University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange President's Annual Report Office of the esidentPr 6-17-1976 Annual Report of the President, the University of Tennessee to the Board of Trustees, 1975-1976: People Serving People Edward J. Boling University of Tennessee - Knoxville Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_presrep Recommended Citation Boling, Edward J., "Annual Report of the President, the University of Tennessee to the Board of Trustees, 1975-1976: People Serving People" (1976). President's Annual Report. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_presrep/5 This Report is brought to you for free and open access by the Office of the President at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in President's Annual Report by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Members of the UT Board of Trustees, photographed at the annual meeting on June 17, 1976, are, seated, left to right: Tom Elam; Mrs. Ann Baker Furrow; UT President Edward J. Boling; Mrs. Elaine McReynolds; Clyde York; second row: Wayne Fisher; Emmett Edwards; Buford Goldstein; E.S. Bevins Jr.; Commissioner of Agriculture Edward Porter; Paul Kinser; third row: Leonard Raulston; Harry Laughlin; o.H. Freeland (administrative assistant representing the Governor); William M. Johnson; Lee Winchester; Don Shadow; Commissioner of Education Sam Ingram; Dr. Marcus Stewart; Dr. Wayne Brown, Executive Director of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission; Dr. Frank Bowyer; and Ben Douglass. Not pictured are Governor Ray Blanton and Amon Carter Evans. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 1975-76 His Excellency, the Governor of Tennessee, Ex-Officio The Commissioner of Education, Ex-Officio The Commissioner of Agriculture, Ex-Officio The President of the University, Ex-Officio The Executive Director of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, Ex-Officio From Congressional Districts From Anderson, Bedford, F rom Knox County First-Buford Goldstein, Elizabethton Coffee, Franklin, Lincoln, Ann Baker Furrow, Knoxville Second-E.S. Bevins, Jr., Concord Moore, and Warren Counties Frank P. Bowyer, Knoxville Third-Leonard Raulston, Lookout Mountain Don O. Shadow, Winchester From Shelby County Fourth-William M. Johnson, Sparta From Davidson County Harry W. Laughlin, Memphis Fifth-Amon Carter Evans, Nashville Elaine McReynolds, Nashville Marcus J. Stewart, Memphis Sixth-Clyde M. York, Columbia F rom Hamilton County From Weakley County Seventh-Ben Douglass, Lexington Paul J. Kinser, Chattanooga Wayne Fisher, Dresden Eighth-Tom Elam, Union City Student Member Ninth-Lee Winchester, Memphis Emmett Edwards Annual Report, The University 0/ Tennessee, 1975-76 The University of Tennessee is To others it is the institution which For this purpose Maury County, near many things to many people. trains the physicians, dentists, teachers, the center of the state, was selected as To some it is a place to obtain an lawyers, engineers and other professional an area with which most if not all other education, leading to a more satisfying specialists who are essential to the counties of Tennessee can readily and productive life. public welfare. identify. To still others it is a problem-solving Maury County contains 610 square and service-assisting organization, miles and has a population estimated reaching out to the people of the state at 46,500. Its county seat is Columbia, through its extensive research and home of America's 11th President, James public service agencies. K. Polk, and its other towns and (An Example) To everyone the University is a people­ communities are Mount Pleasant, Spring serving institution which either directly Hill, Williamsport, Hampshire, Glendale, M URY or indirectly touches the life of every Culleoka, McCains, Sandy Hook, COUNTY • Tennessean-people serving people. Rockdale, Sante Fe, and Fly. • As an illustration of the various ways The county has both agricultural and that the University serves its people, industrial resources. It is the home of this Annual Report focuses upon the Columbia State Community College, institution's close relationships with Columbia Military Academy, 16 public one of Tennessee's ninety-five counties. schools enrol\ing more than 14,000 students, and 80 churches. ® ® JOHNSON CITY X MARTIN COOKE��LLE OAK RIDGE ._0 • NASHVILLE X- (f). CWARTBURGO- GREENEVILLE x LEGEND 0 •• x CROSSVILLE O KNOXVILLE Academic Campuses Agricultural Extension 0 Service District Offices Extension Leaders and Agents • Agricultural Experiment Stations 0 4-H Centers . T OAMES PLANTA ION Institute for Public Service Regional Offices X UT Services in at Kingsport and Oak Ridge, and to rural families by agents of the Every County of Tennessee in evening schools and extension classes. Agricultural Extension Service. Research is conducted by nine research Public service, which involves helping As Tennessee's State University and agencies, such as