A message to all Michigan Tech Student Athletic Trainer Alumni,
It has been 25 years since we left Michigan Tech, but hardly a week goes by that we are not in touch with friends from that time, or remembering some course work or outside activity.
There were multiple outside activities and one of the most memorable was supporting the student athletes as a student athletic trainer under Head Athletic Trainer Randy Owsley. A group of student trainer alumni are considering creating an athletic trainer scholarship in Randy’s name. We are looking to hear from any previous student athletic trainers to assure everyone is included. If you are an alumni trainer or know one, please send us an email to mtustudenttraineralumni@gmail.com.
Thank You,
Mike Bourdo, 1984
Duane Mariotti, 1980
Dr. Dan West, 1980
David Ziegler, 1980
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- Hope you get a good response! -SB
Curious; 1964 Wadsworth basement was a big dorm barracks room full of bunkbeds for all the overflow. There was no room for in any other dorm. Oh, yes, then we had Douglas Houghton and Wadsworth. So you lived with all the overflow til enough flunked out to make room
By January most had rooms. A few also flunked out or had to wait til the end of winter quarter. Is that the way it is now also?
Just curious.
Larry Day ’69
Hi, Larry. I’ll ask our housing people, but I assume as a few students inevitably leave, some space is made available. Thanks for writing! -SB
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Hi Scott:
I hear you are interested about how we got to “da tech”. Here is my story.
I was raised and went to High School in Ossining, New York. I graduated in 1949, wanted to continue my education, but didn’t know what l wanted to do. Syracuse University accepted me for a degree in forestry, Cortland State College okayed me for a degree in elementary school education, and my next door neighbor wanted be to come to work for him as an auto mechanic.
A friend of my mother told her about a distant cousin of her’s had graduated from some small school in far northern Michigan.
It sounded great to me. I didn’t like the crowded busy area we lived in, transportation was not a problem (my Dad was in the legal department of the New York Central Railroad). Never having picked up a rock for anything but to throw at something, I decided to go to MCM&T for a degree in geological engineering.
It was the smartest decision I ever made! After almost 40 years as a geophysicist in the oil business, and over 20 years in retirement, I still brag about Michigan Tech!
Regards,
Ford Lasher ‘53
- Hi Ford. Thanks for sharing your story! I’m glad to hear that your decision to attend Michigan Tech was one you’ve always appreciated. -SB
Hi Scott,
I remember entering MTU in the fall of 1973 and taking chemistry from Doc Berry. He didn’t believe in calculators. He even went to the extent that if it didn’t have its own power, you couldn’t use it!
My most memorable professor is definitely Sam B. Tidwell. It only took me one time to hear his instructions loud and clear. “You are responsible for ALL information within the pages assigned. So be prepared.”
This gave me the necessary platform to do well in business.
Thanks for the opportunity to share some of my Tech experiences.
Joe Cavanagh ’77
- Thanks, Joe. Good memories. I’ve only been at Tech a short time but have already heard quite a few Sam Tidewell stories. -SB
I noticed this in another newsletter and thought I would pass it along. I never knew the connection between da Tech and LSSU.
Ron B.
BSEE ’87
On This Day In Michigan History
On Sept. 15, 1886, the first classes were held at the Michigan Mining School in the Houghton Town Hall. The school, created to train mining engineers, is now Michigan Technological University. At one time, Michigan Tech had a branch in Sault Ste. Marie, but that school is now known as Lake Superior State University.
Source: Historical Society of Michigan, Michigan State University Libraries
Hi Ron. I grew up near Lake State but never knew this tidbit. Thank you for sharing. -SB