1954 Fredericton Encaenia
Dolan, Daniel Leo
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Colin B. Mackay, Daniel Leo Dolan
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Source: UA PC-4 no.5u
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1954
DANIEL LEO DOLAN
to be Doctor of Laws
No one man, if we except our honoured Chancellor, has done more to make our Province, like himself, famous than this native of Fredericton.
He was the second Director of our Provincial Tourist Bureau until his uncanny flair for publicity led to his appointment in 1934 as organizer of its national counterpart. Here on a fantastic scale he promotes the travel interests of all ten provinces, and under his direction the Canadian Government Bureau, staffed by more than eighty
persons in Ottawa and with representatives in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, "tells" as he picturesquely words it, "The Canadian Travel Story to the United States through an advertising programme of nearly a million dollars annually, and answers four hundred thousand enquiries a year."
Among his talents for this multitudinous service he has two that are as unique as the man himself. The first is a ready wit delivered by a wickedly winning tongue, such as Irish forbears alone could have bequeathed him. And only Heaven could have bequeathed him the other, which is a flawless memory for faces and a flawless and saving
ability to connect the right face with the right name.
It is warming to remember that on every one of the fifty thousand miles which this ubiquitous Frederictonian annually travels both these talents are at work for his city and his province. Nor is it coincidence that the University of his birth-place singles out the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the National Bureau to bestow upon him this mark of her affection and regard.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
DANIEL LEO DOLAN
to be Doctor of Laws
No one man, if we except our honoured Chancellor, has done more to make our Province, like himself, famous than this native of Fredericton.
He was the second Director of our Provincial Tourist Bureau until his uncanny flair for publicity led to his appointment in 1934 as organizer of its national counterpart. Here on a fantastic scale he promotes the travel interests of all ten provinces, and under his direction the Canadian Government Bureau, staffed by more than eighty
persons in Ottawa and with representatives in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, "tells" as he picturesquely words it, "The Canadian Travel Story to the United States through an advertising programme of nearly a million dollars annually, and answers four hundred thousand enquiries a year."
Among his talents for this multitudinous service he has two that are as unique as the man himself. The first is a ready wit delivered by a wickedly winning tongue, such as Irish forbears alone could have bequeathed him. And only Heaven could have bequeathed him the other, which is a flawless memory for faces and a flawless and saving
ability to connect the right face with the right name.
It is warming to remember that on every one of the fifty thousand miles which this ubiquitous Frederictonian annually travels both these talents are at work for his city and his province. Nor is it coincidence that the University of his birth-place singles out the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the National Bureau to bestow upon him this mark of her affection and regard.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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