In May 2003, during the SEC Track and Field Championships at Tom Black Track, the Track and Field Office Complex was named for Don and Flo Jones, in recognition of their contribution to the Athletics Department’s Step Up campaign for athletics facilities. Jones, a UT Geology graduate, has also endowed a scholarship in the Department … Continued

Allan Jones attended MTSU but left before graduating to join his father’s business, Cleveland Credit Bureau Services. He parlayed his financial services knowledge into establishing and serving as chairman of Check Into Cash Inc., a payday advance company with more than seven hundred installations nationwide. An avid wrestling enthusiast, he founded and financed the first … Continued

Lyle Allen “Butch” Jones was introduced as Tennessee’s 24th head football coach on December 2012. He previously coached at Cincinnati from 2010 to 2012 and Central Michigan University (CMU) from 2007 to 2009. A Michigan native, he played college football at Ferris State University. His record as a head coach was 50-27 (.649). The charismatic … Continued

Clayton M. Jones was named chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Rockwell Collins in June 2002. Jones joined Rockwell International in 1979. He received a Rockwell-sponsored fellowship in 1982 to participate in the White House Executive Exchange program, and in 1988 he was named vice president of aerospace government affairs and marketing at Rockwell … Continued

I. King Jordan earned the master’s (1971) and the doctorate (1973) in psychology from UT. He became profoundly deaf as the result of a motorcycle accident at the age of 21. Upon receiving his doctorate, Dr. Jordan joined the faculty of Gallaudet University’s Department of Psychology, from which he had earned the BA in 1970. … Continued

Wilma Jordan entered UT in 1966. In 1970 she and a group of UT students formed what eventually became 13-30 Corporation, a specialty magazine publisher. In 1979 the corporation bought Esquire, a magazine with strong tradition and a dismal balance sheet. The corporation moved Esquire’s finances into the black in 1983, when it was named … Continued

The Joseph LeConte Scientific Society was formed on January 12, 1898. Active membership was limited to professors, instructors, and members of the Experiment Station staff. The first president of the society was Charles Ferris, and its purpose was to encourage original investigation along scientific lines among members; to keep members informed on the important scientific … Continued

The annual Journal and Tribune Cross-Country run began on Thanksgiving Day 1920. It was originally a three-mile race from Cherokee Country Club to Wait Field (where Walters Life Sciences now is). The prizes, provided by Mr. Frederick T. Bonham, business manager of the Journal and Tribune, were a gold medal for first place, a silver … Continued

Dr. Don Huisingh, senior research specialist in the Energy Environment and Resources Center, started the journal in 1993 and served as its editor-in-chief. It provides an interdisciplinary international forum for the exchange of information on technologies, tools, educational innovations, and policies designed to support sustainable development.

A two-day symposium in fall 1973 celebrated the first issue of the Journal of Religious Ethics, established at UT Knoxville and first edited by Professor Charles Reynolds. The keynote address of the symposium was delivered by Professor James Luther Adams of the University of Chicago. Adams indicated that the journal was first conceived a decade … Continued