BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Eugene Holloway Sloan was born on September 14, 1907.  He was a native of Lebanon, Tennessee, and served as a high school teacher, as a principal, and as a city superintendent of schools.  He began his journalism career as a teenage reporter for the Lebanon Democrat and later was a “stringer” for the Nashville Banner.  His by-lined column “Somewhere in Tennessee” was the basis for the book on World War II maneuvers.  During World War II, he served as a lieutenant in the Tennessee State Guard and was later accredited as a war correspondent by the U.S. Army.  By the end of World War II, Sloan served as interim state editor of the Nashville Banner.  Sloan also received a degree in law and became a member of the Tennessee State Bar Association.  In 1946, Sloan became a professor of Business Law and director of Public Relations at Middle Tennessee State College in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.  He also was chair of the MTSU Athletic Committee for over 20 years and worked with Coach Murphy to get MTSU into the Ohio Valley Conference. After serving the university for 28 years, Sloan retired in 1974. He died on May 21, 1997.

Sloan was married to Lillian White of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. They had four children, Gene Jr., Joseph White, William H,. and Anne Twining.

Sloan was the author of many publications including Personages in American History and With Second Army: Somewhere in Tennessee, which provides a history of World War II maneuvers in Tennessee.  In addition, he was a contributing author to numerous college textbooks on business law and journalism that were published by the Pittman Publishing Company.  He was also a member of the committee that wrote A History of Wilson County, Tennessee.