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2013–2014 IMPACT REPORT
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You make a BIG difference!
Because of you, our university partners, UT received an increase of 40 percent over last year’s fundraising total.
Together, more than 35,000 individuals and corporate partners made gifts totaling nearly $131 million to the university;
however, true success is measured by enhanced educational experiences for our students.
With almost 60 percent of undergraduate students receiving financial aid, you help give deserving students access
to the state’s flagship university. A student’s scholarship dollars and your additional investment in the university give
students more than just an opportunity for a degree. You are allowing students to be taught by top-notch faculty
who inspire them, have accountability and collaboration through a living community dorm experience, participate in
leadership training, and travel the world.
As you’ll see on the following pages, this report highlights
a small portion of your great impact. Your investments are
improving the student experience. You are meeting needs
through book stipends, new buildings, and classroom
technology. You are also preparing students for the workplace
and the world.
Your generosity is creating something larger and more powerful
than all of us—you are transforming lives.
Thank you,
Scott Rabenold
Vice-Chancellor for Development & Alumni Affairs
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Engineering was always Cassie Finney’s career goal, and
as a resident of a UT Learning Community, she is
Living Knowledge
A self-proclaimed science geek, Cassie Finney still
remembers being captivated as she watched a penny
dissolve during a high school chemistry experiment. Her
fire for the sciences flourished when she lived with other
engineering techies in Morrill Hall during her freshman
year. The Engage Living and Learning Community—one of
eighteen living and learning communities at UT—offers a
360-degree approach to learning by pairing the conventional
residence hall experience with tailored academic learning
centered on engineering.
Donor Impact:
$6.4 million given
for merit-based
scholarships.
“I know I thrived because I lived in Engage,” says Finney. “I
can’t even picture my first year of college without it. I hadn’t
taken physics in high school, so the material was all brand
new to me. And, thankfully, I had a floor of roommates who
were willing to help me when I needed it.
“We shared the same classes, did our homework together,
studied together, had dinner together, tutored one another,
encouraged and pushed each other. That community was 90
percent of my life, and I loved every minute of it.
“It’s camaraderie like no other, because we were all in it
together. And I’ve made friendships that will last a lifetime.”
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For public relations major Alexander Perry, a
need-based scholarship meant
Supporting Dreams
For sophomore Alexander Perry, the Regal Scholarship
erased difficult questions like “what if I have to work a
few part-time jobs?” or “what if my parents have to work
overtime constantly or sign their names to loans they cannot
afford?” Dedicated to students from families making less
than $40,000 a year, the $2,500 scholarship helps lift the
economic weight from forty UT students from Knox County
annually.
The Regal Entertainment Group’s foundation invests
$100,000 every year in the scholarship. Much like the
need-based Tennessee Pledge Scholarship, it makes higher
education more than just a dream for students from lowincome families.
“It was such a surreal moment for me when I received the
letter congratulating me on receiving the scholarship,” says
Perry. “And the tears came because I knew what this would
mean, not just for me, but my family. My books and fees are
covered.
“I can see my graduation day. I can see me going to graduate
school for a master’s degree. I didn’t have to find a way; a
way was made.”
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Donor Impact:
$7.2 million given
for need-based
scholarships.
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Donor Impact:
Almost $10
million given
for graduate
assistantships.
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Carrie Sease and Hanna Powell are learning valuable
lessons in marketing and at the same time
Growing Traditions
With fashion as a muse, Hanna Powell (’14) and Carrie Sease
(’14) were able to venture into product development, brand
management, and marketing because of The Rocky Top
Institute, established by the heirs of “Rocky Top” composers
Boudleaux and Felice Bryant.
“The royalties are split between the Bryant family and UT,”
says Powell, “with UT’s portion supporting the Rocky Top
Institute (housed in the Retail and Consumer Sciences
Program) and the Pride of the Southland Band. But that is
only part of story.
“This is an investment that changed my academic course
and that of so many others. I was engrossed in a real-world
project of coming up with an idea that retailers want to sell.
You have to sell ideas and understand pricing, marketing,
and promotion while looking at target markets and what they
want to buy. You learn these theories in the classroom, but
there is nothing like it when you are able to apply it in the real
world.
Carrie Sease adds, “A Rocky Top Institute fellowship afforded
me the opportunity to see these theories come to life in Paris,
the fashion capital of Europe.”
