, and staff from all five such colleges can work and “We really wanted to feature open areas where students and faculty time on the front end of this project researching and visiting other learn in a team-based environment. can come together to discuss issues and understand each other’s universities to ensure we created a center that provided top-of-the- line opportunities for our health sciences students.”

The new center, Bishop said, will allow ETSU to remain on the cutting WARDEN CHARLIE BY PHOTOS edge of interprofessional education and research. “Through the Interprofessional Education and Research Center, this BISHOP RECOGNIZED institution stands to build upon our national reputation for training students and conducting research in interprofessional, team-based FOR DEDICATION TO IPE settings,” she said. “I have no doubt that the renovation of this building will have a positive impact on this university, this region, and During a surprise ceremony on August 30, ETSU much of the world for years to come.” Vice President for Health Affairs, Dr. Wilsie Bishop, was honored for her continued efforts in promoting Kristen Swing is the former Director of Communications at and supporting team-based, interprofessional ETSU | Photos by Matthew Carroll education and research among health sciences students at the university.

In recognition of those efforts, a plaque bearing her resemblance and a short write-up about her efforts was installed in ETSU’s new Interprofessional Education and Research Center.

The plaque reads, “Dr. Wilsie Bishop’s career is defined by her unwavering passion for the mission of East Tennessee State University. In her role as Vice President for Health Affairs, she led ETSU in developing a nationally and internationally recognized Academic Health Sciences Center. The Interprofessional Education and Research Center is a testament to her commitment to enhance this initiative. It is only fitting that this historic building on the Veterans Administration campus will serve as a venue for the institution’s students, faculty, and staff to learn in a team-based environment for decades to come. Generations of students and faculty are indebted to Dr. Bishop for her vision.”

The facility, located on ETSU’s VA campus, opened its doors to students earlier this summer after a $13 million renovation project to transform it from an old VA warehouse to a state-of-the-art learning arena.

“The fact that my name is going to be associated with interprofessional education in that building forever— that is really special,” Bishop said following the August ceremony in her honor. “There are few things that could have meant as much to me as that did. I could have never imagined something like that.”

18 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 19 CELEBRATING elebrating C

DECADES OF EDUCATING PHYSICIANS

eing at the front of the alphabet can mean that you’re called upon more frequently by the professor. But it can have its advantages. For OUR GRADUATES, Dr. Robert C. Boleman, having a name near the beginning of the RESIDENTS, Balphabet carved out a place for him in history. By virtue of having a name that begins with the letter B, Dr. Boleman became AND FACULTY the very first person to graduate from ETSU’s Quillen College of Medicine. This year, Dr. Boleman and his 23 classmates celebrated the 40-year HAVE MADE anniversary of their entrance into medical school. They began their studies TREMENDOUS on August 12, 1978. CONTRIBUTIONS When those students enrolled, the entire region celebrated. It was a moment people from all across the state had fought for—Democrats and Republicans TO HEALTH CARE alike—through one of the fiercest political battles in the history of Tennessee. IN THIS REGION. The late Dr. Leo Harvill came to Johnson City in 1977 to help develop the medical school curriculum as Assistant Dean for Medical Education. “Members David Johnson of that first class became successful physicians in many different specialties,” Harvill said. “That first class was excellent. I know that those students felt very much like Guinea pigs. We were constantly tweaking the curriculum and asking

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For the first time in the history of East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine, an alumnus of the medical school is at the helm.

Dr. William Block, who received his medical degree from Quillen College of Medicine in 1992 and held various faculty positions at the medical school from 1998-2004, is now serving as the Interim Dean of the medical school. He replaces Dr. Robert Means Jr., who stepped down from the position but remains a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine. Means will also serve as a special assistant to ETSU President Brian Noland, providing guidance and counsel on local, regional, and national health care policies and landscapes.

Prior to taking the interim deanship, Block was serving as the Chair of Quillen’s Department of Obstetrics and

PHOTO: JAMES PRICE, COURTESY ETSU ARCHIVES OF APPALACHIA. OF ARCHIVES ETSU COURTESY PRICE, PHOTO: JAMES Gynecology. Born and raised in Florida, Block moved to Tennessee to attend The University of the South in them for their opinions and to complete forms and surveys. They were medicine physician at Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, very kind to put up with all of the attention that they received.” Georgia. He treated everything from sore throats to heart attacks Sewanee. After earning a bachelor’s degree in physics, while on the staff of the 200-bed community hospital. Block came to ETSU to attend medical school. He Dr. David Johnson, another member of the original faculty, said, “I completed his residency at the University of South recall telling my biochemistry class on the first day that they were like And where is that very first Quillen College of Medicine graduate Carolina and a fellowship at Wake Forest University. a convoy of ships trying to avoid being sunk by U-boats—some fast and now? He is much closer to the ETSU campus, in fact. He is currently some slow—but that we were all going to stick together and reach a safe a critical care specialist in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and is He earned his Master of Business Administration from harbor, graduation.” affiliated with Margaret R. Pardee Memorial Hospital. Emory University in 2012.

There were 255 applicants for those 24 spots in Quillen’s first class. And 40 years after those pioneering students donned white Before his return to ETSU in 2016 to serve as a They were taught by a total of 62 professors. By the time that “safe jackets and first opened their basic sciences textbooks, a total department chair, Block worked as the Medical harbor” was reached and the class graduated in 1982, the college had of 2,075 students have earned M.D. degrees from the Quillen College Director for the Midwest Fetal Care Center in received full accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical of Medicine. Minnesota. Education. Twenty-three of those first students earned their degrees in 1982. One had to drop out because of illness but went on to As Dr. David Johnson put it, “Our graduates, residents, and faculty graduate just two years later. have made tremendous contributions to health care in this region.”

After his graduation from Quillen, Dr. Boleman completed a Fred Sauceman is Executive Editor of ETSU Today. three-year residency in internal medicine at Emory University in Atlanta. He then began practice in the Atlanta area, as an emergency

22 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 23 1 9 1 1 ETSU Day of Giving FIVE QUESTIONS ABOUT Minute 0 4 . 1 7. 1 9 PLANNED GIVING Challenge RITTER: We often hear from donors who want to support ETSU at a greater level, but they have other obligations that they need to consider. A planned gift becomes a way for them to designate a significant April 17, 2019 gift for their alma mater without losing control of any of their assets during their #ETSUDAYOFGIVING lifetime. For some it has been through a charitable trust, while others have given a designated amount or percentage from their estate. When individuals make the choice -Nearly 32 hours of Buccaneer Spirit- to include ETSU in their estate, they are placing the university on the same level as their family. These are gifts that are highly In honor of ETSU’s founding year, “Day” of Giving will run for 1911 minutes valued for the magnitude of what the gift beginning on April 17th at 11 a.m. represents, regardless of value.

ET TODAY: What is a conversation about - 3 WAYS TO GET INVOLVED - planned giving like? SANDOS: I enjoy the opportunity to have conversations with donors about PHOTOS BY LARRY SMITH, CHARLIE WARDEN CHARLIE SMITH, LARRY BY PHOTOS “dreaming” of major gifts that make huge impacts. Conversations about planned giving can create a lot of self-awareness in The online platform will leverage vibrant graphics and In this issue of ETSU Today, Pam Ritter and SANDOS: The Legacy Circle is comprised of folks. Some are intimidated by the topic, videos, sharing, gamification, competition, a variety of Sunny Sandos from University Advancement members of our ETSU community from all but the reality is that the process can be as giving methods, and integrated social media. These tools discuss the option of planned giving as a way over the country. We have alumni, faculty, simple or complex as you want. My job is allow for a high level of involvement from visitors to make for alumni, employees, and friends to create staff, parents, and friends all sharing a to be there for our donors each step of the our 1911 minutes of giving even better! a lasting legacy for ETSU. common vision of supporting the future of way to help ensure their estate goals and Inspire our university. While the areas of support their philanthropic goals are all met, while ET TODAY: Overall, how much of giving simultaneously helping ETSU continue with Encourage others with a are as diverse as each individual, each gift to the ETSU Foundation comes through is transformative and impactful in its own its mission. When we have a person who challenge or matching gift Simply announcing a match is available planned giving? right. For some Legacy Circle members, wants to include ETSU in their estate, I will their gifts mean carrying on the legacy work with them to figure out what impact increases revenue RITTER: It is very significant. Presently, of their parents in the college that gave they want to make and what type of gift will per solicitation between 30 and 40 percent of our entire their parents their educational foundation be best for achieving that goal. From there giving comes from planned or deferred for their career. For other Legacy Circle we will work with their attorney or financial gifts. Our Legacy Circle members members, their gifts represent an impact advisor, depending on the type of gift, to get by 19% represent some of our most generous 50% they could only dream about during their the plan in place. Over and loyal supporters. A few years ago, lifetime. And, for other Legacy Circle of donation volume ETSU appointed Sunny Sandos to lead ET TODAY: How can planned gifts be used Share members, their gift means that a future resulting from social our planned giving program, and she is by ETSU? student, who represents the qualities the Become an ETSU Advocate media sharing comes continuing much of the work that was done donor values, will get the assistance to from donor and under the leadership of Jeff Anderson, RITTER: Our Legacy Circle members are alleviate some of the financial burdens visitor shares. a former member of the University pleased to discover that we follow the same inherent with a college education. Advancement team. practice of drafting all the parameters and guidelines for a planned gift as we do for ET TODAY: Why is a planned gift the best Last year, giving to ET TODAY: Tell us about the Legacy Circle. an immediate gift. The donor has the same option for some donors? America’s colleges rose opportunity to name the endowment or due to a surge in fund and decide how that gift will impact Give 6%giving by alumni. the university. Make a financial contribution

ETSU Annual Giving | 423-439-6141 | [email protected] | etsu.edu/give FALL 2018 x 25 The company got its start in 1989, when Larry, a 1972 ETSU graduate WE HAD IT ROUGH GROWING with a degree in Education, was employed by the State of Tennessee and then-Northeast State Technical Community College, through which UP, GOING TO COLLEGE, AND he set up corporate training programs for regional companies. One of WE JUST WANT TO MAKE those companies, Texas Instruments (TI), contacted Larry for a referral to someone who could do circuit board repair work. He did not know of IT EASIER FOR OTHER KIDS such a company, but he did know two local women who were trained to do that type of work. To facilitate the project on the side from his “day COMING ALONG. job” at Northeast State, Larry borrowed $2,000 to start a company, hire the two workers, and provide the necessary equipment. Kathy Mullins

