Early Career

Still only twenty-two, after his honorable discharge Greene took a position as athletic supervisor for Tennessee-Eastman Corporation in Kingsport, Tennessee. There he met his future wife, Sarah Virginia Jessee of Lebanon, Virginia. Following his tenure at Tennessee-Eastman Corporation, the couple moved to Greensville, South Carolina, where he became a partner in a private business college. There he discovered his true calling was in academia, asserting “no athletic program could stimulate my imagination as much as teaching.”