M. C. James Golf Driving Range: The M. C. James Golf Driving Range is named for former
golf captain and USGA Committeeman M. C. James Jr., who lettered in 1936. It was established
at Lakeshore Park in 1985 and was relocated with other golf practice facilities to the Mack and
Jonnie Day Golf Practice Facility on Alcoa Highway in November 2010.
See also Golf; Golf Practice Facility.
Mabel’s Cafeteria: Currently located in McCord Hall on the agriculture campus, Mabel’s (its
official name was originally the Agricultural Lunchroom) opened in 1946 on the lower floor of
an army surplus barracks-type building erected to the west of Morgan Hall to provide additional
classroom space. The facility in the army surplus building replaced a tiny lunchroom adjacent to
the creamery on the south wing of the first floor of Morgan Hall. Mabel’s was named for its first
manager, Mabel (Mrs. Hubert O.) Davenport, and retained the name when it moved to McCord
Hall in 1949. Mabel Davenport operated the cafeteria from 1946 until she retired in December
1982. During the time she was in charge, she received raves for both the kind of person she was
and for her cooking. In 1978 she received the E. J. Chapman Award for Outstanding Service, an
award annually presented to an Institute of Agriculture support staff member. She died in 1997 at
83 years old. UT’s Dining Services assumed operation of the facility in 1985, and the facility
was renovated in 1998, reopening January 19, 1999. In summer 2003 both the menu and the
aesthetics of the café were updated.
See also Barracks, Trailers, and Prefabricated Buildings on Campus Following World War II.
MacArthur Fellowships: Two faculty and two alumni have been recipients of the $500,000
Sarah MacArthur Fellowships, which have been awarded annually since 1981 by the John D. and
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Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Sometimes called “genius awards,” the fellowships are
annually presented to between 20 and 40 United States citizens or residents of any age and
working in any field who “show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced
creative work.” The award, for which there is no application and no public statement of the
selection process, is not designed as a reward for past accomplishments but as an investment in
the potential of the recipients. The award is paid in equal installments, over a five-year period.
The UT faculty recipients have been Dr. John Gaventa (sociology, 1981) and Dr. Jay Rubenstein
(history, 2007). Alumni recipients have been Cormac McCarthy (1981) and John Rice Irwin
(1989).
Mace of the University: The University Mace, carried by a member of the faculty in academic
processions, was first carried in 1960 at the inauguration of Andrew Holt as the institution’s 16th
president. It was designed and carved by Malcolm Rice, who was then the university architect. It
was decorated by Samuel L. Nelson, physical plant general superintendent (carpentry); Mrs.
Robert “Peg” Boarts (enamel inserts); Kermit Ewing, professor of art (coloring); and Edward
Honeycutt, superintendent of chemical engineering laboratories (chrome plating). The carvings
and designs on the head of the mace represent the university’s mission to serve the people of
Tennessee. A keystone at the top of the mace represents UT’s position as the capstone institution
of higher education in Tennessee. Flame carvings symbolize the torch of learning and service to
others. Enamel designs of the iris (Tennessee state flower) that cover the head signify UT’s place
as the State University and Land-Grant Institution of Tennessee.
Macebearer: In 1960 designation as Macebearer was instituted as one of the most significant
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honors the university can bestow upon a member of the faculty. The mace is symbolic of the
faculty’s service to the university, its students, and the greater society. The faculty member
designated as Macebearer is usually one who has exhibited a longstanding commitment and
service to the university community. The Macebearer carries the university’s mace in all
academic processions. The first person designated as Macebearer was Dr. George Schweitzer
(chemistry). Originally, the Macebearer was the faculty member chosen by Phi Kappa Phi as its
annual lecturer.
See also Phi Kappa Phi.
MacLeod, Florence L. (1896–1987): Dr. MacLeod earned the BS (1919) from Simmons
College in Boston and the MS (1921) and PhD (1924) from Columbia University. She joined the
faculty of the university’s College of Home Economics (later Human Ecology and now within
the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences) in 1931. When the Department of
Nutrition was established in 1936, she was named head, a post she held until she retired in 1962.
She also served as assistant director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, in charge of all home
economics research. She was the author of more than 25 articles on vitamins and minerals in
major professional journals, and was, for 10 years, chairwoman of the Southern Regional
Nutrition Committee. She was a charter member of the American Institute of Nutrition. Her
intellectual contributions to the life of the university have been recognized by placement of a
plaque in her honor on a faculty study.
See also Library—Named Faculty Studies.
Madden, David: Fourteen-year-old Jerry David Madden of Knoxville submitted a one-act play
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in the 1950 statewide contest held jointly by the UT English Department and the Division of
University Extension. The prize was having the play produced on campus, and Madden was one
of four winners that year. He submitted another winning entry in a contest for UT students in
1955, a one-act play entitled Cassandra Singing, which he later expanded into a novel. Madden
(“Jerry” at UT) graduated from UT in 1957. He earned the MA from San Francisco State and
attended Yale Drama School on a John Golden Fellowship.
In 1961 his first novel, The Beautiful Greed, was published by Random House. Eight other
novels have followed, of which two (Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War [1996] and The
Suicide’s Wife [1978]) have been nominated for Pulitzer Prizes. Bijou (1974) was a Book-of-theMonth Club selection, and The Suicide’s Wife was made into a CBS movie. He has also written
collections of short stories, scholarly works on six genres and two writers, five books on creative
writing and the novel, and more than a dozen textbooks.
He was in the Writer-in-Residence Program at Louisiana State University from 1968 to 1992,
was director of the LSU Creative Writing Program from 1992 to 1994, served as the founding
director of the United States Civil War Center at LSU from 1992 to 1999, and then was named
Donald and Velvia Crumbley Professor of Creative Writing at LSU. He donated his papers to the
UT Libraries in 2015.
Maggart, Brandon: Brandon Maggart (Roscoe Maggart, but more commonly called “Buddy” at
UT) received the BS in journalism in fall 1956. He began his acting career in school plays in his
hometown of Carthage, Tennessee. He won an operatic scholarship to UT. After graduation he
performed in New York for 25 years, mainly on stage, with some television and film work. He
received a Tony nomination for his featured role in Applause. He was in the original cast of
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Sesame Street and wrote and performed sketches for Upstairs at the Downstairs. In 1983 he was
cast in the TV series Jennifer Slept Here, followed by Brothers. In 1985 he moved to Venice,
California, purchasing his home from Randy Gardner, skating partner of Tai Babilonia.
He has become a highly successful character actor, appearing on TV shows such as ER,
Murphy Brown, Chicago Hope, LA Law, Murder She Wrote, Newhart, Married . . .with
Children, and Ellen. He has appeared in more than 20 films, the first being The Magic Garden of
Stanley Sweetheart in 1970. Some of the other films include Dressed to Kill, You Better Watch
Out, The World According to Garp, Bachelor Man, Living in Fear, The Outlaws: Legend of O.
B. Taggart, and Intrepid. He is an artist, but he neither sells nor shows his paintings.
He has six children (a seventh, Justine, was killed in a car crash): Spencer (aka Brandon Jr.) is
principally interested in writing screenplays. Garrett is a leading character in The Sentinel, who
hosted Live from the House of Blues on TBS, among other roles and appearances, and who stood
in eighth place in the 1997 People magazine online poll for the Most Intriguing People of 1997.
Maude is a cabaret-style singer. Fiona Apple is a singer whose first album, Tidal, went triple
platinum, and who was named Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1997.
Julienne and Jennifer are not in show business.
Mahan, Gerald D.: In 1984 Dr. Gerald Mahan was one of the first two professors to be
appointed a distinguished scientist in the new Center of Excellence, the Science Alliance. Prior
to this appointment, Professor Mahan was distinguished professor at Indiana University, where
he directed the Materials Research Laboratory. Dr. Mahan held appointments in the UT Physics
and Astronomy Department and in the Solid State Division of the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory. His accomplishments in the field of solid-state physics are widespread, including the
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development of theories to account for the optical and electrical behavior of semiconductors. Dr.
Mahan, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1995), received the PhD from the
University of California at Berkeley. He left UT in 2001 to become a distinguished professor at
the Pennsylvania State University.
See also Distinguished Scientist Program; Science Alliance.
Maintenance Fee: The General Education Bill of 1909 provided annual state appropriations for
UT but required that tuition be free to those enrolled in almost every area of the institution. State
funds, however, quickly became insufficient to cover the cost of the institution, and the trustees
introduced a “maintenance fee” to cover the gap between the “tuition funds” provided by the
state and the cost of maintaining a student at the institution.
See also Annual State Appropriations for UT.
Maintenance Fee and Tuition Increase Required by Educational Reform Act: In a called
meeting in spring 1984, the board of trustees raised fees for in-state undergraduates 14 percent
and for out-of-state undergraduates and graduates, 12 percent. Tuition for the College of Law
was raised 20 percent and for the College of Veterinary Medicine, 15 percent. The increases
were made necessary primarily by the 30/70 agreement between UT and the state regarding
funding for higher education in Tennessee. Students were to pay 30 percent of the cost, and the
state was to pay 70 percent. The additional funding for UT that was part of the $351 million
Comprehensive Educational Reform Act approved by the general assembly required increases in
student fees to meet the 30/70 agreement. Vice President for Business and Finance Eli Fly
indicated that “even with the increases, student fees will still make up less than 30% of UT’s
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budget.”
Maintenance Fee/Tuition Discounts for Faculty and Staff: The Faculty Senate approved and
sent forward a recommendation that faculty and staff of the institution be able to attend the
institution at reduced cost in 1984.
Majorettes: Female marchers with the UT band were called Vollettes when they first appeared
in 1937, three years before female students first were allowed to join the band. But the tradition
of majorettes became firmly fixed in 1939 when Mildred Alexander was named head majorette.
Although many universities have discontinued having majorettes, UT has continued the tradition.
The average twirling experience of UT majorettes is eight to ten years, and members of the UT
majorettes compete nationally. Majorettes perform at band camp, in August, and the line
rehearses with the band three days a week for approximately two hours and on game days from
two to three hours. UT majorettes have a tradition of being able to twirl in unison.
See also Band, Pride of the Southland; First Four-Year Majorette Scholarship; First
Majorettes’ National Championship.
Majors, John Terrill: A 1957 UT graduate, Johnny Majors was an All-American tailback.
When the team won the 1956 SEC Championship, Majors was named the SEC’s most valuable
player and made every All-American team. He was runner-up to Notre Dame’s Paul Hornung for
the Heisman Trophy.
He was a student member of the UT coaching staff following graduation until he accepted a
post in 1960 as an assistant coach at Mississippi State. In 1964 he moved to the coaching staff of
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the University of Arkansas. He became head coach at the University of Iowa in 1968 and was
named the Big Eight Coach of the Year in 1971. Majors became head coach at the University of
Pittsburgh in 1973, and his team won the national championship in 1976. He returned to UT as
head coach in 1977.
At Tennessee, Majors’s teams won 115 SEC games and three SEC championships (but were 412 against Alabama). He underwent surgery for a heart condition—a quintuple bypass—on
August 25, 1992, and Assistant Head Coach Phillip Fulmer stood in for him, going 3-0.
Majors returned to work less than a month after undergoing the surgery. In November he
issued a terse resignation, saying, “Since I have not been given the opportunity by the UT
administration to remain as head football coach past this current season, I am, effective
December 31st, 1992, relinquishing all my duties connected with The University of Tennessee.”
He subsequently announced that he would not coach the team in the Hall of Fame Bowl. UT
bought out the remaining two years of his contract for $600,000.
Philip Fulmer, who had stood in for Majors while he was out for the surgery, replaced him,
touching off a fan debate about the propriety of Fulmer’s actions and about university decisionmaking. The speculation that Fulmer had worked assiduously to have Majors removed was
fueled by comments by members of Majors’s family and insinuations by Majors himself.
In 1993 Majors returned to the University of Pittsburgh as head coach. He retired from football
coaching in 1996.
In 1973 the Football Writers Association and the Walter Camp Foundation named Majors
Coach of the Year. In 1976 both the Football Writers Association and the American Football
Coaches Association named him National Coach of the Year. He is a charter inductee into the
Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. In 1980, playing in his own invitational golf tournament at the
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Lake Tansi Resort, Majors won a new Chevette with a hole in one on the course’s ninth hole. He
hit a 4-iron into the cup on the par 3, 175-yard hole. In 2003 he was honored by the East
Tennessee Chapter of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Knoxville Quarterback Club by
being named the Robert R. Neyland Memorial Trophy winner.
He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1987, and UT retired his
jersey, Number 45, in a ceremony prior to the UT-Florida game in September 2012.
See also Athletics Department Number Retirement Policy (Football); Fulmer, Phillip.
Make Orange Green: Make Orange Green is the comprehensive program that coordinates and
promotes environmental stewardship on campus. It is a collaborative effort of the Committee on
the Campus Environment, Facilities Services, and the Student Environmental Initiatives
Committee. The Switch Your Thinking initiative to save electricity, with its six-foot tall mascot,
Switchie, is one of its most visible campaigns. Friends of Switchie, launched in 2009, provided
an opportunity for offices and units to pledge to conserve, and the 2011 Switch Your Thinking
Power Down Pledge Tree, with the opportunity to sign the pledge with an inky thumbprint along
the tree’s branches, captured both the attention and the imagination of the campus.
The program operates the Game Day Recycling efforts. Among its other efforts are initiation
(in 2011) of the Mug project, which seeks to eliminate the use of paper cups and other single-use
containers on campus and provides reusable water bottles emblazoned with the Make Orange
Green slogan to incoming freshmen.
See also Climate Action Plan; LEED Certification Policy; Talloires Declaration.
Malaysian Art Prints: In fall 1983 Chancellor Jack Reese accepted three framed prints by
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Malaysian artists given to UT’s International Hall of Fame in the university center. The prints
were presented by Siva Muthaly, sophomore in business administration; Adrian Narayanan,
freshman in business administration, and Rama Muthaly, a Malaysian banker.
Malone, Hollis: The lush Opryland Hotel conservatories are the work of Hollis Malone, 1970
UT graduate of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. Malone became
chief horticulturist for the theme park Opryland USA in 1972 and subsequently for the Gaylord
Opryland Hotel. He worked with the original hotel architects to create a unique indoor landscape
and picked out and planted the palm trees and plants for which the original conservatory won
national acclaim and designation as an indoor arboretum by the Nashville Tree Foundation. In
May 2010, following the flood that left 10 feet of contaminated floodwaters covering parts of the
hotel and grounds, he supervised removal of contaminated water, saved the plants he could,
redesigned the conservatories, and oversaw installation of the new plants and hardscapes.
Maloney, Frank (1879–1952): Maloney Point, an elevation of two thousand feet in the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park, is named for this 1898 engineering graduate of the university.
He served in the Spanish-American War in Puerto Rico and in the Philippines from 1899 until
1901. In 1911 Governor Ben Hooper appointed him Adjutant General of the National Guard,
State of Tennessee, a position he held for four years. During his military career, he selected the
site of Fort Benning, Georgia.
In Knoxville Maloney’s business involved civil engineering and general contractor projects.
He was an ardent hiker and camper. One of the primary leaders of the effort to secure the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park, he assisted Arno Cammerer in setting boundary lines for the
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park. The park service accepted Maloney’s mapping of areas for purchase, and he furnished
virtually all the technical information in the early stages of planning for the park.
After North Carolina thwarted a plan for the southern terminus of the Blue Ridge Parkway
(which Maloney had recommended and the park service had approved), he conceived the idea of
the Foothills Parkway, which would parallel the Tennessee border of the park. He selected the
route and was instrumental in obtaining the legislation required both from the Tennessee
Legislature and US Congress to implement the plan. He served as president of the Great Smoky
Mountains Conservation Association from 1944 until his death in 1952.
Mamantov, Gleb (1931–1995): The research laboratories in Dabney Hall are named for Gleb
Mamantov, internationally recognized chemist in molten salt chemistry, who joined the
university faculty as assistant professor of chemistry in 1961 and served as head of the
Chemistry Department from 1979 until his death in 1995. The son of two physicians, Mamantov
was born in Kapsava, Latvia. The anticommunist Mamantov family fled westward in 1944 when
the Soviets overran the Baltic States and lived in a displaced persons camp in Kleinkotz,
Germany, from 1945 to 1949, when they immigrated to the United States. Mamantov became a
United States citizen in 1955.
He earned the BS (1953), MS (1954) and PhD (1957) from Louisiana State University. He
then entered the US Air Force and served in rocket propulsion at Edwards Air Force Base. He
edited nine books, including five volumes of Advances in Molten Salt Chemistry and
Characterization of Solutes in Non-Aqueous Solvents. He authored or coauthored 32 book and
proceedings chapters and more than one hundred publications in scientific journals. He held
three patents. His international recognition includes the Meggers Award of the Society of
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Applied Spectroscopy (1983). He made a trip to Latvia in 1993, where he was honored for his
achievements in chemistry and made a lifetime member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. In
1994 he received the Max Bredig Award for outstanding scientific contributions to molten salt
chemistry. Mamantov was a fellow of the American Institute of Chemists and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. He served as a consultant to the Oak Ridge
National Laboratories from 1962 until his death.
Mammoth Cave UT Monument: In 1909 the Orange and White reported that E. B. Proctor
(’07) had toured Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave, where he discovered that, while there were
monuments (piles of cave rocks with signs) for Vanderbilt, Kentucky State, Sewanee, and many
other universities, there was none for UT. He prepared a 12-inch sign with raised letters with the
“UT” logo and “Univ. of Tenn.” and created a base of cave rocks, upon which others visiting
Mammoth Cave could place a rock for UT. Joy Medley Lyons, chief of program services at
Mammoth Cave National Park, indicated that there were dozens of such monuments in
Mammoth Cave when the Civilian Conservation Corps was brought to the area to create
Mammoth Cave National Park in the late 1930s. One of their tasks was trail improvement, and
many of the signs and monuments were destroyed as trails were made. Some monuments still do
exist inside the cave, primarily in a passageway called Gothic Avenue. The UT monument, and a
goodly pile of rocks placed by visitors, is still there, in a side passage that did not need to be
cleaned out for the trail work.
Mammoth Tusk: The wooly mammoth’s tusk at the Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural
History and Culture was a gift, through the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, of five
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UT students who spent the summer of 1956 working in Alaska in a gold mine. Knox Williams,
Gene Fair, John D’Armand, George Dominick, and Paul Dominick drove from Knoxville to
Fairbanks, Territory of Alaska, and worked for the Fairbanks Expedition of United States
Smelting, Refining, and Mining Company. The tusk was uncovered during the digging and was
being carried off by a worker, when the UT students purchased it for $3. It returned to Knoxville
lashed to the top of D’Armand’s father’s 1949 Packard.
Management by Objective: At the June 1970 meeting of the board of trustees, President-elect
Edward Boling announced a “self study” of all aspects of the university system, which would
lead to a program of Management by Objective techniques that would clarify the bounds of
responsibility of employees at all levels and promote harmony through involvement. It would
also respond to anticipated questions from the legislature, as UT sought additional appropriations
in a time in which state revenues were limited. Immediately dubbed “management by objection”
by UT staff, the program involved establishing goals and objectives for every department and
position within it and annually ranking employees on a five-point scale.
Manning, Peyton Williams: UT quarterback (1994–97) and honors student (elected to Phi Beta
Kappa), Peyton Manning graduated in 1997 with a bachelor’s degree in speech communication
(then in the College of Arts and Sciences). He was the number 1 draft pick in the NFL (going to
the Indianapolis Colts) in 1998. The street leading from Volunteer Boulevard to Neyland
Stadium was renamed Peyton Manning Pass by the Knoxville City Council in spring 1997 at the
request of Mayor Victor Ashe. He was the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy and was the
national scholar athlete of the year. In 1995 he was chosen as one of the three finalists for the
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Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award, presented annually (since 1977) to the nation’s top
quarterback by the Davey O’Brien Foundation of Fort Worth, Texas, and in 1997 he was the
recipient of the award. In 1997 he was the recipient of the John Unitas Golden Arm Award,
presented annually (since 1987) to the nation’s top senior quarterback by the John Unitas Golden
Arm Educational Foundation of Louisville, Kentucky. In 1997 he was the recipient of the
Maxwell Award, presented annually (since 1937) to the nation’s top college football player by
the Maxwell Football Club of Philadelphia. In 1997 he was named SEC Player of the Year by the
coaches of the Southeastern Conference, an award which has been given since 1933. In 1998 he
was the recipient of the Sullivan Award—named for Joseph E. Sullivan, the founder of the
Amateur Athletic Union—which is presented annually (since 1930) to the nation’s top amateur
athlete.
His jersey (but not his Number 16) was retired by the university in ceremonies at the 1998
Orange and White Game. His number was retired October 29, 2005. In 2004 he was named pro
football’s Offensive Player of the Year. In 2008 he announced a $1 million gift to the Campaign
for Tennessee to support the renovation of Neyland Stadium and also received UT’s Jim and
Natalie Haslam Presidential Medal. The award was accepted for him by his wife, Ashley, since
Peyton was practicing for a Colts game. In 2010 he established the Peyton Manning
Communications Enrichment Endowment in the College of Communication and Information.
Manning played for the Colts from 1998 to 2011, missing the entire 2011 season because of two
neck surgeries. He was released by the Colts on March 7, 2012, and signed with the Denver
Broncos on March 20, 2012. He was named the 2012 NFL Comeback Player of the Year. He has
five times been named League MVP, has played in three Super Bowls, and won one (2006).
See also Manning Scholarship; Peyton Manning Classroom; Sexual Harassment Complaint by
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Jamie Whited.
Manning Scholarship: First-year honors students are eligible to be considered for a four-year
Peyton Manning Scholarship, established in 1998. The scholarships are funded by an endowment
created from gifts to the university garnered from Manning’s academic awards, the UT Athletics
Department’s corporate matching program, and other private gifts. During his four-year career at
UT, $165,000 in scholarship funds were received by UT as a result of awards Manning won,
such as the Burger King-Vincent DePaul Drady Scholar Athlete of the Year, the Davey O’Brien
National Quarterback, and the American Honda Scholar Athlete of the Year. The Manning
scholarships carry a special allocation to allow a semester of study abroad. The scholarship was
announced at the 1998 Orange and White Game, and proceeds from the game went to the
scholarship endowment.
See also Manning, Peyton Williams; Peyton Manning Classroom.
Map Library: The UT Map Library, one of the most extensive in the nation, was moved from
Alumni Memorial Building and the care of the Geography Department to the care of the UT
Libraries in 1989. The library began under the direction of Dr. Robert Long of the Geography
Department in 1967 as a way to organize and expand the departmental map collection.
Marble Pillars at the Hill Entrance (1900): At its meeting of December 7, 1897, the Alumni
Association decided to erect massive columns made of local marble at the entrance to the Hill as
a memorial to the institution’s first president, Samuel Carrick. The columns were dedicated on
May 2, 1900, and a macadam (asphalt) road around the hill was installed.
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In 1931 one of the Hill’s pillars was shattered by a car whose driver was attempting to pass a
streetcar and also avoid hitting a pedestrian, but the pillar was repaired. The columns were
removed when the new entrance to the campus was installed in summer 1949.
See also Estabrook Road.
Marble Setters School: In 1924 UT’s Engineering College, in cooperation with the National
Association of Marble Dealers, aided by Smith-Hughes funds for trade training, inaugurated a
12-week session of the only marble setters school (The Apprentice Training School for Marble
Setters) in the United States. The school required attendance 50 hours a week, 36 of which were
devoted to cutting and setting the marble, 6 to marble drafting, 6 to estimating and blueprint
reading, and 2 to business methods.
The school was established at the request of John B. Jones, president of the Gray-Knox Marble
Company and the National Association of Marble Mill operators to help relieve the shortage of
skilled workers in the marble setting trade. Each class installed some permanent work in
university buildings. Students installed marble wainscoting in the locker room and washroom of
Estabrook and in the main room of Pasqua. Toilet rooms in Ayres were provided with both floors
and wainscot. The school continued through the 1926–27 academic year.
