March 16, 2009(FHTNC)–Navy Seaman Thomas A. Davis (’08)  recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois.

During the eight-week program, Davis completed a variety of training which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness.

The capstone event of boot camp is “Battle Stations”. This exercise gives recruits the skills and confidence they need to succeed in the fleet. “Battle Stations” is designed to galvanize the basic warrior attributes of sacrifice, dedication, teamwork and endurance in each recruit through the practical application of basic Navy skills and the core values of Honor, Courage and Commitment. Its distinctly ”Navy” flavor was designed to take into account what it means to be a Sailor.

Davis is a 2008 graduate of University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, with a BS degree.

Brian Lackey (’96) is the Head Teaching Professional at the Johnny Warren Golf Academy at The Club at Fairvue Plantation in Gallatin, TN. He had an idea for a golf aid that would help his students putt better. He never dreamed it would be used by golfers around the world. Brian Lackey Read the rest of this entry »

Reproduced with permission from Maryville University (MO)

 St. Louis, Mo. — A childhood accident forced Tony Duckworth (’94) to revamp his basketball shot, rework his baseball swing, and develop a new golf grip. However, the toughest—and most rewarding—challenge of all has been maintaining a winning attitude.

Duckworth, director of athletics at Maryville University, reflects on the traumatic hand injury that changed his life in a chapter of the newly-released Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball. His story is one of 101 chapters in the book, selected from over 15,000 submissions.

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Brenda Purcell (’86) received the James Company’s Granite Award for earning the highest gross sales in real estate amounting to over $6 million.  Ms. Purcell is a realtor with The James Company in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is an active member of the Chattanooga Association of Realtors.

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Zebadiah Taylor, a 2008 UTC graduate, has been awarded a three-year James A. Michener Fellowship in Creative Writing from the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers. The program is considered one of the five most highly selective programs in the country and is consistently ranked as one of the top ten graduate programs in creative writing.

Taylor’s poetry writing sample was chosen out of more than 700 submissions in fiction, playwriting, poetry and screenwriting and he becomes one of the twelve newly admitted fellows. Each new fellow receives free tuition, a $25,000 annual stipend for three years with no teaching responsibility, and a $6,000 professional development fund for travel and research.

The Michener Center’s MFA program was started in 1993 after Pulitzer-prize winning novelist James Michener endowed the University of Texas with $18 million to support a writing program. During the three-year program, students are required to work in two of the four disciplines offered—fiction, poetry, playwriting and screenwriting. The Michener Center for Writers is housed in the historic J. Frank Dobie house on the University’s campus.

Timothy Jennings, M.D. (UTC ‘86, UTHSC ‘90) was recognized as one of America’s Top Psychiatrists in 2008 by the Consumer Research Institute in Washington, D.C.  Jennings is currently President of the Southeast Tennessee Psychiatric Association and has recently moved his psychiatry practice closer to his collegiate home, just down the street from UTC’s Fletcher Hall on Oak Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Read the rest of this entry »

Stuart Silberman (’74) was selected by the American Association of School Administrators as one of the four finalists for the 2009 National Superintendent of the Year Award. The winning finalist will have the opportunity to give out a $10,000 scholarship to a student from one of their schools.  Below is the December 16, 2008 press release about Silberman’s listing as a finalist. Read the rest of this entry »