Pug Scoville
Although at birth he was named Charles King Scoville, he’s been called Pug Scoville his entire life. When you have a nickname for over 50 years, it's awfully hard to lose it.
Pug is a native Nashvillian, a graduate of Vanderbilt University, with a M.S. in Educational Administration from Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education. After a few years of teaching and coaching secondary students at prep schools in Massachusetts and Florida, he changed his focus to adult education. Since the mid-1970s, he has worked professionally both in adult education and communications. Before coming to TAR, he worked as an account executive at an advertising, marketing, and public relations firm – serving clients in Nashville, Atlanta, and Washington, DC. His most prominent client in the early 1980s was President Reagan’s Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives. Also during that period, he scripted a number of training videos for Hospital Corporation of America and other corporate clients.
Since 1985, Pug has been the Director of Communications & Education for the Tennessee Association of REALTORS and has been involved in a number of REALTOR programs at both the state and national levels.
In his service to the Tennessee Real Estate Educational Foundation (TREEF), Pug developed the Instructor Training Institute (ITI) program in the late 1980s, the only instructor-training program endorsed by the National Association of REALTORS and taught in over 20 states across the country. He has served twice as national Chair of the Directors of Education for NAR, and has also served as national Chair of the Communications Directors for NAR. He was a member of the original Board that created the National REALTORS Database System (NRDS) for NAR and the data standards for that system. Pug is currently a member of NAR’s Risk Management Committee.
Pug Scoville has served as staff to every agency law task force and committee at TAR over the years, authoring Tennessee’s agency law on behalf of TAR’s Presidential Advisory Group on Agency in 1994-95. He has also coordinated professional standards training for over 20 years, and he has served as a coordinator, facilitator, and "Camp Counselor" for TAR’s leadership development program – Leadership TAR – from the beginning.
Pug is happily married with two grown daughters (who live with their husbands and Pug’s four grandchildren in Charleston, South Carolina), and one son now working toward his PhD in biochemistry at Vanderbilt.
Gary L. Blume
As one can see from the details below Gary has an extensive background in real estate, Realtor® association governance and teaching. Many students have commented on his unique gift of weaving a lesson in to a relevant story.
Sales Experience
Broker Owner Nan-Mar and Associates 1973-1978
Broker Owner Blume Realty 1978-1984
Broker Owner Blume-Ivey Realtors® 1984-1988
Sales Manager Reid Realtors® 1988-1995
Sales Manager Mallard Creek Realty 1995-2002
Salesman Re Max at Mallard Creek Realty 2002-Present
Realtor ExperiencePresident Memphis Area Association of Realtors® 1984
Realtor® of the Year 1985
President Tennessee TREEF 1985
President Million Dollar Sales Club 1986
Tennessee State Educator of the Year 1986
Distinguished Service Award by TAR 1996
President Tennessee TREEF 2006
Teaching ExperienceCo-owner of License Preparatory School 1979-1982
Instructor Real Estate Principles
Memphis University 1980-1985
State Tech Institute 1978-1980
Instructor Broker Management
Memphis University 1985-1987
Instructor at Instructor Training Institute 1992-2002
Massachusetts, New York, Georgia
And Tennessee
Instructor Graduate Realtors® Institute 1985-Present
Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas
Certified Professional Standards
Procedures Instructor NAR 1990-2002
Teaching For Boards and Associations“Real Estate In The Nineties” sponsored by Kentucky Real Estate Commission and Kentucky Real Estate Education Foundation delivered in nine locations throughout the state in 1993
Orientation for new members,”ETHICS” portion, for the Memphis Area Association of Realtors® from 1987 until present.
Leadership Development classes taught for the following:
Tennessee Association of Realtors®
Clarksville Association of Realtors®
Blount County Association of Realtors®
Chattanooga Association of Realtors®
Annual Continuing Education Offering 1990-2002
Smoky Mountain Association of Realtors®
Professional Standards Instruction for New Committee Members for the following:
Lexington, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Kentucky Association
Following Boards or Associations in the State of Tennessee:
Nashville
Clarksville
Chattanooga
Jackson
Paris
Murfreesboro
Franklin
Blount County
Union City
Gallatin
Educational Presentations at ConventionsTennessee Association of Realtors® convention 2003,2002,1990,1994
National Association of Realtors®convention 1990
Kentucky Regional Century 21 convention 1992
DevelopmentFletcher Creek Subdivision
Richmond Square Subdivision
Raleigh Bartlett Subdivision
Bartlett Ellendale Subdivision
Appling Ridge Commons
Brownsville Woods Subdivision
Arlington Downs Subdivision
Ole Bartlett Village Subdivision
ConstructionOwner of Blume Construction Company since 1980 building single family residential homes
Allied InvolvementOne of twelve principals who chartered the Bank of Bartlett in 1980
Currently director of First Citizens Bank