1954 Fredericton Encaenia
Trimble, Herbert Harrison
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Frank Parkin Flett, Barbara Kein Dobson, Robert Henry Winters, Daniel Leo Dolan, Herbert Harrison Trimble
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Source: UA PC-4 no.5a
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1954
HERBERT HARRISON TRIMBLE
to be Doctor of Laws
Two groups of persons have cause to remember Herbert Harrison Trimble. These are the athletes he trounced in successive years as an undergraduate, and the subjects of the school world at Moncton over whom he reigns like a prince.
Of these triumphs so different in character we still applaud him for the first, but we are met to honour him for the far greater second.
Few, indeed, are the Superintendents of Schools destined in their lifetime both to deserve and to receive such homage as his. Yet such are the fruits of a philosophy formed of the simplest elements. Of these one is that every classroom within his suzerainty shall observe the rule of the Open Door not out of the Iron Curtain. Another is the bond built on trust on the part of every enquirer, whether pupil, teacher, parent or school board, and an infinite and sympathetic patience on his own. Coupled therewith goes a sharp intolerance of inefficiency. His decisions are dictated by common sense but, once made, they abide fixed and unwavering. Small wonder that he commands the affection and the respect of his entire microcosm or that his old University recognized the true worth of this, her alumnus.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
HERBERT HARRISON TRIMBLE
to be Doctor of Laws
Two groups of persons have cause to remember Herbert Harrison Trimble. These are the athletes he trounced in successive years as an undergraduate, and the subjects of the school world at Moncton over whom he reigns like a prince.
Of these triumphs so different in character we still applaud him for the first, but we are met to honour him for the far greater second.
Few, indeed, are the Superintendents of Schools destined in their lifetime both to deserve and to receive such homage as his. Yet such are the fruits of a philosophy formed of the simplest elements. Of these one is that every classroom within his suzerainty shall observe the rule of the Open Door not out of the Iron Curtain. Another is the bond built on trust on the part of every enquirer, whether pupil, teacher, parent or school board, and an infinite and sympathetic patience on his own. Coupled therewith goes a sharp intolerance of inefficiency. His decisions are dictated by common sense but, once made, they abide fixed and unwavering. Small wonder that he commands the affection and the respect of his entire microcosm or that his old University recognized the true worth of this, her alumnus.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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