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University of TN at Martin
Martin, TN 38238
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Director: Bud Grimes
bgrimes@utm.edu

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Campus News Makers

Louis Freeh, former FBI director, was the first speaker in the UT Martin 2006-07 Academic Speaker Series. Following his presentation, National Security and Civil Liberty: Pros and Cons, Freeh met with students and signed his book, My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton and Fighting the War on Terror. With Freeh is Carlton Lewis, Millington, UT Martin senior information systems major.
   
Kathryn Bray, right, junior from Maryville, spoke to nationally known personal finance columnist, Jane Bryant Quinn, the second of the Academic Speaker Series presentations. With decades of experience as author, columnist and television personality, Quinn has established herself as America’s leading voice on personal money management.
   
Dr. Paul D. Blaylock, of Portland, Ore., and a 1968 UT Martin alumnus, was honored with the naming of the UT Martin Student Government Association president’s office in Boling University Center. With Blaylock (left) at the unveiling of the “Paul D. Blaylock Office” is UT Martin Chancellor Nick Dunagan.
   
 
TLM Associates, Inc., of Jackson, and the Henry Earl Thompson family announced a $50,000 pledge to the UT Martin Department of Engineering for the Henry Earl Thompson/TLM Associates, Inc., Scholarship Endowment, bringing the total in that endowment to $100,000. The scholarship endowment benefits West Tennessee students majoring in civil engineering. From left, are Bill Allen, TLM junior partner; Dr. Richard Helgeson, Department of Engineering chair; Dr. Doug Sterrett, College of Engineering and Natural Sciences dean; Dr. Joe Johnson, University of Tennessee president emeritus; Dan Nichols, TLM vice president; Dennis Henderson, TLM president; Chancellor Nick Dunagan; Jerry Hartsfield, TLM vice president; Frank Wagster, TLM vice president; and Randy McKinnon, TLM junior partner.