1952 Fredericton Encaenia
Johnson, Vernon Edward
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Albert W. Trueman, Vernon Edward Johnson
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Source: UA PC-4 no.4d
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1952
VERNON EDWARD JOHNSON
to be Doctor of Laws
The Forestry School of the University of New Brunswick, like good wine, needs no bush. Not one person in this hall is ignorant of its work and of its fame (nor, I may add, of Dr. Miles Gibson, its sturdy Dean and Head); least of all the two leading industrialists on whom I shall ask you to confer the final degrees this afternoon.
The name of the School is held in respect throughout Canada and across the Atlantic. In England -- albeit quarter of a century ago -- there were serious people to be found who knew a great deal about a certain Forestry School in Fredericton, but had never heard of the University of New Brunswick!
Our campus cynics were baffled. Finally, however, they traced this deplorable ignorance to the Foresters themselves, some of whom (they hinted) had not heard of the University, either. And hence originated the equation: Forester=Philistine; though, it would seem, the only common factor was the explosive sound of their initial letters.
Such nonsense has long since disappeared. There is no more public-spirited body on the Campus than the Foresters. Storming their heavy-booted way into every college activity they have triumphantly invaded even those precincts hitherto considered sacred to the Arts.
But professional schools, however good, cannot, and of course do not, function in a vacuum (whatever may be said of some of their inmates). A Forestry department is there to serve a Forestry profession; and the profession is there to serve the nation.
The Forestry profession itself is not slow to cherish the School which is at once its nursery and its mother. Two great Paper companies are represented here to-day each by its head and manager. Among the many joint contributions of these companies and of these men have been the establishing of our Forest Ranger School and the founding of the recent Chair of Logging. And they expect with natural logic, and are proud to employ, the students of each.
Mr. President, I present to you Vernon Edward Johnson, Vice-President and General Manager of the Canadian International Paper Company, that he be admitted to the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in this University.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
VERNON EDWARD JOHNSON
to be Doctor of Laws
The Forestry School of the University of New Brunswick, like good wine, needs no bush. Not one person in this hall is ignorant of its work and of its fame (nor, I may add, of Dr. Miles Gibson, its sturdy Dean and Head); least of all the two leading industrialists on whom I shall ask you to confer the final degrees this afternoon.
The name of the School is held in respect throughout Canada and across the Atlantic. In England -- albeit quarter of a century ago -- there were serious people to be found who knew a great deal about a certain Forestry School in Fredericton, but had never heard of the University of New Brunswick!
Our campus cynics were baffled. Finally, however, they traced this deplorable ignorance to the Foresters themselves, some of whom (they hinted) had not heard of the University, either. And hence originated the equation: Forester=Philistine; though, it would seem, the only common factor was the explosive sound of their initial letters.
Such nonsense has long since disappeared. There is no more public-spirited body on the Campus than the Foresters. Storming their heavy-booted way into every college activity they have triumphantly invaded even those precincts hitherto considered sacred to the Arts.
But professional schools, however good, cannot, and of course do not, function in a vacuum (whatever may be said of some of their inmates). A Forestry department is there to serve a Forestry profession; and the profession is there to serve the nation.
The Forestry profession itself is not slow to cherish the School which is at once its nursery and its mother. Two great Paper companies are represented here to-day each by its head and manager. Among the many joint contributions of these companies and of these men have been the establishing of our Forest Ranger School and the founding of the recent Chair of Logging. And they expect with natural logic, and are proud to employ, the students of each.
Mr. President, I present to you Vernon Edward Johnson, Vice-President and General Manager of the Canadian International Paper Company, that he be admitted to the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in this University.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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