Where did the Bill Campbell reference come from?

You are a proud grad of UH, and a self-professed journalistic genius. That's where. Or, do you think of yourself as more of a Mrs. Feathers protege.

Who said anything about being a PROUD graduate?

Are you a Jr. Buc too?

I am a proud UH grad, lot better then the other choices, Science Hill, Crockett or Boone. Whatever happened to Mr. Bill after that scandal? I am still a little pissed at UH though about one thing. They owe me for 3 hours of detention. Another teacher overheard me refer to Campbell as that "Old fag" and I got in trouble. turns out I was right. In the time I was at UH his whole image changed, at first he wore a suit and tie everyday and had thick glasses and a bushy mustache, by the time I graduated he shaved off the mustache, gotten contacts and was wearing khakis and sweaters all the time. I didn't care for Ms Edwards much either but I loved Mrs. Feathers she was a great teacher and a nice lady,. but my all time favorite was Lou, Coach Thornberry.

R

Thornberry is a great guy and I talked with him several weeks ago while visiting family in Erwin. I loved him as a coach and teacher. Anytime he was on third base and would pull his ears, I would always about crack up. Norm Davis was also a great guy and I am glad he still does Buc games. It's about the only way I still see him.

Bill Campbell was always good to me and gave me many opportunities to grow and use my talents. I'm glad that he knew that he had better not go there with me. Last I knew, he was "retired" and still active with the Community Theatre. He was very good with that and a great English teacher.

Too bad the school has fallen in athletics the way it has. They really are victims of the Stanton/Mullins agneda too. They had to play baseball at Wetlands this year. Terrible!

Campbell was okay though I was certainly not one of Campbells kids I took few of his classes and he either mellowed with his appearance change or maybe it he gave you more respect when you took classes with him as an elective. I hated him in 10th grade English but he was pretty cool when I took Speech and Drama and Humanities. I guess it was a good thing I wasn't his type for both of us. Thornberry was great but you never wanted to get stuck in his van on those long road trips, the other van was always more fun the grad assistant from ETSU who was helping out didn't care what we did. But it was cool when Thornberry would stop and buy everyone a pack of Victory Skittles after a win and half the guys in our van would be puffing on Swisher Sweets.

So RockyTop. when were you at UH? Whats you name or can you say (I know some on here won't like thedoctor) I was there from 7th grade on and graduated in 86. I graduated with people like Frank Alden, Kelly Snyder. Hershell Bennett, Brian Morehouse, Wayne Oler and JD Livingston. I think Marky Mark started at UH the year after I left. Both my sisters went there Angie graduated in 80 and Jan in 82. If you were there before me you might have known one of them or were you after me?

R

Perhaps I should ask Bill Campbell if he is in favor of Fred Warren staying on as golf coach.

I don't care aout Warren and the golf team and what he is able to raise money for, I am worried about the basketball team being stuck with Bartow. I will say I would love for the mens basketball team to have a coach with abasketball resume comparible to Warrens golf achievements.

R

Oh, Rod, but that is where you are shortsighted.

Warren's high salary and influence for very little production means that money that could be spent on making ETSU into a Top 25 basketball power has been wasted on a golf team spinning its wheels.

I thnk Fred and Bill have something in common

Spinning your wheels is when you go to Radford and LOSE in front of about 500 people.
And ole dub isn't too dumb, he's the faculty advisor for the ADPI's.
I do have one question though, when they broke in the golf center, they served alcohol at the ribbon cutting, how can that be? I thought ETSU was a dry campus.

So how did all these old UH alum end up on here? BTW, Mr. Jones and Mr. Rogers were the best. Maybe a vote for Mr. Shadoan. But they might have pre-dated you guys.

I'd have to rate Mrs. Feathers as my worst teacher ever!

Now we can start a new forum on that!

I graduated in 78.

I think UH is just a very big part of the ETSU culture.

Someone long ago mentioned that in the Tri-Cities its not so much about where you went to college but where you went to high school.

Tell you the truth- I see that in Wheeling, WV, too, so I'm wondering if it's really unique to Johnson City or if it's perhaps something of a mid-size metro area thing.

But at UH, that's not the case because you're part of the University as a whole.

There's a connection with ETSU and UH that no other high school will have.

Having gone to UH, I can honestly say that I had a great high school experience. Some of the people I went with were less than desirable friends, but that's anywhere. However, the teachers that I had were first class, except for Janis Weedman.

The athletics of the school have hit the toilet.

You know who else was a pretty good teacher? Mr. Mac. It was a shame when he died with that ear thing.

I remember the year UH beat Science Hill at Liberty Bell. I think it was '79. It was the first time we had played in forever. It was in a Christmast tourney. Beat elizabethton the first nite, then Science Hill the second nite.

Those were the days. Good teams at UH and ETSU.

As much as I have always hated this sort of high school talk, I must ask-

In what sport did UH beat Science Hill in 1979.

Basketball. UH was last minute fill in for a team that didn't show in Science Hills Christmas tournament.. Format was 2 local teams Science hill and Elizabethton played 2 out of town teams one night and switched the next night. UH beat them both.

R

Rod, sorry to make you feel old , but I was at UH from 91-97. I played for Thornberry. His van was not too bad. The only thing was he would drive like a nut on those road trips to Cloudland, Cosby, and Washburn. We were lucky that we got to take a lot of long trips, mainly because Sam's son was on the team. However, on one trip to Charleston, Lou tried to hit as many of the reflectors in the middle of the interstate as possible. Passing cars didn't bother him, as I think his high was 220 in a row. YIKES! He obviously didn't care what we did as many a freshman and sophomore got to study some female anatomy books.

Yeah but you couldn't cuss, smoke or fight on Thornberry's van. We used to play a little game on long road trips, somebody would make up a joke if the rest of the van didn't think it was funny he got jumped. We would get out bruised battered and sometimes even bloody. I think one time a guy ended up getting stitchs. Someone in the very back of the van told a really bad joke and the guy riding shotgun tried to jump the middle row to get to him, He had already put on his cleats and sliced a guys forehead in the middle row as he went by. Aww the good old days..

That all sounds familiar. Some things never change. We were fortunate to have him and Dr. Davis as our coaches. I really appreciated the experiences that I had under those guys.