MARCO: The Medieval and Renaissance Curriculum and Outreach project began in 2001 with
a UT presidential initiative grant. In 2003 MARCO became the MARCO Institute for Medieval
and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as it received a $3 million
challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Under the challenge grant,
NEH would provide $600,000 if the institute raised $2.4 million within three years. The funds
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were raised, and the NEH grant was awarded. The institute is an interdisciplinary program of the
College of Arts and Sciences.
Marius, Richard (1933–1999): Richard Marius, born at Dixie Lee Junction, Tennessee,
received a degree in journalism from the university in 1954. He earned the bachelor’s degree in
divinity from Southern Baptist Seminary in 1958. He then served as a Rotary Fellow in
Strasbourg, France. He earned the PhD from Yale University in 1962 in Reformation history. He
joined the faculty at UT in 1964 to teach history and to help in forming the Religious Studies
Department. He left in 1978 to become director of the expository writing program at Harvard and
retired in 1998. He was the author of three novels. His first novel, The Coming of Rain (1969),
won the Friends of American Writers Prize for best first novel. His second novel, Bound for the
Promised Land, was published in 1976, and his third novel, After the War, in 1992. He also
wrote biographies of Reformation leader Martin Luther and Utopia author Thomas More. His
biography of Thomas More was nominated for a National Book Award in 1984.
MARMA: In 1984 a mobile extension of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit established in 1975
was begun by UT Medical Center. A fully equipped pediatric intensive care van, which provided
for the needs of premature babies or extremely ill children as far away as southern Kentucky,
took to the road. Later named MARMA (Mother’s Answer to Rapid Medical Assistance), a
second, roomier van, MARMA 2, took the place of the initial one in 1989. The mascot of the
program was depicted as a small kangaroo, named MARMA.
Marmoset Colony: In 1961 a colony of South American marmosets was established at the Oak
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Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies (later [1966] Oak Ridge Associated Universities) to study the
immune aspects of bone marrow transplantation. In 1967 ORAU built a 10,000-square-foot
facility containing labs and offices and to house the marmoset colony. The building could house
450 marmosets in 12 rooms with carefully controlled environments. ORAU’s colony of
marmosets was the only one in the United States being developed for general lab research. In
1979 ORAU built a 2,250-square-foot marmoset breeding facility to propagate the marmoset
colony for biomedical research. (Other than behavioral observations, no experimental studies
were permitted in this breeding facility).
In 1981 the marmoset program became a project headed by the laboratory director at the
Comparative Animal Research Laboratory (CARL). In 1988 ORAU took the lead in forming the
Marmoset Research Center of Oak Ridge (MARCOR), a consortium of universities and
industries interested in conducting biological research in marmosets and tamarins, the only
animals besides humans that develop colon cancer spontaneously.
In 1992 ownership of the Marmoset Research Center was transferred to the University of
Tennessee Medical Center. Under the agreement, UT assumed responsibility for the animals,
facilities, research programs, and personnel. At the time of the transfer, the colony included more
than 200 cotton-top tamarins, 200 common marmosets, 15 saddleback tamarins, and 4 callimico
goeldii. In 1997 the $300,000 annual cost of operations of the center required the university to
disband it. Working with an advisory committee of representatives of noted animal protection
groups, the colony was dispersed to zoos and animal protection facilities, placing all animals
where they would be well cared for and safe for the rest of their lives.
See also Atomic Energy Commission-UT Agricultural Research Program; Oak Ridge Institute
of Nuclear Studies.
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Martial Arts Club: The Martial Arts Club traces its beginnings to the 1964 establishment of the
Karate Club and the 1972 establishment of the Judo/Taekwondo Club, which evolved into a
larger organization offering classes and competition in four different martial arts styles: karate,
judo, tae kwon do, and jujitsu.
Martin, Cuonzo: Cuonzo Martin, head basketball coach at Missouri State, was appointed
Tennessee head basketball coach on March 28, 2011, succeeding the fired Bruce Pearl. Martin
played guard at Purdue from 1991 to 1995, earning first-team All Big Ten honors his senior year.
He was drafted number 57 in the second round of the NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks. He
played briefly for the Vancouver Grizzlies and the Milwaukee Bucks, and then for the Grand
Rapids (Michigan) Hoops in the Continental Basketball Association. In 1997 he played for the
Felize Scandone in Avelino, Italy.
In 2000 he became an assistant coach at Purdue and was associate head coach in 2007–08. In
2008 he became head coach at Missouri State University, where he had a 61-41 record in three
years and won the Missouri Valley Conference regular season title in 2010–11, with a 26-9
record.
He holds the bachelor’s degree in restaurant, hotel, institutional, and tourism management
from Purdue (2000). A cancer survivor, Martin was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in
November 1997 and was treated for a malignant tumor between his heart and lungs. He received
his last treatment in 1998.
During the 2013–14 season, with Bruce Pearl’s ban for coaching set to expire in August 2014
and the basketball team struggling, an online petition was circulated requesting Athletics
Director Dave Hart to fire Martin and rehire Pearl. The petition garnered some thirty-five
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thousand signatures. Hart failed to enthusiastically endorse Martin or to put to rest the possibility
that Pearl could be rehired. Martin’s team squeaked into the NCAA tournament game and played
to a Sweet Sixteen berth, gathering fan approval and enthusiasm for the team and Martin.
Following the tournament, Hart offered a contract extension and a $500,000 raise, which would
have put Martin in the middle of the salary range of SEC head basketball coaches. After turning
aside overtures from Marquette, Martin appeared ready to sign the new agreement, but
announced on April 15 that he was leaving UT to become the new basketball head coach at the
University of California, Berkeley, not having signed the new contract. The existing contract
required a $1.4 million payment to UT to hire Martin away.
Martin, Tmaurice Nigel: Tee Martin, from Mobile, Alabama, was the quarterback on the 1998
Tennessee National Championship football team. A street near Neyland Stadium was named for
him in March 2000. He was drafted in the fifth round of the NFL draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He played for the Philadelphia Eagles and then for the Oakland Raiders, retiring from the raiders
in 2004 after four NFL seasons. He played one season (2002) in NFL Europe, with the Rhein
Fire. He served as quarterbacks coach at New Mexico in 2009 and as wide receivers coach at
Kentucky (2010–11) before joining University of Southern California as wide receivers coach in
2012.
See also Local African American Leaders Push for Naming Streets after Chamique Holdsclaw
and Tee Martin.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service: UT students have served the Knoxville community by
participating through TeamVOLS in service projects since 2003. The national Martin Luther
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King Jr. Day of Service was started by former Pennsylvania US Senator Harris Wofford and
Atlanta Congressman John Lewis, who coauthored the King Holiday and Service Act. The
federal legislation calls upon citizens to utilize the King holiday as a day of voluntary service in
honor of Dr. King. President Bill Clinton signed the act into law on August 23, 1994.
Mascot: The official UT mascot of all teams is Smokey, a Tennessee bluetick hound dog,
selected in 1953. From 1945 to 1947, Dipper, a cocker spaniel belonging to wingback W. S.
“Monk” Fowler, joined the football VOLS on the bench and performed mascot duties, decked
out in orange and white. He had a wonderful trick of clapping his ears—and the team spent
considerable effort trying to teach him to clap when UT scored. Like Fowler, Dipper was a Navy
veteran—having ridden along with his master in Navy Air Corps flights. While Dipper was
Dipper at home, he bore the name Volunteer while discharging his duties as mascot on the
football field. In 1965 athletes in Gibbs Hall adopted a small white dog that they called Rabies
(when the dog first appeared, someone said it probably had rabies or something), which served
as the unofficial mascot of UT athletes.
See also Smokey.
Mascot, Alabama: The mascot of the University of Alabama is the elephant. In 1930 Atlanta
Journal sportswriter Everett Strupper reported a fan’s saying “hold your horses, the elephants are
coming,” referring to the size of the football team. Strupper and other writers referred to the team
as the “red elephants.” The 1930 team went 10-0 and was declared the national champion.
Tennessee first played Alabama in 1901. Alabama’s nickname, “Crimson Tide,” comes from a
1907 football game against Auburn. Auburn was heavily favored to win, but Alabama forced a
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tie in torrential rain. A sportswriter described Alabama’s offensive line as a “crimson tide,”
referring to the players’ jerseys, stained red from the wet mud of the field.
Mascot, Arkansas: The mascot of the University of Arkansas is the razorback hog. During the
early years of athletics at Arkansas, the cardinal was the favored mascot, but in 1909 Football
Coach Hugo Bezdek referred to the team as “a wild band of razorback hogs” following a 16-0
victory over Louisiana State University. In 1910 the student body voted to change the school’s
nickname from the “Cardinals” to the “Razorbacks.”
Mascot, Auburn: Auburn has two mascots: the tiger (Aubie) and the golden (war) eagle. The
tiger comes from the line in Oliver Goldsmith’s poem, “The Deserted Village,” “where
crouching tigers wait their hapless prey.” Aubie was a cartoon character drawn by Birmingham
Post-Herald artist Phil Neel in 1959 for a football game program.
The war eagle comes from the story that an Auburn student fighting in the Civil War was
injured at the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia and was left for dead on the battlefield. He
came to and discovered that only he and a baby eagle had survived. He then made his way back
to Auburn, bringing along the eagle. The soldier and the eagle attended Auburn’s first football
game in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park (1892), and legend has it that just after Auburn’s first
touchdown, the eagle broke free from his master and soared high above the field. Auburn fans
saw the eagle and began to chant the battle cry “war eagle.” Tennessee first played Auburn in
football in 1900.
Mascot, Louisiana State University: The LSU mascot, Mike the Tiger, is a royal Bengal tiger.
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The mascot comes from the school nickname, which is drawn from the legendary Confederate
battalion—Robert E. Lee’s Louisiana Tigers. This legendary group was so fierce during battle
that even fellow Confederate troops were loath to fight alongside it. In fall 1896 Coach A. W.
Jeardeau’s team had a perfect 6-0 record and adopted the “Tigers” name for itself.
Mascot, Mississippi State: The official mascot of Mississippi State is an American Kennel Club
registered English Bulldog, named Bully. The use of a bulldog as the official game mascot began
in 1935 when Coach Major Ralph Sasse traveled to Memphis to acquire a bulldog at the request
of the team. He returned with Ptolemy, a gift of the Edgar Webster family. A littermate of
Ptolemy became the first mascot called Bully.
Mascot, Texas A&M: Reveille, a female collie addressed by Corps of Cadets students as “Miss
Rev, ma’am” is the mascot of Texas A&M. Reveille I arrived at the school in January 1931. A
group of cadets hit a small black and white dog on their way back from Navasota and brought the
dog to campus to care for her. The next morning, when reveille was blown, the dog barked and
was named after the wakeup call. She was named the official mascot the next year when she led
the band onto the field during its halftime performance. Reveille I died on January 18, 1944.
Following Reveille I’s reign, there were several unofficial mascots before the tradition of a fullblooded collie was established. Reveille is the highest-ranking member of Texas A&M’s Corps
of Cadets.
Mascot, University of Florida: The mascots of the University of Florida are Albert and Alberta,
costumed alligators. Albert appeared in 1986; Alberta was added in 1991. The mascots were
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taken from the nickname, which came about in 1908. In 1907 Austin Miller, a University of
Virginia law student, was visited by his father, Phillip, who was the owner of a drugstore in
Gainesville. While in Virginia, he decided to purchase pennants with the University of Florida
name on them to resell to students. When the manager of the printing shop asked for Florida’s
emblem, the elder Miller replied that Florida did not have one. His son suggested that the
alligator be used, since no other school had adopted it and it was native to Florida. The pennants
were made with the alligator, and the first appearance of the Florida Gator was in Miller’s
drugstore in 1908.
Mascot, University of Georgia: The mascot of the University of Georgia is an English Bulldog
named Uga. The dogs are from a long line owned by the Frank W. “Sonny” Seiler family of
Savannah. Uga I was born in 1955. The nickname from which the mascot derives comes from a
1920 article by Atlanta Journal sports writer Morgan Blake and the use of the term in 1920 by
Atlanta Constitution writer Cliff Wheatley. Legend has it that the bulldog association extends
back to the strong association of the university with Yale, when UGA was founded in 1785.
Georgia’s first president was a Yale graduate, and the early buildings on campus were designed
from blueprints of buildings at Yale. Tennessee first played Georgia in football in 1899.
Mascot, University of Kentucky: In 1909 the University of Kentucky football team beat the
University of Illinois 6-2. The head of the military department, Commandant Carbusier, told a
group of students in a chapel service following the game that the team had “fought like
wildcats.”
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Mascot, University of Mississippi: Colonel Rebel, representing Mississippi as the quintessential
caricature of an elderly southern gentleman, served as the on-field mascot for Ole Miss from
1938 until 2010, when a new on-field mascot, the Rebel Bear, was chosen through a lengthy
process headed by students. A costumed Colonel Reb had been discontinued in 2002. The
Colonel Reb likeness first appeared in the Ole Miss yearbook in 1938 as the yearbook’s leading
illustration. The name Rebels was one of more than two hundred suggestions for the team
nickname in a 1936 contest sponsored by the student newspaper. Submitted by Judge Ben Guider
of Vicksburg, sportswriters chose the name from among those submitted to the contest. The
selection of the Rebel Bear as the on-field and official mascot was not an entirely popular
choice—many people supported continuing to use the Colonel Rebel figure, and others
supported using the “Rebel land shark.”
Mascot, University of Missouri: Soon after the University of Missouri’s football team was
formed in 1890, the athletic committee adopted the nickname “Tiger” from a group of local Civil
War militia called the Missouri Tigers. Originally there were two tiger mascots, a male and a
female, but neither had a specific identity. In 1984 a contest was held to name the mascot, and a
student submitted the winning entry—Truman, after Missouri-born US President Harry S.
Truman.
Mascot, University of South Carolina: The official mascot of the University of South Carolina
is Cocky, a fighting gamecock. The mascot comes from the nickname “Fighting Gamecocks.” In
the 1890s the football team was informally referred to as Game Cocks. In 1903 the student
newspaper shortened the word to Gamecock and that has been the nickname ever since.
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Gamecocks are the birds used in cock fights. A famed guerrilla fighter in the Revolutionary War,
General Thomas Sumter, was affectionately known as the Fighting Gamecock.
Mascot, Vanderbilt University: The mascot of Vanderbilt, the Commodore, comes from the
school nickname, the “Commodores.” Vanderbilt is named for Commodore Cornelius
Vanderbilt, who provided a million dollars in 1873 for its establishment. His penchant for steam
boating resulted in his being called Commodore, and the students at the university that bore his
name also became known as Commodores. Vanderbilt was a steamship entrepreneur, and the
nickname “commodore” was a common one for important steamboat entrepreneurs in the 1830s,
when he first began to be referred to as Commodore Vanderbilt. At the time, commodore was the
highest rank in the US Navy.
Massengill, Reed: Knoxville native Reed Massengill graduated from UT in 1984 with a
bachelor’s in journalism. The nephew of Byron De La Beckwith, convicted (in his third trial) of
killing civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Massengill’s first book, Portrait of a Racist: The Man
Who Killed Medgar Evers? (St. Martin’s Press) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and garnered
considerable acclaim. He is today a writer and photographer who divides his time between
Knoxville and New York. His articles and photography have appeared in the New York Times,
Interview, Connoisseur, Art & Understanding, Forbes, Genre, Essence, Swim, and Paramour,
among others. As vice president of the Media Solutions Group of American Express (1994–
2002), he authored Becoming American Express: 150 Years of Reinvention and Customer
Service, which won the 2000 Arline Custer Memorial Award from the Mid-Atlantic Regional
Archives Conference.
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He achieved a measure of success as a photographer and writer about male nudes and the
history of the portrayal of the male nude. His first photographic book, Massengill, was published
in 1996 and followed in 1997 by Massengill Men. In 2007 he published Backstage Pass: The
Men of Broadway Bares, and in 2009 he published Uncovered: Rare Vintage Male Nudes, in
which he presented a photographic collection and traced the history of the treatment of
photographs of male nudes by mainstream culture.
Massey, Felix Mathias (1876–1938): Born in Mulberry, Tennessee, Felix Massey graduated
from the Webb School of Bell Buckle in 1899 and then from Vanderbilt, where he was a wellknown football player and debater and a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He served as the
first paid secretary of the YMCA at Vanderbilt in 1902–03. He left Vanderbilt and established
the Massey Military School at Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1903.
He left the headship of his school in 1924 to become UT’s first dean of men, a position that
was expanded to dean of students in 1937. He was a respected and beloved campus official. He
died in September 1938 in Indio, California, while on the first vacation he had taken since
coming to the university. A sunstroke weakened his resistance to the chronic illness of leukemia.
He was survived by his wife, Maria Massey, a UT faculty member, and two sons.
During his tenure, he was a staunch advocate of academic quality. He was instrumental in
having a C average established as the minimum acceptable standard for continuance into the
junior year of study, and he initiated the policy that the number of “cuts” allowable in a course
would be equivalent to the number of times the course met each week. He advocated keeping
housing and tuition costs as low as possible and initiated cooperative dormitories to assist
students financially.
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See also Massey Bust; Massey Hall; Massey Memorial Organ.
Massey Bust: In addition to several other forms of tribute to Dean Felix Massey, in 1939 the
Alumni Association was given a plaster bust of Massey, the work of Puryear Mims of Nashville.
A bronze casting was to be made later.
Massey Hall: In fall 1958 more than 600 women who applied for UT housing could not be
accommodated. In March 1959 UT announced plans for a new women’s dormitory to be located
on the west side of what was then known as West Hall and is now named Greve Hall. The new
residence hall was originally designed to house 608 women, but could be stretched to
accommodate 686. The double-room facility’s rooms were designed to be the same size as
Greve’s, but more closet space was provided. The seven-story, U-shaped building is located 40
feet behind Greve, and the two buildings form a quadrangle. Two elevators were included in the
133,000-square-foot building.
The dorm opened in fall 1960 and was dubbed the “Freshman Conrad Hilton” by a parent of
one of the new residents. Originally known as West Hall—Unit A, or New West Hall, the board
of trustees named it Massey Hall in honor of UT’s first dean of students, Felix Massey, in
October 1967. A suggestion box for students to submit names for West Hall A had been placed
in the residence hall. Some of the names suggested were Holt Hall, Dr. Ruth Stephens Hall,
Cunninggim Hall, Residence Hall, Bay of Pigs, and Frog Pond Hall.
The building was paid for by a federal loan, to be repaid from rentals from both West Hall
(now Greve) and West Hall Unit A (now Massey). Architects for the project were Barber and
McMurry, and the general contractor was V. L. Nicholson Company, whose construction bid
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was $1,648,310.
In fall 1985 Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority members resided together in half a wing’s floor in
Massey, beginning the practice of sororities leasing a floor of a wing to live together. The facility
housed exclusively members of sororities from 1987 to 2008, when sorority housing was
relocated to the newly renovated Laurel Apartments.
See also Greve Hall; Massey, Felix Mathias.
Massey Memorial Organ: The All Students’ Club formed a committee consisting of students,
faculty, and alumni to raise money for a fitting memorial for Dean Felix Massey. Money was
raised slowly, but by spring 1939 funds were in hand to purchase the recommended choice of the
committee—an electric organ with chimes for the Alumni Memorial Building. Three organs
were tried in assembly—one pipe organ and two electric organs—and an electric organ was
selected. The memorial committee members were Tom Smith, chair; Mildred Alexander; and
Arthur Seymour. The purchasing committee included Dr. Lee S. Greene, J. Alvin Keen, E. W.
Hall, J. P. Hess, Mildred Alexander, Arthur Seymour, Dean Smith, and Tom C. Smith.
Master Beef Producer Program: In 2003 the Agricultural Extension Service undertook the
most comprehensive beef education program presented in Tennessee, with participants who
completed the program being designated as Master Beef Producers.
Master Plan: In 1826, when the institution purchased the Hill, a building plan was prepared that
called for a central college building and three dormitories. In 1871 the trustees employed E.
Dean Dow, a New York artist, to prepare plans for the enlargement of the institution with
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additional buildings and for the general improvement of the grounds. Because of lack of funds,
the trustees paid little attention to Dow’s proposals.
In July 1879 the trustees employed Joseph F. Baumann to prepare a sketch showing front
views of buildings proposed for immediate use and had Professor S. H. Lockett of the
Engineering Department prepare a map of the grounds showing the locations of existing
buildings and also of proposed buildings required to accommodate five hundred students. The
proposals included filling the space between Old, East, and West Colleges ($5,000); constructing
a new dormitory ($8,000) and enlarging the Janney building by attaching a structure similar to
“the present laboratory building”($5,000). Also recommended were a gymnasium, a workshop,
and a nursery or propagating house. A stone fence along Kingston Pike encircling the grounds
was also proposed.
In 1918 a plan for the Hill devised by President Ayres was considered by the board. This plan
provided for a main Arts and Sciences Building, an auditorium (that would seat two thousand
people), and an Administration Building that would form three sides of a quadrangle, with the
Hill lowered to the floor level of Jefferson Hall. The board of trustees modified this plan,
replacing the auditorium with a main building on the agriculture campus and enlarging the power
plant. The Main Building would replace Old, East, and West Colleges, and the Administration
Building would replace South College.
In 1921 Miller, Fullenwider & Dowling (architects of Ayres Hall, one partner of which [Grant
C. Miller] had designed the Carnegie Library—now Austin Peay) was commissioned to provide
a master plan at a cost of $1,000. That plan set the locations for Hoskins Library and the Jessie
Harris Building.
In 1925 the trustees, knowing that the campus must expand, determined to do so to the west
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and adopted a policy that the university would purchase nearby property to the west whenever
such property became available. The institution soon acquired properties on the north side of
Cumberland Avenue through a Knox County bond issue and purchased additional parcels along
Temple Avenue (now Volunteer Boulevard) from Weston M. Fulton. In 1944 President Hoskins
announced postwar expansion plans, including academic buildings on the Hill for Liberal Arts
(now Arts and Sciences), Business Administration, and the Sciences and expansion toward
Temple Avenue (now Volunteer Boulevard.)
Following the 1963 agreement with the Knoxville Housing Authority to develop the Yale
Avenue Urban Renewal Area for expansion land for UT, University Architect Malcolm Rice and
Henry Morse, director of campus planning, devised the plan for the land from the west side of
Volunteer Boulevard to the railroad tracks to the west. Problems with the “suburban” concept of
the plan were identified, but it was eventually approved as presented by the board of trustees,
upon the recommendation of Vice President Edward J. Boling.
In the early 1990s, the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, in light of the many changes
in the capital outlay lists submitted annually by all Tennessee higher education institutions,
decided that all institutions should have a master plan for space and facilities and capital outlay
requests should follow the approved plans. Eli Fly, then vice president for business and finance,
required that UT Knoxville prepare a “request for proposals” for assistance from architecture and
infrastructure firms to develop a comprehensive master plan for UT facilities in Knoxville—UT
Knoxville, UT Institute of Agriculture, and the UT Medical Center were to be included. The
proposal and supporting documentation was developed by UT Knoxville’s Office of Space and
Facilities, led by Associate Vice Chancellor Betsey Creekmore, and proposals were sought. The
successful proposal was that of Bullock, Smith & Partners, assisted by Sasaki Associates Inc.;
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Wilbur Smith Associates; Campbell & Associates Inc.; Vreeland Engineers Inc.; and Law
Engineering. The Master Plan for UT Facilities in Knoxville was issued in 1994, after broad
involvement and consultation with all constituencies of the campus.
