Miss. Anne Kennedy-Profile

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Title

Miss. Anne Kennedy-Profile

Subject

Biography sketch of Miss. Anne Kennedy of the University of Montevallo Department of English

Creator

Leslie Smith

Source

1921 Technala

Memorial Record of Alabama: A Concise Account of the State's Political, Military, Professional and Industrial Progress, Together with the Personal Memoirs of Many of Its People, Volume 1

Bibb County, Alabama: The First Hundred Years

Montevallo Archives

Date

1861-1918

Contributor

1921 Technala

Memorial Record of Alabama: A Concise Account of the State's Political, Military, Professional and Industrial Progress, Together with the Personal Memoirs of Many of Its People, Volume 1

Bibb County, Alabama: The First Hundred Years

Montevallo Archives

Format

Text

Person Item Type Metadata

Birth Date

July 16, 1851

Birthplace

Centreville, Alabama

Death Date

June 16, 1918

Occupation

Teacher/Professor

Biographical Text

Miss. Anne E. Kennedy, daughter of Josiah S. Kennedy and his wife Ann Eliza McNeill, served as the Department of English’s first chair. A native of Centreville, Alabama and one of 11 children she is credited as the school’s first faculty member, elected to her position in the spring of 1912, and is described in the 1921 Technala as “an able, popular, conscientious, and long experienced Alabama teacher.” (131) The Kennedy House of Centreville was her parent’s home and still stands today (images are available on the Alabama Department of Archives and History website). She was one of 11 children.
Her employment included private schools In her hometown and Union Springs, Alabama, at the East Tennessee Institute in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her longest tenure was with the Alabama Technical Institute and College for Women. At the time she took the position the department was the Department of English and History, with the two disciplines taught by many of the same teachers. Miss. Kennedy herself taught English, history, and elocution.
Also active in the community, she was a charter member of the Montevallo Branch of the Southern Association of College Women, a member and one time president of the Montevallo Studiosis, and was a member of the General Josiah Gorgas Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She was also active in church and the Y.W.C.A.
She received her Bachelor of Philosophy in Education from the University of Chicago in 1914, and studied at the University of Virginia and at Harvard during the summer sessions. She was also active in her writing, penning a history of the college which was published in the 1921 Technala posthumously. She resigned in 1912 due to failing health and died on June 3, 1918.

Bibliography

1921 Technala

Memorial Record of Alabama: A Concise Account of the State's Political, Military, Professional and Industrial Progress, Together with the Personal Memoirs of Many of Its People, Volume 1

Bibb County, Alabama: The First Hundred Years

Montevallo Archives