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Determined Heart Van Jones left UT Martin in 1990 hoping to change the world. He did. from the Chancellor

Chancellor Nick Dunagan

I wrote the majority of this column in a hotel room in Nashville on Tennessee community colleges and universities are the key to the evening of May 27 as the Tennessee Legislature prepared to vote answering these questions in the affirmative. once again on revenue measures to fund the budget for 2002-03. A special word of thanks to Speaker Jimmy Naifeh and West Tennessee I have good friends who tell me they are for better funding for higher Representatives Mark Maddox, Don Ridgeway, Craig Fitzhugh, Ronnie education and K-12, but they don’t want higher taxes or they insist Cole, Steve McDaniel, Randy Rinks, Johnny Shaw, John White, Paul that Tenncare "be fixed." Tenncare is too complicated for me to try Phelan, and Matt Kisber for their courage and farsightedness in voting to form a response on what needs to be done. I do know that health for major tax reform. It did not pass, but they stood tall for the care is expensive; that our small community hospitals would be in State of Tennessee, higher education, UT Martin’s currently enrolled trouble without Tenncare; and that Tenncare receives two federal students, and the students of the future. dollars for every state dollar invested. There are eligibility adjust- ments that need to be made, but should the future education of our In Nashville and communities across the state, there has been a lot children be held hostage until this issue is 100 percent resolved? Is of discussion about the value of higher education. Is it properly this good public policy? funded by the state? Is it important to improve the percentage of Tennesseans with a college degree? Will Tennessee be prepared to As a state, we must put aside an analysis of tax issues based on what recruit and staff the next generation of jobs? What level of quality do the individual must pay and ask ourselves what is best for the future Tennesseans want for their public higher education systems? Here of our state. Anyone who thinks that we can remain the 48th ranked are one person’s thoughts on these questions. state in per capita taxes paid and rise to any level higher than 46th or 48th in the quality of our education and other state services is It is not absolutely necessary for everyone to have a college degree, merely engaged in wishful thinking. Education is an investment. The but when you consider quality of life issues and the future job market, higher the percentage of college graduates, the larger the tax base, most Tennesseans would aspire that their children or grandchildren the healthier our population, the better the jobs and the better the pursue a college degree. It is important that high school graduates quality of life. and working adults have access to good Tennessee colleges and uni- versities. With only 17.7 percent of our citizens over the age of 25 As I complete this column the legislature has still not acted. And, it is having a four-year degree, we are ranked 48th or 49th among all highly probable that we will not know the final 2002-03 budget until states. This is a significant factor in recruiting new industry and July or August. This is not a positive environment for management, new jobs to Tennessee. and it is not the kind of signal that should be sent to prospective and current faculty. My greatest fear is that the confidence of good When citizens are making decisions about where to live and raise employees and faculty is being eroded by the Legislature’s failure to their families, many times the first things considered are: address the state’s financial situation. 1) What kinds of jobs are available? 2) What kinds of teachers do the schools have? I am not worried about UT Martin, because we have the faculty, staff, 3) Is there a nearby hospital in the community and what is the and alumni to help us deal with this situation in a way that will quality of its doctors and nurses? ensure our relative position with other Tennessee public institutions. 4) What is the quality of life in this community? My concern is about the future of Tennessee. We must not become 5) Is there a college nearby for cultural events and activities? a state that does not value education; we must never become a state that cannot or will not look to the future.

2 CAMPUS SCENE VOLUME XXXVII, SUMMER/FALL 2002 THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF UT MARTIN CampusScene Published biannually by The University of Tennnessee at Martin Martin, Tenn. 38238

Dr. John Shumaker, President 6 The University of Tennessee System

Dr. Nick Dunagan, Chancellor 10 The University of Tennessee at Martin 16 Len Parks Hoffman Interim Vice Chancellor for University Advancement Features 14 6 Van Jones is Writing & Fighting 12 Jacky Gullett Human rights activist Van Jones Director of Alumni Affairs invites Americans to "do something." Kara Hooper Campus Scene Editor 9 A Pioneer in Tech-Religion Michael McCrimmon believes Robert Muilenburg News Briefs Coordinator of Photographic Services technology will change the nature 14 New UT President makes Martin of ministry. first stop 16 Homecoming 2002: Mardi Gras 10 Voice of the Rodeo Editorial Contributions in Martin Nick Dunagan, Len Hoffman, Acclaimed rodeo announcer 20 Students and Faculty recieve Bud Grimes, Jacky Gullett, Joe Lofaro, Cheyenne Pipkin chooses to many awards Jeanna Curtis Swafford, Karen Helgeson participate in UT Martin's rodeo 22 Sports Information above all other collegiate rodeos. Design and Layout 24 AlumNotes Kara Hooper 26 In Memoriam 12 More than Just Clay Photo Contributions UT Martin classes explore clay pits Robert Muilenburg, Bud Grimes, and discover much more than clay. Departments Stanley Leary, Joe Lofaro 4 University Advancement 5 Alumni Trail

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SUMMER/FALL 2002 3 from the division of University Advancement Director of Development Jeanna Curtis Swafford

As director of development for UT Martin, I am lucky enough to the facility, he offered to help Dean James Byford and the Division of work with a volunteer group called the Development Committee. University Advancement raise the additional funds for the project. This group of alumni and friends advises our division – they David and his wife, Ruth (UTK, '72), and his brother J. Houston help with student recruitment, university marketing, and especially Gordon ('68, UTK '70), an attorney in Covington, hosted a informa- fund-raising. tional summer barbecue in Houston and Debbie (UT-Memphis, '76) Gordon’s home. Dinner guests were area alumni, donors and corpo- This summer we met with Hughes Clardy of Dyersburg, the outgoing rate representatives. In addition, David sent a letter to all agriculture chairman of the Development Committee, and Ray Smith of Camden, graduates asking for help. Last but certainly not least, he made a the incoming chairman. What impressed me most was the passion generous gift to the complex himself. these two gentlemen have for UT Martin and higher education. While neither of them are graduates of UT Martin, they believe wholeheart- In spring 2001, a fund-raising goal of $600,000 was set to complete edly in the social, cultural and economic impact this campus has on needed projects on the Teaching Complex. No state dollars were the region and the state. Our Development Committee members available, so all funds had to come from private gifts. Today, we are have helped impact major gifts from individuals and corporations in more than halfway to that goal thanks to the support of university their communities and they have made generous gifts themselves. administration, the hard work of the agriculture faculty and the We appreciate this volunteer group and the fine work they do. generosity of private donors. The efforts of the Gordons along with Danny Graves, Sara Dunagan and many other individuals and This spring, alumnus Dr. David Gordon, ('75), a veterinarian corporate partners have made this "field of dreams" a reality. from Covington, toured the Agriculture and Natural Resources Demonstration Teaching Complex during a WestStar session on cam- Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian poet and playwright, said, "A community pus. The Teaching Complex offers students hands-on experience is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." UT with animal herds and the overall business of agriculture. He was so Martin is fortunate that so many of this campus’ volunteers, both impressed with what had been done and the yet-to-be-met goals of alumni and friends, take their turn at the helm.

UT Martin Gives Economic Boost UT Martin generated $67.8 million in local income in Weakley and According to the study, university expenditures in the two counties Obion counties during the 2001 fiscal year, according to a recent totaled $39.3 million for that period. The largest category of study by UT Martin economics professor Dr. Parker Cashdollar. university spending was the $35.7 million payroll.

"The stability of the university employment and the intangible Off-campus spending by students totaled $23.7 million, including contributions UT Martin makes to the quality of life in the area nearly 30 percent of restaurant purchases in Weakley County. attest to the school's importance to the region," he said. Visitors to UT Martin, including non-students who attended university Cashdollar examined the economic impact of three categories: functions and events, spent about $2.2 million, mostly on food, university, student and UT Martin visitor spending. The $67.8 million automobile expenses and lodging. local income total included spending in all three categories.

4 CAMPUS SCENE along the Alumni Trail

Director of Alumni Affairs Jacky Gullett If an institution has recently celebrated its 100th birthday, then it would be impossible for it to follow up with a 75th birthday Kudos to: celebration, right? Well, not exactly. Not at UT Martin, anyway. Dr. Walter "Wally" Hoffmann ('65) of Champaign-Urbana, Ill., Here's the explanation. After celebrating our centennial anniversary for meritorious service as 2001-02 Alumni Council president, and as a higher education institution during 2000 and 2001, it is now for a major gift to help launch our new Center for Global Studies. time to recognize our association with the University of Tennessee. That association formally began in the fall of 1927, which Mrs. Barbara F. Garvin ('67) of Franklin, for being recognized means we are marking our 75th year as a campus of the state's as one of the five Nashville Businesswomen of the Year for 2002. land-grant institution. Her husband, Mack, is also a 1967 UT Martin graduate.

This 75th anniversary theme, along with the "Mardi Gras In Martin" Dr. Michael A. "Mickey" McAdoo ('71) of Milan, for being elect- theme on the student side, will be our focus at Homecoming 2002 ed President of the Tennessee Medical Association for 2002-2003. the week of Oct. 7-12. To help us honor our UT connection in a Mickey is a former UT Martin Alumni Council President (1985-86). meaningful way, our alumni from the UT Junior College era (1927- His wife, Dixie, is a 1972 UT Martin graduate. 1951) have decided to come to campus for their biennial reunion at this time. This loyal group of alumni will be invited to join in on all the weekend's festivities, including their own special time together Saturday before the football game.

Our Homecoming opponent on the gridiron will be OVC rival Southeast Missouri State. Coach Sam McCorkle enters his third year IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY GOTTEN ON THE TEAM, at the helm for the Skyhawks, and hopes are high that this will be a THERE'S STILL A SPOT FOR YOU. breakthrough year for the program. THE Team is Tennesseans for Higher Education, a confederation We have also added a new event this year. The first annual organized by the UT National Alumni Association to help bring Homecoming Golf Tournament will be held at nearby Persimmon attention to the serious need for better state funding for colleges Hills Golf Course Friday, Oct. 11. Tee time is 8:30 a.m., and experi- and universities. enced golfers and duffers alike are welcome. Fellowship, fun, food and prizes are guaranteed to all who join in. You can sign up at http://pr.tennessee.edu/THETeam/, where you'll also find facts and figures about the university. You don't Please note that the entire line-up for Homecoming weekend is have to be an alumnus of UT – anyone is welcome to join. Once included in this Campus Scene issue (page 17). A reservation you sign up, UT will send you periodic updates, especially when form is also included with the schedule of events. I encourage all the Tennessee General Assembly is in session. of you to make your plans early, and return the registration form to If you think Tennessee deserves an adequately funded higher- us as soon as possible. education system, and particularly if you're concerned about the effects of more than a decade of underfunding on our University of Tennessee, join THE Team now.

SUMMER/FALL 2002 5 by Karen Helgeson

e was severely beaten, hog-tied, gagged, and kicked in the head. Three canisters Hof pepper spray were emptied into his face. By the time they hauled him into the back of the van, he wasn’t struggling anymore. And then he died.

On June 4, 1995, Aaron Williams, an unarmed African-American man suspected of a $50 burglary, was killed while in custody of San Francisco police officers. The leader of the team was notorious officer Marc Andaya, whose history of abusive behavior had earned him 37 formal complaints and five lawsuits in 13 years.

Despite widespread attention surrounding the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles three years earlier, the Williams incident was almost buried in the back pages of the newspapers, never to resurface. But then it caught the attention of young attorney Van Jones. A 1990 UT Martin graduate and product of Yale Law School, Jones worked for Bay Area PoliceWatch, an organization for documenting incidents of police abuse and providing legal counseling.

"Nothing was being done about it," Jones remembered. "So I said, ‘Well, I’m going to get Andaya fired.’"

And he did. Using his knowledge of law and the media, coupled with his sense of social justice, Jones and Bay Area PoliceWatch rallied behind the Williams case for two years, steadily working to secure justice by changing news coverage around the case. The story, exhumed from the back pages, began making front-page headlines.

