1952 Fredericton Encaenia
Chestnut, Anne Isabel
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Hugh Lester Campbell, Oswald Mayrand, Anne Isabel Chestnut, Vernon Edward Johnson, Richard Laurence Weldon
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Source: UA PC-4 no.4f
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1952
ANNE ISABEL CHESTNUT
to be Doctor of Laws
Annie Chestnut is too familiar to the life of this city and of this University to need any ringing introduction. Indeed, she herself would be the first to disclaim the periods of an orator.
When you confer, and she receives, this degree, almost the only public honour will be bestowed upon her which the University has in its power to reserve alike for distinguished savants, for captains of War and of Industry and, as for Anne Isabel Chestnut, for old and valued friends.
Yet she is not without merit on all three counts. First, she is a graduate of ours and she, too, has taught in our Provincial schools. Next, she has been a member of our Senate and will ever cherish the fame of being the founder and first President of the Alumnae Ladies' Society. Nor, wherever the Canadian canoe is mentioned, will the name of Chestnut, nor of the Company over which she now presides, lapse lightly from the memory.
What, however, must please, if it does not sadden, her most is the commemoration of the family name, enshrined in a scholarship and engraved in letters of gold on the lintel, as it is on the hearts of all who pass beneath it, of the Maggie Jean Chestnut Residence for our women students -- that magnificent memorial of her only daughter, who strove so whole-heartedly to promote its creation and died before her work found its tangible accomplishment.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
ANNE ISABEL CHESTNUT
to be Doctor of Laws
Annie Chestnut is too familiar to the life of this city and of this University to need any ringing introduction. Indeed, she herself would be the first to disclaim the periods of an orator.
When you confer, and she receives, this degree, almost the only public honour will be bestowed upon her which the University has in its power to reserve alike for distinguished savants, for captains of War and of Industry and, as for Anne Isabel Chestnut, for old and valued friends.
Yet she is not without merit on all three counts. First, she is a graduate of ours and she, too, has taught in our Provincial schools. Next, she has been a member of our Senate and will ever cherish the fame of being the founder and first President of the Alumnae Ladies' Society. Nor, wherever the Canadian canoe is mentioned, will the name of Chestnut, nor of the Company over which she now presides, lapse lightly from the memory.
What, however, must please, if it does not sadden, her most is the commemoration of the family name, enshrined in a scholarship and engraved in letters of gold on the lintel, as it is on the hearts of all who pass beneath it, of the Maggie Jean Chestnut Residence for our women students -- that magnificent memorial of her only daughter, who strove so whole-heartedly to promote its creation and died before her work found its tangible accomplishment.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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