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In Memoriam
1940s
Lecta Walker Grace (’49)
1950s
Paul William Bastien (’56)
Betty Sisk Carter (’54, ’74)
Robert “Bob” Cass (’58)
Kenneth Wilson Cothron (’59)
Mary Wright Dean (’58, ’78)
Lillian Simms Duneer (’50)
Garner M. Ezell (’55)
Patricia Delbridge Frost (’53)
Allen Dixon Fuller (’59)
John K. Haralson (’57)
Flavil Ragan Hatcher (’51)
Harry Waymon Himelrick (’54)
Chase Adams Horton Sr. (’59)
Andrew M. Jarratt Jr. (’59)
Doris Pigg Lewter (’51)
Edward “Joe” Morgan (’57)
Gordon A. Traver Sr. (’52)
1960s
Elizabeth Alban (’65, ’01)
E. Faye Bloodworth Anderson (’63)
Walter Clarence Anderson Jr. (’60)
Sharon “Sherrie” Smith Atwood (’66)
Charles Bell (’63, ’72, ’74)
Norma Stonecipher Blair (’69, ’71)
Harlie J. Bodine III (’66)
Sonia Willis Bratten (’62)
Jamie Kestner Carr (’69)
Judith Dudney Chambers (’69)
Linda Cheryl White Colello (’68)
Joe Crockett (’64, ’69)
Homer “Skip” Dickens Jr. (’62)
James “Colonel” Dismukes (’68)
William “Bill” Dorris (’65)
Catherine Lakowski Fedor (’68)
Jerry L. Franklin (’62)
Killian “Buddy” Frye III (’68)
John Will Garner (’66)
Robert “Bob” E. Hardison Jr. (’61)
John Hayes (’68)
Philip Wayne Holder (’69)
Hugh Otis Holley (’68)
Alice Hudson (’69)
Alice Hudson, a 2011 MTSU Distinguished Alumni Award for Professional Achievement recipient, died Nov. 6, 2024. In 1970, Hudson was hired as a map cataloguer and reference librarian at the New York Public Library. The rest is not only NYPL history—it is the history of New York. By October 1981, Hudson was chief of the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division of the New York Public Library system. Its holdings include “more than 433,000 sheet maps and 20,000 books and atlases published between the 15th and 21st centuries,” according to the NYPL.
The New York Times, which once called Hudson “a poet of place,” described collection visitors as a hodgepodge of builders, developers and architects, novelists, and urban archaeologists—even “conspiracy theorists decoding the World Trade Center bombing.” According to the Times, the NYPL collection, the largest in any public library in the country with the exception of the Library of Congress, grew exponentially during Hudson’s tenure.
B. Leland Jennings (’60)
Shirley Tate Luckett (’64)
Bonnie Bell Mason (’69)
Michael Matheny (’68)
Jimmy Dave Maynard (’69)
Lucy Elliot Hill McLain (’65, ’69)
Ronald E. Morrell (’64)
Keith Omer Oppel (’67)
Petis Malvin Powell (’65)
G. Max Raby (’63, ’71)
Cheryl Rheinscheld Richmond (’68)
Joy Pfifer Rogers (’69, ’73)
Guy J. Rutland Jr. (’67)
Richard H. Sittel (’66)
Horace G. “Pete” Taylor
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Horace G. “Pete” Taylor (’60), the 2004 MTSU Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, served for 33 years in the U.S. Army, including roles as commanding general of the 24th Infantry Division and the National Training Center. He died at the age of 86 in Killeen, Texas, on Nov. 4, 2024.
A Lascassas native who became the MTSU ROTC unit commander, Taylor served two tours of duty in Vietnam, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bronze Star with Valor. He steadily rose through the ranks to become commander of III Corps at Fort Cavazos in 1991, then known as Fort Hood. Taylor earned a master’s from Kansas State University and was a graduate of the U.S. Army War College and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He was a well-known community leader who championed education, co-founding the worldwide Military Child Education Coalition and helping usher in the creation and development of Texas A&M University–Central Texas.
