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All Hail the King!

Diane Dozier: a teacher

Jake Mabe remembers the late Diane Dozier.

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See Jake’s tribute on page A-4

Haslam plan funds the dream High school graduates could attend two-year colleges or tech schools free of charge under a proposal by Gov. Bill Haslam. “Tennessee Promise” makes college accessible to all and will change the face of Tennessee.

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Read Sandra Clark on page A-5

QB tourney ahead Marvin West writes: This is a very exciting time for Tennessee football fans. With the coming of springtime, they can look forward to a once-in-a-lifetime quarterback tournament.

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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

State of the Schools address

Kenny White receives his crown and scepter from HHS athletic director Mike Wise during the homecoming festivities.

Kenny White was crowned Halls High homecoming king. He was escorted by Kelsie Hibben. Photo by Ruth

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Halls High School hosted basketball homecoming and crowned its first king.

Senior Kenny White was selected by student vote and took his place on the royal throne at center court. He was presented with a crown and scepter and was draped in a velvet cape that was one of the first madrigal costumes at the school.

TDOT: Deck survey ordered for Irwin Bridge

By Jake Mabe

Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre will deliver his third annual State of the Schools address at 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 11, at Hardin Valley Academy. The event is open to the public and Jim McIntyre refreshments will be provided.

The address will overview academic progress in Knox County Schools, update on implementation of the five-year strategic plan and outline educational goals for the coming year.

The address will be broadcast live on KCS-TV, Comcast Cable Channel 10 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 99. It will also be broadcast live on WBIR’s 10News2. On the web, it will be streamed live at knoxschools.org, and wbir.com. It can be heard on WKCS radio 91.1 FM and WKCS Retro Radio.

Tennessee Department of Transportation will conduct a deck survey to see if a repair project will be necessary for the aging Irwin Bridge on Interstate 75 South between Emory Road and Callahan Drive, TDOT spokesperson Mark Nagi said.

Weather and “wear and tear” created a three-foot pothole on the bridge last week that shut down portions of I-75 South over the bridge for two days.

“The bridge was originally opened around 1969, and sections of the deck deteriorated over the years from traffic, water and salt,” Nagi said Friday.

The deck was repaired in the late 1990s.

“Over the years, the pounding of traffic, water and salt got in around the edges of the patch, and the cold weather caused the concrete in a small area to fail

A shot of the Irwin Bridge pothole as seen from Irwin Drive. Photos by S. Clark TDOT workers patch the pothole on Irwin Bridge near Irwin Drive.

last year. The repair crew did a full-depth repair of a 2x2-foot area.

“I am sure the impact of traffic dropping down onto the reinforcement in this small area further

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weakened the original concrete in the surrounding area. I am sure precipitation was able to get into the cracks and freeze.”

Nagi says once the deck starts to fail and drop down, the added

force of vehicles dropping onto already-weak concrete leads to a hole forming and can spread quickly.

The section of I-75 South closed Feb. 4 was opened by Feb. 6.

A lifetime of ‘firsts’

By Betty Bean Theotis Robinson’s personal history has been tangled up with that of the University of Tennessee as far back as he can remember.

A lifelong fan of Tennessee athletics, he remembers attending football games with his father, who cooked for the training table and received tickets to home games as part of his pay.

“He would go in at halftime and check on the (post-game) meal, and he’d bring me back a sliced-turkey sandwich with lettuce, tomato and a pickle and a Nesbitt’s Orange.

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He doesn’t remember noticing that there was nobody who looked like him on the football field.

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Brenda Gray receives first-class service from Denise Girard with First Century Bank. Members Rodney Lane and Doug Johnson enjoy breakfast and conversation during the Halls Business and Professional Association’s Breakfast Club. Photos by Ruth White Central High School athletic director JD Lambert (standing) helps new football coach Bryson ■ Rosser get acclimated with faculty, students and the inner workings at the school.

New coach in town both Oak Ridge High School and Hillsboro High School in Nashville, serving under the tutelage of coach Scott Blade at both locations.

Rosser’s tenure at Hillsboro culminated with a 4A state championship victory over Maryville. As a player, he was a member of two New Jersey state championship teams and was a four-year starter at Tennessee State University.

Ruth Central High School will White adopt a power running game combined with an up-tempo spread offense that has proven to be very successful at all three programs.

Rosser is an enthusiastic Prior to returning to his hometown, he was the and innovative football with unlimited offensive coordinator at coach

The wait is over! Central High School announced the hiring of Bryson Rosser as the new head football coach.

Rosser comes from Hackensack, N.J., where he was the offensive coordinator and head coach in waiting at Hackensack High School.

potential. He will work tirelessly to produce a product that our community will be proud of on the field and off the field.

“Coach Rosser is known for his ability to develop offensive skills,” said CHS principal Dr. Jody Goins.

“Having been a part of three state championships as a player and coach, he is a proven winner. He also has the character and passion to lead our players in a positive way on and off the field.”

Rosser came to town last week and visited the school campus. He met with administrators and students and looks forward to getting started in Bobcat Country.

lunch meetings held at Beaver Brook Country Club.

Halls B&P members meet from 7:30 to 9 a.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at a designated location.

day), 7 p.m. at Church of the Good Shepherd, 5337 Jacksboro Pike.

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Fontinalis honors presidents

The Fontinalis Club recently hosted President’s Recognition Day honoring past and present presidents of the club. Pictured are: (front) Juanita Vann, Eleanor Thurman, Wynona Dye, Gail From page A-1 Jackson, Mary Ellen Whitaker, Virginia Dunn; (back) Carol Pettit, Linda Cash and Susan Spicer. A gift to the Dogwood Arts Festival was given in their honor. Photo submitted

Lifetime of firsts and diversity, a job he held for 14 years under almost as many presidents, beginning with J. Wade Gilley.

He retired Jan. 30 but still has an office on the eighth floor of Andy Holt Tower – named for the university president he met some 50 years before.

“It was the summer of 1960, and I read an ad talking about the things that were wrong with Knoxville,” he recalls.

One problem was that UT didn’t admit “Negroes” to undergraduate school.

Robinson applied, only to receive a rejection letter saying the college did not admit “Negroes.” This was odd, because he had not stated his race or the high school from which he had graduated.

“They had my return address, which was only three or four blocks away from (allwhite) East High School. Our neighbors on both sides were white, so they were clearly screening very closely for ‘Negro’ applications. So I sent a second letter asking for a meeting.”

The UT administrators treated the Robinsons (he was accompanied by his parents, Theotis Sr. and Alma Robinson) very cordially, but the answer, again, was no, so they made an appointment with Andy Holt, who asked why Robinson wanted to attend UT. “I told him I was a Tennessean by birth, my family paid taxes and I wanted to come to UT to study political science. He said UT didn’t admit ‘Negroes’ but asked if I would like for him to take the matter to the board of trustees. We said yes and told him they needed to understand that if they didn’t change the policy, I planned to sue the university.”

The state attorney general attended

the meeting and told the board members they’d lose if the Robinsons sued.

“So the board voted to change the policy, and three of us enrolled in January 1961,” Robinson said.

Although racial turmoil in Knoxville was mild compared to other cities in the South, Knoxville’s black community was denied many services taken for granted by whites.

They couldn’t see a movie at the Tennessee or Riviera theater. They couldn’t eat at downtown lunch counters. Neither Baptist nor St. Mary’s nor Ft. Sanders Hospital would treat them. Knoxville Transit Lines wouldn’t hire black bus drivers. The police and fire departments wouldn’t promote black employees.

Robinson got active in protest efforts as a teenager, continued during his college years and stepped it up when he was elected to City Council in 1969 as the first AfricanAmerican elected in more than 50 years, since the tail end of Reconstruction.

“Cas Walker, Bernice O’Connor, Milton Roberts and U.G. Turner Jr. voted in a bloc.

On the other side were David Blumberg, George Siler, Morris Best and Kyle Testerman. And then you had me. And I was definitely an independent.”

These days, Robinson and his wife, Jonida, live on Union Avenue and are enjoying the downtown renaissance. He has five children, four of whom are living, and nine grandchildren.

Some years ago, the city renamed a street in Burlington for him, and he had them leave off the “Jr.” in honor of his father. He and Jonida were astonished when they discovered that Theotis Robinson Street intersects with Alma Avenue.

