72 Academics Behind the Scenes... and the Audio "He's a fair boss, a real personal guy who has a broad taste in music. I guess it comes from all that dubbing he does ," aid Allen White , student graphic artist in Harding's media center. But at the end of his day at work, where he was surrounded with high-tech audio and visual equipment, David Woodroof, director of the educational media center, returned home to a "crummy old sound system and a 15-year-old 1V. " Woodroof had the responsibility ofoverseeing Harding 's audio-visual capabilities in cla srooms, the three campus auditoriums and the recording studio. He traversed the campus , setting up for concerts , making repai rs, doing whatever people needed. After almost 11 years of work in the center, Woodroof felt quite at Lottie ichols Boobtore John Noah Comput er Center Steve Owens Llni \'(:r;,ity Relation;, Edwina Pace Chance llo r 's Office Kevin Penna Computer Ce111er Sharon Phillips Finance Office Lorene Poindexter Postal Clerk Charle n e Prock Student Serv ices home. He began there as a student, graduating with a bachelor' degree in Bible in 1982 to become an as i tant to the assistant, and then progressing through the rank . Indirectly, Woodroof was involved in every a pect of campus life - from academics, when he made ure the VCR got to the classroom, to club activitie , for which he often helped in the production of end-of-theyear slide shows, to chapel, where hi office was responsible for the attention-getting dimming of the lights . Woodroofstood in the center of th back room, stacks of colored paper behind hin1, swinging a metal yardstick like a golf club. "I'll never be famous; I'm just trying to be nice," he said, and just like that, he made a hole-in-one --Amy L. Johnson Jimmy Carr pats David Woodroof on the back after a successful chapel pre e ntatio n. Woodruff a lways we lcomed the oppo rtunity to incorporate media with Harding plans and activities.
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