Harry Velensky Human Relations Prize
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The Harry Velensky Human Relations Prize is awarded annually to an undergraduate for the best essay on the subject of human relations, with a view to the promotion of a better understanding between all peoples at all levels of society. Below are the recipients from UNB's Fredericton Campus. UNBSJ recipients have not yet been added.
| Year | Name | Student of |
Title of essay | Held at UNB Archives |
| 1961 | Barry Mackay | UNB Fredericton | "An analysis of social structure" | Yes |
| 1962 | Ellen J. Rowley | UNB Fredericton | "The great depression" | Yes |
| 1963 | David Efraty | UNB Fredericton | "The social organization of Israel" | Yes |
| 1964 | Hazel Ross | UNB Fredericton | "The aims and methods of the Girondists and the nature of their conflict with the mountain" | Yes |
| 1965 | Donald C. Bird | Unknown | "Slum clearance - a successful failure?" | Yes |
| 1966 | Brian E. Butler | Unknown | "Creativity in perspective" | Yes |
| 1967 | James McNaughton | Unknown | "The Drama Society of St. Thomas" | Yes |
| 1968 | Patrick S. Bennett | Unknown | No | |
| 1969 | Carolyn Keirstead | Unknown | "The engineer - what manner of man" | Yes |
| 1970 | Gail M. McWilliam | Unknown | "The cultural implications of the new Indian Act" | Yes |
| 1971 | Anne Marie Harley | Unknown | "Juvenile delinquency as a symptom of alienation" | Yes |
| 1972 | Constance Seymour | UNB Fredericton | "A small drop of ink: the relationship of the Canadian Prime Minister and the press" | Yes |
| 1973 | Jerome K. Turner | Unknown | "The sociology of law underlying the criminalization of marijuana" | yes |
| 1974 | Marcia Williamson | Unknown | "An analysis of two revitalization Movements as alternative responses to similar socio-Cultural situations" | Yes |
| 1975 | Sharyn L. Pope | UNB Fredericton | "An explanation of the hostility experienced by the Oriental population of British Columbia | Yes |
| 1976 | William Singleton | Unknown | No | |
| 1977 | Barbara L. Hughes | Unknown | No | |
| 1978 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1979 | Joseph S. O'Toole | Unknown | "The hippy culture - a compromise analysis" | Yes |
| 1980 | Wilfred M. Langmaid | Unknown | No | |
| 1981 | Debra McDonough | UNB Fredericton | "The Laurier-Greenway Compromise - Laurier's approach to the Manitoba School Question" | Yes |
| 1982 | Martin L. Nicolai | UNB Fredericton | "The involvement of German industry in the Holocaust" | Yes |
| 1983 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1984 | Gregory K. Betts | Unknown | No | |
| 1985 | P. Sarah Abraham | UNB Fredericton | "Why did Pope Pius XII remain silent during the Holocaust?" | Yes |
| 1986 | Vaughn L. Barnett | Unknown | R. vs. Morgentaler: the abortion issue revisited" | Yes |
| 1987 | Janice M. Cook | UNB Fredericton | "What happened to the poor in Colonial Maritime society?" | Yes |
| 1988 | Janice M. Cook | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1989 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 1990 | Charlotte Glencross | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 1991 | Rachael T. Brown | Unknown | No | |
| 1992 | Lee Marie Dugas | UNB Fredericton | "Sir Oswald Mosley, British Fascism and the Nazi Cabal" | Yes |
| 1993 | Tammy Yates | UNB Fredericton | "Contemporary attitudes about women's work in Britain's early industrial period" | Yes |
| 1994 | Robert Peacock | UNB Fredericton | "Ford's Pinto - the ethical issues" | Yes |
| 1995 | Jeremy Hayhoe | UNB Fredericton | "Crime and criminals in London, 1750-1810" | Yes |
| 1996 | Kim Branch | UNB Fredericton | "The factory girl in nineteenth century Britain" | Yes |
| 1997 | Sarah Miller | UNB Fredericton | "Domestic ideology and the role of the English middle-class women in the family and in enterprise" | Yes |
| 1998 | Marc-Andre Hache | UNB Fredericton | Literature of conquest: European descriptions of the New World in the 16th century" | Yes |
| 1999 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 2000 | David Ford | UNB Fredericton | "The Artful Voyeur and the Terrible Beauty: The similarities between Yeats and Heaney as seen through Æaster 1916 and Punishment" | Yes |
| 2001 | Terence J. Chandra | Unknown | "Neo paganism and Judeo-Christian through in Nazi historical and mythical remembrance" | Yes |
| 2002 | Sharon Weaver | UNB Fredericton | "Two talented women of 1789" | Yes |
| 2003 | Angela Waite | UNB Fredericton | "Poverty, public policy, and panhandling in the City of Fredericton" | Yes |
| 2004 | Jennifer Allaby | UNB Fredericton | "The rise of the workhouse system of poor relief in England, c.1300-1900" | Yes |
| 2005 | Jacob William Taylor | UNB Fredericton | “Priest and Peasant: Declining Clerical Influence in Rural France” | Yes |
| 2006 | Katharine Rebecca Orkus | UNB Fredericton | “Mi’kmaq and Maliseet: The Colonial-Native Relationship in New Brunswick, mid-19th Century" | Yes |
| 2007 | Christiane Aiton | UNB Fredericton | "The American indigenous in the eyes of the sixteenth century European" | Yes |
| 2008 | Sara Dunton | UNB Fredericton | "The male voice and viewpoint of Janet Schaw" | Yes |
| 2009 | Not awarded | No | ||
| 2010 | Steven Hansen | UNB Fredericton | "A provision for the sick poor pious physic and healing in sixteenth and seventeenth century England" | Yes |
| 2011 | Rachael Anne Wyatt | UNB Fredericton | Blonde Roots: Evaristo's destabilizing translations and reflections" | Yes |
| 2012 | Travis Patrick Wysote | Unknown | No | |
| 2013 | Conor Caitlin Falvey | UNB Fredericton | No | |
| 2014 |
Joseph Burton |
Trickle down: Ronald Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address and working class America" |
Yes |
Source(s):
- UA Case 148.
- UNB Fredericton Emiritus
- UNB Fredericton | Faculty of Arts | History Department | People
- UNB Fredericton | Faculty of Arts | English Department | People
- UNB Fredericton Faculty of Arts Dean's List 2002-2003; 2010-2011
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