Steve Capus, SCT '86

I grew up in Bucks County, in a small town called Warminster and my first radio job was as a DJ at a small FM radio station when I was in 9th grade. I worked all the way through school while I was at Temple. I lived in Warminster, and then I lived in Elkins Park and I'd take the subway from Fern Rock and spent a lot of time on the Broad Street line. I used to be able to recite every stop. A little dicey, you know, there were certain subway stops that you were encouraged not to get off at. I'd say it felt tentative, you know, a kind of uneasy relationship at times between the community and the school.

Temple is grounded in a reality and recognizing and respecting that the people who come to that school are there for a great education, but many of them have lives, have business lives already. I can remember when they, when Temple started transitioning to the "T" and there was a big emphasis on that. I think I was there the first year that they started the mandatory transition to the "T" everywhere. It was about unity. It didn't matter whether the campus was in center city, there on Walnut Street, it didn't matter if the campus was Walnut Street or North Broad or Ambler or Broad, having that Temple "T" meant something.

You know this is not a passive “yeah, I got my degree from so and so.” No, no. I went to Temple, I went to Temple, which means a lot more than sitting down taking classes in a certain place. It means being in North Philly; it means being a part of the community; it means being a part of Temple sports; it means being a part of the professional community.