Elizabeth Topham Kennan
Elizabeth Topham Kennan (born February 25, 1938) is an American academic administrator who served as the 15th president of Mount Holyoke College from 1978 to 1995.Winning a Marshall Scholarship, she studied for a second bachelor's degree (subsequently Master of Arts) at St. Hilda's College, Oxford University, which she completed in 1962.Among the corporate boards on which Kennan has served as director or trustee are Bell Atlantic, Shawmut Bank, and Putnam Investments.[3] In 2000, Kennan co-authored the mystery novel, Overnight Float, with Jill Ker Conway (former president of Smith College).Since 2002, they have resided in Boyle County near Danville, Kentucky, where they have restored the Cambus-Kenneth Estate, a Thoroughbred horse, cattle, and crop farm listed on the National Register of Historic Places.