1965 Fredericton Convocation
McIntosh, Douglas Moul
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Adrien Joseph Cormier, Quinton McGarel Hogg, Douglas Moul McIntosh, Colin B. Mackay
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Source: UA PC-2 no.65
Citation:
CONVOCATION , OCTOBER, 1965
DOUGLAS MOUL MCINTOSH
to be Doctor of Laws
Dr. McIntosh is a familiar figure, for he has been visiting lecturer in Education at four of our Summer sessions. His pupils, many now about to graduate, will have forgotten the stern task-master for the genial sharer in their out-of-class activities, and the lover of their province.
First class in his native Scotland as scholar and soccer player, he became at thirty-three the youngest of the County Directors of Education. Fife, though small, is known as the county with the split personality, the rift being not pathological but political, between Conservatives and their opponents, a condition unheard of in these parts! He has won, and held, the confidence of both extremes, a praiseworthy feat seeing that the school population has been expanding and contracting as the parents' employment waxed and waned. Hardly a school but has been added to, subtracted from, or closed, at the dictation of this human thermostat. These crises he has in part and ingeniously met by mobile class-rooms, units complete with such heating systems as the hardy Scots permit themselves.
Canny both in the selection of future educators and in the training they receive, he is open to lessons from us, as we from him. He is, in fact, eager to reconcile the exuberant experimentalism of the American high school with the somewhat granite formality of his own. Promotion by subject may hardly be deemed an exuberance but it is one of the ideas for which he feels in our particular debt.
Among his publications are two books, Statistics for Teachers, widely used on this continent, and a 10-year study of all secondary school pupils in Fife. Entitled Guidance and the Pool of Ability, it is a valuable piece of research, and he claims our own Professor Dugald Blue among his collaborators.
To Mrs. McIntosh, as to the braw educator himself, we bid the warmest of welcomes at this most colourful of Canadian seasons -- when the leaves and the sweaters are red, the deer and other beasties are in the brae, and the duck, like the students, have no intention of being targets until the Thanksgiving holiday is over.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
DOUGLAS MOUL MCINTOSH
to be Doctor of Laws
Dr. McIntosh is a familiar figure, for he has been visiting lecturer in Education at four of our Summer sessions. His pupils, many now about to graduate, will have forgotten the stern task-master for the genial sharer in their out-of-class activities, and the lover of their province.
First class in his native Scotland as scholar and soccer player, he became at thirty-three the youngest of the County Directors of Education. Fife, though small, is known as the county with the split personality, the rift being not pathological but political, between Conservatives and their opponents, a condition unheard of in these parts! He has won, and held, the confidence of both extremes, a praiseworthy feat seeing that the school population has been expanding and contracting as the parents' employment waxed and waned. Hardly a school but has been added to, subtracted from, or closed, at the dictation of this human thermostat. These crises he has in part and ingeniously met by mobile class-rooms, units complete with such heating systems as the hardy Scots permit themselves.
Canny both in the selection of future educators and in the training they receive, he is open to lessons from us, as we from him. He is, in fact, eager to reconcile the exuberant experimentalism of the American high school with the somewhat granite formality of his own. Promotion by subject may hardly be deemed an exuberance but it is one of the ideas for which he feels in our particular debt.
Among his publications are two books, Statistics for Teachers, widely used on this continent, and a 10-year study of all secondary school pupils in Fife. Entitled Guidance and the Pool of Ability, it is a valuable piece of research, and he claims our own Professor Dugald Blue among his collaborators.
To Mrs. McIntosh, as to the braw educator himself, we bid the warmest of welcomes at this most colourful of Canadian seasons -- when the leaves and the sweaters are red, the deer and other beasties are in the brae, and the duck, like the students, have no intention of being targets until the Thanksgiving holiday is over.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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