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Tony Galloway is hooded by Dean Valerie Rutledge, left, and Dr. Beth Crawford during UTC Graduate School commencement ceremonies on Friday, Dec. 15. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s one thing to say you\u2019re a life-long learner. It\u2019s another thing to prove it.<\/p>\n

At University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Graduate School commencement exercises on Friday, Dec. 15, at McKenzie Arena, 72-year-old Tony Galloway took part in a doctoral hooding ceremony\u2014the recipient of a doctorate in Education: Learning and Leadership (Ed.D.).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to have a doctorate,\u201d he said matter-of-factly prior to commencement, \u201cbut I just hadn\u2019t had the time to do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to try not to break down and cry. It will probably be one of the grandest moments in my life when that happens. It\u2019s an affirmation of my life in a sense\u2014and what my professional life has been like for all these years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Galloway has had a long and storied teaching career at the high school and college levels.<\/p>\n

After graduating from Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport, Tennessee, and earning a bachelor\u2019s degree from King College in Bristol, Tennessee, in 1974, he started down a path toward a master\u2019s degree from the University of North Carolina\u2014but left that school after one year. \u201cI didn\u2019t finish; I wanted to get to work, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n

He returned to his Northeast Tennessee hometown to teach local and regional history and advanced placement U.S. history and government classes at Dobyns-Bennett High. He spent 25-plus years teaching high school students and won numerous accolades\u2014including outstanding teacher awards from both the Tennessee Humanities Council and the Tennessee Council for the Social Studies.<\/p>\n

In 1983, he added adjunct faculty to his r\u00e9sum\u00e9. He made higher education stops throughout East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, including ETSU, King College, Northeast State Community College, Walters State Community College, Virginia Intermont College and Tusculum University. He also served as co-director of the Governor\u2019s School for Tennessee Heritage.<\/p>\n

His history knowledge isn\u2019t parceled solely to students. In January 2019, he was appointed county historian by the Sullivan County (Tennessee) Board of County Commissioners.<\/p>\n

And it wasn\u2019t just students he taught; he stopped teaching high school full-time in 2009 to work as a teacher-coach thanks to a Tennessee First Frontier Consortium\u2019s Teaching American History grant.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack in that time period, they were offering federal grants for professional development improvement,\u201d he explained, \u201cand I took a position as a teacher-coach. I worked with teachers in a five-county area up here in Northeast Tennessee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along the way, he resumed his college career, earning a master\u2019s degree from East Tennessee State University in 1988. But he wasn\u2019t done with his schooling, recalling a time when \u201ca group of folks came up from UTC\u201d and presented at the Kingsport Center for Higher Education.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey told us that we could work on our advanced degree and not have to leave Kingsport. Basically, the professors would come to us,\u201d he said. \u201cThat was so good to hear, and I decided it was time to pursue a doctorate.\u201d<\/p>\n

He took the plunge in 2011\u2014at the age of 60.<\/p>\n

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UC Foundation Professor Beth Crawford stands with Tony Galloway, her former high school history teacher, before the Graduate School commencement.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Beth Crawford, who serves as UC Foundation professor and program advisor for UTC\u2019s Learning and Leadership programs, came to Chattanooga after graduating from Dobyns-Bennett High School. \u201cI moved here when I was 17 and never left,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A two-time alum of the University, she earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in communication in 1985 and a master\u2019s in psychology in 1988\u2014along with a doctoral degree from UT Knoxville in 2001. She spent her first 24 years at UTC as a member of the Division of Continuing Education.<\/p>\n

After Crawford transitioned into Learning and Leadership in fall 2011, she was scrolling through the course roles of a Kingsport-based Ed.D. class she was assigned to teach and stumbled upon the name Tony Galloway.<\/p>\n

She found her high school yearbook and showed Galloway\u2019s photo to Dr. David Rausch, the Learning and Leadership program director.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs this Tony Galloway, only 30 years later?\u201d she asked. It turns out it was indeed her former high school history teacher.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a bit daunting; I was going to walk into a classroom that August and teach not only all these people in the program, but my former teacher,\u201d Crawford recalled. \u201cIt was a little bit intimidating at first, but it worked out great. There wasn\u2019t any kind of ego. He wanted to learn and I wanted to provide information.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTony was definitely a little bit of an outlier,\u201d Crawford continued, \u201cbut this program was designed for the contemporary adult learners who are out there. It was designed to make it palatable for adults with all kinds of other things going on in life. These people are usually a little higher up in their careers, a little more established.\u201d<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t unusual for that weekend-based program to take an extended time to complete, and\u2014in Galloway\u2019s case\u2014he ended up being a caretaker for aging parents. But he stuck with the program, culminating with his dissertation on June 6 this year titled, \u201cSecondary teachers\u2019 perceptions on their competency and self-efficacy levels associated with an integrated professional development approach to teaching United States history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it\u2019s still fun being a student,\u201d Galloway said, \u201cbut when I got to the point of the dissertation, that\u2019s a lonely track; it\u2019s just you. There would be some evenings when I would ask myself, \u2018Why in the world am I doing this?\u2019 And then I answered, \u2018Because I want to do it.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like the crown on top of years of working in education. I\u2019ve always been a learner and I still have that appetite. I\u2019m willing to do what it takes to meet that need.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dissertation was conducted via Zoom, which was appropriate to the changing modalities of teaching and learning. Crawford was chair of the Learning and Leadership committee overseeing his dissertation research.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just been an interesting relationship because she\u2019s been my coach who\u2019s got me through all of this and been real patient with this old geezer\u2014and always encouraging,\u201d Galloway said. \u201cShe\u2019s probably one of the most affirmative people that I know.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a very good student for me and I hope I was also a good student for her. At least I think I was.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Receiving

Receiving the doctoral degree, Tony Galloway said, was “an affirmation of my life in a sense\u2014and what my professional life has been like for all these years.”<\/p><\/div>\n

On Dec. 15, nearly 50 years after receiving a bachelor\u2019s degree, Galloway heard his name recited again\u2014this time as a doctor of education.<\/p>\n

His family\u2014wife Beth, son and daughter-in-law Marshall and Kristen, and grandchildren Brianna and Eli\u2014were in the McKenzie Arena crowd cheering him on.<\/p>\n

His former high school prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Crawford, was on stage helping put the hood over his head.<\/p>\n

Even though one of them might refer to him as Dr. Galloway, don\u2019t expect him to bestow that academic title upon himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look back at the hard work and the nights and the days I spent working on the end product here and it was worth every minute,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to say, \u2018I\u2019m a doctor.\u2019 I\u2019m just a learner. I see myself as an enabler to help students learn their history; that\u2019s what I want to continue doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI figure as long as you love doing it, keep doing it. That\u2019s kind of my motto.\u201d<\/p>\n

His grand plan: return to Kingsport to continue his life as a teacher, coach and mentor, a role, he said, \u201cthat defines me.\u201d<\/p>\n

He still teaches college students as an adjunct faculty member at Tusculum University and Walters State Community College. He still teaches high school students through a dual-enrollment program at Walters State for Hawkins County students. He often serves as a substitute.<\/p>\n

And, of course, he will continue encouraging others to keep learning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would suggest anybody, regardless of their age, if they\u2019re looking for an advanced degree, don\u2019t say no simply because you got a few years on you,\u201d Galloway said. \u201cGo for it while you\u2019ve still got your mental faculties with you\u2014and I\u2019ve still got mine with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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