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Women in the Curriculum / Women's Studies

Maryann Hartman Awards

1991 Award Winners
Honoring three Maine women

Lilianne Labbe

Lilianne Labbé was born in 1953 in Maine where her father, a lumber camp cook, had moved his family from Quebec. Her first language was French. She began playing the piano at six, the guitar at thirteen, and began performing professionally at coffeehouses while in high school. After attending the University of Maine for one year she backpacked through Europe and then returned to Orono to begin her full-time performing career with Don Hinckley in 1974. Since then, the duo, known as Psaltry, has performed at over 500 concerts and workshops on Franco-American history and culture. They have appeared at festivals, community concerts, and on television and radio broadcasts such as NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion."

Gilda Nardone

Since 1978, Gilda has facilitated the development and expansion of the Maine Displaced Homemakers Program (MDHP); now called the Maine Centers for Women, Work, and Community. Under her guidance, MDHP has increased and diversified its program and dramatically increased its value as a resource for Maine women. As a representative to the National Displaced Homemakers Network's Governing Board, Gilda has provided assistance and training to other women's organizations across the region and the nation. In 1989, she received the Progress Award from the Maine Commission for Women and in 1991 she became President of the NDHP Board. She holds an A.A.S. degree from Westbrook College, a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, and an M.S. in Education from Wheelock College in Boston.

Margaret Chase Smith

A native of Skowhegan, Maine, Margaret Chase Smith was internationally known for her long career in the United States Congress where she served as the first woman in American History to be elected to both the House and the Senate. Her landmark Declaration of Conscience, in response to the extremist views of McCarthyism, stressed her belief in the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest and the right to independent thought. Senator Smith was also the first woman to have her name placed by a major political party in nomination for the President of the United States. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George Bush in 1989 and in 1990 was honored by the dedication of the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy at the University of Maine. She passed away in May 1995.

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