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College Town Talk is a podcast from Tennessee Tech University in partnership with the Cookeville-Putnam County Visitors Bureau. Each week, hosts Jonathan Frank and Shan Stout introduce listeners to Tech faculty, staff and students as well as successful Tech alumni, local business owners and civic leaders who are making a difference and living Wings Up in their community.
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College Town Talk, Episode 64 - President Emeritus Bob Bell
Friday, 19 December, 2025

This week on a special episode of College Town Talk, we’re joined by Tennessee Tech President Emeritus Bob Bell. In this wide-ranging conversation, President Emeritus Bell reflects on the decision to first join Tech as a faculty member in the College of Business nearly 50 years ago, offers little-known details of former First Lady Gloria Bell’s “super-secret” project devising the Tech flag that is still in use today, and recounts personal memories from the dedication of Robert and Gloria Bell Hall, home to Tech’s Whitson-Hester School of Nursing. Plus, he takes us behind the scenes of a historic day in 2012 when the Cookeville-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce brought him and former Tech presidents Volpe, Prescott and Roaden together on the same stage.