LUMNI WEEKEND 201
alumni weekend
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1 Left to Right: Marg Tracy, BA ’75, and Denyse Smart, BA ’80 welcome special reunion alumni to the President’s Brunch. They were recently elected to the St. Thomas Univeristy Alumni Association Board of Directors. 2 Roy Stevens, BA ’98 conductor and trumpet player with The Thomists. Stay tuned for The Thomists’ 50th anniversary celebration in 2015.
Book Launch: Church, Politics, and STU: The Relocation of St. Thomas University from Chatham to Fredericton Based on research carried out in hitherto restricted archives, Church, Politics, and STU: The Relocation of St. Thomas University from Chatham to Fredericton is an abridgement of a longer work entitled A History of St. Thomas University: The Formative Years, 1860– 1990, available at stu.ca/STUhistorybook. Dr. Bill Spray and Dr. Tony Rhinelander paint a nuanced historical picture of St. Thomas’s evolution from a small Roman Catholic college founded in 1860 on the Miramichi to the nationally recognized liberal arts university it had become by 1990 and remains today. This book deals primarily with the 1950s and 1960s and the political and religious circumstances in which the relocation of the university from Chatham to Fredericton was first discussed and eventually carried out. To order your copy of Church, Politics, and STU, please contact the office of advancement and alumni relations at 506-452-0521 or email alumni@stu.ca. Copies are also available at St. Michael’s Museum in Miramichi. Copies are available for $19.95. (Plus shipping and handling if applicable.)
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ST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY CONNECTIONS
Dr. Tony Tremblay, Dr. Tony Rhinelander, Dr. Judy Kennedy, Larry Batt, and Father John Jennings discussed life on campus in the mid-60s and 70s and the university’s growth over the subsequent decades at the book launch.