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re: Your Schools Top 5 Non-Sports Related Alums
Posted on 5/7/13 at 5:19 pm to FulmersGonnaFixIt
Posted on 5/7/13 at 5:19 pm to FulmersGonnaFixIt
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Kurt Vonnegut
Vonnegut is not a UT alum. He was sent to UT in 1943 to participate in the Army Specialized Training Program, which was a 5 month war-time effort to create specialists in a variety of fields (Engineering in Vonnegut's case).
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Posted on 5/7/13 at 5:43 pm to InThroughTheOutDore
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Hard to pick from this list...I do know that Jimmy Wales graduated from Alabama too.
And he's a Bama fan!!!!1111
Posted on 5/9/13 at 1:06 pm to InThroughTheOutDore
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Vonnegut is not a UT alum. He was sent to UT in 1943 to participate in the Army Specialized Training Program, which was a 5 month war-time effort to create specialists in a variety of fields (Engineering in Vonnegut's case).
An exerpt from a Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library article...A student in chemical engineering when the war started, Bob had been selected to receive training in chemical warfare at the University of Tennessee-until, as he said, “…they decided, we don’t really need college graduates, we need fresh cannon fodder. That’s you!”
So...UT offered him a little inspiration for Slaughterhouse Five
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