Jimmy Stansell, Jr. joins the company after receiving an electrical engineering degree from Vanderbilt, completing graduate studies in Traffic Engineering at Yale University, and spending a year as a Traffic Engineer in Louisville, KY. He had worked off and on for the company since he was 14.  Later that year, SEC lands its first major interstate lighting project on I-40 west of 40th Avenue, and completes the WLAC-TV (now WTVF) studios on James Robertson Parkway.