I recently made a blog post about my trip to film at my alma mater Sewanee: The University of the South. I was hired to create three more videos for them and above you can see the first one in this next series.
It is a short vignette on Coach Robert Black, who is also a Sewanee graduate (C’89) and now the head football coach. He is an incredibly nice guy and I really enjoyed interviewing him and filming their practice. It was a beautiful day to film and the sunset just really set off the images at the end of filming when practice was winding down.
What was fun about that day was that I interviewed Coach Black in the morning and English Professor Dr. Reishman in the afternoon. Coach Black’s father also attended Sewanee and Robert told of a story that didn’t make the video, but included all three of these people.
When Coach Black’s father passed away he was going through his father’s old books and noticed one that his father had used in college. Robert had his own copy of the book because he too read the same book in Dr. Reishman’s english class when he was a student.
What Robert found to be incredibly powerful about finding this book of his father’s is that his father underlined the same passage in the book that he had when they were both students during their times at Sewanee. Although Dr. Reishman didn’t teach Robert’s father, he taught Robert, and still teaches at Sewanee. Robert explained to me in my interview with him that he mentioned this story to Dr. Reishman and I know they must have both enjoyed that very Sewanee moment.
Robert also mentioned he had Dr. Pamela Macfie as an english professor as well, and now she is his neighbor (see my video on her HERE).
What was incredible to me was Robert told me this story, not knowing I was interviewing Dr. Reishman in just a few hours later. When I spoke to Dr. Reishman I mentioned my interview with Robert and he recalled a story or two about Robert as a student.
I love places like Sewanee that have such rich histories of relationships that span generations and not only are these histories merely present, but they are cherished and nurtured. Yea, Sewanee’s Right!