Margaret "Peg" Keenan was named the Best All Around Athlete at Westfield State Teachers College in 1933. She excelled in numerous sports, including field hockey, basketball, tennis, horseshoes, tenikoit, and baseball. Keenan was a member of the Women's Athletic Association for four years and was the student supervisor of the sports program for two years. 

A classmate describes Keenan's passion for sports: "She was called the happy athlete. She loved playing and she loved learning about sports, unlike many of her contemporaries, who did it because it was part of the curriculum. Peg loved it as no other student." 

Keenan participated in other extracurricular activities at Westfield. She was the athletics editor of the yearbook, a member of the Glee Club for four years, and a member of the Commuters' Club, as she came from Springfield first by trolley car and then by train to attend classes at Westfield. 

Keenan's wrote her thesis for her B.S.E. degree on "The correlation of physical education with history and geography in grades four thru six." 

After graduating from the college's first four-year class in 1933, Keenan served as a substitute teacher for two years in Springfield and Agawam schools. Remaining active in athletics, she played basketball at the YWCA and instructed teenagers in the sport, and bowled and played tennis. 

Keenan was a social worker for the federal government from 1935-1941 and an air raid warden during World War II. Because teaching jobs remained scarce, she accepted an office position with the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. She worked for the company for 36 years in various health related capacities, including the handling of public liability workmen's compensation claims, and group insurance hospital and surgical claims for about 1,700 employees and their family members. 

For more than 65 years she has volunteered and worked on all church drives at Holy Name in Springfield. Keenan passed away in 2004, shortly after her favorite team - the Boston Red Sox - won their the World Series..