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

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-w -Photographic Ht Services Westward Expansion Though students may often wonder, the university did not have its beginnings in the dark ages. It started as a private school in 1794 in a home on the Holston River and four years later it was moved tq a two- story frame building in downtown Knoxville. Finally, in 1826. trustees of the college bought 40 acres on ttthat hill west of Knoxville and named it Barbara Hill in honor of Barbara Blount. daughter of Gov. William Blount and one of the first stu- dents to graduate from the original Blount College. UT is the 28th oldest college in the nation and the oldest and Of the five buildings that made up Blount College in 1875. only South College Ifar leftl remains standing to- day. The three buildings at the top of the Hill. East College. Old College and West College, were used as a hospital by Confederate and later by the Union armies. The front building is Humes Hall, the first student dormitory and the center street below is Cumberland Avenue. now known as the Strip. largest in Tennessee. And, as Blount College, it was the first in the nation to adopt a coeducational policy. The college name was changed to East Tennessee College when an 1806 act of Congress granted public land to the college from the state. The school had been in serious financial trouble when its first president, Samuel Garrick, died in 1809. Failing to raise money to keep the college going, the building was used as a preparatory school and a night school tone of the firstl. But the college was eventually reopened in 1820. Twenty years later, the name was changed to East Tennessee University which enabled the school to offer programs in medicine and law. It may be hard to believe, but students and teachers used to carry buckets of water up the Hill for use during the class day. Finally. around 1850, a waterworks system was in- stalled. Water was pumped to the building through lead pipes by a waterwheel located at the bottom of the Hill. Unfortunately, the Con- federate army found better uses for the lead pipe in the Civil War when they tore it out for military use. Occupied dur- ing the war by both Union and Confederate troops, the uni- versity was temporarily closed. With the war over and BTU having been loyal to the Union, the school was provided with federal funds to build South College as a dormitory in 1872. In the early 19203, the Old College Building on top of the Hill was reconstructed and renamed Ayres Hall - which, over the years, has become the university's symbol. Humes Hall gone from the foreground, the newness of Buehler Hall already conceals the old South College building behind it. But just as the tower of Ayres Hall rises above the new. so will that tOWer always be a symbol of campus. elim Sexton Campusfl 3

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Wasting precious energy, Glocker is known for its faulty heating system, In- door temperatures often reached as high as the 803 in warm weather. December 1966 saw Stokely Athletics Center completed just in time for its first game. The new building must have been charmed. because the Vols beat Michigan 7254, The two arched windows to the left of the covered entrance at Strong Hall conceal the first campus cafeteria ever lo be conlained in a residence hall. 14hCampus iGuillermo Palomo v t Glocker Business Admin. Building 1000 Volunteer eGuiliermo Palomo !Owen Poveda Expansion With all of the money spent on constructing a building, it seems ironic that when Strong Hall was built as a women's dorm in 1924, the new resi- dents were apparently enchanted by a mere full- length mirror. After the '203, construction slowed until the '505 when Taylor Law Building, Perkins Hall, Glocker Business Ad- ministration Building. Carolyn P. Brown University Center, Claxton Education Building, Memorial Research Center and Hospital and Stokely Athletics Center were built. The construction was fund- ed by a 1947 state sales tax that enabled state legislators to ap- propriate five million dollars over the next five years. Glocker was built in the '505 and named after an emeritus dean, Theodore W. Glocker, who made his contribution as a Hpioneer in business studies. Claxton Education Building was built in 1965, with air con- ditioning, still a novelty at the time. It was dedicated to one of Tennessee's foremost educators, who founded the Department of Education, later to become the College of Partially hidden behind a cloud of thin, bare branches, Claxton Education Building, built in 1956, will soon be com- plemented by its new addition