Gee receiving out-of-this-world bow tie

Filed by Associated Press September 5th, 2008 in Top Stories.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University President Gordon Gee is known for the bow ties around his neck. Now, he’s getting one back that’s been around the earth.

The school says a bow tie in Ohio State scarlet and gray will be returned to Gee in a special presentation Friday evening, several months after the neckwear flew on the space shuttle Endeavor.

What the university has called “the first bow tie in space” was taken on board a two-week mission to the international space station by Dr. Richard Linnehan. The astronaut received his doctorate in veterinary medicine from Ohio State in 1985.

Gee joked that he offered the tie instead of launching himself into space.

 


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