In 2001 the master plan was updated under the leadership of Architecture Dean Marleen Davis
and Vice President for Knoxville Operations Philip Scheurer. The planning group was assisted
by Bullock, Smith & Partners, Ayers/Saint/Gross, and Wilbur Smith & Associates. That plan
proposed, as President Wade Gilley envisioned, development of a “Cherokee Campus” that
would include housing for graduate students, intramural fields, and intercollegiate athletic
facilities as well as university buildings, following relocation of the dairy farm. That plan related
only to UT Knoxville and UTIA entities in Knoxville. The medical units had become an
independent, affiliated entity.
In 2009 work was begun on a new, comprehensive Master Plan for the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville at the request of Chancellor Crabtree, since the 2001 plan, especially the
Cherokee Campus component, had become obsolete. Work on the plan began under the
leadership of Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Denise Barlow. The plan was
revisioned and completed in 2011 under the leadership of Chancellor Cheek, involving a
broadly-based steering committee coordinated by Vice Chancellor for Finance and
Administration Chris Cimino. Its development was assisted by Bullock, Smith, & Partners and
Wilbur Smith & Associates.
The 2011 plan sought to respond to the foreseeable needs of the academic disciplines and
student-life requirements and to maximize building sites available to the institution. Importantly,
the plan sought to make the campus more pedestrian friendly, add bicycle paths, and preserve the
architectural character of the Hill. The immediate need for additional instructional and research
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laboratory facilities and the need for renovation of existing facilities were emphasized.
Of particular note was the repurposing of the block containing Stokely Athletics Center and
Bill Gibbs Hall into academic space and a parking garage. The draft plan moved the theatre
complex to that location, but in response to objections from community members, Vice
Chancellor Cimino modified the draft plan to show renovation and expansion of theatre facilities
on their existing and expanded site and construction of academic classroom/office facilities and a
parking garage on the Stokely site. The plan also proposed a major science facility replacing
Sophronia Strong Hall and enlarged the science facility between Hoskins Library and Jessie
Harris first proposed in the 1994 plan. In 2013 the chancellor and athletics director announced
the reversion of part of the Stokely site to athletics for a third outdoor football practice field. The
field, a parking garage, and a new dormitory for both men and women would complete the
structures on the site following the razing of Stokely and Gibbs.
See also Architecture of the Campus; Ayres Hall; Cherokee Farm; Cherokee Farm Intramural
Field Proposal; East College; First “Master Plan” for Physical Facilities; Fulton, Weston Miller;
Intramural/Recreational Fields; Joe Johnson/John Ward Pedestrian Mall; Knox County Land
Purchase for UT along Cumberland Avenue; Lockett, Samuel Henry; Lottery—Thomas
Jefferson’s Response; Old College; Sorority Village at Morgan Hill; West College.
Master’s Gowns: The master’s gown worn by those who have earned the master’s degree from
UT is a black robe, with oblong pendant sleeves ending in a squared “fish tail.” The gowns are
worn closed. (An alternate master’s gown, with short sleeves, is worn open, but this robe is not
used at UT.) Master’s degree recipients wear an academic hood that is shorter than that of the
doctoral hood and that ends in the same squared “fish tail” as the sleeves of the master’s robe.
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The gown is always worn with a black mortarboard, with the tassel on the left. The tassel color is
black, except at universities that use a silver tassel either for all master’s recipients or to
distinguish the ranking scholar.
See also Academic Hoods; Academic Regalia; Bachelor’s Gowns; Board of Trustees’
Academic Regalia; Caps and Gowns; Doctoral Gowns.
Math Camp: The three-week “boot camp” to assist incoming freshmen prepare for mathintensive majors was first held in summer 2014. The program was designed for students who
scored less than 25 on the Math ACT or less than 570 on the Math SAT. Eighty students
participated and took a math placement exam at its conclusion. Fifty-seven percent of the
students placed into the more advanced course required for their prospective majors. Math Camp
was one of three initiatives begun in 2014 to assist low-income students. The other two were a
mentorship program and expansion of the transfer program from community colleges.
Math Contest: In October 1999 more than five hundred students from high schools across
Tennessee participated in the inaugural Tennessee Math Contest, sponsored by the UT
Mathematics Department. UT four-year, full-tuition scholarships are given to winners, and
beginning in 2003 summer internships at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and at the Y-12
Security Complex were also offered to top winners. The contest consists of two exams and a
Math Bowl. The top 50 scorers on the first exam take the second one. Pro2Serve, a well-known
provider of technical and engineering project support services became the contest’s first
presenting sponsor in 2000.
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Matthews, Robert Clayton “Red” (1878–1978): Robert Matthews, professor of mechanical
engineering and nationally prominent executive secretary of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor
society, joined the faculty in 1907 and remained at UT until his retirement in 1949. Although he
was a highly regarded teacher and epitomized distinction in the profession through his work as
secretary and then secretary-treasurer of Tau Beta Pi, it is as UT’s first cheerleader that he is
most vividly remembered.
His cheerleading began at Monmouth High School (Monmouth, Illinois) where in 1895 he led
rooters from Monmouth at a state track meet in Evanston. While a student at the University of
Illinois (1898–1902), Matthews introduced cartwheels and handstands into his leading of cheers
and continued his cheerleading as an instructor in drawing in the Engineering Department. He
came to UT in 1907 as professor of engineering but returned to Illinois to lead the cheers at the
Illinois-Chicago game that fall. Dr. Charles Waite, then professor of chemistry and chairman of
the Athletic Council, was in attendance and saw Matthews perform. In chapel the next week,
Waite told of his experience at Illinois and asked Matthews to lead cheers in the assembly. In
1907 UT football games were played without cheerleaders, and Matthews consented to become
UT’s first cheerleader. He led the cheers from 1907 through 1916. He first led cheers at the
Tennessee-Kentucky game in 1907 at Chilhowee Park (in the mud). By then 37 years old, his last
appearance as regular cheerleader in an orange cap and white sweater with orange armband was
at the 1916 Vanderbilt game, which underdog UT won 10-6. But he made a final “guest
appearance” in 1940, wearing his old cheerleading uniform and assisted the cheerleaders. In
1967 the students recognized him as UT’s biggest fan by selecting him as the grand marshal of
the Homecoming Parade. He died in 1978 at the age of 99. Ripley included him among his
Believe It or Not! cartoons and credited him with being the first cheerleader in college sports.
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See also Tau Beta Pi.
Mattie Kain Portrait: In spring 1951 the Admiral David Farragut Chapter of the DAR
presented a portrait of Mattie Kain to hang in the Mattie Kain wing of Sophronia Strong Hall. In
1804 Kain was one of the first coeds to attend UT. The portrait was painted by Knoxvillian Mary
Grainger. Mary Adair House Crossley, a descendant of Mattie Kain, served as the model for the
portrait. The background for the portrait was the setting of the old Kain home, which stood
where the Southern Railroad’s John Sevier Yards was later located. Kain is depicted in a rosecolored gown, wearing a nineteenth-century-style bonnet. Mrs. E. E. Patton, regent of the DAR
chapter presented the portrait, which was accepted by Vice President Fred C. Smith for the
university.
See also First Female Students; Jennie Armstrong Portrait; Kitty Kain Portrait; Polly McClung
Portrait.
Maude Powell Students’ Aid Fund: In 1902 Miss Maude Powell, who had expressed to her
family that she wanted to give $5,000 from her estate to the university to establish a loan fund
for students, died intestate. Her mother, Sarah [Drake] Powell and her sister and brother-in-law,
Lillian Powell Smith, and J. Allen Smith, carried out her wish. In 1903 the Maude Powell
Students’ Aid fund, to be used for loans to students who needed financial help to complete their
studies, began with $5,000.
See also First Student Loan Fund.
May Day: The first university May Day Festival was held on Shields-Watkins Field on May 5,
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1938. The program was planned and sponsored by the Women’s Physical Education Department.
The program consisted of the coronation of Queen Mary Nell Black, junior, from Powell Station,
Tennessee, followed by the story of Pierrette and Pierrot acted in “pantomime, dancing, and
pageantry.”
Mayfield, Thomas Brient, III (1920–2008): Thomas B. Mayfield III attended UT in the 1930s
to study dairy science in preparation for assuming a leadership role in the family dairy business.
He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. His studies were cut short by the death of his
father in 1937, and he returned to McMinn County to operate the dairy. During World War II, he
served with distinction as a naval aviator and flight instructor. Following the war, he returned to
Mayfield Dairy Farms and became a major national figure in the dairy industry.
Under his leadership, Mayfield Dairy pioneered the use of a vacuum heat process to remove
flavors from milk. He developed the first “yellow jug” to preserve the fresh taste of milk and
assisted in the design of other groundbreaking packaging. He retired as president of the company
in 1990, when it was assumed by Dean Foods.
Mayfield served as president of the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers, the
Southern Association of Dairy Food Manufacturers, and the Tennessee Dairy Products
Association. He served on the board of directors of the First National Bank of McMinn County
for 32 years and helped to organize the Chamber of Commerce of Athens. He assisted UT over
the years through service on the Alumni Board of Governors and the Institute of Agriculture
Alumni Council. In 1982 he was presented the Chancellor’s Award for his service to UT. He
established an endowed scholarship in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural
Resources for students pursuing food science degrees.
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Maynard, Horace (1814–1882): Following graduation from Amherst, Horace Maynard joined
the faculty of the university (then East Tennessee College) in 1838 as a tutor in the Preparatory
Department. He was appointed principal of the Preparatory Department in 1840 and became
teacher of mathematics and ancient languages in 1841.
Maynard studied law while on the faculty and was admitted to the bar in 1844. One of his
famous cases involved a bitter dispute between Knox County and proponents of the
establishment of Union County from a portion of Knox County, in which Maynard represented
the Union County interests. In gratitude for his successful representation, Union County residents
named the county seat Maynardville. He was elected to Congress in 1857, 1859, and 1861.
Maynard traveled through Tennessee after Abraham Lincoln was elected president in an effort
to keep Tennessee from seceding from the Union and took his seat in Congress after Tennessee
seceded from the Union. In 1863 Andrew Johnson, who also continued to serve in Congress—as
a senator after Tennessee seceded, and then he was appointed military governor of the state by
Abraham Lincoln—appointed Horace Maynard attorney general of Tennessee.
In 1865 Maynard was elected to Congress to represent the Second Congressional District and
was instrumental in having a special congressional act passed to allow Tennessee to receive the
benefits of the 1862 Morrill Act. He served in Congress until 1875, when President Ulysses S.
Grant appointed him minister to Turkey. In 1880 President Rutherford B. Hays recalled Maynard
and appointed him to the cabinet position of postmaster general, a position he held until March
1881. He became a trustee of the university in 1865, and his papers are in UT Libraries’ Special
Collections.
See also Land-Grant Endowment (Morrill Act of 1862).
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Maynard, Washburn (1844–1913): Commander Washburn Maynard, son of Horace Maynard,
commanding the gunboat Nashville, gave the order to fire the first shot of the Spanish-American
War. On the morning of April 22, 1898, Maynard’s crew sighted a steamer that hoisted the
Spanish colors. A Nashville gun fired a blank shot and then a live warning shot across the bow of
the ship. The merchant vessel Buena Ventura stopped, and Maynard and his crew captured it as a
prize of war. In all, the Nashville captured four Spanish ships during the brief war. Maynard was
a UT student from 1860 to 1862, after which he attended the US Naval Academy, graduating in
1866. His first service was as an ensign aboard the gunboat Franklin when she was making the
cruise that carried Admiral David Farragut around the world. Maynard later gave the dedicatory
address at the unveiling of the monument to Admiral Farragut in Washington, DC.
He retired from the navy with the rank of rear admiral. Maynard Glacier in Hoonah Angoon
(CA) County, Alaska, is named for him, and a volume containing his reminiscences and letters
has been published.
See also Maynard, Horace; Spanish-American War.
MBA-Pharmacy Dual Degree: The board of trustees approved a dual degree program between
the Center for Health Sciences’ pharmacy program and the College of Business’s MBA program
in 2011. The dual degree was designed to take five years to complete and was open both to
students at the Knoxville and Memphis locations of the College of Pharmacy.
McAdoo, William Gibbs (1863–1941): William Gibbs McAdoo, son of a UT English professor,
entered the university in 1885. He attended for three years, during which he was a member of
Kappa Sigma fraternity and played bass drum in the UT band. He then went to Chattanooga to
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become deputy clerk for the US District Court at Chattanooga. He was admitted to the bar in
1885. As a lawyer in the firm of Barr & McAdoo, he became president of the Chattanooga Tool
Company.
On May 1, 1890, Knoxville’s first electric streetcar line was formally opened with a ride to
Lake Ottosee hosted by McAdoo, as president of the Knoxville Street Railway Company. The
original electric streetcar experiment was not financially successful, and a rival entrepreneur
gained control of McAdoo’s rails and made them work. In 1897 McAdoo returned to engage in a
bitter contest to electrify and control the city’s streetcar lines. His illegal construction crews
sparked the Depot Street streetcar riot, in which a McAdoo worker was killed and hundreds,
including McAdoo, were arrested. The lost battle for control of the electric streetcar system left
him virtually penniless, and he moved to New York City to practice law.
In 1901 he organized and was made president of the New York and Jersey Tunnel Company to
complete construction of the pair of tunnels below the Hudson River linking Manhattan and New
Jersey (originally begun in 1874 and abandoned for financial reasons). He formed the Hudson
and Manhattan Railroad Company to operate the tunnels upon completion. The first electric
trains ran through the tunnels on January 4 (uptown) and January 5 (Southside). Following the
notoriety associated with completion of the Hudson River Tubes (known as the McAdoo
Tunnels), McAdoo became a trusted advisor of New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson and was
chairman of the 1912 Democratic National Convention that nominated Wilson for president. In
1914 McAdoo was married for the second time—he had married Sarah Hazelhurst Fleming in
1885—in the White House to Wilson’s daughter, Eleanor. President Wilson appointed McAdoo
secretary of the treasury, where he oversaw the formation of the Federal Reserve System. He
served as director general of railways during World War I.
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In 1919, while working as a lawyer for director D. W. Griffith and actors Charlie Chaplin,
Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford, he was instrumental in founding the Hollywood studio
United Artists. He was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1920
and 1924. He was elected to the Senate from California in 1933 and served until 1938. He
published his memoirs, Crowded Years, in 1931.
McBryde, John M: On June 18, 1879, John M. McBryde, graduate of South Carolina College
was elected to the position of “Professor of Agriculture and Horticulture, including Botany.” At
the time of his election, he was engaged in practical farming in Albemarle County, Virginia,
where his experiments in the field of scientific agriculture had led to his association with the
Miller School of the University of Virginia.
At UT he began the program of agricultural experimentation that led in 1882 to the
establishment of the Agricultural Experiment Station, and he made available the results of his
experiments to farmers throughout the state. He left the university in 1882 to accept a post at
South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina), where he rose to president. He
was twice offered the presidency of UT. He agreed to accept UT’s presidency in September 1886
if elected at the January board meeting, but changed his mind prior to the meeting. In 1887, after
passage of the Hatch Act, he expressed interest and was formally elected president of the
University of Tennessee and director of the experiment station in April 1887. In June 1887,
however, he resigned the position before he had been inducted into office. He became president
of what is now Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1891, remaining there 16 years.
See also First Silo in Tennessee; Honorary Degrees.
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McCarthy, Cormac: Charles Joseph “Cormac” McCarthy Jr. moved to Knoxville with his
family when he was four years old. Cormac is Gaelic for Charles and was used by the family to
refer both to him and to his father, although he was known as Charles J. McCarthy Jr. while at
UT. His father worked as a lawyer and, later, as chief legal counsel for TVA. McCarthy entered
UT following graduation from high school in 1951, leaving after a year to enlist in the air force.
Following discharge from the air force, he reentered UT in 1957, majoring in English, but he did
not graduate.
In the winter and spring terms of 1959, McCarthy received the Ingram-Merrill Grant from the
English Department to encourage the writing of fiction. The award was given on the basis of his
performance in English 345 (The Writing of Fiction) and other courses in English. He had two
short stories published in the Phoenix, the campus literary magazine, one of which, “A Wake for
Susan,” was in the inaugural (1959) issue of that publication, and the other of which, “A
Drowning Incident,” was included in the publication in 1960. McCarthy left college in 1960 to
pursue writing full time.
His first novel, The Orchard Keeper (1965), received very positive reviews and won the
William Faulkner Award. His first four novels were based on Appalachian/East Tennessee
themes. His later novels are set in the southwest. He won the National Book Award and the
National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses (1992), which was also his first
best seller. No Country for Old Men (2005) was made into a 2007 movie, and in 2007 he won the
Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Road. In spring 2006 his first produced play, The Sunset
Limited, debuted.
In 1972 he and artist Bill Kidwell built a 15-foot section of mosaic sidewalk in downtown
Maryville. In 2003 the section was moved (at a cost of $8,800) to the plaza in front of the new
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Blount County Library. In 1981 he was among recipients of the John C. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Prize Fellowships (sometimes called the “genius awards”). He is a member of the UT
Alumni Academic Hall of Fame.
In January 2008 he sold his manuscripts, papers, notes—the entire body of his literary career
up to that point—for $2 million to Texas State University-San Marcos. The materials are part of
the Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State, founded by Bill and Sally Witliff, friends of
McCarthy’s, in 1986.
See also Alumni Academic Hall of Fame; Kidwell, William Van; National Book Awards;
Phoenix (Magazine).
McCarty, Bruce (1920–2013): Knoxville architect Bruce McCarty, FAIA, was named the
Volunteer of the Year in 2001, both for his role in helping to establish the College of
Architecture and Design and for his impact on the campus through design of buildings for the
university. His first commission for UT was the 1959 Hearing and Speech Center (now the
Silverstein-Luper Building). Among other buildings he designed or codesigned are the Student
Services Building/Andy Holt Tower project, the Humanities Complex, and the College of
Veterinary Medicine Building. He received the bachelor of architecture degree from the
University of Michigan in 1949.
McClain, Lester: Lester McClain entered UT in 1967 and made his varsity debut as UT’s first
African American varsity football player in the 1968 season opener against Georgia, in which he
caught a fourth-down pass on the drive that led to UT’s tying touchdown in the 17-17 tie.
Not widely recruited, he had a choice of UT, Middle Tennessee State University, or Tennessee
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State University at which to play his college football. According to McClain, UT recruited him
to be Albert Davis’s roommate—Davis was an outstanding athlete, heavily recruited by UT, who
eventually did not attend. A business administration major, McClain was drafted by the Chicago
Bears (9th round) but failed to catch on with the Bears or the Denver Broncos.
He started work as a door-to-door salesman for Encyclopaedia Britannica, abandoning the job
after one unsuccessful call. He then held jobs in sales for Blue Cross and Blue Shield and for
Xerox and served a three-year term as assistant to Knoxville Mayor Kyle Testerman. In 1983 he
bought a State Farm Insurance Agency and built the agency into a very successful company, with
Nashville and Knoxville offices. In 1989 he was selected as a winner of the Maxwell House
Coffee/Southeastern Conference Spirit Award for SEC alumni.
See also Desegregation; First African American Football Player.
McClung, Charles (1761–1835): Named in Blount College’s 1794 charter as one of the
college’s trustees, Charles McClung was a lawyer, surveyor, soldier, and merchant. In 1788 he
came to White’s Fort from Philadelphia and in 1790 married James White’s eldest daughter,
Margaret. In 1791 he was commissioned by his father-in-law to make a plan for the new capital
of the Territory South of the River Ohio. He was the first to survey the terrain, then to divide it
into lots to be drawn for at a public lottery. He laid out a grid pattern of 10 streets enclosing 16
square blocks and 64 half-acre lots. It was bounded on the south by the river and on the east by
First Creek.
He and William Blount were the two Knox County representatives appointed to the committee
to draft the Tennessee constitution, and McClung designed the Great Seal of the State of
Tennessee as part of the process of developing the constitution. Since statehood had not been
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granted, the original Great Seal of the State of Tennessee bore the date upon which the state
constitution was signed: February 6, 1796.
See also First Trustees; White, James.
McClung Museum: The Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture was made
possible by a bequest from the wills of Judge and Mrs. John M. Green. The wills provided that
the museum, to be named for Mrs. Green’s father, would be used for “display, preservation and
study of paintings, works of art, objects of natural history, historical objects, and other uses and
purposes as generally appertain to museums.” Mrs. Green also left to UT a valuable collection of
pieces of art and historical objects to be displayed in the museum. The name of the museum was
changed to Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture by the board of trustees
in March 2013.
UT expended $89,000 of the bequest to purchase the Hudson home and 2.3 acre lot on Circle
Park from Lucie D. Hudson and her daughter, Lucinda, as the site of the museum.
Approximately $550,000 remained for constructing and equipping the museum. Barber and
McMurry was the architectural firm for the project.
The formal dedication of the museum was June 1, 1963, but the initial display in the museum’s
art gallery opened November 10, 1961. The initial exhibit consisted of paintings from the Mead
“Picture of the Year.” The museum provided art history offices, anthropology offices, an
anthropology laboratory, an exhibition hall, and an art history and anthropology lecture
auditorium. The art history offices and exhibition function relocated to the Art/Architecture
Building upon its completion. The museum was first accredited by the American Association of
Museums in 1972.
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In 1858 Frank H. McClung was a founding partner, with James Cowan, Perez Dickinson, and
Charles J. McClung, of the Knoxville mercantile firm Cowan, McClung & Company. During the
Civil War, McClung moved to Virginia and participated on the Confederate side. Following the
War, he received a pardon from Andrew Johnson, as required for certain special classes of
participants. The university has the pardon and its acknowledgement by Secretary of State
Seward.
The sculpture in the lobby is The Vine by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth. The sculpture was
willed to UT in 1958 by Frederick T. Bonham, a 1909 UT Law School student. His will left the
statue and $10,000 for its installation to UT, and stipulated that The Vine be placed in a “water
setting in the central lobby of a museum.” The will provided that if the statue were not erected
within five years, that the $10,000 be given to the School of Journalism and the sculpture be
sold, with the proceeds used for journalism scholarships. The statue originally stood in the
formal gardens at Walhall, Bonham’s estate in Riverside, Connecticut. After the death of his
wife, Bonham sold most of the estate, and the statue was stored in an old barn at the Valeria
home in Oscauwanna, New York. After Bonham’s death, the statue was transferred to a
warehouse until UT could comply with the provisions of the will. It was installed in 1961 when
the McClung Museum was completed. The museum became a Smithsonian Affiliate Museum in
2001.
See also Audigier Collection; Ewing Gallery of Art; Sculptures—Vine, The.
McClung Museum—Ancient Egypt: The Eternal Voice: This permanent exhibit opened to the
public on August 29, 1992. The exhibit was designed and built by UT staff. It replaced the
display of the Audigier Collection.
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See also Audigier Collection.
McClung Museum—Dinosaur: The 2,400-pound Edmontosaurus dinosaur, not unlike the one
the McClung Museum houses in its Geology and Fossil History of Tennessee exhibit, was
unveiled in October 2013. It is named Monty.
McClung Museum—Object of the Month: In June 1985 the McClung Museum began
displaying an item from its collection as an “object of the month.” The first object displayed was
a silver tilting water cooler, c. 1875, used to cool drinking water.
McClung Tower and Plaza: Dedicated in 1968, this 12-story, 95,949-square-foot faculty office
building and the plaza that surrounds it are named for Hugh Lawson McClung and his wife, Ella
Gibbons McClung. Judge McClung, the fourth generation of his family to serve on the UT Board
of Trustees (1897–1920) was a great-grandson of James White, Knoxville’s founder. An 1877
UT graduate, McClung was appointed in 1908 as a special justice of the Tennessee Supreme
Court and was also the Knox County chancellor of the chancery court. For a number of years,
Judge McClung was president of the Knoxville Female Academy.
