Woodson Welcome

By D'Lyn Ford
Holding court at a pep rally in Reynolds
Coliseum last night, Chancellor-elect Randy Woodson told a welcoming
crush of faculty, staff, students and alumni that he’s no stranger to
the historic arena. As a high school student in southern Arkansas, he
spent hours in front of the television, watching basketball great David
Thompson swoop in for alley oops back in 1974, the year NC State won
its first national championship.
On Wednesday, standing on the court where Thompson played, Woodson and
his wife Susan enjoyed the cheers, signs, marquee and 40-foot
inflatable wolf celebrating their visit to campus. The new chancellor
officially takes over the first week of April.
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