University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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John Christopher Haskins . Newbern, Tenn. Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering His nature is one large expansive smile. Phi Kappa Phi; Athletic Association; Engineering Society; Scrub Baseball Team, ’ 7-’o8-’o9; Substitute on Varsity, ’09; Captain of Scrub Baseball Team, ’09; Class Football Team, ’10; Class Baseball Team, ’o7-’io. Thesis—Design of a Reinforced Concrete Arch. “Red” “Billiken” Whatever you may choose to call him he is still the same old smiling “Red.” He has been mixed up in everything in college, from being a member of P. K. P. to the little “pink-tea parties” on the side of the Hill. You can generally find him uptown, for he is a great patron of the cue and moving spheres game. It isn’t hard to explain how he got the name of “Billiken,” for he will smile if you only tarry about two seconds in his presence, and show you without your tickling his feet. Knoxville, Tenn. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering He is a soldier ft to stand by Cccsar and give directions. Battalion Sergeant-Major, ’o8-’o9; First Lieutenant and Battalion Adjutant, ’o9-'io; Member Y. M. C. A., ’05-’°7; Engineering Society; Rifle Club. Thesis—The Storage Battery. “C. C.” The first of the two specimens—the second to follow on the next page. “C. C.” has done nothing to set the Hill afire during his four years, but has gone along in his own way, absorbing a bit of engineering lore into his “noodle,” and imparting quite a lot of military science. We believe that the beat of the drum and the footsteps of the soldiers will always have an attraction for him, and it will fall to his lot after death to command a com- pany of angels, or, who knows—be Satan’s first captain. 29

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John Frank Farrow . Alamo, Tenn. Bachelor Scientific Agriculture 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we I I do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. Phi Kappa Phi; Agricultural Club; Y. M. C. A.; Athletic Association; Philo; Forward, Sophomore Basketball Team; Critic and Vice-President of Agricultural Club; Student Assistant in Botany. “Hot Dog Yes—an exponent of the cultivation and improvement of the soil. His nickname was well deserved and has stuck to him. “Hot Dog” early became famous as a member of the” Hair Splitters,” and would almost rather prove that he was right than be the leading participant at a “feet-shuffling” contest. Does all work with enthu- siasm, and will make good if the “femmes” don’t occupy his mind too much. Pikeville, Tenn. Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering A little too wise, they say, do ne’er live long. President of Freshman Class; Manager Class Basket- ball Team, ’09; Y. M. C. A.; President Y. M. C. A., ’09-’IO; Corresponding Secretary Y. M. C. A., ’o8-’o9; Delegate to Ashville Conference, ’07, to Rochester Con- ference, ’io; Philo; Philo Debater, ’ 10; Athletic Associa- tion; Philo’s Declaimer and Winner Intersociety Con- test, ’08; Treasurer Philo, ’09; Critic, ’09; Editor Star and Crescent; Intersociety Debate, ’09; Class Basketball Team, ’07-’!o; Captain of Winning Class Team, ’09; Manager Students’ Association, ’09 ’i0; Business Man- ager Engineering Annual, '10; Engineering Society, ’o9-’io; Student Member Debaters’ Council, ’10; Co- operative Boarding Club; Mogul Club; Orator from Engineering Department; President Philo; President Engineering Society. This specimen, which was never known to be sad, was taken captive by Uncle Billy while on a survey of Bledsoe County; Uncle Billy was scrambling up a peak, and caught a supposed sapling, but this quasi sapling proved to be the slender support of this gentleman. By hard labor he was led to the University of Tennessee, where he has since become very tame and a great favor- ite. The girls all say, “ain’t he cute.” As a student, orator, and manager he stands in the front rank, and for the past year his first word to strangers has been, “Wouldn’t you like an ad?” In his singing periods Henry has been known to have disturbed the whole Hill, but his ability to provide corn-dodgers and twenty-two's, with onions and hot water potatoes, is more than a balance for this defect. Henry Garfield Hart

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Curtis Lafayette Henderson . Knoxville, Tenn. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Courage, the mighty attributi' of powers above, By which those great in war are great in love. Engineering Society; Rifle Club; Athletic Associa- tion; Second Sergeant, Co. B, '07-'08; First Lieutenant, Co. B, ’o8-’o9; Captain, Co. A, ’09-’ 1 o; Captain of Company winning Competitive Drill, '09-’10. Thesis—Application of the Circle Diagram to the Three-Phase Induction Motor. The second or revised edition. It is said that second editions are always the best, but we won’t say that for fear of starring a family row. C. L. doesn’t feel natural unless he is marching up and down with a sword jang- ling at his side and bellowing forth commands. If he had only lived in the ages gone by he would certainly have been as great a general as Cajsar, Hannibal, or Alexander the Great. Nannie Lee Hicks . . . Knoxville, Tenn. Bachelor of Science Ever level and ever true To the toil and task she has to do. To Nannie Lee much praise is due—a maiden of steadfast purpose—demure but determined—quiet bur energetic. Of her Shakespeare might have been speak- ing when he said, “A maiden never bold; of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion blushed at herself.” Only in the Chemistry Lab has Nannie Lee ever been jarred out of her usual equanimity—and who would not be in Junior Chemistry? 3°