During the four years that Chamique Holdsclaw played basketball at UT, the Lady Vols compiled a 131-17 record, captured three NCAA titles, won two Southeastern Conference regular season titles and three SEC tournaments. In 1997 Holdsclaw led the Lady Vols to an NCAA record 39-0 season, 14-0 in the SEC, and a third straight NCAA … Continued
Industrial Engineering graduate Chad Holliday (1970) was named chairman and chief executive officer of E. I. DuPont De Nemours Inc. in 1998 and served until 2008. Upon graduation from UT, he began his career at DuPont as an engineer at the Old Hickory, Tennessee, facility. In 1990 he was named vice president and then president … Continued
The Hollingsworth Auditorium in Ellington Plant Sciences Building was named in honor of Henry Wheeler Hollingsworth (1906–98) of Jacksboro, who made a $5 million gift to UT in 1996 benefiting the Institute of Agriculture and Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics. Hollingsworth was the founder of the LaFollette Development Corporation, a founder of First Federal Savings and Loan, … Continued
Four-Star General Bruce Holloway studied engineering at the University of Tennessee for two years (1929–31) before entering the United States Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1937. After receiving his pilot wings at Kelly Field in San Antonio in 1938, he served for two years with the Sixth Pursuit Squadron and 18th Pursuit Group … Continued
Condredge Holloway excelled at both baseball and football. He was a shortstop on the baseball team and quarterback of the football team from 1972 to 1974, the first African American quarterback to start in the SEC. During his three years as the Vols’ signal caller, he guided UT to a 25-9-2 record and amassed 4,068 … Continued
Dr. John Fred Holly Jr., who earned a master’s degree from UT in 1938, joined the university’s faculty in 1947. From 1949 to 1951, he served as head of the Department of Labor Relations and from 1951 to 1968 as head of the Department of Economics. He retired from the university in 1978. He was … Continued
Andy Holt, who would become UT’s 16th president on June 18, 1959, joined the UT staff in 1950 as administrative assistant to then-president C. E. Brehm. His primary responsibility was to seek working arrangements with other elements of Tennessee public education—from the State Department of Education, through the state colleges and high schools, to the … Continued
On May 14, 1960, the first formal inauguration of a UT president since the 1904 inauguration of Dr. Brown Ayres was held in the Fieldhouse-Armory to install the 16th president, Dr. Andrew D. Holt. Dr. Grayson Kirk delivered the inaugural address. The UT Chorus and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra performed. Professor David Van Vactor, conductor … Continued
A Home Economics Club was first organized in February 1917 to establish a closer relationship among students and to promote student activities on the Hill.
Home Management Houses were a practical application of the course work in the household management curriculum that had been introduced in 1915 in the then Department of Home Economics. In 1918 the university rented a house at 818 Main Avenue, between the location of Home Economics (Tennessee Hall) and the Hill to serve as an … Continued