TROY alumnus helped save lives during Baton Rouge flooding

TROY graduate and former football player Tyler Parker helps a child to safety during flooding in Baton Rouge. (Image courtesy Tyler Parker)

TROY graduate and former football player Tyler Parker helps a child to safety during flooding in Baton Rouge. (Image courtesy Tyler Parker)

While some aim to become gridiron heroes, former Troy Trojans football player Tyler Parker recently became a real-life hero.

The historic flooding that struck Baton Rouge, La., in August came just a month after Parker, 24, moved to the area from Troy to take a teaching and coaching job at Parkview Baptist School.

Though Parker…

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TROY Vietnam Alumni Chapter volunteers at orphanage

Members of the Troy University Alumni Chapter volunteering at Saint An’s Orphanage located in Bui Chu, Nam Dinh City.

Members of the Troy University Alumni Chapter volunteering at Saint An’s Orphanage located in Bui Chu, Nam Dinh City.

Troy University alumni continue to make positive impacts on their communities all around the world.

Members of the TROY Vietnam Alumni Chapter recently spent time volunteering at Saint An’s Orphanage located in Bui Chu, Nam Dinh City. The group delivered gifts of rice, snacks and children’s books to the nearly 100 orphans, many of whom have…

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TROY grad working to preserve Civil Rights Movement history

TROY graduate Hayden McDaniel, right, credits history professor Dr. Marty Olliff with inspiring her to pursue a career in archiving.

TROY graduate Hayden McDaniel, right, credits history professor Dr. Marty Olliff with inspiring her to pursue a career in archiving.

A Troy University alumna has put her degrees to good use by making a difference in the fight to preserve one of the most important historical eras in U.S. history.

Dothan native Hayden McDaniel has spent the last year organizing and digitizing interviews with men and women who lived through the Civil Rights Era in…

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Alumnus Hank Erwin recounts “Woodlawn” story

TROY alumnus Hank Erwin, whose experience as a high school football team chaplain inspired the film

TROY alumnus Hank Erwin, whose experience as a high school football team chaplain inspired the film "Woodlawn," spoke at the Troy Campus on Aug. 22.

Troy University students heard about the events that inspired the faith-based football movie “Woodlawn” when alumnus Hank Erwin visited the campus on Monday, Aug. 22.

Erwin, whose experiences as chaplain for Birmingham’s Woodlawn High School football team in the early 1970s inspired the film “Woodlawn,” began his collegiate career playing baseball for Troy State University…

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