Area youth football players will be admitted free to this Saturday’s South Atlantic Conference football game between Tusculum and Carson-Newman announced College officials Tuesday.

Free admission will be granted to all football players in the Greeneville and Greene County school systems that were their game jerseys to Saturday’s 1:30 p.m. kickoff at the Niswonger Sports Complex and Pioneer Field. This also includes all Greene County YMCA Flag Football League participants and players that participate in the Greeneville Recreation Department leagues (Pee Wee, Midget League, etc.). All youth players who wear their football jerseys will be admitted free.

All Greene County home school students will also receive free admission by showing their Home School ID card.

All football players and home school students will receive a 22 oz. complimentary popcorn, courtesy of Sodexho Food Services.

Parents and guardians will be charged full admission ($10 general admission) for Saturday’s game and all youth participants must be supervised.

For more information, please contact Ryan Tassell, Assistant to the Athletic Director, at (423) 636-7300 (ext. 5291) or email at rtassell@tusculum.edu.

Saturday is the regular season finale for both teams and the final regular season home game for 15 Tusculum College seniors. Tusculum (7-3, 4-2 SAC) has won four of its last five games while Carson-Newman (7-2, 5-1 SAC, No. 15 in NCAA Division II) is riding a five-game winning streak.

Fans of the Tusculum Pioneers and Carson-Newman Eagles can support their team while aiding the East Tennessee Medic Regional Blood Center by participating in the sixth annual Blood Drive Bowl next week.

The event is part of the festivities leading up to the November 8th football game between the Pioneers and Eagles that kicks off at 1:30 p.m. from the Niswonger Sports Complex and Pioneer Field in Greeneville. There will be several opportunities for fans to donate blood.

On Wednesday (Nov. 5), Tusculum students, faculty, staff and fans may donate on the Greeneville campus at the Niswonger Student Commons from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.  Blood donations will also be taken at the following locations:

• Monday (Nov. 3) at the Super Wal-Mart in Greeneville from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.;
• Thursday (Nov. 6) at the Tusculum College – Morristown site (420 West Morris Blvd.) from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.;
• Friday (Nov. 7) at K-Mart in the Greeneville Commons from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

 

Blood donations may also be given during the week at the MEDIC Regional Blood Center in Knoxville (1601 Ailor Ave.) during the following hours: Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.  Please let the screener know your donation should count towards Tusculum College.

A tee-shirt will be provided to all donors, along with refreshments on the site.  Donors should bring a valid driver’s license or other official photo ID in order to give blood.  Medical prescreening and a free cholesterol test (no fasting necessary) will be provided at the sites.  One donation a year exempts donors and their IRS dependents from paying blood supplier processing fees at any U.S. hospital.

The winning school will be announced at halftime of Saturday’s football game.  Carson-Newman leads the series 3-2, including last year as the Eagles edged the Pioneers by only five (5) units of blood. Tusculum won the inaugural title in 2003 and again 2005.  Carson-Newman has captured bragging rights in three of the last four years (2004, 2006, 2007).

The Fifth Annual Blood Drive Bowl is sponsored by Radio Greeneville, Inc. (WIKQ-FM, WSMG-AM), Medic Regional Blood Center, Choice Corporate Training, News Channel 11 in Johnson City (WJHL-TV), and the Greeneville Sun.

For more information, contact the MEDIC Regional Blood Center at (865) 524-3074 or at www.medicblood.com.

The Student Activities Board and the Office of Student Affairs announced that the winning door in the Homecoming 2008 Door Decoration Contest was designed by Karen Cox and April Lane, representing Student Support Services/TRIO Programs.

The winning design combined the “Live the Legacy” theme for Homecoming 2008 with pictures of faculty and staff members and other decorations inspired by the football game.

April Lane is pictured at right with the winning design.

The results for the first ever Tusculum College Chili Cook-Off have been tallied! There were over 200 votes cast during the Cook-Off! After counting all the votes, the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations would like to announce that Deborah Davis from Athletics is the winner of this year’s Cook-Off! Cody Greene ’08, Coordinator of Development and Alumni Relations, presented the Winner’s Trophy to Mrs. Davis during a short ceremony on Monday morning in the lobby of Rankin Hall. Congratulations to Mrs. Davis and the Athletic Department!

