{"id":24174,"date":"2017-04-28T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=24174"},"modified":"2017-04-28T06:08:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T11:08:22","slug":"apsu-celebrates-90th-anniversary-with-special-event-and-tree-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2017\/04\/28\/apsu-celebrates-90th-anniversary-with-special-event-and-tree-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU celebrates 90th anniversary with special event and tree planting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Austin Peay State University President Alisa White and her husband, Elliott Herzlich, commemorated the University\u2019s 90th anniversary with a special ceremony and tree planting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The noon event took place on the lawn in front of the Browning Building, and it included performances by the Governors\u2019 Own Marching Band, the APSU Chamber Singers, the University Choir, the Austin Peay Dance Team and members of the APSU Cheerleading Squad.<\/p>\n

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Austin Peay President Alisa White and alumnus Evans Harvill (\u201946), 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\u2019s 25th anniversary. (Beth Lowary, APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

Charlie Gentry, chief of staff for Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan, and Montgomery County Mayor Jim Durrett each presented President White with proclamations honoring the University\u2019s anniversary. The state also issued a proclamation for the occasion.<\/p>\n

On April 25th, 1927, Governor Austin Peay signed a bill calling for a new teachers college in Clarksville. The next day, on April 26th, the bill became state law, officially creating a two-year junior college and teacher-training institution. The school\u2014Austin Peay Normal School\u2014was eventually named in honor of the governor, a Clarksville native who died six months after signing the legislation.<\/p>\n

In 1943, the normal school was renamed Austin Peay State College, and in 1967, it became Austin Peay State University. The University established the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU in July 1985, and that program received a major boost a few months later when country music legend Roy Acuff generously endowed a chair of excellence. In July of 1986, the University opened another specialized program\u2014the Center of Excellence for Field Biology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are now a comprehensive university, with more than 10,500 students enrolled in graduate and undergraduate programs,\u201d White said. \u201cAlong the way, we\u2019ve acquired some great traditions\u2014from listening to spectacular performances by the Governors\u2019 Own Marching Band at halftime to watching our students, faculty, staff and supporters Plant the Campus red each spring.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2016, the Tennessee General Assembly passed the FOCUS Act, changing the governance structure of higher education in Tennessee and calling for the establishment of an institutional Board of Trustees for Austin Peay and the other five universities previously governed by the Tennessee Board of Regents. On March 30th, 2017, the University\u2019s inaugural Board of Trustees held its first meeting on the APSU campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cNinety years after it was founded, we\u2019re entering one of the most exciting and ambitious periods in the University\u2019s history, and we look forward to working with everyone to ensure that Austin Peay remains a source of pride for this community,\u201d Katherine Johnson Cannata, vice chair of the APSU Board of Trustees, said.<\/p>\n

At the end of Wednesday\u2019s ceremony, White and alumnus Evans Harvill (\u201946), son of former APSU president Halbert Harvill, planted a tree on the Browning lawn. On Feb. 10, 1954, President Harvill helped plant a tree in honor of Austin Peay State College\u2019s 25th anniversary.<\/p>\n

Throughout April, Austin Peay has celebrated its anniversary with several APat90 events. On April 24th, the University initiated a 90-hour online giving event, Govs Give, with the goal of raising $90,000 for the APSU Colleges\u2019 Funds of Excellence. These are innovation funds that allow deans and directors in academic and student areas to provide students with the tools and opportunities they need to succeed.<\/p>\n

Visit www.apsu.edu\/govsgive<\/a> for information on how to support this campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University President Alisa White and her husband, Elliott Herzlich, commemorated the University\u2019s 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\u2019 Own Marching Band, the APSU […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[28648,23,29269,30123,1137,589,6714,14284,30124,11642,19066,9935,262,24887,1759,825,29491,16647,29262,16243,30125,10822,1373,6740,693,10067],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6hU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24175,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174\/revisions\/24175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}