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In Memoriam
1950s
Travis Lee Akin (’58, ’59)
Doyle M. Caffey (’55)
Doyle M. Caffey (’55)
Earl N. Condra (’57)
Ruth Beaty Cunningham (’57)
James W. Drake (’59)
Billy Joe Evans
Former Blue Raider football standout Billy Joe Evans (’63), of Fayetteville, died at the age of 83. A 1958 graduate of Moore County High School, he attended MTSU on a football scholarship and lettered all four years. Evans was voted most valuable lineman, served as team captain during his senior year, and played in two Tangerine (Citrus) Bowls. After graduation, Evans began a lifelong career in coaching and education.
Evans started working at Moore County High School and later at Fayetteville Central High School as both the football coach and an educator. In the age before playoffs, he won seven championships in 14 years of coaching. Evans later served as the first principal at Lincoln County High School. In 1988, he became director of Fayetteville City Schools, where he would retire after 22 years. Evans was a member of the TSSAA Hall of Fame, Lincoln County Football Hall of Fame, Lincoln County High School Hall of Fame, and Bank of Lincoln County Board of Directors, and he served in leadership roles on countless other boards and organizations.
John Fultz (’53)
Mary Copeland Goode (’52, ’57)
Novus H. Henry Jr. (’57)
William “Bill” Hooper (’58, ’62)
Charles Robert “Cisco” Jenkins (’55, ’70)
John F. “Jack” Jolly III (’55, ’66, ’75)
William “Bill” Karnes Sr. (’57)
Jerry L. Kemp (’57)
Billy B. Kerr (’59)
David C. Leverette (’54)
Shirley Turner Moran (’55)
Donald C. Plonk Sr. (’57)
Ann Satcher Porterfield (’58)
Georgianna West Russell (’57)
Dan Scott
Former MTSU Department of Chemistry Professor Dan Scott (’50) died Sept. 16, 2024, at age 96. Drafted into the Army while teaching at Flintville High School, he served as a hospital laboratory technician during the Korean War. Upon returning from military service, he joined the then-Middle Tennessee State College’s Campus School faculty in 1955, later completing his Ph.D. at Peabody College. He retired from MTSU in 1992 as a professor emeritus.
Virgil Hal Smith (’56)
Alton “Wayne” Tipps ('58)
Robert Underwood (’59)
Dan Warmbrod (’53)
1960s
Donna Shoulders Adcock (’65)
Alice “Faye” Gist Bolin (’68)
Maurice Richard “Bemo” Bowen Jr. (’61)
Bergen I. Bull (’65)
Charles “Bill” Burns (’60)
Richard “Dick” Clark (’66)
Billy G. Dial (’65)
Terry Douglas (’68, ’72)
Kenneth Forte (’64)
Kenneth L. Gerdes (’66)
Sue Summers Grubbs (’67)
Joseph W. Guthrie (’68)
Alfred M. Harris (’69)
Thomas Edwin “Ed” Hays (’60)
Donald Holland (’69)
Roger Kirby (’65)
Jeanette Ellison Knight (’68)
Howard Glenn “Buck” Locke (’65)
Kenneth Prince Lord III (’66, ’78)
Jon Garland Major (’69)
Mallory “Wayne” Marlin (’64)
James David Maynor (’69)
Joseph Lee Moses (’67)
Allen F. Parker (’66, ’69)
James “Jimmy” E. Parton (’69)
Kenneth Hall Pinkston (’64)
Clarence Eugene “Gene” Postins (’66)
Gladys Rowlett Reising (’63)
Edmund “Frank” Roleff Jr. (’64)
Oliver F. Shalibo (’62, ’73)
Ronnie H. Smith (’61)
William “Bill” Snyder (’68)
John Walker Taylor (’65, ’71)
James Morgan Toon (’64)
Belva Lee Vance (’69, ’72)
Carolyn Maupin White (’66)
1970s
Glenda Perryman Baldwin (’71, ’77)
Betty Elam Barnes (’77)
Ronald Barnes (’74)
Richard “Dick” Booher Jr. (’77)
