{"id":371,"date":"2014-08-22T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/?p=371"},"modified":"2018-02-08T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:37:08","slug":"ttu-president-emeritus-angelo-volpe-honored-by-alma-mater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/ttu-president-emeritus-angelo-volpe-honored-by-alma-mater\/","title":{"rendered":"TTU president emeritus Angelo Volpe honored by alma mater"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-538\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/files\/2014\/08\/PresidentVolpe_13JUN14_0007-copy-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-538 size-full\" style=\"padding-left: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/files\/2014\/08\/PresidentVolpe_13JUN14_0007-copy-copy.jpg\" alt=\"PresidentVolpe_13JUN14_0007 copy copy\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Volpe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Angelo Volpe, Tennessee Tech University president emeritus, will receive a lifetime achievement award from his alma mater\u2019s alumni association this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn College Alumni Association will give Volpe a post-50th alumni lifetime achievement award when he goes back to the campus for his 55-year reunion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was delighted when I got the call. I had primed myself that I wasn\u2019t going to get it,\u201d said Volpe, who was president of TTU from 1987-2000. \u201cProbably becoming a university president is why I got it. Most of the other stuff I\u2019ve done was pretty routine. It was a big deal to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volpe was the university\u2019s seventh president but its first to have a Ph.D. While president, TTU completed a $21 million capital campaign, and its endowment grew from $1 million to $27 million. During his tenure, the campus Fitness Center, Hyder-Burks Agricultural Pavilion and library, now named for Volpe and his wife, Jennette, were built.<\/p>\n<p>Volpe also fought to keep the Appalachian Center for Craft open for education, created two chairs of excellence and established the Women\u2019s Center and Leona Lusk Officer Black Cultural Center.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of several alumni to receive the lifetime award, including six others from his class, as well as people from the classes of 1959, 1954, 1949, 1944 and 1934.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at a few sentences about Angelo and you know he deserves an award,\u201d said Virginia Alonso-Rainsford, assistant director of Alumni Affairs at Brooklyn College. \u201cI knew he would be a candidate, just for the fact that he was a president of a university and all that he did there. When you see somebody who is holding a position like that, you know they\u2019ve done a lot to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angelo Volpe, Tennessee Tech University president emeritus, will receive a lifetime achievement award from his alma mater\u2019s alumni association this fall. Brooklyn College Alumni Association will give Volpe a post-50th alumni lifetime achievement award when he goes back to the campus for his 55-year reunion. \u201cI was delighted when I got the call. 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