the Agricultural businessmen, industrialists, Federal Land-Grant Institution, Experiment Station, the Engineering government officials, and others The University of Tennessee sponsors Experiment Station, the Center for solve their individual problems, programs of instruction, research, and Business and Economic Research, the is coordinated by the University's public service throughout the state. Water Resources Center, and in Institute for Public Service. Classroom instruction is offered at every department of the institution. In addition to these services are the five major campuses-Knoxville, New knowledge in agriculture and the contributions made by the Martin, Chattanooga, Nashville, and instructional programs is University's alumni-professional Memphis-and at the UT Space Institute taken directly from the experiment people who settle in the various counties at Tullahoma, the Graduate Centers station and the College of Agriculture of Tennessee to work and live. 1 MauryStudents Atten All UT uses As it does from every county in Business Administration degree, the UT Tennessee, as well as from every state Nash iUe Division of Business and many foreign countries, the Admmistration offers a part of its MBA University draws the youth of Maury urricu/um at Columbia State Community Col/ege. Evelyn Miskiewicz, who lives in County to its several campuses. Maury County and works full time as a In the fall quarter of 1975, the start of computer programmer analyst for the 1975-76 academic year 244 students Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. from Maury County were enrolled in UT. in olumbia, takes advantage of this Of this number, 139 took classes at the chance to pursue the MBA degree, to go Knoxville campus; 59 at UT Nashville; with her bachelor's degree from Ursinus 26 at UT Martin; 19 at the UT Center for C liege. the Health Sciences in Memphis; and one at UT Chattanooga. These students are preparing for a wide variety of careers-as physicians, nurses, lawyers, teachers, psychologists, home economists, social workers-all of which will in turn serve others in their On VT Knoxville ampus- Two Andy Holt Scholars from one family may be communities. considered a minor miracle. But the brother-sister team of Neil and Janice UT Enrollments Worley from Hampshire Mau ry County is Continue to Rise in supported at UT Knoxville by two of the Maury County's 244 students helped four-year $3, 000 stipends awarded by the to make up one of the largest university UT National Alumni Association. This year student bodies in the nation, ranking Neil was named the "Outstanding 16th in size in the fall of 1975. Sophomore" in the College of Agriculture. On VT Memphis Campus-According to While many institutions have Janice is finishing her freshman year in schedule, John A. Draper will have his M.D. experienced losses in numbers of engineering science. degree in December. John, the son of Mrs. students, or at least a leveling off John A. Draper of Columbia, is in his final year of studies in the College of Medicine at in enrollment The University of Memphis. He is interested in specializing in Tennessee continues to experience a internal medicine. yearly increase. The table below shows that the headcount enrollment on all campuses rose 3,642, or 8 per cent, in the fall of 1975 over the fall of 1974. Fall quarter enrollments for 1974 and 1975 for all five UT campuses were as follows: Campus 1974 1975 Knoxville 28,011 29,999 Center for the Health Sciences 2,419 2,594 Chattanooga 5,034 5,808 Martin 4,978 5,188 Nashville 4,998 5,493 Enrolled at VT Nashville-It's an hour's drive from Columbia to downtown On UT Knoxville Campus-A pair of Total 45,440 49,082 Nashville. For Maury Countians who vocalists from Columbia have added to the otherwise would have to drive to Nashville attractiveness of the University's musical (Source: Office of Institutional Research) for courses leading to the Master of ambassadors, the widely traueled UT 3 Singers. Sue Coleman Truelove, left, a university. Larry Lockridge, a native of former Singer, is taking graduate coursesin Spring Hill in Maury County, works in the College of Education at Knoxville; and Nashville as a structural draftsman and Ethel Harris is a junior majoring in attends UTN in his off-work hours. Married journalism who has been with the Singers and 28 years old, Larry made the winter for two years. quarter honor roll, majoring in engineering. Not all Maury Countians have Larry's travel advantage. Evelyn Carpenter, a Columbia housewife, commuted 50 miles to and from evening classes until she gother B.S. in education-with high honors-last December. On VT Memphis Campus-Sarah Simpkins, a MauryCountian, is afirst-year dentistry student at the UT Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis. Last year she finished pre-dental studies at UT's Knoxville On VTM artin Campus-James Hawkins campus. Sarah is the daughter of Dr. and divided his boyhood years between two Mrs.