Elizabeth Topham Kennan

President + Academic + Writer

Female

Born 1938

Age 75

Hometown Philadelphia, Pen...

Elizabeth Topham Kennan is an American academic who served as the 16th president of Mount Holyoke College from 1978 – 1995. She also served as president of the Five Colleges consortium from 1985 – 1994.

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Women's Colleges Find A New Popularity
NYTimes - Jan 15, 1994

Women's colleges and girls' high schools are seeing a resurgence in applications unprecedented in the last 20 years, even as applications to private, coed institutions have remained stagnant. Since 1991, applications to the 84 women's colleges across the country are up 14 percent and enrollment is at a 14-year high of 98,000 students, up from
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NYTimes - Nov 20, 1991

RICHARD DREYFUSS and MICHAEL BURNS grew up within six blocks of each other in Beverly Hills, Calif. They went to elementary and high school together and they both became actors, Mr. Dreyfuss in movies and Mr. Burns on television, where among other roles he was a regular on "Wagon Train." But their paths diverged in adulthood. While Mr. Dreyfuss
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Campus Life: Mount Holyoke; Students Rally To Overcome Discrimination
NYTimes - Nov 11, 1990

Led by the As sociation of Pan-African Unity, the black student group on campus, several Mount Holyoke student organizations joined with college administrators in a rally on Friday calling for the college to acknowledge that discrimination exists on campus and to combat it. "We must understand the distortion of what it means to be African-American,
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Grant Is Awarded To Curb Dropouts
NYTimes - Jul 15, 1990

LEAD: Mount Holyoke College and the city of Holyoke, Mass., will open a new public middle school this fall that is intended to be a model for fighting rising dropout rates among urban youngsters, especially Hispanic students. Mount Holyoke College and the city of Holyoke, Mass., will open a new public middle school this fall that is intended to be
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CHILDHOOD

1938 Birth Born in 1938.

TWENTIES

1960 22 Years Old Kennan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After Kennan received her B.A. (summa cum laude) in history from Mount Holyoke in 1960.

1962 24 Years Old On a Marshall Scholarship she pursued a second B.A. (subsequently M.A.) at Oxford University, more specifically St. Hilda's College, which she completed in 1962.

1966 28 Years Old 1 More Event

She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1966.

FORTIES

1985 47 Years Old … She also served as president of the Five Colleges consortium from 1985 – 1994.

FIFTIES

1994 56 Years Old As president of Mount Holyoke, she was a proponent of single-sex education, stating to the Los Angeles Times in 1994: "Single-sex education for girls is a proven method for ensuring that they reach their fullest potential. … Read More

1995 57 Years Old Upon her retirement from Mount Holyoke in 1995, the Kennan Faculty Chair and Lectureship was established. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

2000 62 Years Old In 2000, Kennan co-authored the mystery novel, Overnight Float, with Jill Ker Conway (former president of Smith College). … Read More

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