“Serendipity,” Robinson says. “That’s all I can say.”

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Learn ’em like Obamas

When President Barack Obama touched down in Nashville last month to continue his State of the Union message about career-oriented education, he went out to McGavock Comprehensive High School, in the small assembly room which has been redesigned of the City County Buildas an “Academies of Nashing to discuss the $40,000 ville” model school with Gobis report. Public may the help of a federal School attend.

Improvement Grant and Rogero and her staff the assistance of local busimet with top KAT staff in nesses and industries. His January at their offices. Her message, boiled down to its communications office led essence, was this:

by Jesse Mayshark declined “A quality education to identify who on the shouldn’t be something that Rogero staff accompanied other kids get. It should be the mayor. For a mayor who something that all our kids pledged transparency, this is get.” a contradiction. Why would Amen, right? it be a secret as to who on McGavock, known as “Big her staff accompanied her Mac,” because it’s Tennesto a meeting dealing with see’s largest high school, is a public transportation? success story. Once a strugWhat’s the big deal? For gling school, it now (accordthe record, I can report ing to press releases) ranks the staff accompanying in the top quartile for stuher were the two deputy dent achievement growth in mayors, Dr. Bill Lyons and the state. Obama was clearly Christi Branscom. impressed. But would he be However, it is smart for impressed enough to send the mayor to confer with the KAT board as she did not when she canceled the Veolia contract. It looks like the mayor wants to chart a new course in dealing with the KAT. The Gobis report, in She may not have had a the view of several KAT license, but make no misboard members, is seritake about it – Diane Dozier ously flawed and should not was a teacher. be implemented. It will be interesting to see if Council will hold a workshop since the report recommends several steps which require Council approval.

Jake ■ UT Band DirecMabe tor Gary Sousa is now teaching at the School of Music, but the inquiry into Dozier, 66, a longtime his work as band direcPTA volunteer and former tor continues. The inquiry 7th District school board has already lasted a month longer than predicted when member, passed away Feb. 1.

She may not have been it started in October. Sousa continues to draw the band aware of it, but she taught us much. director’s salary.

From her, we learned ■ TVA says it must cut about loving family with a $500 million in expenses.

This means layoffs for both capital L. She was devoted to her son, Curtis, boasting full- and part-time employees. Strange there is no about his accomplishments, mention of the $5.9 million, forever proud of him. That nine-month salary to CEO love, in fact, led her to join Bill Johnson. the PTA at Brickey School, Hard to justify firing which launched her career. people while maintaining From her, we learned to such an excessive salary have a passion for public for the CEO and the legal education. She served as counsel, Ralph Rodgers, PTA president at Brickey, who made $1.9 million last year. Not many attorneys in the Tennessee Valley come close to half that amount.

If Rodgers will not do ■ Sandra Rowcliffe is learning the job for less, then surely what it means to be a canTVA could find someone didate. A KNS story outlined else who would work for recent unpleasantness in $400,000 a year and do an her personal life (including a outstanding job. parking lot fight and restrainWasteful spending at ing order). This is the woman TVA continues at the top who suggested a spanking level because the board for the really bad teachers. fails to act.

If Rowcliffe is elected to the President Obama has school board, perhaps she three TVA nominations to could just drag them into the make in 2014. parking lot and pound them.

City tax hike looming?

More than one member of Knoxville City Council has told this writer they would not be surprised if Mayor Rogero recommended a property tax increase in her budget this year. My guess is that the mayor has not decided and would surely try to avoid a tax increase the year before she runs for her second and final term in office.

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The one-time bonus of $8 million to the city from the state’s Hall income tax awhile back makes a tax hike harder to explain this year.

Coupled with the pension reform city charter amendments which the mayor successfully championed in 2012 to solve the financial pressures on the pension plan, a property tax hike would be an even tougher sale for the mayor and the four council members running for their second and final terms in 2015.

The last city property tax increase was 10 years ago.

My prediction is one should expect a city property tax increase recommendation in the first year of Rogero’s second term in 2016 rather than now.

As long as Tim Burchett is county mayor, there will not be a county property tax increase. It is that simple. Whether city council would approve a property tax hike and in what amount is a big question.

■ John H. Daniel clothing company is leaving the Old City, having sold the Jackson Avenue property it has called home for a century. Richard Bryan told this writer he will relocate to Central Avenue this summer.

Customers have included the late Gov. Ned McWherter, Presidents George H. W. and George W. Bush, former Gov. Don Sundquist, famed attorney Johnny Cochran and Sen. Howard Baker along with countless other prominent citizens buying tailored clothing at reasonable prices.

Bryan would not disclose the new owner; however, it is expected that the existing building will be renovated into condominiums or apartments.

■ Mayor Rogero will meet with the KAT board at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18,

Betty Bean his daughters there?

Probably not.

The website www.

TNParents.org breaks it down for us: Malia and Sasha Obama attend Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., where: Students do not do Common Core or state mandated standardized tests.

Their personal information isn’t integrated into a statewide 360 degree longitudinal database that aligns with other states and is shared with the federal government and with contracted third parties without parental consent (as Tennessee agreed to do to get the Race To The Top grant).

Middle school students are issued a personal laptop computer.

Elementary students have an iPad to enhance learning.

Every classroom has a SmartBoard or Epson Brightlink Whiteboard.

Every child participates in a rich arts program that includes music, theater and art.

There’s a strong athletic program and plenty of physical activity.

There are well-stocked libraries.

There are real teachers with real teaching degrees and experience.

Teachers and staff aren’t evaluated based on student test scores using a complicated formula that nobody can explain.

There are full-time counselors.

And teacher/student ratios for elementary grades are 1:12; middle and high school grades are 1:16.

Visit the Sidwell Friends School website to see pictures of the beautiful campus. You will not see: leaking roofs, broken windows, un-

kempt grass, cracking wall plaster, mold or mildew, water stains on ceiling tiles, children lacking supplies, or children in poverty.

Gov. Bill Haslam chose to duck out on the Obama visit, maybe because he had more important people to chat with than the President of the United States, or maybe because he doesn’t really want Tennesseans to figure out how little daylight exists between his views on education and those of the president. Tennessee Republicans probably don’t want to think about it this way, but when it comes to measures like Race to the Top and Common Core Standards, plus the high-stakes testing that accompanies them, Obama and Haslam are in lock-step agreement.

There’s really not a dime’s worth of difference between the educational philosophies of Obama and his education guy Arne Duncan and Haslam and his education gurus Kevin Huffman and James McIntyre.

Lessons learned from Diane Dozier Halls High and for the state of Tennessee.

From her, we learned how to laugh. Ask her friends and they’ll tell you about the time she misspoke at a PTA meeting somewhere in the state, boasting about an initiative by saying, “It’s a great program, and it will be really good if you have sex at the meeting.”

The audience lost it. One guy said, “Well, we’ve never tried it before at a meeting, but it will sure boost attendance!”

It finally dawned on Diane that she meant to say “sex education.”

Diane and her PTA cohorts learned how to stay calm, surviving earthquakes, bad weather, floods and the time Sarah West (sportswriter Marvin’s better half) passed out at an out-of-town PTA meeting.

From her, we learned to be engaged, active citizens.

Not only did Diane serve in PTA leadership roles, she ran for County Commission

and successfully ran for Knox County school board, serving from 1998-2006.

From her, we learned that a successful politician does not have to be flashy, verbose or a braggart.

Her taciturn demeanor led her critDiane Dozier ics to underestimate her. She didn’t say much, but she got stuff for the 7th District – needed renovations at Halls Elementary and Powell Middle schools. A new Brickey Elementary School, now named Brickey-McCloud in honor of her longtime friend, former school principal John R. McCloud.

About the only thing she didn’t get was a new Adrian Burnett Elementary, opened as a 10-year “temporary school” in 1976. But we can’t complain much about that.

Nobody has figured out how

■ Rowcliffe did, however, demonstrate fiscal responsibility by filing her petition to run at the same time she was at the courthouse anyhow, getting a final settlement on the unpleasantness.

■ With the race open to the dead and near-dead, reckon we could resurrect Mary Lou Horner?

to crack that safe, for some strange reason.

And she was crafty. She would hold weekly construction meetings with the major players at each of her school sites. She and the Shopper-News even successfully lobbied to get a skylight in the office roof at Halls Elementary. How about that!

