{"id":858,"date":"2015-11-10T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T16:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/?p=858"},"modified":"2018-02-08T13:34:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:34:50","slug":"shared-memories-your-100-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/shared-memories-your-100-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Shared Memories: Your 100 Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thank you for sharing your stories of history professor\u00a0J.B. Clark and other memories after the Centennial issue\u00a0of Visions.<\/p>\n

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Alden Evans, \u201958 accounting, worked as a lab\u00a0instructor and student janitor. He still has a Tech pay stub\u00a0for $3, or 50 cents an hour, dated March 28, 1957. Evans\u00a0cleaned dorms on weekends when janitors were off and\u00a0earned a free room. He was paid 90 cents a day to clean\u00a0the ROTC space. In those days, Evans said, students\u00a0could eat two good meals a day for $2 in the cafeteria.<\/p>\n

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Bill Ray, mechanical engineering, and Pete\u00a0Fleming, \u201966 English, \u201968 M.S. history, said Sigma\u00a0Phi Delta may have been Tech\u2019s first fraternity but it was\u00a0illegal.<\/p>\n

Their fraternity, Kappa Phi Delta, was the first legal one.\u00a0Fleming added, \u201cThere is no stronger draw for me to\u00a0come back to Cookeville than my university experience\u00a0coupled with my fraternity experience. As I look at Tech\u2019s\u00a050th anniversary button pinned on the bulletin board in\u00a0my study, I realize again how formative Tech was in my\u00a0life and how important Kappa Phi Delta was in making\u00a0me the man I became.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Frank Edwards, \u201967 secondary education, saw J.B.\u00a0Clark impersonate a lighthouse and called him a \u201ctrue\u00a0Renaissance man.\u201d Edwards said, \u201cI doubt there was one\u00a0before or will be one after who could enliven a classroom\u00a0as could he.\u201d<\/p>\n

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John Tucker, \u201967 business management,\u00a0remembers one of Clark\u2019s final exam questions about the\u00a0number of times Interstate 40 crosses the Caney Fork\u00a0between Nashville and Cookeville. Tucker got it wrong.<\/p>\n

The road crosses the river five times.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Charles Adwell, \u201969 pre-med, remembered Clark\u2019s\u00a0class after Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Adwell was\u00a0ashamed to remember some students celebrated the\u00a0news, but Clark took his class to task.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe first addressed the one African-American\u00a0student, the daughter of a local minister, and extended\u00a0his condolences and an apology for the behavior\u00a0of her fellow students. Then he excused her that he\u00a0might address those of us remaining,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was\u00a0magnificent! He asked each of us to examine ourselves\u00a0and our beliefs, then to question the purpose of higher\u00a0education and how it should free us to reflect on longstanding\u00a0views and prejudices.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll never forget that day or that courageous\u00a0educator.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Star Lakavage, \u201979 wildlife management, lived\u00a0in Rye Hall when she came to Tech to finish her degree.<\/p>\n

During the traditional panty raid, ladies were \u201cupset they\u00a0had no fancy underwear to fling to the crowd.\u201d A friend\u00a0who worked at Peebles said after the raid women flocked\u00a0there to be better prepared.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, Lakavage and her husband were\u00a0vacationing with friends and discovered one of them lived\u00a0in Jobe Hall for the same raid. V<\/strong><\/p>\n

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