6 CAMPUS SCENE Within four weeks, it grabbed two hours of television time. And soon Born and raised in Jackson, Tenn., the son of two schoolteachers, San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner editorials were attacking Jones arrived at Martin in 1987 on a minority scholarship, and the local police commission for their support of Andaya. hit the ground running. Within weeks he became dorm president, and by the end of the year was elected secretary of communications Finally in 1997, due to media pressure and an unprecedented with the Student Government Association (SGA), beginning a outpouring of community protest, Andaya was fired and the police four-year involvement with SGA. commission that had kept him in place collapsed. Jones successfully fought for and achieved justice in the most famous success story His extracurricular involvement didn’t end there, however. A against police brutality in San Francisco Bay Area history. But most communications major, he rapidly established himself as one of importantly, he helped empower the community to hold the criminal the most vigilant journalists on campus as publisher of independent justice system accountable for its actions, an undertaking he publication The Fourteenth Circle. Soon he became Pacer editor, continues today. boosted into the position by three summers of journalism intern- ships at The Jackson (Tenn.) Sun and The Shreveport (La.) Times. Jones has gone far since he graduated from UT Martin with a bachelor’s degree in communications. But he’s quick to say that without his Jones wasn’t looking to merely pad his resume — he was undergraduate education, he couldn’t have earned his Yale law determined to revolutionize the traditional student organizations degree, cultivated the courage to attack social injustice, or achieved into weapons for change. success as a human rights activist. It was at UT Martin, he said, that he learned to write and learned how to fight. "SGA at that time was more interested in activities than issues," Jones remembered. "And we saw it more as a platform to challenge "Everything I learned, fundamentally I learned the administration to do better. We were trying at UT Martin," Jones said. "I learned how to to make a difference. We didn’t want to be ask tough questions of people in power and lapdogs, we wanted to be guard dogs." not be afraid. I learned how to phrase some- "We didn’t want to be thing to get people’s attention. How to really As editor of the student newspaper, Jones had flip a soundbite, how to make sure that your lapdogs, we wanted a similar approach. "We had screaming head- issues take center stage in the media, how to to be guard dogs." lines every week. We raised racial issues, shape issues — all that stuff we did here with administration issues, whatever. We wanted the The Pacer (student newspaper) and student administration, faculty and students to have government. Now I get to be on CNN some- equal say. A lot of us came through here who times, and BET and BBC. But it all started here." wanted to see UT Martin be the best school it could be, but we didn’t know what to do about it, so we just raised hell." Jones recently returned to his old proving ground for the first time in 12 years, where he served as keynote speaker at the annual His leadership was already grabbing headlines. At a time when AIDS communications department awards banquet. Only now this self- awareness was just beginning to spread, Jones helped trigger a student proclaimed "most notorious, outspoken, hated, controversial demonstration demanding condom machines in the dormitories. undergraduate that had come through here in about 10 years" The protest, complete with chanting ("We want condoms! We want received a hero’s welcome. condoms!"), attracted local television coverage.

Jones, an internationally-recognized human rights leader, is founder Although Jones and fellow activists were unsuccessful at changing and director of the Ella Baker Center (EBC) for Human Rights in the structure of the university (or installing dormitory condom San Francisco, which he launched in 1996 as an offshoot of Bay machines), they did win some battles. For example, with the support Area PoliceWatch. Since then, his work has garnered him presti- of the minority student association, Jones helped institute the first gious honors. His work on the Williams case earned him the black history class to be taught on campus. Rockefeller Foundation "Next Generation Leadership" Fellowship in 1997. In 1998 he was one of four worldwide who received the Dr. E. Jerald Ogg Jr., now dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Reebok International Human Rights Award, the equivalent of a Nobel Arts at UT Martin, joined the communications department as a faculty Peace Prize for human rights activists in their 20s. Most recently he member in 1987. In addition to serving as Pacer faculty adviser received a 2000 Ashoka Fellowship and was named a 2002 Global when Jones was editor, Ogg also taught Jones in six separate courses. Leader for Tomorrow. "Van was certainly one of the most gifted students I have had the Despite its international honors, his current work doesn’t lie far pleasure of teaching," Ogg remembered. "What stood out even more from his days at UT Martin. than his intelligence, however, was his passion. I was a student here "Now I get to be on CNN sometimes, and BET and BBC. But it all started here." SUMMER/FALL 2002 7 in the mid-’70s, and Van had the same zeal to make a difference you of success this quickly. As gratifying as his success has been, associate with that era." though, I am even more impressed with the way Van has taken the opportunity to share the credit." Jones’ passion was abruptly redirected during an internship with The Shreveport (La.) Times the summer before his senior year. The What began as a campaign for justice for Aaron Williams in 1996 experience steered Jones away from journalism and toward law. has become so much more. Jones’ struggle to solve human rights challenges transcends the boundaries of city or nation. "I saw a lot of old south racism down there (in Shreveport)," Jones said. "The newsroom was a place where I saw a lot of unfairness." "Since Van’s goal was to change the When a rap concert came to town, he was disturbed to watch his newspaper provoke hysteria in the community with predictions of world, I can’t be too surprised he has riots, gangsters and violence. Jones, who attended the peaceful gone out and actually done that." concert, was devastated when he saw the front page the next morn- ing. The top headline read "Rap concert peaceful, but ..." The story "This new century has a lot of challenges that the older generation was accompanied by a photo of a police officer subduing a young wasn’t prepared for. The older generation spent its entire time either African-American man, the officer’s gun drawn and pressed into the dealing with the question of the cold war or the question of civil back of the young man’s head. Although this incident had occurred rights," Jones said. "We have a new set of issues in terms of civil miles from the concert, every criminal act that had happened in the rights. We need more of a human rights, a global focus, which is entire city that night appeared in the story, as though the concert what I’ve tried to be a part of." had provoked a crime wave. And he extends the invitation to "do something" to his fellow Bitterly disappointed, Jones confronted his editor, who let him write Americans. "The United States is the world’s dominant political, an editorial for publication. economic and cultural power," he said. "Decisions made here affect people all around the world. If you can make a difference in the "But I came back to campus disgusted with the news media," Jones United States, you can make a difference all around the world. So said. "I came back feeling like the news media was part of the prob- taking that opportunity seriously as both a U.S. citizen but also as a lem. And an individual reporter couldn’t change a whole newsroom, world citizen is something I think everyone should look at." couldn’t change the whole news system. And I thought, maybe if I’m a lawyer I’ll be able to do something." That includes those who share Jones’ West Tennessee roots.

Ogg, a lawyer himself, watched as Jones made good on his goal. The "Good local folks from the heartland who were raised right and professor was an academic coach, a pillar of support and a friend work hard and get a good education should be the national leaders, as Jones prepared for law school examinations and was ultimately should be the people who are reaching out around the world, accepted into Yale, directly," Jones said. "The University of Tennessee at Martin can help the top law school put a different face on who this great America is." in the country. Jones could very well be describing himself. "Since Van’s goal was to change the "I think Van understands it is incumbent on all of us to leave a legacy," world, I can’t be Ogg said. "I expect we will be hearing a lot more from him in the too surprised he years to come." has gone out and actually done that," From student protests to the Ella Baker Center, Jones’ legacy, and his Ogg said. "I UT Martin beginnings, won’t soon be forgotten, especially by Jones remember telling himself. him he could do anything he wanted "We were out there, man," he laughed. "And (UT Martin) turned out with a UT Martin to be great preparation for what I’ve done the rest of my life. Just undergraduate pick some controversial issue and whale away at it. We didn’t win foundation, but I that many fights here, but we fought a lot of fights. I left here know- don’t know that ing how to write and how to fight. And basically every day since I’ve anyone would have left in 1990, that’s all I’ve done." predicted this level

8 CAMPUS SCENE A Pioneer in Tech-Religion

By Karen Helgeson Photo by Stanley Leary

Dr. Michael L. McCrimmon, a senior The combination of church and technology the games. I got to look behind the curtain executive for IBM Global Services, is going is new territory, but McCrimmon isn't intimi- at the Olympics, and that was a really back to school – divinity school. dated. He thrives on a good challenge, and a exciting opportunity." quick replay of his career confirms a strong The successful businessman, a 1980 UT work ethic. After graduating from UT Martin, Another point of pride for McCrimmon is Martin graduate, has a resume that boasts McCrimmon worked his way up in the cor- his stay at UT Martin. experience at some of America's greatest porate world, accepting increasing responsi- companies. But today he's poised to leave bilities at prestigious companies including "I'm very proud of the fact that I came from behind the multi-million dollar contracts Eastman Kodak Co., the Federal Express the state school system and was able to take and management of more than 1,000 Corp., and Price Waterhouse. that quality education and parlay it into the employees. McCrimmon, one of UT Martin's foundation for a successful career," he said. first computer science degree holders, is Meanwhile, he earned two more degrees, preparing for ordination as a United first a master's in business administration McCrimmon hopes his 20 years of corporate Methodist minister. and then a doctorate in computer science. challenge have prepared him for the path Today his post as director of delivery services, that lies ahead. "This is very new territory. But he won't abandon computers entirely. travel and transportation for IBM sends him This is really a new discipline that I am trying Instead, McCrimmon hopes to usher in a all over the world. to bring forward that asks, on a large staff new era in ministry, combining the tradi- should there be an associate pastor or tions of the church with the new technology One of McCrimmon's most memorable someone who is versed in handling the of computers. career challenges was as project director technology for the church?" at the Atlanta Committee for the Olympics, Computers and church? To McCrimmon, a position he accepted in 1993. Responsible Despite his worldly success, what McCrimmon the combination is natural. for ticketing, hotel accommodations and considers his greatest accomplishment to information systems, his duties went date may be the most humble. "The charter of any church today is to go beyond technology. out to the masses and reach the people," he "It's kind of funny," he mused. "After having said. "Well, now one of the greatest vehicles "Half of my staff were Spanish nationals who a twenty-year career with what some people that connects the two billion people on the had come from Barcelona," he said. "That would consider a degree of success in tech- earth is the Internet. Technology is giving us was a very rewarding time, to work with nology, my greatest joy is the fact that I'm a way to escape traditional geographical people from another culture who had come back in school, pursuing a master's degree boundaries. The whole concept of church here to Atlanta to share in the planning for in divinity and pursuing ordination." in the 21st century may change." "The whole concept of church in the 21st century may change."

SUMMER/FALL 2002 9 But there is only one event that he calls Pennington of Columbia, a person he home, and that's when he announces the UT considers a second father. Martin's annual Spring College Rodeo. Pipkin, nationally known on the professional Pennington, who was once a bull rider, a circuit, makes the UT Martin rodeo the only bullfighter, and a rodeo clown, was raising college-campus stop in his nationwide young bulls for rodeo companies, and he announcing schedule. needed someone to ride. He offered Pipkin the job, which he quickly accepted. "I went Pipkin, 53, is no stranger to Martin and down that night and I tried bull riding, and the university. He attended UT Martin in the I rode the first bull that I'd ever got on," mid-1970s when the rodeo program first Pipkin said. "I made a qualified ride on him. gained national attention. He moved on to ... For the first time in my life, somebody a successful rodeo announcing career, but was telling me I was the perfect size he's never forgotten his UT Martin roots. to ride bulls."

Raised in Columbia, Tenn., Pipkin was Pipkin's path to a rodeo career was attracted to the rodeo almost from the sidetracked in 1968 when he graduated beginning. "I always wanted to be a cowboy," from high school and joined the Marine he said. "I always wanted to be a ranch Corps. A tour of duty in Vietnam ended in cowboy and a rodeo cowboy." 1969 when he was shot in combat, so after recuperating from his wound, he returned By late junior high school, he had started to Tennessee, resumed rodeo competition, riding horses and continued to ride after his and a year later headed to UT Martin on a family moved from a farm to the city. "I'd go rodeo scholarship. By this time, he had work for the right to ride somebody's added bareback riding to his rodeo skills. By Bud Grimes horse," Pipkin recalled. "I'd go work on their ranch and do things just to get to "My reason for coming here (to UT Martin) be a cowboy." was to rodeo," Pipkin admits candidly. He came to the university at the urging of for- heyenne Pipkin has Besides his dream of being a cowboy, Pipkin mer UT Martin rodeo coach Tony Coleman also wanted to play sports, but his small size and UT Martin animal science professor Dr. seen many rodeos (113 pounds at high school graduation) Niels "Doc" Robinson. Pipkin's arrival coin- since becoming a kept him from participating when he cided with the rodeo team's first trip to the reached high school. However, Pipkin's skill National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association professional rodeo in breaking horses and his small size earned finals in 1974 in Bozeman, Mont. Coleman announcer in 1982. him a chance to ride bulls for Wayne and Robinson (now deceased) remain important people in Pipkin's life.

