Tennessee vs The Maxims vs Florida State vs The National Championship - 1999

[OneManGang]

"Return of the Alumni" by CharterVol, Foreword by Jack Reese. UT college buddies/roomies Barney Purvis, who is working in Akron, Ohio for Firestone, and Earl Smoot, who is suing government contractors in Mississippi, decide to meet up in Knoxville for the Kentucky game. Really good story with some great cartoons. Barney and Earl were the main characters in "Barney and Earl's Guide to Slide Though College," a cartoon appearing in the Daily Beacon. I read it every year about this time. "Return of the Alumni" was copyrighted in 1984. For those wanting a copy, the info is: Center Hill Communications, Box 1098, Columbia, Tennessee 38402.

I would love to share the Foreword by Jack Reese, but not sure if that would be proper.

He gave up that PO Box about 30 years ago. The best thing I can recommend would be to check with used bookstores in the Nashville/Columbia area. Also look for "One More For The Hill" which came out in '80 and is a collection of his Beacon cartoons.

Yes, this is my copy and no, you can't have it.

 

[OffTackleVol]

He gave up that PO Box about 30 years ago. The best thing I can recommend would be to check with used bookstores in the Nashville/Columbia area. Also look for "One More For The Hill" which came out in '80 and is a collection of his Beacon cartoons.

Yes, this is my copy and no, you can't have it.

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Yea, I wouldn't give up my copy of "Return of the Alumni" for any amount of money. It's prominently displayed in my study. I graduated UT in 1982, and in 1998 for the Florida game, me and 5-6 of my college buddies and our wives got together for the weekend. I had 'em all read it and then sign it. Wouldn't take nothing for it.........

 

[volmanjr]

Another job well done!

 

[SmokinBob]

It is with great sadness that I pass on the news that our very own CharterVol has passed away on 27 July.

A true "Vol For Life" Charter was a 1979 graduate of UT. He was the cartoonist for the UT Daily Beacon and it wasn't unusual to see students all over campus with the "Beacon" open to the op-ed page hooting at Charter's latest effort.

Charter and I put together the proposal that UT implemented to renovate Thompson Bowling Arena. I still have it on my computer. UT, of course, gave Somebody Else $3 million to make it happen.

One other thing he wanted to accomplish was to fix the hand of the Torchbearer statue. We need to make that happen.

My brother from a different mother was Sports Editor our senior year (no, not Feinbaum fer Crissakes!) and I met Charter through him. We stayed in contact and became very close friends.

How close, you ask?

We discovered we had an affinity for the works of Shelby Foote, William Price Fox and Larry McMurtry.

We adopted the personas of Augustus McRae and Woodrow Call and would address emails and texts to "Gus" or "Woodrow." In many ways we were just like that. Charter was always riding out looking for trouble, finding trouble, or improving trouble already in progress. I was much more steady and stolid, much to his amusement. One thing, though, we always had each others' backs.

That close.

The analogy never hit home as hard as when I got the call from his Bride.

I God, Augustus, it's been quite a party.

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