The Maintenance Department at Northeast is taking care of the Trouper/Roscoe statue on campus as contractors proceed with the demolition of the Social Science and Knox buildings this summer.  The statue of the late, beloved former mascots for the college is in the quad area of campus. As novelist and college friend Daniel Wallace put it, Trouper and Roscoe represent how the college will take anyone in and provide them with support, love, and new opportunities! Demolition of the buildings will start and finish this summer.

The life-sized bronze statue features two NACC treasures, Trouper the Mustang and Roscoe the Campus Dog, and memorializes them forever on NACC’s campus.

The statue was designed by NACC’s Associate Dean of Instructor and talented artist Barbara Kilgore. Kilgore partnered with the University of Alabama’s Sculpture Department and the UA foundry to bring the idea to life. Kilgore’s design places Trouper and Roscoe nose to nose, facing one another. Kilgore felt this was a perfect representation of NACC, saying, “It occurred to me that Roscoe had chosen us to be a part of his family and that we have chosen Trouper to be a part of our family. I realized that if we were going to have a sculpture that showed the spirit of the institution, it had to include them both. The interaction between the two is one of total acceptance. They are nose to nose, looking at each other. The mood is one of love and respect: the essences of NACC.”