Anna L. McKenney was an educational reformer in Marysville. Anna L. McKenney Intermediate School is named for her. W. T. Ellis, Jr., for whom Ellis Lake is named, wrote of her in his autobiography Memories: My Seventy-Two Years in the Romantic County of Yuba, California:
| When I graduated from the Senior Class in the third year, the class consisted of three girls, Anna McKenney, Laura Bordwell and Della Parks, and myself, the only boy. Anna McKenney was rated the brightest scholar in the High School and I well remember that I would not have passed the written examination for graduation had it not been for the fact that Anna sat at the next desk to me and surreptitiously gave me the correct answers to some of the written examination questions which I was "stumped on." |
