Posted on November 17th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
This is a guest blog post by my friend and client Mary Bogert, the general manager of the Knoxville Convention Center. She wrote it for her own blog, From Inside the Center, shortly after a welcome event that Moxley Carmichael put together last month for Hart at the Convention Center. So, here’s Mary:
I’ve met the [...]
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Posted on November 8th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
The annual Pilot Pumpers fundraiser for the United Way last month raised a record $63,478. Here’s the deal: during the three-day promotion at all area Pilot convenience stores, Pilot donates to United Way five cents for every gallon of gas sold and 10 percent of all in-store sales. To drum up interest in the event [...]
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Posted on May 25th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Tom Mattingly, a former city of Knoxville employee before joining the UT Sports Information Office for 18 years (1987 to 2005), has for the past four years written a Sunday column and daily blog for the News Sentinel. Both are called “The Vol Historian” — and, naturally, that’s what Mattingly also has come to be [...]
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Posted on April 8th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Legendary University of Georgia football coach and athletic director, Vince Dooley — also the father of UT football coach Derek Dooley — is in town to visit the Knoxville Botanical Garden tonight and sign copies of his new book about gardening.
But last night, he was guest of honor at a $250-per-ticket fundraiser to benefit the [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Former University of Tennessee football coach Johnny Majors was guest of honor Sunday at one of the Knoxville Symphony League’s “Elegant Dining” dinners and I, for one, was surprised and touched by some of what he had to say. He and his wife, Mary Lynn, have just returned from a trip to South Africa and [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
• “He said all the right things.”
• “He seems like a good guy. And he’s from UT!”
• “He doesn’t seem like a loose cannon!”
Those were some of the comments heard in the crowd of nearly 300 business people gathered at the Knoxville Convention Center Monday to welcome the new University of Tennessee president, Joe DiPietro.
The [...]
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Posted on November 9th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
Barbara Dooley, the mother of UT football coach Derek Dooley and the wife of legendary University of Georgia coach and athletic director Vince Dooley, says her son has her under a gag order in Knoxville — she’s not allowed to do TV interviews.
But that hasn’t stopped her from speaking her mind to
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Posted on August 11th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
Joan Cronan was 12 years old and growing up in the town of Opelousas in southern Louisiana. “I was a tomboy before it was cool for women to be in sports,” the UT women’s athletic director told a lunch gathering this week.
She was really looking forward to signing up to play Little League baseball so, [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
There was so much material this year that the annual Front Page Follies show was bound to be funny! Held Saturday at the Knoxville Convention Center, it did not disappoint.
The Follies show is the annual performance by area journalists and PR folks to raise funds for communications scholarships and poke fun at area newsmakers in the [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
The Evergreen Ball, a fundraiser for Friends of the Smokies, was held at Cherokee Country Club Feb. 12th after being postponed from its original date by inclement weather.
Of course there was the usual silent auction, dinner, live auction, dancing routine. But my favorite thing about it each year is that the Chillbillies are usually the performers. Yes, that [...]
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