The top 3 were:
1. Athletics
2. Facilities Management Department
3. Graduate and Professional Studies

A “new day” seemingly has come to long-embattled Northern Ireland, a noted columnist/author from that region said in a guest lecture at Tusculum College Sept. 25.

“We have crossed the Rubicon and I don’t believe we’ll go back,” said Roy Garland, best known for his weekly columns in The Irish News. Though a Unionist (one who favors continued Northern Irish unity with Britain), Garland has come around to believing that “to be a Unionist does not mean you are against anybody,” he said. “It simply means that you believe you are better off with England than without.”

Old characterizations of Unionists as Protestants and their Nationalist opponents as Catholics no longer are as consistently true as they once were, Garland noted, religious affiliations sometimes mixing within both groups.

As a figure now associated with efforts to cultivate peace and harmony within Northern Ireland, Garland has worked with Catholics and Protestants alike, he said.

His willingness to talk to “enemies outside the gates” has brought him trouble at times, he noted. He showed a slide image of a hand-lettered sign publicly hung in 1995 near his home, declaring that “Roy Garland is a traitor to the people of Drumbeg and Ulster.” That was the same year Garland began writing for the Irish News, a Nationalist publication, though Garland wrote as a Unionist.

Written in at the base of the sign was a statement: “We will never speak to the IRA/Sein Fein,” something Garland had at times done.

Garland’s status as an advocate for harmony was not one he has held all his life. He declared himself a man who has been forced to “rethink everything” he has believed, and who sometimes found, to his surprise, that individuals on the opposite sides of Northern Ireland issues also were going through similar rethinking processes.

Through dialogue with seeming opponents he came around to his current, far less polarized views, he said. “People meeting together and talking together in their humanity can change things,” he told the Tusculum College audience. “If you want to change things, one thing you have to do is identify with the people you want to change and try to lead them.”

Garland began his presentation with a warning that his discussion would at times be difficult for an American audience to follow in detail, partly because of his thick Northern Irish brogue and partly because of the inherent complexity of the issues and history he would discuss.

“Everything is complex in Northern Ireland. Everything,” he said.

Garland grew up in an evangelical Christian home in County Antrim, his father being a part-time pastor in the Church of God denomination that is based in Indiana. For many of his younger years, Garland was little interested in politics, he said, being focused on the spiritual and evangelistic aspects of Christianity.

During that period, however, he heard a visiting preacher at his church propagandizing that the Irish Republican Army (IRA) had “gone communist,” and that there would be “blood on the streets.” To Garland’s young mind this sounded like a prediction of “doomsday,” he recalled.

In later years, when the period known as “the Troubles” brought violence to the streets of Northern Ireland, Garland was sometimes reminded of that preacher’s prediction, he said.

Garland’s older memories of Northern Ireland are of his 1950s boyhood, when “Northern Ireland was largely at peace. There was not much conflict.”

Garland’s father led the Percy Street Church of God in Belfast, and in the early 1960s Roy Garland attended the All Nations Bible College in the London area. His personal focus was largely on evangelical concerns during that period.

Garland’s political awareness and development came gradually, reflective of a similar growing political awareness and factionalism heightening throughout all of Ireland.

Garland’s views were shaped at the same time as the ascension of figures such as Ian Paisley, a clergyman who in the mid-1960s held a service of thanksgiving commemorating the Larne Gun Running of 1914, when loyalists in Ulster, Ireland, who were opposed to Home Rule in Ireland imported guns and ammunition from Germany in order to prepare for armed resistance against it.

Paisley’s commemoration of the Gun Running seemed a “subtle justification of violence,” Garland said.

In 1965, the Ulster Volunteer Force, or UVF, was formed as a modern tribute to the old Ulster Volunteers. The group was concentrated around east Antrim, County Armagh and the Shankill Road, where Garland had grown up, and east Belfast. In May 1966, the UVF declared war on the Irish Republican Army (IRA), and announced it was armed and dedicated to that purpose. A sectarian killing of a Roman Catholic man at the hands of the UVF in June 1966. This attack led to the first leader of the group, Gusty Spence, being arrested and imprisoned. Garland said a second killing also occurred in about the same period. Garland would later become a biographer of Gusty Spence.