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Brad Collett leads a team of landscape architect
students who are
Designing the Future
In 2011, Assistant Professor Brad Collett joined the faculty
of UT’s new graduate landscape architecture program. Since
that time, he has overseen four demonstration projects as
part of Plan East Tennessee: A Regional Partnership of East
Tennessee Communities. One of these projects, in Townsend,
allowed Collett and students Clint Wayman (left) and
Brandon Orrick (right) to create a long-term visioning plan
that included a public greenway along the Little Tennessee
River, a walkable town center, and a civic gathering space.
Collett says, “The program is offered through a partnership
between the colleges of Architecture and Design and
Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, which gives us a
strategic advantage to deliver an education balanced across
both art and science. Our interest in landscape extends far
beyond aesthetics and is inclusive of its performance, its
restorative capabilities, and its sustainability as a living system.
A generous endowment held in trust from Bill and Donna
Cobble played a central role in the program’s funding.
“As the first and only landscape architecture program in
the state, we’ll be able to look at questions from a unique
perspective—one that has never before been contemplated
academically in Tennessee.”
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Donor Impact:
More than 2,200
faculty and staff
made donations
last year.
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Donor Impact:
$40.1 million given
for college outreach
projects and
strategic priorities.
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For accounting major Ashley Stewart, funding from a
charitable grant provided a ticket to New York and
Making Connections
Ashley Stewart is a senior accounting major with a dual
concentration in international business. As a Global Leadership
Scholar, she was able to study in London with UT professors
during the spring of her sophomore year. This spring, thanks
to a $75,000 grant from a charitable foundation managed
by Michael Lobel (’71) and contributions from other donors,
Stewart and nineteen fellow members of the College of
Business’s Beta Alpha Psi honors organization took an
educational enrichment trip to New York City.
“Our first stop in New York was a breakfast at KPMG,” says
Stewart. “Michael Lobel, who got his start at KPMG and is now
a partner at Schulman Lobel LLC, told us what being a UT
alumnus has meant to him and how UT prepared him for the
accounting world.
“We toured PricewaterhouseCoopers, where I interned this
summer, Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange, and saw
the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. From this experience,
I learned how important it is to be open to making new
connections. You never know who you’ll meet. We’re all grateful
for the opportunities we’ve had. My perspective is that as
long as we are really thankful and take advantage of these
opportunities, the more people will donate, and the more
students can have opportunities like this.”
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Real-life lessons and classroom instruction in the
Emerging Leaders course achieve the goal of
Promoting Leadership
Thanks to the generosity of donors Clay and Debbie Jones,
the 3-credit-hour course Emerging Leaders is taught
each fall to sophomores interested in studying leaders,
leadership theories, and the application of leadership in
various situations. Will Burleson says the class changed
the entire focus of his college career.
“Because of the Emerging Leaders class, I was able to
become a better overall person. I learned about all the
different types of leadership styles and which style is most
effective in different situations.
“My favorite experience from the class was our trip to
Washington DC to visit American University and George
Washington University. Each semester the class includes
an off-campus leadership experience to learn about the
leadership styles and opportunities in another community.
“I will always remember the team-building exercises,
especially our adventurous monument scavenger hunt, and
I have already applied what I learned in real-life situations.
Above all, this class taught me that no type of leadership
is necessarily the best, but that the best leaders are
versatile and able to adapt how they lead.”
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Donor Impact:
300 students
participated in the
Emerging Leaders
class.
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Climbing Club president Corinne Kinzy says
RecSports programs were all-important for
Inspiring Confidence
This spring, Corinne Kinzy, a junior in mechanical
engineering and president of UT’s Climbing Club, won
the 2014 Ira Sliger Leadership Award for dedication and
excellence among rec athletes. A four-year member of the
climbing team at West High School in Knoxville, she joined
UT’s Outdoor Program as a freshman, took Student Outdoor
Leadership Education (SOLE), and worked her way up from
apprentice to instructor.
Kinzy, a recipient of the HOPE Scholarship, is also student
director of Ignite Outdoors, a summer program under
the Center for Leadership and Service in which incoming
freshmen take part in six-day adventure trips.
“When I joined the Outdoor Program, Director Benjy Darnell
made it clear that if you have an idea, go for it,” says Kinzy. I
appreciate the way lots of people in RecSports have been
supportive of any ideas I’ve had and anything I wanted to learn.
