UTM recently announced that the Honors Seminar Room in the Holland McCombs Center would be named after C.E. “Bub” and Mary Cole.

The announcement, made Nov. 5, recognizes the Drummonds, Tenn. couple for their service and support of the university.

Cole is a former member of the UT Development Council and a present member of the UT Martin Development Committee.

The Coles said education combats many problems in our communities, and they also said that society should take more interest in investing in young people so that they can “take up where we leave off.”

The Coles endowed the first University Scholars scholarship in 1991 because of the academic caliber of the students in the program.

Their investment was later expanded to the Cole University Scholars Endowment, which now provides five full University Scholars scholarships at $5,000 each to five students annually.