How a 'Textbook Search' Went Awry

By JOHN L. PULLEY

The U. of Tennessee thought its newest president would lead it to new heights, but two years later he resigned in disgrace

State lawmakers met here on a recent September morning to pick through the wreckage of John W. Shumaker's career, which lay scattered in a debris field stretching from Connecticut to Kentucky, down through Tennessee and into Alabama. They hoped that the sworn testimony they had come to hear would explain why Mr. Shumaker, the University of Tennessee's formerly