The 1966 violence “deeply shocked” the Irish people, Garland said.

As tensions mounted, Ian Paisley, whom Garland described as originally a “street and mission hall preacher,” became increasingly political, Garland said. In mid-August, 1969, Garland attended a meeting of the Ulster Constitution defence Committee, chaired by Paisley. Paisley told of riots and burnings that were under way, and Garland was taken back, he said, to that warning of “doomsday” and “blood in the streets” given by the visiting preacher at his boyhood church. The actual picture of what was going on at the time was not as clear as it then seemed, Garland indicated. In some cases bombs were set off that were blamed on the IRA when in fact they had been planted by opponents of that group who sought to rouse ire against the IRA, Garland said.

In 1969, the Provisional IRA was formed, Garland said. The Provisionals were “militant Nationalists,” according to Garland, who noted that at that same period, he was part of a “paramilitary group” that was preparing for “doomsday.” Though he himself has never owned a gun, he said that the group he was affiliated with was about to begin training Unionists in the use of weapons. He was second-in-charge of that group at the time of his resignation.

In 1970, when Garland attended the Ulster Unionist Conference, he was on the verge of major changes in his approach to Northern Ireland issues. In the middle of 1971, Garland, fueled with doubts about his prior commitments, resigned Unionist groups including the Orange Order. “I became committed to peace-buildng from 1971,” he said.

Garland again became active in the Ulster Unionist Party in the early 1990s and “actively pursued peace and mutual understanding in many contexts,” he said. He became a founding member and joint chairman of the cross-border/cross-community Guild of Uriel, promoting dialogue, mutual understanding and accommodation on all sides, including with dissidents. The Guild is based mainly in County Louth in the Irish Republic.

In recent times he has addressed American degree students in Dublin in their Peace and Conflict Studies course tutored by Brendan O’Brien a noted broadcaster and writer. He was the first Ulster Unionist to address the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation in Dublin in 1995.

Garland is a founding member of the Union Group, a unionist organization promoting an inclusive agenda and seeking healing, reconciliation and growth within Northern Ireland and between North and South and between Ireland and Britain. He has engaged with people at all levels in Northern Ireland and in British and Irish society. He is also active in the Corrymeela Community, a group founded in 1965 to promote reconciliation and peace-building through the healing of social, religious and political divisions in Northern Ireland.

In 2001 Garland published a biography of former loyalist leader Gusty Spence, and has contributed articles to various publications and books. Garland is quoted on the Web site of the British Broadcasting Company as saying that, during the course of his life, he has “re-thought everything. I actually came back to the Unionist party with a different perspective on things, and I believe Unionism is possible without being sectarian.” In a touching visual demonstration of the possibilities of healing between radically divided groups and individuals, Garland showed a slide of a wallet hand-made by Lenny Murphy for presentation to Martin Meehan.

Murphy was a loyalist paramilitary figure from Belfast who was the leader of the so-called Shankill Butchers. Although never convicted of murder, Murphy is known to have killed numbers of people through his own actions, and to have ordered the deaths of more. Garland described him as a man who “killed and tortured Catholics.” Meehan was essentially Murphy’s opposite, a Sinn Féin politician and former volunteer in the radical Provisional IRA. He was the first person to be convicted of membership in the Provisional IRA, and spent 18 years in prison.

Garland is a founding member and joint chairman of the cross-border/cross-community Guild of Uriel, promoting dialogue, mutual understanding and accommodation on all sides, including with dissidents. The Guild is based mainly in County Louth in the Irish Republic.

The day after his Tusculum College appearance, Garland joined Garlands of East Tennessee and from across the country in a gathering of the Garland Family Research Association, a genealogical group promoting knowledge of the family history of the Garlands and sponsoring family gatherings. The group met in Townsend in the Smoky Mountains.

Garland was introduced at Tusculum College by Dr. Donal Sexton, who is retired from Tusculum’s history department.

Present to hear Garland were Thomas Garland of Greeneville and his brother Dan Garland of Johnson City, along with various other Garland relations.

