Just returned from my first-ever bowl game and man am I hooked. Watching the Commodores win their first bowl game in 53 years, fist bumping and high fiving with complete strangers, jumping up and down with and hugging my freezing stepchildren as we all cheered with delerious, near-frost-bitten abandon as the ‘Dores pulled it out [...]
Entries from December 2008
December 19, 2008
Nashville Mayor Karl Dean speaks out – Go ‘Dores!!
Watch Nashville Mayor (and VU alum) Karl Dean’s holiday message supporting the hometown team for this year’s Music City Bowl. Don’t wait – buy your tickets today! (I did).
December 11, 2008
Spend New Year’s in Nashville with the Commodores at the Music City Bowl
You know we’re headed to a bowl game for the first time in 26 years, and that the bowl is our very own hometown Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl, 2:30 p.m. Dec. 31.
What you may not know is the only way to get seats with the Commodore Nation is to buy your tickets through Vanderbilt, [...]
December 10, 2008
I heart VMC
One of the benefits of working at Vanderbilt is being able to walk across campus to our world-class medical center when it’s time for a doctor visit. I had to go for some routine checkups and tests last week, which took me to different parts of the hospital and clinics.
I expected my temperature to be [...]
December 5, 2008
Celebrating new vice chancellors; mourning lost colleague
This week was one of joy and pain in our Public Affairs world.
We celebrated the happy announcement of our interim leader, Beth Fortune, as vice chancellor of public affairs. Beth’s appointment, which is pending the approval of the Board of Trust, was very welcome news to members of the division, who have benefited from her [...]
