Irene Peabody


Year Inducted

1981

Career Field

Music

Highlights

  • Voice professor at the University of Kansas for 44 years
  • Celebrated mezzo-soprano
  • President of Mortar Board, Mu Phi Epsilon, and KU Women’s Club
  • Featured in the 1923 Jayhawker Yearbook as one of the most well known KU students for her work furthering the KU Music program
  • Voice scholarship in her honor at the University of Kansas