Greeneville Mayor Laraine King, seated, signs a proclamation Friday morning, Sept. 26, in her Greeneville Town Hall office, recognizing September as Homeless Awareness Month in Greeneville. Looking on are Joyce Doughty, director of the Center for Civic Advancement at Tusculum College, and Ben Spencer, executive director of the Appalachian Regional Coalition on Homelessness (ARCH), which is based in Johnson City and serves multiple counties in Northeast Tennessee. Doughty was present partly to emphasize the Health and Fitness Fall Fantasia coming up Oct. 2 at Tusculum College.

The fair will offer numerous health screenings, demonstrations and information at no charge to the public, and is structured in a way that will allow area homeless residents a convenient no-cost opportunity to gain free health information and some health services. The health fair begins at 8 a.m. in the Niswonger Commons building on the Tusculum campus. As another service effort, Tusculum College is also collecting “gently used” or new blankets, coats, scarves and sweaters for use by homeless area residents through the ARCH program. For information on the coat, scarf, sweater and blanket collection, call 636-7300, extension 5256. For information on the Health and Fitness Fall Fantasia, call Diane Hensley at 636-7300, extension 5499, or simply come to Tusculum College’s Niswonger Commons on Oct. 2 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The web page for the new Tusculum College Center for Global Studies has been launched and may be accessed as one of the links under the ACADEMICS section on this page.

The mission of the Center for Global Studies, which is being directed by Dr. Geir Bergvin from his new office location on the first floor of the Thomas J. Garland Library, is to enhance the capacity of individuals and organizations to address local and global challenges through building relationships with communities, institutions of higher learning and organizations globally.

A variety of information about the Center is accessible on its web page.  Please visit the page and acquaint yourself with this important new component of Tusculum College.

Tusculum College has reached a historic milestone with the entrance of its 2008-2009 crop of new students who have matriculated and are taking classes, a group that appears to be the largest of its type in college history.

That is just one of several positive factors that Tusculum College leaders have identified in statistics relevant to the academic year that started in August.

Tusculum College enrolled the apparent largest “true entering matriculated class” in its history, according to Vice President for Enrollment Management Jacqueline Elliott.

Those 344 newly entered Tusculum students also boast an average academic Grade Point Average of 3.22, higher than the 3.17 average GPA of last year’s counterpart group, Elliott noted. The current year’s entering group has an average score of 1010 on the SAT Reasoning Test, formerly known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), bettering last year’s average of 990. Scores on the ACT admission test held steady with last year’s.

Of Tusculum College’s new entering students, 138 are first-generation college students, meaning they are the first in their families to attend college.

Two-hundred-seventy-five of the students were traditional new freshmen who paid deposits, enrolled and began attending classes. Fifty-seven others were transfers to Tusculum from other schools, while 12 are international students.

The entering group is ethnically diverse. Two-hundred-fifty-seven students are classified as white, non-Hispanic, two students are American Indians, five are Asian, 66 are black, six are Hispanic, two are Mexican American, and six are classified as “other.”

Twenty-three American states are represented among the entering students. Besides those who come from the United States, students in the group also come from Australia, Canada, Croatia, England, Ireland, Taiwan and Ukraine.

Tusculum College’s tougher standards, improving numbers and heightened selectivity have improved its ranking on one of the nation’s most famous and closely watched college listings, the U.S. News and World Report’s annual higher education edition

Tusculum College, classified as a “southern regional masters two South” institution in U.S. News, moved up this year in the magazine’s ratings and is now ranked among schools positioned just below the top schools sharing Tusculum’s classification.

Unlike many of the small colleges in its region, which compete with other baccalaureate institutions, Tusculum College has to compete in the U.S. News rankings with other masters-granting institutions as well, because of its classification.

Factors relevant to the improved ranking for Tusculum College include an alumni giving rate that put the college at level 47, up from 53 last year and 72 the year before that.

Also, Tusculum College’s small average class sizes – 78 percent of classes have fewer than 20 students – was a factor in the higher tier level.

Freshmen at Tusculum College will be busy on Thursday, Sept. 11, working on various community projects in and around the Greeneville-Greene County area as the college observes its traditional Nettie Fowler McCormick Service Day, usually referred to informally as Nettie Day.

The service day, the name of which references the late Nettie F. McCormick, a major Tusculum benefactor from about a century ago, is a day in which students are called upon to provide practical help to good causes throughout the community. The service emphasis is a memorial to the altruism of McCormick, whose husband, Cyrus McCormick, was famed as the inventor of the mechanical reaper.