“The Outdoor Program uses the outdoors as an avenue to
learn leadership, which comes naturally to me because I’ve
been climbing for so long. It’s taught me to have a dynamic
leadership style and be able to teach in different types of
environments and test the waters for different methods.”
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Donor Impact:
35,244 individuals
invested in UT
last year.
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Donor Impact:
$10.2 million for
faculty support
and 19 new
professorships.
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An endowed professorship makes it possible for
filmmaker Paul Harrill to guide young artists by
Nurturing Creativity
Script writing as a kid led Paul Harrill (’94) into making short films
in college with a borrowed Super 8 camera. Today the Dee and
Jimmy Haslam Professor of Art is described as “one of America’s
finest and most sensitive directors” for this genre—including
Gina, An Actress, Age 29, which won the Grand Jury Prize in
Short Filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival—and Something,
Anything, which has won international praise. At UT, his teaching
in the newly created cinema studies major has resulted in an
enrollment uptick in digital film and narrative filmmaking courses.
“Serving at UT as a Haslam Professor is a profound honor,”
says Harrill. “It’s a sign of the university’s belief in the work I’ve
done, and the work I’ll do. Feeling that kind of support in such a
concrete way is humbling, and also inspiring.
“So I don’t think of supporting the university as giving a gift. I
think of it more like making an investment. When we support
UT, we make the university better for the students, but by doing
so, we also raise the reputation of our own degrees.
“When I give to the university, I do so because I want to help
young artists that might not otherwise be able to study what
they do. But I also know that art makes the world a better
place—it renews us—and we will all benefit from that creativity.”
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Private donations and scholarships made it possible
for Ravyn Towns to experience
Expanding Horizons
Ravyn Towns (’14) has always chosen to take on challenges.
Afraid of heights, but not flying, she took to the skies and
fell in love with an aviation program in high school. The
Memphian capitalized on her Oprah-sized personality as a
broadcast journalism major at UT. As graduation approached,
she wanted the experience of traveling to Cyprus with the
School of Journalism and Electronic Media. Besides having
no study-abroad funds, Townes had missed the application
deadline by two weeks.
“I had faith in knowing that it would happen,” says Townes, “even
though the odds seemed so great. With my application accepted
after the deadline, I knew things would continue to align.
“The late Marva Rudolph (who served as associate vice
chancellor and director of the Office of Equity and
Diversity) gave me my first donation; then the College
of Communication and Information Dean Mike Wirth and
his wife supported my dream; and then the Office of
Multicultural Student Life gifted me with a scholarship.
“Many barely knew me, but they believed in me and cared
enough about my dream to make it a reality. I’ll always be
thankful.”
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Donor Impact:
Last year,
nearly 1,000
UT students
studied abroad.
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Nourishing Strengths
12,000+
Philanthropy affects all parts of student
life—even the food students eat. Tennessee
Fund donors support student-athletes in
many ways, including nutrition. Almost
14,000 individuals donated to the
Tennessee Fund last year.
cases of water
Check out some of the food and drinks our
student-athletes go through in just one year:
• 11,133 cases of Gatorade
• 16.9 tons of fruit
• 40,000 peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches
16.9
• 9,000 pounds of peanuts
• More than 12,000 cases of water
tons of fruit
9,000
20
pounds of
peanuts
Building a Foundation
When the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center
opened its doors last fall, all School of Music
programs, faculty, and staff were brought
together under one roof for the first time.
With more than 123,000 square feet on four
floors, this $40 million facility serves more
than 350 students.
The Haslam Music Center is one of the
nation’s top music-education facilities, with
eight technology-enhanced classrooms; fiftysix practice rooms; fifty-seven performance
studios/academic offices; an organ studio;
the 412-seat Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall; the
George F. DeVine Music Library; a recording
lab; computer, electronic music, and piano
labs; and an academic tutoring center.
“We are obligated to provide our students
with the best faculty, staff, and resources.
That’s why we are in the education business,”
says Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek.
“This building will provide learning
opportunities. It is the best building of its
kind in the country.”
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Creating Gateways
The John D. Tickle Engineering Building
opened in fall 2013 and houses the
Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering and the Department of Industrial
and Systems Engineering.
