Alan Mims Thomason attended UT in Knoxville from 1926 to 1931. He was president, general manager, and director of United Press International from 1962 to 1972.

Art Stolnitz (1952) was executive vice president for business and financial affairs of Lorimar Television and of Warner Brothers Television. He was also a television producer.

McGregor Smith (1921) was president and chairman of Florida Power and Light Company and a director of the Federal Reserve Board (Atlanta) from 1958 to 1966.

Milton B. Ochs (1885) was managing editor of the Chattanooga Times and owner of the Nashville American.

George W. Ochs (1880) was mayor of Chattanooga and general manager of the Chattanooga Times. He was also editor and publisher of the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

Adolph S. Ochs, who attended the college preparatory department at East Tennessee University (UT’s forerunner) in 1872, was publisher of the New York Times and owner and publisher of the Chattanooga Times.

Paul Mountcastle Sr. (1914) was president and CEO of the Life and Casualty Insurance Company in Nashville, chairman and president of WLAC in Nashville, and president of WATE in Knoxville.

John Dickson Harper (1933) was president and CEO of ALCOA.

John Bogle Cox (1893) worked with General Electric, where he installed Europe’s first multiple train unit at the Paris Exposition of 1900, wired underground systems for the London subway, and electrified street railways in Lisbon and Havana.

George B. Carmack (1927) was editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel (1937-40), the Houston Press (1946-64), and the Albuquerque Tribune (1966-73).