On that initial job, the two workers completed 25,000 wire adds on 5,000 circuit boards on-site at TI’s Johnson City facility. Within 90 days, 10 employees worked at the fledgling company, which up, going to college, and we just want to make it easier for other kids Larry managed during the evenings. Later, when TI sold to Siemens coming along. Our faith in God guides us in our giving. It’s not our Industrial Automation and moved back to Lubbock, Texas, Larry money, anyway. It’s the Lord’s, and we just spread it around to had to find new space for the operation and landed in Gray, where other people.” he rented a 12 x 12-foot room for $100 a month. TI continued to ship boards to East Tennessee for repair, and Larry’s company soon got a Not only have they shared their gifts with ETSU, where both received recommendation by Siemens to Hughes Network Systems. Awards of Honor from the university’s National Alumni Association in 2016 for their contributions to the business world and their “That’s kind of when things started turning loose for us, because we philanthropy, but they have also supported numerous churches and were doing work for Hughes all over the world, and we traveled all overseas mission work, the Niswonger Children’s Hospital at Johnson over the United States,” Larry said, adding that subsequent trips took City Medical Center, United Way, Girls Inc., and countless other him and his staff to Sweden, the former Czechoslovakia, and other causes, as well as individuals in need. FROM MARS international locales. “There are no accidents. There was a church that hadn’t had music IES transitioned from primarily repair work to manufacturing in in years,” Larry recalled. “One day, they got a new pastor, and 1995, when it contracted with Siemens to produce 1,000 units a day to they agreed that they would start to have music in the church, so be shipped to Germany. Today, IES is still a certified repair center for we bought them a piano and took it to them. But they didn’t have TO CARS Siemens, but the majority of its work is in manufacturing. a piano player. I think that was on purpose, because people who were born and raised in that community had gone off a distance to LARRY AND KATHY MULLINS PUT FAITH AND “We’re consistent and persistent,” Larry says. “We actually have not other churches. I don’t know if that was because they didn’t have done a lot of marketing, mostly because our reputation out in the field PEOPLE FIRST IN SHARING BLESSINGS FROM music, but it drew a particular lady back to that church to play the is that of a company that has great skilled employees, a company with piano. Now the attendance has tripled, and they’re having to build integrity that does what they say they’ll do. We achieve 99.98 percent INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY COMPANY children’s classrooms.” quality delivery and 100 percent on time delivery. Our staff is very, very important to us, and without them, we would be nothing. IES is Music is important to the couple. Kathy writes songs—many during not about Larry and Kathy Mullins—we were just given the blessing of church services and even funerals, inspired by a pastor’s words— “From Mars to Cars” is how the local Chamber starting and running it—and then the great employees we have keep it and has recorded more than 20 tunes in Nashville. They also have of Commerce refers to Larry and Kathy Mullins’ going, not us.” numerous connections to “bluegrass royalty.” Larry is the nephew company, Industrial Electronics Services, Inc. (IES). of both the “King of Bluegrass,” Jimmy Martin, and Paul Williams, Larry and Kathy, who had known each other all their lives since their It’s an apt description, considering that circuit who was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall childhood in Sneedville and “bumped into each other” at Myrtle Beach boards from IES are on board the Mars Exploration of Fame in September. Kathy’s father, a music teacher, sang in a after many years, have shared ownership of IES since they married in Rovers, and components built by the company quartet with Doyle Lawson’s father and actually gave a young Doyle 1991, he with 49 percent as CEO and she with 51 percent as President. have gone thousands of times around racetracks in his first mandolin. They are also friends with many other bluegrass “When we got married, I didn’t want to fight about it—I just gave it to NASCAR championship-winning vehicles. musicians and recently had the internationally known Russell Moore her,” Larry quipped. “True story.” and IIIrd Tyme Out to perform during one of the barbecues they host A sensing device from IES resides within the “I delegate all my work to my CEO,” Kathy added, “and I trust him for hundreds of friends and neighbors at their home in Washington recently installed arm on the International Space implicitly.” In all seriousness, Larry praised Kathy for her support of County, Tennessee. Station that protects the craft from flying “space him and their staff. “There’ve been times when I’ve traveled all over junk.” A fire suppression device in military Friends and family are most important to Larry and Kathy, who the country, or spent several days at a time in Mexico, and I’ve had 20 Humvees helps save the lives of U.S. service men enjoy spending time with their daughter and son-in-law and twin employees with me, doing these repairs on location. She’s always been and women overseas. A security system from the granddaughters. very supportive. And when we’ve had to buy new equipment, she’s company protects banks throughout Northeast been very supportive, trusting her CEO to make the right decisions. Tennessee and beyond. “If you measure wealth, that’s exactly the way it’s measured,” Larry She hasn’t fired me yet.” said. “A friend and I were talking about wealth, and I told him, ‘You’re But people, both those who build and those much wealthier than I am—look how many grandkids you’ve got!’ Larry and Kathy say they have been blessed, and they want to share who benefit from the award-winning company’s That’s what wealth is—family, loving each other, being together.” their blessings with others. products, are what matter the most to these ETSU alumni. They are both quick to credit their “We’re from a small town,” said Kathy, who graduated from ETSU in Jennifer Hill is Assistant Director of University Relations at ETSU. employees at IES as the reason for their success, and 1973 with a bachelor’s degree in Business Office Administration and Photos by Ron Campbell they believe in sharing their blessings with others. a second degree in Accounting in 1985. “We had it rough growing

26 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 27 FAITH, FAMILY, & FOOTBALL Randy Sanders Reflects on Coaching and Life

28 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 29 At the age of 53, Randy Sanders still has the heart of a child. Sanders, “The wins and losses are important because the better the football who was named the 18th Head Coach in ETSU football history on team performs, then a lot of times the better the university is December 17, 2017, says his love for football began when he was three perceived. As UT President Emeritus Dr. Joseph Johnson would years old. always say, the football team is the front porch of the university. If the football team did well, then everybody thought the university “I am 53 years old and I am still doing the same things I did when I was doing well. I think that is true with athletics in general. But as was a kid,” said Sanders. “I always tell my wife that I dread the day I important as those things are, nothing is as important as what kind have to grow up and get a real job. We have worked hard to get to this of husband and father you are. The fact to this point that I have been point, but I am fortunate to be able to do the same things I have been successful in those two areas brings me great joy.” able to do as a kid.” Sanders’ wife and daughters love to give him grief because even From the time he was three, Sanders remembers putting on the pads, Sanders has always thought ETSU was a great university, and he was intertwined and run together. The camaraderie you have on the team, though he has a lot of hobbies, he always tries to keep things simple. helmet, and jersey and going out in his backyard to play football. excited when football returned in 2015. When Torbush announced the relationships you build, and the bonds you create make up the true “My wife and daughters laugh a lot about how I don’t need any more his retirement on December 7, 2017, Sanders was interested in the value of football for the players and coaches. Sure, the wins and losses “Most of my earliest memories either involve football, fishing, or hobbies,” said Sanders. “I have too many hobbies. Between fishing, position. He got the chance after ETSU President Dr. Brian Noland matter, but it’s the bonds you build that make this game special.” playing with my dog,” said Sanders. “I am the baby of my family. I football, golf, and spending time with my family and our dog, that have two brothers and a sister. My brothers and my dad were role and ETSU Athletic Director Scott Carter flew down to Tallahassee to Sanders wants his program to be known as one that shows up to work pretty much sums up what I enjoy. If you give me a cup of coffee, a models for me in football. We always watched football on Saturdays meet Sanders’ family and formally offer him the job of leading the each day, puts forth its best effort, and is exciting to watch. cigar, and some free time, I am pretty much in good shape.” and Sundays. I remember sitting at the kitchen table, watching the Buccaneer football program. clock and waiting for nine o’clock to roll around so we could watch Seeing the passion and support from both Dr. Noland and Carter, “When people hear ETSU football, I want them to think of a classy, When it comes to his team, Sanders wants to see his players become ‘Monday Night Football.’” Sanders was ready to accept the offer. disciplined, and tough team that shows up to work each day,” said great role models once they leave ETSU. Sanders. “I want us to be both physically and mentally tough, but I After a stellar high school career at Morristown East, Sanders signed “A program is built around a large group of individuals who are in “ETSU football has great support with our administration from also want us to have fun. I want us to be exciting to watch. When the with the University of Tennessee, and after earning four varsity letters it for a common goal,” said Sanders. “We want to have guys who Scott Carter to Dr. Noland to everyone I have met on campus,” said Indianapolis Colts had Peyton Manning, they were very exciting, and and becoming a four-year member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll, represent the university well on the football field, in the community, Sanders. “They are excited to have football back on campus and he goes to Denver and they became exciting. When you look at it, the he was given his first coaching job with the Vols. on campus, and in the classroom. We want to have a team that show great pride for their university. If you don’t have that support, fun and exciting teams have fun players.” everyone is proud of. We want our guys to go to class and graduate. “I always wanted to play football for as long as I could, but once I was then you don’t have any chance to succeed. ETSU is an outstanding Even with all the success Sanders has achieved, it is his family that he We want them to go on and become good husbands and good fathers. in college and figured out I wasn’t going to play in the NFL, I started university where you can get a great education. We have a place cherishes most. to look at my options to keep me around the game of football,” said where we can recruit to. It’s a good city, area, and campus, and our “When you have a group of people with a common goal—coaches, students get a quality education and will be able to enjoy their time Sanders. “Since I couldn’t play anymore, coaching was that option. “Of everything I have done and I have been fortunate to be part of administration, support staff, as well as football team—then that’s on campus.” I had plans of going to law school, but all that got put behind and I national championship titles, conference championship teams, bowl when you have a chance to have a special program. Every year is decided to be a football coach.” Sanders is infusing into the Buccaneer program the successful traits games, and Heisman trophy winners, the things I am most proud of different. You only have that one team each year and each team has are being married to the same person for 29 years and having two different personalities. But if you can get the program right, then you After successful stints as Offensive Coordinator at Tennessee, he learned from his previous stints in college football. daughters that I am really, really proud of.” will have the common ground from team to team and year to year. Kentucky, and Florida State—where he totaled 258 wins, two “Every good football program that I have been around—the team That is what we are trying to build here. The model that has been built National Championships, 12 conference or division championships, becomes your family,” said Sanders. “You have your parents and One daughter is a teacher, and the other is graduating from Florida for this program is one to last.” and coached in 26 bowl games—Sanders was ready to lead the real brothers and sisters, but the guys on the team become your State this spring. “That brings me more pride than anything else Buccaneers and build on what Coach Carl Torbush started. brothers. I always tell our team Faith, Family, and Football… those because over time those are the things that will always matter. It matters much more than wins and losses. Kevin Brown is Assistant Director of Athletic Media Relations at ETSU. are your priorities. The football team should be your family. They are Photos by Ron Campbell, Dakota Hamilton