Since 2007, the College of Engineering’s
undergraduate enrollment has increased by
40 percent and its doctoral enrollment by
more than 60 percent. The Tickle Building
accommodates the growing college with
twenty-four laboratories, one lecture
hall, three student workspaces, three
conventional classrooms, and sixty-three
faculty and graduate student offices. The
laboratories include a high-bay area for
structural testing and asphalt-road-surface
testing as well as a geotechnical laboratory.
The three classrooms promote collaborative
learning through the use of Smart Boards.
The building also anchors a new gateway to
campus and provides a link between Neyland
Drive and the Hill via a bridge that includes
fiberglass-reinforced large I-beams made by
Strongwell, Tickle’s company.
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Sponsoring Growth
UT’s new Student Union will be the central
gathering space on campus for students, faculty,
staff, alumni, and guests. As our highest-profile
facility, it will be a showplace that celebrates
UT’s rich history and traditions. Phase I is being
constructed on the former student center parking
garage and will open in spring 2015. Phase II will
then begin construction on the existing University
Center site. At 380,000 square feet, nearly twice
the size of the existing center, features will include
• a Career Services suite,
• larger and more flexible meeting spaces
equipped with state-of-the-art equipment,
• a 1,000-seat performance auditorium, and
• a ballroom triple the size of the existing one.
“This stunning addition to our campus will be
“home away from home” for Vols past and
present,” says Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek.
Gifts to support Student Life and the Chancellor’s
Top 25 Excellence Endowment can allow individuals
to be recognized in the new Student Union. For
more information about recognition opportunities,
please contact the UT Office of Development at
865-974-2115.
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Thanks to the generous gifts of our benefactors,
in 2014-2015 we are
Making It Happen
Roy L. and Paulette D. Aaron
Cathy L. Acuff
George A. Adams, Jr.
Brooke M. Adams
Shigeko Akimoto
Floyd Akins
John Q. and Kristi M. Allen
Martha L. Allmon
Eric G. and Molly M. Alspaugh
Natalee Anderson
John E. and Deborah Anderson
Todd E. Archer
Susie Armstrong
Randy Atkins
D. Doyle Attaway and Martha Attaway
Ron C. Averill
Regan M. Avery
Jill Bartee Ayers
Edward U. and Virigina I. Babb
John L. and Eleanor J. Bailey
Sally Ann Baker, CRNA, MSN
Tom and Anne B. Baker
Nannette A. Baker
David A. and Michelle Bakewell
James V. Ballard
David K. and Janine N. Barber
Dr. William M. and Carol H. Bass
Brandon F. Pace and Ashley Beals-Pace
Krystal D. Bean
Allison Beck
Edward L. and Anne O. Beeler
Ralph M. Begun
Will T. and Helen Cherry Bell
Maria Rose Bellenger
Leslie Benmark
Elise Marie Bennett
Mark W. and Beverly S. Bensen
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John E. Bertrand
Rich and Melva Bible
Tim and Janet Bigelow
Ann Marie Bingham
Tim R. Bishop
Natalie G. Blackburn
Erik Bledsoe
Jim and Donna Bletner
Juliene E. Blevins
Shannon D. Blevins
Mike S. and Kimberly D. Blevins
Christine R. Boake
George Bock
Christopher J. Boehme
Alana D. Bogie
Mark A. Borst
Edward J. and Patricia Bouwer
David A. and Lee Stewart Bowen
JoAnn M. Bowen
Bege K. Bowers
Douglas K. and Beverly Bradley
M. Denise Brandon
Stuart J. and Cindy Bresee
George W. Bressler
Randy Brewton
Jacob H. Bridges III
D. Scott Briggs
Shirley Pih Broadbery
Eric D. and Rebecca A. Brooks
Donna Yates Brown
Lea Brown
Dan and Linda Brown
Kathy G. Browning
Brian P. Broyles
Laura J. Bryan
John M. Bryant, Jr. and Karyn L. Bryant
John P. and May Bumpus
Matt E. Burnette
Ken J. Burns, Jr.
