Rothenstein, John Knewstub Maurice

(Citations shortened in view of Lord Beaverbrook's health.)

My Lord Chancellor,
It is my prerogative, unhappy only that its compass must be brief, to present to you five men who severally are linked to yourself by ties of Art, Authorship, Industry, Endowment and Statecraft, and universally by the greater tie of Friendship, that it may please you and this University body to admit them to Honorary Degrees in this University and bind them thereby to us as corporate Members and beloved Alumni.

CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1961
JOHN KNEWSTUB MAURICE ROTHENSTEIN
to be Doctor of Laws

whose presence in Fredericton has shed on the lustre of the Beaverbrook Gallery the aura of the Tate, of which he is by patrons reckoned the most imaginative, by critics the most provocative, and by age the youngest Director.

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