Evening star., 1947-12-21
Mrs. Kinneor, Retiring Jan. !,
Has Many Educational 'Fiirsts'

January II, 1898. 1t Is signed by
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Cary T.
Grayson and Gen. Frank r. Keefer
Member Of the Textbook Com
mittee in 'our. public schools at the
time the junior high schools sep
arated from the senior schools,
Mrs. Kinnear was appointed chair
man Of the Junior high section, a
post held continuously until the
recent reorganization Of the vari-
GUS textbook committees.
Mrs. Kinnear was born in one
of the houses razed to make way fol
the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Her parents were representatives
Of Washington families long promi-
nent in Navy circles and in church
civic and business life here. Her
father, Peter Philip Little, was a
Southeast Washington businessman
who started what is believed to be
the first chain store enterprise here
and was superintendent of the Sun.
day school and a vestryman at
Christ Church near the Navy Yard
Her mother, Mary Agnes Wilson,
sang in the choir OF Christ Church
A maternal uncle was the late Rear
Admiral Philip Inch, U. S. N.
Studied in D. C. Schools.
A product of the public school
system she so notably served, Mrs.
Kinnear went to the Peabody and
Carberry Schools and was gradu-
ated from Eastern High School and
from Wilson Teachers College when
it was Wilson Normal School. She
was granted an A. B. and teachers
diploma in education by George
Washington University. She fur
ther equipped herself professionally
by graduate work at Columbia, Chi
cago and Harvard during summer
sessions.
Following her graduation from
George Washington University she
organized its alumni as a branch
of the General Alumni Association
and served as first president OF the
education group upon the General
Alumni Board.
r. Appointed to her first teaching
post at the Van Buren School July
/, 1899, she subsequently taught at
the Maury, Peabody, Wallach. Ed
munds, Henry and Van Buren,
Schools before her appointment to
administrative posts at Columbia
and Langley Junior High Schools.
She has been the principal of Eliot
Junior High School since 1881, and
an active participant for almost half
a century in all that has pertained
to the parent-teacher problems Of
this city.
A Skillful Homemaker.
Widow of the late Francis w. Kin
near, traffic auditor of the General
Accounting Office Of the Treasury,
by whom she has one son. Francis w.
Kinnear, jr., who makes his home
with his mother. Mrs. Kinnear has
demonstrated abilities as home
maker, skillful cook and gardener
commensurate with those which
have signalized her professional
career.
Mrs. Kinnear has been prom
inently identified with, and has held
various offices with, such professional
groups as the Soroptinist Club, the
Association of University
Women, the Women's City Club, the
Columbian Women Of the George
University, the National
Association of Secondary Schools
and the National Congress of Par
ents and Teachers.
zone OF the greatest compensa-
tions in life is to be able to inspire
civic and patriotic ideals in young
people and to be OF some service in
guiding them to realize their ideals
and ambitions" declared this school
teacher. who has found enduring
Joy and satisfaction in devoting her
life to our public school system.
Mrs. Kinnear lives at 5402 Far
ragut street, Rogers Heights, Hyatts-
vile, Md, and has a summer home
at Beverly Beach, Md.