Sarah Ketron (1907 - 1992)
M.A. in Education, ’42
Named to the Alumni Hall of Fame in 1989

Selected to represent Kentucky at Philadelphia celebration of the national Sesquicentennial in 1926. She earned her A.B. at Kentucky Wesleyan and her M.A. at U.K. in 1942. She went on to specialized studies in guidance and special education at Vanderbilt, North Carolina, and Eastern Kentucky as part of the Southern Study of Southern Association. Later she studied at Duke, Harvard, Cincinnati, Peabody, UK, and the University of Tennessee. Courses in special education and guidance were hard to find in the 1930’s and 40’s, she said. She served as president of Central Kentucky Education Cooperative and vice-president of the Kentucky Education Association. From 1944 to 1973 she served in Oak Ridge, Tennessee as a teacher for one year, a counselor for nine years, and as Director of Pupil Personnel Services for 17 years. She served as president of district and state councils of the American Personnel and Guidance Services and Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). She served on the national board of the CEC as well. Ketron was integral in the founding of the Oak Ridge Mental Health Association which eventually led to the construction of the Ridgeview Psychiatric Hospital, where she served for a term as board chair.

Sarah Ketron passed away on November 12, 1992.