From her, we learned that service can be a fulltime job and then some. As somebody said last week, “You have to be half crazy to be state PTA president, run for office, serve on the school board and then go to work for the Knox County Clerk as your retirement.”

And from her, we learned that the famous Rule really is Golden, and that the passage from I Corinthians is true: Faith, hope and love will last forever, and the greatest is love.

Thanks, “teach.” And Godspeed, Diane.

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GOSSIP AND LIES

■ Scott Moore is testing the waters for a possible run for Knox County Commission in District 7 where incumbent R. Larry Smith is term-limited.

He expects to make a deci-

sion this week.

■ Mike Padgett is running for his old job of county clerk and it will be with the support of many of his former employees.

■ Foster Arnett won the job quite handily after Padgett was term-limited, but he’s not

won the hearts and minds of his staff.

■ Jason Zachary wants to be the Tea Party alternative to U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan in the August GOP primary. He’s speaking to a group called the Cross Country Patriots Thursday, Feb. 20, at First Baptist Church Concord. No time was listed, but everyone is invited. Perhaps you could pack a lunch and stay all day.

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Tennessee Promise: Funding the dream At a recent P-16 meeting in Union County, Tom Heemstra asked a provocative question: “What’s the headline for our high school in the spring of 2015?”

My answer was quick: “All UCHS grads head for college.”

Just weeks later, Gov. Bill Haslam proposed a plan to make that headline possible.

With “Tennessee Promise,” Haslam proposes free community and technology college education to every graduating senior. Not since Gov. Frank Clement championed free textbooks, has a governor spoken so boldly or dreamed so big. And Haslam isn’t even asking for a tax increase to fund it.

Sandra Clark

Instead, Haslam is seeking legislative approval to take three-quarters of the state’s lottery reserves (some $300 million) to create an endowment to fund the program, estimated to cost $34 million per year.

Knox entrepreneur Randy Boyd worked as an unpaid advisor to Haslam in developing the plan. It’s a winner.

We’ve all seen kids, most often in rural or inner city communities, whose vision

is limited to what’s around them. College and a solid, middle-class lifestyle is for some other kid, not them.

Haslam aims to refocus that vision: “After graduating from a community college, if students choose to attend a four-year school, the state’s transfer pathways program makes it possible for those students to start as a junior.

By getting their first two years free, the cost of a fouryear degree would be cut in half,” Haslam said.

This will aid in business recruitment, he added. “It will speak volumes to current and prospective employers.

“It is a promise that will make a real difference for generations of Tennesseans,

Once-in-a-lifetime quarterback tourney Coaching tip from Don Shula:“Luck means a lot in football.

Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.”

This is a very exciting time for Tennessee football fans.

With the coming of springtime, they can look forward to a once-in-a-lifetime quarterback tournament.

Marvin West

Never in my 60-something years of monitoring the Volunteers has there been such four-way un-

certainty. Anything might happen and probably will.

Wide open competition. Everybody equal. All starting from ground zero.

So says Butch Jones, absolute authority on such matters.

What we have here are: Senior Justin Worley, 6-4, 222, most experienced, game-manager type, not much to brag about in individual accomplishments.

Sophomore Joshua Dobbs, 6-3, 202, highly credentialed, No. 2 in experience, more promise than production, serious intent,

purchased outside coaching help during Christmas holidays.

Sophomore Nathan Peterman, 6-3, 221, excellent qualifications, one half of one game in knockdown experience at Florida, negatives linked to coaching miscalculation. Courage to continue.

Redshirt freshman Riley Ferguson, 6-3, 192, secret weapon who might be a match for the pass-run mix Coach Jones seeks to deploy against Oklahoma and the great teams of the Southeastern Conference. We’ll see.

and it is a promise that we have the ability to make.

“Net cost to the state, zero.

Net impact on our future, priceless.”

Skept ic s surfaced: But what about freshBill Haslam men classes at 4-year schools like UT? Don’t worry. Those seats will be filled.

What about the lotteryfunded Hope scholarships?

Haslam wants to “incentivize completion” by reducing the scholarship at 4-year schools from $4,000 to $3,000 the first two years and raising it to $5,000 for the last two years.

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Memphis) was upset.

In The Tennessean, reporter Chas Sisk quoted Cohen saying the program would “raid funds from the (lottery) surplus” to create a program that would discourage enrollment at the state’s top universities.

As a state senator, Cohen sponsored the 2002 constitutional amendment that repealed the state’s ban on lotteries. He worked hard to repeal the ban, which ironically most Republicans including this writer vigorously opposed.

Cohen said the Hope scholarship program has been “an unparalleled success,” and the governor should use the lottery surplus to increase scholarships

The three who participated last season did not score high in quarterback ratings. Even Kentucky had greater efficiency. Operating behind a veteran offensive line bound for the NFL, Worley, Dobbs and Peterman produced 1,979 passing yards.

That was the second time in two decades that Tennessee did not reach at least 2,000 throwing and catching. The poor passing attack and losing record wasn’t all the fault of quarterbacks.

Fifty years ago, young Doug Dickey surfaced as coach of the Volunteers and faced somewhat similar confusion – to a lesser degree.

Dickey made the daring switch from what was thought to be the tired, old single-wing to the exciting T formation. He had to find or manufacture someone to take the ball from center and do something with it,

even as ill-natured defensive ends, tackles, linebackers and the occasional blitzing cornerback threatened mayhem.

Hal Wantland, heart of a lion but not as swift, was first choice. He threw 34 times in 1964, completed 11, lost three interceptions, generated 131 yards but failed to launch a touchdown pass. He ran hard.

David Leake, an athlete lured from the dining room staff, was a pleasant surprise as walk-ons go. He hit 13 of 22 for 212 and one TD. He helped win the Georgia Tech game. He was minuseight as a runner.

Art Galiffa eventually claimed the job. His numbers were 29 of 59 for 338 and one score. He lost four picks. He ran, mostly in self-defense, for 47 yards.

He wasn’t built for violence but avoided getting killed in the stunning 7-7 tie at LSU.

for all four-year students.

Even with revenues down, Haslam’s budget also proposes $63 million to increase teacher salaries and $48.6 million to fully fund the BEP. Kids at Union County High School and across the state will no longer view a college education as a pathway to a good job for everybody but them. With Tennessee Promise, the dream is funded, at least for the first two years.

Each youngster should graduate from high school ready to attend college or a technical school. Each must start high school with that goal.

Each legislator should support Bill Haslam’s plan to fund those first two years.

No longer can lack of funds excuse dropping out.

And we’ve got a barrel of ink standing by to print that headline.

The best quarterback on the team, Dewey Warren, was the happy-go-lucky redshirt star of the scout squad. He sometimes riddled the varsity defense in scrimmages. There was talk of bringing him up late in the year.

Dewey could add and subtract – a few minutes in two or three games would cost one season of eligibility. Not such a good idea. He gained the spotlight a year later and became a legend (pages 109-114, “Legends of the Tennessee Vols”).

Necessity requires that someone emerge from the forthcoming quarterback tournament. The winner may prove to be a genuine champion with high point potential.

Tennessee certainly needs one, even if he doesn’t achieve Swamp Rat status.

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The ‘South’ that wowed Broadway HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin Before there was Andrew Lloyd Webber, there was Victor Herbert, Fritz Kreisler, Rudolph Friml and Manuel Penella.

Before “Evita” and “The Phantom of the Opera,” there were operettas like “Glorianna,” “Apple Blossoms,” “Princess Pat,” “Irene” and “The Wildcat.”

And, before there were stars like Elaine Paige and Madonna (“Evita”) and Emmy Rossum and Sarah Lawrence (“The Phantom of the Opera”), there was Lillian McMillan (also known as Dorothy South), who starred in lead roles on Broadway and made several international tours. Lillian (1884-1964) had dreamed of the stage and, in her early 20s, left East Tennessee to pursue her dream in Boston and New York.

Lillian McMillan was born in the Beverly section of Fountain City on June 20, 1884, the daughter of Thomas T. McMillan (1857-1925), a wholesale grocer living on Tazewell Pike, and Mamie Heavener McMillan (18611923). Their Folk Queen Anne mansion was just east of the palatial homes and horse farms of Judge A.C. Grimm, longtime Circuit Court judge, and Sol H. George, owner of George’s

Department Store on Gay Street and partner in the Fountain Head Hotel and the Fountain Head Railroad.

Lillian came of age in Knoxville when Peter Staub’s 2,000-seat theater was featuring symphonies from Boston and New York and stars like the Barrymores, Sarah Bernhardt, James O’Neill and George M. Cohan.

Although the movie musical would not arrive until Warner’s release of “The Jazz Singer” in 1927, nascent silent films were reaching Knoxville and may also have ignited the flame that propelled Lillian into a career on the stage.

She left home in 1904 to study with William Whitney, famous Boston voice coach, before launching her professional theatrical career in 1915, adopting Dorothy South as her stage name. Her beauty, her vocal abilities and her stage presence made her a natural for the operetta, a shorter and usually lighter form of opera that sometimes contained spoken dialogue.

The operetta had become one of the most popular forms of theater in the early decades of the 20th century. Famous composers like Irish-born Victor Herbert (1859-1924), Austrian-born

Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) and Czech-born Rudolph Friml (1879-1972), contribDorothy South (1884uted to its popularity and 1964), known internamade Dorothy South’s cationally for her starring reer possible. performances on BroadShe performed in Herway and elsewhere in bert’s “Princess Pat,” comnumerous operettas. posed in 1915; Friml’s “Glorianna” composed in 1918; and Kreisler’s “Apple Blossoms,” composed in 1919.

The Knoxville Sentinel (Nov. 20, 1921) reported, “Miss South only recently returned from Australia and New Zealand where she played a six-month engagement as (the) leading role of ‘Irene.’ En route home she came through the Suez Canal and by way of Paris and London. In the latter city she was urged to accept a long engagement in an English company presenting ‘Irene,’ but she declined, preferring to come back to her native land.”

Perhaps Dorothy South’s most famous role was that of a Spanish senorita, Solea, in composer Manuel Penella’s tragic operetta, “The Wildcat,” which had shown McMillan-Brewer Mansion (circa about 2,700 times in Europe 1885). The Folk Queen Annein its Spanish version and style mansion with its curvedcame to New York to be perglass turret has long graced formed in English. went to Washington, D.C., the Spanish amTazewell Pike. Photos courtesy of the The operetta premiered where President Warren G. bassador were C.M. McClung Historical Collection in Atlantic City and then and Florence Harding and present for the first performance. Penella was ecstatic about Doro- Press, New York, 1964). It thy, praising her wonderful was the crowning achievevoice, magnetic personal- ment of a distinguished caity and winsome stage pres- reer. ence.

Lillian McMillan Stuart When it arrived in New passed away in New York York, it was reviewed by on Oct. 31, 1964, survived The New York Times (Nov. by her son, Martin Lewis 19, 1921). “(It is) the liveli- Stuart of Washington, D.C., est and ‘horsiest,’ if not the and her brother, John A. ‘bulliest,’ representation of a McMillan of Knoxville. bull-ring scene since Bizet’s Husband Frank Stuart had ‘Carmen’ came to town,” the died earlier. After graveside paper of record said. services, she was interred in It is the story of Rafael, the family burial plot in Old a toreador, who plans re- Gray Cemetery. venge on Juanillo, an outlaw Author’s note: Thanks to mountaineer, who plotted to Dan Brewer, Kevin Mallory, kill him on sight for the love Jenny Ball of the McClung of Solea, his gypsy sweet- Historical Collection and heart. They agree to settle Sarah A. Nelson of the Unithe contest in the ring. In versity of Tennessee School one scene the brass band of Music Library for their asplays the familiar toreador sistance with the research for theme while the two rivals this article. Interestingly, El march into the ring in their Gato Montés [“The Wildcat”] flamboyant traje de luces was revived and performed (suit of lights). widely in 1994 with Chilean After her stage career soprano Veronica Villarroel ended, Lillian wrote a novel, as Solea and Spanish tenor “Hidden Roots” (Exposition Placido Domingo as Rafael.

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Jazz singer at Feb. 12 ‘Season of Music’ event Local jazz musician Kelle Jolly will headline a special “Season of Music” performance at Pellissippi State Community College’s Magnolia Avenue Campus Wednesday, Feb. 12. The singer-songwriter’s appearance is part of the campus’ month-long celebration of Black History Month.

Her performance begins at 10:45 a.m. and will last until approximately noon.

The event is free and open to the community.

“With Kelle, we will celebrate African-American History Month through the introduction of freedom and inspirational songs,” said Rosalyn Tillman, campus dean. “Her performance will be coupled with a short presentation on the elements of jazz and the relationship between these two styles of music.”

Jolly will be accompanied by pianist Emily Mathis.

Kelle Jolly According to Tillman, the music event will include audience participation, particularly in relation to the freedom songs, which often include a call-and-response segment.

Jolly is a professional vocalist, songwriter and music educator. She is particularly well known for her jazz shows, often performed with husband and fellow musician Will Boyd.

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In search of Eden Then the Lord God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, and now he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever� – therefore the Lord God sent him from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life.

(Genesis 3: 22-24 NRSV)

We know that biblical history – the actual accounting of events – begins with Abraham, who was the first historical figure who inhabited identifiable places. There are those who have sought physical evidence of other stories (such as Noah’s ark and the flood), but, despite their claims, they have not yet successfully satisfied the scientists.

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what is now Ethiopia. They have found fossilized bones of an early woman they named Eve, because the bones are the oldest human remains yet discovered.

The Great Rift runs

north out of Africa, veers somewhat eastward, and includes the valley that runs from the Red Sea at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula northward through the Dead Sea, through Judea all the way to the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee.

So, if humankind began in Ethiopia, their path out of Eden was pretty clearly laid out for them.

Wherever its setting, the human story begins with a man and a woman who walked with God in the cool of the evening.

That is an endearing picture of camaraderie, of fellowship, of familial love.

Imagine God enjoying a stroll with His children, in the beauty of a garden.

Wouldn’t you love to eavesdrop on the conversation?

Hear God laugh at Adam’s names for the animals?

Like all children, Adam and Eve were innocent and willing to be cared for, until ‌ Until they reached the rebellious age that we all go through, the age when we

know better than anyone else, and will make our own decisions and hang the rules.

They were, of course, aided and abetted by the serpent. Jean Kerr, author of “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies,� also wrote “The Snake Has All the Lines.� One of her sons came home from school one day, dejected because he had been chosen to play Adam in a school skit.

His mother tried to cheer him up by telling him how important Adam was in the story, but her son’s rebuttal was, “Yeah, Mom, but the snake has all the lines!�

He had a point.

We have never been able to get back to Eden. We live in a fallen, broken world, and each of us has rebelled enough, and yes, sinned enough, to have earned our own fate, so let’s not blame Eve. Or Adam.

The good news, however, is this: Even though we are barred from Eden, God still walks with us. And if we walk with God, that is paradise enough.

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First Lutheran Church, 1207 Broadway, recently sent two members to Florida to receive training with the Stephen Ministry. The members, Sue Spicer and Sherrill Hunze, will train ministers at the church and will help provide one-to-one Christian care to indiv iduals Sue Spicer s t r u g g l i ng with a crisis such as grief, divorce, loneliness, illness or unemployment.

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ing someone listen – often exceeds what pastors alone can provide. “God has called everyone, not just ministers, to love and care for others,� said Spicer.

Stephen ministers are often known as “the after people.� They are there to listen “after the final paycheck� or “after doctors have given no hope.� During difficult times, individuals can receive great benefit from a caring relationship with someone who will faithfully listen, show empathy, pray with them and encourage them with love and care.

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Rogero shares experience in Turkey to women who are pursuing political office. She also recommended fundraising through social media, which is as popular in Turkey as it is in the U.S., she said.

The mayor personally paid for her 17-year-old granddaughter, Jada Torney, to accompany her on the weeklong trip. If the goal is to get women involved in politics, they need to get started at a young age, she said. Rogero saw the trip as an opportu-

By Wendy Smith Mayor Madeline Rogero’s recent trip to Turkey was a whirlwind, with no visits to museums or ancient ruins.

It was all meetings, she reported during a press conference held in her office last week.

The U.S. Department of State invited her to Turkey, where municipal elections are scheduled for the end of March, to share her experience as a woman in politics.