Judge McClung’s daughter, Ellen McClung Berry, gave UT a gift of property in downtown
Knoxville valued at $300,000 during the construction of the facility, and it was named for Judge
and Mrs. McClung at her request. Mrs. Berry chose the sculpture and fountain on the plaza.
The building and its design were announced in 1965 as the first and largest unit of a complex
of humanities and social sciences buildings covering two city blocks. The complex was to
consist of two twelve-story office buildings and three four-story classroom buildings. Architects
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for the building were Painter, Weeks and McCarty.
See also Humanities and Social Sciences Building; McClung Tower Parking Garage;
Sculptures, Outdoor—Europa and the Bull.
McClung Tower Parking Garage: The McClung Tower is atop a two-story, 253-space parking
garage completed in 1968 to provide parking for those with offices in the tower.
McClure Scholarships: Wallace McClure and trustees of the William Kyle McClure
Foundation established the W. K. McClure Fund for the Study of World Affairs in 1968. The
foundation provides 15 to 20 scholarships annually to allow students to study abroad.
See also International House.
McCord Hall: Named for Jim Nance McCord (1879–1968), who served as governor of
Tennessee from 1945 to 1949, the principal structure of the two-facility dairy unit was completed
in 1949 at a cost of $600,000. The four-story building was designed by Barber and McMurry,
and the general contractor was A. R. McMurry. The accompanying Dairy Manufacturing
Building (the Creamery) was also substantially complete in 1949, at a cost of $435,000.
Governor McCord, during whose administration UT received two state building grants that
allowed construction of eight buildings, spoke at the November 4 dedication, held on
homecoming weekend. McCord Hall initially housed personnel from the Dairy and Poultry
Departments, as well as some staff members in animal husbandry and food technology.
McCutchen, Tom C: Appointed the first superintendent of the Milan Experiment Station (now
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Research and Education Center at Milan) shortly after it was established in 1962, McCutchen is
called the “Father of Tennessee No-Till” (no-till is a term applied to an environmentally friendly
crop-growing system. No-till farmers avoid disturbing the soil in their fields any more than is
necessary. They leave the plant materials from the harvested crops in the field to provide a
protective blanket.)
McCutchen received the BS in dairy in 1949 and an MS in agricultural extension in 1965.
During his life, he amassed a very large collection of vintage farm implements and artifacts that
provided the nucleus of the collection of the West Tennessee Agricultural Museum, which was
rededicated the Tom C. McCutchen Agricultural Museum in 1996.
See also Research and Education Center at Milan; West Tennessee Agricultural Museum.
McDonald, Ted P.: Dr. McDonald joined the University of Tennessee Memorial Research
Center in 1965 and became a professor in the Department of Animal Science in the College of
Veterinary Medicine in 1983. He retired in 1996. A specialist in hematology, he earned
international recognition for his research on blood platelets.
He was awarded US patents in 1992 and 1997 and authored more than three hundred scientific
publications. His work helped clarify the role of the hormone thrombopoietin in normal
physiology and its clinical usefulness and for increasing platelet counts in patients with cancer,
chronic myelogenous leukemia, AIDS, patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation, or with
congenital thrombopoietin deficiency.
He served as regional councilor of the Southeastern Society for Experimental Biology and
Medicine (1977–80). He received the Beecham Award for Research Excellence (1987) and the
Chancellor’s Award for Research and Creative Achievement (1990). His contributions to the
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intellectual life of the university have been recognized by placement of a plaque in his honor on
a faculty study.
See also Library—Named Faculty Studies.
McGrath, Jenny [Weaver]: Jenny McGrath graduated from UT in 1992 with a major in
biomedical engineering. During her student-athlete days at UT, she was a 15-time All-American
as a swimmer. She was the SEC champion in the 200-yard individual medley in 1990 and the
200-yard freestyle champion in 1990 and 1992. She was a three-time Academic All-SEC
selection.
In 1992 she was awarded the SEC’s H. Boyd McWhorter Postgraduate Scholarship, given
annually to the conference’s top female and male athletes. She graduated from the UT’s College
of Medicine in Memphis in 1997 and completed her surgical residency in 2002. In addition to
being a practicing surgeon, she serves on the clinical surgical faculty at the University of
Tennessee Memphis.
McGuire, Saundra: Saundra McGuire received the bachelor’s degree from Southern University
in 1970. She joined UT as a visiting instructor in chemistry and PhD candidate in chemistry
education in the College of Education in 1978. In 1981–82, she served as director of UT’s PreMedical Enrichment Program and held a UT Alumni Association fellowship. She earned the
doctorate in chemistry education in 1983.
She was named the outstanding graduate in the College of Education in 1983 and received a
Chancellor’s Citation for exceptional professional promise. She then was on the faculty at
Alabama A&M, followed by employment as director and senior lecturer at the Center for
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Academic Success at Cornell. In 2000 she joined Louisiana State University as director of
academic success and associate dean of the College of General Studies.
She has extensive publications and has received numerous awards. In 2007 she and UT alumna
Ann Draughon were two of the ten individuals presented Presidential Awards for Excellence in
Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. The presidential program, which carries a
$10,000 award, is funded and managed by the National Science Foundation to identify
outstanding efforts that enhance the participation of groups (i.e., women, minorities, and persons
with disabilities) who are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics.
See also Draughon, F. Ann.
McIntyre, Florence: Florence McIntyre was the first female to register in the Academic College
of the university (fall 1893) after the board of trustees granted full admission to women.
See also First Female Students; Smith, Ida.
McKenzie, Toby (1954–2013): Steve Allen “Toby” McKenzie was born in Cleveland,
Tennessee, and graduated from Bradley Central High School, where he played on the football
team. He and his family lived in a public housing project. He started on his entrepreneurial career
by delivering newspapers in Cleveland.
He and his first wife, Brenda Lawson, started a rent-to-own chain of stores in 1987, which they
sold for $13 million; started a second rent-to-own chain, which they sold for $25 million; and
then became pioneers in the lucrative check-cashing business, forming a chain of 870 stores.
They sold those stores for $450 million. McKenzie, alone or together with his former wife
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Brenda Lawson, provided funds for the Lawson addition to Neyland Thompson; paid off the debt
for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga arena; established an endowed chair at UTC;
gave major funding for athletics to secondary schools; gave $1 million to Lee College for its
athletics program, and funded a very long list of buildings and programs in East Tennessee.
His real estate development company filed for bankruptcy in August 2008, after failing to
make payments on a bank loan. After failing to complete payment of his portion of the pledge to
the Step Up campaign for Tennessee Athletics, his name was removed from the McKenzie
Lawson Athletics Center (which then became the Brenda Lawson Athletics Center). The
Marketing and Broadcast Suite in the center was named in recognition of the contributions he
had made toward the project.
See also Brenda Lawson Athletics Center; Lawson, Brenda.
McLaren, James B.: Dr. McLaren joined the faculty of the university’s Animal Husbandry
Department in 1966, following 17 years of service in the university’s Agricultural Experiment
Stations at Ames Plantation near Grand Junction and at Spring Hill. From 1987 to 1989, he was
acting department head. He retired in 1989.
McLaren held a joint appointment in the College of Agriculture and the Agriculture
Experiment Station. He became recognized both in the United States and abroad for his research
on beef cattle and forage management systems, fields in which he published extensively. At the
university, he pioneered in introducing students in animal science to statistical analysis and the
use of computers.
From 1989 to 1991, he served as an agricultural adviser to the State of Amazonas in Brazil. In
1982 he received the Gamma Sigma Delta Research Award, and in 1989 he was named Buford
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Ellington Distinguished Professor. His intellectual contributions to the life of the university have
been recognized by placement of a plaque in his honor on a faculty study.
See also Library—Named Faculty Studies.
McLean, Ridley (1872–1933): Rear Admiral Ridley McLean attended UT from 1888 to 1890,
before entering the Naval Academy, from which he graduated in 1894. He is best known as
Lieutenant Ridley McLean, the author of the Bluejacket’s Manual, a primer on uniforms, ranks,
rates, and other essential information for all naval personnel from seaman to admiral. His manual
was first published in 1902 and has been in print—with revisions and enlargements—ever since.
He served on board the gunboat Marietta in 1898 during the Reyes Rebellion in Nicaragua, on
the ammunition ship America during the Spanish-American War, and on the staff of Rear
Admiral Kempff during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and the Philippine Insurrection during 1901
and 1902. He was commanding officer of the USS New Hampshire and chief of staff to the
commander of Battleship Force I, Atlantic Fleet during World War I and was awarded the Navy
Cross for his service.
McLean served as judge advocate general of the navy from 1913 to 1916. While serving as
commander of Battleship Division 3 of the United States Fleet, he died suddenly on November
12, 1933, aboard his flagship, the USS Nevada. His funeral service, with all the honors befitting
his rank, was held aboard the USS Nevada. As soon as the services were completed, the Nevada
steamed through the Golden Gate and headed for Southern California, where another service was
held, after which the body was sent to Washington for burial in Arlington National Cemetery.
McLeod Food Technology Building: In 2006 the State authorized a $24,950,000 capital project
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completely to renovate the 1959 Brehm Animal Sciences Building (113,000 square feet) on the
agriculture campus and to raze and rebuild the connected McLeod Hall (36,000 square feet),
making an Animal Science and Food Sciences Complex. McLeod was razed in 2008. Architects
for the project were the Lewis Group and Studio 4 Design. Storm damage seriously affected the
progress of the project, which was not completed until 2013. As completed, the 150,000-squarefoot complex contained 28 research and teaching laboratories, 60 offices, eight classrooms, a
148-seat auditorium, and a 900-seat arena.
The 1951 McLeod Food Technology Building designed by Barber and McMurry was
completed in 1951 at a cost of $538,000. The facility was touted as unique on a university
campus—having complete locker-plant operations management of frozen foods. Courses were
taught in areas such as slaughtering, poultry by-products, sanitation, and industrial food
fermentation processing. Professors Bernadine Meyer and Ruth Buckley of the College of Home
Economics developed research inquiries that were carried out in the especially equipped cooking
and organoleptic laboratory of the building.
In 1970 the board of trustees named the building for Dr. John Hayne McLeod, who served
sequentially as vice director, acting director, and director of the Agricultural Experiment Station
and the Agricultural Extension Service; and dean of the College of Agriculture from 1948 to
1957. He served UT for 36 years before his retirement in 1957. Following his retirement, he
served four years in the UT program in India.
See also Brehm Animal Science Building; UT India.
McNutt, George (1741–1823): Born in Ireland, George McNutt immigrated to Virginia and then
relocated to the Territory South of the River Ohio. In 1794 the territorial legislature named him
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as one of the trustees of Blount College in the charter for the institution. He served as a member
of the first Knox County Court and a commissioner of the town of Knoxville. He was also named
a charter trustee of Hampton-Sidney Academy in Knoxville. At the close of the Revolutionary
War, he was one of the pioneers who formed a settlement in the Irish Bottom on the French
Broad River. He was one of the elders of Lebanon Presbyterian Church during the time Samuel
Carrick was its pastor.
McReynolds, Elaine: An expense account management analyst with a Nashville insurance
company, Elaine McReynolds was attending evening classes at the University of Tennessee in
Nashville when she was appointed in July 1975 to a new UT Board of Trustees position created
for Davidson County. She received a degree from the University of Tennessee in Nashville in
fall 1976. She was the first African American to be appointed to a full term on the UT Board of
Trustees.
McSpadden, J. Walker (1874–1960): Joseph Walker McSpadden attended UT beginning in
November 1893. He graduated in 1899 and moved to New York. He and two other UT alumni
(Marshall Lawrence Havey and John S. Coppers) organized a U.T.N.Y. luncheon group in 1899,
which was expanded to become the Tennessee Society of New York in 1905.
McSpadden was a prolific author. He is best known for his Robin Hood (1891) and succeeding
tales of Robin Hood. Among his other publications are Opera Synopses (1920), Operas and
Musical Comedies, Light Opera and Musical Comedy (1936), Shakespearian Synopses (1923),
The Fables of Aesop, Based on the Texts of L’Estrange and Croxall (1903), Stories from Great
Operas (1923), Alps: As Seen by the Poets (1912), California: A Romantic Story for Young
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People (1926), Boys’ Book of Famous Soldiers (1924), Famous Ghost Stories (1918), Famous
Psychic Stories (1920), Famous Sculptors of America (1924), Synopses of Dickens’s Novels
(1909), The Book of Holidays (1935), and Storm Center: A Novel about Andy Johnson (1947).
McSween, Harry Y., “Hap”: Hap McSween joined the faculty of the Geology Department
(now the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences) in 1977. He earned the BS in chemistry
from the Citadel (1967), attending as a Daniel Scholar; the MS in geology from the University of
Georgia (1969), where he was a NASA graduate fellow; and the PhD in geology from Harvard
(1977). From 1969 to 1974, he was a pilot and officer in the US Air Force in Vietnam.
He served as acting associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts (now Arts and Sciences)
from 1985 to 1987 and as department head from 1987 to 1997. He twice served as interim dean
of the college.
Named a distinguished professor of science in 1998 and, subsequently, chancellor’s professor,
McSween began participating in NASA spacecraft missions in 1997 as a member of the science
team for the Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter. In 1999 he led a team of researchers who discovered
geologic evidence on a meteorite that water existed deep in Mars’s crust. He then became
coinvestigator for the Mars Odyssey spacecraft mission and the Dawn spacecraft mission.
McSween is the author of more than one hundred articles in international journals and
professional volumes. He is also the author of books that are designed to spread enthusiasm for
science to the general public.
He received the Nininger Award for Meteorite Studies (1977), a National Science Foundation
Antarctic Service Medal (1982), the Bradley Prize from the Geological Society of Washington
(1985), two NASA Group Achievement Awards (1983 and 1998), the Leconte Medallion of the
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South Carolina Science Council (1999), the Order of the Silver Crescent Award from the
Governor of South Carolina (2001), and the Frederick C. Leonard Medal from the Meteoritical
Society in 2001. In 1999 he was inducted as the 21st member of the South Carolina Hall of
Science and Technology. In 2012 he was awarded the J. Lawrence Smith Medal by the National
Academy of Science.
McSween served on 14 NASA teams and panels of critical importance, on several of which he
was chief. He also served on several committees for the National Research Council. For the
Meteoritical Society, he served as president (1995–96), vice president (1993–94), secretary, and
councilor. For the Geological Society of America, he was chair and vice chair of the Planetary
Geology Division and chair and vice chair of the southeastern section, among many other
committees. He was an associate editor for international journals Icarus, Meteoritics,
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, and the Proceedings of the 10th Lunar and Planetary
Science Conference.
ME4UT (Minority Enrichment for the University of Tennessee): ME4UT was established in
2000 to assist the Office of Undergraduate Admissions in recruiting and building relationships
with African American students interested in attending the University of Tennessee. Students in
the organization committed 60 volunteer hours each year and facilitated three overnight campus
visits for minority students and their families. Students helped organize the events and to plan
workshops during which they shared their experiences at UT. Members received an hourly wage
and were given priority in registration. In February 2010 the three student-recruiting groups
(Ambassador Scholars, ME4UT, and Orange Pride) were combined into a single studentrecruiting group of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
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See also Ambassador Scholars; Orange Pride; Student Recruiters.
Meal Plan Required: Students living in Reese, Humes, Carrick North, and Carrick South were
required to purchase a meal plan for meals at the Presidential Court when the dining facilities
opened in fall 1967. The cost of the room and board (20 meals) plan for the academic year was
$885. A proposal to require all students to purchase a declining balance meal plan was initiated
in 2013. After significant student opposition, the plan was reworked, and a revised plan was
implemented for fall 2015. The revised plan required that all first-year undergraduates who live
on campus purchase a meal plan and that non-first-year students enrolled in at least six credit
hours purchase $300 in Dining Dollars. The Dining Dollars unused would then roll into students’
All Star accounts, from which students could request a refund or could use them at All Star
locations. The plan also included offering Cumberland Avenue restaurants the option to take
Dining Dollars.
See also Student Issue, 2013—Declining Balance Meal Plans for Students Living Off-Campus.
Mears, Ray (1926–2007): Ramon Asa Mears was born in Dover, Ohio. He played basketball at
Cadiz High School until he was diagnosed with tuberculosis in his sophomore year. With the
disease in remission, he played his junior and senior years at Cadiz. Upon graduating from high
school, he worked six 12-hour days a week in the steel mills until he had saved enough money to
enroll at Miami of Ohio. He walked on with the basketball squad and was offered a scholarship
for his senior year. (He declined the scholarship, preferring to be able to say that he worked his
way through college.)
He coached at the high school level before becoming head coach at Wittenberg University
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(Springfield, Ohio). Under Mears, the Whittenberg team won 121 victories in 144 games and
three NCAA college-division national championships. He joined UT in April 1962 as head
basketball coach. At Wittenberg, he had used the pep band, majorettes, and the team’s entry onto
the arena floor through a giant paper replica of the school’s mascot to increase fan appeal. At
Tennessee he also combined showmanship with excellent basketball. He introduced the playing
by the pep band in the stands, had the team enter through a giant “T,” lowered the house lights
and had drum rolls sound as the Vols took the court, featured a unicycle rider who shot baskets,
had the team perform complicated warm-up exercises that showcased ball handling, and finished
his first season (most of which was led by Assistant Coach Bill Gibbs) 13-11 with a two-game
sweep over Kentucky.
Mears started the Orange Tie Club and the wearing of orange and white at athletic contests,
and he even had a bear wrestled during halftime at one game. As part of a 1960s promotional
campaign, he introduced the term Big Orange Country to Tennessee. He was sometimes referred
to as the “Barnum of Basketball.” During his 15 years (1963–77) as head coach, Mears’s teams
were 278 to 112 (.713 winning percentage). The Vols won three conference titles: 1966–67,
1971–72, and 1976–77, and played in three NCAA tournaments. He coached 12 All-America
players and 27 All-SEC performers. In 1969 a street, Ray Mears Boulevard, was named for him.
He suffered from exhaustion in 1962–63, and the pills he took to combat it led him to turn the
team over to Assistant Coach Bill Gibbs and take a vacation. In 1962–63, he had another
breakdown and underwent shock treatments at a Virginia psychiatric hospital. After leaving UT
he served as athletics director at UT at Martin. On February 10, 1990, the west multipurpose
room in Thompson-Boling Arena was named the Ray Mears Room, celebrating his contributions
to Tennessee basketball. On March 1, 2006, during halftime of the UT-Kentucky basketball
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game, a banner celebrating his years as head coach (1963–99) was hung from the rafters at
Thompson-Boling Arena, and in the same year, Coach Bruce Pearl agreed with Mears to wear a
signature orange blazer at the Vanderbilt and Kentucky games.
See also Ernie and Bernie Show; Lowest Scoring Basketball Game; Orange Tie Club; Peltz,
Roger.
Mechanical Building (Later, Reese Hall): In 1888 the Mechanical Building replaced a small
workshop to the west of the crest of the Hill where Hesler Biology Building presently stands.
When the new Mechanical Building (Estabrook Hall) was built in 1898, the 1888 building was
renamed Reese Hall, renovated as a dormitory, and rented to fraternities. In later years it was
used as an armory, before being razed in 1938.
See also Reese Hall.
Medical Library: See Preston Medical Library.
Medical Technology Program: The medical technology curriculum involves three years of
study in the College of Arts and Sciences plus 12 months of practical and didactic training in
clinical laboratory sciences at UT Medical Center in Knoxville. The Department of Pathology
and the Dynacare-Tennessee Laboratories at the UT Medical Center are the home of the Medical
Technology Program. The 3+1 program leads to the BS degree with a major in medical
technology. A certificate is also awarded by UT Medical Center. The program is accredited by
the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS).
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Meek, Mary Fleming [Mrs. John Lamar] (1871–1929): The winner of the 1928 competition to
compose original music and original words for the university alma mater was a singer, composer,
and poetess. Mary Meek was born in Knoxville and attended Knoxville schools and Mary
Washington College in Abingdon. She also attended the Summer School of the South at UT.
A soprano, she showed exceptional musical talent at an early age and studied with London
tenor William Courtney, who taught in New York. She had two songs published at age 18 and
records made with the Columbia Company. She represented Tennessee at the 1893 Chicago
World’s Fair and at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. At the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta,
she sang an aria from Gounod’s Queen of Sheba at the opening ceremonies, accompanied by the
exposition band, conducted by composer Victor Herbert.
During World War I, she was chairman of musical activities when thousands of soldiers were
encamped near Chattanooga. While she was not a UT alumna (other than attendance at the
Summer School of the South), she had strong UT connections. Her great-grandfather, John
Mason, prepared the design for Old College in 1826. Her grandfather, Judge Samuel Boyd, was a
graduate of Blount College, and her father, Colonel John M. Fleming, had served on the board of
trustees. Her husband, brother, and son were all alumni.
She served as president of the Tennessee Federation of Music Clubs (1918–19) and was a
member of the board of the National Federation of Music Clubs. She was also president of the
Chattanooga Writers’ Club, a member of the DAR, a member of the State Press and Authors’
Club, president of the Dixie District of Music Clubs (Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and
Alabama), an originator of the Tuesday Morning Music Club in Knoxville and of the McDowell
Club in Chattanooga. She sang in the choir at Second Presbyterian Church in Knoxville and was
active in its Women’s Auxiliary. In 1896 she married John Lamar Meek, an official of the
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Southern Railway. They lived in Atlanta and then Chattanooga, moving back to Knoxville in
January 1929. She died June 9, 1929, while she was in the midst of assembling her songs and
poems for a book. The UT “Alma Mater” was her last composition.
See also Alma Mater; Cotton States and International Exposition Gold Medal.
Meeman Foundation: In 1968 the Edward J. Meeman Foundation made separate awards of
$200,000 and $30,000 to UT to foster improvements in journalism. The income from the larger
grant was to establish two salary supplements for professors who would be known as
Distinguished Edward J. Meeman Professors and provide for two Edward J. Meeman Graduate
Fellowships in Communications. In 1971 Turner Catledge, former vice president and executive
editor of the New York Times, spent three weeks on campus as the first Meeman Distinguished
Visiting Professor.
Meeman (1889–1966) was chosen by Scripps-Howard in 1921 to relocate from Evansville to
Knoxville to start a newspaper, the Knoxville News. Five years later, the News bought its
afternoon competitor, the Sentinel. Meeman then served as editor of the Knoxville News-Sentinel
until he went to Memphis in 1931 to become the editor of the Press-Scimitar. He was a leader in
the movement that resulted in the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In
1949 he established the Edward J. Meeman Foundation.
Melrose: The streets (Melrose and Melrose Place) take their names from Melrose, an estate of
two hundred acres and a mansion. The house was built by James J. Craig in 1858 and named
Lucknow, in honor of the defense of the Indian town by the British during the Sepoy Rebellion
in 1857. Craig never lived in the house. He sold it in 1860 to Samuel N. Fain and William H.
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Moffett. In 1862 Fain sold the house to Thomas J. Powell. It stood between enemy lines during
the Civil War, and both Union and Confederate soldiers died in the house. Powell sold the house
and the two hundred acres to Oliver Perry Temple in 1865. Temple renamed the house Melrose
after Melrose Abbey in Scotland, where his wife Caledonia’s mother (Mrs. David Hume) spent
her childhood.
Temple had a vineyard of an acre on the grounds of Melrose that, in season, produced eight
barrels a day. Part of the Concord and Catawba grapes were eaten, and the remainder were made
into wine. Temple sold the house to Mrs. Fannie O’Connor in 1875, and after one additional
owner, it became the Melrose Art Center (1928–33). The art center sold the property—by then
only the house and a small amount of grounds—to H. L. Dulin, who sold it to UT in 1946 to be
demolished for a dormitory, Melrose, which continued its name.
See also Temple, Oliver Perry.
