Materials related to speeches and addresses given by James Downey between the years 1980 and 1992. Includes drafts and final versions of speeches.
Titles of speeches are:
- “UNB Installation address” (October 16, 1980),
- “UNBSJ Awards ceremony” (November 4, 1980),
- “Special Convocation,” Kenya Technical Teachers College, Nairobi (December 3, 1980),
- “Sex & violence in eighteenth-Century hymns & sermons,” Humanities Association, St. John’s (April 3, 1981),
- “The third wave: ripple or breaker? Education in the eighties,” New Brunswick Teachers Association, St. Thomas University (May 7, 1981),
- “The perils of planning,” Atlantic Planners Institute, Fredericton (September 11, 1981),
- “The English professor as administrator,” Atlantic Universities Teachers of English, Fredericton (October 22, 1982),
- “Some thoughts on higher education in New Brunswick and UNB’s place in it,” Senior Public Service Managers, Province of New Brunswick (February 3, 1983),
- “A Freudian view of physical fitness,” College of New Brunswick Psychologists, UNB, Ottawa (April 13, 1983),
- “Academic freedom and freedom of the press,” Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association, Algonquin Hotel, St. Andrews, New Brunswick (September 21, 1983),
- “When Jesus and Socrates meet,” Wilmot United Church, Fredericton (November 20, 1983),
- “The entrepreneurial spirit,” Tourism Management Education Conference, Saint John (November 18, 1983),
- “Financing higher education & research,” Financial Post Conference, Ottawa (March 13, 1985),
- “Don’t forget to smell the flowers,” Fredericton High School Graduation (June 20, 1985),
- “The role of universities in understanding the social impact of technology,” 14th Commonwealth Universities Congress, Perth, Australia (February 1988),
- “University autonomy: myth or reality?” Institute of Public Affairs, Canada, Fredericton (January 19, 1989),
- “Lord, it's hard to be humble,” St. Paul’s United Church (October 29, 1989),
- “Business & education in the nineties: charting a new course, Toronto (April 17, 1990),
- “Capacity of universities to change,” Queen’s University Council (May 11, 1990),
- “Distinguished citizens awards dinner,” Fredericton (February 18, 1990),
- “Catcher in the ivy,” Special Convocation, Memorial University of Newfoundland (February 2, 1991),
- “22nd Conference of the Council for National Unity,” Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa (April 5, 1991),
- “Why I support the Charlottetown Accord,” University of New Brunswick (October 23, 1982),
- “Address to the Canadian Hospital Association, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador (June 12, 1992),
- “Carleton North High School graduation,” Carleton North High School (June 24, 1992),
- “Canadian unity: a joking matter,” Leacock Luncheon, McGill University (September 18, 1992),
- “The Canadian University presidency: a perspective senior universities administrators course,” Banff, Alberta (May 1992).