By Tony Kendall
There are so many, but my first memory of Doc came during my sophomore year of high school when my then high school journalism teacher, Ann Landini, took the newspaper staff to a workshop at Murray State.
Doc and Bob Valentine put on their Dr. Trey and Dr. Vee show for us. They were very entertaining and not eggheads or nutty absent-minded like the professors in movies and on television. Later during one of the workshop sessions, Doc was using a telescopic pointer pen. I told him that I wished I had something like that. He replied that if I answered a question correctly he would give it to me. Once I got to Murray, I took every class Doc taught and was able to start a collection of pens. Some years later in a grad class he smiled in my direction and told me I was out of luck, he no longer pointed with pens, then proceeded to pull a laser pointer from his shirt pocket and told me he believed that I could afford to buy one of my own at this point in my life.
When I returned to school to get my teaching degree in the early 2000s, he told me to come by the house sometime. I did and he gave me one last telescopic pen. Told me he found in it a drawer somewhere. I sure miss that man and the characters he was. Long Live Doc!
Tony Kendall is a 1985, 1991 and 2004 graduate of Murray State University. His son, Nick, is a senior television production major.