10 CAMPUS SCENE "He (Robinson) still has an influence on my These days, Pipkin and his family are in and life," Pipkin said. "I think about Dr. Robinson out of hotels. He has tried living in compart- and what he would do and what he would ment trailers, but hotels make the trips easier. say ... once a week it seems like. ... He was As for how this life has been for his family, just a great, great man." he laughs and says, "Well, I think they like it more than I do. They get mad at me when I Pipkin left UT Martin, but his Vietnam injury slow down and don't go as much." cut short his riding career, so he bought interest in a rodeo company in Kentucky. Doris was a professional singer in The Girls He searched unsuccessfully for someone to Next Door, a country music group, and announce his rodeos the way he wanted. Pipkin says she still likes to travel. Cheyenne Wireless microphones had just come into Jr. also likes to travel and deals with school use, and he had the idea of using an expert work using a simple technique. "...He just commentator in the arena and a primary works his can off when he's at home," announcer in the stands to call rodeo Pipkin says with obvious pride. "He's a really events. Finally, instead of having someone good student. He makes nothing but straight As." else to do the job, Pipkin announced his first rodeo in Columbia, Tenn., and from "They run that thing so professionally.... It is the best there picked up 10 rodeo announcing jobs collegiate rodeo in America." the first year. Almost a year-and-a-half later, he announced the International Finals Although he has announced the UT Martin Mac Barber, a close Pipkin friend and Rodeo in Tulsa, Okla., for the International rodeo since 1984, the event remains special longtime UT Martin Rodeo Booster Club Professional Rodeo Association. "And it's for Pipkin. "It is the only college rodeo I member, says Pipkin's familiarity with the just kind of gone from there," said Pipkin, announce, but I'll tell you, it's not even like program is a plus in his announcing the who describes himself as someone who has doing a college rodeo," he said. "They run UT Martin rodeo. "just really been lucky." that thing so professionally. ... It is the best collegiate rodeo in America." "He's announced it for years and we would Today, Pipkin still travels around the country be hard-pressed to find someone that can announcing rodeos using a wireless micro- And he has no plans to drop Martin from his do the job that he does," said Barber. "Not phone while sitting atop a horse as the itinerary. "If they'll still have me, I'll probably only is he a professional announcer, but he's rodeo events unfold around him. It's a style still be coming to Martin when I'm 65 years familiar with college rodeo and is an ex-team few announcers still use, although he does old," Pipkin adds. Coach John Luthi applauds member here. It would be a loss if we had announce from an observation stand at the Pipkin for the job he does and the relation- to get by without him, no doubt." UT Martin rodeo to better keep point totals ships Pipkin has in the community. "It's a and statistics. He makes few trips without his pleasure to work with him, and he does a For a man who has seen about everything wife, Doris, and his soon-to-be 10-year-old super job. ... It'd be hard to replace him," connected with a rodeo, Pipkin says a son, Cheyenne Jr., by his side. Luthi said. career highlight came in 2001 when he was inducted into the university's Rodeo Hall of Fame.

"I have been giving that award as the announcer of the rodeo," Pipkin said, "... and last year ... we gave out the awards, and I started to walk off, and they said 'Wait a minute. We've got another one.' And they surprised me, and I'll tell you what, it's one of the biggest thrills of my life."

Cheyenne Pipkin might have been too small to be a star in other sports, but to rodeo fans, he sits tall in the saddle as one of the country's premier rodeo announcers.

SUMMER/FALL 2002 11 The clay pits offer a "real-world setting"

MorMoree ThanThan JusJustt ClaClayy By Bud Grimes

magine the warm, tropical climate of The pit, in operation since 1976, was alive Boyd has worked with the company Isouthern Louisiana or Central America with activity on a clear day last November. 28 years. in Northwest Tennessee. Then, fast-forward It reaches 150 feet at its deepest point, 30 million years to large clay deposits that revealing large gray deposits of clay being Gibson, a UT Martin faculty member since stretch from Western Kentucky southward removed by heavy equipment. Bands of yel- 1988, says these valuable deposits place clay through Mississippi and Georgia, and then low and reddish-brown sediment are visible "in the top six of the economic resources wind their way back up the east coast. in other parts of the mine, and pools of that Tennessee produces." Beyond the eco- water fill two quadrants of the pit. The clay nomic value, Gibson says the clay is useful These clay deposits, many of which are in itself can be picked up in sticky clumps, but for other reasons. "These deposits are not Northwest Tennessee, are the valuable mix in a brief rain shower, and the pit surface only economically valuable, but there's a remains of ancient times that provide the quickly becomes slick and treacherous for wealth of information about global shifts in raw materials for Tennessee's thriving clay walking or driving. everything from sea level to just global climate industry. Besides the industry's economic patterns, which means scientifically they're impact, clay companies such as Unimin Dr. Michael Gibson, UT Martin professor of incredibly important as well," Gibson said. Corp. are opening company mines to offer geology, surveys the pit with Phil Boyd ('69), research experiences for future geologists. an engineer and Unimin plant manager for For his UT Martin students, Gibson says the this site, and Roger Moore, a recent UT clay pits offer a "real-world setting" for seri- A Unimin Corp. mine is located about four Martin master's degree graduate who con- ous academic research. "These deposits are miles southeast of Dresden, Tenn., within a ducts research at this and other Unimin incredibly fossiliferous with fossil plants that 20-minute drive from the UT Martin campus. mines. Unimin Corp., with more than 670 are so well preserved that even the pollen is The pit isn't readily visible from a gravel employees and 50 locations across the still there from that time period," he said. road entrance, but just beyond a small gate, United States, Canada, Mexico and South a large pit several football fields in diameter America, is a privately owned international At the undergraduate level, Gibson routinely comes into view. company headquartered in Connecticut. takes his geology majors to the pits where

12 CAMPUS SCENE for serious academic research. (Gibson and Dilcher found a flower estimated even three mines back together for a partic- to be more than 30 million years old in one ular application. ... Our clay and the way they search for the fossils, which include of the local dry beds. The flower had pollen we control it out here has a lot to do entire leaves, ancient logs, and other plant and petals still attached.) with how it performs in the plant and the materials. These introductory classes learn production process." about layering, ancient environments and A Milan, Tenn., resident and owner of building fossil formation in a true outdoor laboratory. supply business, Moore wants to pursue a Unimin Corp. in Gleason supplies the ball doctorate and possibly begin a new career clay portion of the blend to the marketplace, "The preservation state is what's really as a teacher. He also wants to create a body Boyd said. The productive sites are within a unique about these pits," Gibson said. "Clay of work researching these clay deposits. As 300-mile radius of this area, and the types seals in organic material so well that you a business owner and scientist, Moore of clays differ, he said."The ball clays which don't have to worry about bacteria getting in understands both the research and business we specialize in are really noted for this area and causing a lot of decay. ... That means sides of the clay mining industry, perspec- here," he said. "In comparison to worldwide that the (fossil) detail is tives he developed while working deposits, this is one of the largest, cleanest, just extraordinary." in the Unimin sites. He also knows purest, more uniform ball clay deposits in the history of Tennessee's clay the world." He said the pits also are industry, which he says was "serious data points" for formed in1893 in Henry County Boyd says Unimin and other clay companies studying issues of modern north of Paris, Tenn. operating in the region intend to be good societal importance neighbors and good stewards of the environ- (shifting climates, "I understand the challenges that ment. Allowing access to the mining sites is changing sea levels, etc.) the clay companies are involved one way the company fosters a positive image. for which international meetings are held in, because my career has been built in the and treaties are negotiated. UT Martin corporate environment," he said. "We're in From a scholarly perspective, much research students participate in these studies at the the research aspect, but I understand the remains to be done, and world-class undergraduate level, opportunities traditionally regulations that these companies need to researchers like David Dilcher continue reserved for graduate and professional-level meet and the liabilities that go along with it their work at these clay pits. There are work. The fossils and sediment layering tell and the need to make a profit." questions to be explored, including why no researchers that climate changes for this animal fossils have region followed a time when most of West Phil Boyd says this mine and a processing been found at this site. Tennessee was an ocean environment. plant in nearby Gleason produce ceramic clays for the sanitary ware "Any vertebrate found "Climate changes are a major issue facing all industry that makes bathroom com- here is going to be a of society," Gibson added. "We would like to modes and tanks. The clay also is used major find," said know how to predict what will take place in in the wall-and-tile industry, in electri- Gibson. "Even if the future to be prepared and adjust to it." cal insulators, in the asphalt emulsion business, in the fiber glass business At the graduate level, Roger Moore is a and in other ceramic applications. beneficiary of Unimin's open-access policy for research. Moore ('75, '01) completed These clays, Boyd explained, are in what's it's just a piece his master's degree in spring 2001 and called the Mississippi Embayment area and of something, continues involvement in a two-and-a-half are lense-shaped deposits that are thicker in it will be a year program studying the clay pits. He was the middle and thinner on the outside edges. big find." the first UT Martin student to complete a The deposits were made under various envi- master's degree in education with an ronmental settings similar to modern river Many other mysteries remain in the clay emphasis in geology. systems like the Mississippi River, so the deposits that lie just below the surface of various clays have to be separated to make Northwest Tennessee. What is no mystery is Moore also works with Dr. David Dilcher, a them more uniform in quality. the extraordinary value of these clay University of Florida paleobotanist, who is deposits to geology education at UT Martin, now a UT Martin adjunct professor. Gibson "We'll separate the clays out, put them in to Tennessee's economy, and to a better said Dilcher started paleobotany research in different bays, and then put them back understanding of the world's climate. this area in the 1970s and is considered one together," Boyd says. "We may put clay from of the top five paleobotanists in the world. this mine and from another mine and maybe Clay "is in the top six of the economic resources that Tennessee produces." SUMMER/FALL 2002 13 News BriefsBriefs

New UT President Makes Martin First Stop

Dr. John "It's great to be in Martin," Sundquist pretty good job with a major in ancient Shumaker wasted responded after taking the podium, saying Greek," he quipped, but added, "So I urge no time making he had been told during the presidential you all as students to take full advantage of UT Martin the first search that "Tennessee was about to steal the wonderful opportunities you have here official stop of his the best thing that's ever happened to at UT Martin, a beautiful campus. A campus University of Kentucky," then adding, "and I plead guilty." that is known for its passionate attention Tennessee presi- Sundquist said Shumaker arrives in to undergraduate students. A campus that dency. Based on Tennessee at an uncertain time, but he is known for its wonderful service to its comments he expressed confidence in Shumaker's ability surrounding area." Dr. John Shumaker made March 5 to lead the university. to a receptive Watkins Auditorium crowd, this trip was the "He comes on board at a time when the first of many to Northwest Tennessee. financial picture in Tennessee is a little uncertain, but it was Einstein who said, 'In Shumaker, accompanied by Tennessee Gov. the middle of difficulty lies opportunity,'" Don Sundquist and others, came to Martin Sundquist said. "I have every faith and every immediately following his unanimous elec- confidence that Dr. Shumaker subscribes to tion in Nashville by the UT Board of Trustees that same philosophy." as the university's next president. The presi- dent-elect quickly connected with the audi- As he took center stage, Shumaker appeared ence, making comments and answering undaunted by Tennessee's financial difficul- questions while appearing very much at ties. Instead, he told the audience, "The real Shumaker is greeted by Tennessee Gov. ease in his new home state. asset we have in Tennessee, of course, is sit- Don Sundquist ting right in front of me. We have faculty and Looking to the future, Shumaker said he Shumaker served as University of Louisville students who want this university to succeed. sees nothing but potential in the UT System. president since 1995. He earned a bache- We have alumni and community members "Put the fiscal difficulties aside. Those will lor's degree from the University of who feel very loyal and affectionate toward pass. They always do, one way or the other." Pittsburgh and master's and doctoral every campus in this wonderful system. ..." he said. "Even if they don't, we'll right-size degrees in classical studies from the the university so that we'll give the people University of Pennsylvania. He began his Shumaker said he intends to be "president of Tennessee the best university they academic career at Ohio State University. of all the system, every campus in the sys- can afford." tem." He said he's learned that the job of a In 1977 he become dean of humanities and system president is not to micromanage a Shumaker promised the audience his best fine arts at the State University of New York campus. "The job of an administration, efforts to support UT Martin's faculty and at Albany where he was vice president for whether it be the chancellor on a campus or students. It sounded like a promise that UT's academic planning and development. In the president of a system with many campuses, 21st president intends to keep. 1987, he was elected president of Central is really to focus primarily Connecticut State University. and first upon the stu- dents. The students are Chancellor Nick Dunagan directed his the reason the university gratitude for the search's outcome to Gov. exists," he said. Sundquist. "Thank you for the vital role you played in this process as chair of the search Shumaker told about his committee and as chair of the board of own academic experi- trustees," Dunagan said to the governor. ences and rise through the "You played a very important role in bring- ranks as a faculty member ing a great leader and educator to the state and university administra- of Tennessee." tor. "I ended up with a

Dr. John Shumaker and Chancellor Nick Dunagan 14 CAMPUS SCENE "Green Thumb" Earns Student Top Horticulture Fellowship

Christie Jones ('02) left UT Martin in May with a bachelor's degree in hand. What she left behind are her fingerprints on the uni- versity's landscaping, considered among the most attractive college-campus landscapes in Tennessee.