She visited Izmir, Adana and Ankara, the Turkish capital.

The women there are frustrated that they have so little representation, which is a frustration Rogero shares.

Women make up 14.3 percent of the Turkish Parliament, and only 26 of 2,950 mayors are female.

In the U.S., 20 percent of Congress is female. Six of nine Knox County Board of Education members are women, said Rogero. But Knoxville City Council and Knox County Commission each have just one female representative.

While Turkish women face cultural barriers, the primary barrier women face in the U.S. is themselves, said Rogero. Women vote more than men, but they don’t run for office. “You have to be willing to run, lose, then run again.�

In addition to meeting privately with politicians and local heads of political parties, Rogero spoke at public meetings that were well attended by men and women. She was particularly impressed by Kamil Okyay Sindir, mayor of Bornova Municipality, who is outspoken about gender equal-

nity to mentor Jada.

But the West High School student has a mind of her own. She was interviewed by other high schoolers who asked if she was interested in politics.

Jada answered that she is most interested in nursing, and either way, she’ll be helping people.

Rogero was impressed with the answer. She was also pleased that Jada told the young reporters that her

grandmother is a good role model.

It’s still very much a struggle for Turkish women to gain entrance into the political arena, but the country’s outlook is optimistic, said Rogero. She is encouraged that both men and women are intentionally addressing the issue. “Better decisions are made when the people around the table are more reflective of the population.�

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As in the U.S., it’s tough to get elected in Turkey without money. Rogero promoted grassroots efforts, like making phone calls and attending meetings,

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By Ruth White Halls High School recognized senior athletes in basketball, cheerleading, dance, swim and wrestling during a recent home game.

They were commended for the time and energy they have invested in the athletics programs and for their dedication to their sport.

Representing the boys’ basketball team were Bradley Arms, Peyton Booker, David Bryant, J.J. Corvette, Andy Harrison, Robert Miller, Harrison White and Kenny White. Lauren Biliter and Sarah Miller were recognized for the girls’ basketball team. Team manager Amber Weldon was also recognized.

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team include Maria Brinias, Delaney Burton, Mallory Hayes, Ashley Hillard, Morgan King and Jenna Phillips. Dance team members include Victoria Dishner and Katie Freels.

The swim team recognized two members, Colin Karns and Heather Morelock. Representing the wrestling team were seniors Calvin Giles, Tanner Justice, Andrew Kitts and Brandon Williams.

that exemplified the pride and tradition of the school.

Principal Jody Goins, athletic director J.D. Lambert and each team’s coach stood center court to show their appreciation to the athletes and their parents.

Recognized on the boys’ basketball team were Tyler Cate, Brett Huffaker, Tre King, Joshua Poplar and Tee Sanford. Tori Wesley was recognized for her contributions to the girls’ basketball team.

Cheerleaders Kara Clark ■ Bobcat senior and Rachel Cummins were athletes honored honored for their spirit and dedication, and dance-team Basketball season is commembers Kaitlyn McColing to an end, and senior lum, Amanda Mitchell and athletes at Central High Natalie Oakley were also were recognized for their recognized. hard work and dedication

Central High School senior basketball players Tyler Cate, Tee Sanford, coach Jon Higgins, Tre King, Joshua Poplar and Brett Huffaker were recognized last week at the home basketball game vs. Clinton. Photo by Ruth White

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Two Central High football players signed scholarship papers on National Signing Day and will continue their careers at the collegiate level.

Defensive/offensive lineman Johnathon Holcombe will attend Carson-Newman University and plans to study biology. The fouryear starter chose CarsonNewman because it is close to home and has smaller classes. Holcombe hopes to attend physician’s assistant school but dreams of making it to the NFL one day.

Attending the celebration were Holcombe’s mom, Kim Lawrence, his stepdad, Mike Lawrence, sisters Hannah Holcombe and Sarah Lawrence, longtime rec coach Lem Cox and other friends.

Running back JaJuan Stinson will attend East Tennessee State University and be part of history as the school brings football back to campus. Stinson chose ETSU because it is close to home and because the coaches have faith in him as a player.

Stinson is excited about the new program at the school. While at Central he learned that a player should always work hard, regardless of whether they play first string or not. “If you work hard and stay focused, you will get an opportunity,” he said.

Attending the signing with JaJuan were his parents, April and Derick Stinson, sister Jaquera, cousin Shawn Kelly and niece Brooke Stinson.

Halls Middle School TSA students recently attended the Regional Conference held at Karns Middle School. Eight of the participants received Bronze Star Awards for their leadership, understanding of technology, school and community service and career personal planning. Pictured are: (front) Emmagrace Gardner, Bethany Karnes, Bryce Lane; (back) Joseph Fugate, Griffen Parker, Sydney McCurry, Hadley O’Hara and Phillip Ellis. Karnes and Ellis placed first in Problem Solving. The TSA adviser is Bill Ellis. Photo by Ruth White

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WS Packaging to expand in Westbridge

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“If you can think of it I can print information on it,” he says.

Presley enjoys taking an idea and creating the, well, perfect logo which he then prints onto promotional items.

He employs graphic artists as well as embroidery specialists for that purpose.

“I love walking into a business and seeing my company’s work.”

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Presley also runs a specialty video production studio and offers website development assistance.

Then there’s the embroidery business.

Presley runs eight machines and can have a customized order ready in about two weeks.

“Basically I am an advertising specialty and promotional company,” said Presley. “I am your go-to man for any logo you want.”

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Wolfe is a past board member of the American Association for Homecare, chair of the Stand Up for Homecare Committee for grassroots outreach, and has served in numerous state roles and committees.

Wolfe also founded the national HME Christian Fellowship group, a Christian-based leadership group created to encourage and support fellow believers to be faithful and courageous witnesses for Christ in the workplace.

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at 10215 Ca- of the House Education and neel Street House Insurance & Bankand has ing committees. He repre220,199 sq. sents District 89. ft. of combined pro- ■ Wolfe cited duction and for homecare office space. advocacy The $43 Fountain City and West million inRoger Kane business owner v e s t m e n t Knox over the next two years will Randy Wolfe was honored involve adding new equip- Jan. 23 in Nashville for his ment that will enable the service and commitment company to increase produc- to advancing homecare istion of digital label printing, sues in Tennessee.

Wolfe, owner of Lamflexographic printing, digital offset printing and sheet-fed bert’s Health Care, received the 2014 Home offset printing.

Medical Equipment Kane said he offers award full support to WHERE Advocate from Tenthe expansion, the nessee Ascalling comsociation for panies like Home OxyWS Packaggen & Mediing “the corcal Equipment nerstone of Services, a trade asour local econosociation that repmy.”

The new facility is the resents approximately 80 former site of Robert Bosch health care companies in PBR brake caliper opera- Tennessee.

The award is given to an tions and is being leased from Hand Partnership individual who has demonL.P. The $43 million invest- strated passionate leaderment includes a $1.2 million ship, inspired others to get funding FastTrack Grant involved in HME advocacy from the Tennessee De- efforts, and who has contribpartment of Economic and uted to ATHOMES collecCommunity Development, tive goals to advance homecare issues among legislators, Kane said.

WS Packaging Group regulators, third-party inInc. is one of the largest la- surers and/or the public, acbel converting operations cording to a release.

“Randy has provided an in North America with 21 manufacturing facilities and industry model for what more than 1,800 employees. an honest, compassionate, The move to the new Knox- hardworking and upstandville facility is expected to ing Christian HME business begin in April 2014 and be owner should exemplify. He practices what he preachcompleted by July 2014.

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By Sandra Clark What are the odds that three reporters working to fill this space come up short on the same week? That would be this writer (Dollywood), Jake Mabe (Clayton Homes) and Betty Bean (Radio Systems/Petsafe).

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And what are the odds that state Rep. Roger Kane (of all people) would drop in a press release at five minutes until deadline that fills the void?

Kane, a first-term legislator from Karns, is tremendously excited about WS Packaging Group expanding to Westbridge Business Park. The company plans an investment of $43 million over two years and the creation of 231 new jobs.

“The company plans to begin initial hiring in March and April,” Kane said. “People interested in applying for one of these new jobs can visit www.jobs4tn.gov or inquire at the Tennessee Career Center at Knoxville.”

