Lucy McDaniels Curtis graduated from UT in 1901, where she was a charter member of UT’s first national sorority (Chi Omega). Lucy Curtis Templeton began work in 1904 as a proofreader for the Knoxville Sentinel. In 1910 she became the telegraph editor of the Knoxville Sentinel, a position no other woman held in the South, and possibly in the nation. She later edited the Sunday book page and is best known for her column “A Country Calendar,” which ran for decades. In World War II, when she was in her sixties, she resumed the post of telegraph editor. She was a charter member of the Newspaper Guild and one of the founders of the local chapter of the American Red Cross. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, she continued to come to the newspaper (by then the Knoxville News Sentinel) to write her column, always wearing a hat and typing with her white gloves on.