Public Events - Maryann Hartman Awards
Named for the late Professor Maryann Hartman, outstanding teacher and scholar in Speech Communication at the University of Maine, these awards honor the spirit, achievement, and zest for life that Hartman epitomized. They recognize distinguished Maine women and their accomplishments in the arts, politics, business, education and community service. The work of the women selected provides inspiration to others and demonstrates the levels of attainment now possible for women. Presented annually, the awards increase campus and community awareness of contemporary women’s accomplishments.
After receiving a Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University in 1969, Maryann Hartman joined the University of Maine faculty as an assistant professor and director of forensics. A pioneer in the field of oral interpretation, Hartman studied communicative arts from historical, rhetorical, and aesthetic perspectives. Her research includes comparisons of language patterns of Maine women and men born before 1900; oral autobiographies of Maine women born before 1900; and the use of oral interpretation to influence public policy. Teacher, scholar, advocate, friend, mother, a woman of courage and vitality, Maryann Hartman died of cancer in 1980 at the age of 53.
Most Maryann Hartman awards ceremonies are available on video and DVD, click here for listing.
2012
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Elinor Goldberg
Merlene Sanborn
Young Women’s Social Justice Award:
JoAnn Bourque
2011
Constance Carter
Susan Davies
Dora Anne Mills
Young Women’s Social Justice Award:
Sarah Eaton
2010
Candace Austin
Shenna Bellows
Francine Garland Stark
Young Women’s Social Justice Award:
Daniella Runyambo
Heather Sawyer
2009
Layne Gregory
Fatuma Hussein
Judy Kellogg Markowsky
Young Women’s Social Justice Award:
Katelyn Jacques and Amy Jar Wei Yeung
2008
Catherine Beller-McKenna
Ilze Petersons
Kirsten Walter
Young Women’s Social Justice Award:
Codi Booher
2007
Alicia Anstead
Sally Jacobs
Harriet H. Price
Young Women’s Social Justice Award:
Hannah Hudson
2006
Mary Cathcart
Sarah Hudson
Lee Sharkey
Young Women’s Social Justice Award:
Amelia Butman
Hazel Stark
2005
Judith Isaacson
Jean Lavigne
Dorothy Schwartz
Young Women’s Social Justice Award:
Brooke Hayne
2004
Denise Altvater
Vivianne Holmes
Leigh Saufley
Young Women’s Social Justice Award:
Safia Nur
2003
Dahlov Ipcar
Joyce Longcore
Lillian O’Brien
Young Women’s Social Justice Award:
Mallory Cyr
2002
Elizabeth (Libby) Mitchell
Valerie Osborne
Jean Symonds
Young Women’s Social Justice Award:
Alicia McConkey
2001
Phyllis Austin
Laura Fortman
Tabitha King
Young Women’s Social Justice Award:
Lindsay Richardson
2000
Theodora Kalikow
Ruth Lockhart
Jude Spacks
1999
Donna Loring
Glenna Smith
Esperanza Stancioff
1998
Eleanor Humes Haney
Lucy Poulin
Eleanor Sargent
Barbara Cooney Porter
1997
Constance Hunting
Madeline Giguere
Dale McCormick
1996
Judy Guay
Trish Riley
Clarice Yentsch
1995
Gladys Hasty Carroll
Kay Gardner
Katherine Musgrave
1994
Mary Mitchell Gabriel
Emily Muir
Alice Stewart
1993
Joan Brooks
Winnie MacDonald
Mary Philbrook
1992
Glenna Atwood
Constance Carlson
Harriet Henry
1991
Lilianne Labbé
Gilda Nardone
Margaret Chase Smith
1990 (fall)
Eunice Bauman Nelson
Kathryn McInnis
Elizabeth Russell
1990 (spring)
Mildred “Brownie” Schrumpf
Olympia J. Snowe
Mabel Sine Wadsworth
1988
JoAnn Fritsche
Joan Benoit Samuelson
Dorothy Clarke Wilson
1987
Doris Twitchell Allen
Eileen Farrell
Lenore Thomas Straus
1986
Berenice Abbott
Catherine Cutler
May Sarton