Murray Bowen (1934) was a pioneer in the field of family therapy. He was the first director of the Family Division at the National Institute of Mental Health. Later he joined the psychiatry department at Georgetown University and gained international recognition for his leadership in the field of family therapy. He established the Georgetown University [...]

Owen Davis, an 1889 graduate, won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Icebound in 1923.

Arthur Preston Whitaker (1915) was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1936 to 1965. He published 20 books and numerous articles.

Matthew G. Smith (1909) was an attorney and bankruptcy judge in Fort Worth, Texas.

Bernadotte Schmitt (1904) was a professor of history at Western Reserve University and the University of Chicago. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Coming of the War: 1914. He was president of the American Historical Association.

William E. Derryberry (1928) was president of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, from 1940 to 1974.

Clyde M. York (1935) was president of the Tennessee Farm Bureau and state commissioner of agriculture. The Clyde M. York Veterinary Teaching Hospital on the agricultural campus at Knoxville is named for him.

Frank H. Knight (1913) was president of the American Economics Association, a Guggenheim Foundation fellow, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a professor of social science at the University of Chicago.

Jessie Wooten Harris (1908) was dean of the UT College of Home Economics in Knoxville. She was chief of the community nutrition division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and president of the American Home Economics Association.

Harvey B. Broome (1923) was a cofounder of the National Wilderness Society and served as its president from 1957 to 1968. A Knoxville attorney, he was the author of Earth Man, Faces of the Wilderness, and Out Under the Sky of the Great Smokies.