J. HOUSTON GORDON MUSEUM FEATURES VOTER REGISTRATION EXHIBIT
Photo ID: Jerry Surette discussing voter registration with a family on their porch, June 1964.
UT MARTIN IN-PERSON COMMENCEMENT SET DEC. 10-11
PHOTO: Pictured is UT Martin Chancellor Keith Carver, fall commencement speaker.
MISS UT MARTIN, MISS TENNESSEE SOYBEAN FESTIVAL WINNERS CROWNED
MARTIN, TENN., Nov. 11, 2021 – PAGEANT COURTS – UT Martin student and Jackson native Carly
White and Nadia Treadwell, a Middle Tennessee State University student from Union City, claimed the
Miss UT Martin and Miss Tennessee Soybean Festival crowns respectively at the combined pageant Nov.
6 in the UT Martin Boling University Center’s Duncan Ballroom. The new titleholders will compete in
the statewide Miss Tennessee Volunteer Scholarship Pageant, Wednesday-Saturday, June 15-18, 2022, at
the Carl Perkins Center in Jackson. Pictured in the pageant courts are (l, r): Kimberly Gordon, of
Brooksville, Mississippi, Miss UT Martin second runner-up; Alyssa Wade, of Paris, Miss UT Martin first
runner-up; Carly White, Miss UT Martin; Amelia Collins, reigning Miss Tennessee Volunteer; Nadia
Treadwell, Miss Tennessee Soybean Festival; Karenna Rainey, of Adamsville, Miss Tennessee Soybean
Festival first runner-up; and Emily Pennington, of McMinnville, Miss Tennessee Soybean Festival
second runner-up. All four runners-up are UT Martin students.
JOURNALIST GENE BELEY TO GIVE LECTURE SEPT. 30
Photos from photographer Dan Poush and writer Gene Beley, who attended Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison concerts, hang in the J. Houston Gordon Museum, located in UT Martin’s Paul Meek Library, Thursday, Sept. 23.