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Posts Tagged ‘1920s’

Fanchon Watt Crider (1929)

Dec 13th, 2010 • Category: Obituaries

Fanchon Watt Crider, of Humboldt, TN, died October 7, 2010. She graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree from the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences and began her teaching career.



Charles Edmundson (1927)

Jan 27th, 2010 • Category: Obituaries

Charles Edmundson, of Memphis, died in May of 1986. He was a graduate of the University of Tennessee, receiving his bachelor’s degree from the College of Arts and Sciences.



Carl Cruse (1929)

Jan 12th, 2010 • Category: Obituaries

Carl Cruse, of Sebring, FL, died in May of 1973. He was a graduate of the University of Tennessee, receiving his bachelor’s degree from the College of Arts and Sciences.



Notable Alumni: Samuel C. Collins (1920, 1924)

Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

Samuel C. Collins (1920, 1924) was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Science. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a research chemist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.



Notable Alumni: William E. Derryberry (1928)

Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

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



Notable Alumni: Harvey B. Broome (1923)

Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

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.



Notable Alumni: Howard Baker Sr. (1922, 1924)

Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

Howard Baker Sr. (1922, 1924) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1951 to 1964.



Notable Alumni: Marion Speed Boyd (1921)

Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

Marion Speed Boyd (1921) was U.S. district judge for the western district of Tennessee from 1940 to 1961 and chief judge from 1961 to 1966.



Notable Alumni: James Zwingle (1929, 1932)

Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

James Zwingle (1929, 1932) was president of Park College (Missouri) from 1947 to 1955. He later was a vice president at Cornell University and president of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.



Freddie Lou Haworth (1927)

Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Obituaries

Freddie Lou Haworth, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, died October 9, 2009. She was a graduate of the University of Tennessee, receiving her bachelor’s degree from the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences.