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Graduated from Franklin County High School, 1909; served as Superintendent of Public Instruction in Franklin County, Tennessee, from 1911 to 1916; received diploma from Middle Tennessee State Normal, 1913; B.S. University of the South, 1918. Started…

Buildings being constructed in the future home of the Quad. Writing at the top of the photo reads: The beginnings of T.P.I. [Tennessee Polytechnic Institute] June-1916 in the middle of a wonderful daisy field.

Around 1916, a Tech committee chose our school colors and the letter writer from the corresponding document that accompanied this scrapbook page was on that committee. The committee dismissed black and gold because of Vanderbilt and chose green and…