1956 Fredericton Encaenia
Maheux, Joseph Thomas Arthur
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Colin B. Mackay, Joseph Thomas Arthur Maheux, B.F. Macaulay
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Source: UA PC-4 no.6a(1)
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1956
JOSEPH THOMAS ARTHUR MAHEUX
to be Doctor of Laws
Towering above the ocean of educational change, M. L'Abbé Maheux flashes like a lighthouse, deep-based and four-square to the conflicting currents. His sturdy Norman ancestors no less than that mother and daughter of learning, the Séminaire de Québec and Laval University, share with the nation their pride in this talented scion.
After absorbing the finest training that both Old and New France could give him, he has in a long and persistently vigorous intellectual life perfected gifts complex but complementary as teacher, expounder, administrator and scholar.
Historian and man of letters, schooled on the traditional classical lines, he has fought tradition wherever it impeded his pupils' progress.
As an expounder at home equally in the French and English cultures, he has interpreted in both languages and through the diverse media of radio, newspaper, learned journal, august society and humble study-group the vital themes of our bilingual land and the unity in disparity of its two great peoples. The admirer of both, he is the
harmonizer of their differences and the protagonist of their inherent values.
The scholar and the administrator are found in him, in very brilliant fusion, as Archivist of Laval University and of his beloved Séminaire, where as the successor of giants he discharges at new heights those twin gigantic labours.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
JOSEPH THOMAS ARTHUR MAHEUX
to be Doctor of Laws
Towering above the ocean of educational change, M. L'Abbé Maheux flashes like a lighthouse, deep-based and four-square to the conflicting currents. His sturdy Norman ancestors no less than that mother and daughter of learning, the Séminaire de Québec and Laval University, share with the nation their pride in this talented scion.
After absorbing the finest training that both Old and New France could give him, he has in a long and persistently vigorous intellectual life perfected gifts complex but complementary as teacher, expounder, administrator and scholar.
Historian and man of letters, schooled on the traditional classical lines, he has fought tradition wherever it impeded his pupils' progress.
As an expounder at home equally in the French and English cultures, he has interpreted in both languages and through the diverse media of radio, newspaper, learned journal, august society and humble study-group the vital themes of our bilingual land and the unity in disparity of its two great peoples. The admirer of both, he is the
harmonizer of their differences and the protagonist of their inherent values.
The scholar and the administrator are found in him, in very brilliant fusion, as Archivist of Laval University and of his beloved Séminaire, where as the successor of giants he discharges at new heights those twin gigantic labours.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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