Teresa Loftis Browning (’77, ’79)
Elizabeth “Jeannie” Collins (’72)
Robert C. Coolidge (’72)
William “Alan” Copeland (’71)
Anthony L. Dobert (’70)
Janna Duke Drake (’77)
Barbara Head Duvall (’70, ’72)
Joyce Grammer Farmer (’74)
Regina Owens Featheringill (’76, ’77)
James “Steven” Fulks (’77)
Thomas Garmon (’73)
Roy “Randy” Gilliam (’74)
William “Bill” Haralson (’71)
Philip W. Holder (’70)
Randall “Randy” Howell (’74, ’76)
Nelson Ewin Johnson (’71, ’72, ’79)
Clement Joseph Kalas Jr. (’75)
May Elizabeth Kiser (’75)
Sandra Pigg Linville (’71, ’76)
William Davis “Buddy” London (’77)
Richard “Joe” Malone (’70)
Pamela Matthews (’76)
Sharon McClanahan (’71)
James “Jim” McFarlin (’76)
Virginia “Dianne” McGregor (’75)
Marilyn Marie Midgett (’75, ’77)
Jane Davis Modrall (’70)
Michael Moss (’72)
Tracie Reynolds Moss (’74)
Cynthia Smith Mowl (’79)
Anedra Newman (’79)
Winn McLean Peebles (’78)
Thomas A. Rainey (’72)
James “Jimmy” Rogers (’70)
Winford L. Sadler (’75)
Louise Gray Sams (’73, ’77)
Iva “Lisa” Spencer Schmitt (’73)
Ann M. Spencer (’74)
Barry A. Stacey (’73)
Bill G. Thornton (’73)
Julia Armendariz Tirres (’77, ’86, ’93)
Nancy Bidinger Vaden (’78)
Gerald “Jerry” Watkins (’72)
Jay Watson (’73)
Paul Lindsey Webb (’73)
Pamela Smithson Whittaker (’78)
James “Jim” Hill Williams (’71)
Marsha Williams (’71, ’76)
Marilyn Corley Willoughby (’74)
Larry Cecil Wynns (’79)
Robert Youngblood (’76)
1980s
Mark J. Benedict (’85)
Constance Bereyso Bunio (’88, ’91)
Gregory Gordon Caldwell (’87)
Ritch Campbell (’89, ’93, ’95)
Barbara Rietema Cooper (’83)
Rufus Norman Crossing (’82)
Cathy Lee Sellers Cullum (’84)
Patricia Hollingsworth Farrar (’86)
Mark Gwyn
Former Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn (’85), who became the bureau’s first African American leader in 2004 and held the post until 2018, died at age 61. Gwyn started his career as a police officer in his hometown of McMinnville in 1985. Three years later, he joined the TBI, where he worked for 30 years. Gwyn was recognized by MTSU in its 2010–11 class of Distinguished Alumni.
Linda Roberts Harris (’82)
Phyllis Bolin Heath (’86)
Jennifer Jordan-Henley (’84, ’88)
Steven Holmes (’85)
Ronnie Humphrey (’80)
Robert LaFever (’82)
Ronald “Moose” Marshall Jr. (’80)
Timothy McAnally (’87)
Elizabeth Ragan McClendon (’83)
Randall “Randy” Joe Nance (’85)
Sean Derrick Perkins (’88)
Sylvia D. Rubley (’89)
Mamie Howlett Scott (’83)
Nanzy Porter Stewart (’81)
Curtis Dale Wall Sr. (’86)
Christopher C. Woodfin (’81)
1990s
Oliver “Keith” Adams (’94)
Douglas Blackwell II (’94, ’99)
Valarie Kay Holman Carpenter (’97)
Eric Wakefield Cook (’96)
Brian DeMoss (’97)
Joseph Fergusson (’94)
Georgianna Hitchcock Fortier (’91, ’97)
Mike E. Hays (’92)
Kerry Huckaby (’90)
Virginia “Eve” Morris Lane (’91)
John “Whit” Linder (’94)
Carl “Mike” Lindler (’90)
Kimberly Winfree Luffman (’90)
Alfreida Blackwell Morris (’94)
Ivan Paul (’92)
Ann Beth Wilkinson (’94)
Kimberly Kennedy Woody (’93)
2000s
Anne Marie “Ree” Jessel Channel (’01, ’03)
Lakesha Oldham-Dorsey (’00)
Stephanie Papuchis (’05)
Daniel Humberto Pastrana (’05)
Stanley J. Rys (’01)
Robert G. Shapard (’06)
Gregory Slagle (’04)
2010s
Jonathon Paul Hickey (’11)
Wendy D. Howell (’11)
Madisen Minter (’18)
Edward “Clay” Morgan III (’15)
Stewart A. Nichols (’13)
Brandy Jo Revis (’11)
