1974 Fredericton Encaenia
Copeland, Garnet Goldwin
Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
Orator: Condon, Thomas J.
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L to R: Garnet Goldwin Copeland, Sir Max Aitken
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Source: Joe Stone fonds-UA RG340, 1974 (#11088B)
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1974
GARNET GOLDWIN COPELAND
to be Doctor of Science
The American novelist, Thomas Wolfe, wrote several brilliant and disturbing books on the theme that you can't go home again and there is certainly great psychological truth in such a view. For Wolfe's hero, the transition from the small Carolina town of Altamont to college at Pulpit Hill and on to New York was too great, with the result that he was not able to be comfortable anywhere. But some men never really leave home no matter how far they travel or how intensely they live life away from home. Garnet Copeland is such a man. The great distance he initially travelled across the river from Barker's Point to college up the hill in Fredericton obviously produced no great traumatic experience. Perfectly at home in the major capitals of the world, his thoughts are seldom far from his birthplace or his alma mater, both now joined together in the new Fredericton. His loyalty to both is legendary.
Graduating in 1936 from UNB, Mr. Copeland has gone on to a brilliant career as an engineer, inventor, and businessman with firms of his own in Canada and the United States and in association with some of the major corporations in the pulp and paper industry. Long before public concern about the environment mounted to its present level he had already invented what has become known as the "Copeland Process" for the elimination of some forms of municipal and industrial waste.
Since 1954 Mr. Copeland has returned at least once annually to the campus to present the H. Kenneth Corbett Gold Medal to the outstanding male athlete of the year, an award he established to honour his UNB friend tragically lost in the RCAF in 1939. But as long as planes are flying, one is never too surprised to see Mr. Copeland in Fredericton on any day, his warmth and friendliness ever present, his concern and interest evident, and his knowledge extraordinary. UNB honours a loyal son who has cared greatly for UNB and for her students over many, many years and innumerable miles.
Praeses admittit Garnet Goldwin Copeland honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Scientia.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
GARNET GOLDWIN COPELAND
to be Doctor of Science
The American novelist, Thomas Wolfe, wrote several brilliant and disturbing books on the theme that you can't go home again and there is certainly great psychological truth in such a view. For Wolfe's hero, the transition from the small Carolina town of Altamont to college at Pulpit Hill and on to New York was too great, with the result that he was not able to be comfortable anywhere. But some men never really leave home no matter how far they travel or how intensely they live life away from home. Garnet Copeland is such a man. The great distance he initially travelled across the river from Barker's Point to college up the hill in Fredericton obviously produced no great traumatic experience. Perfectly at home in the major capitals of the world, his thoughts are seldom far from his birthplace or his alma mater, both now joined together in the new Fredericton. His loyalty to both is legendary.
Graduating in 1936 from UNB, Mr. Copeland has gone on to a brilliant career as an engineer, inventor, and businessman with firms of his own in Canada and the United States and in association with some of the major corporations in the pulp and paper industry. Long before public concern about the environment mounted to its present level he had already invented what has become known as the "Copeland Process" for the elimination of some forms of municipal and industrial waste.
Since 1954 Mr. Copeland has returned at least once annually to the campus to present the H. Kenneth Corbett Gold Medal to the outstanding male athlete of the year, an award he established to honour his UNB friend tragically lost in the RCAF in 1939. But as long as planes are flying, one is never too surprised to see Mr. Copeland in Fredericton on any day, his warmth and friendliness ever present, his concern and interest evident, and his knowledge extraordinary. UNB honours a loyal son who has cared greatly for UNB and for her students over many, many years and innumerable miles.
Praeses admittit Garnet Goldwin Copeland honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Scientia.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
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