1985 Fredericton Encaenia
Deslongchamps, Pierre
Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
Orator: Rowan, Donald F.
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L to R: Dr. James Downey, Pierre Deslongchamps
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Source: Joe Stone fonds-UA RG340, 1985 (#13701)
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1985
PIERRE DESLONGCHAMPS
to be Doctor of Science
On festive occasions such as today it is often the custom of the University to honour those whose achievements lie outside the Groves of Academe. It is salutary and wise that we should do so, for the University must exist in the so called "real world,” and it is right that we should honour and recognize those men and women whose high accomplishments belong to that world outside our walls.
Yet today is a special festival – we celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of our University – and on this, our birthday, we choose to honour three men who epitomize those abiding values which lie close to the heart of all universities, both ancient and modern.
The first of these men is a distinguished "savant" working in the realm of the pure sciences--"quite simply one of the best organic chemists in the world"--and one who has gathered a remarkable number of Honorary Degrees for one so young: perhaps, however, the most signal honour to be bestowed on him has been his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, a sure and certain sign of the international stature of his work.
Despite these many other honours, we have reason to believe that he is pleased and proud to be honoured, as well, by the University of New Brunswick. For he is already one of our own, and on many occasions has graciously acknowledged his debt to our department of chemistry for accepting him as a graduate student when others failed to read the hidden signs of excellence. Supervised by one of the distinguished members of one of the distinguished departments of our University, he took his Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry in 1954, and since that time has worked and taught at the Université de Sherbrooke. Many of the great universities of North America and Europe have tried to allure him away from "la belle Province," but he has resisted their blandishments because of his strong commitment to work and to teach in Quebec and in Canada.
I choose to close this citation with the words of a biased "father" (his former supervisor): "As the practitioner of an experimental science, he possesses the very rare combination of a virtually unlimited imagination with experimental artistry. In other words, he can not only 'write the concertos,' he can also 'play them' better than most,"
Insignissime Praeses, tota Universitas, praesento vobis Petrum Deslongchamps ut admittatur honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Scientia in hac Universitate.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
PIERRE DESLONGCHAMPS
to be Doctor of Science
On festive occasions such as today it is often the custom of the University to honour those whose achievements lie outside the Groves of Academe. It is salutary and wise that we should do so, for the University must exist in the so called "real world,” and it is right that we should honour and recognize those men and women whose high accomplishments belong to that world outside our walls.
Yet today is a special festival – we celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of our University – and on this, our birthday, we choose to honour three men who epitomize those abiding values which lie close to the heart of all universities, both ancient and modern.
The first of these men is a distinguished "savant" working in the realm of the pure sciences--"quite simply one of the best organic chemists in the world"--and one who has gathered a remarkable number of Honorary Degrees for one so young: perhaps, however, the most signal honour to be bestowed on him has been his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, a sure and certain sign of the international stature of his work.
Despite these many other honours, we have reason to believe that he is pleased and proud to be honoured, as well, by the University of New Brunswick. For he is already one of our own, and on many occasions has graciously acknowledged his debt to our department of chemistry for accepting him as a graduate student when others failed to read the hidden signs of excellence. Supervised by one of the distinguished members of one of the distinguished departments of our University, he took his Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry in 1954, and since that time has worked and taught at the Université de Sherbrooke. Many of the great universities of North America and Europe have tried to allure him away from "la belle Province," but he has resisted their blandishments because of his strong commitment to work and to teach in Quebec and in Canada.
I choose to close this citation with the words of a biased "father" (his former supervisor): "As the practitioner of an experimental science, he possesses the very rare combination of a virtually unlimited imagination with experimental artistry. In other words, he can not only 'write the concertos,' he can also 'play them' better than most,"
Insignissime Praeses, tota Universitas, praesento vobis Petrum Deslongchamps ut admittatur honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Scientia in hac Universitate.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
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