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William Everett Derryberry, St. John's College, BA 1932 MA 1940; had a 34-year academic career as president of Tennessee Technological University, where he oversaw the transformation of the school from a campus of a few acres and a few buildings with 700 students and 31 faculty members to a university comprising six colleges and schools on 235 ...
The new, non-sectarian, all-male, white-only institution struggled for 13 years with a small student body and faculty, and in 1807, the school was rechartered as East Tennessee College as a condition of receiving the proceeds from the settlement devised in the Compact of 1806.
UT Knoxville is the flagship campus of the UT System, based in Knoxville.The largest university in the state, it has a current total enrollment of 27,523. UT awarded 6,345 degrees in over 300 programs in the 2009–10 academic year.
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Charles W. Cansler (1871–1953), Austin High School principal, civil rights advocate and author; William Henderson Franklin (1852–1935), educator, minister, journalist, and founder of Swift Memorial College [9] [10] [11] Thomas William Humes (1815–1892), president of the University of Tennessee (1865–1883)
The Knoxville Area Transit partnership is another step for the University of Tennessee at Knoxville as it reimagines parking for the fall semester.
The 1940s brought women into the band. Two of the first women to play with the band were Martha Carroll, who played the lyre, and Marjorie Abbott, a marimba player. By 1946, women outnumbered the male members of the band, due to World War II and the death of male students. By 1949, the band was once again all male, but retained female majorettes.