30 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 31 FS: And that plant is gone, right? CB: The first immediate demand for it was CB: It was absolutely essential. Allied for torpedo heads. So the first Composition scientists worked as closely as possible, CB: Yes, unfortunately it’s gone. The only B went to Yorktown, Virginia, where it was to an unprecedented degree. It was like historical marker commemorating the loaded into torpedoes. one lab, not separate labs, working on this absolutely amazing achievements of that project. There was an RDX committee ETSU PROFESSOR period that still survives was dedicated at the FS: I know the floors at these plants in which constantly looked at how to improve Wexler Bend Pilot Plant site in 1969. Kingsport were kept wet. How much of a risk the quantity of RDX from the basic raw was there for an explosion in making RDX? materials. EMERITUS FS: The operation that Eastman oversaw became known as Holston Ordnance Works, CB: I think there was always a risk. Every FS: Tell me about the threat of the German and all this happened quickly. employee was shown how powerful RDX was. U-boats and how RDX was used to help They were shown the test of a quarter-inch mitigate that threat. EXPLAINS HOW CB: Yes, it happened almost overnight. It’s metal plate on which one ounce of TNT had one of the most remarkable stories of World been placed and then a hammer had hit the CB: By January and February of 1942, the War II. TNT, which barely dented the plate. When U-boats were having a shooting gallery off KINGSPORT AND they put an ounce of RDX on the plate, it the east coast of the United States. This has FS: How did it happen so fast? made a complete hole right through the plate. been called the Atlantic Pearl Harbor. The CB: The chemists and engineers at Eastman local communities along the east coast hadn’t FS: But there were no major accidents. HAWKINS COUNTY worked 16- and 18-hour days for weeks taken any security measures. All the lights were on. Hitler had sent over just half a on end, coming up with a better process CB: No. Which is another remarkable dozen U-boats, and Allied ships were sitting to mass-produce RDX. And that was the achievement and testifies to the emphasis ducks. And so we lost hundreds of ships and HELPED WIN problem: how to get quantity in RDX, not in that was placed on safety. milligrams or pounds but in tons. lots of lives. So the people here at Wexler FS: Tell me about how the existence of these Bend and Holston Ordnance were well FS: I think Wexler Bend was described as an plants changed Kingsport, as you said, almost aware that a lot was at stake. They always “efficient madhouse.” overnight, and how it became a boom town. felt that their greatest contribution to World War II was helping to win the Battle of the WORLD CB: I thought that was a good description, CB: Kingsport had a population of 14,000. Atlantic. That’s where Torpex came in. It was yes. It was a very small, wood-frame building, It was just a small town in 1940. And it 42 percent RDX, 40 percent TNT, and 18 and up to 50 people were packed in there went to 50,000 in a period of three years. percent aluminum powder. It was the most over their workbenches trying for constant The construction of Holston Ordnance powerful underwater weapon developed improvements in the chemical process. Works began in 1942 and was finished in in World War II. It was used by aircraft as WAR II 1944. During that period, you had 20,000 airborne, aerial depth charges. FS: In addition to Wexler Bend, there was a construction people involved. location called the Horse Creek Pilot Plant. FS: Explain to me the role that RDX played What went on there? FS: And many of those were transported in in the dropping of the second atomic bomb from other communities. CB: RDX couldn’t just be moved by itself. over Nagasaki. It’s too sensitive. The only way you can do CB: Yes. Some people came from Asheville CB: It’s hard to imagine how it could have that is by phlegmatizing it, which means to and from all over East Tennessee and happened without Composition B, the most mix and weaken it. In this case, TNT was Southwest Virginia. And of course a number powerful explosive next to the atomic bomb. mixed with the RDX to reduce its sensitivity. of people came from Rochester, New It was used in the plutonium bomb, the And they also added a dash of beeswax. This York, where Eastman was headquartered. “Fat Boy” as it was called, rather than the became known as Composition B. Someone said there were people from all uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The Fred Sauceman: Most people have heard of TNT, but RDX, which is in the title of of the 48 states. At its peak in 1944, nearly ETSU Today Executive FS: And Composition B was used how? plutonium bomb was called an implosion the book, is much less commonly known. What is RDX and how did it get its name? 7,000 people worked at Holston. bomb because you had to create a shock Editor Fred Sauceman wave that would detonate the plutonium Colin Baxter: TNT has been around much longer. In fact, it was used in World War FS: And housing was at I. As for the name RDX, it stands for Research Development Explosive. core. And the Composition B provided that interviews Dr. Colin a premium. I think some detonation. homeowners were almost forced to FS: During World War II, RDX, which was made in Kingsport and in Hawkins Baxter, Professor rent rooms in their houses. County, Tennessee, was used in a number of different kinds of bombs. FS: The descendant of the World War II-era Holston Ordnance still exists in Kingsport Emeritus of History, CB: Yes, that’s right. You could CB: Yes, all kinds of bombs, torpedoes. Torpex was derived from RDX. It’s a today. rent a chicken coop, as people about his new book combination of RDX, TNT, and aluminum. Torpex was extremely valuable in the jokingly said. Battle of the Atlantic. CB: Yes, and I can’t help but feel there The Secret History needs to be an historical marker in front of FS: A major theme in this FS: This is a story that heavily involves what was Tennessee Eastman Company, the entrance to what is now BAE Systems. book is mobilizing American of RDX: The Super now Eastman Chemical. Take us back to 1941, the fall of that year, and explain What happened there over 70 years ago was science for war. And you write how Tennessee Eastman Company, as it was called then, first got involved in one of the great production and scientific Explosive That Helped about the cooperation that existed RDX production. achievements of World War II. This story Win World War II. among the British, the Canadians, had to be told. It’s an astonishing story. CB: Although it hadn’t been involved in the production of explosives previously, and the United States. How the company was asked by the National Defense Research Committee, which was important was that cooperation set up by President Franklin Roosevelt, to determine how RDX could be produced in manufacturing RDX and Dr. Baxter’s book is published by the more efficiently. Before very long, Eastman was asked to develop a pilot plant to ultimately winning the war? University Press of Kentucky. | Photo by manufacture RDX, the famous Wexler Bend Pilot Plant. BAXTER. COLIN COURTESY PHOTO Tamara Baxter Loading RDX. 32 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 33 I’M EXCITED ABOUT BECOMING A CITIZEN AND OBTAINING MY RIGHTS IN THE COUNTRY THAT’S MY HOME TODAY. Michelle Terry

ETSU The event, hosted by ETSU Votes and the At the event, dozens spoke of their path to Following the event, ETSU Votes encouraged we decided, ‘Let’s do it,’” he said. “‘Let’s let Office of Leadership and Civic Engagement, citizenship before being officially sworn in. attendees and newly naturalized citizens people witness it and see it.’ NATURALIZATION was the first of its kind and scale in East One of them was Michelle Terry, 41, who to register to vote. Terry said she is looking Tennessee. came from Panama in 2008 to continue her forward to exercising rights such as these. “All these debates are happening all the education in Maryland. time about immigration,” he continued. Andrei Ghiultu, 31, was one of the many “I’m excited about becoming a citizen and “Regardless of where you fall in those CEREMONY newly naturalized citizens sworn in by U.S. In Panama, Terry worked as a teacher and obtaining my rights in the country that’s my debates or what your thoughts are on the District Judge Ronnie Greer. He came from as a corporate administrator for a law firm home today,” Terry said. issues, we just want to give people a chance Bucharest, Romania, to pursue a career in before coming to continue teaching in the to see it for themselves and hopefully gain business. U.S. Terry said obtaining her citizenship ETSU Civic Engagement Coordinator Nathan some new perspectives or new insights on took patience. Farnor said the event was held to celebrate what the process actually looks like. WELCOMES 97 “I left Romania when I was a high school and honor some of the nation’s newest graduate, and I came here to study business “It felt like forever. I thought I was going to citizens and give attendees more insight into “These are people who are excited to come to as an undergraduate. After I graduated wait a month, and then you actually wait for the process. our country and start a new journey and part business school, I started working in sales for two or three months. You ask, ‘What’s going of their life story. We should encourage that NEW CITIZENS a local company,” he said. on? Did it get lost in the mail?’” she said. “So “I came to the office that handles a lot of and want to be a part of that.” you do feel a little anxious about it, but I’m the voter registration and just said, ‘Here’s Nearly 100 immigrants representing 37 nations were Ghiultu didn’t just find work when he came here, and it’s done now. an idea. What would it take to make it a to the United States — he also found love. reality?’ Then we sent out a few emails Brandon Paykamian is a graduate of ETSU officially sworn in as citizens of the United States on “It’s a long wait, and sometimes the process to the courthouse, and then the people and a writer for the Johnson City Press. This “I went for my undergraduate (studies) can get a little bit hectic, but patience is an who conduct the service. One thing led to story is reprinted with permission. | Photos September 20 at ETSU’s Naturalization Ceremony. in West Virginia and moved here for my important thing.” another, and then, about six months ago, by Ron Campbell graduate studies. That’s when I met my wife, Lindsey, in MBA school,” he said.

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In 1936, Dr. Charles C. Sherrod, the second dates and places throughout her life—she palaces were hotels and other public spaces and longest serving president (1925-1949) began her multi-faceted career in the early where alcohol was forbidden. Ackermann in the history of the institution that would 1880s with the prohibitionist organization was presented a silver trowel with a local become East Tennessee State University, Good Templers. She soon began working wooden handle, inscribed: “This stone was received a letter from Jessie Ackermann of with the Woman’s Christian Temperance laid August 16, 1892, by Miss Jessie Ackerman San Jose, California. In part, she wrote: Union (WCTU) and was named its second [sic], World’s missionary for W.C.T.U.” “Around the World Missionary.” I wanted, at this moment, however, to Although the time Ackermann spent in ask you about placing things (documents) Over the course of her professional career, Johnson City was brief (in the mid-1920s), of a personal character in a little corner which included work for the Universal Peace she thought enough of Dr. Sherrod and somewhere. You once suggested that I Movement, she circumnavigated the globe the institution he so ably guided that she THE BESSE BROWN COOPER should. In the times to come they will be very eight times. requested “a little corner” for her things. THE BESSE BROWN COOPER outstanding for I have credentials, etc., never The Ackermann collection was the largest Class Ring Story before issued (or since) to any woman from As a self-actualized sociologist, Ackermann donation of its kind that the school had Class Ring Story Sect. of State Dept. to all representatives often wrote and spoke publicly about her received up to that point. Records indicate Besse Brown Cooper is an alumni member of ESTU who Besse Brown Cooper was the oldest living graduate of throughout the world and others issued other travel observations, introducing many that in 1957, the Ackermann collection was world cultures to audiences in the United Bessehas Brownbroken Cooperthe Guinness is an Bookalumni of Worldmember Records of ESTU and otherwho Besseour original Brown institution Cooper wasuntil theher oldestdeath in living 2012. graduate In honor of governments. They are quite a remarkable made up of 243 various artifacts including feature in the life of any woman. States. She also educated audiences, here the ceremonial trowel. When the Reece hassources broken by the being Guinness the oldest Book living of World person Records in the world.and other ourof thisoriginal significant institution life achievement until her death and inin tribute2012. In to honor her and abroad, about the alcohol and opium Museum opened in 1965, artifacts from the steadfast love of her alma mater, the ETSU National Alumni sourcesCooper’s by being life and the legacyoldest living was her person love in of the East world. Tennessee of this significant life achievement and in tribute to her The “things” Ackermann offered to her trades, abuses against women (feet binding Ackermann collection were some of the Association has honored Ms. Cooper with the renaming of friend, Dr. Sherrod, comprise the Jessie and divorce laws to name two), universal first to be absorbed into the new institution. Cooper’sState Normal life and School. legacy For was over her nine love decades of East she Tennesseecontinued steadfast love of her alma mater, the ETSU National Alumni the Class Ring Ceremony, portraying the class ring legacy Ackermann collections in both the Reece suffrage, world peace, poverty, working class The collection is a permanent testament to proudly wear her ring. Twirling it on her fingers over Association has honored Ms. Cooper with the renaming of Museum and the Archives of Appalachia. conditions, and other progressive topics. State Normal School. For over nine decades she continued she so fondly exemplified. to Ackermann’s belief in the power of time made the ring almost smooth, but for 94 years, the the Class Ring Ceremony, portraying the class ring legacy Collectively, the documents and artifacts She stressed the need for education for learning and communicating and the need to proudly wear her ring. Twirling it on her fingers over help us remember an extraordinary woman. all, especially women, and took academic ring was her tie to ETSNS and her college education. she so fondly exemplified. for social action. time made the ring almost smooth, but for 94 years, the courses throughout her life. Activist, writer, educator, and world traveler, ring was her tie to ETSNS and her college education. Jessie Ackermann spent most of her life in In 1892, while campaigning with the anti- Amy Steadman is Collections Manager at the For more information, please visit us online at Besse Brown Cooper’s the public eye. Born in either 1857 or 1860 drink unions in Perth, West Australia, Reece Museum. | Photo by Ron Campbell balfour.com/etsu or call 1-866-225-3687. class ring. and either in Frankfort, Illinois, or Boston, Ackermann was asked to lay the cornerstone Massachusetts—Ackermann claimed both of the new Coffee Palace being built. Coffee For more information, please visit us online at Besse Brown Cooper’s balfour.com/etsu or call 1-866-225-3687. class ring. FALL 2018 x 37 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE

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Nov. 6 at Georgia State ...... TBA Jan. 17 VMI  ...... 7 p.m. Fri., Nov. 9 Cincinnati...... 7 p.m. Wed., Jan. 16 Furman  ...... 7 p.m. Nov. 8 Hiwassee College ...... 7 p.m. Jan. 19 UNCG ...... 4 p.m. Sun., Nov. 11 Michigan State...... 1 p.m. Sat., Jan. 19 Wofford ...... 7 p.m. Nov. 11 at Creighton ...... 1:30 p.m. Jan. 26 at Western Carolina ...... 7 p.m. Thur., Nov. 15 Radford...... 11 a.m. Thur., Jan. 24 Samford  ...... 7 p.m. Nov. 17 at Winthrop...... 2:30 p.m. Jan. 31 at Samford ...... 7:30 p.m. Mon., Nov. 19 Troy University...... 11 a.m. Sat., Jan. 26 Mercer ...... 2 p.m. Nov. 19 Chicago State  ...... 7 p.m. Feb. 2 at Chattanooga  ...... 4:30 p.m. Thur., Nov. 22 vs South Carolina . . . . .9 p.m. Thur., Jan. 31 UNCG ...... 7 p.m. Nov. 20 S. Houston St./Jackson St. . . . . 7 p.m. Feb. 7 Wofford  ...... 7 p.m. Fri., Nov. 23 vs Vancouver Showcase  . . TBA Sat., Feb. 2 Western Carolina . . . . .2 p.m. Nov. 24 North Dakota State ...... 4 p.m. Feb. 9 at Furman ...... 4 p.m. Sat., Nov. 24 vs Vancouver Showcase  . . TBA Sat., Feb. 9 Chattanooga  ...... 2 p.m. Nov. 27 at Georgia Southern ...... 7 p.m. Feb. 14 The Citadel ...... 7 p.m. Mon., Nov. 26 South Alabama...... 8:05 p.m. Thur., Feb. 14 Wofford ...... 11 a.m. Dec. 1 at Wofford  ...... 7 p.m. Feb. 16 Mercer ...... 4 p.m. Thur., Nov. 29 Appalachian State. . . . . 7 p.m. Sat., Feb. 16 Furman ...... 2 p.m. Dec. 3 Reinhardt...... 7 p.m. Feb. 21 at VMI ...... 7 p.m. Sat., Dec. 1 Houston ...... 2 p.m. Thur., Feb. 21 Mercer ...... 7 p.m. Dec. 8 UT Martin ...... 4 p.m. Feb. 24 at UNCG  ...... 3 p.m. Tues., Dec. 4 Liberty ...... 7 p.m. Sat., Feb. 23 Samford ...... 2 p.m. Dec. 15 at Illinois...... 2 p.m. March 2 Western Carolina  ...... 4 p.m. Sun., Dec. 9 UNC Asheville...... 2 p.m. Thur., Feb. 28 Western Carolina . . . . . 7p.m. Dec. 21 vs. Wyoming ...... 7 p.m. Mar8-11 SoCon Tournament (Asheville, N.C.). . .TBA Thur., Dec. 13 North Carolina A&T. . . . .7 p.m. Sat., March 2 UNCG ...... 4 p.m. Dec. 22 Norfolk St./UTEP ...... TBA Sun., Dec. 16 Duquesne...... 2:30 p.m. Dec. 29 Furman ...... 4 p.m. Home games in gold  SoCon Conference game Fri., Dec. 21 Tennessee ...... 7 p.m. Home games in gold  SoCon Conference games Jan. 3 Samford ...... 7 p.m.  Sun Bowl Classic  Cayman Island Classic Sat., Dec. 29 High Point...... 1 p.m.  Vancouver Showcase Jan. 5 Chattanooga ...... 4 p.m. (Mainland) Sat., Jan. 12 Chattanooga ...... 2 p.m. All Times EST and subject to change Jan. 10 at The Citadel ...... 7 p.m. All Times EST and subject to change Jan. 12 at Mercer * ...... 4:30 p.m. For tickets, call 423-439-3878 or visit www.etsubucs.com

