Tennessee Education Commissioner Howard Warf was a popular man in the spring of 1963.
Thirty-six delegations from various counties across the state had visited Warf, trying to make the case that their community should be awarded the state’s first two-year technical school, according to newspaper archives. However, Warf had requested that Chattanooga not waste time by sending representatives to lobby him.
What? Had someone in the Scenic City made a wise crack about Hohenwald, the county seat of his beloved Lewis County, sounding like it should be pronounced “hole in the wall?”