Robert “Bobby” Timmons Jr. (’63, ’78)
Rubye Sims Todd (’69)
Richard “Dick” Greer Tune (’69, ’73)
Lawrence Doyle Wilson (’69)
Aubry J. Womack (’66)
1970s
William “Bill” Adcock Sr. (’74)
Jack Harville Allinder (’73)
Steven Bass (’73, ’75)
Alice Beets (’79)
David Randolph Brown (’73)
Barry Ray Brown (’75)
Anita Harrison Campbell (’70, ’73, ’05)
David Leon Carter (’70)
Ann Windrow Crabtree (’72)
Deborah Lynn Dickey (’75)
Donna Cooper Durkee (’70)
Jerry Wayne Eatherly (’76)
Sandra Jones Fly (’75)
Russell “Rusty” Goodson Follis II (’73)
Joyce Boyd Fort (’75, ’81)
Frank Hartman (’73)
Larry Herron (’72)
Thomas E. Howell (’74)
Donna Foley Hubbard (’72)
Jim G. Inglis (’73)
Donna Lynn Keller (’78)
Allene Bledsoe Kunaporntum (’72, ’77)
John Amos Lasseter Jr. (’78)
Mickey Duran Lawson (’76)
Kathy Lewis (’72)
Gregory B. Lintner (’76)
David Bryan London (’74)
Clyde E. Marlin Jr. (’75)
Hueston G. Marshall (’73)
Terry Apple Martin (’72)
Nancy Woodfin Massey (’73)
Kimberly Ellington Maxon (’79, ’82)
Patricia M. Murphy (’75)
Raymond Edwin “Ed” Neal (’72)
Helen Ethridge Neal (’73)
Richard “Randy” Odom (’73)
Harold Glenn Oldham (’72, ’76)
James “Jim” Harold Peden Jr. (’74)
Carolyn E. Peebles (’79)
Michael Lee Piasecki (’78)
Wanda “Jan” Wildon Sharp (’75)
Ronald John Simanovich (’72)
Thomas C. Stephens (’77)
Bobby Joe Stephens Sr. (’75)
Jean Gregory Stevens (’75)
James “Jim” Taylor (’70)
Dale Tyree (’78)
Pamela Porter Wilson (’74)
David Edward Wright (’70)
Phillip Youmans Jr. (’70, ’71)
1980s
Sherry Brown Amos (’80)
Joseph Gary Anderson (’85)
James “Tony” Anthony Arena (’84)
Sondra Wildish Barnes (’87)
Russell L. Burns (’82)
Bettye Vance Burns (’80, ’82)
Susan Harley Cardwell (’83)
Robert “Bob” Cutrer (’85)
David J. Dean (’88, ’95, ’06)
Victor Duncan (’87)
Thomas Patrick Giles (’81)
Beverly Fay Hawkins (’80)
Gina Denning Jones (’87)
Lynda Lynch King (’86)
Patricia Anne Kurtz (’88)
Nancy McLean (’85)
Leta Pressnell Pfieffer (’83)
Jeffrey Wayne Phillips (’86)
Debra Janet Pluck (’82)
Sandra June DuCharme Russell (’89)
John Charles Rutherford (’87)
Barbara Brown Smith (’84)
Janice T. Spangler (’81)
Michael J. Sweeny (’83)
Bryan Testerman (’89)
Michael C. Timme (’87, ’89)
Sherry Greer Tolli (’83)
John “Bentley” Trent (’87)
Robert Brian Turner (’84, ’86)
Joseph Webster (’85)
Philip R. Wright (’80)
1990s
Dawn Boeing Barbee (’96)
Jane Brion Combs (’98)
Mark Lewis Daniel (’93)
Donald V. Detwiller (’93)
Nancy Sells Dodson (’91)
Phillip Ed Duncan (’95)
Bryan “Scoot” Fearn (’97)
Jason Golden (’97)
Linda Hardymon (’95, ’98)
Kenneth Hermes (’95)
Yvette Neely Hunt (’99)
Jason T. Locke (’90, ’91)
Gina Parrish Matlock (’95)
David “Scott” McCurley (’93)
James Robert Mooney (’92)
Kevin Penney (’90)
Michelle L. Robins (’96)
Debbie Gayle Rose (’93)
Coneigh Berkley Sea (’92)
Sally Ann Sherman (’90)
Jon David “JD” Shuff (’98)
Marion Paige Wilson (’90)
2000s
Charles “Chuck” Akers Jr. (’05)
Evan Boles (’07)
Julia Grace Boyd (’00)
Kyle D. Hurt (’02)
Roxana Marquis (’01)
Bradley A. McTigue (’00)
Natalie Kristin Smith Morton (’07)
Randy Vine Parson (’00)
Robert Anthony Smith Jr. (’01)
Clay Sydney Taylor (’04)
2010s
Joshua Conley (’15)
James “Jay” Crowley III (’17)
John Carl Jennings (’10)
Savonta Johnson-Chipa (’18)
Jacqueline S. Lux (’17)
Caleb J. McLoud (’18)
Matthew Ryan Rippy (’12)
Lauren Rollins (’16)
2020s
Connor William Richey (’22)