Jones, 21, who has spent almost three years working in the university's grounds area, next takes her landscaping talents to the University of Delaware and the Longwood Graduate Program, where she will pursue a master's degree in one of the country's premiere horticulture programs. Her talent and academic success earned Jones a prestigious Longwood Fellowship.

The Longwood Graduate Program was Jones is quick to share credit with others established in 1967 as a cooperative graduate for her experiences and success. She has a program between the University of Delaware special place in her heart for the university's and Longwood Gardens, a horticulture display grounds crew, including grounds manager garden once part of the Pierre Samuel Debra Spaduzzi. duPont estate. Another mentor is Guy Robbins. The "It's a very competitive program. In most longtime UT Martin horticulturist and years, we accept only five students," Dr. grounds manager led UT Martin to national James E. Swasey, University of Delaware recognition for campus landscaping in plant and soil science professor and coordi- 1993 when the university received a Grand nator of the Longwood Graduate Program Award from the Professional Grounds said. "To be selected for an interview is Management Society. good, but to be offered a fellowship is very, very good." These are exciting times for Jones, but she admits that many changes are ahead. She Jones said her goal is to complete the will miss the university and her family as she program and manage a botanic garden moves away from Martin for the first time. which has an educational focus. Spaduzzi probably speaks for everyone who Although the Longwood program is knows Christie Jones when she considers demanding, Jones said she is more what lies ahead for this gifted student. Christie Jones earned a prestigious Longwood than prepared because of her UT Martin Fellowship to the University of Delaware educational and work experiences. "I think Christie would have excelled in any profession she chose due to her work ethic Years of "getting her hands dirty" have only and intelligence," Spaduzzi said. "When you confirmed Jones' love for her chosen field. combine that with her passion for plants, A high point came last fall when she won there's no stopping her from an incredible the university's Beth Maloan Outstanding and unlimited future in horticulture." Student Employee Award.

SUMMER/FALL 2002 15 Mardi Gras in Martin Homecoming Event Reservations

Event Price # Attending Total Name(s) Friday ______Golf Tournament $30.00 x______$______Planned Giving Seminar No charge ______No charge Address All student-related events No charge ______No charge ______Alumni Awards Banquet $15.00 x______$______Telephone ______Saturday ______5K Run $10.00 x______$______Email ______Letterwinners/Hall of Graduation Year ______Fame Breakfast $ 6.00 x______$______Chancellor's Breakfast No charge ______No charge Please fill out, attach payment, and return to: UTJC Reunion Social No charge ______No charge Jacky W. Gullett UTJC/Homecoming Lunch $15.00 x______$______Director of Alumni Affairs 314 Administration Building Football Tickets $ 8.00 x______$______Martin, TN 38238 (free for Reunion members & guests) Tel: 731-587-7611; Fax: 731-587-7622; Email: [email protected] $______Total Make checks payable to University of Tennessee at Martin 16 CAMPUS SCENE CelebratCelebrate 75 Yearsears Withith UT!! Homecoming Schedule

Friday, October 11 Saturday, October 12 Homecoming Golf Tournament 8:30AM Homecoming 5K Run 7:30AM Football Game 2:00PM Persimmon Hills Golf Course; UT Martin Fitness Trail; Hardy Graham Stadium $30.00 per person sponsored by Department of UT Martin vs. SEMO Military Science Planned Giving Seminar 3:00PM Minority Affairs/ 5:30PM Room 206, Boling University Center; Letter Winners Breakfast & 7:30AM Black Alumni Associates Picnic featuring Brett Machtig and Mel Warner Hall of Fame Awards Presentation Skyhawk Fieldhouse area; north side Duncan Ballroom under tent Rope Pull Championship 3:30PM Intramural Field; Chancellor's Breakfast 9:00AM Step Show 8:00PM Final & Consolation Pulls for men, Front lawn of Chancellor's Residence Skyhawk Fieldhouse; women, and open divisions sponsored by NPHC Homecoming Parade 10:00AM • Don't miss the Inaugural Homecoming Student Picnic 4:00PM University Street route, Golf Tournament, at the recently Area between Austin Peay from Fieldhouse to downtown redesigned Persimmon Hills course in & McCord Halls Sharon, Tenn. This promises to be a fun sponsored by United Residence Hall College Open Houses 10:30AM event for golfers of all levels. Prizes for all! Assoc. and Black Students Association various campus buildings

UT Martin Alumni Council 4:30PM UT Junior College 11:00AM • Special guests for Homecoming 2002 will Business Meeting; Reunion Social be alumni from the UT Junior College Room 111 (Legislative Chamber), Duncan Ballroom, Boling University Center era (1927 through 1951). This group's Boling University Center biennial reunion is moving from summer to Hawk Walk 11:30AM fall for the first time. All UTJC alumni are UT Martin 6:30PM Quadrangle; encouraged to make plans early to be a Alumni Awards Banquet; Football team makes traditional walk part of this weekend of fun and fellowship! Duncan Ballroom, Boling University Center; from residence hall to Graham Stadium. featuring presentation of Outstanding Alumni, Outstanding Young Alumni, and Black Alumni Associates 12:00PM • Mardis Gras in Martin!! Chancellor's Service Award recipients Scholarship Brunch Come see how our student organizations Room 206 A, B, & C, bring this theme to life in the parade, Skyhawk Volleyball 7:00PM Boling University Center banner competion, pyramid building Elam Center; contest, and other venues. UT Martin vs. Tennessee State NPHC Tailgate Party 12:30PM outside area of Alumni Gym • Pep Rally/Pyramid Contest 8:30PM 75th year with the University of Elam Center; UTJC/Homecoming Luncheon 12:30PM Tennessee! Homecoming 2002 will focus featuring Skyhawk football team; Duncan Ballroom, Boling University Center attention on the 75th anniversary of our cheerleaders; and pyramid building campus' association with UT. competitors in men's, women's, & open divisions SUMMER/FALL 2002 17 Finance Students Panhellenic Council Honored For Leadership, Outperform Standard Risk Management Efforts & Poor 500 Index At a time when alcohol abuse on college does its job. "It has helped prevent alcohol- campuses is making national headlines, related problems and has brought more students at UT Martin have been recog- control and safety to our organizations." Despite difficulties for stock market nized for their advocation of responsible investors in 2001, finance students at the UT alcohol use. The council was also recognized for its Martin outperformed the Standard and participation in leadership development Poor’s 500 Index working with a $100,000 The 2001 UT Martin Panhellenic Council programs, including the New Member investment portfolio, part of a class project. was recently recognized by the Southeastern Orientation sponsored by Order of Omega. Panhellenic Conference (SEPC) for its In its first year, the orientation for new The feat was accomplished through the TVA efforts toward leadership development and members of Greek organizations employed Investment Challenge program, which gives risk management, including a resolution to organized activities and guest speakers to students at public universities in the fight alcohol-related problems. educate students on subjects such as values, Tennessee Valley real-world experience in standards and academics. The program also financial investment management. The S&P The SEPC is a 10-state regional organization addressed hazing issues. 500 Index, a widely used measure of the comprised of undergraduate sorority mem- stock market’s performance, lost 11.9 per- bers that promotes good scholarship, good "New members have a lot to deal with," cent in 2001, while investments by universities health, maintenance of fine standards, and Clark said. "There’s pressure all around. in the program had an overall return rate of service to the college community. This The New Member Orientation helped new a negative 7.5 percent. honor marks the first time the UT Martin members learn what they should and Panhellenic Council has received recognition shouldn’t expect." UT Martin finance professors Dr. Arnold on the regional level. Redman and Dr. Tom Payne, and Dr. Council members hope the program, which Mahmoud Haddad; professor of computer The UT Martin Panhellenic Alcohol garnered positive feedback from participants, science and information systems Dr. Kay Resolution, developed to prevent alcohol will continue in the future. Durden; and Dr. Ernest Moser, dean for the abuse in the college community, has College of Business and Public Affairs at UT informed students of the council’s Clark and White both pass the credit for the Martin, accepted an award for the students’ no-alcohol policies. council’s regional recognition to Denny performance at the recent TVA Investment Bubrig, coordinator of student activities and Challenge Conference in Nashville. The UT Martin Panhellenic Council holds the Greek life in the Office of Student Affairs. power to reprimand sororities whose mem- Bubrig was recently honored as an SEPC The Investment Challenge provides universities bers do not immediately leave a function if Adviser of the Year. a $100,000 portfolio to manage each year. alcohol is present, with punishments including The program is funded with a portion of fines and revocation of social privileges. The "Denny has completely turned around the money TVA set aside to retire its nuclear university itself enforces strict alcohol-free Panhellenic program," White said. "He has plants. TVA representatives monitor the campus policies. definitely incorporated Greek unity. It’s more investment process, and a faculty member at structured and more organized, so we’re each university oversees the school’s program. 2001 Panhellenic Council President Tracy able to accomplish more." Clark, of Paris, said the resolution was valu- able in spreading the word about Greek The members of the 2001 Panhellenic organizations’ alcohol policies. "Each Council were: Tracy Clark, of Paris; Whitney national (Greek) organization has certain White, of Dyersburg; Emily Sample, of stipulations when alcohol is involved," she Savannah; Emily Vann, of Lavinia; Christine said. "The resolution raised members’ Roberts, of McEwen; Christine Sortet, of awareness of these guidelines." 2001 Jackson; Anna Evans, of Martin; and Amy Panhellenic Council Vice President Whitney Clement, of Huntingdon. White, of Dyersburg, said the resolution

TVA Investment Challenge program students won an award for their success at the recent TVA Investment Challenge Conference in Nashville.

18 CAMPUS SCENE General Assembly Honors Political Science Professor

The New Center For Dr. Ted Mosch (second from right), UT Martin political Global Studies science professor, received a proclamation from the A new UT Martin program created to bring Tennessee General Assembly on May 4 during an international thrust to the university’s a tribute dinner held in his curriculum was announced in February. honor at the university. Mosch, who has taught at The new center’s mission is to further the university since 1970, retired from full-time teaching internationalize the UT Martin campus at the end of June. The and to help faculty prepare students to lead proclamation recognizing productive lives as citizens and professionals Mosch's teaching service was presented by (l to r) Sen. Roy Herron ('75); Walter Butler ('75), in the global society of the 21st century. The Tennessee commissioner of personnel; Rep. Phillip Pinion ('75); and Rep. Mark Maddox. The Ted Mosch Tribute Fund has been established in honor of Mosch. For information, call the UT Martin Office center will support international activities on of Development at 731-587-7626. The fund has almost reached $15,000, and income will be used for campus and promote the university’s out- international student scholarships. reach activities in other countries. UT Martin’s existing department of international programs currently has about 100 students enrolled in its intensive English program and will remain a vital part of the university’s Interim Director of CESME Named international thrust. In February, Dr. Geraldine Taylor Farmer Farmer received her bachelor's degree in Dr. Paul Crapo, chair of modern foreign was named interim director of the Center biology from Lane College in Jackson and languages at UT Martin, has been named of Excellence for Science and Mathematics her master’s in science education from Fisk director for the center. Education (CESME). She will lead the organ- University. She earned a specialization in ization in providing opportunities for dialogue education with an emphasis in biology from "It is critical for our campus to aggressively regarding the status of pre-K through 16 George Peabody College of Vanderbilt push to internationalize our students, faculty science and mathematics education. Key University, and was awarded her doctorate and programs," Crapo said. "It is very likely components of CESME include providing in education with a major in educational that our students, regardless of their majors, professional development opportunities for administration and supervision from will pursue careers which will have an inter- classroom teachers, encouraging students Tennessee State University. national dimension. We must give them the to pursue careers in mathematics and sci- ‘international’ education and experiences ence, and the identification and production Farmer served as a science teacher in which will enable them to thrive in the global of research-based curricular materials. Tennessee classrooms in Nashville, Munford, economy of this new century." and Springfield for 24 years before accept- Farmer replaces Dr. Preston Prather, who ing a position as a science consultant for the The new center’s development was recently retired. Prather, a professor of sci- State of Tennessee Department of Education. jump-started by a gift to the university ence education at UT Martin, served twice as Most recently, Farmer served as the K-12 from UT Martin alumnus Dr. Hunter Wells, director of CESME — first from 1986-1990 Science and Health Coordinator for Metro of Jackson. and again since 1997. Nashville Public Schools. As interim director of CESME, Farmer said she will take steps to help the center meet the needs of science and Dr. Geraldine math educators in preK-12 Tennessee Taylor Farmer, school systems and help instructors interim director of prepare students to pass state-mandated the Center of tests including Gateway Exams. Excellence for Science and Mathematics "Drawing on the strengths of the science Education and mathematics departments at UT Martin will be key to accomplishing this The Center for Global goal," Farmer said. Studies will enable students to thrive in this global economy. SUMMER/FALL 2002 19 Community Service Professors Receive Honors

Awards Received Five UT Martin professors were honored the faculty member selected for demonstrating during Honors Day for their outstanding a caring attitude toward advisees, the ability The Tennessee Higher Education Commission achievements in scholarship, citizenship, to engage in developmental advising and (THEC) recently honored a UT Martin staff teaching and advising. other distinctive characteristics. The recipient member and two students for outstanding also is eligible for the national award com- community service work. The honors are some of the university’s most petition sponsored by the American College prestigious faculty awards, including the Testing Program and the National Academic Rick Hatler ('72), of Martin, the university's Coffey Outstanding Teaching Award, the Advising Association. director of public safety, and Amanda Cunningham Outstanding Teacher/Scholar Lamberth and Kristin West received Award, the Outstanding Adviser Award and Dr. Stephanie T. Kolitsch, professor of Harold Love Community Service Awards after the University of Tennessee National Alumni mathematics and statistics: Coffey being selected from a group of Tennessee Association (UTNAA) Outstanding Teacher Outstanding Teaching Award. The Coffey college and university nominees. Award. The recipients are: Outstanding Teaching award of $5,000 was established in 1998 by Mai and Charlie Dr. Alice-Catherine Carls, professor of Coffey. It is awarded annually to a faculty history: Cunningham Outstanding member who demonstrates strength in Teacher/Scholar Award. The award of teaching and contributes to the teaching $5,000 was established in 1993 by James R. profession through extracurricular achieve- Cunningham, who attended UT Junior ments, leadership qualities and scholarly College in the 1930s. It is awarded annually activities. Charlie Coffey is currently serving to a faculty member who has demonstrated as a trustee for the University of Tennessee. strength in teaching and made a contribution to the teaching profession through scholarly activities, extracurricular achievements and leadership responsibilities. UT Martin Student Receives National Teresa Y. Collard, instructor of communi- Rick Hatler cations; and Jenna S. Wright, instructor of Circle K Award Awards go to individuals who excel in English: UTNAA Outstanding Teacher volunteer and community service activities. Award. Each year the UTNAA presents Matthew Muehlberger, a sophomore theatre The awards are named for the late Tennessee awards of $2,000 to faculty members on major from Memphis, was awarded the Representative Harold Love, who sponsored each of the UT campuses who have been George F. Hixson Fellowship at the 43rd legislation to create the program. selected as outstanding teachers. Evaluation Annual Louisiana-Mississippi-Tennessee of the teachers involves ratings of classroom District Convention. The Fellowship is one of Hatler, Lamberth and West bring the total to performance, scholarship and service. the highest awards handed out by Kiwanis 16 faculty, staff and students from UT Martin International. He also was elected lieutenant recognized by the THEC community service Dr. Anthony W. Harmon, professor of governor (LTG) for his district. He is the awards programs. chemistry: Outstanding Adviser Award. The first LTG from UT Martin in about 20 years. award of $500 and a plaque is presented to

Among those receiving awards were (second from left) Dr. Alice-Catherine Carls, Dr. Stephanie T. Kolitsch, Teresa Y. Collard, and Jenna S. Wright. UT Martin Chancellor Nick Dunagan (right) and Dr. Frank Black (left), interim Amanda Lamberth and Kristin West vice chancellor for aca- demic affairs, presented the awards. Not pictured: Dr. Anthony W. Harmon. 20 CAMPUS SCENE Professor Holds Rare Engineering Senior Sets Sights For Success Classics Doctorate In Medical Research

Dr. Henry Parker, professor of philosophy, As a child, Amanda Raley of Bartlett, Tenn., looked forward to the annual St. Jude Math-a- earned his doctorate in classical philology Thon to raise money for the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. Today, the (Latin and Greek) in 1977 and became the May UT Martin engineering graduate looks ahead and sees St. Jude in her future. She's first and still the only black person to have hoping her lifelong love for math will contribute to a cure for cancer. received that degree from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. "I grew up wanting to work at St. Jude," she said. "I went through the normal things you want to do when you're growing up. You want to be a teacher, you want to work with kids, Parker soon will be honored in an article in Cancer you want to be a doctor..." "The Journal of Black Studies" as a member of one of the rarest groups of blacks in the Raley changed her mind about becoming a doctor, but kept coming back to medicine. country — those who hold the doctorate in "That's how I decided on medical research," she said."It just all falls together." Latin and Greek. Out of 33 million black Americans, Parker is one of only 17 who Life is falling together in many ways for Raley. This fall she heads to Rice University, have earned this degree. With more than 25 where she's been accepted into one of the top biomedical engineering doctorate programs years of classroom experience, Parker has in the nation. taught courses including Latin, world reli- gions and ethics at UT Martin since 1990. He "I wanted to go to the strongest program I could go to, in hopes of returning to Memphis to is currently the director of African-American work at St. Jude's," she said. Studies in the department of philosophy and serves as the president of the African- With that goal in mind, Raley spent three years of her college career participating in a American Leadership Association. Goalsresearch project with the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis, where she worked toward the development of a cancer treatment called targeted drug delivery, Parker’s activities extend beyond the which would only treat an affected part of the body. classroom. He has published scholarly articles in "The Classical Outlook," "Journal of Negro "Targeted drug delivery would be a better approach to chemotherapy," Raley said. History" and "American Philosophical "Now when people go through radiation and chemotherapy it affects the whole body." Association Journal on Blacks and Feminism." With his wife, Marilyn Crist, he co-authored Her participationBiomedical in the project has paid off. In addition Engineering to giving her the chance to work the books Apollo vs. Dionysus: A Philosophy with research professionals, it has helped propel her toward biomedical engineering, a to Increase College Success by 85% and career path which combines a background in mathematics and a future in cancer research. Teaching Minorities to Play the Corporate Language Game. Parker is currently under As focused as she is, Raley doesn't restrict contract as a speaker for the largest speaker’s her work to the lab. As past president of the bureau in the country, the Program UT Martin chapter of the Society of Women Corporation of America, whose speakers Engineers, she regularly participated in an include Presidents Ford, Carter and Clinton, outreach program for middle-schoolers, as well as Johnny Cochran, John Kenneth leading after-school projects that make math Galbraith, Oprah Winfrey, and others. and science fun. Though the program is open to boys, girls are the real target.

"Middle school is supposedly when girls decide math and science are too hard and they don't want to do them," Raley said. Amanda Raley talks with Dr. Robert LeMaster, Dr. Henry Parker is "The program helps encourage girls to assistant professor of engineering, during class. one of only 17 stick with those subjects." black Americans who have earned a doctorate in Latin And who knows? Maybe with encouragement, one of those girls will follow in and Greek. Raley's footsteps someday.

SUMMER/FALL 2002 21 SportsInformation Name for New Football Building Approved

At the spring meeting in Knoxville, the UT After graduating from the University of Board of Trustees approved a proposal to Wyoming in 1956, Carroll returned to UT name the new football building on the Martin and began a coaching career that Martin campus the Bob Carroll Football spanned almost three decades. In 1967, his Building. Carroll is a former educator, head UT Martin football team won the Tangerine football coach and administrator at UT Bowl and compiled a record of 10 wins and Martin. one loss. Carroll coached his teams to more wins than any other coach in the history of The new facility, currently under construc- UT Martin football. tion, will become the new home of Skyhawk Football. The 17,000 square-foot facility is Carroll wrapped up his coaching career after located in the south end zone of Hardy M. the 1974 season and became assistant athlet- Graham Stadium and will have office space ics director. He continued in that role until for all football personnel, meeting rooms, a 1980 when he was appointed to the University locker room, a training room, equipment of Tennessee alumni affairs staff to coordi- room and a multi-purpose room with a nate UT Martin alumni activities and University glass wall overlooking the field. The build- of Tennessee alumni activities for all West ing is scheduled to be completed in August Tennessee counties.

2002. Bob Carroll (left) and football coach, Sam McCorkle, Carroll’s influence on the athletic program is show off the new football building. Carroll began serving UT Martin as a student still felt today as he serves on the board of leader and football player in 1952. He was directors for the UT Martin Skyhawk Club. Carroll’s contributions to the university and voted team captain and was the president of Carroll, also a tenured professor in the consented to the building being named in the “T Club.” He twice received the highest history department, retired in 1997. He his honor. honor a team can give when he was selected authored The First 100 Years: The History as the Most Valuable Player in 1952 and of the University of Tennessee at Martin. "Anytime you think of UT Martin Football, 1953. He continued his football-playing Former football players, and many others you think of Bob Carroll. I am extremely career by transferring to Wyoming where associated with teams Carroll coached, con- pleased that the UT Board of Trustees has he became an Academic All-American. tributed to this project. Mrs. Kathleen Elam, recognized Coach Carroll in this way,” said the wife of the late Tom Elam, is the primary Phil Dane, director of intercollegiate athletics donor to the project. Mrs. Elam recognized at UT Martin.

Hall of Fame Inductions to be Held at Homecoming

Five persons, including Grady Andrews; men's tennis player Martin This year's induction ceremonies will be the school's only golf Bromfield; and rifle team member Ed Davis. held for the third time in conjunction with coach, who have made homecoming. The induction will also be outstanding contribu- Page, the only person to ever coach golf at held as a part of the third Letter Winner's tions to the UT Martin the university, started the program in 1967 Breakfast set for Saturday, Oct. 12 in the athletics program will and almost immediately established it as a Boling University Center. All former UT Coach Grover Page be honored with induc- Division II golfing force. He coached the Martin letter winners are invited to attend tion into the university's Hall of Fame at the team to five championships and a pair of this breakfast. annual banquet set during the 2002 home- national rankings. He restarted the program coming activities. in 1981, and built a nationally ranked program. Tickets for the banquet are available to all He also guided UT Martin through the NCAA persons and can be purchased for $6 each The inductees into the Hall of Fame will be Division I move and membership in the Ohio through the Office of Intercollegiate retired golf coach Grover Page; women's Valley Conference. UT Martin has made eight Athletics, Room 1022, Kathleen and Tom basketball player Gwen Long; football player appearances in the NCAA tournament Elam Center. For more information about championships under Page. tickets and the banquet call 731-587-7660.

22 CAMPUS SCENE Expectations High for Skyhawk Teams in 2002-03

UT Martin athletic teams racked up numerous FOOTBALL wrapped up the season with a 25-33 victories and rewrote record books during • The Skyhawks have adopted the theme won-loss record. the 2002 spring semester. Alumni, fans and “Championship Under Construction,” and • The fourth-place OVC tournament finish athletes should have high expectations for it’s an approriate theme. Coach Sam marks UT Martin’s best finish ever. The the 2002-03 athletic seasons. Here’s a quick McCorkle enters his third season at the softball team set more than a dozen new look at what happened and what’s in store helm and will add his best recruiting class team, individual season, and career records. for the upcoming seasons. to a solid group of returning players. • McCorkle has also added two new coaches WOMEN’S TENNIS ATHLETES AND ACADEMICS to his staff. Lee Hollified will coach the • UT Martin’s Martha Montano was voted Thirty-eight percent of all UT Martin OVC Women’s Player of the Year by league student athletes made the spring coaches. Montano, a senior semester Dean’s list. from Leon, Mexico, played No. 1 singles and was 13-1.

