Mark Clark Kennedy

Mark Clark Kennedy was the son of Leona Grace Clark and Harold Walling Kennedy.
He served in the Navy as a sonar-man on a SubChaser in the Mediterranean.  Before he left for service he married Ruth Squires, his highschool sweetheart.  He was part of the naval capture of the port of Bizerte among other services.
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Mark Clark Kennedy College days

Mark Clark Kennedy and Margaret Matthews Clark 1974

Mark Clark Kennedy at the Farm on Kneeland flats, Waterbury VT

During WW2 in Italy, he also received a large silver and ebony cross from the Pope, the kind that priests would wear tied to their belts.  This Cross is now in the possession of my youngest son, Morgan Matthew Dock.  When he returned from the service, Ruth took their 2 children , Meggin and Harold and moved out.  Divorcing Mark a short time later, she remarried a man by the surname of Briggs.  He adopted the children as his own.  Mark threw himself into his studies and quickly became a professor.  Besides the VA bill, he also financed his college by working in the Texas Oil fields as a wildcatter.  He attended the University of TExas, Tulane, SUNY and Memphis state....getting his phd in Buffalo NY. He was also a supporter of the equal rights movement and with his friends, Dr. Bob Reinders and Dr. Ed Powell they arranged for sit ins, radio shows and Mark sat in the radio shows as moderator. 


While at Memphis state, he met and married his second wife, Audrey Eveline Hamblett  and their first child was born in Memphis.  Their second child was born in Buffalo.  After a brief teaching stint in  Vermont, Mark Kennedy got a teaching position at the American University in Cairo and moved his family there.  He taught there for 23 years becoming Emeritis shortly before he permanently moved back to the United states.
His second wife divorced him in 1983 shortly after his eldest daughter graduated from University in Egypt. 

Mark was the founding editor and contributor to several sociological magazines but he was most proud of the flagship journal of AUC called Cairo Papers in Social Science.  He was always available to his students and loved a banter of minds in the court yard at AUC.  He died shortly before Christmas in 2008.