Melrose Hall: Construction began on Melrose Hall in 1946, and the building opened in 1948. It
was the first men’s dormitory on the Knoxville campus paid for by the state. It was designed to
house 358 men in 162 single and 98 double rooms. Its cost exceeded $1 million. The architect
was Barber and McMurry, and the contractor was V. L. Nicholson of Knoxville. The concept of
the building was relatively new—several rooms were grouped around central lounges, which
were treated as living rooms by the residents. Gun cabinets for storage of ROTC weapons were
built into each lounge, and eight residents shared the lounge and a bathroom. Residents did not
have to provide their own furniture; each resident was provided a desk and chair, single bed with
innerspring mattress, and a chest of drawers. All rooms had closets.
Following the example of Sophronia Strong Hall, in which the sections of the building were
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named for the institution’s first five coeds, the seven sections of Melrose Hall were named for
distinguished faculty members. The sections were named as follows: Section A, Charles Willard
Turner, dean of law; Section B, Charles Edmund Wait, professor of chemistry; Section C, James
Douglas Bruce, professor of English; Section D, Cooper D. Schmitt, professor of mathematics;
Section E, William Waller Carson, professor of civil engineering; Section F, Charles Albert
Keffer, director of the Agricultural Experiment Station; and Section G, Thomas Walden Jordan,
dean of the university. In 1958 Dr. Bernadotte Schmitt (’04) and his brother, Ralph Schmitt
(’14), presented a portrait of Cooper D. Schmitt to the Melrose unit which bore his name.
In the late 1980s, the dormitory became the residence hall of choice for international students
and graduate students. In 1990 serious consideration was given to taking Melrose out of service
as a dormitory because it ran an annual deficit, had an antiquated steam heating system, and was
not air-conditioned. Students rallied to preserve the hall, and it stayed in service. The dormitory
was taken out of service in 2009.
Melrose Hall—Drug Lab Discovered: UT sophomores Erik Benson Kenney (Madisonville)
and John Chalmers Thompson (Loudon) were arrested and charged with felonies for
manufacturing the hallucinogenic drug dimethyltryptamine in two rooms in Melrose Hall
following a raid on their rooms on December 1, 2007. They were also charged with
misdemeanors for possession of marijuana. The pair was arrested in Vonore for possession of
drugs, and they admitted to manufacturing DMT (a Schedule I drug) in their dorm rooms. The
rooms were quarantined, and then sanitized.
Melrose Hall—Student Death: Kristofer Grant Boardman of Cordova, Tennessee, hanged
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himself from a third-story window of Melrose Hall on August 23, 2002. It was the first suicide
since one in Morrill Hall in 1998. Since Boardman was hanging outside the building, a number
of students witnessed the hanging or the hanged student.
Melrose Triangle: The site of the International House and library parking was previously the
site of seven residences and some 56 varieties of plant life (some rare). The first house
constructed in the Melrose Triangle was at 1715 Melrose, built in 1884 for Mr. Ernest Briscoe.
The others were built early in the twentieth century. The university began to acquire the houses
as they came available following the designation of the “institutional zone” adjacent to the 1960s
Urban Renewal project that expanded the campus. The houses were primarily occupied by the
Art Department in the 1970s until the Art and Architecture Building was completed. They were
razed in the 1980s, and a park and parking were created in 1988.
See also Institutional Zone.
Memorial Service: In March 2015 Chancellor Cheek initiated a memorial service remembering
students, faculty, and staff who had died during the academic year. Held alongside the Volunteer
Statue, the service also recognized—by placement of an arrangement of orange flowers—retirees
and alumni who had died. Families of the sixteen persons (thirteen students and three
faculty/staff) honored received a perennial, and similar plants were planted at the UT Gardens
with a memorial plaque.
Memphis State University (University of Memphis): In 1951 legislators from Shelby County
entered bills in the Tennessee General Assembly that would have joined Memphis State to UT.
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While UT generally favored the idea, the matter became heated, with opponents referring to the
merger as “splitting UT,” meaning that funds would be taken from UT to support the Memphis
campus, and proponents contending that Memphis paid one-fifth of all state taxes and did not
have access to a university-level education. The effort was rebuffed. Opposition to elevating
Memphis State College to university status was debated, with estimates that it would require $5
million to make a real university of Memphis State. The City of Memphis offered to give
$100,000 if Memphis State was elevated to university status. Governor Clement supported the
last-ditch compromise bill in 1957 that elevated Memphis State to university status.
M.E.N.C.—National Association for Music Education: M.E.N.C. was an active professional
organization within the College of Education beginning in the 1960s. M.E.N.C. was founded in
1907 and stands for Music Educators National Conference. The name was changed in 1998 to
MENC.
Menorah Society: On March 9, 1917, a chapter of the national Menorah Society was installed at
UT. Mr. S. Allenberg was the first president. The society was organized at Harvard in 1906–07,
and the UT chapter was the 53rd American chapter to be installed. The Menorah Movement
originated at Harvard in academic year 1906–07 as a result of a desire at Harvard to establish a
Jewish cultural society. The Jewish cultural society was open to all students and faculty.
Mess Hall (Barbara Blount Hall): The Mess Hall, built in 1873 at a cost of approximately
$6,000, was located where the Walters Life Sciences Building now stands. The three-story
building had quarters for the steward’s family, a large dining hall on the main floor, and private
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rooms for students and faculty on the third floor. In 1898 the second and third floors of the Mess
Hall were remodeled into dormitory rooms and the building was renamed Barbara Blount Hall.
Nine women were actually in residence in 1899, and the catalog suggested that they would be
able to secure their board for about $2 per week. After the new Barbara Blount Hall was
completed in 1901, the Mess Hall was used as a fraternity house. The building was razed in 1908
to make room for University Field, subsequently named Wait Field.
See also Barbara Blount Hall; Wait Field.
Methanol Marathon: In 1989 twenty-five students from UT’s College of Engineering modified
a 1988 Corsica LT to operate on methanol. The group formed a participating team in the
Department of Energy’s Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition for Colleges and
Universities managed by Argonne National Laboratory. In the Methanol Marathon, General
Motors provided cars to 15 finalist universities (of the 40 that submitted original proposals). The
cars were then driven in a 1,100-mile road rally through the United States and Canada. UT’s
conversion design of its gray Corsica and its 19.9 miles a gallon (equivalent to 36.7 miles a
gallon of gasoline) won the contest. It was the first entry into alternative fuel design by student
teams under Jeffrey Hodgson, UT engineering professor. UT students also won championships in
1990–91 and 1994–95.
See also Alternative Fuel Engineering Projects; National Championships.
Mexican War: University students and alumni were among the many Tennesseans who
answered the call issued by Governor Aaron V. Brown for 2,800 men to volunteer to fight Santa
Ana. More than 30,000 Tennesseans volunteered, and, from the overwhelming response,
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Tennessee’s nickname as the “Volunteer State” was born. Captain R. L. Kirkpatrick (class of
1845) led an Anderson County infantry company to Mexico, where he died of illness. William
McAdoo, later university librarian, served in Kirkpatrick’s unit as a lieutenant. Several university
students and alumni were members of the Knoxville Dragoons, and James L. Roberson was
killed in action. He was memorialized by his fellow members of the Philomathesian Society for
“grateful services rendered to our country in the hour of peril.” William Brown Walton (attended
1840–41) served as a captain of a company of the First Regiment of Tennessee Infantry, and
Leonidas Trousdale, class of 1841, was a volunteer in the First Mississippi Regiment, serving in
the storming of Monterrey and the Battle of Buena Vista.
See also Color Guard Uniforms (ROTC); Knoxville Dragoons; McAdoo, William Gibbs.
Meyer, Bernadine H. (1909–1974): Dr. Meyer joined the faculty of the university’s College of
Home Economics (later Human Ecology and now incorporated into the College of Education,
Health and Human Sciences) in 1941 in the Department of Foods and Institutional Management.
She served on the faculty of the department until 1974. She additionally held a research
appointment in the Institute of Agriculture. She was a specialist in foods and nutrition. She was
the author of several important articles on the chemistry of food preparation, including the
effects of heating and freezing on the quality and vitamin content of meat and baked products.
She was instrumental in initiating the PhD program in nutrition and in securing federal funding
for it. Her intellectual contributions to the life of the university have been recognized by
placement of a plaque in her honor on a faculty study.
See also Library—Named Faculty Studies.
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MHD: In 1961 the UT Space Institute began a many-year investigation of the possibilities for
energy savings using Michael Farraday’s nineteenth-century theories of magneto
hydrodynamics, through which it was posited that commercialized MHD plants could produce
50 percent more electricity from a ton of coal than was possible with conventional steam
turbines. Dr. John Dicks directed the project from its incipience. The University of Tennessee
Space Institute built a coal-burning electric power plant based on these principles. The first
federal contract came in 1964, and more than $60 million was subsequently received.
In 1977 the Tennessee General Assembly created the Tennessee Energy Institute to promote
energy research and development, especially MHD project work, and authorized up to $5 million
for implementation of a commercialization plan. Commercialization for coal power plants
faltered, but the MHD theories were used at UTSI in the 1986–96 railgun project, and in 2001 an
investigation began that could transform heat from an aircraft jet engine into short, high-energy
bursts of electricity using MHD. Plasma research at Knoxville has also involved MHD.
Michael Jackson’s Victory Tour: Neyland Stadium was one of the venues for the 1984 twelvecity Victory Tour concert by Michael Jackson and his brothers. The shows were August 10, 11,
and 12, with 60,000 tickets available for each. Charles Sullivan’s Stadium Management
Corporation was the national promoter for the tour, and Sullivan was familiar with Neyland
Stadium as owner of the New England Patriots, which had played exhibition games in the
stadium in 1982 and 1983.
State Representative Ted Ray Miller, president of Big Sports Inc.; S. H. “Bo” Roberts,
president of Events International, former UT vice president, and former president of the
Knoxville International Energy Exposition; and Knoxville businessman Al Davis constituted the
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group that negotiated to bring the tour to Knoxville. National promoters had hoped to gain relief
from at least 5 percent of the 17 percent combined local and state amusement tax, under a
provision that exempted “theaters wherein are performed the performing arts,” but the Knox
County law director issued a legal opinion, and the national promoters did not officially ask to
have the tax rescinded; Neyland remained a stadium for the event, and the tax was paid.
The contract signed by UT on July 27 guaranteed UT $35,000 for each of the shows. On July
27, at three Millers Department Stores and at the Civic Coliseum, 120,000 tickets went on sale.
The contract required that two or three sheets of three-quarter-inch plywood and a nonflammable
nylon sheet cover the field, on which a 700,000-pound, five-story stage was erected. Tickets
were $29.50. UT controlled parking and concessions, while the Jackson promoters controlled
souvenirs. About 350 students were employed as “T-shirt Security” and parking attendants. On
August 7, Roberts announced that the shows would be postponed, following threats on the
Jacksons’ lives. The national promoters decided on August 9 to hold the shows as scheduled.
Mic/Nite: Twice a year, the Office of the Provost hosts, a “Pecha-Kucha Powered” social
gathering designed to highlight a cross section of the intellectual life of the university. Faculty in
various disciplines make presentations in a Pecha-Kucha Powered social gathering. Mic/Nite was
begun in 2011. Pecha-Kucha is a lecture format in which presenters show and discuss 20 images
for 20 seconds each. The images automatically forward while the presenter talks. The first
faculty member to present at Mic/Nite was Kenton Yeager, a professor in the theatre department.
Harry S. “Hap” McSween, professor of earth and planetary sciences, made a memorable
presentation. McSween’s presentation on NASA’s Dawn mission consisted of 20 metrically
correct, humorous, but scientifically accurate limericks.
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Middle Tennessee Research and Education Center: In 1917 the legislature authorized
establishment of the Middle Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station. The County was to
provide the land, and the State would provide $10,000 per year for operation of the station.
Maury County provided a 652-acre farm that cost approximately $100,000. The station was
developed principally for livestock research, with supporting field experiments with grasses,
pastures, and legumes. An adjacent farm of 129 acres was added to the station in 1936 to
accommodate a special Bankhead-Jones project on jack stock. Another tract of 23 acres was
added to the jack stock farm in 1940.
In 1950 the trustees approved the purchase of a 593-acre farm (at $295 per acre) to replace the
old Middle Tennessee Experiment Station. The new farm was seven miles north of Columbia, on
Highway US 31. In 1954 a 285-acre tract known as the Reclamation Farm was acquired through
Monsanto Chemical Company, and in 1959 an adjoining farm of 275 acres was added. The name
of the station was changed to Middle Tennessee Research and Education Center in 2005.
See also AgResearch.
Middlebrook Building: The City of Knoxville began planning for a convention center in 1997.
Three potential sites emerged, and Mayor Victor Ashe favored the site on World’s Fair Park that
required acquisition of the UT Conference Center Building’s garage and office/warehouse
facility. When UT had acquired the Conference Center Building, tunnel, and garage in 1992, the
space previously used as storage space had been upgraded to appropriate standards for
maintaining collections of archaeological artifacts (including human remains), art collections,
and McClung Museum artifacts and objects. The City valued the property at $3.8 million, but UT
insisted that its space and the 330 dedicated parking spaces for the UT Conference Center
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Building must be replaced.
An agreement was reached through which the City would build a parking garage at the corners
of Union, Clinch, and Locust Streets and permanently title 330 spaces to UT, but replacement of
the space within the structure that had been renovated and upgraded by UT became a matter of
contention. UT offered to relocate to space in a building at the Holston Farm, owned by UT, as a
temporary measure and to permanently relocate to a planned Facilities Services Complex, with
the City paying for both moves and the cost of the space in the Facilities Services Complex.
Mayor Ashe considered UT’s proposal too expensive. He proposed, and city council approved
on October 6, 1999, the purchase and renovation of the 111,730-square-foot former Roddy Coca
Cola Bottling plant at 5723 Middlebrook Pike for UT purposes. The City paid $3 million for the
property and just over $4 million for the renovations. The City also paid for temporary storage of
collections in another warehouse, including costs of relocation and security, because renovation
of the Roddy building could not be completed prior to March 2000, and the City desired to take
possession of the university’s property in December 1999. The Middlebrook Building had
executive office space, as well space suitable for collections curation and holding.
See also Conference Center Building.
Middlesboro, Kentucky: Founded by a UT alumnus who was the city’s first mayor.
See also Brooks, John McMillan.
Midwinter Convocation: In 1928 the University Church Workers and the Christian
Associations began a tradition, which lasted for 40 years, of having a midwinter convocation at
UT. The first convocation was held in 1929, and Dr. Henry Hitt Crane was the initial speaker. He
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returned as speaker in 1939. The convocation consisted of three one-hour periods devoted to
inspirational talks of a religious nature by an outstanding speaker. Classes were suspended
during these periods to provide for “an interlude of personal thinking for each student and faculty
member.”
Each year the UT Christian Association invited a leading theologian “to preach to students
about the importance of Christian values in their lives.” The Tennessee School of Religion and
the campus YMCA assisted in selection of the speaker and in planning the annual event. In
response to 1967 convocation speaker William Elliott’s talk, Dr. Richard Marius, UT history
professor and an ordained Baptist minister candidly expressed his disappointment that Dr. Elliott
did not address how Christians should react to the pressing social issues of the day, such as
racism and Vietnam. When YMCA secretary Ralph Frost complained to Academic Vice
President Spivey, Spivey responded by questioning the propriety of an institutionally sponsored
religious event. The Presbyterian Student Center submitted a petition to the Student Government
Association calling the convocation an “absurd piece of nonsense and a meaningless tradition.”
The issue of the convocation became embroiled in the broader issue of institutional policy
related to speakers on campus, and in fall 1968 UT announced a liberalization of its policy
concerning speakers and the termination of the midwinter convocation.
See also Marius, Richard; Tennessee School of Religion.
Miles, James T.: In 1960 Dr. Miles joined the faculty of the university’s Department of
Dairying. In 1972 he became head of the newly formed Department of Food Technology and
Science, where he served until his retirement in 1985. He earned a reputation as a specialist in
dairying and authored or coauthored almost 50 articles and research reports on the feeding and
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care of dairy cattle. In his active career, he assisted in revising the dairy laws of Tennessee,
provided leadership for the university’s annual Dairy Institute, and promoted the work of 4-H
Clubs in Tennessee. In 1982 he was awarded the Webster Pendergrass Award for outstanding
service in the Institute of Agriculture. His intellectual contributions to the life of the university
have been recognized by placement of a plaque in his honor on a faculty study.
See also Library—Named Faculty Studies.
Military Camps: Summer military training for male UT students began in 1913.
Military Institution: On March 9, 1844, in response to a petition from students for the adoption
of uniforms for the student body, the faculty recommended the adoption of “cadet mixed” and
“Kentucky jeans” as standard student dress, but did not require the wearing of the uniform. In
1860 President Ridley reorganized the military department and introduced a system of military
discipline. In 1860 and 1861, military instruction was given, under the leadership of Cadet John
McMillan Brooks, who left the institution to join the Confederate army. The institution closed
for the Civil War in 1862.
Following designation as Tennessee’s land-grant institution in 1869, which required the
university to offer courses in military science, the trustees instituted (1870) compulsory military
training for all students and instituted a system that gave the military commandant and his staff
full control of student conduct. Hunter Nicholson, professor of agriculture, gave instruction in
military tactics to satisfy the requirement of the Morrill Act until the work was assumed by
Colonel A. S. Mariner, who volunteered his services free of charge while he was on leave from
his regiment. Lieutenant Thomas T. Thornburg was the first officer assigned by the US Army,
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arriving in December 1872. The trustees also approved a uniform for the students, the wearing of
which was required at all times, beginning in 1873. In 1875 Lieutenant A. H. Nave, a West Point
alumnus, won faculty approval of a code of military regulations similar to that in use at West
Point. In 1889 President Dabney proposed that the military system of government and instruction
apply only to freshmen and sophomores. Endorsed by the faculty and most of the students, the
trustees approved the change. The new system of student government was instituted in 1890,
with the dean of the university, rather than the commandant, being in charge of student
discipline.
See also Brooks, John McMillan; Land-Grant Endowment Requirements; Military Instruction
Requirement; World War I—Radio Telegraphic Signaling Course; World War I—Students’
Army Training Corps, “A” Section; World War I—Students’ Army Training Corps, “B” Section;
World War II—Army Air Corps Training Program; World War II—Army Specialized Training
Program.
Military Instruction Requirement: From 1870 through 1889, all students (known as cadets)
were required to take military instruction. From 1889 to 1967, all male freshmen and
sophomores were required to take military instruction (after 1917, ROTC). In 1961 the Faculty
Senate took no action on a proposal to make the first two years of ROTC voluntary. In 1967 the
two-year compulsory requirement was eliminated, and all four years of ROTC became voluntary
effective in fall 1968.
See also Brooks, John McMillan; Land-Grant Endowment Requirements (Morrill Act of
1862); Military Institution; World War I—Radio Telegraphic Signaling Course; World War I—
Students’ Army Training Corps, “A” Section; World War I—Students’ Army Training Corps,
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“B” Section; World War II—Army Air Corps Training Program; World War II—Army
Specialized Training Program.
Miller, Charles Henderson (1906–1996): Professor Miller joined the faculty of the UT College
of Law in 1947 as professor of law and director of the Legal Clinic. He retired as director of the
Legal Clinic in 1975 and from the law faculty in 1976. He achieved a national reputation in
clinical education, having helped to found the first two legal aid clinics at Duke (1931) and the
University of Tennessee (1947). He also helped to establish similar clinics at four other major
universities. He wrote articles in professional journals on clinical education and also coauthored
a book (with William E. Cole), Social Problems: A Sociological Interpretation (1965). In 1976
he received the Society of American Law Teachers Award and in 1989 was honored by the Duke
Law Alumni Association with its Charles S. Murphy Award. His contributions to the intellectual
life of the university have been recognized by placement of a plaque in his honor on a faculty
study.
See also Library—Named Faculty Studies.
Millie (Cloned Jersey Cow): Millie (short for Millennium), the nation’s first cloned Jersey calf
and the nation’s first cloned animal using standard cell-culturing techniques, was born August
23, 2000, at 4:20 a.m. and died June 4, 2001, from the bacterial infection clostridium, a common
occurrence in sheep, but rare in cattle. Millie had been vaccinated against clostridium, but for
only two of the five known strains. At birth she was 32 inches long (crown to rump), 28 inches
tall (at hips) and weighed 62 pounds. Her birth confirmed that scientists do not have to use
patented cell preparation technology to clone adult animals.
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Teresa was the somatic (ovarian) cell donor and Miss UT 1848 was the surrogate mother.
Teresa was selected because of her excellent milk-producing record. Weighing 1,250 pounds,
she was the top-producing Jersey in her age group in Tennessee in 1999, yielding 30,382 pounds
of milk, at least 14,000 pounds of milk more than most Jerseys. Miss UT 1848 was an Angus
heifer. Of an original 95 cloned embryos, Millie was the only calf carried to full term.
Researchers cloned a second cow, Emma, in 2002, to research the genetic basis of mastitis
resistance among dairy cattle. Her name, in fact was an acronym for “experimental manipulation
for mastitis abatement.” In November 2002 UT announced the success of producing ten clones
of a Jersey cow—there were originally thirteen, but three failed to thrive.
Million Dollar Appropriation for UT: On March 15, 1917, President Ayres received a
telegram from Dr. H. A. Morgan, who was in Nashville lobbying for the bill authorizing $1
million in bonds for UT and additionally authorizing a revenue stream to UT to pay off the bonds
and provide operating dollars. The telegram said: “Senate voted bond bill 27 for, 4 against.”
By March 21, the bill had passed both houses and had been signed by Governor Rye, and a
daylong celebration was held, culminating in a large parade that wove through Knoxville. The
Orange and White published a special “Million Dollar Number” on April 17. The bill provided a
bond issue of $1 million, of which $100,000 was to be used to establish a Middle Tennessee
Experiment Station, $100,000 was to retire the existing debt of the institution, and $800,000 was
for institutional facilities in Knoxville and Memphis. (Ayres and Morgan were built, and an
addition was made to Estabrook.)
The bonds were offered several times during the summer of 1917, with no takers because of
the many war bonds offered for sale and especially the Liberty Loan bonds. In September 1917
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the bonds were finally sold at par to a consortium of Tennessee bankers, largely through the
work of I. P. Tigrett of Jackson, a UT trustee. The bond bill also provided a revenue stream for
retiring the bonds by providing a one-half mill tax on all taxable property in the state that was to
furnish UT an income of $336,000 (approximately) a year. From the annual revenue, a “sinking
fund” for repayment of the bonds was required to be set aside, and experiment stations in Middle
and West Tennessee had to be maintained. After the obligations were met, projections were that
UT would receive from $200,000 to $225,000 a year.
The passage of the act was a concerted effort of the Alumni Association, and lobbying was led
by Dr. H. A. Morgan. In 1929, for the first time, the general assembly appropriation for operation
and maintenance of the institution exceeded $1 million. (In 1931 the appropriation fell to
$450,000.)
Millner, F. Ann: UT graduate (BS in education) F. Ann Millner became the 11th president of
Weber State University (Utah) in 2002—the first woman to head the institution. In addition to
the UT bachelor’s degree, she earned the MS in allied health education and management from
Southwest Texas State University and the EdD in educational administration from Brigham
Young University. Millner then worked in a variety of positions at educational institutions: she
was education coordinator of the medical technology program at Vanderbilt University,
instructional developer in medical technology at Thomas Jefferson University, a lecturer at the
School of Health Professions at Southwest Texas State University, and associate director of
continuing education at the Edmonds Campus of Gwynedd Mercy College. Millner joined
Weber State in 1982, serving as an associate dean of continuing education, assistant vice
president for community partnerships, director of outreach education in the School of Allied
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Health Sciences, and vice president for university relations in 1993.