MEN’S BASKETBALL www.utmsports.com • Head coach Bret Campbell and the receivers, while Brad Francione will • Karla Azuara, Ana Bakran, Elly Shearman Skyhawks racked up 15 wins, breaking a coach linebackers and serve as the and Montano were named to the 2002 school record for the most victories in a recruiting coordinator. Women’s All OVC team. single season since joining the Ohio Valley Conference in 1992. VOLLEYBALL MEN’S TENNIS • The Skyhawks claimed the No 5. seed in • After winning the OVC regular season, • The team finished third in the Ohio Valley the OVC tournament. coach Chris Rushing and the Skyhawks are Conference tournament, and Peter Allnut • The Skyhawks lost six players to graduation, ready to defend their title and win the post- and DeWit Stegmann were named All-OVC. but Campbell and his staff signed five quality season tournament. Rushing returns his players with size and experience for the entire cadre from a year ago, and has RIFLE vigors of the OVC schedule. added Rebecca Palmer, a 5-10 outside and • For the 20th consecutive year, the UT middle hitter from Oak Park, Ill. Martin rifle team has finished among the WOMEN’S BASKETBALL top 20 teams in the nation. • UT Martin finished the season 8-20 overall BASEBALL • Seven members of the team were recognized and 6-10 in the OVC. The team advanced • The Skyhawks wrapped up their 2002 season at the NCAA championships for their to the OVC tournament as the No. 6 seed. with 18 wins, the most in a season since academic accomplishments." • Senior Kelly Pendleton set a new school 1992 when the team won 31 games as a record for most three-pointers made. member of the Gulf South Conference. TRACK • Co-head coaches Gary and Kim Van Atta • The Skyhawks set three new school look to improve on this past year, and have SOFTBALL records in the OVC championships. signed a guard and two forwards. • This year’s Skyhawks, under the direction of first-year head coach Donley Canary, SUMMER/FALL 2002 23 AlumNotesNotes

1936 1958 1964 E. Hardy, is a retired Navy Russell Lawler and his wife, Joyce Bizzell Pafford retired Kent Reasons is retired from chaplain. The two live in Bonita, reside in Oak Ridge, six months ago after 15 years Dupont and resides in Kennett Kerrville, Tex. Tenn. He retired from the Union in medical office management. Square, Penn. He and his wife, Carbide Corp. in 1975. Russell Her greatest honors include her Elaine, have four children: Scott, 1970 was voted most likely male stu- two grandchildren, Clay and 37; Bryan, 34; Tyler, 31; and Felix "Buddy" Gresham and dent to succeed his sophomore Conner, and their mom, her Todd, 31. his wife, Mary Harris Gresham year at UTJC. They have three daughter, Julie. ('71), reside in Medina, Tenn. children: Adrian, 61; Linda, 59; 1966 Buddy is a contoller at Republic and Judy, 55. 1961 Ida Jane Bonner Newman is Builders, and Mary is a first- James "Glenn" Turnbow retired. She and her husband, grade teacher at Andrew Jackson 1951 recently retired after 40 years Saber Newman, reside in Elementary School. They have Gerald L. Stow retired in 1999 of service with the Rural Presidio of Monterey, Calif. two children: Clint, 28; and after serving 16 years as presi- Electrification Administration of John, 25. dent and treasurer of Tennessee Washington, D.C. He is currently 1967 Lt. Gen. Robert Hinson and Baptist Children Homes. He and a home builder in Gallatin, Tenn. Barbara Garvin was recognized his wife, Karen, reside in his wife Barbara currently live in by Business Nashville as one of Colorado Springs, Co. He is Brentwood, Tenn. 1962 five 2002 Businesswomen of the a vice commander for the Air Betsy Barton Summar recently Year. She is director of women's Force Space Command, and she 1956 retired after teaching elementary programs at Belmont University's is a housewife. They have three Mary June Johns Barron is school for 38 years. She and Center for Entrepreneurship. children: Stephen, 29; Bryan, retired as a nutrition assistant her husband, Robert "Bobby" She lives in Franklin with her 27; and Lisa, 22. from Jackson-Madison County Summar, have two children: husband, Mack ('67). General Hospital after 32 years Amy 30, and Suzanne, 27. Dennis Jack Johnson is of service. She has two children: Email: summarb @aol.com. 1968 self-employed. He and his wife, Vicki, 41, and Jeffrey, 38. Dr. Kenneth Cressman is a Kathy, reside in Henderson, Tenn. 1963 school-to-work coordinator for 1957 John Robert "Bob" Sellars is Lehigh Career and Technical Gayle Parrish is a field repre- Johnny Rogers and his wife, a surgeon in Memphis, Tenn. Institute in Schnecksville, Penn. sentative for Woodmen of the Martha, are retired and have He and his wife, Martha, have World. He retired last year after three children: Jeannie, 35, three children: Melissa, 29; 1969 30 years of service at the University Mark, 34, and June, 31. Email: Angela, 29; and Becky, 26. D. Sarah Goff Childress of Tennessee Agricultural [email protected]. retired from teaching after 30 Extension Service in Henderson, years of service. Her husband, Tenn. His wife, Shirley, is a

A Spectrum of Guest Speakers Came to Campus This Spring

UT Martin welcomed a spectrum of guest encouraged the class of 2002 not to neglect "The Road to Oklahoma City: How Some speakers to campus this spring, including the journey of life by focusing too narrowly Americans Come to Hate their National high-profile experts on subjects ranging on their goals. Government" on Feb. 4. from bioterrorism to the world-famous "Body Farm." Other spring guest speakers included: • Ambassador Paul D. Taylor, a published Spring commencement expert for international relations. Taylor, keynote speaker U.S. Sen. • Dan T. Carter, an author and history who formerly served as U.S. Ambassador to Bill Frist, M.D., topped off professor currently completing a the Dominican Republic, presented the lec- the busy semester, urging book exploring the roots of far-right ture "Coping With Terrorism – The Role of graduates to "hitch a star to political terrorism in late twentieth Public Leaders in a Post-911 Environment" your wagon." The senator century America. Carter lectured on on Feb. 15.

24 CAMPUS SCENE special education teacher and have two children: Meredith, at McNairy County and Daniel is Nancy Deere, a health educator they have two children: Jennifer, 21; and Katherine, 19. Email: a sales manager for Great Lakes and Woman, Infant and Children 22; and Emily, 18. They reside [email protected]. Chemical Co. They have three (WIC) nutritionist, was named in Huron, Tenn. children: Melanie, 24; Paul, the Public Health Educator of 1972 22; and Julie, 21. Email: the Year by the Tennessee Public 1971 William Conley "Ted" Reilly, [email protected]. Health Association. She and her George Campbell, Jr. is a II is a sales manager at husband, Tony, live in Dyersburg, sales consultant and recently Cleveland Track Material. His Darrell "Corky" Dawes was Tenn. They have two children: moved into a new home in wife, Marry Castellaw Reilly recently appointed as managing John, 23, a UT Martin grad; Brentwood, Tenn., with his wife ('72), is a financial analyst for partner to New England Financial. and Wes, 20. Brenda Dunca. He has one step- International Paper. They reside He and his wife, Tammy, have son: Mark Duncan, 14. Email: in Collierville, Tenn., and have two children: Ashley, 18 and Lt. Col. Thomas Ross is a new [email protected]. three children: Colleen, 23; Dustin, 14. They recently moved equipment training manager for Conley, 18; and Camille, 17. to Brentwood, Tenn. Email: the Aviation and Missile Command Bill Kail (Business '71, Nursing Email: [email protected]. [email protected]. in Huntsville, Ala. He has been '92) is a hospital administrator recalled to active duty from the at Humboldt General Hospital. Carol Williams Shanklin, Ewing Lee "Chip" Hurdle, Jr. Army Reserve and is currently His wife, Mary, works in the lab Ph.D., R.D., was named part- is president and owner of PakMail serving with the Army Material office. They reside in Jackson, time assistant dean of the Kansas in Collierville, Tenn. He started Command in the Washington, Tenn., and have two children: State University Graduate School his first business, Fantastic Sam's D.C., area. With his wife, Doretha Tony, 31; and Melissa, 24. last year. She continues in her Family Health Care Center, in White, he has one step-son: Email: [email protected]. position as professor in the 1986. His wife, Catherine, is Lavon White, 33. department of hotel, restaurant, a Bellsouth account manager. Richard Dennis Reilly is an institution management and They have two children: Brandon 1975 elementary school teacher. His dietetics. She and her husband, Connell, 21; and Anna Marie William Thomas "Tommy" wife Susan is a Reviewer admis- Larry, reside in Manhattan, Kan. Hurdle, 6. Email: elhurdle@ Browder and Suzanne sions officer for Stockton State They have one son: Christopher, bellsouth.net. Beckham Browder (’76) live College. They have one son: 25. Email: Shanklin@ in Selmer, Tenn. She is an assis- James, 30. The Reillys reside humed.ksu.edu. 1974 tant principal at Selmer Middle in Absecon, N.J. David Agee is a teacher for School. Tommy is a teacher and 1973 Dyersburg City Schools and was head footbal coach at McNairy Glenn "Bama" Stephens Lisa Mays Ayers and her recently appointed Dyer County Central High School and was retired from teaching after 31 husband, Daniel ('73), reside comminssioner for District A. named the 2001 Region 6 3A years. He and his wife, Tracy, in Ramer, Tenn. Lisa is a teacher Email: [email protected]. Football Coach of the Year. reside in Woodstock, Ga., and Email: [email protected].

• Dr. John C. Warner, professor and Pregnancy Tests and False Teeth: Ancient • Dr. Attila E. Pavlath, immediate past department chair of chemistry at the Inventions in Health Care" on April 1. president of the American Chemical Society, University of Massachusetts Boston. He was keynote speaker at the 25th Annual Area spoke on "Sustainability: Linking Education • Christine Brennan, USA Today sports Collegiate Chemistry meeting, held April 13. and Research Through Green Chemistry" columnist and leading voice on on March 6. the Olympics, international sports • Dr. William Bass, creator and former and women’s sports, presented director of the University of Tennessee • Dr. Debra L. Martin, director of the U.S. "There’s a Woman in the Locker Forensic Anthropology Center (a.k.a. the Southwest and Mexico Program and Room: From the Playing Field to "Body Farm"), has been helping law dean of the School of Natural the Press Box, Women Have enforcement agencies around the world Science at Hampshire College. The Arrived" on April 9. identify human remains and assisting in the professor of biological anthropology detection of crime for 30 years. presented the lecture "Brain Surgery, SUMMER/FALL 2002 25 1977 Cheatham counties. He established Leigh Shockey is CEO and Jane Poore Yarbro is a teacher. Cynthia Betts McAdams and a statewide home and community- chair of Drexel Chemical, the She resides in Newbern, Tenn. her husband, Johnny ('73), live based care program as a member Memphis-based producer of in Greenfield, Tenn. Cynthia is of the state legislature. This agricultural chemicals. Her sister, 1986 a special education teacher for allows senior citizens and persons Leslie ('80), is advertising and Sheila Cooley Taylor and her Weakley County Schools and with disabilities to remain in regulatory manager. Other UT husband, Keith, reside in Eads, Johnny is a meat market manager their homes rather than being Martin alums associated Tenn. She is a nuclear medicine at Estes Food. They have two placed in nursing homes. Arriola with the company are Tom technologist for Baptist East and children: Jonathan, 20; and owns Norman Couser’s Country Show ('75), vice president of he is a radiological technologist Amber, 19. Cooking restaurant in Nashville. manufacturing; Gray Senter for the West Cancer Clinic. They He and his wife, Michelle, have ('91), corporate regulatory have two daughters: Karlie, 7; Barbara Ratcliff is a consumer two daughters, Jessica and Katie. manager; and Mark Stewart and Madison, 6. foods safety inspector for the ('95), inside sales and marketing Alabama Department of Agri- Ricky Collins is a high school support. Agricultural producers Vic Treadway is an FBI agent culture. She is currently self- teacher and coach for Pearl- and chemical distributors can for the Department of Justice. publishing a biblically based Cohn High School in Nashville, find out more about the company He resides in Milford, Conn. He book titled Just Before You Say Tenn. He is a two-time district by going to www.drexchem.com, is a firearms instructor and also I Do. She resides in Fairfield, Ala. coach of the year, and Regional, the company's new Web site. a member of the SWAT team. He Ctivitan, and Mid-State Coach of has two children: Lauren, 13; William Robison is a toxicologist the year. He and his wife, Andrea, 1981 and Luke, 9. with the Centers for Disease have two children: Ashley, 21; Nancy Summers Bass is a Control. He and his wife, Janet, and Brian, 17. fifth-grade teacher for Sevier 1987 a high school biology teacher, County Schools where she Steve Drenkard is a senior Hugh Harvey, Jr. and his wife have two children: Daniel, 18; received Teacher of the Year for district sales manager for Honda Sue Tipton Harvey ('80) and Thomas, 14. They reside 2000. Her husband, Paul, is an Marine and his wife Carolyn is a reside in Jackson, Tenn. Hugh in Powder Springs, Ga. account manager for Morton stay-at-home mom. He has one is a general sessions judge for Salt. They have one son: Andy, 15. child: Trent, 7 months. Email: Madison County and Sue is a 1978 [email protected]. professional volunteer and a Mary Patten Courtney is a 1982 homemaker. They have two chil- teacher for Cheatham County Patsy Davis Moore and her Timothy Hoskins is a security dren: Dorothy, 11; and Suzanne, Schools. She and her husband, husband, Troy ('69), currently officer for Murray Guard, Inc. 8. Email: [email protected] and Charles, have four children: reside in Selmer, Tenn. She is a and a minister of "Sword of [email protected]. Sarah, 17; Thomas, 15; Caleb, middle school teacher at Selmer Gideon" ministry and the gospel 12; and Callie, 9. They reside in Middle School and he is a loan of Jesus Christ. Email: apst- Kingston Springs, Tenn. Email: 1980 officer for TM Financial Services. [email protected]. [email protected]. Jeffrey Jetton is a market Troy has two children: Kristi, 30; program manager for Dow Agro and Mandi, 24. Email: cen98783 Warren Miller, Jr. lives in 1979 Sciences. He and his wife, Mary, @centurytel.net. Pearland, Tex. He is the director an office professional, have one of media relations for the child: Emery Paige, 18. They 1983 Houston Astros Baseball Club. reside in Avon, Ind. Deryl Gore and his wife, Gina Email: [email protected]. Hale Gore ('83), currently Brian Melody and his wife, reside in Bartlett, Tenn. Deryl is 1988 Anita Carol Melody ('81), live a teacher at Bartlett High School Kyle Bugg II and his wife, Lisa, in Greer, S.C., where he is an R & and Gina is a supervisor for reside in Pasadena, Calif. He is a D group manager for Kemet Shelby County Schools. They psychological assistant for The Electronics Corp. and she is a have one son: Matt, 15. Email: Healing Foundation and is cur- programmer/analyst for Enterprise [email protected]. rently obtaining his doctorate of Computer Systems. Brian was John Arriola is seeking the psychology at Fuller Theological. recently issued his 25th U.S. Democratic nomination for Email: [email protected]. patent. They have two children: 1985 Tennessee’s fifth Congressional Alethia, 19; and Stacy, 9. Email: Sara Abbott is a receptionist District seat, which includes Jill Jones-Dinning and her [email protected]. for Medical Rentals, Inc. She parts of Davidson, Wilson and currently resides in Martin, Tenn. husband, Van, reside in Martin,