38 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 39 Brandon Johnson (BBA ’15, MBA ’17) Colonel Tracy Trott (AS ’76, BS ’79, MA Tim Shelton (BS ’91) of Greeneville was Marcus Satterfield (BS ’00) was named CLASS NOTES of LaFollette, Tennessee, has been ’95) of Murfreesboro retired from the named the top administrator at West Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks named to Tire Reviews Magazine Club Tennessee Highway Patrol in May. His Greene High School. His degree is in Coach of the ETSU football team. His 3633, which is for tire industry leaders degrees are in Law Enforcement and Elementary Education. degree is in History. under 40 years old. His degrees are in Criminal Justice and Criminology. Brenda Downes (BS ’93) of Johnson City Keisha Shoun (BA ’00) of Johnson AWARDS AND Gilberto Alvarado (MSN ’00) of Ruidoso, Zachlynn Blackburn Lallande (BS ’10) Marketing/Management and Business Cindy Bowman (BS ’82, MAT ’94) of is the new Washington County Circuit City has been named Director of RECOGNITION New Mexico, was named to the American of Tazewell, Virginia, has been inducted Administration. Greeneville was named district High Court Clerk. Her degree is in Criminal Communications and Marketing for the Health Council’s Board of Nurses in into Tazewell Virginia High School’s Louise Stallworth (BS ’74) of Piney Matthew Schwengels (PHARMD ’15) School Supervisor and Career-Technical Justice and Criminology. City of Johnson City. Her degree is in February 2018. His degree is in Nursing. Hall of Fame. Her degree is in Physical Flats was inducted into the Science Education. of Leesburg, Georgia, was named a Education Director. Her degrees are in Mass Communications. Dr. Elizabeth Owens (MEd ’93, EdD ’08) Hill Athletics Hall of Fame in January Dr. Michael Rader (BS ’02, MS ’04, EdD PRIDE (Person Responding in Dedicated History and Secondary Education. of Ivanhoe, Virginia, has been named Paul Hall (MEd ’01) of Winston Salem, for volleyball. Her degree is in Physical ’18) of Johnson City was inducted into Renee Loan (BA ’10, MEd ’14) of Lenoir Excellence) award winner for his work as David Hyatt (BS ’87) of Concord, North Superintendent of Kimball Public North Carolina, has been named Principal Education. the Science Hill Athletics Hall of Fame City, Tennessee, was named to the UT a pharmacist at Phoebe Putney Memorial Carolina, was named President of the Schools. Her degrees are in Special at Meadowbrook Academy. His degree is in January for football, basketball, and Leadership Academy’s 2018-19 class Hospital’s Emergency Center. His degree Kathy Buck (BS ’76) of Johnson City Iowa Speedway in February. His degree is Education and Educational Leadership. in Physical Education. baseball. His degrees are in Physical of fellows. Her degrees are in English is in Pharmacy. was inducted into the Carter County in Mass Communication. Education and Global Sport Leadership. and Educational Media & Educational Educators Hall of Fame. Her degree is in Technology. Lauren Gibson (BSN ’15) of Knoxville Brent Morelock (BEH ’94) has been Dr. Jon Andrew Russell (MD ’01) of Billy L. Lewis, Jr. (BBA ’87) of Newport named Manager of Kingsport’s Franklin, Tennessee, has been named Elementary Education. James Patrick Cronin (BS ’04) of Los was recognized as a Level Four Honoree has retired from his job with the federal Purchasing Department. His degree is in Chief Medical Officer at Williamson Angeles was recognized by the Audie in the Clinical Ladder Program. Her Marshall Wilkins (BS ’77) of Knoxville government after 29 years of service. His Environmental Health. Medical Center. Awards in February for his work reading degree is in Nursing. received a Lifetime Achievement Award Dr. Robert Plummer degree is in Management. Snake Eyes by John Conroe. His degree from the ETSU College of Business and (BS ’84, MEd ’87, EdD ’14) of Dr. Lori Brown (EdD ’16) of Mt. Pleasant, Colonel David C. Welch (BBA ’95) of Fort Dr. A. Mike Tummers (BS ’02, MD ’06) is in Philosophy and Speech Pathology. Technology in 2018. His degree is in Johnson City was inducted Tennessee, was awarded the South- Kevin Jessee (BBA ’88) of Bristol, Knox, Kentucky, took command of the of Morristown has joined the Tennova Tennessee, was named Chief Credit 7th Brigade, United States Army Cadet General Surgery – Lakeway team. His Accountancy. into Tazewell Virginia High Keely Goodwin (BBA ’06) of Kingsport Central Region Pioneer Award for Officer at Citizens Bank. His degree is in Command. His degree is in Marketing. degrees are in Philosophy and Medicine. was named to Northwestern University’s 2017-18. Her degree is in Educational Joe Clement (BS ’82) of Houma, School’s Hall of Fame. His Finance. 2018 Best Executive Master of Business Leadership. Louisiana, was named Athletic Director degrees are in Political Science, Leighta Laitinen (BS ’96) of Johnson Paula Masters (BS ’03, GCR ’07, MPH Administration list. Her degree is in of the Year for 2017 by the Louisiana Educational Administration, Salman Ahmed (MS ’17) of Blacksburg, Tim Belisle (BBA ’89) of Johnson City City has been named Chief Deputy of the ’09) of Jonesborough is Vice President Marketing. High School Athletic Directors and Educational Leadership. Virginia, received the 2018 Outstanding is now serving as General Counsel for Washington County Sheriff’s Office after of Health Programs at Ballad Health. Her Ballad Health. His degree is in Marketing. serving as Chief Operations Officer. Her degrees are in Public Health and Health Association in January 2017. His degree Craig Charles (BA ’06) of Johnson City Master’s Thesis Award from the degree is in Public Health. Care Management. is in Physical Education. with Crown Cutz Academy received the Tennessee Conference of Graduate Harvey Mitchell (BGS ’90) of Ann Socha (BS ’89, MEd ’96) of Tennessee Small Business Development Schools. His degree is in Computer and Kendall Murphy (BS ’82) of Dallas was Jonesborough received a Lifetime Greeneville joined the Greeneville Real Rita Bunch (BS ’97, MPH ’99) of Dr. T. Benjamin Skelton (MD ’03) of Center’s Rising Star award for 2018. His Information Sciences. inducted into the Science Hill Athletics Achievement Award from the ETSU Seamus Power (BBA ’10) of Estate and Auction Team as a realtor in Tazewell, Tennessee, was named CEO Ocean Springs, Mississippi, has joined degree is in Mass Communication. Hall of Fame in January for wrestling. His College of Business and Technology in County Waterford, Ireland, Dr. Sean Ochsenbein (MD ’17) of High January. Her degrees are in Business of HealthStar Physicians in March. Her Garden Park Physician Group. placed 12th in the PGA FedEx Education and Counseling. degrees are in Public Health. degree is in Physical Education. 2018. His degree is in General Studies. Dr. Dustin Robert Barrett (DPT ’07) of Point, North Carolina, received the Public St. Jude Classic in June. His Dr. Heather Champney (MD ’06, RES Johnson City was inducted into the Safety Medal of Valor from President Chris Meyer (BS ’83) of Cary, North The Honorable Kenneth Bailey (BS ’92) degree is in Accountancy. Karl Turner (BS ’89) of Elizabethton Brennan Webb (BBA ’97) of Cincinnati ’09) of Johnson City has been named Tazewell High School Hall of Fame in Donald Trump in February 2018. Carolina, received an Award of of Greeneville received the Significant Sig was promoted to Chief of the Johnson was named Head Coach of Men’s Golf at Vice-Chair of Appalachian Sustainable April for golf and baseball. His degree is Excellence from the ETSU College of Award at the Grand Council for the Sigma City Police Department in February. His the University of Tennessee. His degree Development’s Board of Directors. After in Physical Therapy. JOB CHANGES Business and Technology in 2018. His Chi fraternity in Chicago. His degree is in Jarrod Burton (BS ’11) of Tazewell, degree is in Political Science. is in Finance. earning her Doctor of Medicine degree, she completed a Pediatric Residency. degree is in Computer and Information Political Science. Jennifer Hunt (BS ’08, MPH ’10) of Virginia, has been inducted into Tazewell John Phillips (BS ’70, MA ’79, EdS ’85) of Tim Ward (BS ’89) has been named Chief Nikki Vanburen (BS ’98) of Johnson Sciences. Jonesborough was elected Secretary for Virginia High School’s Hall of Fame. His Gray has retired as Principal from Lake Dr. Eric Manahan (MD ’95, RES ’00) of the Greeneville Police Department. City was named Chief Nursing Officer Scott Hammerbacher (BBA ’06) of the Tennessee chapter of the American degree is in Physical Education. Ridge Elementary School after working Mary Cooper (BS ’84) of Alcoa, of Dalton, Georgia, was named to the His degree is in Criminal Justice and at Franklin Woods Community Hospital Church Hill is Senior Vice President and Association of University Professors, 50 years in education. His degrees are Tennessee, has been recognized as a national Board of Directors of the Joseph Powers (BS ’11) of Bristol, Criminology. and Woodridge Hospital. Her degree is Senior Compliance Officer for Citizens and she has published an article in the in Elementary Education, Educational top Speech-Language Pathology blogger American Society of Breast Surgeons. Tennessee, was named 2018 Tennessee in Nursing. Bank. His degree is in Finance. Journal of Nursing Care Quality. Her Administration, and Educational for her blog, “Old School Speech.” Her His degrees are in Medicine and Surgery. Small Business Person of the Year Supervision. degrees are in Public Health. Rob Gay (BS ’99) of Johnson City joined Billy “BJ” Earl, II (BSN ’08, MSN ’16) degree is in Speech and Hearing. by the United States Small Business Cyndi Snapp (BS ’96) of Church Hill the Edward Jones team in Greeneville of Johnson City has joined the Holston Dr. Liang Wang (MPH ’08, DRPH ’11) of Administration in Washington, D.C. His Mollie A. Watkins Teilhet (BS ’70) of Kathy Myers (ASN ’84, BSN ’97) of was named to the 2018-19 class of the as a Financial Advisor. His degree is in Medical Group Urgent Care team. His Johnson City was elected Director of degree is in Industrial Technology. Watauga has retired after working for 47 Johnson City was recognized as a Level Tennessee Educator Fellowship. Her Physical Education. degrees are in Nursing. Fundraising of the China Health Policy years. Her degree is in Accountancy. Four Honoree in the Clinical Ladder degree is in Interdisciplinary Studies. Lexie Burley Middaugh (BS ’14, MS ’17) and Management Society. His degrees Richard Hutson (BS ’99) of Church Kristan Ginnings (BS ’08) of Program. Her degrees are in Nursing. of Jonesborough was inducted into the The Honorable Ronnie Greer (BS ’74), are in Public Health. Hill was named Principal of Cherokee Jonesborough is President and CEO Richard Church (BS ’99, MEd ’04) of Science Hill Athletics Hall of Fame in federal judge of Greeneville, has begun Dennis Stark (BA ’89) of Belleville, Kingsport was named to the 2018- Elementary School. His degree is in of Washington County United Way. Her Dr. Matthew McGahey (BS ’09, MA January for track and field. Her degrees to seek senior status and retirement. His Ontario, has been inducted into the 19 class of the Tennessee Educator Biology. degree is in Professional Studies. ’11, EdD ’18) of Johnson City was are in Physical Education and Sport degree is in Political Science. Belleville Sports Hall of Fame. His degree Fellowship. His degrees are in Science and Coach Education. inducted into the Science Hill Athletics Dr. Stephen Loyd (MD ’99, RES ’01) of Dr. Ashley Shouse (BSN ’08, DNP ’17) of is in Mass Communications. Interdisciplinary Studies and Educational Steve Smith (AS ’76, BS ’78) of Johnson Hall of Fame in January for baseball. Johnson City has joined the JourneyPure Johnson City has joined Holston Medical Leadership. Ivey Rae Cunningham (BS ’15) of City has been promoted to Major at the His degrees are in Criminal Justice & team, an addiction treatment service. Group’s Alternative Outreach Services Kenny Chesney (BS ’90) of Nashville Nashville was inducted into the Science Johnson City Police Department. His Criminology; Kinesiology & Sport Studies; team. Her degrees are in Nursing. achieved his 30th career number one for Edward Ho (BS ’99) of Hillsborough, Hill Athletics Hall of Fame in January for degrees are in Law Enforcement and Dr. Sharon McGee (MA ’91) is and Global Sports Leadership. Lori Duncan Wilhoit (BS ’99, MEd ’02) of his song, “Get Along.” His degree is in California, received a Horizon Award volleyball. Her degree is in Engineering Criminal Justice. the new Dean of ETSU’s School Afton, Tennessee, was named Principal Lance Beus (MPH ’09) of Wilmington, Mass Communications. from the ETSU College of Business and Technology. of Graduate Studies. Her degree at South Greene High School. Her Ohio, has been named CEO of CMH Technology in 2018. His degree is in is in English. degrees are in Secondary Education and Regional Health System. His degree is in Computer and Information Sciences. Educational Leadership. Public Health. 40 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 41 Deborah Dover (MBA ’09) of Taylor Martin (BSN ’17) of Nashville has Ed Lake (BS ’72) of Oklahoma City was Steven James Huhn (MA ’97) of Johnson Scott Lawson (BS ’06) of Franklin, Ifeoma Ozodiegwu (MPH ’12) of Johnson Jonesborough is Chief Human Resources joined the Vanderbilt University Medical a featured panelist during the Oklahoma City gave a seminar entitled “The Power Tennessee, and his wife Patty welcomed City presented her research at the annual OBITUARIES Officer and Senior Vice President of Center as a Trauma Intensive Care Watch-Out forum in March 2018. His of Story” for the American Advertising their fourth child, Abigail Grace, on July meeting of the American Public Health Talent Engagement at Ballad Health. Registered Nurse. degree is in Social Work. Federation of Northeast Tennessee’s July 10, 2018. Scott’s degree is in Mass Association. Her degree is in Public 1940s Hazel Irene Wilds Walker, Newport Ad Club. His degree is in Reading. Communications. Health. Charlotte Swadley McKay, Bridgewater, November 28, 2017 Brian Paramore (BSN ’09) of Bemidji, Dr. Brent Palmer (EdD ’17) of Johnson Virginia BS ’49 English City is the Sullivan County High School Sara West (MA ’13) of Fayetteville, Minnesota, joined the Sanford Bagley October 19, 2017 Clinic as a Family Medicine Nurse System Curriculum and Instruction Arkansas, had her article “Confronting BS ’42 Elementary Education 1950s Practitioner. His degree is in Nursing. Supervisor. His degree is in Educational Negative Narratives: The Challenges Jack R. France, Jonesborough Jill Sauceman (BS ’79) Billie P. Chapman, Bristol, Virginia Leadership. of Teaching Professional Social Media July 8, 2018 and Fred Sauceman June 12, 2018 Dr. Richard “Bo” Shadden (EdD ’11) was Use” published in the Business and BS ’50 Physical Education and Health (BA ’78, MA ’80) are BS ’44 Elementary Education named Kingsport City Schools’ Director Bailey Eshbach (BFA ’18) of Johnson City Professional Quarterly. Her degree is in authors of the recently Martha Blackburn Lowder, Hickory, North of Career/Technical and Post-Secondary has joined Creative Energy. Her degree is Jane Fudge Cole, Kingsport published book Chased English. Carolina Education. His degree is in Educational in Graphic Design. January 23, 2018 by the Wolf: A Life with January 30, 2018 Leadership. Olivia Egen (MPH ’14 & ’14) of Johnson BS ’46 Elementary Education Lupus and the Kidney BS ’50 Music and Physical Education Riley Phillips (BS ’18) of Johnson City City is an Association of Schools and Sara Moffatt, Morristown Joseph Hale (BS ’12) of Kingsport has has joined Creative Energy. His degree is Transplant That Saved It. John C. Moffitt, Sarasota, Florida Programs of Public Health Fellow April 16, 2018 in Media and Communication. Jill’s degree is in Health February 22, 2018 joined the Mitch Cox Companies team working at the Centers for Disease BS ’46 Music Education, and Fred’s are BS ’50 History as a data analyst. His degree is in Mass Control and Prevention. Her degree is in Chance Powell (BS ’18) of