Ralph M. Burns
Cindi D. Burns
April M. Buschur
Margaret A. Butler
Matthew B. Callan
John Bradford and Ann Vandenoord Campbell
John G. and Gail C. Campbell
C. Spence and Marianne Campbell
Robert and Janet Campbell
Chester D. and Anne Campbell
Lauren M. Carey
Cathi Carmack
Sarah Carrier
Glen C. Carter
Michael O. Carter
George G. and Maribeth Carty
Tracy K. Carusi
C. Mark Carver
Will J. and Joy Carver
Alan L. and Jean E. Cates
Teresa G. Caudle
Tom Cervone and Susan Creswell
George and Joanne Chambers
John A. Chandler
Bob E. Charles, Jr.
Dr. Jimmy G. Cheek and Ileen Cheek
Weiwei Chen
Sunha Choi
Joseph K. Christian and Megan Clark-Stewart Christian
Robert E. Christopher
William H. Clark, Jr. and Louise L. Clark
Peter V. Claussen, Jr.
Margaret Cochran
Charles H. Coffin
Tim Cokkinias
Below is a listing of those who made a gift of $100
or more to UT during Big Orange Give last year.
Kelly Leigh Coley
David R. and Debbie L. Collette
Nick A. and Mindy H. Collins
Mike L. Collins
Eric J. Connor III and Alison G. Connor
Benjamin E. Cook
Christopher J. Cook
Lanis Lee and Lisa Cope
Teresa J. Corbitt
Michael R. and Cynthia B. Corn
William R. and Barbara Cory
Frank S. Costa
Frances J. Cottrell
Jeremy R. Cowan
Ned and Regina Cox
Woody S. Cozart
Scott D. and Jill E. Craig
Loretta G. Cravens
Mark P. and Mona D. Crockett
Cheryl A. Crosby
Bart and Kim Cross
Tony and Leah Cross
Joe and Emily Crozier
Anthony W. Crunk
Martha J. Curd
Jeffrey W. Currey
Richard A. Cutler
Mike S. Dale
Tina L. Dasha
Mike and Linda Davidson
Robert and Sharon Davies
Bartley B. Davis, Jr.
Charles H. Davis
David H. and Alice C. Davis
Bill C. and Kimber L. Davis
Cynthia Mills Davis
Wayne and Sylvia Davis
Lori A. Dawson
Garry A. and Linda McKown Day
Anne de Vega
Maggie W. Deaner
Nancy E. Dearolf
Michael and Lee Anne Demere
Charles M. and Amy R. Denney
Harold L. Denton
George Devault, Jr.
Nancy S. DiFrancia
Angela R. Dobbs
Joseph J. Domzalski
James P. Donaldson
Gregory J. Donoghue
Helen S. Dowty
James R. Doyle
John J. Doyle
Jonathan W. and Anne D. Driskill
Jim and Peggy Seaman Duke
Gary W. and Nancy J. Dunavant
Gary T. Eastwood
Jacqui Ebert
Alan W. Eichelman
Don L. Eisenberg
Scott F. Eisenhart
Allen R. Elkins
Sara R. Ellis
R. Scott and Leslie A. Elmore
Alyson L. Engle
Christine M. Esswein
Patti S. Ettien
Mike W. Evans
Ron M. Everett
Theressa Gray Ezell
Lisa T. Fall
James E. and Carole Mercer Farnham
Mary J. Farnsworth
Aaron T. Fausz
Christie H. Feiler
Ron Feinbaum
John A. and Stephanie Brokke Felker
Teresa Ferguson
Sally J. McMillan, Ph.D. and James E. Fields, Ph.D.
Mark and Kit Fields
Adam W. Fischer
Janice R. Fisher
Michael M. and Susan D. Fleenor
David M. Fleming
Aaron B. Flinn
Thomas E. Foley
Joseph J. and Ashley R. Ford
Mike W. and Beth Ford
Gordon and Laura Ford
Cathy Zoe Ford
Lisa Ann Ford
Russ H. and Tracey L. Ford
Gary L. and Mary D. Forry
Carole Fowler
Michael and Jane Fowler
Jesse L. Frasier, Jr.
