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Davison, Blossom

  • AR-007
  • Persona
  • 1903-unknown

Lena Florence Bennett Davison was born in Halifax on April 14th 1903 to Robie, a lumber merchant, and Celina Davison. She was known to all her friends and peers as Blossom, a name her father gave to her because he thought she was pretty like a flower. Likely, this name also helped distinguish herself from her mother Celina who was also known as ‘Lena’, for short. She had a brother named Ronald.

Blossom was a student at Mount Saint Vincent Academy, graduating in the class of 1921. During her time at the school, Blossom was recognized as an accomplished musician. She was the star violinist at the May 1921 Recital, though she also excelled at the piano. Blossom was also a great athlete, and won the top prize at the school’s 1920 tennis tournament.

When Blossom was 18 years of age, census records note that her family sometimes used the last name ‘Davis’.

When Blossom married, she took the last name Agnew.

d'Assisi, Sister Francis

  • AR-047
  • Persona
  • 1898-[1978?]

Margaret McCarthy was born November 8, 1898, to Timothy and Ellen McCarthy of Bantry Bay, Ireland. The McCarthy’s belonged to Saint Patrick’s parish in Halifax, and Margaret attended Saint Patrick’s High School, eventually joining the Sisters of Charity in 1915 where she made her profession of vows in 1918. Sister Francis d’Assisi received a Bachelor of Arts at Mount Saint Vincent College in 1921, and a Master of Arts in History in 1926. In 1932 she received a doctorate degree at Fordham University; her thesis was ‘The changing religious liberty in Nova Scotia, 1604-1827.’ After returning to Nova Scotia, she taught history at Saint Patrick’s High School before becoming Dean at Mount Saint Vincent College in 1938.

Following her tenure as dean, Sister Francis D’Assisi became the President of Mount Saint Vincent College from 1954 to 1965, where she oversaw the school’s expansion, both in campus buildings and enrolment. She was a founding member of the Association of Atlantic Universities (AAU), and maintained Mount Saint Vincent’s membership in the National Conference of Colleges and Universities (NCCU) since 1950. She was also largely responsible for the seal of the college, which first appeared in publications in the mid-fifties.

When she retired as President in 1965, she received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal and became the Congregational Historian (Archivist) for the Sisters of Charity, a position she held until 1978.

Dulhanty, Mary

  • AR-026
  • Persona
  • 1909-1999

Mary Dulhanty was born in Springhill, Nova Scotia in 1909, the daughter of Richard and Hannah Dulhanty. She moved with her family to Bridgewater in 1912. Her father died in 1923. Mary had two sisters, Jane (b. 1900) and Margaret (b. 1903), and a brother Frank (b. 1906). Mary graduated from Mount Saint Vincent in June 1927, and emigrated with her mother to New York in 1929. She married William Swift on 11 June 1932, and was divorced in 1936, reconciled, then divorced again in 1938. She followed her sister Jane from California then to Hawaii where she worked for a general contractor. Mary was in Pearl Harbor when it was bombed by the Japanese in 1941. Shortly after she married Alexander Kirkland McKendrick (1916-1968), and they had two children, Mary Elizabeth, called Beth (b. 1942) and James (Jim, b. 1944) and the family spent most of their time in Belmont, California. Mary died 29 April 1999.

McGowan, Catherine Sarah

  • AR-023
  • Persona
  • 1939-1948 (Creation)

Catherine Sarah McGowan, daughter of J.W. McGowan, attended Mount Saint Vincent Academy and was later a student at Mount Saint Vincent College, Halifax, Nova Scotia in the 1940's. In the summer of 1946 she was given the opportunity to work as a junior dietician in the Convalescent Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. In 1948 McGowan graduated from Mount Saint Vincent College with a Bachelor of Science. In 1949 McGowan was employed at the Department of Agriculture doing demonstration work in foods. Catherine later joined the Sisters of Charity and took the name Sister Catherine Joseph Marie. By 1997 Sr. Catherine was running daycare centres--the Jardin de los Ninos, and Centre Elisabeth Seton, and continues to work in the Dominican Republic.

Sister Lua Gavin

  • AR-029
  • Persona

Lua Gavin entered as a postulant to the Sisters of Charity at the age of 16. Sister Lua Gavin taught biology at Mount Saint Vincent College and University in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. She was also involved with the Alumnae Association. She retired as chairman of the Biology Department in 1979, and in 1982 went to St. Brigid's assisted living in Quebec City, Quebec as a coordinator. Sister Martina Marie was her sister, also in the Mount Saint Vincent community.

Murray, Christl

  • AR-002
  • Persona

Christl Murray (née Tiefenbacker) attended Mount Saint Vincent Academy from 1948 to 1951. From November 1948 to June 1950, she was a boarder, and from September 1950 to June 1951 she was a day student.

