Dr. Calvin B. Garland joined the health education faculty in the School of Public and Allied Health in 1965 after receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from East Tennessee State University. His specialty areas of teaching included emergency care and transportation of the sick and injured, safety education and accident prevention and consumer health education. He was named Distinguished Faculty Member in 1976 and was further honored by being designated Professor Emeritus on his retirement from the university.
In addition to his teaching load at the university, Garland was an American Red Cross
instructor for advanced first aid and emergency care, standard first aid and personal
safety, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation-basic life support. An emergency medical
technician for Tennessee Emergency Medical Services, Garland also taught radiological
monitoring for the Tennessee Department of Civil Defense.
Dr. Garland was named Outstanding Educator of America in 1972 and 1975 and received
an American Red Cross Service Award in 1973 as s well as a certificate of appreciation
in 1986. He is listed in the Who’s Who in the South and Southeast, the Dictionary
of International Biography, and Personalities of the South.
A member of the Tennessee Public Health Association and the Tennessee Chapter of the
Society for Public Health Education, Dr. Garland was also a Phi Delta Kappa and Eta
Stigma Gamma honor society member. He served on many service committees at ETSU and
as a consultant for such outside agencies as W.C. Brown Publishing Co, the National
Forrest Service and Johnson City-Washington County Emergency Medical Services. He
also participated in the semi-annual instructional television services through WSJK
covering such topics as hypothermia, frostbite, and senior adult growth in education.
Mr. Garland rendered exceptional services to ETSU, the School of Public and Allied
Health, and the Department of Health Education. He was an outstanding professor who
readily gave of himself to make sure that the need of all students were met.