Category: UTM Unlimited

Discovery Park of America is known for its educational aspect, but Sunday, Nov. 12, was a very special day for Susan Douglas, a senior Elementary Education major from Hornbeak, Tenn., because that day was about love and new beginnings for her. Jeremy Burpo, a Titan Tire employee from Kenton, Tenn., asked her to be his… Continue reading New Facility Helps Build New Life

For former UTM quarterback Derek Carr, football has been more of a blessing than just a game. Carr, the McKenzie, Tenn. native and son of Kenny and Jackie Carr, started his football career in Gleason, playing in a pee-wee league where he was coached by Jimmy Belew, the uncle of UTM’s Assistant Athletics Director of… Continue reading Skyhawk returns to UTM sidelines

Dr. Daniel Nappo, assistant professor of Spanish, and Dr. Chara Van Horn, assistant professor of Communications, hit it off the night they first met. The two met while celebrating a mutual friend’s birthday. “Our first conversation occurred on Dec. 3, 2010. We had both gone to [the Opera House] for a friend’s birthday,” Van Horn… Continue reading Professors enjoy working, traveling with UTM

Charley Deal is the vice chancellor for Alumni Relations and Annual Giving at UTM and on the opposite end of campus, his wife Shannon Deal is the director and nurse practitioner for Student Health and Counseling Services, SHCS, and program director for the different programs within SHCS. The Deals have been married for 16 years. The… Continue reading Service to others brings couple together

Years ago, two city women moved to the small town of Martin for a college education and ended up staying. The women, Deborah Williams-Boyd and Natalie Dickerson-Boyd, both of whom grew up in Memphis, graduated from UTM, met their husbands at UTM and are employees of UTM. They also are sisters-in-law because their husbands are… Continue reading They sought education; they became family

Zach Oyebi and Sarah Muller didn’t meet each other with the intentions of ever dating, much less getting engaged. Oyebi recalls meeting Muller in Martin’s UT Federal Credit Union parking lot in October 2010. Oyebi had just recently returned from a tour in Iraq, and said his friend introduced the two before they went to… Continue reading Soldier plans American-themed wedding

Michael Cochran is a senior UTM University Studies major who grew up with his parents and younger brother and sister in Marysville, Mich., where he graduated from Marysville High School in 1979. Both his parents served in the Air Force; however, his mother got out before he was born. Cochran’s father got out of the… Continue reading Student encourages others suffering with PTSD

James Copeland and Alexis “Lexie” Cole met and became friends in fall 2004 when James offered her computer help while they were taking Biology 110 together at UTM. James Copeland grew up with his parents and two younger sisters in Paris, Tenn., where he ran track and graduated from Henry County High School in 2003.… Continue reading Couple trusts God’s will for protection

In 1967, 46 years ago, the chair of the Quinnipiac College’s English Department gave Mary Ellen Duffley away to Robert “Bob” Cowser in New Haven, Conn. Today, Duffley is better known on campus as English and Modern Foreign Language Instructor, Dr. Mary Cowser. Of course, her husband is English and Modern Foreign Language Adjunct Instructor,… Continue reading Couple spends lifetime together doing what they love