Richard J. Frederick
Barbara J. Froula
Willard C. Gaby, Jr. and Jane E. Gaby
Mary Taylor Gallagher
Ed Gamble
Brian E. and Frances Gard
Arlene A. Garrison
Glen S. and Kathryn H. Germain
James G. Gerstle
Cathie Peitzsch-Gibbs
David M. Gibson
Scott P. and Cindy L. Gibson
Tim J. Gibson
David C. Giles
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Thanks to the generous gifts of our benefactors,
in 2014-2015 we are
Making It Happen
Laura E. Giles
Mark A. and Andree L. Girone
Chad E. Glende
Bill H. and Sheila C. Gober
William and Barbara Goetz
Melissa G. Goff-Hey
David A. Golden
Steven F. Gomez and Terra E. Clotfelter-Gomez
Kirk A. Grathwol
Les D. Gray
Richard L. Gray
Dragoslav Grbovic and Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic
Howard and Diane Green
Michael D. and Elizabeth J. Greene
Larry M. and Janette B. Greene
Roger D. and Shirley B. Greenup
Amy B. Griffith
Vicki L. Guin
G. Curtis and Debbie Gwaltney
Eric R. and Tyra Haag
Sue Ellen and Rayford Haaga
Christopher M. Haley
Charles W. and Lauren R. Haley
Christopher and Colleen Haley
John Hall
John W. Hall
Hilary R. Hamlin
Sabrina A. Hampton
June Harse
Ralph C. and Nancy M. Harvey
Joe and Rebecca Haskins
James and Erin Loughran Hastings
Jason E. and Daphne K. Havens
Tom S. Hawkins, Jr. and Constance E. Hawkins
Bryan D. and Connie J. Haynes
Patrick Hazari
Paul M. Heitman
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Christopher C. and Cynthia Hemme
Jim D. and Ashlie Henderson
Tracy H. Henderson
Kerry L. Henry
Melissa A. Henry
Anne D. Hensley
Jeff and Melanie Herman
Mark E. Hershberger
Brian T. Hester
Joanne M. Hibbs D.V.M.
M. Ann Hiegel
Todd A. Hilbert
J. Robert Hill
Bill C. and Marjorie S. Hill
Kem G. and Marily Hinton
Tom A. and Judy E. Hodge
Cheryl S. Hodges
John A. and Patricia J. Hoffmeister
Jennifer L. Holder
Christine M. Holloway
Stephen R. Holt USAF
Kenneth C. and Sherry C. Hood
Erin Horeni-Ogle
Douglas J. and Carol Clark Hornstra
Mary Anne Hoskins
Carl F. House, Jr. and Carol S. House
Dana D. and Rogene R. Howard
Lee Huffaker, Jr.
Darren and Joanna Hughes
Julia A. Hunt
Stephen C. Hunter
Kenneth A. Huntsman
Adlai and Rachel Hurt
Gino L. Inman
Myra Hendee Ireland
Jenna Irwin
Steven E. Isbill
Judy Isenhour
Edward R. Isler
Elizabeth M. Jakubowski
Elizabeth Janicak
Tommy R. Jervis
Sharon Price John
Jeff D. Johnson
Lee P. Johnson
Micah E. Johnson
Joe and Pat Johnson
Len Johnson
Renee Johnson
Jade J. Johnston
Dean M. and Laurie A. Jones
Mason and Emily W. Jones
Kathy Jones
Charlene P. Judd
William N. and Megan Z. Kain
Abe and Vicki Kalfus
Susan M. Kearney
Mary Keen
Brad F. Kerr, Sr.
John A. and Dianne M. Kerr
Doug Kerr
J. Darrell King
Mark S. King
Candice L. Klein
John E. Kobza
Frank A. Kocur II
James D. and Amber S. Koonce
Brandi L. Koontz
Christopher and Barbara Korynski
Bridget K. Krause
Matthew J. Krebs, Sr. and Joy T. Krebs
Scott and Andrea Kuban
Michelle Wittcoff Kuhl
Rick B. Kuhlman, Jr. and Beverley Knight Kuhlman
Below is a listing of those who made a gift of $100
or more to UT during Big Orange Give last year.
