1949 Fredericton Encaenia
Sterling, Alice Beatrice
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: G.F.G Bridges, B.S. Keirstead, Alice Beatrice Sterling, Arthur F. VanWart, Donald G. Creighton
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ENCAENIA, MAY, 1949
ALICE BEATRICE STERLING
to be Doctor of Laws
Alice Beatrice Sterling is the third of your meritorious nurselings -- the lone ewe-lamb (to be thoroughly academic) -- whom you are at this Encaenia to honour with the degree of Doctor of Laws.
She graduated with first-class honours in Mathematics and mathematical Physics in that year -- but inasmuch as she is an alumna (feminine) and not a less sensitive alumnus (masculine), the exact year of her graduation shall, in all gallantry, not be quoted in so many figures. Suffice it, then, that it was in that era when space was first suspected of bending and Physics was destined to supplant Chemistry as the science of explosives.
In this abstruse era, the date of which will now be quite obvious, Alice Sterling had the intellect to be a leader. She chose instead the humbler (and who shall not say the better?) part, and devoted her whole life to the welfare of children.
One month ago she retired after twenty-seven years in that over-praised, under-salaried and definitely most arduous of professions, that of schoolteacher. It is no less for that long unselfish service than for her other scholarly achievements, that her Alma Mater so feelingly bestows on her its mark of recognition.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
ALICE BEATRICE STERLING
to be Doctor of Laws
Alice Beatrice Sterling is the third of your meritorious nurselings -- the lone ewe-lamb (to be thoroughly academic) -- whom you are at this Encaenia to honour with the degree of Doctor of Laws.
She graduated with first-class honours in Mathematics and mathematical Physics in that year -- but inasmuch as she is an alumna (feminine) and not a less sensitive alumnus (masculine), the exact year of her graduation shall, in all gallantry, not be quoted in so many figures. Suffice it, then, that it was in that era when space was first suspected of bending and Physics was destined to supplant Chemistry as the science of explosives.
In this abstruse era, the date of which will now be quite obvious, Alice Sterling had the intellect to be a leader. She chose instead the humbler (and who shall not say the better?) part, and devoted her whole life to the welfare of children.
One month ago she retired after twenty-seven years in that over-praised, under-salaried and definitely most arduous of professions, that of schoolteacher. It is no less for that long unselfish service than for her other scholarly achievements, that her Alma Mater so feelingly bestows on her its mark of recognition.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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