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Subject: [TNCAMPBE-L] Obits From the Knoxville News Sentinel 26 Mar 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:08:48 EST
>From The Knoxville News Sentinel 26 Mar 2001
CONOVER, WILLIAM REID, III - age 68, of Tacora Hills, Clinton, passed away
Saturday morning, March 24, 2001, at the Methodist Medical Center. He was
born April 17, 1932, in Freehold, N.J., the son of the late Lillian Treat and
William Reid Conover, Sr. He graduated from the University of Tampa, Tampa,
Florida, with a BS in Chemistry and a Minor in Math. He was a member of TKE
Fraternity. Mr. Conover came to Oak Ridge in 1962, to work at ORIN Cancer
Research. He retired from the University of Tennessee Knoxville, where he was
a Research Chemist. Survived by wife, Anna Queener Conover; son, Douglas Reid
Conover of Clinton; daughter, Anna Lisa Conover of Oak Ridge;
brothers-in-law, Herman R. Queener and wife Ellen of Oak Ridge, and Dr. Jack
D. Queener and wife Fern of Knoxville; nephew, David A. Queener and wife
Helen of Kingsport; aunt, Claire Colline and husband Nick of Manasquan, N.J.
Funeral service will be held in the chapel of Weatherford Mortuary on
Tuesday, March 27, 2001, 8 p.m. with Dr. Boyd Carter officiating. Graveside
service will be Wednesday, 11 a.m. at Jacksboro Cemetery, Jacksboro, Tenn.
Memorials may be made to the Oak Ridge Human Society, 1345 Oak Ridge
Turnpike, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, or to the Knox County Rescue Ministries, 512
N. Chilhowee Dr., Knoxville, TN 37914. The family will receive friends on
Tuesday, 6-8 p.m. at Weatherford Mortuary, Oak Ridge.
DODD, HERBERT RUGGLES - age 87, passed away on Saturday, March 24, 2001, at
the Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge. Dodd was one of the original
residents of Oak Ridge, coming to Oak Ridge in 1943, to help establish the
Oak Ridge Schools. Dodd was born on March 30, 1913, near Bend, Oregon, the
son of Halbert B. Dodd and Julia Ruggles Dodd, who were homesteaders. Halbert
Dodd had been a merchant in west Tennessee, and Julia Ruggles, a graduate of
Julliard, had been a violin and piano instructor in West Tennessee. In
Oregon, Dodd's father ran a store and his mother taught in a one-room
schoolhouse. The family returned to Tennessee in 1917. The family owned a
series of general stores in west Tennessee. Dodd attended schools in Martin
and Covington, and began his life-long love of music by singing at church. He
began his college work at the University of Tennessee, Martin (then Martin
College), and transferred to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he
earned his undergraduate degree in English and Social Studies. He was a tenor
in the Univeristy of Tennessee's Men's Glee Club. His first teaching position
was at the Allen School in Cleveland, where he taught English. While teaching
in Cleveland, he was a member of the Chattanooga Presbyterian Church,
commuting to Chattanooga to rehearse and perform with the church choir. He
became a teaching principal and then a supervisor in Giles County. Dodd came
to Oak Ridge in 1943, hired by Dr. Alden H. Blankenship, superintendent of
schools, to be the first elementary school principal for the Oak Ridge
Schools. At the time, Dodd had been finishing his master's degree in
administration and supervision at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
following seven years of school work. His activities for the Oak Ridge
Schools that first year included helping to hire teachers for all the
schools, providing an orientation for all elementary school teachers (the
meeting being held in what is now the Playhouse), and substituting in classes
when teachers were absent, as not enough substitute teachers were available.
He was the team leader for a group of principals who named Cedar Hill, Elm
Grove, Pine Valley and Willow Brook Elementary Schools - going to each campus
and naming the school based on the trees on the grounds. He opened Cedar Hill
and was principal there for 23 years. During his tenure at Cedar Hill, Dodd
helped start the First Student Council in an elementary school in Tennessee,
and helped start the environmental program that became the current Tremont
Program. In 1966, he became principal of Willow Brook. He retired in 1981. He
continued as principal of Willow Brook, three years beyond the mandatory
retirement age of the time (65), due to the requests of the Willow Brook PTA,
and the school faculty to Superintendent Dr. Robert Smallridge and the School
Board. During his 38 years with the Oak Ridge Schools, Dodd worked with 13
superintendents, from Dr. Blankenshihp to Dr. Smallridge. He was an
instrumental force in helping start the Oak Ridge Schools' Teacher Center.
Many teachers were hired to teach in Oak Ridge by Dodd, as he not only
recommended teachers for his own schools, but worked with the personnel
office in visiting college campuses in the southeast and recruiting teachers.
He was active in the Southern Association for the Accreditation of Colleges
and Schools, and attended the annual conventions even after he retired.
During his professional life, he taught summer school in the College of
Education at UTK, and helped supervise student teachers. He did additional
graduate work at Harvard University. While a graduate student at UTK, he
began dating Thelma Henry Iles, who was working on a master's degree in
English. The two had taught together in Cleveland. They married in 1945, and
she continued to commute to Knoxville, where she worked in public relations
for the Tennessee Valley Authority. Their daughter is Julie Em Dodd. After
their daughter was in junior high school, Mrs. Dodd returned to teaching,
teaching at both Highland View and Linden Elementary Schools. She was active
in the United Methodist Church Circle Program, the American Association of
University Women, and was regent of the Clinch Bend Chapter of the Daughters
of the American Revolution. Mr. Dodd was one of the original members of the
First United Methodist Church, joining the church in 1943. He sang tenor in
the choir for more than 50 years. A 45-year member of Kiwanis, Dodd held a
number of offices, including music director and program chair. He regularly
was on the committee that selected the Kiwanis Scholarship recipient.
Following his retirement, he became a regular volunteer for the Visitors'
Center, working there for more than 10 years. He enjoyed sharing stories
about the early days of Oak Ridge. Last summer he was on a panel for an ORICL
class on " The Early Days of Oak Ridge". He talked about the early days of
the schools. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; his brother,
Frank Dodd, and his sister-in-law, Fairy Johnson Dodd. He is survived by his
daughter, Julie, who is a professor in the University of Forida's College of
Journalism and Communications, and who is the only faculty member in the
college to receive two TIP Awards for Excellence in Teaching. Prior to moving
to Florida, Dr. Dodd was an English and journalism teacher and newspaper and
yearbook adviser at Oak Ridge High School from 1982-1988, and had taught high
school in Lexington, Ky. Other special people in Mr. Dodd's life include his
niece, Jane Dodd Hudgins, an elementary school teacher in Martin, and her
sons; his cousins, Mary Bonnie Zarecor, Marilucile Conner of Martin, Dot
Galasso of Murfressboro, Mary Warren and Kathyrn Warren of Nashville; staff
members from Cedar Hill and Willow Brook, and the fellowship of the First
United Methodist Church, and the Kiwanis Club Members. Funeral services will
be held on Tuesday, March 27, 2001, at 2 p.m. at the First United Methodist
Church. The burial will follow at Grandview Cemetery in Maryville. In lieu of
flowers, the family request, memorial donations be made to the First United
Methodist Church Adult Choir to continue Mr. Dodd's love of music at PO Box
4669, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-4669. The family will receive friends on Monday,
March 26, 2001, from 4-7 p.m. at Weatherford Mortuary, Oak Ridge.
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