Kennedy's first principal, Mina Parsons, strikes a formidable pose on the porch of her home, just a couple blocks from the school, circa 1918.

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Mina Parsons was Kennedy School's principal in 1913 and 1914, and continued as a teacher at the school into the early 1920s.

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This 1916 Ladies Home Journal clipping touts Kennedy School's revolutionary, single-story design.

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John D. Kennedy, the school's namesake, was an early landowner, who was instrumental in bringing the school as well as a church to the neighborhood.

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