{"id":12132,"date":"2012-04-10T09:06:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T13:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=12132"},"modified":"2012-04-10T10:07:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T14:07:34","slug":"take-a-trip-down-wright-states-memory-lane-at-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/04\/10\/take-a-trip-down-wright-states-memory-lane-at-blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a trip down Wright State\u2019s memory lane at Blast from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12133\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/04\/10\/take-a-trip-down-wright-states-memory-lane-at-blast-from-the-past\/j_brown\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12133\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12133\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12133\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/04\/J_Brown-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Jim Brown from 1997\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Raider men&#039;s basketball coach Jim Brown will be one of the featured speakers at Wright State&#039;s Blast from the Past event.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Did you know that llamas once roamed where the Meijer near campus is today?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Can you believe that in 1964 the entire campus shared a single photocopier and only one person was authorized to run it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you remember when &#8220;The Ukraine Train,&#8221; Vitaly Potapenko, played basketball for the Raiders?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To hear these stories and more from Wright State University\u2019s early days, come to Blast from the Past on April 12 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Dunbar Library.<\/p>\n<p>The event will feature some of Wright State\u2019s first students, faculty and staff sharing their memories of the campus\u2019 early days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jim Brown, men\u2019s basketball coach from 1970 to1997 who helped to develop the university\u2019s basketball program<\/li>\n<li>Cathy Pearson, one of Wright State\u2019s first students and cheerleaders<\/li>\n<li>Mary Jo Wiley, Wright State\u2019s first classified employee (hired in 1962)<\/li>\n<li>Cynthia King, Ph.D., Classics professor hired in 1965<\/li>\n<li>William King Ph.D., Classics professor hired in 1964<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bill Rickert, Ph.D., recently retired associate provost and professor emeritus of communication, will moderate the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Come early to an open house in the Special Collections and Archives from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. to learn about the Wright State Retirees Association oral history project and other memorabilia from campus history.<\/p>\n<p>Blast from the Past is presented by the Friends of the Libraries, a nonprofit group supporting the University Libraries. It is free and open to the public. Parking is free and light refreshments will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>Register at http:\/\/libraries.wright.edu\/calendar\/events.php or by calling (937) 775-2380.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event will feature some of Wright State\u2019s first students, faculty and staff sharing their memories of the campus\u2019 early days. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/04\/10\/take-a-trip-down-wright-states-memory-lane-at-blast-from-the-past\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":12134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12132"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12187,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132\/revisions\/12187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}