MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1995
St. Louis – The University of Memphis closed out the Great Midwest Conference in style on Sunday with a twogame sweep of the Cincinnati Bearcats to claim its second GMC Tournament title in the past three seasons. The Tigers won the first game, 8-0, and then wrapped up the championship with a 5-3 victory. The tournament is the last one for the GMC, which is disbanding. Every GMC school except Dayton will be a member of the newly formed Conference USA. The GMC tournament winner does not receive an automatic bid to the NCAA baseball tournament.
50 years ago — 1970
Wassell Randolph, president of the board of directors of the Memphis Public Library, a member of the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees since 1927, the former owner of Meadowbrook Dairy and a Memphis attorney, has died. He was 89. Mr. Randolph was elected to the Cossitt Library Board first in January 1917, succeeding his late father, William M. Randolph. Since 1935 he has served as president of the city's library board. The $5 million Wassell Randolph Student Alumni Center at 800 Madison in the University of Tennessee Medical Units was dedicated
Oct. 5. A portrait of Mr. Randolph hangs in the lobby of the center. Dr. Andrew Holt, retiring president of UT, called the center a well-deserved tribute to Mr. Randolph. 75 years ago —1945
Attorney General Will Gerber, who says he has more respect for a highway robber than for a
professional gambler, has called on Sheriff Roger W. West of St. Francis County, Ark., to look into reported gambling activities at Black Fish Lake.
100 years ago — 1920
Washington – Erected in memory of all patriots who died for the nation's preservation, the Arlington National Cemetery received its formal dedication Saturday. President Wilson, in a speech read for him by Secretary of War Baker, spoke of “the millions of Americans called upon to vindicate upon foreign fields of battle the principles of political liberty.”
125 years ago — 1895
One of a gang of county convicts at work near Harbert and Mclean out in East Memphis, broke loose yesterday. Officers emptied their pistols at his departing form, but to no avail.