MARTIN, Tenn. — The first female president of the University of Tennessee-Martin student government returns to campus Aug. 6 to deliver the commencement address.
Rose Boyd Wathen, a technical writer and information systems consultant from Jackson, graduated from UTM in 1981 with a degree in computer science.
Wathen worked seven years at UT-Knoxville, then became a consultant for a Nashville firm and later a systems designer for Telco Research Corp.
UT President Joe Johnson will confer degrees on 136 summer graduates. The program begins at 2 p.m.
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