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While the bishop retained his ecclesiastical seat (literally cathedra, in Latin) in Memphis, he continued to live in Sewanee with his family. He ceded the "Bishop's House" on the close of St. Mary's Cathedral to the sisters of the Community of St. Mary for their educational and humanitarian missions.
[1] [2] His father, Telfair Hodgson, was an Episcopal priest who served as the third vice chancellor of Sewanee: The University of the South from 1879 to 1890. His mother, nee Frances Potter, was the daughter of a slave-owning planter from Savannah, Georgia. [3] Hodgson graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South in 1898. [1]
Shirley Inman Majors (May 7, 1913 – April 5, 1981) was an American football and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Huntland High School in Franklin County, Tennessee from 1949 to 1956 and at Sewanee: The University of the South from 1957 to 1977.
The University of the South, familiarly known as Sewanee (/ s ə ˈ w ɑː n i /), [8] [9] is a private Episcopal liberal arts college in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States. It is owned by 28 southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church , and its School of Theology is an official seminary of the church.
Lea was the manager of the "Iron Men" of the 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, and was credited with organizing their schedule of games. The Tigers won five road games in six days, and outscored opponents 322 to 10. [1] A documentary film about that team and Luke Lea's role was released in 2022 called Unrivaled: Sewanee 1899. [2]
He was born to Camille, a French Catholic, and LeRoy Percy, of the planter class in Mississippi, and grew up in Greenville. His father was elected as U.S. senator in 1910. As an attorney and planter with 20,000 acres under cultivation for cotton, he attended The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, as did three previous generations in his famil
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) is a private medical school with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and additional locations in Suwanee, Georgia (PCOM Georgia) and Moultrie, Georgia (PCOM South Georgia).
Sewanee (/ s ə ˈ w ɑː n i /) [5] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Franklin County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 2,535 at the 2020 census. [6] It is part of the Winchester, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area. Sewanee is best known as the home of The University of the South, commonly known as "Sewanee". Businesses ...