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I taught there and then went to Arizona State for four years and got my PhD in exercise physiology.\u00a0What brought you to Faulkner?I had a friend at Pepperdine. His brother visited us there, hung around the gym and he eventually got a Master\u2019s degree in PE. When I was in Arizona,\u00a0he went to a wellness program in Mississippi and heard about the job here at Faulkner and told me about it. I wanted to teach at a Church of Christ university and this is the one that had an opening.What attracted you to Faulkner?The people were very nice. It was my first experience with the South, so there was a certain amount of culture shock, but they wanted me. It was nice to get straight out of school and to be wanted. I also needed a job and we fit together well.Classes taught?Lifetime Fitness, Exercise Physiology and Sport Psychology and PE classes.What do you enjoy most about Faulkner University?The people and the kids, who probably don\u2019t appreciate being called kids. When I first got here, E.J. Turner was still here, who was the brother of one of the founders, Rex Turner. The first year we were having a beginning-of-school-year cookout where parents dropped off their kids and they would come up to him and say, \u201cBrother E.J., do you remember me?” He said, “Yes, you were the one who did such and such.\u201d He was getting second generation students and I thought, I will not be here that long. I was wrong. I have children of people who I had as students and it\u2019s really kind of fun. I\u2019m surprised that I\u2019m still here, but I am.What attracted you to your field of study?I was a music major and had a singing scholarship, but I discovered that I had to take theory classes. Then I discovered I could keep my singing scholarship if I sang in everything and I could still\u00a0study whatever I wanted. So I took one of\u00a0my professor\u2019s tests that tell you what you want to do when you grow up.\u00a0He graded it and asked me if I had ever thought about being a PE teacher? He said, \u201cYou like outside, you like people, you like to stay active.\u201d I said, no that would be embarrassing to be one of the jocks. He suggested I try a class so I took anatomy physiology and\u00a0my world changed. It was the first class in my life that I was just enthralled with. I would go and sit and just read a textbook of medical physiology and read whatever we were studying and just be fascinated.\u00a0I thought, this isn\u2019t so dumb after all and I would like to do this and it worked out well.What advice would you give students entering your classes or program?The key is to find something you love to do and then regardless of the obstacles such as the job market may not\u00a0be good, or the pay is not that good, or the hours or whatever it is, do it, because then like me you will love to do it. I have no intention of stopping after 40 years. Every time I walk into the class it’s exciting, it\u2019s like theatre. My job is to keep\u00a0my students awake, keep them interested and laugh occasionally. Don’t worry about what pays the most. It\u2019s not worth it. You won\u2019t find happiness in money.What\u2019s your favorite place in Montgomery?The Shakespeare Festival. I\u2019m there two or three days a week jogging and I love to go to the plays. We know the people there now because we\u2019ve been going so long and they\u2019ve come to the dinner theater when we\u2019ve been in things. They are spectacular."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.faulkner.edu\/news\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Faulkner Faculty Spotlight: Terry Brown","item":"https:\/\/www.faulkner.edu\/news\/faulkner-faculty-spotlight-terry-brown\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]