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LATIMER RECEIVES SERVICE AWARD Bill Latimer, of Union City, was one of four University of Tennessee graduates honored for exceptional service to the university during the annual UT President’s Council Awards Dinner on Jan. 26 in Knoxville. Latimer graduated from UT Knoxville in 1960 with a degree in engineering and is a 1996 graduate of the WestStar Leadership Program. He currently serves on the UT President’s Council and has previously served on the UT Martin Fundraising Advisory Board and the UT Martin Development Committee, as well as in other positions across the UT System. Latimer is most recently noted for making the largest single gift in UT Martin history when he funded the university’s portion of the new science and engineering building, which will bear his name. Latimer (center) is pictured with DiPietro (left) and Dr. Keith Carver, UT Martin chancellor.
BOBBY SEALE SPEAKS AT UT MARTIN Bobby Seale, cofounder of the Black Panther Party, spoke on the UT Martin main campus Feb. 22 as part of the university’s 18th-annual Civil Rights Conference. Seale co-founded the Black Panthers in the 1960s with fellow activist Huey Newton. The pair established the party’s 10-point program, “What We Want, What We Believe,” which declared, “We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our black community.” UT Martin is one of only two universities nationally to host an annual civil rights conference, and the 2018 event included a variety of speakers, discussion panels and performances to mark the 50-year anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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