1981 Fredericton Convocation
Lynch, Mary Louise
Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.)
Orator: MacGill, Neil W.
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L to R: Dr. James Downey, Mary Louise Lynch
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Source: Joe Stone fonds-UA RG340, 1981 (#13460A)
Citation:
CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1981
MARY LOUISE LYNCH
to be Doctor of Civil Law
Mary Louise Lynch clearly believes that if something is worth doing, it is worth doing again; and again.
Born and brought up in Saint John, she went, for some strange reason, to Dalhousie University, for two years of pre-Law Arts, before returning to take Law at UNB.
She practised law in Saint John for twenty-seven years until, in 1960, Mr. Diefenbaker appointed her to the National Parole Board. Following the initial ten year term, she was reappointed again, from 1970-1974, and again until 1975, when she retired. Since then, however, she has been called back twice, in 1977 and again in 1978.
But Miss Lynch's qualities had been recognized at an earlier date: between 1948 and 1960, when she left for Ottawa, she had been legal adviser and confidante of Lord Beaverbrook, assisting in his many good works in New Brunswick and in this University.
And in 1954 she had been appointed by the government of the Province to the governing body of UNB, to be reappointed, again and again, right up to the present.
Superficially, Madame Robichaud and Miss Lynch seem to live very different kinds of lives, yet a closer examination reveals an important similarity.
Many people, in pursuing a career, move from position to position as they climb the ladder of ambition, with little thought for the unfinished work and uncompleted projects they leave behind them on the lower rungs.
It is Miss Lynch's willingness to do things again and again that demonstrates the sense of continuity, the sense that a job must be carried to completion, that she shares with Madame Robichaud.
It was this sense of continuity, perhaps, that led her, on one occasion, to inform a new and very inexperienced member of the UNB Board that the seat he was about to occupy had been hers for over twenty years. It seemed a very inadequate response to point out that the building they were in had been standing for less than half that time!
Mary Louise Lynch, by her willingness to serve again and again; whether on the Board of Commissioners of the Saint John Public Library; on the Town Planning Commission of Metropolitan Saint John; on the selection committee for the Beaverbrook Undergraduate and Overseas Scholarships; or on the Ottawa-Carleton Christmas Exchange; has demonstrated an ongoing concern that transcends mere personal ambition. And it is this quality that we honor today.
Insignissime Praeses, tota Universitas, praesento vobis Mariam Ludovicam Lynch ut admittatur honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Jure Civili in hac Universitate.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
MARY LOUISE LYNCH
to be Doctor of Civil Law
Mary Louise Lynch clearly believes that if something is worth doing, it is worth doing again; and again.
Born and brought up in Saint John, she went, for some strange reason, to Dalhousie University, for two years of pre-Law Arts, before returning to take Law at UNB.
She practised law in Saint John for twenty-seven years until, in 1960, Mr. Diefenbaker appointed her to the National Parole Board. Following the initial ten year term, she was reappointed again, from 1970-1974, and again until 1975, when she retired. Since then, however, she has been called back twice, in 1977 and again in 1978.
But Miss Lynch's qualities had been recognized at an earlier date: between 1948 and 1960, when she left for Ottawa, she had been legal adviser and confidante of Lord Beaverbrook, assisting in his many good works in New Brunswick and in this University.
And in 1954 she had been appointed by the government of the Province to the governing body of UNB, to be reappointed, again and again, right up to the present.
Superficially, Madame Robichaud and Miss Lynch seem to live very different kinds of lives, yet a closer examination reveals an important similarity.
Many people, in pursuing a career, move from position to position as they climb the ladder of ambition, with little thought for the unfinished work and uncompleted projects they leave behind them on the lower rungs.
It is Miss Lynch's willingness to do things again and again that demonstrates the sense of continuity, the sense that a job must be carried to completion, that she shares with Madame Robichaud.
It was this sense of continuity, perhaps, that led her, on one occasion, to inform a new and very inexperienced member of the UNB Board that the seat he was about to occupy had been hers for over twenty years. It seemed a very inadequate response to point out that the building they were in had been standing for less than half that time!
Mary Louise Lynch, by her willingness to serve again and again; whether on the Board of Commissioners of the Saint John Public Library; on the Town Planning Commission of Metropolitan Saint John; on the selection committee for the Beaverbrook Undergraduate and Overseas Scholarships; or on the Ottawa-Carleton Christmas Exchange; has demonstrated an ongoing concern that transcends mere personal ambition. And it is this quality that we honor today.
Insignissime Praeses, tota Universitas, praesento vobis Mariam Ludovicam Lynch ut admittatur honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Jure Civili in hac Universitate.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
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