Milton, Ohmer: Dr. Emmitt Ohmer Milton joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology
in 1946, and in 1965 he became the founding director of the Learning Research Center, a
position he held until his retirement in 1983. He achieved a reputation on campus as an unusually
creative teacher of psychology, and he gained international recognition for his investigations into
college teaching and learning. His interests in testing and grading are reflected in publications
such as Will That Be on the Final? (1982) and Making Sense of College Grades (1986),
coauthored with Howard Pollio and James Eison. He also authored many scholarly articles in
professional journals.
In 1974 he received a Distinguished Contribution to Education in Psychology Award from the
American Psychological Association. His contributions to the intellectual life of the university
have been recognized by placement of a plaque in his honor on a faculty study.
See also Library—Named Faculty Studies.
Milton M. Klein History Studies Endowment: In 1993 Margaret Klein, wife of history
professor Milton M. Klein, established the Milton M. Klein History Studies Endowment to honor
him and his work. In early 2000, when Dr. Susan Stussy died at age 54 of breast cancer, Klein
learned that she had made a generous gift to the endowment, allowing extension of the lecture
series and making possible a nonservice fellowship for graduate study (established in 2002).
Stussy had taken four classes with Klein while working toward her PhD, which she earned in
1983, and had stayed in contact with him as she held library positions at several colleges, earned
a doctor of jurisprudence degree (1994), and established a practice in Kansas City representing,
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for the most part, poor families of the area.
See also Klein, Milton M.
Min, Nancy-Ann Elizabeth [DeParle]: Rhodes Scholar Nancy-Ann Min earned the BA degree
(College Scholar, with a major in history) in 1978, with a perfect 4.0 average. She was elected to
Phi Beta Kappa and was named a Phi Kappa Phi scholar.
She was elected president of the Student Government Association, the first woman to hold that
office, running on the “Ready” ticket and incorporating a platform that, among other things,
opposed a rate increase in UT’s Centrex telephone system; called for distributing athletic tickets
in a manner that offered the best tickets first-come, first-served; favored eliminating the 50
percent increase added to parking tickets if not paid or appealed within five days; and stressed
students’ right to petition for a referendum on EXPO ’82 (1982 World’s Fair). She was the
recipient of numerous awards, among which were Chancellor’s Citation for Extraordinary
Campus Leadership and Service, Outstanding Greek Woman award, Outstanding Greek Scholar
award, Pi Kappa Phi scholarship, and Torchbearer. She was selected by Glamour magazine as
one of its Top Ten College Women for 1978 and was chosen the 1977–78 Omicron Delta Kappa
national Leader of the Year.
She was selected as a Rhodes Scholar and studied at Oxford’s Balliol College, where she
studied philosophy, politics, and economics and earned the BA in 1981 and an MA in 1986. She
received the JD degree from Harvard in 1983. She served as a law clerk to Judge Gilbert E.
Merritt of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth District and then joined the Nashville law firm
of Bass, Berry, and Sims. She served as commissioner for human services from 1987 to 1989,
and then returned to Bass, Berry, and Sims. She served as treasurer of Governor Ned Ray
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McWherter’s 1990 reelection campaign.
In 1991 she moved to Washington, DC and joined the law firm of Covington & Burling. Two
years later she joined President Bill Clinton’s administration as associate director of the White
House Office of Management and Budget for health and personnel. In 1997 she was appointed
deputy director of the health care financing administration by Health and Human Services
Secretary Donna Shalala. The same year she was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed
by the Senate as administrator of the agency. She left in 2001, taking a temporary post at the
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She then took a post as senior advisor, JP Morgan
Partners, in Washington together with an appointment as adjunct professor of health care
management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In March 2009 President
Barack Obama appointed her to serve as director of the White House Office for Health Reform.
She received a Distinguished Alumna Award in 2010.
Min H. Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building: In August 2004 Dr.
Min H. Kao entered into a memorandum of understanding with the university that a 150,000square-foot building costing no more than $250 per square foot would be built and exclusively
used by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with Kao contributing the
lesser of $12.5 million or one-third of the cost of the building. The State of Tennessee
contributed $25 million toward the building’s construction. Ground was broken on May 14,
2007, under a tent in the courtyard between Perkins and Ferris Halls. The Kaos and several
members of the Garmin administrative team joined UT and College of Engineering
administrators and faculty and local political and civic dignitaries at the event.
On July 1, 2007, the Department of Computer Science, which had been a part of the College of
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Arts and Sciences, was merged into the Department of Electrical Engineering, and the building
became the home of the combined departments. The board of trustees officially named the
building for Kao at its October 2008 meeting. Architects for the $41.6 million project were
Knoxville firms Bullock Smith and Partners and Lindsay and Maples.
The six-story building features a soaring atrium and a spacious deck with a view of downtown
Knoxville. It has over 94,000 square feet of academic space, including 10 classrooms and 13
laboratories. The building was placed into service for the spring semester 2012 and dedicated on
March 14, 2012. Kao and his wife, Fan, attended, as did Governor Bill Haslam.
See also Kao, Min H.
Min H. Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building—2013 Death: Roy
Caughron, a 54-year-old Facilities Services employee, died in the Min Kao Building January 11,
2013, from an apparent heart attack.
Minerva Medal: Egyptologist Prince Boris de Rachewiltz, (Boris Baratti) founder and president
of the Ludwig Keimer Foundation for Comparative Research in Archaeology and Ethnology,
lectured on campus in May 1972 on “Siglimassa: The Gold Capital of the Desert.” While on
campus, he presented a solid gold medal, the Minerva Medal from the Keimer Foundation, to
Chancellor Archie Dykes for excellence in academic leadership. Baratti was the son-in-law of
Ezra Pound.
Minister of Defense: See White, Reggie.
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Mini-Term: Mini-Term classes made their debut at UT in 1978, under the aegis of the Division
of Continuing Education. The Mini-Term, scheduled between fall and winter quarters, lasted two
weeks and provided an opportunity to earn up to five credit hours, but students could take only
one course. Classes were offered by 40 departments and were taught by senior faculty members.
In 1979 a session immediately before the fall quarter was added, which was less popular than the
one following the fall term. In the early 2000s, the program was modified to provide a single
three-week mini-term between the spring and summer semesters, in which a student could enroll
for one concentrated credit course.
Minnie Doty Goddard Professorship: In 1991 Barbara Goddard Johnstone notified UT that in
carrying out her estate planning, she had decided to leave a portion of her estate to endow a
professorship to be named for her mother, Minnie Doty Goddard. The well-known M. D.
Goddard who began publishing the Dandridge Banner in 1928 and bought out the Jefferson
County Standard was Minnie Doty Goddard, who founded the weekly Dandridge paper with an
inheritance of $500 when her father died. She published the two papers, including writing the
copy, operating the linotype, and doing all the rest of the hard work of getting a newspaper to the
street until her death of leukemia in 1940 at the age of 57. Her four children are all UT graduates,
and, at the time of her death, she was one course away from achieving a lifetime goal of a
college degree.
Minor Sports Program: In 1934 an intercollegiate minor sports program for men was organized
by the Athletics Department. The program included tennis and swimming and initiated golf,
boxing, wrestling, and cross-country.
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Miss Preppy UT: Building on the popularity of the Official Preppy Handbook (1980, Workman
Publishing) the Kappa Alpha Fraternity held a Miss Preppy UT contest in February 1983, held at
The Place on Cumberland Avenue. Of the 15 sororities invited to participate, 11 sent entries. Part
of the contest involved responses by the contestants to questions from the Preppy Handbook.
Miss Phi Mu, Joy Linderman, was named Miss Preppy UT, with Alpha Delta Pi’s Mollie Pitts
coming in second and Tricia Pritchard of Alpha Chi Omega taking third place. The winner
received a case of Miller Lite beer and gift certificates. Proceeds from the event, some $1,200,
were donated to the KA’s philanthropy, muscular dystrophy.
See also Kappa Alpha Fraternity.
Miss Private Secretary: The 1939 third annual Commerce Ball, sponsored by the School of
Business Administration and Delta Sigma Pi, featured the election of Miss Private Secretary by
the voting of attendees from among four nominees. Alice Cox, newly elected president of AOPi
sorority, was chosen.
See also Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority; Delta Sigma Pi.
Miss Tennessee: The Miss Tennessee award, begun in fall 1930, was traditionally the most
coveted popularity award for female students. Each year, the student body voted for the senior
woman considered the most outstanding and representative person in regard to scholarship,
leadership, and service to the university. In 1943 Miss Tennessee was announced during the
intermission of the annual Beauty Ball. In 1957, as a protest to the way in which student politics
operated, the Gung-Ho Party offered its candidate, Deborah Bovine, as a write-in selection. The
cow, with voluptuous measurements of 50 inches by 73 inches by 60 inches was said to be
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majoring in animal husbandry and to be a member of Tri Moo sorority. Deborah’s votes were
voided, leaving Sigma Kappa’s Jo Haynes of Sweetwater as the only legitimate candidate. As
part of its 1964 approval of Circle K’s request to hold a Miss UT Pageant, the winner of which
would compete in the Miss America Pageant, the Student Faculty Organizations Board required
that the SGA stop the annual senior class vote for Miss Tennessee.
See also Miss UT Pageant.
Miss UT Pageant: In February 1964 the Student Faculty Organizations Board approved Circle
K’s request to mount a Miss UT Pageant, the winner of which would compete in the Miss
America contest, requiring that the annual senior class vote for Miss Tennessee be halted. The
permission was for the pageant to begin in 1965.
In 1965 the Circle K organization and the Volunteer, in cooperation with the Miss Tennessee
and the Miss America contests, began sponsoring the Miss UT competition. The winner of the
Miss UT title represented the university in the Miss Tennessee Pageant held annually at the time
in Jackson, Tennessee. Participation was open to any enrolled female student, and the contestants
were judged on the basis of beauty, talent, and poise. Judy Barton, head majorette, was chosen
by the panel of out-of-town judges as the first winner of the pageant. The SGA became a
cosponsor in 1968, opening pageant committee positions to the full student body. In 1969 a
symbolic burning of a padded bra concluded a small demonstration by the Women’s Liberation
Front of UT against the pageant, which its members considered a “degradation of American
womanhood.” A dozen protesters handed out leaflets opposing the pageant to arrivals at the
event. The pageant was discontinued but was revived in 2009, when head majorette Adria Farr
was crowned Miss UT Knoxville.
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Mobile Escort Service—“Blinky Van”: The UT Police Department implemented a mobile
escort service on October 26, 1981, in addition to its existing program of escorting students on
foot. The vehicle was originally stationed at the Presidential Complex with a student policeman
who was on call to transport students to and from their destinations. The van had a blinking light
on its roof and was generally called the “blinky van.”
Mobile Radiological Laboratory: In 1950 Dr. Robert D. Birkhoff of the UT Physics
Department, along with Dr. Karl Z. Morgan of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and officials
from the Tennessee adjutant general civil defense administration, completed work on the
nation’s first mobile, cross-country laboratory for testing radiation hazards in the air and water of
areas crippled by atomic attack. In 1951, set up in a bus donated by Memphis Street Railway, the
lab toured Tennessee for training. In the event of an atomic attack, the plan was that the lab
would rush to the stricken area, picking up laboratory workers on the way, and then radio
damage and radiation reports to area civil defense headquarters.
Mock Wedding: The Gay and Straight Political Network and Lambda Student Union first
commemorated National Freedom to Marry Day with a same-sex wedding ceremony in 1999 to
draw attention to legal and economic protections denied to homosexual and lesbian couples by
forbidding their marriage.
Modern Political Archives: The UT Libraries and the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public
Policy signed a memorandum of understanding in April 2005 that created the Modern Political
Archives. Several groups of political papers currently held by the UT Libraries formed the core
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collection, including the papers of Senators Howard H. Baker Jr., William Emerson Brock III,
Cary Estes Kefauver, and Fred Dalton Thompson; those of United States Congressmen John J.
Duncan Sr. and Howard H. Baker Sr. and Congresswoman Irene Baker; gubernatorial papers of
Winfield Dunn and Donald Sundquist; and the papers of Tennessee State Senator Ben Atchley.
Staff would continue to seek papers of twentieth- and twenty-first century Tennessee political
leaders for the archives, located in the Baker Center. The Baker Center managed the archives
until the reorganization of the center, when full management and responsibility for them returned
to the UT Libraries.
See also Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy.
Moffitt, Phillip: Phillip Moffitt, a native of Kingsport, earned the bachelor’s degree in political
science and psychology in 1968 and the master’s in economics in 1971. He was Student
Government Association president in 1967–68 (winning by 33 votes) and was a 1968
Torchbearer. He served as assistant dean of students in 1969–70. He was among the founders of
13-30 Corporation (later Whittle Communications), which purchased the failing Esquire
magazine in 1979. Moffitt became editor in chief of Esquire, a post he continued to hold after
Whittle Communications split.
When Moffitt sold the magazine to the Hearst Company in 1987, its circulation stood at a
respectable 750,000, and its two strongest markets were New York and Los Angeles. In 1987 he
resigned his position at Esquire without a plan, and, as he says, “waited for a purpose” to
manifest itself. In 1983 he had begun studying Vipassana meditation, and following his departure
from Esquire, he began teaching Hatha yoga and meditation. He founded the Life Balance
Institute, which is a “non-profit organization dedicated to the study and practice of spiritual
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values in daily life.” Moffitt teaches from the principles of Theravada Buddhism, in which he is a
lay teacher. He teaches Vipassana meditation at retreats around the United States.
He holds the black belt in Aikido, certification as a somatic educator, and has for 30 years
practiced and taught Hatha yoga. He is an award-winning essayist and writes the “Dharma
Wisdom” column for Yoga Journal. In 1990 he coauthored The Power to Heal, and in 1992 he
coauthored Medicine’s Great Journey: One Hundred Years of Healing. In 2008 he published
Dancing with Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering. He
spoke and signed copies of his new book on campus in November 2008, at which time he was
also honored as an “accomplished alumnus” by the UT Alumni Association.
See also Accomplished Alumni Program; Moffitt, Phillip—Moffitt Economics Scholar.
Moffitt, Phillip—Moffitt Economics Scholar: In 1986 UT alumnus and controlling owner of
Esquire Phillip Moffitt established an endowment of $100,000 to provide a salary supplement to
a UT professor with exceptional ability to “articulate economic theory to people outside the
field.” Dr. George A. “Tony” Spiva was the first recipient. Spiva had provided guidance and
assistance to Moffitt and the other founders of 13-30 Corporation (later Whittle
Communications) during its formative years.
See also Moffitt, Phillip.
Molinski, Ed (1917–1986): Ed Molinski played guard for Tennessee from 1938 to 1940 and was
an All SEC consensus All-American in 1939 and was chosen first team All-America by The
Sporting News in 1940. He served in the Marines in World War II and then as an assistant
football coach at Memphis State and Mississippi State while working on his MD degree at UT
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Memphis. He practiced in Memphis and served as team doctor for the Mississippi State and
Memphis State football teams. At UT he was also captain of the boxing team, and Tennessee
state heavyweight champion in Golden Gloves. He was inducted into the College Football Hall
of Fame in 1990.
Monday Morning Quarterback: In 1946 the UT General Alumni Association began publication
of a sports “extra,” the Monday Morning Quarterback, which was mailed to members of the
Alumni Association. This popular newsletter contained a brief account of the previous
Saturday’s football game, the popular Dyer-Gram of the game published on Sundays in the
Knoxville News-Sentinel drawn by talented cartoonist Bill Dyer, cartoons by John “Brick”
Bricetto, and messages of interest to alumni. By the mid-1950s, seven thousand copies were
being mailed following each football game.
Money Wall: From 1982 until spring 2012, one of the most visited spots on campus was the
Money Wall, a collection of ATM machines located on the outside wall of the university center
parking garage. The first ATM was installed in this location in 1982, with the bank paying the
cost of installation and a monthly payment to the university of $100. First Tennessee Bank
installed an ATM in Presidential Courtyard in 1992. ATMs were installed at Greve Hall and on
the agricultural campus by the UT Federal Credit Union in 1995. In spring 2012 the parking
garage adjacent to the university center was razed to allow construction of phase I of the new
$160 million student union, and the ATMs were removed. Three ATMs—those of SunTrust,
Bank of America, and First Tennessee—were placed in the airlock area of the university center
at the Phillip Fulmer Way entrance during the construction, but ATMs, viewed by the new
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student union planning group as being of diminishing use to students who primarily used debit
cards for purchases, were not planned for the new student union building.
[Michael Steiner contributed.]
Moneymaker, Chris: See World Series of Poker Winner.
Monocle, The: The Carolyn P. Brown Memorial University Center began publication of a
newspaper calendar to inform students of all campus events of interest on November 26, 1962.
Monthly Fee Payment Plan: As a pilot project for the 1983–84 academic year and as a regular
program for 1984–85, the Bursar’s Office offered a monthly payment program for tuition, fees,
room, and board. Approximately 40 students participated in the pilot project in 1983–84. The
total due was divided into 10 payments, with the first payment being due in June. The state
legislature passed a requirement for fall 1984 that all state colleges and universities were
required to allow payment of room and board charges by the month. That plan included a service
charge, a deposit, and late payment fees, making it less attractive than the UT plan.
Moon Rocks: Some one hundred moon rocks from the various NASA missions owned by
NASA and loaned to 120 scientists to study through the Lunar Sample Analysis Program came
to UT in 1974 for study by Earth and Planetary Sciences Professor Lawrence Taylor. An
auctioneer in Paris offered to pay $100 million per gram for any authenticated moon rock in
1974, and UT’s one hundred samples weighed 750 grams. The rocks were placed in the Earth
and Planetary Sciences Building under tight security. UT obtained an automated electron
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microprobe for study of the rocks, joining Stanford, California Institute of Technology, and MIT
in having such an instrument. In 1977, through a cooperative agreement between NASA and the
Soviet Union’s Academy of Sciences, Taylor also received a sample of moon rocks collected by
the unmanned Soviet Luna 24 mission of 1976.
Mooney, George (1920–2011): Patrick George Mooney served as the “Voice of the Vols” from
1952 to 1967 and in 1962 started the Vol Navy when he brought his little white runabout
motorboat to campus, tied it to a tree, and walked over the rocks and through long grass to access
the stadium on game days.
Mooney was a graduate of Washington State University. He began his broadcasting career at
Washington State and was the voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks, Memphis State basketball, and
Memphis Chicks baseball before being asked by General Neyland to take over the post as Voice
of the Vols, which Lindsey Nelson was vacating. In 2010 he became the 11th winner of the
Lindsey Nelson Broadcasting Award, presented by the Knoxville Quarterback Club. On three
occasions during his run as Voice of the Vols, he was selected as Tennessee’s Most Outstanding
Broadcaster by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. He was an honorary
member of the UT Letterman’s Club. In 1958 he took over the helm of WKGN radio in
Knoxville and grew it into Mooney Broadcasting Company, which had stations throughout the
southeast and Puerto Rico.
See also Vol Navy.
Moore, Charles: Charles Moore, a 150-pound right guard on Tennessee’s inaugural 1891
football team, selected the school colors of orange and white in 1889 when he was president of
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the university’s Athletic Association.
See also Daisy.
Moore, Grace (1898–1947): Born in Cocke County (in Slabtown) and christened Mary Willie
Grace Moore, Grace Moore spent her youth in Jellico. She attended Ward-Belmont College
briefly and then continued her musical training in Washington and New York. A soprano who
became known as the “Tennessee Nightingale,” she made her Broadway debut in 1920 in the
musical Hitchy Koo, by Jerome Kern. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Mimi in La
Boheme in 1928. She made her cinema debut in A Lady’s Morals (based on the life of Jenny
Lind) in 1930 and achieved international fame with One Night of Love (1934). She was married
to Spanish screen actor Valentin Parera. She sang for 16 seasons with the Metropolitan Opera.
In 1937 she gave a concert at UT, in Alumni Memorial Building, which was the initiating
concert of the University Concerts series. Although not a UT alumna, her brothers Jim, Dick, and
Martin were alumni, and she was entertained by their fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta, when she was
on campus for her concert. Then at the height of her musical career, she packed the auditorium
and even added the “Alma Mater” (at the request of the All Students Club and the YMCA) as the
next-to-last number on the program.
She was killed in an airplane crash leaving Copenhagen on January 26, 1947, after singing for
American troops. The 1947 All Sing Finale was dedicated to her. She left her scores, books,
letters, and personal memorabilia to Ward-Belmont. Her parents gave UT over four hundred
items of personal effects acquired by Moore during her career, and the Grace Moore Gallery in
the Audigier Gallery was opened by UT President C. E. Brehm in March 1949. The collection
was subsequently divided between the McClung Museum and UT Libraries’ Special Collections,
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with substantial parts of the museum’s collection later being placed on permanent loan with the
Tennessee State Museum.
The movie So This is Love, the story of Moore’s life, starred Kathryn Grayson in the role of
Grace Moore. The movie had its world premiere in Knoxville at the Tennessee Theatre (although
it had been released two weeks earlier), which was a benefit for the Grace Moore Scholarship
Fund. The event involved not only the showing of the film, but a three-day series of events and
dedications. Knoxville named its first highway cloverleaf for her, and UT named a set of steps
leading into Alumni Memorial Building for her. The first four Grace Moore scholars were in
attendance and were introduced on stage. In 1976 Moore received national bicentennial-year
recognition as an Outstanding Tennessee Musician. She was honored by the dedication of a
commemorative plaque in the UT Music Building Auditorium lobby as part of the Bicentennial
Parade of American Music.
See also All Sing; Grace Moore Scholarship; Music Building—Natalie L. Haslam Music
Center; University Concerts Inc.
Moot Court: In January 1883 the Philomathesian Literary Society initiated, as part of its society
activity, a moot court association. Although its purpose was largely entertainment rather than
legal training, it is the forerunner of the moot court activities that are an integral part of the
College of Law. Moot court competitions began soon after the establishment of the Law School
in 1890 and were augmented from 1897 to 1911 by the Robert J. McKinney Law Debating
Society.
See also Moot Court National Championships.
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Moot Court National Championships: In 1993 UT won its first national Prince Evidence Moot
Court Competition. In 2000 and 2001, teams from the UT Law School won back-to-back
national championships in the competition. In 2010 third-year law student John Lee and secondyear law student Stephen Adams constituted the UT Moot Court team that won the 2010 Giles
Sutherland Rich Moot Court National Championship, the 37th year of the competition hosted by
the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
Morgan, Harcourt: (1867–1950): The 13th president of the university (1919–34), John
Harcourt Alexander Morgan was born in Strathroy, Ontario, Canada, and was a Canadian citizen
when he assumed the presidency of the university, a violation of a 1919 Tennessee law
prohibiting schools from hiring teachers who were not US citizens. He held the bachelor’s
degree from Ontario Agricultural College (1889) and studied briefly at Cornell in 1892 and
1898. He came to the university in 1904 from Louisiana State University, where he was a
professor of entomology and zoology in the Agricultural College and director of the Gulf
Biological Station (1900–1905).
He was made Tennessee’s state entomologist in 1905. He was president of the Association of
Economic Entomology in 1907. In 1913 he was offered, and declined, the presidencies of the
University of Virginia and the University of Maryland. He served UT as director of the
Experiment Station, state entomologist, and dean of the college, and was sworn into office as
president of UT on July 10, 1919. He coined the phrase and advocated strongly for the concept
that “the State Is the Campus of The University of Tennessee” and encouraged the state to utilize
the research capabilities of faculty at the university for the benefit of state government. Morgan
became well known for his philosophy “The Common Mooring,” by which he meant mankind’s
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relationship to the environment and the responsibility to improve and conserve it. In 1927 he
served as president of the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities.
In 1933 he was appointed to the board of directors of TVA (over strong objections
communicated to Washington by former faculty member John R. Neal, who had been fired by
Morgan 10 years earlier). He resigned the presidency of the university in August 1934. He
continued as a TVA director, serving as chairman of the board from 1938 to 1941 and retiring
from the board in 1948. The Progressive Farmer named him Man of the Year in 1940.
