Doc Stories
Ads Club Celebrates Semester of Success
By Jada Poindexter Murray State Ads Club meets every Tuesday in Wilson Hall, and this fall, they have been working tirelessly on a campaign for the National Football League (NFL) as part of the American Advertising Federation (AAF) annual competition. During Homecoming 2025 Tent City, the club continued its annual fundraising tradition by selling stickers […]
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Seay: My Doc Story
By Roger Seay Any time spent with Dr. Robert H. McGaughey III was like traveling with Bob Hope on a U.S.O. Show. The one-liners never stopped. And sometimes you even got a musical number. I don’t believe I ever heard the same joke twice. There are few people in my life who are walking encyclopedias […]
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Kendall: My Doc Story
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. […]
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Those of us who have roamed the hallways of Wilson Hall or the eighth floor of the Fine Arts Building from the 1970s to the 2000s hold many fond memories of the one and only Doc. Whether we were the recipients of one of his Atta Boy awards or a Doc Hot News Tip or […]
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Qualls: My Doc Story
By Kevin Qualls In the fall of 1993, I was on the receiving end of a phone call from a very stern Robert “Doc” McGaughey III. I had never met him. But something I had said got back to him, and he had to reply. I had voiced a comparison of the studio facilities of […]
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Those of us who have roamed the hallways of Wilson Hall or the eighth floor of the Fine Arts Building from the 1970s to the 2000s hold many fond memories of the one and only Doc. Whether we were the recipients of one of his Atta Boy awards or a Doc Hot News Tip or […]
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Mazzone: My Doc Story
It was actually an MSU English teacher who sent me to Dr. McGaughey. In my second year of English literature, my essay professor asked me if I would consider English as a major, and I wasn’t really interested in that. “Well, then you need to go talk to Dr. McGaughey and consider journalism,” was her […]
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