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Faculty and Administrators
Take a stroll down memory lane and see what it was like being a faculty or administrator here at Yavapai College. Read funny stories, special memories, and encouraging words from current and past faculty and administrators. You can submit your own memories for inclusion on this page. Click on a decade below to start reading.
Dick Marcusen, 1970s
The Art Department was one classroom above the library which was in the building [Building 3] we’re in now. It was drawing and painting that was experienced by Mr. Ed Branson and that was the size of it. When I came, Vince Kelley and I joined the faculty as full-time faculty and the first classes we taught were in Building 4 in what was the Homemaking room. We turned it into a Ceramics Studio and a classroom, which became an Auto Shop lecture/classroom, where I taught everything from woodworking to leather to metalsmithing. We taught there a year and then after that Building 5 was constructed. We started the Crafts Program in Building 5 and the Wood Program still uses that facility currently…
Scott Farnsworth, 1980s
I don’t know that I’ve got one. I think one of the most memorable was accompanying the soccer team when they won their first National Championship, back in Mercer County, New Jersey. This was the second year of our program and just essentially really came out of nowhere to go all the way to the championship game and win the National Championship was really, really something special.
I’ve also been fortunate to help out with the Cross Country Team; they’ve won two National Championships. Baseball’s won a National Championship. I accompanied them in ’93 to Grand Junction, Colorado when they won the College World Series. Then also recently when they were back there 2 years ago for the College World Series again and they were in the Championship game and ended up as runners-up. Again, there’s not just one memory or special experience but there’s been a lot…
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Keith Haynes, 1990s
I did all my schooling here [Prescott] and then after I graduated high school I got an AA from Yavapai in 1985. So, I was a student here in 1983, 1984, and 1985.
I would say in the late 60’s/early 70’s it was very dicey here as far as [my father’s] employment situation here. There were really no protections whatsoever for faculty in their careers and employment with the College. The administration was extremely authoritarian… Male faculty were prohibited from having beards. I’ve heard one story that any faculty caught on Whiskey Row would be terminated. I’m sure that was kind of a reaction against a lot of the social turmoil of the 1960’s & “we’re not going to let those long-hairs come to Prescott and ruin our town…”
