Clarence Brown
Armed with two degrees in engineering and with an automobile business, Clarence Brown forged a plot twist in his life by becoming an eight-time Academy Award nominee during Hollywood’s rise ... Read more
Jimmy and Dee Haslam
Dee Haslam was just 17 when she began working in the television business for her father, cable production pioneer Ross K. Bagwell Sr. Jimmy Haslam grew up spending Saturdays working with ... Read more
Peyton Manning
By PHILLIP FULMER What could possibly be said about Peyton Manning that hasn’t been said before? Many times? Maybe a thing or two, from my perspective as one of his former ... Read more
Margaret Perry
When Margaret Perry became UT Martin’s sixth chancellor, she also began a string of firsts. She was first UT Martin alumna to serve as the institution’s chancellor and the first woman ... Read more
Reggie White
Everything Reggie White pursued, he did with intentionality, mindful of the legacy he hoped to leave behind. “Most people don’t live like how they want to be remembered,” says his daughter, ... Read more
Carol Varnadore Aebersold
Growing up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Carol Aebersold had an elf doll named Fisbee who, according to her parents, kept his eye on her for Santa. She continued the Fisbee tradition ... Read more
Davan Maharaj
Davan Maharaj approached his time at UT Chattanooga as any future journalist would: with curiosity and a focus on finding a good story. That curiosity is why he attended a different ... Read more
Everyman/Everywoman
Taken as a whole, the 370,000 living alumni of UT campuses share some characteristics that help define the “average” UT grad. Overwhelmingly, UT graduates live in Tennessee, home of 61.6 ... Read more
James “Bucky” Wolford
“We were taught the importance of a team. We won as a team. We lost as a team.” The lessons James “Bucky” Wolford learned while playing football at UT Chattanooga ... Read more
Bill Landry
For more than 30 years, Bill Landry has given voice to a region—telling stories and capturing a history that otherwise might be lost. Landry is an award-winning TV host and ... Read more
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle
While traveling on Air Force One in May 2012, Nancy-Ann Min DeParle, assistant to the U.S. president and deputy White House chief of staff for policy, learned that President Barack ... Read more
Lindsay Young
Lawyer. Coal company executive. Avid hiker. Dog lover. That was Lindsay Young, described by the Knoxville News Sentinel as “a generousphilanthropist who generally stayed out of the limelight.” Young died ... Read more
Julius Johnson
Julius Johnson grew up Forbus, Tennessee, in Fentress County, near the Tennessee-Kentucky border in what many know as Alvin “Sergeant” York country. From his involvement with 4-H as a boy ... Read more
Alan Wilson
UT has always been the critical ingredient in Alan Wilson’s recipe for success. “I bleed orange and have since the day I stepped on campus,” he once said in a ... Read more
Tamika Catchings
The difference between hearing and listening can be profound. And, for one of only nine women to win an Olympic gold medal, an NCAA championship and a WNBA championship, she ... Read more
Lindsey Nelson
One of America’s best-known sportscasters got his start as a Tennessee football play-by-play announcer during the era of legendary Gen. Robert R. Neyland. The football stadium eventually bore the coach’s ... Read more
Barry Wilmore
Five hours had already passed inside his space suit as Barry Wilmore prepared to walk outside the International Space Station. Now, the hatch would open and his work with a ... Read more
Jim Powell
After he graduated from Bellevue High School in Nashville, a $250 hardship scholarship to UT Knoxville opened doors for Jim Powell. Now, he helps open those doors for others. After ... Read more
Bill Rhodes
Memphis native Bill Rhodes’ path to becoming chairman, president and CEO of AutoZone began with the swing of a golf club. As a member of the UT Martin Pacer golf ... Read more
