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.

Jennifer Santoro Stanley (1995) was a Rhodes Scholar.

Nancy-Ann Min DeParle (1978) is counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform. She is the former administrator of the Federal Health Care Financing Administration. She was the university’s first female Rhodes Scholar and the first female president of the Student Government Association at Knoxville. She was Tennessee commissioner [...]