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The UT Martin Campaign Steering Committee members present a check to Chancellor Tom Rakes for $43 million. It represents the amount raised to date by the UT Martin campus in the historic UT Campaign for Tennessee, which ends in 2011. UT Martin was the first campus in the UT system to meet its campaign goal, not once, but twice. Pictured, from left, are J. Houston Gordon, UT Martin Campaign honorary chair; Dr. Lew Dougherty, UT Martin Campaign co-chair; Dr. Jan Simek, UT interim president; Jim Haslam, UT Campaign for Tennessee chair; Chancellor Rakes and Ray Smith, UT Martin Campaign co-chair. Other campaign steering committee members not pictured include: Jim Ayers, UT Martin Campaign honorary chair; Bill Blankenship, Crawford Gallimore, Charlie Moore, Dr. Ron Kirkland, Dr. Margaret Perry, Newell and Bettie Graham, Betty Smith; and Bettye Giles, Dr. Jerald Ogg and Charley Deal, UT Martin Family Campaign co-chairs.