Jan Stoker Lach
Bruce G. Lalonde
Jeffrey S. and Cathy A. Lang
Edward A. Langan III
William E. Lanham, Jr. and Patricia Middlemas Lanham
Joy C. Lauderdale
Beth Atkins Lawrence
Joel R. Lay
H. Rowan Leathers III and Myra Fort Leathers
Alan Ledger
Eun Sook Lee
Linda S. Lee
Harold W. and Linda S. Lee
Emily E. Lenn
Michael E. and Lynda H. LeVan
Charles S. and Elizabeth J. Lewis
Li Li
Han Lin
Tsan-Hsun Lin
Jason M. and Allison White Little
Lester P. Lockhart
Joni L. Longfellow
Tom K. and Tori A. Looney
Dr. Theresa M. Lee and Jacob Love
Jeffrey A. Lovelace
David and Shirl Lowe
Jeffery C. Lowe
Ronald M. Lustig
John H. Lyle
Bonnie Lynch
Robert S. Lyons
Wesley M. MacDonald
Kristen M. Mackowiak
Malcolm and Laurie Macnair
Paul Maiden
Judith Mallory
Michael Manzo
James C. and Charlotte Maples
Vittorio Marone
James M. Marshall
William B. Marshall
Whitney Martin
Brad A. Martin III
David W. Matheny
Heather Osteen Mathias
Edward B. Maupin III
Doug H. and Jane C. McCarty
Donna Walsh McCauley
Mike and Katie McCay
Michael K. McCormack
Philip N. McCullough
Walter Ray McDavid, Jr.
Ailsie F. McEnteggart
Wade G. McGarity
Marsha McGinnis
Douglas and Kathleen McKenzie
Rudolph McKinley, Jr. and Janice K. McKinley
Virginia Feeney McRee
Patrick F. and Nora D. Messing
Robert E. and Charlotte T. Miller
Jessica M. Miller
David F. and Kathy A. Miller
James A. and Pamela Hatley Miller
David L. and Katherine McKay Mincey
Bill A. Mitchell
Ed L. and Carolyn J. Mohundro
Joseph B. Montgomery
Roger D. Moore and Debra Kay Inglis
Sally Morris
Martha J. Morris
Paula H. and Grainger Morrison
Carolyn C. Morrison
Mark L. Morrison
Doug and Myrna Morrow
Lucas R. Moss
Gary E. and Audrey E. Mount
Susan Mulholland
Freddie E. Mullins
George T. and Sue Winn Munson
Joe and Jenni Neal
Richad S. Nelson
Pat Neuhoff
Adam W. Nicholson
Kitty A. Norton
Mark A. Notestine
Kevin M. and Raja J. O’Brien
Mike F. O’Brien
Robert and Terry Olberding
Mark and Sharon Oldham
Remilekun and Olufemi Omitaomu
Nancy Hill Ordman
Charles and Leslie Osborne
Patrick O’Shea
Karen P. Ousley
Kimberly S. Padgett
Tony F. Pagano III
Brent K. Park
Ryan S. and Megan Parker-Peters
Christy H. Parsons
Ted A. and Margaret Pearson
J. Michael Pemberon
Harold M. Pendell, Jr.
Clay and Suzanne Petrey
Craig Phillip and Marian Ott
Jason A. and Kathryn G. Phillips
Kris R. Phillips
Sara A. Phillips
Carl and Peggy Pierce
Patricia Pierce-Goss
Stephanie B. Piper
W. Steve Pittman
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Thanks to the generous gifts of our benefactors,
in 2014-2015 we are
Making It Happen
Michael T. Pless
Leonard F. Pogue III and Elizabeth A. Pogue
John T. Poindexter IV
John S. Poole
Clarence W. Potter, Sr.
Shawna E. Powell
Terrica M. Preast
Danny and Allison Pressley
James S. Pringle
Dr. Joseph L. and Sharon M. Pryse
Patricia A. Purvis
Scott and Sarah Rabenold
George H. Rafael
Bobby J. and Earline Raines
Thomas J. and Janet L. Ralston
Frank Rambo
Dave and Sharon Ramsey
Cissa Rassel
Freddie A. Ray
James M. Reagan
Benjamin C. Rechter
Leslie and Deborah Reed
Kevin M. and Susan B. Reed
Christie L. Reeves
James C. Reno, Jr.
David A. Reynolds
John S. Reynolds
Steven Reznik
Steve F. Richards, Jr.
