The Student Alumni Association spent the afternoon of May 1 cleaning the stone Arch at the entranceway of campus. Members scrubbed moss and other grime from the structure, which was built in 1917.
George Collins, director of the College’s Museum Program and Studies, provided the cleaning solution, formulated not to damage the historical structure that is one of the most recognizable symbols of Tusculum College. The funding for the solution was provided from a Community Enhancement Grant to the museum program from the State of Tennessee. Collins estimated that it was most likely the first time the Arch had been cleaned. The Arch was built in the patriotic fervor following World War I by locally renown stonemasons using material from the Tusculum Rock Quarry.
The Tusculum College Student Alumni Association is coordinated by the Department of Alumni and Parent Relations in the Office of Intuitional Advancement. Students are selected to participate in the program based on their academic work, involvement in campus activities and desire to give back to the College and the community. Members of the Tusculum College Student Alumni Association for 2008-09 are: Babb of Greeneville; Rachel Barnard of Loudon, Tenn.; Megan Hart of Loudon, Tenn.; Micah Haney of Union Grove, Ala.; Nikki Taylor of Ewing, Va.; Brooke Haymaker of Kettering, Ohio, and Glenn Vicary of Oak Ridge, Tenn.