26 CAMPUS SCENE Tenn. She is the owner of Cellular David Bell and his wife, IN Communications and he is a Stephanie Williamson Bell Memoriam farmer for D and O Farms. She ('90), currently reside in Dr. James R. Andreas, 58, a professor of English from 1969 through is a member of Martin Rotary Martin, Tenn. David is state 1985, died Feb. 11 at his home in Miami Beach, Fla., after a lengthy illness. Club and the Citizens Police director for R and D Instructional Academy Alumni Association. Services and Stephanie is a Andreas was voted teacher of the year by UT Email: [email protected]. pharmarceutical sales represen- Martin’s National Alumni Association in 1984. That tative for Schering Plough year he was appointed editor of the Shakespeare journal "The Upstart Crow," founded on the UT Sharon Cawood Northcutt Pharmaceuticals. They have three Martin campus in 1978. Andreas helped bring and her husband, John, Jr. children: Zach, 11, Lakyn, 6; international recognition to the journal during the ('88), reside in Knoxville, Tenn. and Parker, 1. Email: dbsb@ following decades. She is a homemaker and he is a aeneas.net. regional vice president at Union After leaving UT Martin, Andreas joined the Planters. They have one son: John Mark Browder and his English faculty at Drury College in Springfield, Mo. From 1985 until the early 1990s he headed the English department and later the school of John III (Trey), 3. wife, Janet Grinnell-Browder humanities. He held similar dual appointments at Clemson University in ('90), reside in White House, South Carolina. After his retirement in 2000, Andreas taught several sum- Manfred Bee Hoe Seah and Tenn. John recently completed mer terms at Breadloaf, Vt., and the 2001 spring semester at Florida his wife, Guat Toh Leow ('88), his master of divinity degree and International University in Miami Beach, Fla. reside in Singapore. He is an is a member of the U.S. Army IT director for IBM Singapore. Reserves as a chaplain assistant A native of Chicago, Andreas earned his bachelor’s degree at Northwestern They have one child: Zong University and his master’s from Johns Hopkins University. He received his with the 678th Personnel doctorate in English from Vanderbilt University. Andreas specialized in Lin Seah. Email: seahbhm@ Services Unit. He also worked medieval and renaissance studies and in African-American literature, pub- sg.ibm.com. as an extra in the movie The lishing widely in all three areas over the past 30 years. He was a post-doc- Last Castle. Janet is a teacher toral Fulbright Scholar at the University of Paris for one year and was the 1989 at E.B. Wilson High School in recipient of several National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. Adrian Dominic Steele Hendersonville, Tenn. resides in Memphis, Tenn. Adrian is an international export checker Randy Crossno is a real estate Virginia Clark Vaughan, 81, of Martin, died Dec. 18, 2002. Known as for FedEx and has received the manager for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. "Miss Jenny," she retired in 1982 as a history teacher from Martin Junior Bravo Zulu Award for FedEx for His wife Angela is a homemaker. High School. She held a two-year degree from UT Junior College and a increased productivity. Adrian They have three children: Blake, bachelor's degree from UT Martin, later earning a certification in was also an extra in The 6; Brenna, 3; and Brett, 1. elementary education. Besides her work as a teacher, she authored Cary Email: [email protected]. Laws, A Special Place; People and Places in Downtown Martin; and Rainmaker and Cast Away. rewrote and updated Weakley County History. She served for three years on the Tennessee Bicentennial Commission and also served on the Weakley Cheryl Hughes resides in Kent Sandidge IV resides in County Bicentennial Committee. She was honored by UT Martin during Hendersonville, Tenn. This is Franklin, Tenn. He is a business Homecoming 2001 with the Chancellor's Award for University Service. Cheryl's 10th year as a physical banker for Bank of America. therapist for Vanderbilt University Email: [email protected]. Medical Center. Email: cheryl. Jamie Duncan, 28, of Union City, died May 28, 2002, at home following [email protected]. 1991 an illness. He was the former youth director at Martin First United L. Renee Bailey resides in Methodist Church. A graduate of South Fulton (Tenn.) High School, Jamie 1990 Bryn Mawr, Penn. She is a earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees from UT Martin. He was a Robert Atwill and his wife senior statistical scientist for member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, the National Education Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals. Association and the First Assembly of God in Union City. Christy Haddad Atwill ('90) reside in Union City, Tenn. Both Email: lrenee.bailey@ are certified public accountants astrazeneca.com. at Dunn, Creswell, Sparks, Smith, First Lt. Tallas Tomeny, 31, was killed Feb. 23, 2002, during a Green Horne and Downing, PLLC. He Kathy Simpson Barker and Beret training exercise near Fort Bragg, N.C. Tomeny, a U.S. Army Special was recently promoted to partner. her husband, John ('89), reside Forces soldier, first attended UT Martin in fall 1990 as an aerospace engi- in Brandon, Miss. Kathy received neering major and later changed his major to agriculture. He attended the They have two children: Matthew, university through fall 1997. 3; and Austin, 1. Email: catwill@ her doctorate in microbiology cpainfo.net. from the University of Mississippi, won the Student of the Year award, second place Dean's

SUMMER/FALL 2002 27 Research Award this spring, and Andrea Barber Harrison and Cathy owns Fine Arts Marilynn Callis resides in was marshall of the class during her husband, Brian, reside in Warehouse. They have two Dyersburg, Tenn. She is a commencement exercises in Franklin, Tenn. She is an adop- children: Billy, 3; and Reed, 1. human resource manager for May. John is director of manage- tion case worker for Children’s Email: [email protected]. Dana Corp. She is certified as a ment engineering at the University Hope International and he is a professional in human resources Hospital and Clinics of the consultant for Nother Highland Lacinda Scarbrough Butler by the Society for Human University of Mississippi Comp. They have one child: and her husband, Chad, reside Resource Management. She Medical Center. Jack, 2. Email: andreaharri- in Jackson, Tenn. She is a nurse has one son: Zachary, 14. [email protected] practitioner at the Woman's Wendy Holman Brandon and Clinic, PA, and he is a sales Vincent Gray and his wife, her husband, Chuck, reside in Brian Heath Heatherly and associate for Howmedics Kris Hatley Gray ('92), reside Nashville, Tenn. She was recently his wife, Tracey, live in Union Osteonics. She completed her in Madison, Ala. He is in sales promoted to chief operating offi- City, Tenn., where he is an area master's degree at Vanderbilt with Aventis Pharmaceuticals, cer for Summit Medical Center manager in the warehouse University. They are expecting and she is a homemaker. They and he is a controller for department of Goodyear Tire their first child. Email: have two children: Landon, 2; EcoSmart Technologies, Inc. and Rubber Co., and she is a [email protected]. and Grace, 3 months. Email: wendy.brandon@hca- medical lab technician. They healthcare.com. have three children: Jon Mychal, Denise Monte Hamm and her Tressy Ren Harris resides in 12; Dakota, 8; and Katie, 8. husband, Wayne, reside in Miami, Fla. Tressy is an occupa- Monica Davis resides in Brian is also a a member of the Helena, Ala. She is a homemaker, tional therapist for Florida Elks Hermitage, Tenn. She is a physi- Union City Board of Education and he is a clinical pharmacist. Children's Therapy Services. cian for West Wilson Family and of the Union City Jaycees. They have one child: Madilyn, 7 Email: [email protected]. Practice in Mt. Juliet, Tenn., Email: [email protected]. months. Email: wdhamm@ which she joined recently. bellsouth.net. Susan Jones Martin and her Email: [email protected]. James "Jimmy" Moore and his husband, Freddie, reside in wife, Christine Woodward Anne Schluter "Elizabeth Lawrenceville, Ga. She is a con- Howard Vance "Van" Moore Moore, reside in Spartanburg, Handley" and her husband, sultant for TIAA-CREF, and he is and his wife, Cathalina Lau, S.C. He is a political consultant Rodey, reside in Macon, Ga. She a sales representative for New reside in Sevierville, Tenn. He for Charlie Condon for Governor, is an adjunct chemistry instructor South Federal Bank. Email: owns Middle Creek Eye Clinic, and she is a retail assistant man- for Central Georgia Technical [email protected]. where he practices optometry. ager for Elmblad's Hallmark. College, and he is in chemistry Cathalina is a homemaker. They Jimmy graduated from Regent at Brown and Williamson. Email: Lee Malcolm Phillips and his have three children: Michael, 8; University in May with a master's [email protected]. wife, Deborah Ann Riza (’94), Kelly, 5; and Colin, 3. Email: degree in public policy. Email: live in England. He is the assis- [email protected]. [email protected]. Jimmy Vaughn, Jr. and his tant regional underwriting man- wife, Amy Williams Vaughn ager for American International 1992 Rodney Myrick and his wife, ('93), reside in Knoxville, Tenn. Group Insurance, where Deborah Renee Thomas-Anderson and Kelli Martin Myrick ('92), He is in transportations sales also works. Before moving to her husband, Michael, reside in reside in Simons Island, Ga. He at C.H. Robinson Co., and she England, Lee was on the USTA Union City, Tenn. She is a case is a quality control manager for is a pharmaceutical sales repre- Tennis Team in New York. manager for the Tennessee Rich Sea-Pak. He got his master's sentative for Ortho McNeil Department of Human Services, in biology at Tennessee Tech Pharmaceutical. They have twins Michele Bright Sides and her and he is a pipe fitter for Revell University in 1994. They have Emma and Evan, who were born husband, Richard, reside in Construction. They have one four children: Savannah, 8; Jake Sept. 11. Henderson, Tenn. She is the son: Channing, 11 months. 6; and Eli and Sam, 1-year-old owner of Tailored for Two, and twins. Email: SJSEMyrick@ 1994 he is a manufacturing coordinator Joseph Craig and his wife, msn.com. Joan Denise Troutt Binkley for Maytag. Michele won the Hillary, reside in Burns, Tenn. and her husband, Jeramy, live in 2001 Jackson Area Chamber of He is a special agent for the 1993 Ashland City, Tenn. She works in Commerce Emerging Business Tennessee Bureau of Bill Bona and his wife, Cathy nursing home administration Pinnacle Award. They have two Investigation. Email: Anderson Bona ('93), reside and he is the owner of a Re/Max children: Samuel, 4; and Garrett, [email protected]. in Newbern, Tenn. He is the real estate office. They have one 15 months. owner of Dawn Til Duck, and child: Hunter Blake, 2.