The McCormicks gave much of their vast fortune to causes they believed in, particularly causes associated, as is Tusculum College, with Presbyterianism.

This Thursday morning, participating students will scatter across the area, under faculty supervision, to work on such projects as playground and grounds improvements at Greeneville’s Boys and Girls Club, mulching and planting at the Greene Valley Developmental Center, painting at the Roby Fitzgerald Adult Center in Greeneville, and cleaning in the historic Wesley Cemetery, a predominately African-American cemetery.

Other projects are also scheduled or may be scheduled prior to Thursday.

Nettie Day is an old tradition at Tusculum College, having evolved from what began as a campus cleanup day honoring Nettie McCormick.

The summer brought news of two recent grant approvals for initiatives at Tusculum College proposed by faculty members.

One grant relates to classroom and departmental assessment, the other to “quantitative literacy.”

Associate Professor and Chair of Biology Dr. Ian VanLare was notified that a proposal for a grant to support “Integration and Coordination of Classroom and Departmental Assessment Efforts” was approved by the Appalachian College Association (ACA) in the amount of $2,950.

The funding for the assessment-related grant comes from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the ACA, of which Tusculum College is a member institution.

“The purpose of this proposal is to allow us (departmental chairs of math, chemistry, and biology at Tusculum College) to bring in a consultant to work with the departments on integration of assessment at both the classroom level and the departmental level,” the grant proposal stated.

“Each year, we do much student testing and collect lots of data, and then wonder what to do with it,” the proposal went on. “We (the applicants) feel that if classroom assessment mechanisms were used to drive the construction of the departmental assessment documents, these documents could become a real aid when deciding curricular changes.”

The plan is for the chairs of the three departments to work under guidance from the consultant to “come up with and implement an assessment program for the three departments that will start with classroom assessment and extend up to departmental Intended Student Outcome (ISO) assessment (and possibly through institutional level assessment) to make informed and meaningful curricular modifications to aid our students in learning.”

Joining VanLare in making the application were Assistant Professor and Chair of Chemistry and Environmental Science Robin Tipton, and Professor and Chair of Mathematics and Physics Dr. John Paulling.

A quantitative literacy project at Tusculum College was chosen for $3,750 in funding, Tusculum College Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Physics and Geology Dr. Katherine Stone was informed late in July.

Announcement of the grant came on July 29 from Christopher Qualls, Dean of Faculty at Emory and Henry College, a college that has chosen Quantitative Literacy as its Quality Enhancement Plan focus area. Quality Enhancement Plans are required by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) of the colleges and universities they accredit. In the July 29 announcement, Qualls wrote to Stone: ”This email is to inform you that your team’s proposed quantitative literacy project has been chosen for funding in the amount of $3,750. I know that Dr. (Paul B.) Chewning, President of ACA, joins me in congratulating each member of your team. In the coming weeks, you will receive official notification of this award from the ACA and additional information about how to receive these funds.”

According to a press release on its collegiate web site, Emory & Henry itself was the recipient last fall of “a large grant” that supports that college’s efforts to incorporate quantitative literacy across its curriculum. Emory & Henry collaborated with other colleges and with the ACA in the writing of the funding proposal. Quantitative literacy has been defined as the ability to formulate, evaluate, and communicate conclusions and inferences from quantitative information and to use these skills in academic, professional, and personal contexts.

Details of exactly how the grant funds will be applied will be announced later.

Dr. Stone, who attended a conference Qualls also took part in, said the project at Tusculum College will coordinate well with Tusculum’s continuing interest in enhancing its math programs.

Cleo Treadway, Johnson City, center, visited the Thomas J. Garland Library at Tusculum College on Aug. 15. Treadway, who remains very active in community volunteer work, spent two decades as head of the library program at Tusculum, retiring in 1990. She is shown here with two of the library staff members she worked with during her time at Tusculum College: Coordinator of Library Technical Services Carolyn Parker, left, and Reference/Intructional Services Librarian Charles Tunstall.

Partially visible behind them, though obscured by the light of the camera flash, is a plaque that marks the Garland Library’s children’s book collection as the Cleo Treadway Children’s Book Collection, honoring Treadway for her many years of service to the library program. After being greeted by Interim President Russell Nichols and Library Director Myron “Jack” Smith, Mrs. Treadway was taken out to lunch by the library staff.

