The indoor football practice field in Neyland-Thompson Sports Center was transformed Thursday into the 1912 scene of the sinking Titanic. Shelley Binder, associate professor of music (flute), teaches a First Year Studies 129 course about the Titanic disaster. Binder’s great-grandmother, Leah Aks, and her great uncle, F. Phillip “Filly” Aks, then just a baby, survived the ship’s sinking. The students used historical records to learn about the Titanic and Aks’s escape from her third-class quarters to access a lifeboat. A student similar in height and weight to Aks dressed in a floppy hat and long coat to mimic dress of the time. She carried a 20-pound doll to represent baby Filly. Members of the UT cheer squad assisted class members in forming a human ladder to hoist the two to the height of the ship’s upper deck. The re-enactment aired live on WBIR’s “Live at Five at Four.”
Students in associate music professor Shelley Binder’s First Year Studies 129 Course, along with members of the UT cheer squad, reenact Binder’s great-grandmother, Leah Aks, and her great uncle, F. Phillip “Filly” Aks, escape from the ill-fated Titanic voyage in 1912. Photographed Thursday, April 26, 2018 in the indoor practice facility…Photo by Erik Campos.
Students in associate music professor Shelley Binder’s First Year Studies 129 Course, along with members of the UT cheer squad, reenact Binder’s great-grandmother, Leah Aks, and her great uncle, F. Phillip “Filly” Aks, escape from the ill-fated Titanic voyage in 1912. Photographed Thursday, April 26, 2018 in the indoor practice facility…Photo by Erik Campos..41247
Students in associate music professor Shelley Binder’s First Year Studies 129 Course, along with members of the UT cheer squad, reenact Binder’s great-grandmother, Leah Aks, and her great uncle, F. Phillip “Filly” Aks, escape from the ill-fated Titanic voyage in 1912. Photographed Thursday, April 26, 2018 in the indoor practice facility…Photo by Erik Campos.
Students in associate music professor Shelley Binder’s First Year Studies 129 Course, along with members of the UT cheer squad, reenact Binder’s great-grandmother, Leah Aks, and her great uncle, F. Phillip “Filly” Aks, escape from the ill-fated Titanic voyage in 1912. Photographed Thursday, April 26, 2018 in the indoor practice facility…Photo by Erik Campos.
