Scholarship Established to Honor former Orange & White Editor, Alumna Linda Higgins’ Legacy
Linda (Jennings) Higgins (’64) has more than one “first” in a long list of lifetime achievements—such as being the first woman elected to a citywide position in Jackson, Tennessee—and one last: she was the final editor of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s student newspaper, the Orange and White, before she helped it transition into the Daily Beacon that exists today.
Her extensive accomplishments make her husband, Richard Higgins, and their three daughters, Robin Higgins Horwitz (’86), KaCarole Higgins, and Beth Higgins Jones (‘93), immensely proud. When Richard and the daughters started considering how they could honor their family matriarch