The Send Roses Award began in March 1987 as an outgrowth of the Courtesy Benefits Everyone program of the Personnel Department. Ann R. Tillette, a Book and Supply Store (renamed VolShop in 2013) employee, was first to be honored as the Most Courteous Employee of the Month by a visit from Chancellor Jack Reese, bearing … Continued

In 1938 the senior class first celebrated a Senior Holiday. Seniors had a holiday from classes and participated in a program designed to increase class spirit and arouse interest in future Alumni Association activity. The first holiday (and many in succeeding years) was at Big Ridge State Park. The only requirement for attendance was that … Continued

See Aloha Oe.

The Senior Seat was a stone bench immediately across from the front (Cumberland Avenue) entrance to Ayres Hall. This seat was reserved for use by seniors. It was replaced in its former position during the renovation of Ayres (2009–10) on the patio that had originally been part of the design for the building.

In summer 1971 the Student Senate produced this 50-page pamphlet and distributed it to more than two thousand Summer Orientation participants.

Senter Hall was completed in 2001 as the White Avenue Biology Annex to provide surge space for functions that had to be relocated to allow Hesler Biology Building to be renovated. The teaching greenhouse, labs, offices, and classrooms were relocated to this facility in the two-phase renovation of Hesler. A second facility, the Neyland Drive … Continued

The University of Tennessee was chartered as Blount College on September 10, 1794, by the Legislature of the Southwest Territory, meeting in Knoxville at the call of the governor of the territory, William Blount.

The entire campus community mourned the victims of the September 11, 2001, bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the hijacking of the airplanes, which constituted a synchronized set of terrorist attacks. The Student Government Association and Team VOLS worked together to create and sell for $1 blue ribbons, the proceeds from … Continued

The SEC and all other major sporting entities cancelled intercollegiate football games scheduled for September 15, 2001, following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11. UT was scheduled to play Florida. The conference also announced that the member schools would contribute $1 million from gate receipts and television fees to funds … Continued

UT students and members of the Knoxville community gathered in Circle Park on the evening of September 11, 2002, for a candlelight vigil commemorating the one-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. An American flag and a torch illuminated the front of the gathering as the Love United Gospel Choir began the vigil … Continued