The company will post jobs at www.wspackaging.com/.

WS Packaging Group Inc. will consolidate production from five separate facilities to a single site at Westbridge, according to a company release. The expansion includes moving production from four buildings in Knoxville (68 employees in 45,120 sq. ft.), and one building in Powell (44 employees in 15,000 sq. ft.).

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Membership is growing for the East Towne Area Business and Professional Association. Determination to make the group a viable force in the Northeast business community was evident at the February meeting.

Representatives from all walks of life attended: City and county government officials and neighborhood association officers joined

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Sad news from Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero.

The remaining structures at McClung Warehouses must be demolished following the recent fire. The city acquired the long-time eyesore from bankruptcy court in November with the intention of seeking proposals to redevelop. Redevelopment will occur, but on a vacant lot without the historic warehouses.

City Council member Nick Della Volpe says the city should “make lemonade” by giving points on proposals to architects/developers who agree to build complementary structures facing Jackson Avenue.

“Make believe you are Williamsburg or another historical place and make buildings evoke the proper era,” he wrote. “Also, extra points should be given for making the northern interstate face look attractive to the millions who first see our city from that distant vantage point.”

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Transfers up, lending down in a cold January

By Sherry Witt One of the coldest months in Knoxville history prod u c e d mixed results for the local real estate market.

While the total value of property sold was up from last Witt Ja nu a r y ’s figures, mortgage lending lagged behind. For the month ending Jan. 31, about $143 million worth of real property was sold in Knox County. That was nearly $60 million more than the total value of land transferred in January of 2013.

Despite the increase in value, some 57 fewer parcels changed hands than during last January. For the month, there were 544 total property sales processed, compared to 601 in January 2013. January is historically a slow month for real estate

development and activity.

Mortgage lending was again off the pace in January, as around $202 million was loaned against real estate in Knox County, compared to $352 million last January. This was a continuation of the slowing trend that mortgage lending markets experienced during the fourth quarter of 2013.

The largest property sale of the month was the transfer of the Steeplechase apartment complex located near the intersection of Dry Gap Pike and Central Avenue Pike in North Knoxville. The residential development sold for $26 million. The largest mortgage transaction was a $21 million loan financing the same transfer.

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Old jail gets new life

By Libby Morgan A whole passel of Pattersons were on hand to welcome everyone to see the old jailhouse renovation in downtown Maynardville and to celebrate the grand opening of Travis Patterson’s law office.

Travis’ office sparked memories, as K. David Myers, Darryl Edmondson, Jake and David McCollough and Denny Patterson recalled the booking area and later Gangster’s Restaurant in the old jail building.

Renovator Denny Patterson, Travis’ dad, says plans for the 1954 building include more exterior work, such as walkways and a balcony on the back.

Rotary donates dictionaries to Beaumont The call went out, and Rotary Club of Knoxville answered. Beaumont Magnet Elementary School was in desperate need of dictionaries and thesauruses. Molly Moore, media librarian for the school, contacted Knoxville Rotary and was put in touch with the club’s literacy committee, chaired by Ellen Fowler. The result was a gift of 96 dictionaries and 96 thesauruses. The club will research making dictionary donations an annual project, reaching out to other schools in need as well, says Fowler. Pictured with three of the school’s third-grade students are Fowler and Moore, left, with Mark Webb, right, also a Rotary member. Photo submitted

’50s dinner at the jail Jailhouse Rock Sweetheart Dinner, a fundraiser for Preservation Union County, will be held on Saturday, Feb. 15, in the old jail.

Snow date is Feb. 22.

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HEALTH & LIFESTYLES NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Powell teen back in action With a black belt in karate, Hunter Thomas, 17, has fought scores of opponents, out-maneuvering them with his quick reflexes.

“I’ve been pretty successful at tournaments and won some national ones,” said Hunter, the son of Jerry and Beth Thomas of Powell.

Hunter is a junior at Powell High School and works as an assistant instructor of karate at The Wheeler Academy.

Hunter has battled successfully through a number of health problems as well. Most recently in February 2013, he underwent comprehensive reconstructive surgery on his hip at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

“His hip was misshapen,” said Dr. Paul Yau, Hunter’s orthopedic surgeon.

Dr. Paul Yau “The ball of the hip should be round like a ball, and his was more like a roughened mushroom, so it was tearing cartilage and rolling out of the socket. I made the joint round for him and repaired two cartilage tears so he could have a chance to be active, run, kick and participate in martial arts.”

Hunter had what’s called “femoroacetabular impingement,” or FAI. It’s a structural disorder of the hip, in which the ball and socket of the hip don’t fit together snuggly and smoothly.

The condition began as a toddler, when Hunter was diagnosed with Legg-CalvePerthes disease. In this condition, blood supply to the bone is cut off and the bone begins to die. Hunter had surgery on his left hip to preserve the bone.

Then when he was 9 years old, Hunter had a similar but more extensive problem in his right hip. At that point, Hunter had surgery and spent five months in a waterproof body cast from his chest to his ankles.

“That was fun,” joked Hunter. “The only thing I could do was float in the pool and use a hair dryer to dry off.”

To get him out of the house, Hunter’s parents took him to watch his younger brother Dalton’s karate classes at The Wheeler Academy.

Then, as Hunter got out of the cast, instructors at The Wheeler Academy began to

Hunter Thomas, left, pictured with his mother, Beth, and younger brother, Dalton, in Maggie Valley, N.C., on a ski boarding trip. Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Paul Yau, Thomas has been able to enjoy the thrill of the slopes, while experiencing no hip pain.

Hunter Thomas with his mother, Beth, and younger brother, Dalton. The two Thomas brothers both won the last national karate tournament of the season, this past December in Atlanta.

work with him on stretching and getting stronger.

“So that’s how Hunter started in karate,” said Beth Thomas.

“He worked his way through that and became a fighter. He won two national championships after that major surgery. The owner, Chuck Reynolds, stands behind every student like that, giving them that kind of encouragement. He was a blessing in our life, as far as making Hunter strong.”

As Hunter grew, he excelled in karate and in school.

He was named top Christian athlete in 2012 by his school’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes club and is thinking about going into the medical field someday.

But in 2013, Hunter’s leg pain kicked up again. “I began having pain from my right hip to my right knee – it would wake me up at night,” said Hunter. “And I have a pretty high pain tolerance.”

Arthroscopy for hips Although Hunter Thomas’ surgery was done through an Altho incision, some hip repairs can be performed arthroscopically with minimally invasive surgical techniques. This means there are several small incisions rather than one long one, which can result in less pain and a faster recovery for the patient.

During arthroscopic surgery, the surgeon makes several small incisions and places a small video camera into one of them to see inside. Small specialized instruments are inserted into the other incisions to perform work on the joint – cleaning, suturing and/or repairing.

Hip arthroscopy can be used to repair the labrum, ligaments or damaged cartilage; reshape small areas of the hip bone; fix “snapping hip” syndrome; reduce inflammation of the joint; treat early arthritis and remove loose bits of bone or tissue.

Because of Hunter’s history, several doctors said they couldn’t repair his hip, and he is too young for a hip replacement. So Beth Thomas began looking outside of Knoxville

for a surgeon who could help.

“I did some research and found a surgeon, Dr. John Clohisy, at Washington University in St. Louis, who specialized in adolescent hips,”

said Beth Thomas. “Then, shortly after that, we found out about Dr. Paul Yau at Fort Sanders.”

Yau did his orthopedic fellowship training under Clohisy in St. Louis, and he is the only physician in the Knoxville area fellowship trained in this kind of hip impingement surgery.

“One of the things that impressed me is that Dr. Yau didn’t immediately say everything’s going to be perfect,” said Beth Thomas. “He was cautious, and put so much time and effort into making sure Hunter received the best procedure to last as long as it could.”

“A hip replacement at Hunter’s age would be risky,” said Yau. “They wear out and you risk infection the longer you have it in. So I’m hoping with this surgery to preserve his hip, he can wait another 20 to 30 years before needing a hip replacement.”

Yau reshaped the ball at the top of Hunter’s femur, and repaired the damaged cartilage and labrum (soft tissue lining the hip socket), holding it all together with small metal plates.

After surgery, Hunter spent about a month doing physical therapy in Yau’s office, and then Hunter began working behind the desk at The Wheeler Academy.

