Professor Emeritus at Mount Saint Vincent University in Nutrition and Dietetics
Audio quality: Excellent
Main topics include: Murphy’s experiences as first full-time lay professor at The Mount; Nutrition and Dietetics program; secularization and co-education of the university; the proposed amalgamation of Saint Mary’s University with Mount Saint Vincent; the Sisters of Charity
Alleyne Murphy was the first full-time lay professor at the Mount in 1951, and spent her career there as a faculty member in Applied Human Nutrition. Murphy’s oral history provides insight into Mount Saint Vincent’s experiences of secularization and move towards co-education in the late 1960s. She also discusses the proposed amalgamation between the Mount and Saint Mary’s University during the same time period.