Hayward Keniston Dead at 87; Former Dean at U. of Michigan (original) (raw)
Hayward Keniston Dead at 87; Former Dean at U. of Michigan
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Aug. 11, 1970
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Hayward Keniston, former dean of the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Ants, died yes terday at a nursing home in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He was 87 years old.
Dr. Keniston taught Romance languages at a number of uni versities before and after serv ing as dean from 1945 to 1951. He was the author of more than 30 books and many articles, most of them on Span ish syntax and 16th‐century Spanish history.
He was a former president of the Modern Language Asso ciation and the Linguistic So ciety of America and a member of the Royal Spanish Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
After receiving A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Har vard University, Dr. Keniston taught at Harvard and then at Cornell University, where he also served as dean of the Graduate School from 1923 to 1925.
His teaching was interrupted during World War I, when he served as speaker for the Ital ian Ministry of Propaganda in Florence and as an assistant to the military attaché of the United States Embassy in Rome.
After teaching Spanish at the University of Chicago for 15 years, Dr. Keniston joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1940, serving as professor and chairman of the department of romance languages.
During World War II he was cultural relations attache at the United States embassy in Buenos Aires. Then he returned to the University of Michigan, serving as dean and then pro fessor.
Dr. Keniston taught at Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Univer sity of Pittsburgh before re tiring in 1962 to devote him self to scholarly work.
Surviving are his widow, the former Roberta Cannell; 2 daughters, Mrs. Florence Laurance and Mrs. Marjorie McIntosh; 2 sons, Kenneth and Dr. Allan H. Keniston; 14 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren.
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