1974 Fredericton Encaenia
Pettigrove, Horace Robinson
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Condon, Thomas J.
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L to R: Horace Robinson Pettigrove, Sir Max Aitken
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Source: Joe Stone fonds-UA RG340, 1974 (#11088B)
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1974
HORACE ROBINSON PETTIGROVE
to be Doctor of Law
Horace Pettigrove has few equals in Canada as a conciliator and mediator of labour-management relations, a new field when he began his work in 1936 and one in which he stands forth as a dedicated, courageous, and extremely effective practitioner. That labour and management should sit down together in the public interest and arbitrate their differences was a revolutionary concept in the 1930's, even though today it is accepted as a commonplace occurrence in both the private and public sectors. In the tradition of his New Brunswick forebears he has been a true pioneer, his own labours directed against the thicket of competing interests and the maze of legal entanglements, amid an atmosphere at times of the loneliness that accompanies all such human ventures into the unknown. The mark he has made has been as large as the man himself for in the eyes of many, Horace Pettigrove is regarded as the outstanding conciliation officer in the federal public service if not in all of Canada.
UNB takes great pride in honouring this distinguished public servant and through him a profession which he helped create and which is seldom honoured despite its great importance to the functioning of modern life. Too busy as a textile worker in Marysville to read textbooks for a degree at UNB, his life's work in New Brunswick and nationally provides material to countless textbooks to be written by professors up the hill and across this great land.
Praeses admittit Horatium Robinson Pettigrove honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Utroque Jure.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
HORACE ROBINSON PETTIGROVE
to be Doctor of Law
Horace Pettigrove has few equals in Canada as a conciliator and mediator of labour-management relations, a new field when he began his work in 1936 and one in which he stands forth as a dedicated, courageous, and extremely effective practitioner. That labour and management should sit down together in the public interest and arbitrate their differences was a revolutionary concept in the 1930's, even though today it is accepted as a commonplace occurrence in both the private and public sectors. In the tradition of his New Brunswick forebears he has been a true pioneer, his own labours directed against the thicket of competing interests and the maze of legal entanglements, amid an atmosphere at times of the loneliness that accompanies all such human ventures into the unknown. The mark he has made has been as large as the man himself for in the eyes of many, Horace Pettigrove is regarded as the outstanding conciliation officer in the federal public service if not in all of Canada.
UNB takes great pride in honouring this distinguished public servant and through him a profession which he helped create and which is seldom honoured despite its great importance to the functioning of modern life. Too busy as a textile worker in Marysville to read textbooks for a degree at UNB, his life's work in New Brunswick and nationally provides material to countless textbooks to be written by professors up the hill and across this great land.
Praeses admittit Horatium Robinson Pettigrove honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Utroque Jure.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
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