TECH TO NAME ATHLETIC TRAINING FACILITY INSIDE HULL BUILDING AFTER DR. STANLEY TEETER

            RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas – Student leader. All-conference Wonder Boy. Team doctor. Board of Trustees member. Proud alumnus.

            Dr. Stanley Teeter has filled those roles and many others in more than five decades as a member of the Arkansas Tech University family.

            Teeter’s commitment to his alma mater will be recognized when Arkansas Tech names its athletic training facility inside the Hull Physical Education Building in his honor on Saturday, Oct. 31.

            The facility, which provides Arkansas Tech student-athletes with the latest in injury care and prevention, will thereafter be known as the Dr. Stanley D. Teeter Athletic Training Center.

            “Dr. Stanley Teeter is a treasure not only at Arkansas Tech University, but throughout our community,” said Dr. Robert C. Brown, Tech president. “His thoughtful, kind and gentle nature made him a beloved family doctor. At Arkansas Tech, he has applied those same characteristics for the benefit of our students. For that, we are eternally grateful and proud to name our athletic training facility in his honor.”

            Teeter earned his bachelor’s degree from Arkansas Tech in 1956. He was a class officer in each of his four years at Tech and a four-year letterman for the Wonder Boys football program. He was named All-Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference as a senior in 1955 and he was a member of Tech’s AIC championship team in 1954.

            After earning his medical degree and spending five years as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy, Teeter returned to Russellville and began practicing medicine there in 1965.

            On Sept. 21, 1968, Teeter returned to the Tech athletics program as team doctor. He spent the next 33 seasons on the Tech sideline, and during that time, he treated more than 6,000 Tech student-athletes. The Wonder Boys and Golden Suns won 48 conference championships during Teeter’s tenure as team doctor from 1968-2000.

            A 1976 inductee into the Arkansas Tech Hall of Distinction, Teeter was a member of the Tech Board of Trustees from 1976-86.

Significant events during his tenure on the board included the renaming of the institution from Arkansas Polytechnic College to Arkansas Tech University, the implementation of Tech’s first graduate programs, the opening of Tucker Coliseum and the planning for the building known today as Corley Hall.

Teeter retired from his medical practice in December 2000, but he has remained busy by making the occasional road trip with the Wonder Boys in his role as team doctor emeritus and as a volunteer with the River Valley Christian Clinic.

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