By June he was back on the mats, and Yau stopped in to see him work out before giving him the OK to compete in a local tournament in September.

“We’ve been through so much together, I wanted to see what he could do,” said Yau. Hunter placed second in that tournament and first place in two others since then, including the Year End Nationals in Atlanta. He is back to teaching karate as well.

“Dr. Yau is awesome,” said Hunter. “Some doctors didn’t want to do this surgery, but he seemed very confident, very curious and careful with everything. He told me what was going to happen and answered all my questions.

“As far as my everyday activity, I haven’t had any pain,” he said. “I’ve gotten full power back in my leg and full flexibility.”

The Thomas family said they would recommend Dr. Yau and Fort Sanders to anyone facing hip surgery.

“It was great care, it really was,” said Beth Thomas.

“They were really good to him.”

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Opera, unsung Production manager and chorus master Don Townsend always has his hands full. Photo

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Stage director Brian Deedrick keeps the action fast-paced and funny. Photo by Eric White The women of the Knoxville Opera chorus attempt to woo tenor Joshua Kohl in KOC’s current production of “The Elixir of Love.”

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Eric White, chorister with the Knoxville Opera Company (KOC), describes the plot of “The Elixir of Love” in a few phrases: “Romantic comedy. Village idiot attempts to woo smartest, prettiest, richest girl in the county away from handsome soldier using love potion from quack doctor.”

White says the upcoming Valentine’s weekend production – bookended by the more serious “Tales of Hoffmann” last fall and “Norma” this spring – provides some levity to the 2013-2014 season.

He’s observed a lot in his 20-plus years of singing backup to the stars. He’s one of opera’s unsung participants – the folks in the background who add splash

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“It’s kind of a ‘Romper Room’ for adults,’” chorus member and health-insurance sales executive Melissa Greene says with a laugh.

“Singing under the lights in makeup, wig and costume accompanied by an orchestra is a dream come true.”

Michelle Clayton, a KOC chorister for seven years, agrees. “I have a very stress-

ful job in juvenile justice education,” she says, “and it’s nice to take a break and just play. I can sing, dance, dress up and make believe.

“As a chorus member no one really ‘sees’ you, but this director makes you feel like you’re not just a faceless drone. He wants us all to shine individually.”

She’s talking about visiting stage director Brian Deedrick, the artistic director of Edmonton Opera in Alberta, Canada. He’s responsible for every aspect of the show – the action, the physical comedy and the placement of all the singers.

Rehearsal pianist Eileen Downey says that Deedrick is one of her favorite directors. “I don’t think I have ever laughed so hard during

the rehearsal process,” she says. “He is a genius with comedic timing.”

Downey is in her third year as vocal coach and accompanist for the UT School of Music. Her duties include playing for KOC rehearsals, a practice that allows the singers to prepare with musical accompaniment, but not with the expense of having to hire the actual orchestra just yet. The stop-and-go pace of rehearsals, plus full runthroughs under the baton of conductor Brian Salesky, keep her on her toes.

“I absolutely adore my job,” she says. “KOC is often a place where a singer is learning a role for the first time. I love observing and being a part of this process. It’s also wonderful to see what a sea-

soned professional will bring to a production.”

Once the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra takes its place in the pit, Downey will relocate to the Tennessee Theatre light booth where she’ll run supertitles – English translations that are projected above the stage – for the Italian opera.

During production week, backstage will be a beehive of activity. “I started working in opera when I was 9,” says Jason Herrera, who, along with his wife, Susan Smith Herrera, is co-wig master for the production.

Herrera says of opera, “It’s the original music theater. It combines the intense pressure of skilled performance with well-planned production acumen.”

Don Townsend, KOC’s longtime production manager and chorus master, is greatly enjoying this show.

“There’s a laugh a minute,” he observes, “and the cast members seem to be having the most fun of all!”

Townsend oversees countless details, including the actual set-up of the scenery in the Tennessee Theatre.

These and other unsung heroes work together to make each KOC production the best it can possibly be.

Knoxville Opera Company’s production of “The Elixir of Love” will be performed at the Tennessee Theatre at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16.

Info: www.knoxvilleopera. com or 524-0795.

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Heiskell seniors meeting, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Heiskell Community Center, 9420 Heiskell Road. Speaker: Commissioner Larry Smith will speak about the history of UT men’s basketball. Bring a favorite chocolate dessert to enter in the annual Chocolate Fest celebration. Lunch, noon; bingo, 1 p.m. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

Family Game Night, 5:30-8 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. To register: 525-5431.

Living Well with Chronic Conditions, 9:30 a.m.-noon, Knox County Health Department classroom, 140 Dameron Ave. Free. To register: 215-5170.

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Valentine Breakfast fundraiser, 7:30-10 a.m., Union County Senior Center, Main St. Cost: $5.

Mobile Mammography, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Union County High School. Info: 305-9753.

Weekly Bible study, 9:30-11:30 a.m., at New Covenant Fellowship Church, 6828 Central Ave. Pike.

The topic will be “The Gate Keeper” with host Judy Burgess. Info: call Diane Shelby, 687-3687.

MONDAY, FEB. 10 Fountain City Town Hall, 7 p.m., Church of the Good Shepherd, 5337 Jacksboro Pike. Program: “Are You Prepared for a Public Health Emergency?” presented by Amber Sparks, emergency preparedness educator for Knox County Health Department. Info: 688-9525.

TUESDAY, FEB. 11 Healthy Choices, a plant-based free cooking class – “Soups, Salads, and Sandwich Fillings,” 6 p.m., North Knoxville Seventh-Day Adventist Church fellowship hall, 6530 Fountain City Road. To register: 314-8204 or www.KnoxvilleInstep.com.

Happy Travelers’ gathering and luncheon, North Acres Baptist Church, 5803 Millertown Pike.

Sign in, 10 a.m.; program, 10:30. Music and singing: Fredda Valentine, Michael and Delia and Ava Barber.

Info/reservations: Derrell Frye, 938-8884.

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Healthquest seminar: Anderson County Chamber Members Partner for Physical Health, Financial Health and Health Care, 5:30-7 p.m., Clinton Physical Therapy, 1921 N. Charles Seivers Blvd. Hosted by Take Charge Fitness Program. Speakers: Anna Dark with Take Charge Fitness; Michael Ousley, local Edward Jones Advisor; David A. Vudragovich, local health insurance agent. Open to the community. RSVP: Carla Waple, 457-5066.

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257 Antiques Classics 260 Air Cond / Heating 301 Excavating/Grading 326 Plumbing

FORD F150 1998, 4.6 ltr, AT, 2 wh. dr, new brakes, looks good, runs great. $2800.

865-936-4825 GMC SIERRA SLT 2004, extd. cab, long bed, 4x4, black, leather gray intr., heated seats, all power, new 28" wthr. grd. tool box, exc. cond., 130k, $11,200.

Call 865-363-4797

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357

MERCEDES 560 SL 1988 99% good as new.

Red & black int.

This is a keeper, but I am too old. Appx.

126k mi, $11,000/b.o.

Call 865-992-0386.

Sport Utility 4 Wheel Drive 258

348 Tree Service

CHEV. RAT ROD Truck 1946. 350 3 sp.

Needs little work. $8500/b.o. or partial trade. 865-463-2274 ***Web ID# 364912***

261

Chev Tahoe LT 1998, 182K mi, 4WD, exc cond. $4,000. Pics online. 865-679-2838

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Household Appliances 204a

FORD Explorer 1991 Eddie Bauer edt. 4WD, 6 CHEVY TAHOE Z71 2004, 193k mi, recent tires, cyl., many new parts. batt., brakes, fuel pump, KNOXVILLE'S $2500. 363-3770 aft. 4pm loaded, VG cond., ^ LARGEST $7400. 865-659-2278 GMC 2500 1997, 350 SELECTION Alterations/Sewing 303 eng., AT, long bed, Preowned/Scratch & Dent 1 owner, good truck 90 Day Warranty $4200.

865-300-6840 ALTERATIONS www.hunleyturner.com

BY FAITH 865-689-6508 GMC Sierra 2003, reg.

Men women, children. cab, short bed, cover, Maytag Side-By-Side Custom-tailored HONDA PILOT 2010 V8, AT, 4x4, 57K mi, refrig. 24 CF, white, for ladies of all EXL, leather, sunrf, clothes polished alum whls, water/ice in door, sizes plus kids!

