Alice Louise Nealeans
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 16 January 1906, page 5
Although every effort has been made to have the matter dropped for good, the members of the Newport School Board are still being subjected to great pressure in the matter of Alice L Nealeans, who was dropped from service in the school system, whereas if she had anything like a square deal or if there had been civil service, nothing of the kind would ever happened.
For 15 years Miss Nealeans had taught in the High School, giving general satisfaction and in June last was reappointed to her position as teacher of English literature. On Sept. 8 without any warning, any charges or any chance to be heard, she was deposed from her position, made principal of the Tenth st. School and given a class in one of the primary grades. The Juniors and Seniors of the High School asked that Miss Nealeans be reinstated to her old place and citizens attended the next board meeting for that purposed.
They asked she be given a hearing and a trial if there were any charges against her. The petition of the pupils was ignored and the citizens were insulted, some of the Trustees proclaiming they would not be bulldozed by the people. For years as a teacher of English, Miss Nealeans had her pupils write stories, poems and criticisms and she had preserved these as little magazines in 150 bound volumes, representing the work of 700 pupils and containing over 3000 articles.
She claims there were ordered destroyed by someone in connection with the school and that only by accident were some of them preserved. in fact 39 out of 150. Some stormy scenes ensued between Miss Nealeans and those whom she accused of this piece of vandalism and the retort was made she could not have her wrongs published anyway. On Sept. 21 Miss Nealeans slipped on the oiled floor in one of the rooms at the Tenth st. school and again on Oct 2.
She was under the care of the physicians who told her not to go back to teach for the present, but to take little walks in the open air. On Nov 7 she received a curt summons from the board either immediately to resume her duties or resign. On Nov 9 she went back to work, at the same time sending to the board affidavits by Drs. E W Keeney and J D Quinn, certifying she was still under their care for the injuries she sustained.
A little later Miss Nealeans was ordered by the board to remove from a window in an art store on York st. near Seventh, a display of the class magazines she had saved. This she refused to do and on Nov 20, she was dropped from the schools.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 3 February 1906, page 5
The Newport Board of Education is going to meet Monday night, when the case of Miss Alice Nealeans, who was wrongfully dismissed from the force of teachers, will be reviewed and some action taken. Many of the members are anxious that justice shall be done and a stigma removed from Newport's school system. Several of the members have been elected to the board since Miss Nealeans was dropped, and they are in no way responsible for what is charged to be a most outrageous action, caused by personal persecution.
Note: Dozens of letters from the public were published along with this article in support of Miss Nealeans.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 3 December 1912, page 3
The following poem, written by Miss Alice Nealeans, Secretary of the Newport Equal Rights Association and dedicated to the suffragettes of the United States will be sung to the air of "My Old Kentucky Home," at the Equal Rights banquet in Covington tonight. The poem is entitled: "A Kentucky Welcome to the Newly Enfranchised States."
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 20 May 1915, page 2
According to a dispatch received in Newport late Wednesday, William H Nealeans, former prominent Newport man, died at his home in Birmingham, Ala. The body will be shipped to Newport and taken to the home of his sisters Mrs. Sims, 24 East Second st. Miss Alice Nealeans, a former teacher in the Newport High School, is a sister.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 1 June 1915, page 1
Mrs. Lucy Nealeans Causey, well known singer, formerly a resident of Newport, died at Salisbury MD. Saturday night. She is survived by her husband and one grown daughter. She was a niece of Miss Alice Nealeans for many years teacher in Newport High.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 26 May 1917, page 4
Miss Alice Nealeans will address the Sunday School of Salem M E Church Sunday morning at 9:30 am on "Home Missions." Miss Nealeans has been teacher of English in the Newport high school for many years.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 22 December 1917, page 1
Miss Alice Louis Nealeans, whose poem, "The Mighty Red Cross Army," is not a Newport school girl, but a former teacher in the Newport High School.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 27 March 1937, page 1
Miss Alice Nealeans the last of a pioneer Campbell county family, died yesterday at her home at 131 W 11th street, Newport. Miss Nealeans, who was 83, was a teacher in the Newport school system. She had been principal of the Ninth Street School and before her retirement 12 years ago she taught history in the Newport High School.
Funeral services are to be held at 2 pm Monday at the Charles Smith funeral home, Newport. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. She is survived by several nephews and nieces.