Well-wishers celebrate Glenda Baskin Glover

By Tribune StaffPhotos by Aaron Grayson, TSU Media RelationsNASHVILLE, TN — After serving 11 years at the helm of Tennessee State University, a retirement reception honoring the work of Dr. Glenda Baskin Glover was held last month at the home of Rosetta Miller-Perry, founder and publisher of The Tennessee Tribune, bringing together former board members, staff, friends, community influencers, politicians and other well-wishers to congratulate and thank Glover for her tenacity, leadership and love for her alma mater. “She retired June 30 and will go on to do even greater things as a natural born leader,” Miller-Perry said of TSU’s first permanently appointed female president.Glover, who graduated from TSU with a degree in mathematics, said, “This time takes me full circle, I graduated in 1974, became president in 2013, and I am now retiring in 2024, which is a 50-year TSU journey.”“She leaves a legacy of service and commitment,” said long-time friend and schoolmate, Jo Ann Davis-Davis.The Rev. Dr. Ron Parham provided an inspired invocation calling Glover a “woman of substance,” while State Representative, the Rev. Dr. Harold M. Love, Jr., led a toast acknowledging the presidential leader as one “demonstrating character, strength and boldness.”Other words of appreciation were shared...