In 1913 Sara Conyers York (1879–1970) received the MD degree from the Medical Units at Memphis. She graduated at age 35 and had the highest average in her class. She was awarded the Faculty Medal for superior scholarship. She served her internship at Baptist Hospital in Memphis before establishing a general practice in rural Lauderdale … Continued
Betsey Creekmore was appointed executive assistant to the chancellor in spring 1973 and was promoted to assistant vice chancellor for administration the same year.
Genevieve L. Christen, associate professor of food science and technology, was the recipient of the 1995 Milk Industry Foundation Teaching Award. With its teaching award, the International Dairy Foods Association constituent organization, the Milk Industry Foundation, recognizes outstanding teachers of undergraduate students of dairy science. The award is presented every two years at the American … Continued
In November 1986 Martha Springer Polson, a 1979 UT Electrical Engineering graduate, was the first female national president of Tau Beta Pi. She had previously won a national award from the Society of Women Engineers as that group’s Distinguished New Engineer.
Pat Head Summitt, Patricia Roberts, and Cindy Brogden won silver medals at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal as members of the women’s basketball team. Pat Summitt was cocaptain. The first time that women’s basketball had been elevated to Olympic status was in 1976. In 1984 Summitt coached the US team to a gold medal.
In 1952 Minnie Cate Morrell earned the PhD in English (the second PhD awarded by the department). Her dissertation was on English Psalters—“A Manual of Old English Biblical Materials.” It was subsequently published in book form.
Ann Dyer Rouse, a Knoxville meter maid since 1966, became UT’s first female police officer on December 2, 1968.
In 1986 Dr. Anne Mayhew, UT economics professor, was elected the first female president of the Association for Evolutionary Economics. AFEE is an international organization of economists and other social scientists devoted to analysis of economics as evolving, socially constructed, and politically governed systems. AFEE publishes the Journal of Economic Issues.
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle was the first female elected president of the Student Government Association in 1977.
Madge Madden Harrison became the first female president of the UT Alumni Association in 1972.