JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. —
Leigh De Ball is 99 percent certain her daughter Margaret will attend MTSU
starting in fall 2017.
Based on the passion exhibited by father-and-son Scott and
Caleb Hamilton in front of the large crowd attending the MTSU True Blue Tour
Oct. 18 at The Millennium Centre, they may have pushed it beyond the 100
percent level if that’s possible.
Johnson City served as the fifth stopover for the True Blue
Tour, MTSU’s annual trek across Tennessee and also to Atlanta, Huntsville,
Alabama, and in November, to Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky, to recruit
prospective students.
Having spoken to both the De Ball and Hamilton families
before taking the stage, university President Sidney A. McPhee asked them to
share their feelings about MTSU, which is more than 250 miles from their
hometowns.
Scott and Caleb Hamilton and Margaret De Ball obliged, and
they came away owing $1,000 less for college as McPhee presented them a $1,000
scholarship.
“MTSU is just amazing. There’s no other way to describe it,”
said Caleb Hamilton, 17, a senior at Sullivan South High School in Kingsport
who expressed an interest in studying health science or forensics. “I love how
personal the staff is for me as a student. They call you by your name.”
The Hamiltons praised MTSU’s buildings, both old and new,
and how beautiful the campus is to the eye. They spoke volumes about a female
member of the Blue Elite campus tour team — a “true ambassador” for MTSU.
Margaret De Ball’s dream is to own a bookstore and she
believes MTSU’s business entrepreneurship program is exactly what she is
looking for to make it a reality.
“I love everything about it,” said De Ball, 17, a senior
from Greeneville High School who has applied and been accepted to MTSU. “They
have the major I want and the campus is gorgeous. … I visited another school,
but when I stepped on the MTSU campus, I knew that was where I wanted to go. It
felt like home to me.”
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