A native of Walland and Maryville, John Fisher earned the bachelor’s degree in finance at UT in 1938. After two years as a national field secretary for Delta Tau Delta fraternity, he entered the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and was awarded an MBA degree from the institution in 1942, a year after joining … Continued

In spring 1994 the golf team fired a 311 in the final round of the Lady Gamecock Classic, giving the team its first-ever team tournament championship. The number 12 Tennessee three-day total of 901 set a team record for 54 holes, while their first-round score of 294 set a UT women’s record for 18 holes.

Dr. Wayne Davis, dean of UT’s College of Engineering, and Dr. Hazel O’Leary, president of Fisk University, signed an agreement on May 23, 2011, establishing a dual degree program in science and engineering. The five-year program, which began in fall 2011, provided for students to spend their first three years of college at Fisk as … Continued

On July 17, 2002, alumna and former Lady Vol basketball player Vonda Ward defeated Monica McGowan of Tyler, Texas, for the world’s first women’s heavyweight boxing title offered by the International Boxing Association.

The UT Board of Trustees approved the official flag of the university in June 1969 during 175th anniversary activities. The flag was first flown on all campuses on Charter Day (September 10) 1969. The UT flag has three bars—orange, white, and orange—representing the three geographical divisions of Tennessee and symbolizing UT’s responsibilities as Tennessee’s State … Continued

In 1933 the board of trustees considered an overpass or underpass from the Hill to the library and the Home Economics Building. The board and Knoxville City Council decided instead that a traffic light would be installed. The first light was installed in November 1934 on Cumberland Avenue at the Hill entrance.

The first Volunteer of the Year Award, presented annually at the Chancellor’s Associates Banquet, was presented to Hugh and Emily Faust in 1987. The award is presented to a person whose “untiring service and devotion to The University and the community represent the Volunteer Spirit in the truest sense.”

Although domestic science teacher and director of the University Boarding Club Minnie A. Stoner had been responsible for regular food service and special dinners for the football squad, the first real training table was established for football in 1906 in the University Mess Hall, under the management of Word, Morrell, and Worthington. Players had eaten … Continued

Lemuel Purnell Montgomery, who had been a student at Blount College, was the first war casualty among alumni. He died in the War of 1812 at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Alabama.

The charter issued by the Territorial Legislature establishing Blount College in 1794, named 18 trustees of the institution: William Blount, Rev. Samuel Carrick, Daniel Smith, David Campbell, Joseph Anderson, John Sevier, James White, William Cocke, Archibald Roane, Willie Blount, Charles McClung, George Roulstone, John Adair, Joseph Hamilton, Robert Houston, Alexander Kelly, George McNutt, and Francis … Continued