Torchbearer: Illuminating the University of Tennessee Alumni

Archives for the ‘Honor Roll’ Category

James “Jim” Dickason Hoskins, II (1962)

Dec 7th, 2011 • Category: Honor Roll, Obituaries, Young Alumni

James “Jim” Dickason Hoskins, II, of Charlotte, NC, died October 7, 2011. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree from the College of Engineering. Mr. Hoskins also graduated from the U.S. Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island in 1963. He served as an active duty officer in the U.S. [...]



Laszlo P. Horanyi (1955)

Dec 7th, 2011 • Category: Honor Roll, Obituaries, Young Alumni

Laszlo P. Horanyi, of Kingwood, TX, died August 22, 2011. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he came to the U.S. in 1949 to pursue the American dream as told to him by the American soldiers who had helped him leave Hungary at the end of WWII. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s [...]



Brigitte E. Archibald (1975)

Dec 6th, 2011 • Category: Honor Roll, Obituaries, Young Alumni

Brigitte E. Archibald, of Greensboro, NC, died December 15, 2010. She earned a doctor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, College of Arts and Sciences.



Elma Neal Roane (1943)

Dec 6th, 2011 • Category: Honor Roll, Obituaries, Young Alumni

Elma Neal Roane, of Cordova, TN, died September 19, 2011. Elma graduated from the University of Tennessee with a master’s degree from the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences. She was one of the founders and second president of the Tennessee College Women’s Sports Federation, formed in 1969, to re-institute intercollegiate athletic programs and [...]



William Joseph Boyd, III (1965)

Dec 6th, 2011 • Category: Honor Roll, Obituaries, Young Alumni

William Joseph Boyd, III, of Arlington, TN, died September 18, 2011. He earned two doctor’s degrees, (1965, 1974) from the University of Tennessee, both from the College of Arts and Sciences. He retired from Buckeye Cellulose.



Andy Kozar: A visionary, a scholar, and a gentleman Andy Kozar: A visionary, a scholar, and a gentleman

Jul 19th, 2010 • Category: Honor Roll

Andy Kozar was the Vol we all aspire to become. Read a reflection on his life by his close colleagues.



A Lucky Life A Lucky Life

Jan 30th, 2009 • Category: Honor Roll

James Tanner got to do what almost no one had ever done—live with and study one of the Earth’s rarest creatures. And to make the assignment even more rewarding, Jim was working with a bird so startling in its appearance that it had once been called the Lord God Bird, mimicking the common exclamation of those encountering an ivory-bill for the first time.