Credit was a 1990 OSU graduate in music education. Three years earlier, he performed at the groundbreaking ceremony for the building expansion. Credit has performed professionally in many musicals, most notably in Broadway productions of Porgy and Bess and Showboat. He also performed at President Obama’s inauguration and was the featured guest artist during the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Centennial Celebration of Duke Ellington.
Waddy was elected president of ASOSU in the spring of 1994 and served until the spring of 1995. In 1993 she coordinated a successful effort that pledged $1 million to the Valley Library campaign between that year and 2007. Waddy also served as a student member of the State Board of Higher Education from June 1995 to June 1997 and as coordinator of the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center.
The Hatfield Marine Science Center Library was named as a memorial to Marilyn Potts Guin who served as the Marine Science Center's first Librarian from September 1976 until her death in December 1989. The Library was dedicated on July 4th, 1990.