Weenona Hanson

Weenona White Hanson (born in Uniontown) was the founder of the Alabama Federation of Music Clubs and the wife of Birmingham News publisher Victor Hanson.

She studied piano at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and was active in local and national music clubs, serving four times as president of Birmingham's Music Study Club and on the board of directors for the National Federation of Music Clubs. She founded the statewide chapter, with 22 member clubs, in 1916 and was its first president.

She funded two scholarships granted by the federation for female music students at Women's College (now Huntingdon College) in Montgomery and Alabama College (now the University of Montevallo) in Montevallo as well as a scholarship for women from Alabama to study music at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. Huntingdon's Weenonah Hanson Hall, erected as a dormitory in 1924, is named in her honor.

References

• Musical Alabama (1925) Montgomery: Alabama Federation of Music Clubs/Paragon Press.