Firsts for Women at UNB
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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 S. 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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