Beginning in 1965, a Grand Champion Tennessee Walking Horse pranced along the sidelines during pregame activities at home football games. In 1980 the artificial surface of the field was replaced with a new product, Super Turf, and at the September 6, 1980, Georgia game, the horse slid on the new turf and almost fell. Special … Continued

UT and the City of Knoxville jointly constructed a walkway for students to use in getting from Presidential Court to the Strip, which was finished in fall 1980. Planning began in the summer of 1979. The walkway extends about nine hundred feet from the presidential courtyard to Terrace Avenue and then to Lake Avenue. It … Continued

Knoxville native William L. Wallace was a premed student at UT in 1927–28 and received the MD degree from the UT Medical Units in 1932. He had been a medical missionary in China for the Southern Baptists for several years when the Korean conflict began in June 1950. He was conducting the business of superintendent … Continued

World War II, Korean War, gubernatorial (for Tennessee Governors Clement and Ellington), airline (Capitol Airways), and private company (Warren Limestone) pilot George Wallace became UT’s first flight operations pilot in 1965. When Warren Limestone was sold, the plane he had been flying for Bob Anderson was also to be sold. Wallace went to Dr. Andrew … Continued

Statistics Professor Dale Fox spearheaded the addition of walleyball as a new sport offered by the Sports Clubs Office in 1987. Walleyball is a combination of racquetball and volleyball. Played on a racquetball court with a volleyball, it is played like volleyball, except that the players are allowed to bounce the ball off the walls … Continued

The French wallpaper of outdoor scenes in the dining room at Crescent Bend is on loan from the university. The wallpaper was intended for Andrew Jackson’s The Hermitage in Nashville. When Jackson’s daughter-in-law decided against using the wallpaper, Col. Joseph Scott bought some for his 1830 Knoxville home. The paper was removed from Scott’s home … Continued

James G. (Jimmy) Walls taught introductory geology courses at UT from 1930 to 1977, coached the golf team, directed Neyland Stadium ticket arrangements, and supervised ushering at UT basketball games. He also served as Knox County Welfare Director from 1956 to 1966. He gained enormous popularity and respect from students for his enjoyable teaching style, … Continued

Patricia L. Walne joined the UT faculty in the Botany Department in 1966 and retired from UT in 2000. She earned the bachelor’s degree from Hanover College, a master’s degree from Indiana University, and the PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. She was the author of many scientific articles and several books, primarily … Continued

The Walters Life Sciences Building is a 150,621-square-foot facility, located on the site of UT’s first intercollegiate athletics field (Wait Field). Work on the building was begun in January 1974, and it was completed in 1977 at a cost of $7,866,000. The building was designed by the firms of McCarty Bullock and Holsaple and Weeks … Continued

Herbert S. Walters was one of the first individuals to establish a charitable trust through which 70 percent of his estate came to UT after providing a life estate for his wife. Walters died in 1973, and the trust provided that life estate until the death of his widow in 1989, when the trust reverted … Continued