Matt Ward

Matt Ward recalls a piece of MTSU history:

"I entered in '61 and having been founded in 1911 we celebrated the 50th anniversary that very year, my freshman year, and one of the things that they did in the 50th anniversary was to change the Alma Mater to what they now use.......The interesting thing about the old one was that the melody it was based on was the old Russian national anthem. This was back in czarist Russia before the communists but, nevertheless, in the height of the cold war in the '60s it wasn't really politically correct to be using the Russian nation anthem as the melody for our alma mater."

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