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A lifetime at Trevecca: Jim Hiatt retires after 43 years
6Apr trevechoesonline's avatarBy trevechoesonlineNo Comments
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A lifetime at Trevecca: Jim Hiatt retires after 43 years

By Jasmin Enriquez Martinez Features Editor During the summer, a young Jim Hiatt worked as a student building the roof for the university president’s home and digging drainage for Trevecca’s baseball field.  After 43 years at the university, he is retiring from the place he once helped build. “It's almost like abandoning the biggest part of my life,” said Hiatt, associate provost and dean of the Skinner School of Business.  Hiatt is set to retire later in June.  He began as a Trevecca student in the 1970s earning his bachelors in business administration. He also earned a law degree from University of Tennessee and his masters at Middle Tennessee State University. During his time at Trevecca, Hiatt has helped create multiple programs in his department.  Before working a...
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Once a nervous freshman, now a guiding voice: Trevecca honors Lena Welch
11Nov trevechoesonline's avatarBy trevechoesonlineNo Comments
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Once a nervous freshman, now a guiding voice: Trevecca honors Lena Welch

Jasmin Enriquez Martinez Features Editor Far away from her Arkansas home, a shy Trevecca freshman, Lena Hegi, sat in the Tennessee Hall lobby, nervous for her first day of college, praying for someone to befriend her. Four decades later, Lena Hegi Welch helps students find their sense of belonging on campus. “I knew one person on campus. I was terrified, very introverted,” said Welch, dean of the school of arts and social sciences. After 37 years as a professor and administrator at Trevecca, Welch received this year’s TNU  Generation Impact Award. Current or former Trevecca employees who worked for more than three decades qualify for the award, according to the Treveccan.   On Nov. 8, the department of communication studies hosted a celebration in Wakefield...
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After decades behind the mic, Greg Ruff joins Trevecca hall of fame
7Nov trevechoesonline's avatarBy trevechoesonlineNo Comments
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After decades behind the mic, Greg Ruff joins Trevecca hall of fame

Parker Henningsen Sports Editor and Chief Photographer For nearly three decades, Greg Ruff has been the steady voice behind Trevecca athletics, calling games, writing stories and celebrating the triumphs of others.  Now, the longtime broadcaster and sports information director finds himself on the other side of the story: as one of the newest members of the Trevecca Nazarene University Athletics Hall of Fame. “It’s kind of awkward,” Ruff said with a laugh. “I’m on the Hall of Fame Committee, so to be the one recognized and then have to help put out the press release about myself, that’s not exactly how I’m wired. My greatest joy has always been sharing the accomplishments of other people.” Ruff graduated from Trevecca in 1987 with a degree in communication studies. He h...
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Trevecca graduates turn heads and chairs on NBC’s ‘The Voice’
7Nov trevechoesonline's avatarBy trevechoesonlineNo Comments
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Trevecca graduates turn heads and chairs on NBC’s ‘The Voice’

Michelle Loria Alvarado Executive Editor Dylan John (Letf), Emily Clapp (Center), Kollin Bailey (Right). The Blind Auditions Season Premiere, Episode 2801, Pictured: DEK of Hearts. (Photo by: Griffin Nagel/NBC) The night before the deadline for The Voice auditions, Dylan John, Emily Clapp, and Kollin Bailey were hanging out. John was scrolling through Instagram when he saw an ad for auditions for The Voice.“ He [John] was like ‘Hey, here’s an ad for The Voice, this would be fun if we do this as a trio,’” said Clapp.  Then they grabbed Bailey’s McBook, recorded a 30-second clip, and sent their audition that same night.  “It was literally the worst sound ever,” said Clapp, “And so we were like, what if we made this, like that would be funny if we made it.” Approxi...
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