Wright, Ruth Noonan

  • AR-012
  • Persona
  • February 1, 1932 - January 19, 2017

Ruth Noonan Wright was born in Halifax on February 1, 1932 as Ruth Noonan. Noonan Wright and her sisters attended Mount Saint Vincent Academy, a girls educational academy run by the Sisters of Charity, a Catholic denomination of nuns. The Academy was non-denominational, but while attending the school, Noonan Wright (born into a Protestant family), adopted the Catholic faith. After graduating from the Academy in 1953 she took steps toward becoming a religious sister but stopped short of taking vows; she remained involved in the Catholic Church until the end of her life.

Noonan Wright returned to Mount Saint Vincent University in 1972 to study Home Economics. She graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science in Home Economics and went on to teach Home Economics in local schools, including Halifax West and Bloomfield. She was also an artist who sold her work at the Nova Scotia Art Gallery. Noonan Wright died on January 19, 2017.

Dewar, Kenneth C.

  • AR-003
  • Persona
  • 1944-

Ken Dewar grew up in Edmonton and taught at the University of Victoria, Wilfrid Laurier, and Carleton before coming to the Mount in 1982. He also owned a bookstore for a number of years in Elora, Ontario. He retired in June 2011 and was awarded Professor Emeritus status in the Department of History.

Ingalls, Wayne

  • AR-032
  • Persona
  • 1974-2000

Wayne Ingalls was born in 1939 in Vancouver, British Columbia. He received a BA from the University of British Columbia and pursued his studies at University of Toronto, where he received his MA (1964) and his PhD (1971) in Classics. He taught at Bishops University (1967-1972), and later moved on to Mount Saint Vincent University where he worked for many years as a senior administrator. His posts included Assistant Academic Dean (1973- 1979), and Director of Research and Publications (1973-1979). This position changed in 1979 and Dr. Ingalls was then Director of Research and Special Projects (1979-1987), which included overseeing and developing the MSVU international development work. Dr. Ingalls also served as Assistant to the President for Research, Planning and Information Services (1987-1991), Acting Vice President Academic (1991-1992) and Interim Vice President Academic (1996-1997). Throughout his time at the Mount, Dr. Ingalls continued to teach and was Associate Professor of History and Speech and Drama (1973-1999). Since 1999
Dr. Ingalls has held the rank of Professor and will until 2005. Dr. Ingalls' research has ranged broadly, including early work on Homeric composition, then on institution building in higher education, especially in the third world, and most recently on children and education in ancient Greece. Examples of his research can be found in the following publications: Canadian Journal of International Development Studies (1998); Canadian and International
Education (1996); Phoenix (2002, 2000, 1982, 1972, 1971, 1970); Echos du monde classique (2001, 2000, 1998); Canadian Journal of Higher Education (1981), Mouseion
(2001), History of Education (1999), Higher Education (1995), and Transactions of the American Philological Association (1979, 1976). He has travelled widely in North America, Southeast Asia, Europe and Africa.

Carten, Laura

  • AR-046
  • Persona
  • 1882-1960

Laura Paty Carten was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1882 and was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart.
Laura Carten was a journalist most famous for her Rainbow Club column in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald newspaper where she wrote under the pseudonym of Farmer Smith. The column began in 1916 with the aim of providing a section in the newspaper that could entertain and amuse children. It began with short simple talks and a bedtime story. Very soon, this children's column came to encompass significant space across the page. By 1919, the "club" of readers grew significantly enough that patrons raised money for its various charitable endeavours, one of which was furnishing the newly opened Rainbow Ward in the Halifax Children's Hospital. As children grew up, they could become part of a memory club, who volunteered in their community to keep the many programs established for the Rainbow Club running.
The Rainbow Club column catered to young people of all ages. One day a week, Farmer Smith wrote a column specifically for young children 10 years and under. The Saturday issue was typically reserved for older readers where Farmer Smith wrote about literary topics such as British prose and poetry, as well as American and Canadian literature. A special Saturday issue every winter was devoted to biographical sketches of world-famous women.
Laura Carten also used the influence of the Rainbow Club column to found Rainbow Haven, which was a summer camp for Halifax (and beyond)'s disadvantaged children who were usually poverty-stricken. It began in 1919 and by the 1950s, had provided summer camp experiences to almost 7,000 children.
Laura Carten worked at the Herald until her retirement in 1951, a journalism career spanning 35 years. She had many distinguished friends and acquaintances, many of whom were writers. She was a writer herself, having been published in the Canadian Magazine and in the Nova Scotia Book of Verse. She was a member and the president of the Canadian Authors Association for some time, a member of the Nova Scotia Poetry Centre and was an honorary member of the Mark Twain Society for her contributions to Canadian writing. As a friend of Sister Maura Power, English professor at Mount Saint Vincent College, Laura helped establish a joint-journalism school between Mount Saint Vincent College, King's College and Saint Mary's University.
Laura Carten passed away in 1960 at the age of 78.

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