(front row, l,r) Meghan Poore, Miss Fall Fest Volunteer; Alyssa Wade, Miss Hub City

Volunteer; Macey Jones, Miss Madison County Volunteer; (back row, l, r) Carson Hughes, Miss

Nashville Volunteer; Karenna Rainey, Miss McNairy County Volunteer; and Carly White, Miss

UT Martin Volunteer. Not pictured is Kailey Duffy, Miss Weakley County Volunteer, and Kim

Gordon, Miss Rutherford County Volunteer.

MARTIN, TENN. – June 3, 2022 – NAMED FOR THE TOSH FAMILY – The “Tosh Family

Classroom” was official named in honor of James “Jimmy” Tosh and his family during a naming event

May 5 in Room 258 of UT Martin’s Brehm Hall. The classroom was named in recognition of his

generous commitments to the University of Tennessee and UT Martin. Tosh studied animal science,

graduated from UT Martin in 1972 and returned home to operate the family business. Pictured

following the naming program are (l, r) Dr. Charley Deal, vice chancellor for university advancement;

Dr. Keith Carver, chancellor; Tosh; and Dr. Todd Winters, dean, College of Agriculture and Applied

Sciences.

UT MARTIN FACULTY MEMBER TO COACH IN SPECIAL

OLYMPICS USA GAMES – Dr. Clinton Smith (left), associate professor of special education at

UT Martin, has will make his fourth trip to the Special Olympics USA Games as Team

Tennessee’s head track and field coach. Accompanying Smith is Special Olympian Garrett

Dinning (right), an incoming Westview junior and son of UT Martin graduate, Jill Dining. The

pair, along with Dinning’s family, depart for Orlando, Florida on June 4 from Smyrna,

Tennessee to compete in the Special Olympics USA Games at the ESPN Wide World of Sports

Complex in the Walt Disney World Resort.

Kaleb Hutcherson

Pictured is Dr. Joey Mehlhorn, professor of agricultural economics and director of the

Tennessee Governor’s School for the Agricultural Sciences, speaking to the 2019 agriculture

group at Yeargin Farms in Weakley County.

RETENTION SUMMIT REMARKS – UT Martin Chancellor Keith

Carver speaks during UT Martin’s second Skyhawk Regional Retention Summit on May 25 in the Boling

University Center. Representatives from public and private two- and four-year institutions discussed and

exchanged ideas about student retention, persistence and success in higher education.

MARTIN, TENN., May 23, 2022 – UTM ADVISORY BOARD MEETS – UT Martin Advisory Board

member Monice Hagler reviews meeting materials during the UT Martin Advisory Board summer

meeting held May 20 in the Boling University Center. Hager, of Memphis, is an attorney and a UT Martin

graduate.

MARTIN, TENN., May 25, 2022 – FALLEN OFFICER HONORED – Nancy Ray, sister of the late

Larry Bromley, prepares to cut the ribbon to mark the naming of the Lawrence D. Bromley Training

Center, located in the C.E. Weldon Building in downtown Martin. Pictured (l, r) are UT Martin

Chancellor Keith Carver, Amy Ray, Mayor Randy Brundige, Nancy and Brad Ray, and Don Green.

MARTIN, TENN., May 12, 2022 – BROMLEY TRAINING CENTER – The law enforcement

training facility located in the C.E. Weldon Building in downtown Martin will officially be

named for Lawrence Bromley, an officer with the Dallas Police Department, who was killed in

December 1991 in the line of duty while working an undercover operation. A naming ceremony

is set for 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, May 24, on the Main Street side of the city’s former public

library. The public is invited. Bromley was a 1981 UT Martin graduate from Hohenwald.