28 CAMPUS SCENE HEADQUARTERS DEDICATED

The UT Martin Agricultural Demonstration/Teaching Complex Sara Dunagan, of Caruthersville, Mo., has had a strong association Headquarters Building was dedicated Friday, April 19, in honor of with UT Martin for more than five decades. Her three children are Harry Henderson for his 38 years of service to the university. The all UT Martin alumni, including Dr. Nick Dunagan, who is UT renovation of the building was made possible by a gift from Sara Z. Martin’s eighth chancellor. Additionally, her daughter-in-law, a son- Dunagan of Caruthersville, Mo., and the Dunagan family. in-law, seven grandchildren, and the spouses of five of the grand- children have graduated from UT Martin. "The Headquarters Building is a key feature of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Complex," said Dr. Jim Byford, dean of the Sara Dunagan's husband, Horace Dunagan, served the university College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences. "With the exception of as a member of the UT Development Council, chair of the UT Martin the Ned McWherter West Tennessee Agricultural Pavilion, develop- Development Committee, and co-chair of the UT Tennessee Tomorrow ment of all of the complex began in 2001 with no state funds, Capital Campaign. In 1988, the Horace and Sara Dunagan Chair of depending solely on corporate and private support." Excellence in Banking was established by the family to recognize Horace's distinguished 38-year banking career. Sara Dunagan also A dairy was built in 1927 when the University of Tennessee established established several scholarship endowments, including two for the junior college farm. The dairy and all of the farm became the Dunagan University Scholars, in 1994 and 1999. Martin Experiment Station in 1965. It was established to serve the research needs of the UT Institute of Agriculture and the expanded "I am so appreciative that Ms. Dunagan chose to donate funds need- teaching needs of the UT Martin agriculture program. The current ed to renovate the old milking parlor into a nice, functional head- facility was designed and constructed in 1968. quarters building for the complex," Byford said. "Her connection to the facility is understandable. Mr. Dunagan worked his way through The farm and dairy brought revenue to the university while providing college milking cows at the old UT Junior College. It is also fitting practical learning experiences for UT Martin agriculture students. As that Ms. Dunagan chose to dedicate the renovated building in Harry a practical teaching station, the dairy flourished under the manage- Henderson’s honor. During Harry’s 46 years at UT Martin, he super- ment of Henderson, who worked on the college farm as an agriculture vised management of the dairy, one of the best in the state at the student from 1950 to 1953. He returned in 1958 to serve as farm time." manager, supervisor, and finally superintendent of the Martin From left: Harry Experiment Station until his retirement. During that time, Henderson Henderson, Sara and his wife, Betty, raised their family on the farm and hosted thou- Dunagan, and sands of area school children as they toured the facilities. The farm Chancellor Nick Dunagan stand beside and the dairy provided revenue for the university, research opportu- the dedication plaque nities for faculty, and practical learning experiences for UT Martin (see arrow) outside agriculture students. In 1996, Henderson retired, and the herd was the UT Martin disbursed; the dairy was not utilized for five years. In 200l, farm Agricultural Demonstration/ buildings and approximately 200 acres were returned to UT Martin Teaching Complex by the Institute of Agriculture that then became the Agricultural Headquarters Demonstration/Teaching Complex. Building.

Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Named

In May Dr. Thomas A. Rakes, interim presi- demic colleges, the library, the honors pro- the faculty and staff at one of the South’s dent and provost and vice president for aca- grams, and extended campus and continuing best-established institutions." demic affairs and professor of instructional education. Rakes replaces Dr. Frank Black, leadership at the University of Louisiana at who served as the interim vice chancellor Monroe (ULM), became the new vice chan- for academic affairs since September 2000. Dr. Thomas A. Rakes, cellor for academic affairs. Rakes has served new vice for 29 years in higher education, 12 of those "This position provides an opportunity for chancellor in administration. me to continue involvement as a senior-level for academic administrative officer at an institution recog- affairs. As vice chancellor for academic affairs, he nized for a long tradition of excellence will serve as the chief academic officer and a involving outstanding undergraduate pro- senior member of Chancellor Nick Dunagan’s grams across a number of disciplines," cabinet. He will be responsible for the aca- Rakes said. "I am excited about joining SUMMER/FALL 2002 29 1995 is a registered nurse. They have for U.S. Bancorp Investment graders and a 10-member show Jeffrey Baker is an assistant two children: Betsy Burkett and Services, and she is a marketing choir which has toured through vice president for Merchants David Moseley. coordinator at Western Baptist Middle Tennessee to perform. and Planters Bank. His wife, Hospital. Mark is top 10 percent Amanda, is a pharmacist for Christine Harris Coker and in sales for the eighth largest Misty Dodson resides in Medical Arts Pharmacy. He her husband, Randy ('93), bank brokerage in the nation. Martin, Tenn. She is operations recieved his MBA from UT reside in Biloxi, Miss. She is a manager and public service Martin in August 2001. Email: research horticulturist for Mario Ray and his wife, Coordinator for WCMT- [email protected]. Mississippi State University Teresa ('98), reside in WCDZ Radio. Coastal Research and Extension Memphis, Tenn. He is a medical Julie Dell Lumpkins Basler Center, and he is a store manager student at the UT Health Sciences Julie Johnson resides in and her husband, Steven, reside for Hibbett Sports. Christine Center in Memphis, and she is a Murfreesboro, Tenn. She is a in Columbia, Tenn. She is an received her doctorate from case manager for the state of psychometrist for Vanderbilt English professor at Columbia Auburn University in 2001. Tennessee. They have one child: Forensic Psychiatry. She recently State Community College, and Email: [email protected]. Mario Ray II, eight months. completed a master's degree in he is a business owner. Julie Email: [email protected] and clinical psychology from MTSU. recieved her doctorate in Brent Styles and his wife, [email protected]. Email: [email protected]. English in December 2001 from Mandy King Styles ('96), MTSU. Email: julielumpkins@ reside in Cordova, Tenn. He Clint Reed and his wife, Kimberly Morgan is a teacher hotmail.com. has recently been promoted Jennifer Roberts Reed ('97), for Memphis City Schools and an to greenhouse manager for reside in Brownsville, Tenn. on-air radio personality for Clear Candace Franks Cherry and Stoneville Pedigreed Seed Co., He is a plant controller at IFC Channel Broadcasting Co. She her husband, William, a UT and she is a registration techni- Disposable. Clint is a chamber received her master's degree Martin alum, reside in Saltilo, cian for Helena Chemical Co. ambassador for Haywood County. in education from Cumberland Miss. She is a teacher, and he is Email: [email protected]. They have one child: Macy, 13 University last year. Email: a human resource manager for months. Email: creed@ifcdis- morganK4@ K12tn.net. MTD. They have one child: Jennifer Walker resides in posables.com. Austin, 3. Memphis, Tenn. She is a technical Jason Quinton and his wife, writer/project coordinator for Mark Reeves and his wife, Jill Michelle Wade, reside in James Dunn Mantooth and Sedgwick CMS. Email: bekata Hazlewood Reeves ('99), Trenton, Tenn. He is a landfill his wife, Katherine, live in Auburn, @hotmail.com. reside in Springfield, Tenn. He site manager in Union City, Ala., where they both work in is a high school science teacher Tenn., and she is a dental student affairs at Auburn Hal Williams and his wife, at Springfield High School, and assistant in Jackson, Tenn. University. They are expecting Brynda, reside in Newbern, she is a fourtth grade teacher at their first child in December. Tenn. He is a safety, health Krisle Elementary. Both received Karan Cottrell Rorie and her Email: [email protected]. and environment manager for their masters' in education lead- husband, Michael, reside in ERMCO, and she is an occupa- ership from Trevecca University Indian Mound, Tenn. She is a Ashley Brook Miller resides tional health nurse at Jimmy in 2001. Email: [email protected]. first-grade teacher at Dover in Venice, Calf. She is an actress. Dean Foods. Hal received his Elementary, and he is a welder Email: ashleybrookmiller@ master's degree from Murray Kimberly Todd Russell and for Trane. yahoo.com. State in 1999 in occupational her husband Michael reside in safety and health. Smyrna, Tenn. She is a on-air Amber Gilchrist-Thompson Crystal Reece is in Nuku'alofa talent coordinator for Shop At and her husband, Robert, live Kingdom of Tonga where she is 1997 Home TV, and he is a business in Olive Branch, Miss. She is a an associate in missions teaching Kenley Gossum resides in analyst at Trane Corporation. human resource and customer in a church school. She will be Nashville, Tenn. He is an inter- Email: [email protected]. service manager at Marshall's, there for the next two years. national Internet auditor for and he works at Expeditors Deloitte and Touche, LLP. 1998 International. Email: ambergil 1996 Email: [email protected]. Matthew Burns resides in @planet-save.com. Brad Burkett and his wife, Dickson, Tenn., where he Sonia Ward-Wade and her Adelia Covington Burkett Mark Joyner and his wife, teaches K-5 music classes at husband, Courtney, reside in ('00), reside in Troy, Tenn. He Kathryn Ridgeway Joyner Centennial Elementary. He also Trenton, Tenn. She is a case is an electrical engineer and she ('95), reside in Paducah, Ky. He has a 45-member choir made is a senior financial consultant up of third, fourth, and fifth manager specialist for the

30 CAMPUS SCENE Department of Human Service, Nova Johnson Dillard and her November. Email: wakers54@ Counseling Services. and he is a UPS driver. They have husband, Robert "Bert" ('97), hotmail.com. Steven Hernandez resides in four children: Juwan Anderson, reside in Bartlett, Tenn. She is a Redondo Beach, Calif. He is a 7; Kardejah, 6; Destiny, 3; and teacher for Memphis City Schools, Laura Franks Aymett and her dental student at the University Courtlen, 3 months. and he is an IT director for husband, David ('97), reside in of Southern California and plans Global Media Services. Email: Hartselle, Ala. She is a project to graduate in 2005. Email: 1999 [email protected]. manager for Enersolv, and he is [email protected]. Charles "Chuck" Clark, Jr. a feed consultant for Alabama and his wife, Jennifer Denton Courtney King Ferris and her Farmers Co-op. Rachel Johnson Saine and ('98), reside in Tuscaloosa, Ala. husband, Andrew ('01), reside her husband, Travis ('01), He is a teaching assistant who in Chattanooga, Tenn. She is a Kelly Lockert Lewis and her reside in Bon Aqua, Tenn. She is just finished his master's in history teacher at Our Lady of Perpetual husband Jason reside in Pleasant an early intervention teacher at and is pursuing his doctorate in Help Catholic School, and he is View, Tenn. She is a registered Foundations Early Intervention military history at the University an golf course assistant at Black nurse at St. Thomas Hospital, Services, and he is a technical of Alabama. Jennifer is a cus- Creek Club. They have one child: and he is a facility technician assistant specialist for Tennessee tomer service representative Abby, 15 months. Email: for BellSouth. State University. for Bank of Tuscaloosa. Email: [email protected]. [email protected]. Kelly Nerren resides in Mara Wright of Mt. Juliet, Matthew Hunter works at Cordova, Tenn. and is a second- Tenn., is currently in Japan Jessica Daughrity Coleman LTH Corp. His fiancee, Hannah grade teacher at Chimneyrock teaching English as a second and her husband, Brian, reside Morgan, attends Walters State Elementary. language. She has completed in Chapel Hill, Tenn. She is a Community College. They have her first semester of a two-year first-grade teacher at Chapel Hill set their wedding date as Aug. Casey Wilder and his wife, contract as a teaching assistant. Elementary; he is a math teacher 3 of this year. Email: Heidi Lyles Wilder, reside in at Marshall County High School. [email protected]. Millington, Tenn. He is an engin- 2002 Email: [email protected]. eer for the City of Memphis, and Jennifer Davis Crumby and 2000 she is a student at the University her husband, Joseph ('99), Micca Crome is teaching fifth Curtis Akers and his fiancee, of Memphis. Email: casey_ reside in Nashville, Tenn. She is and sixth grade at Meritor Clare Davis, reside in Nashville, [email protected] and an elementary teacher for Metro Academy in Broomfield, Colo., Tenn. He is an athletic trainer [email protected]. Davidson County, and he is part and is engaged to be married for Vanderbilt Sports Medicine, owner and operator of J.C. on July 20 of this year. After the and she is a teacher. He will 2001 Special Services. They have one marriage, Micca will reside in complete his master's in educa- Melissa Conley resides in child: Rebecca Crumby, 7. Douglas, Wyo. tion from Belmont University in Alamo, Tenn. She is a case Email: [email protected]. May and they will marry this manager for Professional

Dr. Rodney Thomsen of Dresden was inducted into the UT Martin Rodeo Dr. Rodney Thomsen inducted Hall of Fame during the annual Spring College Rodeo held in April. Thomsen recently retired after serving for 27 years as a UT Martin faculty into Rodeo Hall of Fame member and director of the Ned McWherter Agricultural Complex. He was honored for his many contributions to the university's rodeo program.

Photo from left: Coach John Luthi, Leon Forrester, Rodney Thomsen, Cheyenne Pipkin (see story on page 10), David Vowell, Nelson Davis, and Russ Finney.

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