Alumni Special Events

Nov. 4-5, 2006 - Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble 40th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion

• Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble alumni and friends from across the country returned to Cookeville for the TTTE 40th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion.
• Weekend activities included an open house at Tech Professor and TTTE Director Winston Morris's home, a banquet and program, and performances by the TTTE All-Star Alumni Ensemble, the current Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble, and "Tubas of Mass Destruction" -- composed of all TTTE alumni and current students.
• The TTTE 40th Anniversary All-Star Alumni Ensemble presented a number of compositions commissioned specifically for the ensemble. A recording will be released in the near future. For purchasing information for this and other TTTE recordings, visit http://orgs.tntech.edu/tuba/.
• Several presentations were made at the banquet, in addition to comments from former students, fellow professors and mentors, and the owner of Mark Custom Recording Service -- the recording company for the TTTE.
• The weekend closed with an informal gathering at Spankies Restaurant on Sunday night.

To find more about upcoming TTU alumni events in your area, go to: http://calendar.tntech.edu and then "Alumni Special Events." You can then see events we have scheduled by week, month, or year. You may also check the calendars of other departments (athletics, your college, etc.), or see the master calendar for the entire university.

We are focusing our efforts on holding alumni events in cities where we have large numbers of alumni. We now average eight off-campus events per year in areas like San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Huntsville, Chattanooga, Nashville, and more.

If you live in an area where you know there are other TTU alums and would like to help us put together an event in your town, please feel free to call us at (800) 889.8730, or e-mail alumni@tntech.edu.