Firsts for Women at UNB
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This entry is currently under development. Please do not consider the entry authoritative until it has been completed.
Firsts for women at the University of New Brunswick include students, staff, and faculty.
| Year | Women's firsts at UNB | Name |
| 1829 | ...to be employed by King's College | Charlotte Turner |
| 1889 | ...to graduate from the University of New Brunswick | Mary K. Tibbits |
| ...to win the Governor-General's Gold Medal (Stanley Gold Medal) | Mary K. Tibbits | |
| ...to work on the staff of the University Monthly (later known as The Brunswickan) | Eliza B. Hunter | |
| 1892 | ...to enrol in the Saint John Law School (later the UNB Law School) | Edith Leavitt Hanington |
| ...to receive the Douglas Gold Medal | Ellen Peake | |
| 1893 | ...to receive the Alumni Gold Medal | Frances Everett |
| 1899 | ...to receive a Master of Arts degree from UNB | Sara Hamilton (McKee) Baird |
| 1905 | ...first black woman to graduate from UNB | Mary Matilda Winslow |
| ...to receive a Bachelor of Civil Law degree (Saint John Law School) | Mabel Pricilla Penery French | |
| ...to receive an [honorary degree] | Lydia Jane (Gregory) Armstrong | |
| 1920 | ...recipient of the Lord Beaverbrook Undergraduate Scholarship | Dr. Florence T. Snodgrass |
| 1923-24 | ...to enroll and graduate from the UNB Law School (in Saint John) | Margaret Hanington Teed |
| 1930? | ...matron of the Men's Residence (Lady Beaverbrook Residence) | Mary Green |
| 1932 | ...to receive a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) | Ruth Anna C. Foster |
| 1935 | ...first Jewish woman to graduate from UNB | Ethel Frances Singer |
| 1938 | ...first woman Vice-President of the Students' Representative Council (later known as the Student Union) | Dorothy McC. Kydd |
| 1939 | ...to give the Alumni Oration (both at UNB and in Canada) | Mabel Sterling |
| ...to receive an honorary doctorate | Mary K. Tibbits | |
| 1941 | ...woman editor-in-chief of The Brunswickan | Mary T. McMenamon |
| 1944 | ...to be appointed to the university faculty (Department of Education and Philosophy) | Dr. Louise M. Thompson |
| 1945 | ...to be appointed University Registrar | Edith "Edie" Gordon McLeod |
| 1947 | ...to receive a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree | Helen J. Baxter |
| 1948 | ...to receive a Bachelor of Science degree (Forestry) | Mona Roy |
| 1950 | ...to receive a Masters of Science degree (Forestry) | Mona Roy |
| 1952 | ...to manage the Bookstore | Marjorie (Barberie) Logue |
| 1956 | ...to graduate from UNB's Business Administration program | Anne Christine Robertson |
| ...to receive a Ph.D at UNB (Organic chemistry) | Mary S. Wheatley | |
| 1959 | ...professional librarian at UNB | Gertrude E. Gunn |
| 1960 | ...to be appointed Dean of Women at UNB Fredericton | Melinda H. Seaman |
| ...to receive Physical Education degrees | Laureen E. MacElmon and M. Diane Smith | |
| 1963 | ...to be a branch manager of the Bank of Montreal in Canada | Rebecca Watson |
| 1968 | ...to be named Registrar Emerita | Edith "Edie" Gordon McLeod |
| 1970 | ...to receive a Ph.D in the Faculty of Arts (English) | Marjorie Dunn Chapman |
| 1973 | ...to be Treasurer of the Alumni Association | Rebecca Watson |
| 1974 | ...to be named Professor Emerita | Dr. Florence T. Snodgrass |
| ...to receive Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degrees | Ulrike Long and Lulu Touckley | |
| ...to to receive a Masters of Computer Science | Bonnie Lin Suen | |
| 1980 | ...to be Vice-President of the Alumni Association | Rebecca Watson |
| 1981 | ...to be President of the Alumni Association | Rebecca Watson |
| 1982 | ...to become Chancellor | Lady Violet Aitken |
| 1984 | ...to be appointed Director of Public Relations | Susan Montague |
| ...to be named Governor Emerita | Mary Louise Lynch | |
| 1987 | ...to be appointed Director of Development | Susan Montague |
| ...to be elected President of the Student Union | Jane Arnold | |
| 1988 | ...to be appointed Vice-President at UNB Saint John | Doris Ryan |
| ...to graduate with a Minor in Women's Studies | Barbara Buchanan, Karen Jean Braun, and Lisa Calhoun | |
| 1989 | ...to hold the Women in Engineering Chair at UNB Fredericton | Monique Frize |
| ...to be employed as security officers at UNB Fredericton | Linda Bragg and Judy Stephenson | |
| 1990 | ...to chair the Board of Governors | Ilsa Greenblatt Shore |
| 1992 | ...to hold the Mary Louise Lynch Chair in Women and the Law at UNB Fredericton | Patricia Hughes |
| ...to be appointed Dean of Graduate Studies | Janet Stoppard | |
| 1996 | ...to be appointed Dean of Law | Anne Warner La Forest |
| ...to be appointed President and Vice-Chancellor of UNB | Dr. Elizabeth Parr-Johnston | |
| 1998 | ...to be appointed Dean of Computer Science | Jane Fritz |
| 2002 | ...to be appointed Dean at UNB Saint John | Shelley Rinehart |
| 2003 | ...to hold honorary membership in the UNB Associated Alumni | Susan Montague |
Note(s): Names within parentheses indicate maiden names
See also: Early Women Faculty at UNB and Notable Women at UNB
Source(s):
- Up the Hill, 1956
- University Monthly, vol. 18, no. 8, May 1899, p.220.
- UNB Scrapbook (UA RG 100), 1936-1943, [May] 1932.
- Alumni Clippings, [Daily Gleaner], [May] 1956.
- Up the Hill, 1939
- The Brunswickan, vol. 60, no. 14, 7 February 1941, p. 1.
- Alumni News, vol. 14, no. 2, June 1960, p. 3.
- Montague, Susan. A Pictorial History of the University of New Brunswick. Fredericton: University of New Brunswick, 1992, p. 41.
- University Monthly, vol. 10, no. 7, October 1890, p. 12.
- UA RG 33; Box 1; Vouchers-Statements, 1827-29; Statement no. 6, Benjamin Gale.
- [UNB Honorary Degrees Database]
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