In January 1987, just days before C. Warren Neel returned to full-time employment as dean of the College of Business, State Attorney General W. J. Michael Cody issued an opinion stating that UT’s payment of an annual salary supplement of $23,562 to him, representing the difference between his salary as dean and his salary as … Continued

The Salute to the Hill performance before each home football game by the Pride of the Southland Band was first executed on September 17, 1994, before the Florida game. As the band marches from the Music Building to the stadium, it stops at the corner of Andy Holt Avenue and Philip Fulmer Way (formerly Stadium … Continued

In spring 1988 Aquatic Center personnel had the shuffleboard courts behind the center removed and replaced with a sand volleyball court. The court was designed and built by program director Alan Lambert.

The 1958 edition of Tennessee Studies in Literature contained a new poem by Carl Sandburg, written especially for UT. The poem, “World Series Analects for Adult Education” is in free verse and took “a quizzical look at what’s good in books,” according to Dr. Alvin Thaler, coeditor of the publication. Sandburg was a personal friend … Continued

Edward Sanford received two bachelor’s degrees when he graduated from the university in 1883 (the AB and the PhB). Active in student life at the university, he became business manager of the Chi Delta Crescent in January 1882, succeeding Milton Ochs, who became editor in chief. He received, additionally, the AB (1885), MA, and LLB … Continued

Jennifer Santoro Stanley was one of 32 Rhodes scholars chosen from a field of 1,256 applicants in 1994. She completed her political science undergraduate work at UT in three years and, before completing the bachelor’s, studied at the London School of Economics, where she earned the master’s in economics with a concentration in international political … Continued

Jim Sasser attended the university in 1954–55, and then completed his undergraduate and law studies at Vanderbilt. Sasser began his political career by assisting in Estes Kefauver’s 1960 US Senate campaign. He served as Tennessee Democratic Party chairman from 1973 to 1976. He was elected to the US Senate in 1976 and was twice reelected. … Continued

Saturday classes ceased to be held in fall 1987 when UT moved from the Monday/Wednesday/Friday and Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday schedule to one that lengthened the classes on Tuesday and Thursday.

In spring 1987 UT and Saturn Corporation entered into a mutual assistance agreement that included projects in research and personnel-related areas. Officials from both organizations signed a formal agreement to form a long-term relationship “to share and exchange information and resources” of mutual benefit. In the first major project, the UT Graduate School of Library … Continued

Dr. Savage joined the faculty of the university’s Department of Nutrition and Food Science in 1949. She served as associate dean of the College of Home Economics (later the College of Human Ecology and now part of the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) from 1984 until her retirement in 1986. In 1983 she … Continued