1949 Fredericton Encaenia
Bridges, George Frederick Gregory
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: George Frederick Gregory Bridges, B.S. Keirstead, Alice B. Sterling, Arthur F. VanWart, Donald G. Creighton
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ENCAENIA, MAY, 1949
GEORGE FREDERICK GREGORY BRIDGES
to be Doctor of Laws
The name of Bridges has been renowned in the annals of this University for close on seventy years, and for longer yet in those of the Province.
Its fame has rested on the three solid foundations of Scholarship and Teaching, of Scholarship and Law, and of Scholarship and Administration. Always, you will note, Scholarship has been the common denominator.
The present bearer of the name, George Frederick Gregory Bridges, gave early proof of the family talents. Scholarship, as was to be expected, budded first -- to blossom into Law, the precocious plant being fertilized, no doubt, by some years of a military application.
Entering the University in 1914, he interrupted his course to serve overseas in World War I, returning to graduate in Arts in 1920. A measure of his worth was a Rhodes Scholarship in 1919. Oxford conferred upon him the degree of B.A. in 1922 and that of B.C.L. in 1923.
Admitted to the Bar of New Brunswick in that same year, he has had an outstanding career in the legal profession. An outward and visible sign (if one were needed) of his innate honesty is that after practising law in the city of Moncton for many years, he was, in spite of that, elected mayor.
The second, and less assailable, crown of a successful career was his appointment in 1948 to the Supreme Court of New Brunswick.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
GEORGE FREDERICK GREGORY BRIDGES
to be Doctor of Laws
The name of Bridges has been renowned in the annals of this University for close on seventy years, and for longer yet in those of the Province.
Its fame has rested on the three solid foundations of Scholarship and Teaching, of Scholarship and Law, and of Scholarship and Administration. Always, you will note, Scholarship has been the common denominator.
The present bearer of the name, George Frederick Gregory Bridges, gave early proof of the family talents. Scholarship, as was to be expected, budded first -- to blossom into Law, the precocious plant being fertilized, no doubt, by some years of a military application.
Entering the University in 1914, he interrupted his course to serve overseas in World War I, returning to graduate in Arts in 1920. A measure of his worth was a Rhodes Scholarship in 1919. Oxford conferred upon him the degree of B.A. in 1922 and that of B.C.L. in 1923.
Admitted to the Bar of New Brunswick in that same year, he has had an outstanding career in the legal profession. An outward and visible sign (if one were needed) of his innate honesty is that after practising law in the city of Moncton for many years, he was, in spite of that, elected mayor.
The second, and less assailable, crown of a successful career was his appointment in 1948 to the Supreme Court of New Brunswick.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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