1972 Fredericton Convocation
McCain, Laura Blanche
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Condon, Thomas J.
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L to R: Laura Blanche McCain, Sir Max Aitken
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Source: UA RG95 - College Hill Report, v.6, no. 6 (13 Nov. 1972)
Citation:
CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1972
LAURA BLANCHE MCCAIN
to be Doctor of Laws
There have been many moments in the past when attention has focused upon the role of women in our society. We have had the blue stocking and the red stocking, the suffragette and the anti-suffragette, the liberated woman and the playboy bunny, each stereotype trumpeted as the essence of what it is to be a woman. It would take a braver man than I to venture forth in this debate on the present occasion. You may permit an historian, such as I am at times, to note for the record that some women, whatever the intellectual fashions of the time, have made their mark in ways that they, and those whose lives they have touched directly, found satisfying. Laura Blanche McCain appears to be such a woman.
Teacher, businesswoman, wife, and mother, Mrs. McCain has had boundless energy for her many roles. A graduate of Teachers College and Mt. Allison, she taught school in New Brunswick and Alberta. When different duties claimed her primary attention her concerns as a teacher found other outlets: for many years she was a member of the Carleton County Children's Aid Society and a representative of School District number 30 on the York Regional Library Board; she has been associated with the work of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and of the Canadian Association for Mentally Retarded Children. She joined the Women's Institute when she moved to Florenceville and has devoted many hours since to that interest. She organized twenty branches of Women's Institutes in Carleton County alone and served as President of the Women's Institute in both Carleton County and the Province of New Brunswick.
With four sons and two daughters raised, Laura McCain finds time to be President of McCain Produce Company, to maintain her many church and community interests, and to keep a watchful eye on her twenty-four grandchildren. UNB is pleased to honour this girl from Maugerville who has not only contemplated abstractly the role of women in society but has forged new roles for others to follow.
Praeses admittit Lauram Blancam McCain honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Utroque Jure.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 1
LAURA BLANCHE MCCAIN
to be Doctor of Laws
There have been many moments in the past when attention has focused upon the role of women in our society. We have had the blue stocking and the red stocking, the suffragette and the anti-suffragette, the liberated woman and the playboy bunny, each stereotype trumpeted as the essence of what it is to be a woman. It would take a braver man than I to venture forth in this debate on the present occasion. You may permit an historian, such as I am at times, to note for the record that some women, whatever the intellectual fashions of the time, have made their mark in ways that they, and those whose lives they have touched directly, found satisfying. Laura Blanche McCain appears to be such a woman.
Teacher, businesswoman, wife, and mother, Mrs. McCain has had boundless energy for her many roles. A graduate of Teachers College and Mt. Allison, she taught school in New Brunswick and Alberta. When different duties claimed her primary attention her concerns as a teacher found other outlets: for many years she was a member of the Carleton County Children's Aid Society and a representative of School District number 30 on the York Regional Library Board; she has been associated with the work of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and of the Canadian Association for Mentally Retarded Children. She joined the Women's Institute when she moved to Florenceville and has devoted many hours since to that interest. She organized twenty branches of Women's Institutes in Carleton County alone and served as President of the Women's Institute in both Carleton County and the Province of New Brunswick.
With four sons and two daughters raised, Laura McCain finds time to be President of McCain Produce Company, to maintain her many church and community interests, and to keep a watchful eye on her twenty-four grandchildren. UNB is pleased to honour this girl from Maugerville who has not only contemplated abstractly the role of women in society but has forged new roles for others to follow.
Praeses admittit Lauram Blancam McCain honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Utroque Jure.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 1
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