Candlelight Ball auction to raise money for APSU scholarships
February 21, 2020
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University (APSU) Candlelight Ball is set for Saturday, March 14th, 2020.
Charlie Daniels, the Country Music Hall of Famer known for “sawing on a fiddle and playing it hot,” helped reinvigorate that 400-year-old instrument with his 1979 hit, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”
Austin Peay State University Candlelight Ball Auction features incredible items including a signed Charlie Daniels fiddle.
Clarksville-Montgomery County Education Foundation hosted Second Annual Red Carpet Teacher of the Year Awards
February 24, 2019
Clarksville-Montgomery County Education Foundation
Montgomery County, TN – The Clarksville-Montgomery County Education Foundation hosted its Second Annual Red Carpet Teacher of the Year Awards, sponsored by James Corlew Chevrolet. Other event sponsors included Elliott’s Jewelers and County Commissioner Charles Keene.
Congratulating the District Teachers of the Year are from left: O’Bee O’Bryant, Executive Director of the CMC Education Foundation; James Corlew of James Corlew Chevrolet; teachers Abraham Wolfe (9-12), Lindsay Karas (5-8), Deborah Chancellor (PreK-4); Director of Schools Millard House; and Education Foundation Chairman Lori Smith.
APSU’s first dog, Yahtzee, known as “cuddler” and “sock stealer”
August 30, 2018
Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, TN – A sock recently went missing inside Archwood, the historic house where Austin Peay State University’s president lives.
The missing garment belonged to Elliott Herzlich, husband of APSU President Alisa White, and the couple decided not to call campus police because they immediately identified a suspect – Yahtzee, the first dog of Austin Peay.
Yahtzee chases a ball.
APSU celebrates 90th anniversary with special event and tree planting
April 28, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University President Alisa White and her husband, Elliott Herzlich, commemorated the University’s 90th anniversary with a special ceremony and tree planting on Wednesday.
The noon event took place on the lawn in front of the Browning Building, and it included performances by the Governors’ Own Marching Band, the APSU Chamber Singers, the University Choir, the Austin Peay Dance Team and members of the APSU Cheerleading Squad.
Austin Peay President Alisa White and alumnus Evans Harvill (’46), son of former APSU president Halbert Harvill, planted a tree on the Browning lawn. On February 10th, 1954, President Harvill helped plant a tree in honor of Austin Peay State College’s 25th anniversary. (Beth Lowary, APSU)
Customs House Museum January 2017 Exhibits and Activities
January 2, 2017
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is located in historic downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. Come explore an entire city block featuring large gallery spaces filled with fine art, science and history.
Some of the events in January at the Museum are: Cut: An Invitational Exhibition, Christmas Town, Portraits of David Iacovazzi‐Pau, Slave and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation, and Utility & Beauty: The Glass of Emmanuel Studio.
Slave and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation
Austin Peay State University Students research Tennessee Artifacts used in daily life for History Class
November 26, 2016
Clarksville, TN – A distraught Queen Victoria asked members of her royal court to stop wearing lavish jewelry in the early 1860s. Her husband, Prince Albert, had just died, and the sight of such opulence offended the mourning queen.
In the months that followed, England’s aristocracy began dressing in black, and to stay in the monarch’s good graces, they adorned themselves in the less flashy marcasite jewelry. In that moment, a fashion trend was born.
APSU students examine artifacts during a Tennessee History class on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at Austin Peay State University. (Cassidy Graves, APSU)
