9/11 REMEMBERED

Like Pearl Harbor and the Kennedy assassination, 9/11 left an indelible mark on the American conscious and memory.  No one alive that day will forget where they were when they first heard the news.

Ironically, I was in the Patterson School of Diplomacy offices with Ambassador Morton Holbrook III, longtime Foreign Service officer and former U.S. consul general in China.  I had interviewed Ambassador Holbrook's father in Owensboro several times about his distinguished legal career and political experiences and I was enjoying the opportunity to meet and spend time with his accomplished son.  

Ambassador Holbrook was talking to a small group of students about careers in the Foreign Service.  Suddenly, a faculty member came into the conference room and asked if he could turn on the television.  I thought it was a very odd request but soon realized what Americans were witnessing on their televisions across the country.  

The United States and the world would never be the same.  Now, 19 years later we pause to remember.

MARY E. BEALL, 1919 MATH MAJOR

Congratulations to all December, 2019 University of Kentucky graduates.

A century ago, Mary E. Beall, from Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, graduated from UK in 1919 with a degree in mathematics.  The Kentuckian described her as "one of those rare co-eds who has a positively masculine intelligence in math and kindred subjects.  During her years at the university, she has certainly upset the tradition that these subjects could be really managed only by the superior sex. Her abilities have won her the admiration and her sweetness the friendship of all."

Mary Beall

Beall was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, the YWCA, the Philosophian Literary Society, and the Mathematics Club.

Following graduation Beall travelled and then taught school in Jacksonville, Florida and Owensboro, Kentucky before returning to Mt. Sterling to teach until her retirement.  She never married and died March 5, 1962.