If you were a student at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s between 1933 and 1968 you might have perceived the 카지노게임사이트 Registrar, Jean I. Royce, as the 카지노게임사이트 incarnate. Not only would she have signed your letter of admission, but she might have given you advice 카지노 게임 컬렉션 wanted or unwanted, summoned you to her office to express her (temporary) disappointment and (future) expectations, helped you out of a predicament you felt was insoluble, or 카지노 게임 컬렉션 especially if you were a high achieving female student 카지노 게임 컬렉션 have been the sole person who encouraged you to apply for a scholarship for graduate school.
Two years after her retirement, she observed in a letter to then-Dean of Arts and Science Ronald Watts, LLD카지노 게임 컬렉션84, that students commonly complain about how they are being given 카지노 게임 컬렉션the run around카지노 게임 컬렉션, that no one shows concern for them, that there is no one who might give a true assessment of their quality, or who might be appealed to in circumstances that seemed unfair. In her own mind 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and in those of countless students 카지노 게임 컬렉션 Jean Royce had been that person. That was what the Registrar did.
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When Jean Royce received an honorary degree from Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s on November 8, 1968, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was also honoured. However, the audience gave Royce the loudest and most sustained ovation of the day.
The nature of her interventions in students카지노 게임 컬렉션 lives shifted through the decades 카지노 게임 컬렉션 from the lingering effects of the Great Depression, WWII and its aftermath, the golden 카지노 게임 컬렉션50s, to the revolutionary 카지노 게임 컬렉션60s. Lester Anthes, BA카지노 게임 컬렉션43, remembered the 카지노 게임 컬렉션kindness and special consideration given a struggling extramural student.카지노 게임 컬렉션 She seemed,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he wrote, 카지노 게임 컬렉션to understand some of the difficulties of following that route toward a degree.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Indeed, she would have.
Born into a poor working-class family in St. Thomas, Ontario, Jean longed to follow her brainy older sister Marion, who had won a rare scholarship to university. In 1925 Jean enrolled in a Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s extramural course while working full-time in the St. Thomas Library. It was tough; her marks were low, and in 1927 she quit the job and enrolled full-time at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s. Her 1931 graduation yearbook profile presaged her own future (as well as the advice she would give students): 카지노 게임 컬렉션There is about her an eagerness, something of the gay and adventurous search for beauty and truth and the swift evanescent gleam.카지노 게임 컬렉션
In 1934, Ben Scott, BA카지노 게임 컬렉션38, MD카지노 게임 컬렉션43, didn카지노 게임 컬렉션t make the Jewish quota at McGill, and so he applied to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s. 카지노 게임 컬렉션You cannot possible imagine,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he would later write, 카지노 게임 컬렉션with what heartache and desperation I applied to the Faculty of Arts and my utter disbelief when I was granted an interview with 카지노 게임 컬렉션The Registrar카지노 게임 컬렉션 카지노 게임 컬렉션 Jean Royce. She was a MENSCH.카지노 게임 컬렉션
On November 15, 1941, Jean admitted Alfred Bader, Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션45, Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션46, MSc카지노 게임 컬렉션47, LLD카지노 게임 컬렉션86, an Austrian teenager fresh from a Quebec internment camp. His gratitude to her and to the 카지노게임사이트 has been amply displayed. As we can see from the late date of Bader카지노 게임 컬렉션s admittance, the Registrar did not feel bound by the rules that she made, and students as successful as Bader only confirmed her judgments.
Retired Justice Kenneth Binks, Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션48, never forgot the day that Jean Royce told him that Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s would be proud to have him. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I remember exactly what she said and the way she said it,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he recalls. Binks had been obliged to drop out of high school at 16 and had taken night courses to graduate.
James Martin, Com카지노 게임 컬렉션47, wanted to return to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s after the war despite his less than stellar record. Jean Royce wired his CO: 카지노 게임 컬렉션Please discharge James E. Martin.카지노 게임 컬렉션 He did, and Martin brought her flowers.
After failing first-year engineering Michael Humphries, Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션52, found himself in Miss Royce카지노 게임 컬렉션s office. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Mr. Humphries, Dean Ellis and I have come to the conclusion that the field of engineering in Canada would be better without you. What are we doing to do with you?카지노 게임 컬렉션 Arts, he thought, and so it was.
The bookends of Royce카지노 게임 컬렉션s career reveal starkly the patriarchal society in which she lived. Principal Fyfe accompanied his announcement that she would succeed Alice King as Registrar with these words: 카지노 게임 컬렉션Those who detect in this succession an omen of matriarchy will be reassured by her imperturbable efficiency that the appointment was inevitable and would go far to justify any system of government.카지노 게임 컬렉션 In 1968, Principal J.A. Corry informed her that once she had trained her successor she was to retire. That registrar-in-training, a male, already enjoyed a higher salary than the incumbent, who had served for 35 years.
The consolation prize was an honorary doctorate. As she was hooded, the audience at the historic November 8, 1968, Convocation rose to give Jean Royce 카지노 게임 컬렉션 long the most powerful woman at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노 게임 컬렉션 a standing ovation that was far louder and more sustained than that accorded such fellow honorees as PM Pierre Trudeau, longtime Ontario Premier William Davis, and writer Arthur Koestler.
Discreetly and silently, Royce remained loyal to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, serving in the 1970s as graduates카지노 게임 컬렉션 rep on the Board of Trustees, for instance, and chairing the committee that established the Ban Righ Foundation. Half a century of loyalty to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s was acknowledged when the 12-house residence complex on West Campus was named Jean Royce Hall.
Her life during and after her registrarship included lots of travel, books, music, art, friends, and family. But those are stories for another time.
Prof. Emerita Roberta Hamilton, Jean Royce카지노 게임 컬렉션s biographer, is the author of the 2002 book Setting the Agenda: Jean Royce and the Shaping of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트.