Chuckey, in English and History. Warner Sizemore, Glassboro, North Communications. Public Health, and her certification is in Emma Greene Testerman, Bristol, Carolina Tennessee, has joined Creative Epidemiology. Tennessee April 11, 2017 Beau Hauldren (BS ’12) has been named Energy. His degree is in Media and December 9, 2017 BS ’46 Secondary Education Women’s Head Basketball Coach at Communication. Abby Lewis (BA ’17) of Dandridge, BS ’50 English Rhys Enoch (BS ’11) of Truro, Daniel Boone High School. His degree is Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice Jocelyn Mooneyhan Lacey (BA ’02) of Tennessee, released a book of poems Virginia Lamie Hilton, Erwin Jewell Sevier Tilson, Elizabethton in Physical Education. England, qualified for the April 10, 2018 MARRIAGES Jeffrey Bivins (BA ’82) of Franklin, Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, had her entitled This Fluid Journey. Her degree is June 13, 2018 2018 Open Championship as BS ’47 Home Economics Tennessee, spoke at a luncheon for the first children’s book, Pierre the Peacock, in English. BS ’50 Music Karen Oaks (’14) of Danville, Virginia, Marc Wright (BS ’13) of Greeneville a Challenge Tour golfer. His 2018 Kennedy Law Firm legal internship published by Little Creek Books. Her Charles E. Peterson, Orangeburg, South has joined the Sovah Advanced Wound married Peyton Williams on May degree is in Sport and Leisure Audrey Welch, Columbia, South Carolina program. His degree is in Political degree is in Mass Communications. Anthony Peluso (MPH ’17) of Carolina 25, 2018. His degree is in Physical Management. February 11, 2018 Center in Danville. She obtained a Family Science. Portersville, Pennsylvania, presented at March 27, 2018 BS ’50 Music Nursing Practitioner Graduate Certificate. Education. Jeanne G’Fellers (BA ’03, MA ’06) of the 4th International Conference on UV BS ’47 English Dr. Sherry Robbins (BS ’84, MD ’89, Jonesborough released Cleaning House: and Skin Cancer Prevention. His degree William C. “Billy” Adams, Johnson City Frances J. Baker, Louisville, Kentucky Brooke Tittle (BBA ’14) of Bristol, James Matthew Johnson (BBA ’14, RES ’92) of Knoxville is President of An Appalachian Contemporary Fantasy, Dr. Bill Brooks (MPH ’12) received a is in Public Health. April 6, 2018 May 20, 2018 Tennessee, has joined the commercial MACC ’15) of Erwin married Leah Grace the Tennessee Academy of Family published by Mountain Gap Books. Her major grant award from the Research BS ’51 Business Education banking team at Citizens Bank as Vice Keicher Thwing (BBA ’17) of Greeneville Development Committee at ETSU to study BS ’49 Home Economics Physicians. Her degrees are in degrees are in English. Jack Alvin Buck, Erwin President. Her degree is in Accountancy. on April 21, 2018. James’ degrees are heroin use. His degree is in Public Health. William R. Blevins, Oak Hills, California Pre-Medicine and Medicine, and she May 17, 2018 in Accountancy and Leah’s degree is in March 23, 2018 completed a Family Medicine Residency. Heather Hoover (MA ’04) of Johnson City BS ’51 Business Education Dr. Dearl Lampley (EdD ’15) of Ethridge, Marketing. has published her poem “If Moon, Then BS ’49 Biology Tennessee, has been named Columbia Alta T. Edwards, Johnson City Dr. Teresa Gardner Tyson (BSN ’89) Yes.” Her degree is in English. Fay E. Chandler, Pasadena, California State Community College’s Vice July 3, 2018 of Coeburn, Virginia, was featured in a March 16, 2017 ANNIVERSARIES BS ’51 Business Education President for External Services. His Lifetime Network “Her America” episode. BS ’49 English degree is in Educational Leadership. John Berry (BEH ’72) of Abingdon, Her degree is in Nursing. MA ’64 Educational Administration Pansy Mae Hyder, Sulphur Springs Virginia, and one of his children, Dr. Katie Baker (DRPH ’13) of December 21, 2017 Henry A. Clouse, Erwin Reilly Fox (BM ’16) of Chuckey, Jennifer Berry Blankenship (BBA Johnson City presented at the BS ’51 Home Economics April 25, 2018 Tennessee, is Athletic Bands Assistant ’03) of Abingdon, celebrated the 30th 4th International Conference on BS ’49 History John L. McJunkin, Richmond, Virginia for the ETSU Marching Bucs. His degree anniversary of their family business, UV and Skin Cancer Prevention May 21, 2018 is in Music. Wholesale Vinyl & Aluminum, in February. James O. Counts, Elizabethton and also received a major BS ’51 Physical Education John’s degree is in Environmental Health grant award from the Research January 28, 2018 Ryne Nicholson (MA ’16) of and Jennifer’s is in Marketing. Development Committee at BS ’49 Business Anthony B. Hardin, Knoxville Hendersonville, Tennessee, has been ETSU to study reproductive MA ’74 Educational Administration and April 11, 2018 named Head Football Equipment Supervision BS ’52 Business Administration health attitudes. Her degree is Manager at the University of Alabama at NOTEWORTHY in Public Health. Sarah G. Ellis, Renton, Washington Dr. Samuel Dexter Squibb, Asheville, Birmingham. His degree is in Kinesiology ACCOMPLISHMENTS April 8, 2018 North Carolina and Sports Studies. Dr. Colin Baxter (BS ’61) of Kingsport BS ’49 Mathematics June 17, 2017 recently released his book, The Secret BS ’52 Chemistry Dr. Jacob Brazee (RES ’17) of Pawleys James “Ray” Greer, Knoxville History of RDX, published by the Island, South Carolina, is now practicing May 4, 2018 Dr. Helen Taylor, Athens, Georgia University Press of Kentucky. His degree July 7, 2017 medicine at Tidelands Waccamaw BS ’49 Business Administration is in History. BS ’52 History Community Care of Myrtle Beach. He James E. Johnson, Drexel, North Carolina MA ’57 Education completed his residency in Internal Dr. Jack Stallard (BS ’61, MA ’68) of April 11, 2018 BS ’49 Biology Jack L. Wright, Orange Park, Florida Medicine. Kingsport recently released his book, June 3, 2018 Don’t Call Me Doctor. His degrees Becky Buller (BA ’01) of Manchester, Tennessee, has released her Joyce B. Patton, Johnson City Mitchell Larkin (BS ’17) of Johnson City BS ’52 Business Administration are in Economics and Educational fourth solo album entitled “Crepe Paper Heart.” Her degree is in Mass February 21, 2018 is Marketing Coordinator at the ETSU Administration and Supervision. Communications. Fellow band member Dan Boner (BM ’06), Director BBA ’49 Business Administration Anthony Alvarez, Bonita Springs, Florida Athletics Sponsorships Department. June 8, 2018 of the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies Program at Paul Cecil Sparks, Scott County, Virginia His degree is in Sports and Leisure ETSU, also performed on the album. His degree is in Music. BS ’53 Mathematics Management. December 31, 2017 BS ’49 Chemistry 42 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 43 Robert Lee Hash, Kingsport Carl William Cates, Elizabethton Selah D. Horner, Frederick, Maryland Emily M. Sluss, Gray Richard C. Minnick, Bristol, Tennessee Jessie Jennie Day, Abingdon, Virginia Charles “Chuck” Armstrong, Richmond, May 16, 2018 March 6, 2018 May 27, 2017 July 10, 2018 July 13, 2018 March 2, 2017 Virginia BS ’53 Chemistry BS ’56 Music BS ’57 English BS ’58 Elementary Education BS ’62 Biology BS ’64 Management January 25, 2018 MA ’61 Education MA ’61 English MA ’66 Elementary Education BS ’66 English Emily Rose Stephenson, Lenoir City, Glenn Douglas “Poppy” Price, Rogersville Clifford Engle, Erwin Tennessee Robert C. Clear, Kingsport Mary Lou Krause, Johnson City Nancy Abel, Elkview, West Virginia April 7, 2018 January 8, 2018 Leroy A. Berry, Melbourne, Florida May 18, 2018 November 28, 2017 June 21, 2017 December 27, 2017 BS ’62 Accountancy BS ’64 Industrial Technology March 12, 2018 BS ’53 History BS ’56 Industrial Arts and Technical BS ’57 Elementary Education BS ’59 Elementary Education BS ’66 Physical Education Benny Carroll Frazier, Newland, North Education MA ’66 Elementary Education Mary P. Delozier, Maryville Betty Ann Holt Haren, Kingsport Carolina Berwyn Lynn Hamilton, Johnson City January 19, 2018 Curtis Reed Davis, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Harvey Ray Lane, Knoxville January 16, 2017 January 29, 2018 March 9, 2017 BS ’54 English March 23, 2018 April 10, 2018 BS ’59 Elementary Education BS ’64 Management BS ’66 Chemistry BS ’56 Chemistry BS ’57 Business Dr. James R. Edwards, Raleigh, North David Lynn Haulsee, Knoxville Diane B. Hill, Vestavia, Arizona Charles Myron Oliver, Johnson City Carolina Margaret H. French, Bristol, Virginia Joretta M. McConnell, Kingsport December 31, 2017 July 10, 2018 May 4, 2018 June 16, 2018 June 29, 2018 July 16, 2018 BS ’59 Business Administration BS ’64 English BS ’66 Accountancy BS ’54 Biology BS ’56 Business Education BS ’57 Education Patsy Anderson Neely, Kingsport Raymond Harvey Judy, Johnson City William R. Taylor, Merritt Island, Florida Philip Burns Willis, Manassas, Virginia Lester Wright, Bristol, Tennessee March 28, 2018 December 8, 2017 April 9, 2018 January 31, 2018 March 1, 2018 BS ’59 Nursing Maj. Gen. Ronald E. Brooks, Rogersville BS ’64 Physical Education BS ’66 Sociology BS ’54 Business Administration BS ’57 Biology Dr. Lloyd Jerrell Story, Winston-Salem, March 22, 2018 Terry L. Julian, Dobson, North Carolina Charles Basler, Knoxville Julia Aldeen, Vero Beach, Florida Dr. Roland Brown, Knoxville North Carolina BS ’61 Business July 4, 2018 January 1, 2018 July 7, 2018 March 15, 2018 March 16, 2017 BS ’64 Biology BS ’67 History BS ’55 Elementary Education BS ’58 Chemistry BA ’59 Chemistry Roy G. Cook, Greenwood, South Carolina Elaine Martin, Laurens, South Carolina Stanley C. Brookes, Mount Dora, Florida Graham Barr, Bristol, Tennessee Carl Herman Cameron, Jr., Jacksonville, Angeeta Whittemore, Johnson City July 20, 2018 August 21, 2017 May 23, 2018 January 16, 2018 Florida December 26, 2017 BS ’61 General Science BS ’64 History MA ’67 Education BS ’55 Chemistry May 11, 2018 BS ’59 Social Science Dr. Norman Hankins, Jonesborough Fred Taylor Renick, Jr., Martinsville, Bill E. Combs, Morristown BS ’58 Economics MA ’62 Social Studies Richard Wayne “Mike” Hauslee, Kingsport February 11, 2018 Mack Blevins, Bristol, Tennessee May 25, 2018 MA ’62 Education Virginia January 29, 2018 September 1, 2017 Richard Campbell, Ormond Beach, Florida 1960s BS ’61 Physical Education April 10, 2018 BS ’67 Education BS ’55 Economics November 7, 2015 Donald R. Bain, Spartanburg, South BS ’64 General Studies Howard B. Beckwith, Maryville Edgar K. Cunningham, Erwin BS ’58 Business Administration Carolina Mitzi J. Hunter, Greeneville Mary Elizabeth Cooper, Blountville June 22, 2018 Rodney Stallard, Wellington, Kentucky April 19, 2018 March 29, 2018 June 7, 2018 February 1, 2018 Dollie S. Cartwright, Bristol, Tennessee BS ’61 Elementary Education BS ’63 Mathematics July 7, 2018 BS ’67 Biology BS ’55 Elementary Education December 26, 2017 BS ’60 Accountancy BS ’64 Mathematics William R. Botts, Kingsport Marvin L. Heimbach, Leesburg, Florida BS ’58 Elementary Education Jon E. Bell, Austelle, Georgia Jack R. Rickman, West Palm Beach, Peggy S. Epley, San Angelo, Texas Mary Lou Gammo, Johnson City February 20, 2018 David Harold Boyle, Loganville, Georgia May 5, 2018 March 1, 2018 Florida May 26, 2018 May 13, 2018 Lt. Col. Carl Gibson Collins, Gray BS ’63 Chemistry February 14, 2018 BS ’67 Elementary Education BS ’60 Economics March 24, 2018 BS ’55 Elementary Education BS ’56 Business Administration May 17, 2017 BS ’65 Management BS ’61 History Jayne Ficklin Bozeman, Greeneville David Raymond McQueen, Jr., Pensacola, BS ’58 Business Mary E. Maddox, Trophy Club, Texas Jessie Gentry, Colonial Heights, Virginia January 22, 2018 James E. Foster, Gaffney, South Carolina Florida April 5, 2018 Joan Sell, Johnson City April 29, 2018 Raymond M. Geisler, Elizabethton Virginia M. Cutshaw, Greeneville MA ’63 Guidance and Counseling March 25, 2018 March 23, 2018 BS ’60 Physical Education March 15, 2018 BS ’55 History December 17, 2017 June 10, 2018 BS ’65 Physical Education BS ’67 Biology BS ’61 Home Economics Jane A. Case, Piney Flats BS ’56 Industrial Arts and Technical BS ’58 Business Charles Shockley, Wytheville, Virginia MS ’70 Environmental Health Kyle Edward Hart, Elizabethton February 15, 2017 David Ronald Gregory, Johnson City Education April 10, 2017 James D. “Jimmy” Smith, Elizabethton June 20, 2017 Eugenia Dickenson Dorton, Kingsport BS ’63 Political Science January 2, 2018 David A. Wilson, Port Saint Lucie, Florida BS ’60 Social Science June 22, 2018 MAT ’55 Education Woodson Taylor Harris, Rogersville April 1, 2017 BS ’61 Industrial Technology MA ’70 Political Science BS ’65 Physical Education June 23, 2018 March 9, 2018 BS ’58 Elementary Education Lowell Wayne Snodgrass, Oak Ridge BS ’67 Marketing Phyllis H. Powell, Jonesborough Roy Flanary, Huntsville, Alabama Beth Parks Hammond, Wilmington, North BS ’56 Social Science May 22, 2018 Madelyn B. Thomas, Kingsport July 27, 2018 Jerry Hays, Gatlinburg February 6, 2018 Carolina Walter Carrier, Elizabethton BS ’60 Accounting April 29, 2018 BS ’55 Health Education Mary A. Price, Christiansburg, Virginia February 19, 2018 BS ’63 Mathematics March 12, 2018 December 27, 2017 MBA Business Administration BS ’61 Mathematics April 3, 2018 BS ’58 Business Administration BS ’65 Education BS ’68 Accountancy Shirley Richards, Johnson City MA ’66 Mathematics James A. Fox, Johnson City BS ’56 Music Wanda W. Sparks, Elizabethton December 1, 2017 Bobby D. Hickman, Blountville July 11, 2018 Harry T. Harding, Castlewood, Virginia Jay Guinn Christenberry, Seymour, March 31, 2018 Deanna C. Atkins, Johnson City BS ’55 Home Economics Wilbert C. Schwartz, Johnson City May 3, 2018 MA ’63 Education March 24, 2018 Tennessee BS ’60 Home Economics July 15, 2018 May 29, 2017 BS ’58 Business Education BS ’65 Biology April 25, 2018 Dr. Robert Gene Shepard, Johnson City BA ’62 Chemistry William M. Potanko, Pittsburgh, BS ’56 Industrial Arts Virgil W. Anderson, Greensboro, North BS ’68 History June 21, 2018 Frances Bennett Jacobs, Johnson City Pennsylvania Edmond B. Lanier, Greensboro, North Carolina Jackie R. Elliott, Onalaska, Texas BS ’55 Industrial Arts Bob G. Upchurch, Gray December 30, 2017 September 28, 2017 Carolina Charles P. Hughes, Germantown, March 3, 2018 May 18, 2018 MA ’57 Education January 10, 2018 BS ’58 Education BS ’63 Economics April 18, 2018 Tennessee BS ’61 Physical Education BS ’62 Industrial Arts Education BS ’56 Industrial Arts BS ’65 Social Science May 26, 2017 Rev. Warren Wattenbarger, Rossville, Ben Johnson, Elizabethton MA ’72 Industrial Education Charles Hayden Reedy, Jr., Groseclose, Phyllis G. Beckner, Bluff City MFA ’68 Art Georgia Edith S. Ward, Lakeland, Florida December 26, 2017 Virginia Ann Keys Mooneyham, Johnson City April 12, 2018 Maurice D. Kistner, Bristol, Tennessee March 2, 2017 January 1, 2018 BS ’58 Business December 3, 2017 April 25, 2018 Gerald Jones, Jefferson City, Tennessee BS ’61 Education September 9, 2017 BS ’55 History BS ’56 English BS ’63 Industrial Arts Education BS ’65 History July 8, 2017 Hugh T. Johnson, Bedford, Virginia BS ’62 Business Education Suzanne Berry, Kingsport BS ’68 Geology Billie Lou Ayers, Kingsport Dean S. Blevins, Elizabethton June 15, 2018 Emma Ruth Riggs, Johnson City Carolyn R. Sell, Johnson City January 18, 2018 Robert R. Light, Kingsport February 22, 2018 July 18, 2018 BS ’58 Business Administration March 30, 2017 July 17, 2018 Dorothy P. Mattice, Arden, North Carolina BA ’61 Office Administration April 13, 2018 BS ’56 Elementary Education BS ’57 Industrial Arts MA ’63 Guidance and Counseling BS ’65 Business Education April 17, 2017 Leroy Blackwell McClary, Knoxville BA ’62 Chemistry MA ’76 Reading MEd ’89 Reading BS ’68 Art Darlene Wallin Holcombe, Hickory, North February 12, 2018 John P. Danko, Church Hill Bruce Gayle Millsap, Abingdon, Virginia MA ’70 Art Belvin B. Benfield, Marietta, Georgia Carolina BS ’58 Biology March 22, 2018 January 28, 2018 Patricia Ann “Pat” Treadway, Elizabethton July 5, 2018 December 2, 2017 BS ’62 Business Management BS ’64 Geography March 2, 2018 Ronald Eugene Nutty, Buford, Georgia BS ’56 English BS ’57 English BS ’65 Library Science March 7, 2018 BS ’68 Management