42k mi, exc. cond. Faith $16,900. 423-279-0151 Maytag gas range, Koker 938-1041 $19,500. 423-295-5393 white, self-clean oven, $200 ea or 2 JEEP Grand Cherokee MERCEDES R350 2007, for $300. 865-405-9053 Lmtd 2005. 2nd ownr.

V6, loaded, clean, Cement / Concrete 315 ***Web ID# 364549*** 5.7 Hemi V8. 49K mi., like new, $14,750. $13,995. 865-382-0365.

865-577-4069.

A&S CONCRETE WILL PICK UP free ***Web ID# 361456*** Driveways, sideunwanted appls, walks, footers, floors mowers & scrap Imports 262 & block laying. All metal. John 925-3820 Comm Trucks Buses 259 types remodeling.

865-363-3054 HONDA S2000 F450 1999 Crew 108K mi., silver, Sewing Machines 211 FORD Cab Box Truck with 2004, exc. cond., $15,500.

Liftgate, $5,500. For Electrical 323 Call 865-660-8474 more information BROTHERS 4500 call 865-524-3074 Disney Embroidery MERCEDES 560 SL V O L E l e c t r i c ***Web ID# 366308*** machine w/luggage, 1988 99% good as new.

I ns tal l ati on $3500. 865-387-1479.

Red & black int.

Repair is a keeper, but Antiques Classics 260 This Maintenance I am too old. Appx.

Arts Crafts 215 126k mi, $11,000/b.o.

Service UpCall 865-992-0386. grades 1984 Cab l e Quilting Frame MERCEDES

P h on e L i n es Mint condition, Domestic 265 Z44 professional FabraS ma l l j o b s won 2 car shows Fast edition hand welco me. in its class. $7,995. quilting frame. Top INFINITI G37 2009.

More info: License d/Ins ured of the line. Extends 4 dr.

Loaded. www.jtrussell.net as large as king sz, O f c : 9 4 5 -3 05 4 62K mi. $15,900 or 865-679-2443 folds up even with Cell: 705-6357 423-295-5393 fabric installed, fully adjustable, incl: Start Right leader Domestic 265 Domestic 265 Domestic 265 cloth (gridded cloth), fully assembled.

Will deliver Knox Co. $500. 865-932-4344 4x4 16K miles, Extra c lean ............................. ***Web ID# 364671***

RAY VARNER FORDXLT LLC ’07 Ford Explorer Call 215-6599 592090MASTER or visit Size 3 x 4 Sporting Goods 223 Ad $25,930 knoxpets.org Trucking Opportunities 106 4c N TFN RELOADING DIES 17 sets. $250 for all. <ec> DRIVERS: $1,200.00 Farmer’s Market 150 ’05 Nissan Frontier King CAB 2wd 32K miles ..................................................

Call 865-577-0867 I BUY OLDER MOBILE HOMES. 1990 up, any size OK. 865-384-5643

Tazewell Pike Office Park, 3214 Tazewell Pike. 2 mins from I640.

Singles & suites. Reasonable!

Call 963-5933

pd. Stove/ref/DW. $150 DD. Secured bldg. $510/mo. 865-384-1099

Free Pets

CHERRY FINISHED Entertainment Armoire, 75x42x21 $200; 865-599-9775

MONDAY, FEB. 17

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19

SUNDAY, FEB. 16

15 Apts - Unfurnished 71 Business Opp. 130 Household Furn. 204 Trucks

Sunday, Feb. 23. Info: 497-2692.

Christian concert featuring Lost and Found, 4 p.m., Christus Victor Lutheran Church, 4110 Central Ave. Pike. Tickets: $10, sold in advance. Info: 687-6622.

Campers

235

NEW & PRE-OWNED INVENTORY SALE

2013 MODEL SALE CHECK US OUT AT Northgaterv.com or call 865-681-3030

Motorcycles

238

HARLEY DAVIDSON ULTRA CLASSIC ELECTRA GLIDE 2009 8K miles, orig. owner, Red Hot Sunglow!

Showroom condition, Lots of chrome!

^ Bobcat/Backhoe. Small dump truck. Small jobs welcome & appreciated!

Call 688-4803 or 660-9645.

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Remodeling

351

CARPENTRY, VINYL windows, drs, siding, flr jacking & painting, Fencing 327 leveling, plumbing, elec, bsmnt waterproofing, hvac repair, inFENCE WORK Instalsulation, tree work. lation & repair. Free Cleanout basements/ est. 43 yrs exp! Call attics. Sr. Citizen 689-9572.

Discount. 455-5042

Flooring

330

CERAMIC TILE installation.

Floors/ walls/ repairs. 33 yrs exp, exc work!

John 938-3328

Guttering

333

HAROLD'S GUTTER SERVICE. Will clean front & back $20 & up.

Quality work, guaranteed. Call 288-0556.

Handyman

Licensed General Contractor Restoration, remodeling, additions, kitchens, bathrooms, decks, sunrooms, garages, etc.

Residential & commercial, free estimates.

922-8804, Herman Love.

SPROLES DESIGN CONSTRUCTION *Repairs/additions *Garages/roofs/decks *Siding/paint/floors

938-4848 or 363-4848

Roofing / Siding

352

335

CARPENTRY, PLUMBING, painting, siding.

Free est, 30+ yrs exp!

Call 607-2227.

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HONEST & DEPENDABLE! Small jobs welcome. Exp'd in carpentry, drywall, painting, plumbing. Reasonable, refs avail. Call Dick at 947-1445.

Lawn Care

1st CHOICE TREE SERVICE

Stump Grinding Topping /Trimming Take Downs Hazardous trees We have Bucket Trucks.

Bobcat Climbers Dump Truck Service 22 years experience References provided

339

$18,630

Discount If You Mention This Ad

’05 Lincoln Navigator Ultimate, 4x4, Loaded, 24KSAVE $$$ SPECIALS OF THE WEEK!

LICENSED -- INSURED -WORKMAN'S COMP Guaranteed to meet or beat any price.

25 Years Experience 865-934-7766 OR 865-208-9164

$33,150

'11 Lincoln MKZ, loaded, leather, moon roof, low miles, MUST GO! R1463 ........................ $19,996 miles..................

'13 Ford Escape SE, 2.0 ecoboost, AWD, below book value! R1459 ............................... $21,900 ’06 Ford Escape 4x4, 15K miles..................................................................

'12 Ford Edge Sport, loaded, nav, roof, 22" wheels! R1526 ...................................... $31,900

$17,436 '12 Ford Expedition LTD 4x4, moonroof, nav, pwr, running boards! R1531................$38,500

Machinery-Equip. 193

$16,900. 865-388-4826 or 865-523-1195.

^ ALL TYPES roofing, guaranteed to fix any leak. Special coating for metal roofs, slate, chimney repair. Sr. Citizen Discount. Call 455-5042.

STRAW BLOWER $1,995; Concrete Bucket $495.00; Aluminum Tool Box $150; 700 Series Ford Tractor $2,695; 941 Caterpillar $14,000. For more info & other equipment go to www.jtrussell.net or call 865-679-2443

Autos Wanted 253

Stump Removal

Price includes $399 dock fee. Plus tax, tag & title WAC. Dealer retains all rebates. Restrictions may apply. See dealer for details.

Prices good through next week.

Beautifully Set Up & Ready To Ride!

A BETTER CASH OFFER for junk cars, trucks, vans, running or not. 865-456-3500

Trucks

257

CHEVY COLORADO 2007, 47k mi, ext. cab, 5 spd, 30 mpg, $8200. 865-659-2278

BREEDEN'S TREE SERVICE Over 30 yrs. experience!

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Ray Varner

Travis Varner

Dan Varner

2026 N. Charles Seivers Blvd. • Clinton, TN 37716

457-0704 or 1-800-579-4561 www.rayvarner.com

FRED'S LAWN CARE Mowing, weed-eating & blowing.

LOW RATES! Also minor mower repairs.

679-1161

355

TREE WORK & Power Stump Grinder. Free est, 50 yrs exp!

804-1034

Trimming, removal, stump grinding, brush chipper, aerial bucket truck.

Licensed & insured.

Free estimates!

219-9505

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