Nancy McLean Richardson
Michael D. and Leah M. Richardson
Robert A. Rider
Sherrie Robbins Riley
Dylan Q. Riley
Greg and Kimberly Ring
Joseph M. Ripley
Joseph Boyd Rives III and Bonnie J. Rives
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Jon G. and Mintha E. Roach
Jack B. and Anne M. Robbins
Norma D. Robinette
Worrick G. Robinson IV and Leslie A. Robinson
Marian S. Rodgers
Carol Ronka
Richard L. Rose
Jeremy B. Ross
David M. and Sue B. Rowland
Sherrie Rutherford
William C. Rutherford
Susan S. Ruyle
Lucia Knight Sams
Robin F. Sansone
Michael S. and Emily D. Saylor
Richard M. Scharff
Claudia J. Schauman
William Warren and Diane Grob Schmidt
Margaret Scobey
Connie Scott
Shannon E. Scott
Ron V. Sellers
N. David Sellman, Jr. and Ann Smithwick Sellman
Mark J. Sellmann
Bill Sellmer II and Mary Sellmer
Joseph Sfameni
John R. and Cynthia L. Sharp
Benjamin H. and Lindsay E. Sharpe
Justin P. Shaw
Larry E. Shell
Ronald L. and Patti L. Shelton
Keith and Susan Shields
Charles S. Shoup, Jr.
David F. and Mary A. Shuford
Cristopher M. Shupp
Jason R. Shuppert
Rita Freeman Silen
Donna A. Silvey
Danny D. Simmons
Donna Simpson
Karen Simsen
Jack A. Sitgreaves, Jr.
J. Allen Sitzler
R. Brian and Monica D. Skelton
Bob Skillern
Sandy J. Skiner
Judith Bailey Slagle
Tara L. Smalstig
Jake Smith
Delaine R. Smith
Gilbert A. Smith
Louis S. and Margaret V. Smith
John M. Snow
Kent T. and Jan H. Stair
Nancy C. Stalcup C. P. A.
Andrew H. and Emily B. Stallings
Jennifer and Trey Stanley
Andrew Stefaniak
Joseph R. Stevenson
Gene H. Stewart
Frank and Billie Stidham
Bruce and Martha Stone
Wade R. Stonebrook
Vivian . Street
Larry M. Sullivan
Christopher Summerlin
Jeff Swett
David C. and Valerie S. Swift
Rui Tang
Bethany C. Taylor
Eboni M. Taylor
Alexander M. Taylor, Jr. and Connie Bell Taylor
Edward L. Taylor
Dr. Keith P. Taylor
Below is a listing of those who made a gift of $100
or more to UT during Big Orange Give last year.
Ricky and Lisa Taylor
William and Caye Teegarden
Katherine C. Tefft
Joe B. Sylve III and Madeline M. Theard
Julie Berry Thomas
Nancy Kay Thomopoulos-Williams
Marla Thompson
Herman and Peggy Thompson
John B. Thornburg
Tom and Judy Thorpe
Rick G. and Elizabeth B. Tinker
Melissa A. Tribble
Griffin G. Tuggle
Normand D. Turgeon
Sara E. Turley
Natalie E. Turner
Ted R. Twyman
Yea-Hwang and Shu-Chen Uang
Wayne P. and Deborah H. Underwood
Unum Group, Inc.
UT Federal Credit Union
Robin L. Vasa
Edward G. Vaughan III and Ann M. Vaughan
Michael R. and Elizabeth C. Vaughan
Thomas J. and Sue L. Vaughn
Rex and Vicky Veal
Larry Ventis
Sherry L. Vermillion
Susan C. Vester
Keith and Callie Victory
Judy Z. Wahl
Adrian D. Waits
George C. and Stephanie E. Wallace
Brian D. and Christina A. Waller
David M. Walls
Holly Warlick
Bob Weldon C. P. A.
Hunt Welles IV
Dabney S. Wellford, Sr. and Dorothy C. Wellford
J. Walton and Cynthia L. West
Kathy J. Wheeler
Raymond F. Wheeler
Penny J. White
Chuck H. Whitfield, Jr.
Daniel P. and Rosemary G. Whitlow
David and Pamela Williams
Linda L. Williams
Paul and Alma Williams
John R. Willis III
Alan and Wendy Wilson
Hal E. Wilson
Wade J. Wilson
Catherine A. Wilt
Lynda J. Wimberly
Priscilla W. Wisner
Kwai Lam Wong
Eric R. Wood
Thomas R. and Paula D. Wood
Jesse C. Woodall III and Kimberly F. Woodall
Nancy J. Worley
Tim and Patsy Wright
Xiaohong Xin
David and Peggy Yam
Marlon W. Yankee
Barry A. Yoakum
Pamela F. Zelman
Yanhong Zhang
Nathan and Katie Zipper
Zhiyuan Zuo
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