[Old School Hound]

I spent the early 80's in Richmond matriculating at Eastern Kentucky University. It was a great time to be on campus. The football team, led by HOF coach and Corbin native, Roy Kidd, Corbin super-athlete and my friend , Steve Bird, along with Pineville's Tuck Woolum, was winning national championships. Back home, Corbin was still winning state championships. I really loved my time in Richmond and EKU. I will always be a Colonel at heart.

Another pretty fond memory of my time at EKU was the visits every semester by campus preachers, particularly Brother Jed Smock , along with Sister Cindy. At the time I knew them from '80- '83 , they were not husband and wife. They would later go on to marry and have, I believe five girls. Brother Jed passed away in June of 2022.

I always enjoyed watching them preach, or perform. I found them pretty entertaining, and all the name-calling they did and antics aside, I felt like they were sincere about the message they preached. Many students found them very annoying and would get very upset at the preachers' antics, pretty much what Jed and Cindy expected, and probably wanted. I always looked forward to their visits, as it made for some entertaining hours away from the stress of classes and the  painfully boring, and sometimes , grueling,  hours of study. I never harassed them, as many students did. I would sometimes chat quietly with Jed, while Cindy was preaching, or vice versa.

 The video that I'm going to share with you is from 1983, when I was still in Richmond. In fact, if you watch closely you might even see Old School make a cameo appearance. I'll be the one with the signs(no, I'm just kidding. That was well before my sign days...lol)  Unfortunately, there is no sound in this footage. No sound in a clip of Brother Jed is not much fun but just to look back, via this vintage footage, at the campus and at a time 41 years ago that I enjoyed so much,  is pretty neat. I'd give anything to be able to go back to that time.

Anyone else remember these two campus preachers? They were something else. Sister Cindy became quite a sensation on Tik Tok a few years ago. The husband and wife tandem preached on campuses all across the country for over 40 years, prior to Jed's death in '22.

Enjoy...