For approximately 25 years, he and Thomas McCrosky Sr. operated a 700-acre farm near what
is now McGhee Tyson Airport. The farm, MacMor, was noted for its beef cattle. For many years
he was a member of Church Street Methodist Church and taught a Sunday school class there. In
the church’s first bay on the south in the sanctuary is the “Morgan Memorial” of stained-glass
windows, with the figures of St. Luke and St. John and of the sower and the reaper. The
dedicatory inscription reads: “The windows of this Bay Commemorate the Common Mooring /
Concept of Doctor Harcourt A. Morgan / Churchman, Teacher, Spiritual Engineer.”
See also Agriculture Hall of Fame; Morgan Hall.
Morgan, Jennie Burks (1888–1941): Jennie Burks attended the university and also Lincoln
Memorial University. From 1910 to 1914, she served as superintendent of the Claiborne County
Schools and is believed to be the first woman elected superintendent of a Tennessee county
school system. She was the first female president of the East Tennessee Education Association,
and in 1914 she addressed the National Education Association at its convention in Detroit. She
moved to Knoxville in 1917 and taught history at Knoxville High School and was principal of
West View Elementary School. She was a field representative of the US Office of Education and
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helped to organize Junior Red Cross chapters in schools and the War Garden Army in the South.
About 1922 she helped to raise an endowment of $1 million for Lincoln Memorial University
and succeeded in getting a liberal donation from US President Calvin Coolidge. She married
Wiley L. Morgan in 1923.
See also Morgan, Wiley L.
Morgan, Lucy Shields (1900–1994): Lucy Shields Morgan, daughter of UT President Harcourt
Morgan, received the BA in biology from UT in 1922 (while her father was UT president) and
the MS in biology in 1932. She received an MA from Columbia University in 1929 and the PhD
from Yale in 1938. She began a program in community health in Hartford, Connecticut, which
became a model for others throughout the country. In her pioneering efforts, African Americans
were included as active participants in the administration of the program.
In 1941 Morgan joined the Public Health Service. In 1942 she went to the University of North
Carolina School of Public Health and by 1943 had developed a curriculum for the nation’s first
Department of Health Education, in which 25 master’s students were enrolled. Morgan traveled
extensively as a consultant on health projects for the World Health Organization to Asia, Africa,
South America, Australia, and New Zealand. She was a member of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
Among her many awards are the Elizabeth Severance Prentiss National Award in Health
Education (1955) and the William B. Rankin Award of the North Carolina Public Health
Association (1969). She was awarded the honorary ScD by the University of North Carolina in
1976, and in 1987 the University of North Carolina created the Lucy Morgan Fellowship Award.
Lucy Shields Morgan has been inducted into the UT Knoxville Alumni Academic Hall of Fame.
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See also Alumni Academic Hall of Fame.
Morgan, Wiley L. (1874–1960): Wiley Morgan graduated from the university in 1894, but his
use of a “clatter machine” almost prevented the granting of his degree. Members of the faculty,
who said it had been “rattled off on one of those printing machines,” questioned his typewritten
senior thesis, “Heating and Ventilation.” Dr. Charles Wait, however, championed his cause and
the thesis was accepted. His use of the clatter machine at his first job on the Knoxville Sentinel
(1894) caused dissent among the printers, but his copy was accepted. He later became managing
editor and then vice president and general manager of the Knoxville Sentinel.
Morgan Hall: On November 1, 1919, the cornerstone was laid for the new Agricultural
Building, which would be named Morgan Hall for President Harcourt Morgan in 1937. Into the
cornerstone were placed the register of the university, a copy of the student newspaper, a copy of
the UT Farmer, a list of the members of the East Tennessee Farmers’ Convention, pictures of Dr.
Brown Ayres and Mr. Harcourt Morgan, pictures of the Club House and other buildings
(including the UT Cooperative Creamery) previously on the site, a copy of the appropriation bill
that funded the building, a list of officers and members of the Ag Club, and a history of the
trowel used by President Morgan’s son to lay the first stone.
The building, which cost approximately $265,000, was dedicated on June 7, 1921, with the
principal speaker being Dr. W. O. Thompson, president of Ohio State University. It is a leitmotif
of Ayres Hall, having the same general academic gothic overall design, and was built at the same
time. An attempt had been made to name the building for President Morgan while it was being
constructed, but Morgan declined, calling such honors “dead ones.” It was named for him on
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November 13, 1937.
In January 1948 the Hill-O-Grams (newsletter of the General Alumni Association for
contributors to the 1948 Alumni Fund) announced that living memorials to those who died in
World War II or to other individuals would be planted in a new project to place oak trees along
Alcoa Highway in front of Morgan Hall.
See also Morgan, Harcourt.
Morelock, Horace Wilson (1873–1966): Horace Morelock is best known for his work in
making the mountain country of Texas into the Big Bend National Park, the subject of his book,
Big Bend Panorama (ca 1953). A UT graduate (1902), he was also Knoxville General Hospital’s
first typhoid fever patient. Due to graduate from UT with honors in four days, he attended a
street carnival held by Knoxville businessmen as a fund-raiser for the hospital and contracted
typhoid fever. After graduation (and recovery) he taught at Charleston Academy (Polk County),
at Tusculum College, and in Harriman.
In 1904 he became superintendent of schools in Kerrville, Texas. In 1910 he was named
chairman of the English Department at West Texas State Normal College (now West Texas State
University). In 1917 he entered Harvard University, where he became an Austin scholar and
earned the MA degree. He returned to West Texas State and was appointed president of Sul Ross
College in Abilene, Texas, a position he held until 1945. His works include A Handbook for
English Teachers (1914), Big Bend Panorama, and Mountains of the Mind (1956). He received
an honorary LLD degree from Trinity University in San Antonio.
Morrill Act: US Senator Justin S. Morrill (1810–1898), a native of Vermont, member of the US
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House of Representatives for 12 years and the US Senate for 32 years, introduced legislation in
1857 providing for grants of public land to endow at least one college in each state in which the
“leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including
military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic
arts . . . in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the
several pursuits and professions in life.” President James Buchanan vetoed the bill on grounds
that education was a pursuit left to the states, but it was reintroduced during the Civil War.
President Lincoln signed the act into law on July 2, 1862.
See also Land-Grant Endowment (Morrill Act of 1862); Land-Grant Endowment
Requirements (Morrill Act of 1862); Maynard, Horace; Negro Cadets.
Morrill Hall (First of This Name): The first building named Morrill Hall in honor of Senator
Justin Morrill was the Agricultural Hall built in 1880 at a cost of $3,278.10. It replaced the White
House, named for Moses White, in which the Preparatory Department had had a long tenure. The
new building contained the classrooms and laboratories of the agriculture program, and an
agricultural museum (with models of farm implements and machinery, specimens of farm
products, and samples of Tennessee soils and fertilizers). The building was a two-story brick
structure.
The building was enlarged in 1888 (at a cost of $6,800), and President Dabney moved the
president’s office from South College to Morrill Hall in 1889. The structure was renamed
Carrick Hall in 1908, when the new Agricultural Building was built on the Hill. The building,
then Carrick Hall, burned in 1942, at which time it was being used by the College of
Engineering. The building, as well as the garden, vineyard, and orchard were on the south of
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Science Hall, on the Hill.
See also Agricultural Hall; Carrick Hall; Morrill Act; Morrill Residence Hall.
Morrill Hall (Second of This Name): The second university building to be known as Morrill
Hall was dedicated on May 28, 1908, and housed not only the Agricultural College headquarters
but also botany, zoology, and entomology. This building, four stories high (with a basement),
160 feet wide and 60 feet deep, was located on the Hill where Hesler Biology Building now
stands. It was the second building to be built with funds appropriated by the Tennessee
legislature. (The 1906 addition to Estabrook was the first.) It was designed by Charles Ferris, an
engineering faculty member who later became dean of the College of Engineering.
When the agricultural departments moved to the agricultural campus in 1921, with the
completion of Morgan Hall, Morrill Hall was used by zoology, botany, bacteriology, and
entomology. The basement was devoted to work in veterinary science and dairying. The building
burned January 18, 1934, resulting in the loss of the 30,000-specimen herbarium; Dr. H. M.
Jennison’s collection of specimens and data on mosses, ferns, and flowering plants of the Great
Smoky Mountains; a manuscript of a technical paper with illustrations of mushrooms
representing five years’ work by Dr. L. R. Hesler; a checklist of Tennessee ferns and flowering
plants of 1929 that had been revised for publication and of which no other copy existed; other
professors’ papers; the offices, records and specimens of the Tennessee State Entomologist and
Plant Pathologist (G. M. Bentley) and the Tennessee State Horticulturist (E. M. Prather); a PhD
dissertation virtually completed; Professor Margaret Shipe’s two pet goldfish; a family of pinknosed guinea pigs; the family pet bird dog (Spot) of Dr. Graeme Canning (parasitologist); a
master’s thesis; microscopes; other student projects; and various equipment and specimens. A
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Gila monster owned by the Biology Department survived as firemen unknowingly showered it
with water while extinguishing the fire. A chemical explosion was believed responsible for the
fire.
See also Agricultural Hall; Hesler Biology Building; Morrill Act; Morrill Residence Hall.
Morrill Residence Hall: The name for the new 15-story dormitory under construction was
announced to be Morrill Hall in August 1967. As in the case of presidents of the university
memorialized by the residence halls of the Presidential Court, Justin Morrill, who introduced the
congressional bill establishing land-grant universities, had been previously honored—in his case
by the naming of two buildings for him. Morrill Residence Hall was built by a private developer,
Walker Graham of Memphis (who also built the Golf Range Apartments) and was then
purchased by the university. As part of the land deal, Graham gave UT the acreage on Neyland
Drive that was used for the Faculty (later University) Club and is now the UT Welcome Center,
reserving a long-term lease on one and one-half acres with Kingston Pike frontage.
Morrill Hall cost $3.7 million and was the first coed dormitory on campus. Students moved in
for fall quarter 1968, and before the November 2 dedication, the residence hall had obtained a
special place in the area of student antics. In late September, 50 to 75 men from the Presidential
Complex staged a panty raid on Morrill Hall and were very surprised when they were rewarded
with both men’s and women’s undergarments—apparently, the Carrick and Reese raiders were
not aware that the first eight floors of Morrill were for men and the top six were for women.
See also Agricultural Hall; Golf Range Apartments; Morrill Act; Morrill Hall.
Morrill Residence Hall—Elevator Death: Morrill Hall resident Dennis Robinson was killed in
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an elevator accident in the residence hall on March 14, 1976. Robinson was killed when he
apparently pried open the doors of the stopped elevator and attempted to jump through the open
doors to the floor below. He fell about 60 feet down the shaft. Robinson’s mother, Margaret
Robinson, brought a $2 million lawsuit against two elevator companies—Dover Corporation and
GAL Manufacturing—and UT. The university settled out of court, and a jury decided in favor of
the elevator companies at the trial.
Morrill Residence Hall—Student Death: Katherine Briana “Breezy” Bilbrey, a freshman in
chemical engineering with plans to go to medical school, died April 26, 2010, of medical reasons
overnight in her room in Morrill Hall. Characterized by her friends as optimistic and energetic,
as able to keep a secret, and as a person about whom no one would say an unkind word, she had
a history of epilepsy.
Morse, Henry F: Henry Morse served as campus planner for the University of Tennessee
system from 1964 to 1985, during the period of greatest physical growth of the Knoxville
campus. He and Malcolm Rice, the university architect, designed the campus west of Volunteer
Boulevard when the urban renewal act allowed the acquisition of land by UT. Morse was
proudly the first person to move into an office in the Andy Holt Tower.
Morse was a native of Columbia, South Carolina. He received the BS and MS from the
University of South Carolina and an MS from Georgia Tech. Prior to coming to UT, he was chief
area planner and director for the East Tennessee Office of the Tennessee State Planning
Commission. In 1981 he was named Planner of the Year by the local chapter of the American
Institute of Planners. The UT Board of Trustees named the recreational area near the student
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aquatic center the Henry Morse Recreational Area.
See also Henry F. Morse Recreational Area.
Mortar Board: Mortar Board is a campus-wide honor society that recognizes college seniors for
their achievements in scholarship, leadership, and service. It additionally seeks to create
opportunities for continued leadership development and to promote service and to encourage
lifelong contributions to the global community. Membership is offered to second-semester
juniors in the top 35 percent of their class who have made exceptional contributions to
leadership, scholarship, and service. The organization was founded in 1918 by combining four
local senior women’s honor societies—societies at Swarthmore, Ohio State, the University of
Michigan, and Cornell as the first national organization honoring college women.
The UT chapter (Pi Sigma Alpha) dates from November 1937 when Cap and Gown, a UT
senior women’s honorary society founded in 1928, affiliated with Mortar Board. The symbol of
the Cap and Gown Honor Society (adopted in 1930) was a torch. The UT chapter has a tradition
of “tapping” those selected for membership by current members dressed in academic caps and
gowns. The UT chapter admitted its first male members, David W. Long and Steven Taylor, in
1977.
[Rachel Hart contributed.]
Mosley, Benita Fitzgerald: See Fitzgerald, Benita [Mosley].
Most Popular Coed: In fall 1926 the student newspaper, the Orange and White, announced it
would sponsor a coed popularity contest. The military department had also been planning to pick
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“the most popular coed on The Hill” but joined instead with the Orange and White, voting to
make the winner of that contest an honorary cadet colonel of the University of Tennessee ROTC
unit. In January, Jean Humphreys of Memphis, was announced the winner. She received a
specially made cadet colonel’s uniform and took part in the spring dress parades wearing it.
Since this was the first time an American ROTC unit had named a female honorary cadet
colonel, she (and UT) received considerable national attention. Her picture was broadcast over
the country by the NEA and World Wide News Services. On January 26, 1927, her picture
appeared in the midweek Rotogravure section of the New York Times, with the caption “Colonel
Jean Humphreys, most popular co-ed at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the first
American girl to wear the title of Honorary Cadet Colonel.”
In 1927 Evelyn Hoskins was elected by the student body to the honor and received the
honorary cadet colonel title. Her picture appeared in a nationally distributed booklet issued by
the Committee on Militarism in Education, the purpose of which was to show that the military
was being popularized by flashy uniforms, snappy officers, and coeds. In 1928 the coed honorary
cadet colonel was elected solely by the military department, and the “most popular co-ed” was
separately selected.
See also Guidon Society.
Most Popular Major at UT: Undecided.
Motto: Veritatem cognoscetis et veritas vos liberabit (Know the truth and the truth shall make
you free) is the motto of the University of Tennessee. It is described as the motto in board of
trustee minutes of 1891 when the seal of the university was approved, so it dates at least from
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1891. The motto is displayed on an inset concrete plaque at the base of the McClung Tower,
facing Volunteer Boulevard, and appears on the official seal of the university.
Mount Chapman: On October 7, 1931, the United States Geographic Board officially
designated the fourth highest freestanding peak in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
(6,417 feet above sea level) as Mount Chapman. It was named in honor of UT alumnus David
Carpenter Chapman, member of the class of 1897. Chapman Prong and Chapman Lead are also
named for David Chapman. Mount Chapman had previously been named Mount Alexander.
See also Chapman, David Carpenter.
Mount Witherspoon: In 1947 the National Board of Geographic Names designated a mountain
peak in the Chugach Mountain Range in Southeastern Alaska in honor of UT graduate David C.
Witherspoon, class of 1894. Witherspoon served with the United States Geographical Survey
from 1897 to 1920. Mount Witherspoon rises to an altitude of 12,030 feet. Vast snow fields
cover the Chugach Range at this point and are the source of several glaciers. In 1897 when he
began the laborious process of mapping, little was known of the interior of Alaska. Gold had
been discovered in the Klondike region, and since there were many reports of its fabulous riches,
the Geological Survey decided to send engineers experienced in topographic mapping and
geologists to investigate the mineral deposits.
Mountain Man March: The annual Mountain Man March began in 2009 as a project of the
Army ROTC to honor its graduate, 1st Lt. Frank Walkup, who was killed in action in Iraq on
June 16, 2007. The event consists of a marathon (with full 35-pound pack, for ROTC
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participants) and concert, as well as exhibits. The Mountain Man March attracts a large number
of veterans, students from other universities, bikers, and others who wish to honor those killed in
action. It benefits the Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund, which assists children of soldiers
killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Mountcastle Park: Mountcastle Park, a square block of land fronting on Lake Avenue and
Mountcastle Street, was originally held in common by landowners whose property was adjacent
to it. In 1972 a legislator called upon UT to clean and beautify the park, and the city responded
that it was the owner of the park. In 1974 a benefit auction was held by the Undergraduate
Alumni Council in the Music Auditorium to raise funds to renovate the park, with Maynard
Glenn, city recreation director, agreeing to match contributions up to $4,500. The auction raised
$1,650.50. UT architecture students conducted a survey and, based on its results, planned park
improvements. City Recreation Director Maynard Glenn then had the city install three wooden
picnic tables, three small grills, and several wooden benches. A gravel walkway and a center
circle surrounded by benches were installed. The UAC money was spent on beautification after
the park elements were established by the city. Mayor Victor Ashe transferred the land to UT a
decade later, with the stipulation that UT maintain the park atmosphere of the land.
Movers and Changers Competition 2010: Aeron Glover, an engineering major, and Kaliv
Parker, a finance major, won the national 2010 Movers & Changers competition, a national
business pitch contest sponsored by mtvU and the New York Stock Exchange. Their prize was
$25,000 in seed money for their project, website Howstheliving.com. The site allows students to
rate housing options—from host family programs to college residence halls to hostels and
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commercial rentals—on a five-star scale, in such areas as appearance, parking, and noise.
MTAS: See Municipal Technical Advisory Service.
Mud Glyph Cave: In 1979 Ranger Walter Merrill of the US Forest Service discovered a
chamber in an area cave that had mud-covered walls decorated with ancient Indian drawings—
still moist in an environment unchanged for a thousand years. Dr. Charles Faulkner, UT
archaeologist, led the team from UT that initially studied the mud glyphs. Most of the drawings
appear to have been made with fingers or pieces of cane, and some may have been struck by a
club, suggesting a ritualistic attempt to strike at or destroy the real object. The cave was
determined to have had only ceremonial or aesthetic uses.
Anthropology Professor Jan Simek completed the first documentation of the cave in 1996 and
carbon-dated the pictures, which were found to have been created around 1300 AD, known as
the Mississippian Era. After the cave was documented and photographed, the cave was sealed to
prevent vandalism.
Cave No. 11 was accompanied by seven hundred acres of land. The Tennessee Parks and
Greenway Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Tennessee’s natural
properties, purchased the cave and surrounding land from its original owners. In March 2008 the
State of Tennessee acquired the site to preserve it for future study.
Since the original identification of the mud glyphs in Cave 11 in the 1970s, other examples of
mud glyph caves in the area have been discovered, documented, and photographed.
Mugwump: In 1920–21, a humor-literary magazine entitled the Mugwump replaced the U.T.
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Magazine. Howard H. Baker Sr. is credited with giving the publication its name. Among
Algonquin Indians, mugwump meant “chief.” In American political history, the term had been
derisively applied to Republicans who bolted the party in 1884 to support Grover Cleveland’s
candidacy for US president. The “mugwump” for whom the magazine was named, however, was
described as an animal that lived on the Hill when UT was Blount College—a wonderful and
glorious animal whose sense of humor was as keen as a razor. When it laughed in musical
accents, it could be heard in Chattanooga. C. G. Mynatt, the first editor, was said to have brought
a mugwump back from a hunting trip into unexplored regions of Tennessee to the Hill to aid in
the launch of the publication that bore its name. He indicated that he discovered the story of the
sacred mugwump among the legends of the Indians and that the mugwump had the intelligence
of a human—in some ways was superhuman—and that it could forecast any coming event.
The magazine contained jokes, stories, and miscellaneous items. In its first year of publication,
a cartoon by George A. Moors was selected for the January 22, 1921, issue of Judge magazine.
In March 1924 an article predicting the UT campus of 1975 suggested that 75,000 might witness
football games, 1,500 coeds would live in dormitories, and 200,000 volumes would be in the
library. The humor in the magazine was often somewhat coarse. Following a particularly serious
flap about the humor in 1932, over which Norman Smith was forced out as editor and placed on
probation, the trustees discontinued publication of the Mugwump at their August meeting and
reduced the student activity fee by one dollar.
See also Baker, Howard Henry, Sr.; University Magazine.
Multicultural Greek Council: The Multicultural Greek Council is composed of five
organizations that consist of sororities and fraternities from diverse backgrounds. Organizations
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in the council represent Latino and South-Asian based fraternities and Latina and South-Asian
based sororities. The organizations that make up this council are Sigma Sigma Rho Sorority Inc.,
Delta Phi Omega Sorority Inc., Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority Inc., Beta Chi Theta
National Fraternity Inc., and Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity Inc.
See also National Panhellenic Conference/Panhellenic Council; National Pan-Hellenic Council
Inc.
Municipal Technical Advisory Service: On April 15, 1949, Governor Gordon Browning signed
Senate Bill 607 and legally established the Municipal Technical Advisory Service. The bill also
enumerated the specific duties and goals of the organization: “It shall be used for studies and
research in municipal government, publications, education conference and attendance thereat and
in furnishing technical, consultative and field services to municipalities in problems relating to
fiscal administration, accounting, tax assessment and collection, law enforcement, improvements
and public works, and in any and all matters relating to municipal government.” Gerald Shaw
was the first executive director. MTAS operates in conjunction with the Tennessee Municipal
League and is a component of the Institute for Public Service.
See also Institute for Public Service.
Munoz, Michael Anthony: Offensive tackle Michael Munoz was named freshman All-America
in 2000 by the Sporting News and rivals.com. In his senior year (2004), he was a team cocaptain
for the second consecutive year and earned NCAA Consensus All-America honors, having made
all-star squads as selected by the American Football Coaches Association, Associated Press, and
Walter Camp Foundation. He finished the regular season with 55 intimidation blocks despite
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playing in only nine games his senior year. He was SEC Lineman of the Week for his
performance in the September 25 contest against Louisiana Tech.
Off the field, he was a 2004 National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete and earned the
Vincent dePaul Draddy Trophy as the nation’s top scholar-athlete. He also earned the Woody
Hayes National Scholar-Athlete Award given by the University & Northwest Sertoma Club of
Columbus, Ohio. He was a three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll selection. Munoz received his
bachelor’s degree in political science in 2003 and played in 2004 as a graduate student in public
administration.
In 2011, following a stint in sales with Proctor and Gamble, he established the Munoz Agency,
focusing on assisting clients to reach the Latino community.
Mural—Carolyn P. Brown University Center Ballroom: In 1954 university architect
Malcolm Rice expressed the opinion that the principal assembly room of the new Carolyn P.
Brown Memorial University Center was too plain and recommended employing an artist to
decorate it. In spring 1954 a committee including Rice and members of the Fine Arts Department
began contacting possible candidates to paint a mural on a 6-foot by 30-foot Utrecht canvas
affixed to the wall at the west end of the center’s ballroom, above and behind a stage. In July
1954 C. Kermit Ewing, head of the Fine Arts Department, offered Marion Greenwood the
contract to paint the mural. The contract also included a one-year teaching assignment, in which
she would offer six hours in painting and six hours in drawing or design.
