[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...

[Jarons]

I remember a "preaching" couple when I was at EKU in the 90s. I don't remember their name, but from your description of them it sounds like the same couple. They didn't do much preaching, just shouting insults and telling everyone that they are going to hell. They probably led more people to be atheists than Christians. I know they increased my anger towards Christians had had a the time, which I do not have anymore. I remember the the wife calling a random girl a whoremonger because of the way she was dressed.
This couple definitely knew how to get a crowd worked up. It was entertaining to watch even though I didn't appreciate their approach.
Like you, my time at EKU was the best time of my life. I met my wife there, I met three of my closest friends there and after 20 plus years still in close contact with all three. I miss it there, I haven't visited the campus in years.

[Old School Hound]

Brother Jed was a very smart man. He earned a B.S. in Social Studies from Indiana State University, a M.S. in U.S. History and did postgraduate work in counseling and psychology.

He was also a writer. During one of his trips to EKU back in the early 80's he gave me a copy of a book he had written, called "Who Will Rise Up?"  I still have the book.  The one signed below is not my copy.



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[Old School Hound]

Jed doing his thing, In his later years:


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[Old School Hound]

I think Brother Jed and Sister Cindy represented the whole of the Christian community pretty accurately. They may have had a more "in your face" bombastic style than most but they pretty much expressed the way most Christians think. There was a pilot episode of a reality show about the Smock family that aired several years ago. I remember seeing a big framed picture of Donald Trump hanging in their living room. No surprise there. 

Here's the controversial Smocks on the Sally Jesse Raphael Show back in the '80's. Raphael says at the end of the show that she will never invite them back because of how disrespectful they were to her audience.

[Old School Hound]

Even after the death of her beloved husband, Sister Cindy still visits college campuses on her "Ho No Mo " tour.

[King Kong]

That's some pretty neat stuff OSH.  I'll have to look up some videos of those two,  sounds pretty entertaining!

[Old School Hound]

That's some pretty neat stuff OSH.  I'll have to look up some videos of those two,  sounds pretty entertaining!

I passed(some might say, pissed away) a lot of hours in college watching these two on EKU's campus. I remember one time Jed was preaching and he caught sight of a young girl walking in the distance. He pointed at her and yelled out, "There goes a w**r* !!!"  The  girl changed the direction she was heading and marched over to where Jed was standing and promptly smacked him in the face hard enough to where you could hear it reverberate all over that part of campus. The kids all died laughing. Jed gathered himself and picked up right back up where he left off with more name calling and more admonitions about the "loose" women on campus.

[Westside]

I remember a preacher exchanging insults with students in the mid 90's at EKU.  I am assuming it was him.  I don't remember the female.  I passed by preacher by the fountains in front of the Powell Building.  I was on my way to a class so I didn't stop.

[Old School Hound]

I remember a preacher exchanging insults with students in the mid 90's at EKU.  I am assuming it was him.  I don't remember the female.  I passed by preacher by the fountains in front of the Powell Building.  I was on my way to a class so I didn't stop.

I spent most of my time on campus in either the Powell and Wallace Buildings, the two that you see in the '83 video I posted. Man, I miss those days. The Powell is where I'd hang out and rest between classes and the Wallace was where most of my classes met.

[Jarons]

I remember a preacher exchanging insults with students in the mid 90's at EKU.  I am assuming it was him.  I don't remember the female.  I passed by preacher by the fountains in front of the Powell Building.  I was on my way to a class so I didn't stop.

I spent most of my time on campus in either the Powell and Wallace Buildings, the two that you see in the '83 video I posted. Man, I miss those days. The Powell is where I'd hang out and rest between classes and the Wallace was where most of my classes met.

Powell Building is where I met my wife. We worked at the Powell Top Floor Cafeteria.

[Old School Hound]

I remember a preacher exchanging insults with students in the mid 90's at EKU.  I am assuming it was him.  I don't remember the female.  I passed by preacher by the fountains in front of the Powell Building.  I was on my way to a class so I didn't stop.

I spent most of my time on campus in either the Powell and Wallace Buildings, the two that you see in the '83 video I posted. Man, I miss those days. The Powell is where I'd hang out and rest between classes and the Wallace was where most of my classes met.

Powell Building is where I met my wife. We worked at the Powell Top Floor Cafeteria.

That is so cool!!! What years were you at EKU?

I met a lot of gals there, but none of them became my wife. Most of my gal pals were told by Sister Cindy to be a "HO NO MO."  They didn't listen.

[Jarons]

I remember a preacher exchanging insults with students in the mid 90's at EKU.  I am assuming it was him.  I don't remember the female.  I passed by preacher by the fountains in front of the Powell Building.  I was on my way to a class so I didn't stop.

I spent most of my time on campus in either the Powell and Wallace Buildings, the two that you see in the '83 video I posted. Man, I miss those days. The Powell is where I'd hang out and rest between classes and the Wallace was where most of my classes met.

Powell Building is where I met my wife. We worked at the Powell Top Floor Cafeteria.

That is so cool!!! What years were you at EKU?

I met a lot of gals there, but none of them became my wife. Most of my gal pals were told by Sister Cindy to be a "HO NO MO."  They didn't listen.

Most of the 90s. I graduated in 2000.