Take a quiz: How much do you know about women’s history in Knoxville?

Dawn Ford speaks last week at the EWA 30th anniversary party. She and Jeannie Dulaney put together this trvia quiz. Enjoy!

Who doesn’t love a trivia quiz? Especially when there are prizes involved!

Last week, as part of the 30th anniversary celebration of the Executive Women’s Association, members Dawn Ford and Jeannie Dulaney challenged us to a trivia quiz about the history of women in Knoxville. Prizes? Susan B. Anthony dollars: one for each correct answer and 30 for the person with the most correct answers. It was wildly popular. Three folks finished in a tie and donated the winnings to the YWCA.

I thought you might like to see how many answers you know. The answers are at the end of the post.

1. Who was the first female United Way campaign chair in Knoxville?
   

   Linda Underwood, left, and Dr. Jan Henley at the party.

2. Who was the first female County Commission member?
3. Who was the first African-American member of the School Board?
4. Who was the first female president of a Knoxville bank?
5. Who was the first non-nun female president of a Knoxville hospital?
6. Who was the first female president of the Knoxville Bar Association?
7. The Tennessee Bar Association?
8. Who was the first female rabbi?
9. Who was Knoxville’s first female chief of staff at a hospital?
10. Who was the first female candidate for Knoxville mayor?
11. Who was the first African-American member of EWA? Hint: She also was the first African-American division director at TVA.
12. Who was the first member of a previously men’s-only civic organization?
13. Who was the first female superintendent of schools?
14. Who was the first female member of the TVA board?
    

    Dr. Martha Buchanan, left, and Jeannie Dulaney

15. Who was the first female member of the UT Board of Trustees?
16. Who was the first female general counsel of TVA?
17. Who was the first female co-anchor of the evening news in Knoxville?
18. Who was the first female director of a Knoxville art museum?
19. Who as the first female superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
20. Who was the first female Knox County judge?
21. Who was the first  female president of the Knoxville Academy of Medicine?
22. Who was the first female general manager of a Knoxville TV station?
23. Who was the first female chair of the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce?
24. Who was the first female head of a local utility company?
25. Who was the first female Knoxvillian to win an Academy Award?
26. Who is the all-time winningest coach — male or female — in NCAA basketball history?
27. Who was the first female from Knox County to be elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives?
    

    Ellen Fowler, left, and Barbara Blevins

28. To the Tennessee Senate?
29. Who was the first female member of Knoxville City Council?
30. Who was the first female dean of a college at UT?

Answers:

1. Donna Cobble
2. Bee DeSelm and Mary Lou Horner (was then called County Quarterly Court)
3. Sarah Moore Greene
4. Pam Fansler (Note: Fansler is the correct answer if we are talking about a traditional loan-making bank. Sharon Miller founded and was CEO of The Trust Company prior to that. Two winners, in my book!)
5. Debra London
6. Sarah Sheppeard
7. Pam Reeves
8. Beth Schwartz
9. Dr. Norma Walker, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, 1975
10. Bernice O’Connor
11. Marilyn Taylor
12. Brenda Pritchard of the Better Business Bureau
13. Mildred Doyle
14. Skila Harris
    

    Quiz authors: Jeannie Dulaney, left, and Dawn Ford

15. Ann Baker Furrow
16. Maureen Dunn
17. Elda Brown (started co-anchoring at WBIR with Bill Williams in 1978) (This answer has been updated. Please see comment section below. The correct answer is Joan Lambert.)
18. Rebecca Massie Lane at the Dulin Gallery of Art, forerunner of the Knoxville Museum of Art
19. Karen Wade
20. Sharon Bell
21. Dr. Molly Peeler in 2000
22. Jan Wade at WATE
23. Donna Cobble
24. Mintha Roach at KUB
25. Patricia Neal
26. Pat Summitt
27. Katherine Chesney Shook in the early ’60s. Was elected as a Democrat but later became a Republican.
28. Martha Ashe
29. Hattie Love was on Council for one year in the 1930s.
30. Angie Warren Perkins. She was acting dean, without pay(!), of the Woman’s Department at UT 1898 to 1900.

Thanks to Jeannie and Dawn for putting this quiz together!

Janice Greer, current EWA president, recited a poem honoring all 30 former presidents.

Connie Hutchins, left, and Cathy Hamilton

Becky Wade, left, and Ellen Adcock

From left: Patricia McNutt, Ruth Ellis and Adrienne Anderson

From left: Wanda Sobieski, Dr. Susan Dodd and Janell Cecil

From left: Rosalyn Tillman, Mary Bogert and Elaine Streno

LuAnn Jarnigan helps herself to the wonderful Orangery repast!

Gwen Brown, left, and Rosalyn Tillman were very intent on winning the quiz.

Bee DeSelm, who herself was one of the answers to the quiz, listens seriously.

Henrietta Grant, left, passes a remark to Ann Hanson.

This is an ad that ran in the Feb. 24, 1976, edition of TV Guide. It features Joan Lambert, who was the co-anchor of the 6 p.m. news on WTVK-Channel 26. Her daughter, Terryl Oliver of WIVK, provided a copy of the ad to The Blue Streak. She believes her mother was the first female TV co-anchor in Knoxville.