Frances Hansbrough Yarbro, (‘38) 90, of Dyersburg, died Sept. 30, 2008. She was retired as food-stamp supervisor for Dyer County Human Services. She received her education at the University of Tennessee Junior College in Martin and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she earned a Smith-Hughes degree in home economics in 1940. She taught home economics in Wardell, Mo., and high school in Monroe, La. She had been a member of First United Methodist Church since 1945 and was also a volunteer with the Girl Scouts, Alice Thurmond PTA, UNICEF and American Field Service.
Sara Dickson, (‘40) 87, of Vanleer, passed away on July 17, 2008. She was a 1953 graduate of the University of Tennessee with a bachelor of arts in home economics and received a master’s degree in education from the George Peabody College. She was a teacher at Houston County High School for many years and was an active member of Erin United Methodist Church.
Mildred McIntosh Ennis, (‘40) 87, of Livingston, Ala., died July 30, 2008. She received a bachelor of science in home economics from the University of Tennessee in 1942 and a master’s degree in education from Livingston State University in 1972. She worked for 22 years with the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service and was very active in her community.
James W. Workman (‘53), 83, of Crossville, died Oct. 14, 2008. He was a World War II Marine Corps veteran and was in one of the first graduating classes of the University of Tennessee Martin Branch in 1953. He worked with the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service as a county agent in Obion County and then as a county supervisor with the Farmer’s Home Administration. He worked to provide all citizens of the county with an adequate and dependable source of water.
Bill Haney (‘54), a popular radio sportscaster and longtime play-by-play announcer for UT Martin athletics, died Aug. 23, 2008, at his home in Milan. He was 78.
A pioneer in Tennessee sports broadcasting, Haney was credited as being the first to broadcast state tournament basketball games and, along with the late Monte Hale Sr., created the Tennessee Basketball State Network. He is also credited with starting the UT Martin Sports Network in 1978.
Besides his broadcast career with UT Martin, Haney was also the radio voice for the Milan High School Bulldogs and the Memphis Grizzlies of the World Football League. He was inducted as a sportscaster into three sports halls of fame: the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association in 1994, Gibson County as a charter member in 1995 and the UT Martin Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001.
Haney was active in civic affairs and held many public offices, including a term as Gibson County executive starting in 1986. He also received many community honors, including Jaycees Young Man of the Year in 1965 and Milan Chamber of Commerce Man of the Year in 1996.
Survivors include his wife, Peggy, two sons and a daughter, five grandchildren and two great-granddaughters. His sons, Terry and Tim, and his grandson, Adam, are all UT Martin graduates.
William (Bill) Staley Hensley Jr. (’66) 70, died Nov. 5, 2008, at his home in Knoxville. He was retired from the Foremost Insurance Co., officiated football for the Ohio Valley Conference and was a member of the Tennessee Army National Guard.
Ron Lewellen (‘69), 66, died Sept. 16, 2008. Lewellen played defensive tackle on the UT Martin football team from 1964-66. He was a sixth-round draft selection of the Oakland Raiders in 1967 and was inducted into the UT Martin Athletics Hall of Fame in 1989. He was a former football coach, principal and was an insurance agent. He also was a former school board member, past president of Dresden Rotary Club, member of the UT Martin Ghost of the Gridiron, served on the UT Martin Alumni Council and was retired from the Tennessee Army National Guard.
Joseph Landrum Butler, M.D., (‘73) 57, of Vestavia Hills, Ala., died Oct. 8, 2008. He was a 1973 graduate of the University of Tennessee at Martin and a 1976 graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. Following a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., he began practice at the University of Alabama at Birmingham until leaving to begin his private practice in allergy and asthma. He was a member of Shades Mountain Baptist Church.
James Monroe “Jim” Glasgow, (‘74), 88, of Union City, died June 9, 2008, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City.
Glasgow, who represented the State of Tennessee before the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark case Baker vs. Carr that established the principle of one man, one vote, was born Feb. 17, 1920, in Weakley County. He earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee, after beginning his undergraduate work at the former UT Junior College at Martin. A World War II U.S. Army Air Corps veteran, he was a member of Union City Rotary Club and Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church in Union City. Glasgow began his private law practice in Dresden in 1948 and continued there until he was appointed assistant attorney general in 1952, an office he held until 1961.
As a member of Union City Rotary Club, he earned the club’s highest honor and was named a Paul Harris Fellow. He had been a member of the University of Tennessee Development Council (1974) and the UT Alumni Board of Governors (1968-69). He was also instrumental in establishing the junior college at Martin as a four-year university: the University of Tennessee at Martin.
Gilbert Carp, of Martin, died Oct. 23, 2008, at Volunteer Community Hospital. He was 85. A member of the UT Martin faculty from 1969-1992, he was professor emeritus of music and composer-in-residence with theory/composition and clarinet as his main areas. He was the clarinetist for the University Trio from 1971-1988.
He began his career as an instructor at Grunewald School of Music in New Orleans, La.; was orchestra and band director at the South Carolina School for the Blind in Spartanburg; assistant professor of theory and woodwinds at Converse College; and director of the school of music and associate professor at Centenary College in Shreveport, La. Among numerous compositions and premiers, was a Carp collaboration that resulted in “The Tennessee Witch,” an opera parody of the Bell Witch Legend that premiered at UT Martin in the mid-1970s. Carp composed the music and conducted the orchestra for the production. He also represented the State of Tennessee as a composer and performer on the Kennedy Center bicentennial program and performed numerous recitals.
Dr. Larry T. McGehee, former UT Martin chancellor and longtime newspaper columnist, died Oct. 25, 2008, at his home in Spartanburg, S.C. He was 72. McGehee, who was an ordained Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) minister, served as UT Martin chancellor from 1971-79. Before becoming UT Martin chancellor, he served five years in several executive positions at the University of Alabama. He left UT Martin to become special assistant to the president at UT Knoxville, a post he held until 1982. He served as vice president and professor of religion at Wofford College in Spartanburg from 1982 until his retirement.
“Many of us are saddened to hear about Dr. McGehee,” said Dr. Tom Rakes, UT Martin chancellor. “Many of his initial efforts and campus priorities set the positive direction we still enjoy today.”
UT Martin Chancellor Emeritus Nick Dunagan was hired by the university during the McGehee administration. "Larry McGehee was a dedicated leader who especially loved to interact with students and helped shape a student-centered culture at UT Martin,” he said.
Dunagan recalled McGehee’s final visit to Martin in spring 2005 when he signed copies of his book, “Southern Seen: Meditations on Past and Present.” Dunagan said, “It was a magical visit, and little did we know that, for most of us, this would be our last opportunity to see him. We lost a wonderful man who left a major impact on the Martin campus."
McGehee’s book was a collection of his newspaper columns about people, places and events in the South published by The University of Tennessee Press. At the time of McGehee’s visit in 2005, his columns appeared in 100 newspapers in eight states.
McGehee received national attention in May 1972 by delivering a two-and-a-half minute, 250-word commencement address to University of Alabama graduates. Time magazine featured the speech in both its domestic and foreign editions.
Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth, and two daughters.
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