Irwin, Henry Gilbert

CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1963
HENRY GILBERT IRWIN
to be Doctor of Laws

The crew of his bomber did not fly for medals, least of all the Air-Gunner. Their reward and their very salvation
was to work as a team.

R.267677 Sgt. Irwin, H. G. is now posted to a larger crew, where teamwork is no less essential. As Minister of
Education he must pilot his supremely vital department through an overcast of testing expansion. He is the
representative of a government which has had the initiative to set up a Royal Commission on Higher Education and
the resolution to implement its findings.

With calm good sense and a twinkle in his light blue eyes he is guiding to its consummation the work of his own
hand and the longer work of his predecessors. Into this work he has put his whole heart, and it brings him the only
rewards he desires.

Our provincial University does well to recognize in the Honorable Henry Irwin a man who needs from her the
teamwork on which he in his own sphere so prudently relies and which in ours he is so ready to match.

From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.