Greenwood soon determined that the theme of the mural would incorporate music and settled
on a final design early in 1955. The mural depicts the musical history of Tennessee with the
distinct differences between and among the musical heritages of the three “grand divisions” of
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the state. It depicts 28 lively figures, beginning at one end with gospel singers (East Tennessee)
and ending with an African American holding a bag of cotton and a four-piece African American
jazz band with sax, trumpet, drum, and piano, with a riverboat in the background. Faculty, staff,
and students served as models for some of the figures in the painting. UT History Department
faculty member LeRoy P. Graf posed for the music master (often referred to as “the preacher”)
in the East Tennessee section of the mural. Cameron Smith was the model for the central female
dancer, and UT staff member Ted Williams served as the model for her partner. Maurice Brown,
a senior in the Fine Arts Department, is right behind Cameron Smith. Dr. Joseph W. Schaleter,
who was, like Greenwood, on a one-year appointment with the Fine Arts Department, was the
model for the banjo player.
Unveiled in June 1955, the mural became an object of controversy in the late 1960s, as African
American students voiced objection to the depiction of African Americans in the West
Tennessee section as being symbolic of racism and oppression. The mural was vandalized with
paints and solvents on the evening of May 17 or early morning of May 18, 1970, but it was not
the section of the mural criticized by African American students that sustained the principal
damage. The Alumni Association’s Executive Committee offered a $1,000 reward for the arrest
and conviction of the party or parties responsible, but the individuals were not identified, and the
mural was restored by Joe Hopkins, McClung Museum curator and an assistant professor, with
funds donated by students, faculty, and staff. Hopkins’s fee was $2,000. He worked on the
painting for more than five months, on his own time—weekends, lunch hours, and evening
hours.
Shortly after the mural was restored, Gail B. Clay, director of the center, reported that
additional threats of damage had been received. A committee of administrators, including Clay
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and Dean of Students Phil Scheurer, recommended that the mural be covered with paneling that
matched other paneling in the ballroom. It was covered in May 1972.
In 1998 Knight Stivender, special projects editor of the Daily Beacon, received the Associated
Collegiate Press’s 1998 Story of the Year Award for her March 17 story about the mural in the
Daily Beacon. In March 2006 the mural was uncovered for two days at the request of the Student
Issues Committee and Visual Arts Committee to allow for a panel discussion of its artistic and
historical overview. More than 250 people attended the “Secret Behind the Wall: The
Greenwood Mural” discussion at which guest panelists from the University of Cincinnati, the
Race Relations Center of East Tennessee, Carlow University, and Clark University Art Galleries
in Atlanta expressed widely differing views of the work. Following the event, the mural was
covered with Plexiglas, and a velvet curtain that could be drawn aside to allow viewings replaced
the paneling.
When the decision was made to raze the university center and build a new one, the issue of the
mural was a major concern for Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Tim Rogers. The issues were
two: whether it could be removed from the wall and where would it go if it were removed. The
canvas of the mural was glued to the plaster wall behind it, and the first advice Rogers was given
indicated that the mural could not be removed without major damage, if at all. He appointed a
group to look into the possibilities. The mural was appraised by Harold Duckett as part of the
investigation, at $175,000. RFPs were issued for mural removal and possible restoration, and
three groups were interested. EverGreene Architectural Art was chosen for the project.
More than two weeks were required for removal of the 300-pound piece from the wall.
EverGreene staff cleaned the reverse side of the mural, removing residual plaster white coat and
adhesive residue. They then removed the facing product that they had layered onto the mural to
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prevent damage to the canvas during its removal and began making repairs to the canvas and to
the painting. They next rolled the mural onto a sonotube, a form typically used to create concrete
columns, so the mural could be transported to storage.
The mural was displayed at UT’s Downtown Gallery June 6–August 9, 2014, and then
transported to the Knoxville Museum of Art under a five-year, renewable loan agreement
between the KMA and UT.
See also Greenwood, Marion.
Mural—Carousel Theatre: The Carousel Theatre was designed as a “convertible” theatre. It
would be open air in the summer, and side panels of high-insulation material would enclose it for
fall and winter productions. UT’s Joseph H. Cox, associate professor of fine arts, was asked to
design murals for the exterior panels. A program note by Cox in the program for the November
1952 production of You Can’t Take It with You indicates that his aim was to “establish abstract
motion, line, and color mass that would cause an observer to feel gaiety, anticipation, and
festivity,—or, if he is a practical sort of fellow, he may wish to see in the designs the elements of
a carousel in full flight.” “Technically,” he continued, he “attempted to relate the mural forms to
the octagonal shape of the building so as to minimize the shape and give the appearance of
roundness when the theatre is viewed from a distance.” The mural was painted on the panels
with the help of volunteers, principally Virginia Glass, Elizabeth Green, and Helen Soper.
See also Carousel Theatre.
Murphy, Lauren (1953–1994): A 1975 UT communications graduate, Lauren Murphy was the
first African American station manager of WUOT. She joined the UT Public Relations staff in
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1985 and was also the executive director of the UT Radio Center. Previously, she had been
executive assistant to the Tennessee Commissioner of Human Services (Sammie Lynn Puett) and
was a former news director. She initiated the popular jazz series cosponsored by WUOT and the
Knoxville Museum of Art. She was a member of the 1992 Leadership Knoxville class and served
on the executive board of the United Way Allocations Committee for several years. She also
served on the board of directors of the Knoxville YMCA, the Discovery Center, and John
Tarleton Children’s Home. She was secretary of the national organization Blacks in Public
Radio. At UT she was active in Alpha Kappa Alpha service sorority and in the Society of
Professional Journalists, and was named outstanding senior in broadcasting in 1975. She was a
member of the Pride of the Southland and Concert Bands. She was also a member of the UT
National Alumni Association Women’s Council and the Black Alumni Associates.
See also Neyland Stadium—Cremains.
Music Annex Fire: On March 10, 1971, the Music Annex, the last remaining temporary
building of those placed on the Hill following World War II, burned to the ground. Although the
building was called the Music Annex, it had been occupied by psychology since completion of
the Music Building. Psychology Professor Howard Pollio lost 10 years’ work on human
language and thinking, and several graduate students lost classroom records and research they
had been gathering for advanced degrees. The building had been vandalized by the throwing of
two Molotov cocktails through a window and, previously, by a towel set fire in a window, which
was found, removed, and extinguished by a custodian.
Music Building—Natalie L. Haslam Music Center: Ground was broken on September 22,
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1964, for the new Music Building, the first building to be built in the Yale Avenue Urban
Renewal Project area. Dr. A.W. Humphreys, professor of music education, and Alfred Schmied,
chairman of the building committee, removed the first shovelfuls of dirt from the building site,
with crane and tractors on site and their operators waiting for the ceremonies to end. Architects
for the building were Barber and McMurry with the consulting firm for specific music needs of
Bolt, Brenek, and Newman, the firm that advised the designing of the Lincoln Center Theatre.
The 53,637-square-foot building that cost $1.4 million was completed in 1965 and was first used
for classes on January 5, 1966. The building included a six-hundred-seat performance hall with
an orchestra pit that accommodated 60 musicians, faculty offices, practice rooms, studios, band
room, and classrooms designed for music instruction.
The building was constructed in three sections, each virtually a separate building. Practice
rooms in the facility were constructed as “floating” rooms—they had thick double walls with a
vacuum between the walls. The floors were constructed in a similar manner.
When completed, the building was already overcrowded—it was necessary immediately to
divide eight of the studios in order to accommodate the faculty. The plans were drawn for the
building in 1961 and were revised 11 times before finally being bid. The department moved from
a temporary structure, Splinter Hall, on the Hill to its new quarters.
The 1965 Music Building was razed in 2010 and work was begun on foundations for a
123,000-square-foot building partially funded by a $10 million gift from Jim (James A., II) and
Natalie Haslam. In 2006 Natalie and Jim Haslam, cochairs for the Campaign for Tennessee,
together with the Haslam Family Foundation, gave UT $32.5 million. The largest allotment of
this money, $10 million, went to the School of Music to ensure that the new Music Building was
state-of-the-art and could serve students well. The building’s name—Natalie L. Haslam Music
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Center—was announced by then-Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Henry
Nemchik in 2009. A ground-breaking ceremony was held November 10, 2010 for the $40
million structure.
The School of Music and the band moved into the building in summer 2013, with the building
being ready for fall 2013 classes on August 21. The formal dedication was held September 13,
2013, preceded on the evening of September 12 by a reception and concert by School of Music
students.
The Haslam Center itself was characterized as a physical expression of the musical art form.
Acoustical wall panels and retractable curtains allow the 412-seat Sandra G. Powell recital hall
and rehearsal rooms to be tuned to reverberate or absorb sound to meet the needs of various
performances. Performance studios and academic offices are soundproof. The building’s facade
itself was designed to resemble abstract sheet music, with the vertical pieces between the glass
panes representing bars and horizontal pieces representing the staff. The colored glass was
designed to emulate musical notes.
The four-floor, 123,000-square-foot facility houses eight technology-enhanced classrooms; the
first band room able to accommodate the 351-member Pride of the Southland Band; band
support spaces; 56 practice rooms; 57 performance studios/academic offices; an organ studio; the
412-seat Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall; the George F. DeVine Music Library; a
recording/mixing lab; computer, electronic music and piano labs; and an academic tutoring
center. The lobby has a 79-step glass monumental stairway, a first of its kind at UT, and the
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall design reflects the classic design of grand symphony and opera
halls.
In accord with UT Knoxville policies, the building was designed to be energy efficient.
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Rainwater is collected and stored in a 22,000-gallon underground cistern for use in irrigating the
site’s plants and lawn. Automatic light sensing systems allow conservation of electricity on
sunny days; lights in spaces come on when the space is entered and go off when the space is
vacated; colored portions of the glass, while part of the aesthetic design of the exterior, are also
coated with a ceramic pattern that reduces solar heat gain; the building overhangs provide shade;
and materials used in the construction are consistent with requirements for LEED certification.
The building received LEED certification at the silver level in March 2015.
BarberMcMurry Architects designed the center, and Blankenship and Partners was responsible
for the construction. Johnson and Galyon was the contractor.
See also All Steinway School; Barracks, Trailers, and Prefabricated Buildings on Campus
Following World War II; Student Issue, 2010—Relocation of Music Department Functions
during the Building of the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center.
Music Department: See Fine Arts Department; School of Music.
Music Library: See Library, George F. DeVine Music.
Myth—Board of trustees meant to elect Howard Ayers of Cincinnati president rather than
Brown Ayres of Tulane: On November 15, 1903, the New York Times reported that in a secret
meeting the preceding day, the board of trustees of the University of Cincinnati had declared the
position of President Howard Ayers to be vacant, but that he would remain until a successor was
found. From 1871 until 1899, the University of Cincinnati had been mostly governed by the
board and had only briefly (1885–89) had a president, after which the executive function was
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fulfilled by rotation of deans. In 1898 a committee had been formed to search for a president.
The committee recommended Howard Ayers, head of the Zoology Department at the University
of Missouri, Columbia. William Howard Taft, then dean of the University of Cincinnati Law
School (1896–1900), was on the presidential search committee and continued to support Ayers
as he called for the resignations of almost all faculty and battled with faculty and institutional
constituencies over his vision for shaping the institution.
In December 1903 UT President Charles Dabney announced that he was resigning to assume
the presidency of the University of Cincinnati. When the search for a new president of the
University of Tennessee was underway, Taft—who had left the University of Cincinnati to
become a justice of the federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (1892–1900) and was in 1903
Governor of the Philippines—and his friend and fellow Sixth Circuit Court Appeals Justice
(1893–1909) Horace Lurton, put forth Howard Ayers as a candidate for the UT position. Trustee
Edward Terry Sanford acknowledged the nomination on April 2, 1904, as that of “Ayres [sic] of
Cincinnati.” Ayers of Cincinnati, having been recommended by Taft and Lurton, was
undoubtedly considered for the post, but on June 29, the trustees chose Dr. C. Alphonso Smith of
the University of North Carolina. Smith visited the campus in July and declined the post on July
13.
The board of trustees’ committee for selection of the president, after reading Smith’s letter of
refusal, recommended that a member of the faculty be elected to a one-year term as acting
president. At the board of trustees’ meeting of July 20, 1904, however, that recommendation was
supplanted by the nomination of Brown Ayres by a board of trustee’s member (probably Edward
Terry Sanford, who had a letter from former President Dabney proposing and endorsing Brown
Ayres, dean of the faculty at Tulane, from whom Dabney had received a letter saying that he
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[Ayres] would consider the presidency “most favorably.”) The trustees voted to accept Brown
Ayres of Tulane on July 20, but due to the small number of trustees present, postponed the
election until August 2, when Ayres was present to be chosen by unanimous vote. The
misspelling of Ayers in the acknowledgment letter by Sanford probably was the genesis of the
myth—but the sequence of events makes it clear that Brown Ayres was the board’s choice after
Alphonso Smith declined.
Myth—Cave runs from UT to Chilhowee Park: This is a variant of the myth that a cave runs
under the river from the bluffs on the south side of the river to Chilhowee Park. There are caves
under all of Knoxville, since the city is built on karst, but there is no known cave that runs from
UT to Chilhowee Park or from UT to anywhere else, for that matter. There are caves on the river
side of the university—some are covered with underbrush along the railroad tracks to the west of
the main campus, and some are relatively visible.
Myth—Checkerboard end zones were adopted to mirror the checkerboard design on Ayres
Hall: The myth would have it that in 1964 Doug Dickey, UT football coach (later athletics
director), stood musing on the field about how better to tie athletics to academics. As he gazed
across the stadium toward the Hill, the myth goes, his eye lighted on the band of checkerboard
bricks that surround the tower of Ayres Hall, giving him the inspiration for Neyland Stadium’s
end zone design. In a 2007 article on ESPN.com, Ron Higgins quotes Dickey as saying, “I got
the idea to use checkerboard when I saw it in a magazine, maybe in an ad. The design caught my
eye and I thought we needed to dress up the stadium. It was drab and we needed some color.
People liked the checkerboard end zones, and it’s nice to have an identifying product that’s
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lasted over the years.”
The checkerboards were removed in 1968 when the Vols installed artificial turf. The
checkerboards returned on new artificial turf installed in 1989. When the Vols went back to
natural grass in 1994, Peyton Manning’s freshman year, the checkerboards got a fresh design.
Prior to the checkerboard, a script “Tennessee” was in the end zones.
Myth—College of Business Professor Tony Spiva worked for $1 per year: Colorful,
respected, and generally accorded “outstanding teacher,” Dr. George “Tony” Spiva (1928–2013)
came to UT in 1958 as economics professor. Known for taking expeditions to end-of-the-earth
wilderness in search of adventure and distance (true), it was not true that he worked for $1 per
year because of his great wealth and great enthusiasm for teaching. Nor was it true that the
source of his wealth was his wife, who was a DuPont. Spiva received his professor’s pay from
UT, and his wife brought to the marriage neither boatloads of money nor a connection to the
DuPonts.
Myth—Fraternities originally operated as secret societies because Tennessee State Law
prohibited them on campus: Alpha Tau Omega, Pi Kappa Alpha, and (possibly) Sigma Kappa
fraternities operated as sub rosa (secret) societies in the 1870s. It has been widely rumored that
Tennessee law prohibited fraternities until the ban was removed in 1881, but no such legislation
existed.
Myth—“Freshman Special” Train: In the 1920s upperclassmen warned freshmen to be
prepared for the “Freshman Special,” a mythical train that returned students home who had failed
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in college. Reservations on the train, freshmen were told, would be acquired after receipt of a
C.O.D. (Call on the Dean) letter.
Myth—“Granny” Greve was a real person: This myth is partially true, partially not. The
building, constructed as a residence hall, is named for Dean of Women Harriet Greve, a
dignified, strict disciplinarian and academician. She never married and was definitely not
“granny-like.”
See also Greve, Harriet C.
Myth—Krutch Park (Downtown Knoxville) is named for UT alumnus Joseph Wood
Krutch: Krutch Park is correctly Charles Krutch Park. It is named for its benefactor, who willed
more than $1 million to the City of Knoxville to establish a downtown park. Charles Krutch,
TVA photographer whose photographs were heralded by the New York Times and displayed in
the Museum of Modern Art, spent his lunch hours at a brokerage for many years, buying and
selling stock. Upon his death in 1981 at age 94, his financial success was first revealed in the
reading of his will. He had no connection with UT—in fact, he did not finish high school.
Myth—Presidential Papers of Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, and James K. Polk are
in UT’s Special Collections Library: In 1987 the projects to edit the papers of Presidents
Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk were consolidated at Hoskins Library with the editing
project of the papers of Andrew Johnson, which was already in place at UT. Many people
thought (and many articles said as much) that UT had the Johnson presidential papers and was
acquiring the actual papers of Tennessee’s other two presidents. Not so. One of the primary
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responsibilities of a presidential editor is to locate the papers of the subject, wherever they may
be—most probably in the National Archives in Washington, DC—copy them, and arrange them
for publication. The result at the end of the project is the most complete set of copies of the
papers, the originals of which may be owned by many different people, institutions, foundations,
and the like, as well as by the National Archives.
Myth—Reese Residence Hall is named for Chancellor Jack Reese: Reese Hall is named for
the Honorable William B. Reese, president of the university from 1850 to 1853. The Jack E.
Reese Galleria in the Hodges Library is named for Chancellor Jack Reese.
Myth—Salvador Dali “Tennessee Traditions” Mural: This myth holds that Athletic Director
Robert Woodruff commissioned Salvador Dali to paint a mural depicting General Neyland and
the great football players of Tennessee. Dali came to campus to paint the mural, so goes the
myth, in Stokely Athletics Center. There was a mural of General Neyland and players he had
coached, but it was not a high artistic achievement and was razed with the building.
Myth—School colors of orange and white were chosen by a colorblind student: Apparently
in an effort to explain the disparity between the color of “big orange” and that of the center of the
American Daisy that grew in profusion on the Hill, a myth circulates that student Charles Moore,
the president of the University Athletics Association who chose the colors of orange and white
for the first field day in 1889 was colorblind and had been told that the center of the daisy was
orange. In fact, there is no supporting evidence for this, and the original “UT Orange” was a
yellow-orange that roughly emulated the color of the daisy center. The student body twice voted
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for the colors of orange and white, and in both elections, the debates specifically mention that the
color is that of the center of the daisy.
“Big Orange” was officially declared to be Pantone Matching System color 021 in 1982 to
achieve a consistency, and which showed well on television. The official Pantone Matching
System value was changed to 151 in the late 1990s. Ruth Lovell, in a January 23, 1996, Daily
Beacon column written while she was working in the University Historian’s Office, pointed to
the fact that the color was taken from the daisies that grew in profusion on the Hill and reported
that one student called Charles Moore “color blind” when told of the origin of the colors when
compared with the “Big Orange” of 1996. Her humorous treatment of the subject may have been
one of the first appearances of the myth in print.
See also Big Orange—The Color.
Myth—Sophronia Strong Hall was built with underground passageways to Jessie Harris:
This persistent myth may stem from the operation of the Strong Hall Cafeteria by the Home
Economics Department, and the fact that both residents of Strong and students of Home
Economics were women. It is not true. There are small crawl spaces jutting out from different
parts of the building as part of its foundation system, but no tunnels.
Myth—Sororities did not have houses because a wealthy donor required that UT not allow
them to do so: In December 1930 dean of the university James D. Hoskins explained, in an
Orange and White article, that sororities would not be allowed to have chapter houses for several
reasons, two of the most important being the upkeep and the promotion of more expensive social
activities. The latter, he said, was not in keeping with a state university, since it might keep
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students away who would not come to school unless they could “stand the pace.”
In 1960 the Panhellenic Council sent a resolution to President Andy Holt detailing the “gross
inadequacies of existing space” in Sophronia Strong Hall assigned to sororities. Dr. Holt
appointed a committee to study the matter, and the committee reported to the board of trustees in
April 1961 that “it is not the appropriate time to enter into a program of individual sorority
houses” and recommended building a new panhellenic building in the future. Upon hearing the
report, the board of trustees passed a resolution stating that “it is the policy of this Board that all
sororities on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville be housed in a Panhellenic
Building.” Construction of a panhellenic building was approved in 1962.
Alternate versions of the myth propose that (1) Sophronia Strong had given the university a
million dollars on the condition that sororities not be allowed to have houses, (2) an anonymous
female donor funded the Panhellenic Building and stipulated that sororities would not be able to
have houses for security reasons, (3) Carolyn P. Brown was blackballed from a sorority and
required outlawing sorority houses in order to obtain funds for the university center, and (4)
sorority houses could not be built because any house in which 10 or more women lived was
legally a brothel.
See also Panhellenic Building; Sorority Chapter Rooms; Sorority Village at Morgan Hill.
Myth—The “Hartsfield” of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta is UT
alumnus, Astronaut Henry “Hank” Hartsfield: The “Hartsfield” is William B. Hartsfield, a
former mayor of Atlanta.
Myth—The name of the Apartment Residence Hall on Andy Holt Boulevard is the “Andy
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Holt Apartments”: The name of the structure is Apartment Residence Hall. It has taken its
common name from its address on Andy Holt Avenue. When it was built, the name of the street
was Rose Avenue, and the apartments were commonly called Rose Avenue Apartments.
[Mark Hixon contributed.]
Myth—Tunnels link the Hill to other parts of the campus: There are steam tunnels that run
throughout the campus, but they do not provide passageway. Most have parts that require those
servicing the steam system to crawl; none is sufficient to allow one to walk upright along its full
length. The only access to the tunnels is through designated manholes. There is no tunnel that
links the hill to the river, and no on-campus tunnel was utilized as a portion of the Underground
Railroad by slaves going north at the time of the Civil War. The often repeated assertion that
administrators are allowed to travel through the tunnels during inclement weather while students
are not is not true.
A plan was advanced in 1972 to create a Life Sciences Complex on the Hill by linking
buildings with tunnels, followed by creation of a Physical Sciences Complex similarly linked.
The only tunnel to be built was that between Austin Peay and Hesler.
See also Tunnel Plan.
Myth—University Avenue marks the first location of UT: The Blount College (original name
of UT) building was on Gay Street. In the 1870s Knoxvillians pledged funds to try to have the
Central Methodist University located in Knoxville. University Avenue was named by the city,
demarking the proposed location of the institution in an effort to further enhance the chances of
its establishment, but it did not come into existence.
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See also First Campus Site and Building.
Myth—UT was the 1916 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association’s Football
Champion: Tennessee’s 8-0-1 record included the Thanksgiving Day scoreless tie with
Kentucky, while Georgia Tech, also 8-0-1, had been tied by Washington and Lee, a non-SIAA
institution. In 1916 the fact that Georgia Tech was the champion was not disputed, but somehow,
over the years, UT’s official records began to list 1916 as a championship year in the SIAA.
Georgia Tech’s official records also listed 1916 as a championship year. In 1973 the UT
Athletics Council reviewed the matter and determined that Georgia Tech had clearly won the
title. The 1916 undefeated football team was awarded gold footballs by the YMCA in February
1917.
Myth—Walking on the UT Seal on the Pedestrian Mall will result in not graduating: No
studies have been conducted specifically to test the veracity of the myth that students who walk
on the seal on the Joe Johnson-John Ward Pedestrian Mall will not graduate.
Myth—William Blount refused to sign Blount College’s charter until women were
permitted to attend: The story goes that William Blount wanted his daughter to attend the new
college being founded and that he refused to sign the charter until women were permitted to
attend the institution and that they attended from the very beginning. The resolution chartering
Blount College, introduced by William Cocke, however, passed as presented, with the relatively
unusual provision that it be nonsectarian. Barbara Blount, the governor’s daughter who attended
1804–6, was born in 1792, and was thus two years old at the time the charter was issued. When
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she attended, her parents, William Blount (1800) and Mary Grainger (1802), were deceased, and
she was living with her older sister, Mary Louisa, and brother-in-law, Pleasant Miller. The
likelihood is that the fact that students of all “sects” were admitted morphed into the origin of the
tale.
MyUTK—MyUTK, the student/faculty/staff integrated online portal to give access to the newly
installed Banner student information system, went live on September 20, 2010, beginning the
transition from Circle Park Online to MyUTK.
See also Circle Park Online.
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