Joan Kavanaugh Lesueur

Background

Lesueur, Joan Kavanaugh was born on November 16, 1929 in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of Joe Miller and Nancy Hall (Clay) Kavanaugh.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Education, University Kentucky, 1951. Master of Arts in Spanish, University Kentucky, 1954. Master of Science in Library Science, University Kentucky, 1971.

Career

Teacher Douglas County High School, Douglasville, Georgia, 1951-1952, Pinkerton High School and Midway (Kentucky) Junior College, 1953-1955, 1956-1959, College High School, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 1955-1956. Assistant professor Spanish Morehead (Kentucky) State University, 1959-1961, 62-63, 64-65. Institute library science Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, 1968-1978.

Librarian Canton (North Carolina) Junior High School, since 1978.

Achievements

• Joan Kavanaugh Lesueur has been listed as a noteworthy librarian by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

President Jackson County and Haywood County Cancer Society, Sylva and Waynesville, North Carolina, 1982-1983, 85-86. Board directors North Carolina division American Cancer Society, Raleigh, 1982-1986. Vestryman, lector local Episcopalian Church.

Member American Association School Libraries (presenter media programs 1986, 89), North Carolina Association School Libraries (presenter media programs 1984, 86), North Carolina Association Educators (state president support personnel division 1982-1983, board directors 1982-1983, Outstanding Member award 1987), National Cathedral Association Diocese Western North Carolina (co-chairman 1978-1981), Phi Delta Kappa (secretary-treasurer, president Western Carolina chapter 1990, Outstanding Teacher award Western Carolina chapter 1981), Delta Kappa Gamma, Beta Phi Mu, Blue Grass Society Colonial Daughters 17th Century, others.

Connections

Married Alexander Armand Lesueur, September 7, 1960. 1 child, Alexander Armand Junior.

Father:

Joe Miller Kavanaugh

Mother:

Nancy Hall (Clay) Kavanaugh

Spouse:

Alexander Armand Lesueur

child:

Alexander Armand Junior Lesueur