1979 Fredericton Encaenia
Stewart, Alice Rose
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Young, D. Murray
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L to R: John M. Anderson, Alice Rose Stewart
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Source: Joe Stone fonds-UA RG340, 1979 (#13195)
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1979
ALICE ROSE STEWART
to be Doctor of Laws
We welcome a friend of long standing whose career has enriched our people as well as her own, one who, by her endowments of a warm heart and a scholarly mind has done more than any other person to forge close and firm bonds between the University of Maine and the University of New Brunswick.
The highways between our two campuses have been much travelled since Alice Stewart welcomed our first Lord Beaverbrook Scholar in Maine-New Brunswick Relations in 1951. A few years later, she helped organize the student exchange program with UNB, a program that has worked well, though it has had some difficult moments.
She has had a life-long interest in the ways in which New England and Atlantic Canada have influenced each other -- how, in a sense, we have grown side by side, each in our own way, but never wholly apart. Like many people in this part of North America, she is fascinated by the history of our long coastline and by the mysteries of the role played by the sea and by seapower in human affairs.
Working within a fine history department and the Canadian-American Center at Orono she has developed one of the strongest Canadian programs in all of the United States. Two of her former doctoral students now lead such programs and a third occupies a prominent position at l'Université de Moncton.
Regional studies at UNB have benefited greatly from the presence of this centre of excellence in our neighbouring university, and from the very significant contributions that Alice Stewart and her colleagues are making to our understanding of Atlantic Canada.
It is particularly appropriate that we should honour an American scholar in this year in which our attitude towards the American eagle has been transformed. Not many years ago the American eagle was still a powerful negative symbol of our Canadian sense of identity. Now, we pray for the continued health and safety of that magnificent bird, for delivering us, for the moment, from the threat to the environment of Head Harbour Passage.
We can almost claim Alice Stewart as a daughter of New Brunswick, for her grandfather immigrated with his parents to Maine from Whitneyville, near Newcastle, and her grandmother was the daughter of a farmer from Florenceville. While regretting the loss of what she would have contributed, had she grown up on the banks of the Miramichi, we honour her and thank her for what she has contributed and for the example she has set us from the banks of the Penobscot.
Isignissime Praeses, tota Universitas, praesento vobis Aliciam Rosam Stewart ut admittatur honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Utroque Jure in hac Universitate.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
ALICE ROSE STEWART
to be Doctor of Laws
We welcome a friend of long standing whose career has enriched our people as well as her own, one who, by her endowments of a warm heart and a scholarly mind has done more than any other person to forge close and firm bonds between the University of Maine and the University of New Brunswick.
The highways between our two campuses have been much travelled since Alice Stewart welcomed our first Lord Beaverbrook Scholar in Maine-New Brunswick Relations in 1951. A few years later, she helped organize the student exchange program with UNB, a program that has worked well, though it has had some difficult moments.
She has had a life-long interest in the ways in which New England and Atlantic Canada have influenced each other -- how, in a sense, we have grown side by side, each in our own way, but never wholly apart. Like many people in this part of North America, she is fascinated by the history of our long coastline and by the mysteries of the role played by the sea and by seapower in human affairs.
Working within a fine history department and the Canadian-American Center at Orono she has developed one of the strongest Canadian programs in all of the United States. Two of her former doctoral students now lead such programs and a third occupies a prominent position at l'Université de Moncton.
Regional studies at UNB have benefited greatly from the presence of this centre of excellence in our neighbouring university, and from the very significant contributions that Alice Stewart and her colleagues are making to our understanding of Atlantic Canada.
It is particularly appropriate that we should honour an American scholar in this year in which our attitude towards the American eagle has been transformed. Not many years ago the American eagle was still a powerful negative symbol of our Canadian sense of identity. Now, we pray for the continued health and safety of that magnificent bird, for delivering us, for the moment, from the threat to the environment of Head Harbour Passage.
We can almost claim Alice Stewart as a daughter of New Brunswick, for her grandfather immigrated with his parents to Maine from Whitneyville, near Newcastle, and her grandmother was the daughter of a farmer from Florenceville. While regretting the loss of what she would have contributed, had she grown up on the banks of the Miramichi, we honour her and thank her for what she has contributed and for the example she has set us from the banks of the Penobscot.
Isignissime Praeses, tota Universitas, praesento vobis Aliciam Rosam Stewart ut admittatur honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Utroque Jure in hac Universitate.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
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