Leading national authorities on Andrew Johnson, the Reconstruction period and the Constitution are among those who will take part in a symposium in September at Tusculum College exploring the 17th president’s impact on his era, the presidency and the Constitution.

The Museums of Tusculum College are hosting the “Andrew Johnson: Heritage, Legacy, and Our Constitution” symposium on Thursday, Sept. 18, as part of the local celebration of the bicentennial of Johnson’s birth. The event will begin at 9 a.m. in the Chalmers Conference Center, include individual sessions by each of the experts, and conclude with a panel discussion with all of the presenters. The program is being underwritten by the Tennessee Civil War Heritage Area, the Patterson-Bartlett Corporation, and the Andrew Johnson Bicentennial Committee.

The individual sessions will help increase the understanding of Johnson, a complex man who rose from his humble beginnings as a tailor’s apprentice to serve in the highest political office in the country.

Johnson and the Reconstruction will be the topic of a session by Dr. Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton professor of history at Columbia University. Dr. Foner is one of this country’s most prominent historians and is considered the leading contemporary historian of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. He has written extensively on political history, the history of freedom, early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography.

Among the books Dr. Foner has authored are Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction and the award-winning Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. He was also co-curator of the award-winning exhibit, “America’s Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War,” which opened at the Virginia Historical Society in 1995 and traveled to several other locations.

The Civil War period of Johnson’s life will be examined in a session by Dr. Paul Bergeron, professor of history emeritus at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and was recently named a Brown Foundation Fellow and a visiting professor of history at the University of the South. Dr. Bergeron was the editor of the Papers of Andrew Johnson, a comprehensive collection of 16 volumes of material that includes correspondence, congressional records, bills, diaries, journal articles, and newspapers covering the period of 1858 through 1875. Major publications include Paths of the Past: Anti-bellum Politics in Tennessee, Presidency of James K. Polk, and Tennesseans and Their History.

Johnson’s early years will be the focus of a session by Dr. Robert Orr, a faculty member of Walters State Community College and Washington College Academy. Dr. Orr is a local authority on Johnson and has authored a book about the 17th president. The local historian was featured in a discussion of Johnson as part of the “American Presidents” series broadcast by the C-SPAN cable network.

The Constitution will be the focus of the session by Dr. Michael Kent Curtis, professor of law at Wake Forest University – School of Law. Dr. Curtis will examine the effect of Constitutional amendments in the past and today’s world.

Dr. Curtis is one of the foremost constitutional historians in the nation. He is the author of the award-winning Free Speech: The People’s Darling Privilege: Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History, and the acclaimed No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights. Dr. Curtis has also received the Frank Porter Graham Award from the North Carolina Civil Liberties Union for achievement in defending and advancing civil liberties in that state.

The symposium will conclude with a panel discussion involving all four of the noted authorities, which will be moderated by Oliver “Buzz” Thomas, executive director of the Niswonger Foundation.

Registration is required for attendance to the symposium, and there is a $10 registration fee. Deadline for registration is Sept. 5. Registration forms are included in the brochure for the symposium, which is posted on the Web site of the President Andrew Johnson Museum and Library at http://ajmuseum.tusculum.edu. For additional information, contact the Museums of Tusculum at (423) 636-7348 or e-mail gcollins@tusculum.edu.
The Doak House Museum and the President Andrew Johnson Museum and Library are administered by the Tusculum College Department of Museum Program and Studies under the direction of George Collins, director of Museum Program and Studies, and Cindy Lucas, associate director of the department and director of the Doak House Museum. The department also offers one of the few undergraduate degree programs in museum studies in the country.

The Doak House Museum, which was the home of the Rev. Samuel Witherspoon Doak, co-founder of the college, hosted over 10,000 school children from East Tennessee last year for a variety of educational programs related to the 19th century and CHARACTER COUNTS! The Andrew Johnson Museum, located in the oldest academic building on campus, houses a collection of books, papers, and memorabilia of the 17th president of the United States. The museum also houses the Charles Coffin Collection from the original college library and the College archives containing documents related to the history of Tusculum. The museums are also two of the 10 structures on the Tusculum campus on the National Register of Historic Places.