1972 Fredericton Encaenia
Michener, Roland
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Condon, Thomas J.
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L to R: Roland Michener, Sir Max Aitken
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Source: PR(5); Photo by Stone's Studio
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1972
ROLAND MICHENER
to be Doctor of Laws
The University is deeply honoured by the presence of Their Excellencies here this afternoon. While it is His Excellency that we wish to honour today, we welcome most cordially his gracious wife, our colleague in the world of learning whose work in philosophy is known to us.
The Governor General, twentieth to hold this high office in the history of Canada, and the first to come from the Canadian West, began life in Lacombe, AIberta at the start of the century. An Arts graduate from the University of Alberta, he received the Governor General's Gold Medal for scholastic proficiency at his own encaenial exercises in 1920. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford where he studied jurisprudence at Hertford College and went on to read law at the Middle Temple. An athlete then as now, he won a "half blue" in hockey and a "full blue" for track and field.
Returning home to Canada he began a long and distinguished career in the law, specializing in mining and corporate law. Mr. Michener served in the Ontario Legislature and was appointed Provincial Secretary in 1946. He later moved to federal politics where his labours as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1957 to 1962 received the respect and acclaim of all parties. In 1964 he was appointed High commissioner to India from which post he was recalled by Prime Minister Pearson to take on the burdens of his present office.
He has undertaken his duties with energy and enormous good will, mindful that the exacting impartiality demanded of a speaker is multiplied many times over for a governor general. His grace and bearing, his humor and warmth seem able to convert heavy burdens into pleasant tasks.
We are pleased to honour this great Canadian who has unselfishly given so much to the public life of this country.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 1
ROLAND MICHENER
to be Doctor of Laws
The University is deeply honoured by the presence of Their Excellencies here this afternoon. While it is His Excellency that we wish to honour today, we welcome most cordially his gracious wife, our colleague in the world of learning whose work in philosophy is known to us.
The Governor General, twentieth to hold this high office in the history of Canada, and the first to come from the Canadian West, began life in Lacombe, AIberta at the start of the century. An Arts graduate from the University of Alberta, he received the Governor General's Gold Medal for scholastic proficiency at his own encaenial exercises in 1920. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford where he studied jurisprudence at Hertford College and went on to read law at the Middle Temple. An athlete then as now, he won a "half blue" in hockey and a "full blue" for track and field.
Returning home to Canada he began a long and distinguished career in the law, specializing in mining and corporate law. Mr. Michener served in the Ontario Legislature and was appointed Provincial Secretary in 1946. He later moved to federal politics where his labours as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1957 to 1962 received the respect and acclaim of all parties. In 1964 he was appointed High commissioner to India from which post he was recalled by Prime Minister Pearson to take on the burdens of his present office.
He has undertaken his duties with energy and enormous good will, mindful that the exacting impartiality demanded of a speaker is multiplied many times over for a governor general. His grace and bearing, his humor and warmth seem able to convert heavy burdens into pleasant tasks.
We are pleased to honour this great Canadian who has unselfishly given so much to the public life of this country.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 1
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