Alicia Welden, Retired Professor

Alicia Galaz-Vivor Welden, 75, of Martin, died Oct. 18, 2003, at her residence.

Services were held at 1 p.m. Monday at St. Jude Catholic Church with Father Joseph Paolozzi officiating. Burial was in Cane Creek Cemetery in Rives. Murphy Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Tim Strickland, David Anderson, Robert Rickerson, Isaac Wright, Andrew Rivers and Brian Richie served as pallbearers. Mrs. Welden was born Dec. 4, 1927, in Valparaiso, Chile, the daughter of the late Pedro and Juanita Vivor Galaz. She was retired professor emeritus of Spanish at the University of Tennessee at Martin. She was a scholar, author and poet with international recognition. She was a member of St. Jude Catholic Church.

Survivors include her husband, Oliver Welden (Rupert Oliver Welden Robeson) of Martin; two sons, Arnold Welden of Dinuba, Calif., and Jonathan Welden of Martin; two daughters, Jacqueline Welden and Cynthia Welden, both of Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; two sisters, Gilda Galaz and Lucy Galaz, both of Santiago, Chile; and 12 grandchildren.

Students and faculty wishing to pay their respects may contribute to a fund organized by Modern Foreign Languages, which will be used to purchase books in Alicia's memory for the university library.

David Stout, Media Specialist

David R. "Dave" Stout, the Paul Meek Library's media specialist, died at his home Monday, October 13 afternoon of a brain aneurysm. He was 46

Stout joined the library staff as an electronics technician in March 1999 after formerly serving as a UTM Physical Plant supervisor. In 2001, he was promoted to media specialist and coordinator of the Media Services Department of the Paul Meek Library.

Stout was a Martin native and attended Westview High School.

Before joining the university, he served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy as an electronics technician, retiring as a Chief Warrant Officer III.

He was completing his degree in Business Management at UTM at the time of his death and was a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society.

He is survived by his wife, Felicia Budzek Stout, a senior dispatcher at the UTM Office of Public Safety; two daughters, Nicole Stout, a senior Graphics Design major at UTM, and Tara Garner, a fees control clerk in Public Safety; one grandson, Kaine Garner; his parents, Bill and Peggy Stout; a brother, Billy G. Stout, who is the building inspector for the City of Martin, and a sister-in-law, Vicki Stout, a Telephone Services account specialist at UTM.

All of the survivors are from Martin.