44 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 45 Thomas E. Phillips, Johnson City Teddy M. Lantham, Bristol, Virginia Graham C. Larmer, Palm Beach Gardens, Cherie Phillips, Johnson City James Jim Erwin, Kingsport David Robert Stout, Jr., Johnson City Jeffrey Baker Stout, Baraboo, Wisconsin Kathrine Adele Shipley, Johnson City February 24, 2018 June 25, 2018 Florida January 4, 2018 April 19, 2017 April 7, 2018 March 9, 2018 April 29, 2018 BS ’68 Biology BS ’70 Sociology June 14, 2018 MAT ’73 Elementary Education BS ’76 Microbiology BS ’79 Nursing AS ’83 Industrial Technology BSN ’88 Nursing MEH Environmental Health BS ’72 Accountancy EdS ’97 Educational Leadership BS ’84 Industrial Technology John Earl Messamore, Knoxville Glenn Douglas Hamilton, Sevierville Ronald G. Toby, Jefferson City Joseph Andrew “Andy” Thomas, Johnson Donald Frances Sullivan, Keeseville, New April 25, 2018 Susan Livingston, Johnson City Gwendolyn Snyder, Jefferson City March 29, 2018 February 4, 2018 Nancy L. Wagner, Greeneville City York BS ’70 History December 13, 2017 February 22, 2018 BS ’76 Sociology BS ’79 History June 7, 2018 April 19, 2017 May 2, 2018 BS ’72 Spanish ASN ’73 Nursing MEd ’83 Special Education BBA ’89 Accountancy Jerry Lee Roberts, Greeneville John W. Howe, Afton, Tennessee 1980s BS ’68 History Cleo Broyles, Chuckey, Tennessee March 6, 2017 Robert P. Nappi, Lady Lake, Florida William J. Snyder, Kingsport December 16, 2017 Bryon K. Bogart, Johnson City 1990s March 21, 2017 Robert A. Tiller, Kingsport BS ’70 Accountancy May 20, 2018 April 25, 2017 MA ’76 Educational Administration February 13, 2018 Dr. Nanci A. Edmonds, Gray March 16, 2018 BS ’72 Health Education BS ’73 Special Education MEd ’84 Elementary Education March 26, 2018 Susan Salyer, Clinton, Tennessee Ray Edward Roberts, Morristown BS ’80 Mathematics BS ’68 Industrial Technology Angela Jo Gillespie, Raleigh, North BS ’90 General Psychology January 27, 2018 Bennie R. Sims, Knoxville Claudia A. Stitt, Winston-Salem, North April 22, 2018 Vickie Louise Dyer, Rogersville Carolina EdS ’02 Educational Leadership Tony D. Webb, Tampa, Florida BS ’70 General Psychology December 16, 2017 Carolina BS ’76 Industrial Arts April 8, 2018 February 18, 2018 EdD ’09 Educational Leadership July 4, 2018 MA ’72 General Psychology BS ’72 Accountancy April 11, 2018 BS ’80 Elementary Education Sarah A. Stratton, Knoxville BS ’68 History BS ’73 Elementary Education BS ’84 Mass Communications Mary Arney Jeter, Mountain City Lawrence E. Scott, Overland Park, Kansas John Dee Stone, Bristol, Tennessee July 11, 2018 Lynda L. Laster, Kingsport Amy Carr Greene, Bluff City April 11, 2018 Robert L. Bray, Kingsport March 18, 2018 March 21, 2018 Richard R. Baumgartner, Knoxville ASN ’76 Nursing August 14, 2017 December 10, 2017 BS ’90 Elementary Education June 4, 2018 BS ’70 Art BS ’72 Elementary Education January 23, 2018 ASN ’80 Nursing Sylvia L. Choate, Ten Mile, Tennessee BS ’84 Elementary Education Derek Thomas Williams, Lenoir City, BS ’69 Marketing BS ’74 Economics Norman Eugene Scott, Jonesborough Marlin Eugene Sloan, Winston Salem, Claude L. Wilson, Knoxville June 24, 2018 Phillip A. Rankin, Atlanta Tennessee February 10, 2017 James Walter Brown, Jr., Asheville, North North Carolina November 15, 2017 Marcia L. Davis, Louisville, Tennessee BS ’77 Journalism July 17, 2018 January 24, 2018 Carolina April 25, 2018 BS ’72 Accountancy June 3, 2018 AS ’80 Radiologic Technology Jeff Finney, Elizabethton BS ’84 Computer and Information Sciences BS ’90 Environmental Health January 25, 2018 BS ’70 Industrial Technology MS ’74 Biology Robert M. Dodgen, Fayetteville, Georgia Gerald W. “Jerry” Wilson, Boone, North April 15, 2017 Charles A. Blackburn, Bristol, Tennessee Stanley Evans Boling, Knoxville BS ’69 Business Management April 12, 2018 Curtis White, Tellico Plains, Tennessee Carolina Nathan E. Freshour, Parrottsville, BS ’77 Elementary Education June 5, 2018 May 11, 2018 BS ’81 Criminal Justice and Criminology L.T. Helton, Morristown December 8, 2017 September 2, 2017 Tennessee BS ’91 Nursing Michael W. Grohse, Sneedville, Tennessee BS ’85 Instructional Technology December 4, 2017 MA ’70 English BS ’72 History August 31, 2017 Ronald Dean Messimer, Johnson City July 18, 2018 Edward M. Esser, Warner Robins, Georgia Dewey Lee Chandler, Erwin MA ’69 Physical Education MA ’74 Elementary Education March 8, 2018 Clinton D. Dye, Swords Creek, Virginia Irving Robert Wright, Maryville BS ’77 Marketing February 17, 2018 March 5, 2017 BS ’81 General Psychology Roland James Henderson, Johnson City June 28, 2018 December 8, 2017 Mark Anthony Smith, Oliver Springs, BS ’85 Computer and Information Sciences BS ’91 Sociology Karen F. Prince, Knoxville February 19, 2018 BS ’71 Physical Education BS ’72 Transportation Tennessee William Carson “Bill” Puckett, Jr., January 10, 2017 Loretta Carole Thomason, Johnson City Jerry W. Fulkerson, Loganville, Georgia BS ’69 Physical Education February 16, 2018 Elizabethton Philip Martin Garland, Asheville, North John Powell Brockman, Amherst, Virginia ADH ’77 Dental Hygiene December 9, 2017 July 7, 2018 BS ’74 Marketing March 23, 2017 Dennis Hutchens, Kingsport Carolina January 26, 2018 MEd ’85 Educational Media and BS ’91 Environmental Health Albert David Teilhet, Elizabethton BS ’81 Engineering Technology January 19, 2018 January 22, 2018 BS ’73 Marketing Larry A. Jackson, Atlanta Educational Technology May 18, 2018 Angela Gail Rasnake, Piney Flats BS ’69 Geography BS ’71 Sociology April 13, 2018 Dorothy R. Rutherford, Bristol, Tennessee John Norman Chappell, Bristol, Tennessee MCM ’77 City Management Dr. George M. Jackson, Erwin May 1, 2018 BS ’75 Marketing March 19, 2018 Linda K. Kirk, La Quinta, California Lloyd Carroll Kyte, Johnson City April 2, 2018 July 14, 2018 BSN ’91 Nursing Betty Farris Carver, Woodstock, Georgia BS ’81 Elementary Education May 31, 2018 March 2, 2017 BS ’73 Accountancy Stephen B. Payne, Johnson City MA ’86 History March 7, 2018 William R. Cline, Abingdon, Virginia BSN ’69 Nursing BS ’71 Public Health December 18, 2017 Sally L. Sams-White, Keller, Texas Verna Dickerson, Johnson City BS ’78 Elementary Education Melissa “Leigh” Mullins, Asheville, North May 25, 2018 MA ’75 Education March 3, 2018 Jean Matherly, Johnson City Danny “Zeke” Little, Hampton December 27, 2017 Carolina BS ’92 General Psychology Dr. Robert Marshall Davis, Jr., AS ’81 Dental Hygiene December 27, 2017 April 27, 2018 ASN ’73 Nursing Jack Pippin, Kingsport April 11, 2017 Lisha Michelle Machen, Greenville, South Charlottesville, Virginia David H. Clark, Fort Walton Beach, Florida BS ’69 Education BS ’71 Management June 14, 2018 BS ’86 Mass Communications Carolina Hazel M. Gardner, Johnson City June 1, 2018 March 25, 2018 BS ’75 Accountancy Ann Odiorne, Kingsport June 14, 2018 Carlisle F. Meredith, Hamilton, Virginia Donna K. Miller, Johnson City June 20, 2018 EdD ’78 Educational Administration BBA ’82 Management AAS ’92 Dental Lab Technology May 7, 2018 April 13, 2018 BS ’73 Elementary Education Carlos Wayne Price, Kingsport June 23, 2018 Willie Tobe McKinnie, Bolivar, Tennessee Richard D. Clark, Erwin BS ’69 Mathematics ASN ’71 Nursing February 25, 2018 MEd ’86 Special Education Jerry L. Goodson, Greeneville July 12, 2017 March 25, 2018 BSN ’75 Nursing BS ’75 Accountancy Michael W. Woodard, Bristol, Virginia Verna M. Nichols, Church Hill June 17, 2017 MA ’78 Guidance and Counseling MBA ’82 Business Administration MA ’76 Educational Administration June 21, 2018 March 24, 2018 BS ’73 History Katheryn Frye Snodgrass, Oak Ridge Patricia A. Starling, Madison, Alabama Mike Haulsee, Kingsport BBA ’86 Accountancy BS ’69 Elementary Education James S. Neal, Gainesville, Virginia April 24, 2017 Paul Edward Hargreaves, III, Loudon, February 16, 2016 May 25, 2018 March 23, 2017 BS ’75 Special Education Judy Roberson Berry, Pound, Virginia Rae Roeder, Princeton Junction, New Tennessee MA ’78 General Psychology BS ’82 Biology BS ’71 Economics MA ’79 Reading January 28, 2018 Jersey March 14, 2017 David Thorkildsen, Round Rock, Texas Mary E. Staiger, Clyde, North Carolina BSN ’87 Nursing December 29, 2017 Martha Swartz, Johnson City BS ’73 Biology Kenneth Ronald Worley, Johnson City January 4, 2018 April 23, 2018 MA ’69 Secondary Education June 1, 2018 February 22, 2018 Melissa Dawn Christian, Maryville Patrick Kennedy, White Pine, Tennessee BS ’78 Geology MA ’82 Elementary Education BS ’71 Elementary Education BS ’75 Accountancy May 6, 2018 January 14, 2018 Madge Lane Susong, Morristown 1970s Melanie Thurmer, Oliver Springs, BSW ’87 Social Work Carolyn M. Barnes, Kingsport Sally G. Wherry, Hermitage, Tennessee BS ’73 Biology Carolyn H. Alexander, Johnson City May 26, 2018 Tennessee Sharon Greene Johnson, Morristown June 20, 2018 April 19, 2018 MS ’75 Biology December 13, 2017 MEd ’82 Elementary Education June 1, 2018 February 11, 2018 BS ’70 General Psychology MA ’71 Guidance and Counseling BSW ’76 Social Work Dr. Michael Byron Lady, Jr., Bristol, BSW ’78 Social Work Mary C. Weaver, Rogersville BSW ’87 Social Work MEd ’88 Elementary Education Richard Anderson, Nashville Tennessee Donna Breeding, Morristown March 29, 2017 Helen H. Britton, Greeneville Brenda Kay Wilson, Johnson City December 15, 2017 June 10, 2017 January 17, 2018 BS ’82 Elementary Education Wanda W. Cole, Butler, Georgia May 6, 2018 April 22, 2017 MA ’72 Physical Education BS ’73 Biology BS ’76 Dental Hygiene MEd ’94 Reading April 27, 2018 BS ’79 Business Education ASN ’87 Nursing BSN ’70 Nursing Edwin Fitzgerald, Amherst, Virginia Pauline Norman, Clarksville, Tennessee Loura Byrd, Kingsport MEd ’86 Educational Administration Dr. Elizabeth Ahmad, Johnson City Anthony Wade Clark, Johnson City Alvin West, Conyers, Georgia March 7, 2018 December 11, 2017 January 31, 2018 EdS Educational Administration and February 17, 2018 John W. Godsey, Knoxville March 25, 2018 August 9, 2018 BS ’72 Marketing BS ’73 Elementary Education BS ’76 Elementary Education Supervision AS ’83 Medical Assistance April 20, 2018 BS ’88 Criminal Justice and Criminology BS ’93 Speech Pathology BS ’70 English BS ’93 Nursing Dr. Jim Geiger, Bristol, Virginia Ronald Lane Owens, Kingsport Michael D. Davenport, Bristol, Tennessee Jack Carver, Atlanta RES ’04 Psychiatry Betty J. Hart, Kingsport David Lynn Johnson, Erwin February 19, 2018 January 30, 2018 March 25, 2018 February 17, 2018 July 15, 2018 Jenny L. Whitaker, Bristol, Virginia David Norman Lowe, Bristol, Tennessee January 30, 2018 MA ’72 Political Science BS ’73 Business BS ’76 Political Science BS ’79 Business Administration BBA ’88 Management March 4, 2018 February 3, 2018 BS ’70 English BGS ’92 General Studies BS ’83 Political Science

