Joyce M KennedyDr. Joyce M. Kennedy has led a distinguished career in the fields of education, the military, communications, and public service in Canada, France and the United States. In addition to several honors recognizing her dedication to, contributions to, ad achievements in the field of public higher education in the State of California, Dr. Kennedy was named Director Emeritus of the California state University Northridge, Ventura Campus, upon her retirement in 1997, Her work to bring a state university, California State University Channel Islands, to Ventura County is detailed in CONFLICT OF VISIONS. She authored a detailed account of Canada's participation in WWI with her book DISTANT THUNDER - CANADA'S CITIZEN SOLDIERS ON THE WESTERN FRONT, after discovering her father's letters and war diaries as a soldier in the trenches of Belgium and France. Her second book JUST CALL ME EVA - THE STORY OF AN UNCOMMON WOMAN, chronicles the life of a precocious young girl who left the family farm in the Ottawa Valley to train at New York's famous Metropolitan Hospital, where, among other things, she voluntarily nursed highly contagious Leper victims. She later married, raised six children in the Great Depression, delivered several hundred babies (some in her own home, a private nursing hospital), played the church organ for fifty years, all the while helping her husband who was the Township Clerk/Administrator and Treasurer. Eva was Dr. Kennedy's mother. Dr. Kennedy holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada; a MA in Mass Communication from CSI Northridge; and a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Organizational Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara. She served as a Flying Officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force on bases in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She now resides in the Phoenix area, where her passion is prevention of cruelty to animals and rescuing abused and abandoned horses. You can learn more about Dr. Kennedy at www.JoyceMKennedy.com Read More Read Less