1980 Saint John Spring Convocation
Taylor, Claude I.
Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.)
Orator: Stanley, Eric
Citation:
CONVOCATION, MAY, 1980
CLAUDE I. TAYLOR
to be Doctor of Civil Law
Claude I. Taylor, President of Air Canada, exemplifies the success of the Canadian system. Born in the small New Brunswick town of Salisbury, educated in New Brunswick and Montreal, he has risen through the ranks of Air Canada from Passenger Agent in Moncton in 1949, when the Crown Corporation was Trans Canada Airlines, to the highest position in this Crown Corporation. That such a career is possible is a tribute to both Claude Taylor and to the corporation which encourages it. Enroute, Claude Taylor has held almost every senior (and junior) position in Air Canada including Cost Assistant, Cost and Production Planning Supervisor, General Supervisor for Budgets and Analysis, Manager of Performance Analysis, General Manager of Commercial Planning and General Manager of Marketing. In 1970 he was appointed Vice-President for Development, in 1971 Vice-President for Government and Industry Affairs and in 1973, Vice-President of Public Affairs. In 1976 he was appointed President of Air Canada. If anybody knows the Air Canada operation, it is surely Claude Taylor.
It has been said that every Private carries a Field Marshall's baton in his knapsack. Air Canada has shown that every passenger agent in its employ carries, in his pocket, the solid gold pencil of its chief executive officer.
Success in business has not exclusively occupied the time of Claude Taylor. He has been President of the Travel Industry Association, Director of the Society of Industrial Accountants, President of the American Society for Quality Control and has played an active role in the Boy Scouts and the YMCA movements in Canada.
It is sad that New Brunswick has to lose its talented sons who seek success in national business, but it is a joy to know that it is still possible.
lnsignissime Praeses, tota Universitas, praesento vobis Claudium I. Taylor ut admittatur honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Jure Civili in hac Universitate.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
CLAUDE I. TAYLOR
to be Doctor of Civil Law
Claude I. Taylor, President of Air Canada, exemplifies the success of the Canadian system. Born in the small New Brunswick town of Salisbury, educated in New Brunswick and Montreal, he has risen through the ranks of Air Canada from Passenger Agent in Moncton in 1949, when the Crown Corporation was Trans Canada Airlines, to the highest position in this Crown Corporation. That such a career is possible is a tribute to both Claude Taylor and to the corporation which encourages it. Enroute, Claude Taylor has held almost every senior (and junior) position in Air Canada including Cost Assistant, Cost and Production Planning Supervisor, General Supervisor for Budgets and Analysis, Manager of Performance Analysis, General Manager of Commercial Planning and General Manager of Marketing. In 1970 he was appointed Vice-President for Development, in 1971 Vice-President for Government and Industry Affairs and in 1973, Vice-President of Public Affairs. In 1976 he was appointed President of Air Canada. If anybody knows the Air Canada operation, it is surely Claude Taylor.
It has been said that every Private carries a Field Marshall's baton in his knapsack. Air Canada has shown that every passenger agent in its employ carries, in his pocket, the solid gold pencil of its chief executive officer.
Success in business has not exclusively occupied the time of Claude Taylor. He has been President of the Travel Industry Association, Director of the Society of Industrial Accountants, President of the American Society for Quality Control and has played an active role in the Boy Scouts and the YMCA movements in Canada.
It is sad that New Brunswick has to lose its talented sons who seek success in national business, but it is a joy to know that it is still possible.
lnsignissime Praeses, tota Universitas, praesento vobis Claudium I. Taylor 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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