Singing history professor dies

Dr. Allen Dennis, right, strikes a pose with Dr. William Welch and Dr. Scout Blum in the College of Arts and Sciences following a commencement.

Dr. Allen Dennis, right, strikes a pose with Dr. William Welch and Dr. Scout Blum in the College of Arts and Sciences following a commencement.

A singing, songwriting, history-loving academic has left the Trojan Nation. Dr. Allen Dennis, former chair of history and associate dean of Arts and Sciences, died Monday, Nov. 5 at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, Miss. after a lengthy illness.

Dr. Dennis, an Athens, Tenn. native, was the first member of his family to graduate college…

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