1957 Fredericton Convocation
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Lord Beaverbrook, John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Source: UA PC-5 no.2(7) ; Photographer: Joe Stone
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CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1957
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
to be Doctor of Laws
The Kennedys of Massachusetts are a handsome, restless, close-knit and irresistible clan, whose vocabulary has never been burdened with the word "rust".
The protagonist of the present generation stands before you. Jack Kennedy, who could have had leisure with literary fame, accepted as a virtual legacy and in the spirit of a knight-errant the challenge of a political career. With visor down, he has never allowed wealth to relax or pain to paralyze his fibres; marriage to soften or sorrow to blunt the hard steel of his purpose.
In him, as you will shortly experience, are charm tempered by caution, eloquence informed by research, and an independence of judgment warped by no partisan loyalties.
Armed with this invincible combination, he won his seat as Democratic member for Congress at the age of twenty-nine. At thirty-five he stormed his way into the United States Senate, to represent a Massachusetts that was heavily pro-Eisenhower. It took four and a half years of planning and stumping to do it -- a campaign that exhausted his lieutenants as thoroughly as it routed his deeply entrenched opponent. Last year he missed by a handful of votes the Democratic nomination for Vice-President.
In the eyes of political friends and foes he is destined for the highest office in the Union. Small wonder, seeing that he has proved many times his dedication not to one but to all its forty-eight states.
May health, strength and the Kennedy star attend him! His country, and through his country our anxious world, can use one of his breed and talents; they limn the profile of a man who has the courage, not to 'love Caesar less but to love Rome more'.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
to be Doctor of Laws
The Kennedys of Massachusetts are a handsome, restless, close-knit and irresistible clan, whose vocabulary has never been burdened with the word "rust".
The protagonist of the present generation stands before you. Jack Kennedy, who could have had leisure with literary fame, accepted as a virtual legacy and in the spirit of a knight-errant the challenge of a political career. With visor down, he has never allowed wealth to relax or pain to paralyze his fibres; marriage to soften or sorrow to blunt the hard steel of his purpose.
In him, as you will shortly experience, are charm tempered by caution, eloquence informed by research, and an independence of judgment warped by no partisan loyalties.
Armed with this invincible combination, he won his seat as Democratic member for Congress at the age of twenty-nine. At thirty-five he stormed his way into the United States Senate, to represent a Massachusetts that was heavily pro-Eisenhower. It took four and a half years of planning and stumping to do it -- a campaign that exhausted his lieutenants as thoroughly as it routed his deeply entrenched opponent. Last year he missed by a handful of votes the Democratic nomination for Vice-President.
In the eyes of political friends and foes he is destined for the highest office in the Union. Small wonder, seeing that he has proved many times his dedication not to one but to all its forty-eight states.
May health, strength and the Kennedy star attend him! His country, and through his country our anxious world, can use one of his breed and talents; they limn the profile of a man who has the courage, not to 'love Caesar less but to love Rome more'.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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