Lee Boone Kennett

Background

Kennett,, Lee Boone was born on August 11, 1931 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Son of Lee Boone and Dorothy Mary Kennett.

Education

Student, Guilford College, North Carolina, 1948—1950. Bachelor, University North Carolina, 1952. Master of Arts, University Mississippi, 1956.

Doctor of Philosophy, University Virginia, 1958.

Career

Assistant professor Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1958—1960. Lecturer Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1960—1961. Assistant professor University Georgia, Athens, 1962—1966, associate professor, 1968—1978, professor history, 1978—1987, research professor, 1987—1993, professor emeritus, since 1993.

Associate professor Guilford College, North Carolina, 1967—1968. Founder, director Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1969—1974. Member fellowship selection board Institute of International Education, 1978, 80.

Organizer International Conference on Aviation, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, 1990. Directeur d'études associé Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 4th section, University Paris, 1978. Lindbergh professor National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1989—1990.

Guest lecturer aeronautical section Institute Physical Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1991.

Membership

Member of Southern History Association, Society for Military History, Organization American Historians, North Carolina Civil War Roundtable, Greensboro History Museum, Centre d'etudes d'histoire de la Défense, American History Association, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Julianne Smythe Hudgens, June 24, 1961 (divorced July 1977). Children: Caroline Allison, John Calvin. Married Anne Marie Lucile Durand, February 18, 1987.

Father:

Lee Boone

Mother:

Dorothy Mary Kennett

Spouse:

Julianne Smythe Hudgens

Spouse:

Anne Marie Lucile Durand

child:

Caroline Allison Kennett,

child:

John Calvin Kennett,