46 x ETSU TODAY FALL 2018 x 47 Ella Rita Hopkins Fleenor, Sneedville Henry B. Dunn, Nacogdoches, Texas Jimmy Alan Leach, Knoxville David E. Jones, Johnson City March 13, 2018 April 22, 2017 February 25, 2018 February 2, 2018 BS ’93 Special Education BBA ’98 Management BS ’07 Industrial Technology BS ’12 Interdisciplinary Studies Harry E. Boggs, Blountville Joshua McAllister, Kingsport Kevin J. Renfro, Jonesborough Thomas M. Simerly, Unicoi June 30, 2018 January 16, 2018 July 5, 2018 May 15, 2018 BGS ’94 General Studies BS ’99 Nursing BGS ’09 General Studies MS ’12 Chemistry Larry Rye, Mountain City 2000s 2010s Avery R. Laugeness, Lebanon, Tennessee January 14, 2018 Catherine Rita Thomas, Kingsport June 4, 2018 BGS ’94 General Studies June 5, 2018 BS ’13 Interdisciplinary Studies Timothy Clark Barbee, Morristown BS ’00 Chemistry Livia Mae Laek, Kingsport May 3, 2018 Willard Hullen Brady, Greeneville February 18, 2018 BS ’95 Art March 18, 2018 BS ’14 Nursing Kimberly Sarver, Kingsport BS ’01 Criminal Justice Augusta Grace Derrick Saucer, Johnson January 20, 2018 Erik Andrew Stephens, Waxhaw, North City BBA ’95 Accountancy Carolina January 5, 2018 MSW ’14 Social Work Becky L. Brown, Fall Branch February 18, 2018 April 8, 2018 BBA ’01 Finance Cathy Mae Stone Barnaby, Elizabethton AAS ’96 Allied Health Renee Marie Adams, Plattsburgh, New June 19, 2018 BS ’15 Interdisciplinary Studies Karen Ann Davidson Fandl, Kingsport York Certificate ’17 Appalachian Studies April 14, 2018 February 24, 2017 AAS ’97 Nursing BS ’02 Criminal Justice and Criminology Lisa R. Marshall, Leicester, North Carolina April 9, 2018 Cindy Inez King, Sevierville Mary Corbett, Clemmons, North Carolina BSN ’15 Nursing May 22, 2018 November 12, 2017 BS ’97 Criminal Justice and Criminology MA ’03 Reading and General Psychology Sarah Katherine “Katie” Brooks, Knoxville Dr. Angela H. Claxton-Freeman, St. Louis, Kevin Eugene Mackie, Knoxville May 3, 2018 Missouri May 13, 2018 BS ’04 Early Childhood Development January 17, 2018 BEH ’97 Environmental Health MPA ’11 Public Administration Norman P. Riddle, Corryton, Tennessee EdD ’15 Educational Leadership Stephen “Steve” Presnell, Elizabethton January 4, 2018 May 9, 2018 MS ’04 Engineering Technology BS ’97 Human Development and Learning

FACULTY AND STAFF OBITUARIES

Euretha I. Anderson of Johnson City, Sam Roark of Johnson City, April 24. He February 22. She worked as the Secretary worked in the Custodial Department. for the Department of Music at ETSU for over 15 years.

Dr. Thomas D. Lane of Elizabethton, Dr. Robert Wondergem of Johnson City, August 24. He was Professor Emeritus of March 21. He was an inaugural faculty English. member with the Quillen College of Dr. Robert Samuels of Johnson City, Medicine. Jimmy Dale Moffett of Elizabethton, March 24. He was Professor Emeritus of Dr. Judith “Judy” Johnston of St. Louis, June 2. He worked for the Department of Biological Sciences. Missouri, April 15. She taught Health and Facilities Management since 1998. Physical Education courses at ETSU for 28 years.

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