In 1982 the board of trustees named the recreation area surrounding and adjacent to the Student Aquatic Center the Henry F. Morse Recreation Center. The marker, brass on a concrete aggregate stone, is inscribed: “HENRY F. MORSE / RECREATIONAL AREA / NAMED BY THE BOARD OF / TRUSTEES IN HONOR OF / HENRY F. MORSE / WHO SERVED THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE / WITH DISTINCTION AS DIRECTOR OF CAMPUS / PLANNING FROM 1964 THROUGH 1980. HE WORKED / WITH ALL UNITS AND CAMPUSES OF THE STATE’S / LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITY TO MAKE THEM BEAUTIFUL / USEFUL AND AN INTEGRAL PART OF THEIR / RESPECTIVE COMMUNITIES. / DEDICATED 1982”