Mail to the editor: April 2018

  • Author By Illinois State University staff
  • April 26, 2018
Carlin Trammel '98 standing in front of the sign he hung at TV-10 back in 1996: "The power of teamwork overcomes all."
Carlin Trammel '98 stands in front of the sign he hung at TV-10 back in 1996.

To the Editor,

I was a broadcast communications major and spent most of my time in college with TV-10. I was a big part of the station for three years. In 1996, after a particularly rough newscast, I hung a sign in the TV-10 control room that reads “The power of teamwork overcomes all.” It was taken from a Power Rangers movie poster.

I saw a post on Facebook that showed a TV-10 student holding a sign that said “I got hired.” He was in the TV-10 control room. I noticed, much to my surprise, that the sign I hung more than 21 years ago is still hanging in the same place. This is even in spite of the control room recently being overhauled for HD.


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On page three of the August 2017 Illinois State alumni magazine, there is a photo of the new control room equipment. It is dark, but the sign I hung is in the picture.

I have not been back to campus in almost 20 years, but I visited in the fall. I spoke to one of the TV-10 classes, expanding on my story about the poster I hung. It is interesting that such a simple gesture is now viewed on a near daily basis by students who were not even born at the time it was hung.

Carlin Trammel ’98

To the Editor,

I loved the article on the “Days of May” (May 2017) and the swirling currents amongst the students of the day. I thought the townies were backwards in 1980. Normal sounded like they were happy with Jim Crow 10 years earlier. I hope my belief that we have all come a long way since then is true, but sometimes I’m not as sure as I’d like to be.

Tom Kay ’85