Dr. R. Rascoe Rhea ’69
Dr. R. Rascoe Rhea was born Feb. 2, 1947, to Porter and Emma (Cannon) Rhea, and grew up on a farm. He was a 1965 graduate of Battle Ground Academy in Franklin, TN, and graduated at Southwestern (now Rhodes College), where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He married his high school sweetheart, Simms Montgomery, on Sept. 9, 1967, in Pulaski, TN. He was a member of the Marguerite Dean Dental Society, and also active in the Naval Reserves, while he earned his DDS (graduated in 1972) at The University of Tennessee Dental School in Memphis.