1969 Fredericton Encaenia
Legget, Robert Ferguson
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: MacNutt, W. Stewart
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L to R: Robert Ferguson Legget, Sir Max Aitken
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Source: UA PC-4a no.2(9); Photo by Joe Stone
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ENCAENIA, MAY, 1969
ROBERT FERGUSON LEGGET
to be Doctor of Laws
Robert F. Legget is in more senses than one a builder of the Canadian nation.
Invited in 1947 to organize the new Division of Building Research of the National Research Council, he has been its Director ever since. Through his tireless efforts, this Division has become closely associated with Canada's construction industry and with sister agencies around the world. For twenty years, as Chairman of the National Research Council's Associated Committee on Soil and Snow Mechanics, he has been primarily responsible for the development of Canada's fraternity of geotechnical specialists. He has also served as Chairman of the Associate Committee on the National Building Code.
A native of England and a graduate of Liverpool University -- where the head of his department was Professor Perrott, formerly Professor of Civil Engineering at U.N.B. -- Dr. Legget was a member of the faculties of Queen's and Toronto before taking up his appointment with the National Research Council. A former President of the Geological Society of America and of the American Society for Testing and Materials, he is the author of two books and co-author of a third.
By his presence here today to join the ranks of our graduates, Robert Ferguson Legget brings honour to this University.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 1
ROBERT FERGUSON LEGGET
to be Doctor of Laws
Robert F. Legget is in more senses than one a builder of the Canadian nation.
Invited in 1947 to organize the new Division of Building Research of the National Research Council, he has been its Director ever since. Through his tireless efforts, this Division has become closely associated with Canada's construction industry and with sister agencies around the world. For twenty years, as Chairman of the National Research Council's Associated Committee on Soil and Snow Mechanics, he has been primarily responsible for the development of Canada's fraternity of geotechnical specialists. He has also served as Chairman of the Associate Committee on the National Building Code.
A native of England and a graduate of Liverpool University -- where the head of his department was Professor Perrott, formerly Professor of Civil Engineering at U.N.B. -- Dr. Legget was a member of the faculties of Queen's and Toronto before taking up his appointment with the National Research Council. A former President of the Geological Society of America and of the American Society for Testing and Materials, he is the author of two books and co-author of a third.
By his presence here today to join the ranks of our graduates, Robert Ferguson Legget brings honour to this University.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 1
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