1983 Saint John Spring Convocation
Vaughan, A. Murray
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Bogaards, Winnifred M.
Citation:
CONVOCATION, MAY, 1983
A. MURRAY VAUGHAN
to be Doctor of Laws
It is appropriate in Saint John's bicentennial year that this university honours the son of a family long prominent in the community. The descendant of those Vaughans whose ships, built at St. Martins, were famous in the nineteenth century, Murray Vaughan was born in Saint John at the turn of this century. Educated in the city's public schools and King's College of Law, he began his business career with the Royal Bank of Canada and Eastern Securities before moving to Montreal. In 1940 he joined the British American Bank Note Company which has had notable success as a result of his financial acumen.
Mr. Vaughan's ability in business has sustained his lifelong interest in the arts. He began collecting as a young man, married into a family which had been collecting art for generations and together with his wife established in their homes in Saint Andrews and elsewhere fine examples of furniture, silver, porcelain, sculpture and painting. Eclectic in their tastes, Mr. Vaughn and his wife have gathered together works diverse in time and place, ranging from Pre-columbian objects through the paintings of French artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the sculptures and drawings of the Canadian Inuit, the last lately on exhibit at this campus.
Individually and collectively Mr. Vaughan and his wife have been generous patrons of the arts and the humanities in this country. Mr. Vaughan in his capacity as trustee of the estate of the late Elwood B. Hosmer and in his own person has contributed largely to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Beaverbrook Gallery in Fredericton, and to both campuses of this university. As members of this campus of the university are well aware, the Vaughan benefactions extend beyond the fine arts to include the establishment of fellowships in the marine biology program offered here.
Mr. Vaughan was honoured by his country in 1969 when he became a Companion of the Order of Canada. Today this university conveys gratitude not only for that national contribution to art and business but also for Mr. Vaughan's enrichment of life in his home province.
Insignissime Praeses, tota Universitas, praesento vobis A. Moravium Vaughan ut admittatur honoris causa ad gradem Doctoris in Utroque Jure in hac Universitate.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
A. MURRAY VAUGHAN
to be Doctor of Laws
It is appropriate in Saint John's bicentennial year that this university honours the son of a family long prominent in the community. The descendant of those Vaughans whose ships, built at St. Martins, were famous in the nineteenth century, Murray Vaughan was born in Saint John at the turn of this century. Educated in the city's public schools and King's College of Law, he began his business career with the Royal Bank of Canada and Eastern Securities before moving to Montreal. In 1940 he joined the British American Bank Note Company which has had notable success as a result of his financial acumen.
Mr. Vaughan's ability in business has sustained his lifelong interest in the arts. He began collecting as a young man, married into a family which had been collecting art for generations and together with his wife established in their homes in Saint Andrews and elsewhere fine examples of furniture, silver, porcelain, sculpture and painting. Eclectic in their tastes, Mr. Vaughn and his wife have gathered together works diverse in time and place, ranging from Pre-columbian objects through the paintings of French artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the sculptures and drawings of the Canadian Inuit, the last lately on exhibit at this campus.
Individually and collectively Mr. Vaughan and his wife have been generous patrons of the arts and the humanities in this country. Mr. Vaughan in his capacity as trustee of the estate of the late Elwood B. Hosmer and in his own person has contributed largely to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Beaverbrook Gallery in Fredericton, and to both campuses of this university. As members of this campus of the university are well aware, the Vaughan benefactions extend beyond the fine arts to include the establishment of fellowships in the marine biology program offered here.
Mr. Vaughan was honoured by his country in 1969 when he became a Companion of the Order of Canada. Today this university conveys gratitude not only for that national contribution to art and business but also for Mr. Vaughan's enrichment of life in his home province.
Insignissime Praeses, tota Universitas, praesento vobis A. Moravium Vaughan ut admittatur honoris causa ad gradem Doctoris in Utroque Jure in hac Universitate.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
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