In 1991 Barbara Goddard Johnstone notified UT that in carrying out her estate planning, she had decided to leave a portion of her estate to endow a professorship to be named for her mother, Minnie Doty Goddard. The well-known M. D. Goddard who began publishing the Dandridge Banner in 1928 and bought out the Jefferson County Standard was Minnie Doty Goddard, who founded the weekly Dandridge paper with an inheritance of $500 when her father died. She published the two papers, including writing the copy, operating the linotype, and doing all the rest of the hard work of getting a newspaper to the street until her death of leukemia in 1940 at the age of 57. Her four children are all UT graduates, and, at the time of her death, she was one course away from achieving a lifetime goal of a college degree.