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Roger Young (’69), Nashville, announced The Tennessee Mayflower Society is accepting applications for The Tennessee Society of Mayflower Descendants Roger L. Young Scholarship. The Tennessee Mayflower Society is a nonprofit, hereditary society dedicated to preserving and recording facts and information regarding Mayflower ancestors through historical research, genealogy, and education. The members have documented direct descent from one or more passengers who sailed from Holland and England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, aboard the Mayflower.
Ric Chambers (’72), Portland, Oregon, was awarded the Richard Daryl Chambers Award for service to scouting and the community by the Boy Scouts of America’s Timberline District. Chambers is completing a 60-year volunteer career with scouting. He served as scoutmaster of the Western U.S. delegation to the World Scout Jamboree, Korea, in 1991. For the past 20 years, he has chaired the flag placement program at Willamette National Cemetery, where community volunteers place flags on the graves of 170,000 veterans for Memorial Day each year.
Andre Bahou (’99), Franklin, joined Bradley Arant Boult Cummings as a partner in its intellectual property practice group. Bahou, previously with Holland & Knight and Waller, is a registered patent attorney, trial lawyer, mediator, and arbitrator with more than 20 years of experience in the areas of electrical and computer engineering technologies, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, medical devices, blockchain, computer hardware, software, and internet security systems. Brad Byrd (’94, ’02), Murfreesboro, was promoted to Rutherford County market president of SmartBank.
Troy Cunningham (’95), Franklin, was named chief financial officer of the Heritage Foundation of Williamson County. Cunningham joins the organization following a 33-year career with Belle Meade Country Club, where he served the past 18 years as controller. Giles Damron (’95), Lakeland, received the Academy of General Dentistry Fellowship Award. Only 6% of dentists have earned the AGD Fellowship. Damron serves part time on the College of Dentistry faculty at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.
Rodney D. Bennett The University of Nebraska–Lincoln named Rodney D. Bennett (’90, ’92, ’93) its new chancellor in July 2023. Bennett was selected as the prime candidate of the flagship institution after a series of public forums and other public meetings, according to the university’s news release. Bennett is the 21st UNL chancellor. The Lincoln campus is the largest institution in the University of Nebraska system, with 24,000 students and 9,000 faculty and staff. Bennett came to UNL after serving as president of the University of Southern Mississippi. He has also held various leadership roles at the University of Georgia, Winthrop University, and his alma mater, MTSU. 42 MTSU Magazine
