Background
Hardon, Imogene M. was born on September 26, 1923 in Ripley, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Theodore Clinton Mauney and Olivia Mae Mullikin.
Hardon, Imogene M. was born on September 26, 1923 in Ripley, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Theodore Clinton Mauney and Olivia Mae Mullikin.
Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, Blue Mountain College, 1956. Master of Science in Elementary Education, University Mississippi, Oxford, 1963. Certified in Administration and Elementary Education, University Mississippi, Oxford, 1979.
1st grade teacher, principal Dry Creek Elementary School, Booneville, Mississippi, 1946—1955. 1st grade teacher Pine Grove Elementary School, Ripley, 1955—1963, principal, 1963—1986. Elementary education instructor Blue Mountain (Mississippi) College, 1986—2001, student teacher supervisor, 1988—2001.
Member scholarship committee Blue Mountain College, 1988—2001, member committee Staley Lecture Series, 1990—2001, faculty advisor, organizer campus Kappa Kappa Iota, 1993—2001, faculty sponsor freshman and sophomore classes, 1998, 2001, president faculty club, 1993. Faculty advisor Baptist Student Union, Blue Mountain.
Member Tippah County History Society, Ripley, Mississippi, 1976—1998. Sponsor Tippah County 4-H Club, 1946—1986. Member of National Education Association, American Association of University Women (secretary, vice president 1995, president 2004-2005, Woman of Achievement award 1987), Mississippi Retired Teachers Associate, Miss Retired Public Employees, National Retired Teachers Associate, Mississippi Association Education, Mississippi Professional Educators, Blue Mountain College Local Alumnae Association 2001-2002, Delta Kappa Gamma, Kappa Kappa Iota (chair 1982—2002, state president 1983-1984, state scholarship 2002).
Married Jesse J. Hardon, April 4, 1942 (deceased August 17, 2001). 1 child Partricia Hardon Collins.