BioM: Kidd, Nancy (1938)

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Surnames: Kidd, Kennedy

----Sources: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 01/20/1938

Kidd, Nancy (AUG 1938)

Sacramento, Calif., Jan. 8, 1938 - A transcontinental romance is that of John Lyon Kennedy of Palo Alto, formerly of this city, and Miss Nancy Kidd of Owen, Clark Co., Wis. Their engagement is being announced, they’ve already set August as the month for the wedding, and it will take place in Wisconsin. The couple will come to Palo Alto to live.

Mr. Kennedy is the son of Mr. James S. Kennedy of this city. He graduated from Sacramento Junior College and in 1934 from the department of Psychology at Stanford.

He was an assistant and a fellow in psychology at Brown University, Providence, R.I., where he received his Ph.D., for two years, and a research assistant in the school of medicine at Yale University.

He now is a psychical research fellow at Stanford University and he is a member of Sigma Xi, national research honorary fraternity, and Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.

Miss Kidd is the daughter of Mr. Earl W. Kidd of Owen, Wis. She was educated at Kemper Hall in Milwaukee and graduated in 1936 from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She is research assistant in the department of pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine.

Mr. Kennedy returned Friday from the east, where he also visited his brother, Mr. Don Kennedy.

In Indianapolis he gave a radio talk on his work, the psychology section, American Association for the Advancement of Science, having been the sponsoring group.