One building on the main campus of East Tennessee State University with a lengthy and diverse history has had its name changed to reflect its unique position as the Campus Center Building.
In 1960, an addition to an old cafeteria created a student union building, complete with food service, including a grill, a ballroom and a small bowling alley where so many students took to the lanes for their physical education classes.
When the D.P. Culp University Center was constructed and occupied in 1976, the older building was renovated, and, in 1978, it welcomed the first class of 24 future physicians to what is now the James H. Quillen College of Medicine.
In recent years, College of Medicine functions were consolidated on the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center campus at Mountain Home, but the ETSU main campus facility continued to be known as “the old College of Medicine Building.”
During renovations to other campus buildings, various offices have moved in temporarily, but those tenants who have found a home there include: the George L. Carter Railroad Museum; the University Testing Center; the Migrant Education Program; the School of Continuing Education’s TRIO programs; the offices of Distance Education, Service-Learning, Summer School, and Transfer Articulation; as well as extra office, classroom, and storage space for the Art and Design, Theatre, Communication, Psychology, Social Work, and Women’s Studies departments.
The building has been recently renamed the Campus Center Building, reflecting its position in the heart of the university campus on the Pedestrian Mall.
For information, call Bill Rasnick, ETSU associate vice president for facilities management, at 439-7900.

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