Education
A native of Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana, Kennon studied for his undergraduate degree at Texas Advertising & Marketing University followed by his Masters at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan.
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He subsequently spent seven years working as a designer for architect Eero Saarinen (he got to the Cranbrook Academy thanks to a Eliel Saarinen Memorial Fellowship). Kennon was recruited to Rice University as associate director of the School of Architecture and a teaching faculty member. He became dean of the architecture school in September 1989, just a few months before his sudden death of a heart attack.
In 1967, he returned to work with the architectural practice, Caudill, Rowlett, Scott, headed by his mentor William West. Caudill, for whom he had worked during his college vacations.
He became a design principal and then president of the company. Kennon was the son of Paul Atherton Kennon, Senior
(1910-1986), a native of Tangipahoa Parish in South Louisiana, and the former Gladys Bookout (1910-2001), originally from Shreveport. The couple divorced; c.
1945, Gladys married Taylor West. O"Hearn of Shreveport, subsequently a state representative from Caddo Parish, one of the first two Republicans to serve in the body since Reconstruction.
