Welcome

Welcome to the Mount Pleasant Chapter of the National League of Junior Cotillions!  Please take a few minutes to acquaint yourself with our worthwhile program and submit your child's registration for our Junior Cotillion records. 

MARY CECILE KENNERTY - DIRECTOR

FOR QUESTIONS AND INFORMATION EMAIL OR CALL PLEASE NOTE: TO RECEIVE CLASS INFORMATION WE MUST HAVE YOU ADD MARY KENNERTY ([email protected]) TO YOUR CONTACT LIST OTHERWISE YOUR EMAILS GO TO SPAM PHONE 843-442-7430

SCHEDULE

ALL EVENTS ARE HELD AT THE SNEE FARM COUNTRY CLUB

COTILLION DATES: SEPTEMBER 24 OCTOBER 1 8 15 22 and 29 

FOURTH THRU EIGHTH GRADE CLASS IS FROM 6:00 PM until 7:30 PM.

OUR FINAL EVENT THE INSTRUCTIONAL DINNER IS OCTOBER 29 AT 6 PM.   PRIOR TO THE FIRST EVENT ON SEPTEMBER 24 WE EMAIL FINAL DETAILS FOR THE SEASON.    

TUITION FOR 2024

Junior Cotillion tuition is $400 which includes all manners, protocol, dance instruction, class venue, materials, refreshments including the formal ball and tutorial formal dinner.  Tuiton payment is due September 1.  This allows us to prepare for the classes.  Scholarships are available on request.

 CONTACT MARY KENNERTY - DIRECTOR EMAIL: [email protected]    PHONE - 843-442-7430

Junior Cotillion Refund Policy: Refunds will be given in the case of student illness or a family relocating from the Charleston area.  A $50 processing fee applies to all refunds.  Your confirmation for your tuition payment is your bank draft.  

      
TUITION IS DUE SEPTEMBER 1 WE ONLY ACCEPT YOUR BANK CHECK MADE TO: MOUNT PLEASANT JUNIOR COTILLION 
     

       MAIL CHECK TO:

      MARY KENNERTY 
      2000 HOPEMAN LANE
      MOUNT PLEASANT SC 29466
      
      

About Director

 MARY CECILE KENNERTY, NLJC DIRECTOR MOUNT PLEASANT JUNIOR COTILLION

A native of Charleston, South Carolina, with a Master in Education, Mary Kennerty's expertise is teaching in group settings.  For 28  years she directs social etiquette programs for the National League of Junior Cotillions.  Over 8,000 parents enroll their children in Kennerty's NLJC Junior Cotillion progam throughtout Charleston, Summerville, and Beaufort.  After earning her Masters in Education degree at Clemson University, she served on the faculty in the Recreation and Parks Administration Department.  In addition, she pioneered the Clemson University Women’s Athletic program.  Kennerty coached the first women’s basketball and tennis team where her tennis team won the first women's Atlantic Coast Conference Championship in the history of Clemson Athletics. 

After winning numerous SC junior tennis titles, Kennerty worked as the first tennis professional at the Country Club of Charleston.  She worked as director of tennis at camps in New England and North Carolina and went on to work as the head tennis professional at the Brittany Club in Atlanta.   After working in Atlanta, she continued her quest for excellence in teaching with such tennis greats as Billie jean King and Dennis van der Meer at Lake Tahoe.  She even spent time at the Olympic Village in Colorado Springs with Chet Murphy, the 'guru' of drills for racket sports in the US.  In addition, the Clemson Athletic Department  allowed her to study at Florida's tennis academies of Nick Bollettieri and Harry Hopman.  She quickly put the Clemson women's tennis program together with the support of a tremendous Clemson Athletic Department.  A longtime member of the US Professional Tennis Associatation, she was voted "Southern Coach of the Year'.  Within five years of starting the women's program, the Clemson tennis team rose to the seventh positoin in the NCAA.   More recently she worked as the head tennis professional at the Mount Pleasant Recreation and Parks Department on Whipple Road. Prior to training 500 students in pickleball she trained 20,000 tennis students at Clemson. 

 Kennerty attributes her success as a business woman to her experiences as an undergraduate at Clemson University where she held different leadership positions.  She held the office of president of the Pan-Hellenic Council for women's sororities, and served on Central Spirit Committee.  Her committte approved the initial use of the "Tiger Paw' which became a true symbol of Clemson University.  In addition, she served on the President's Council for Student Government.  While working on bringing women's sports to Clemson, . Kennerty had the innate and valuable ability to know how to network with the campus administrators; a skill she prides herself in teaching to the Junior Cotillion Students.

Kennerty has participated in many civic organizations including the Junior League of Winston-Salem NC Columbia SC and Charleston.  Also is a longtime member of Natural History Society Audubon Chapter.  In addition, she serves as a mentor for the International More To Life Foundation, a program which allows participants to build self esteem.    She has two sons, Charles Howard, a partner with with the Shumaker firm.  Howard is married to Krystal Sirman from Baton Rouge.  They have two children.  Jimmy works as a bank officer with Ameris Bank and CEO of Banking Bridge.   "Both Howard ard Jimmy attended Junior Cotillion for many years because the program gave them the tools that young people need to know",  Kennerty says.  'Social skills are a prerequisite in most social and busineess situations.'