1969 Fredericton Convocation
Meldrum, Wendell Wynn
Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.)
Orator: MacNutt, W. Stewart
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L to R: Sir Max Aitken, Wendell Wynn Meldrum
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Source: UA PC-5 no.11(9); Photo by Stone's Studio
Citation:
CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1969
WENDELL WYNN MELDRUM
to be Doctor of Civil Law
New Brunswick is fortunate in its neighbours, and while largely dependent on her native sons and daughters, she owes a debt of gratitude not least to Nova Scotia. Sir William Dawson, a native of that province, sat over a century ago on the Royal Commission that was responsible for the reorganization of this University. Another, Theodore Harding Rand, was the father of our Common Schools Act of 1871.
Now we are happy to relate that the Honourable Mr. Meldrum, our Minister of Education, was born at Simpson's Corner, Nova Scotia, and received his elementary and high school education at Bridgewater. The Second World War interrupted his formal educated, when in 1942 he volunteered for service in the Royal Canadian Air Force. As a pilot for Ferry Command he delivered aircraft from Canada to the United Kingdom, North Africa and India. In 1948 he graduated in Law from Dalhousie University, and in the same year was admitted to the Bar of both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. While practising law in Sackville he lectured in Commercial Law at Mount Allison University from 1956 to 1965, and in the latter year was elected to the legislature and appointed to a cabinet post as Attorney General, assuming his present position in 1966.
To the counsels of the Board of Governors of this University he has brought moderation, tolerance, and understanding, qualities which also have served him well as Vice-President and Atlantic Regional Director of the Council of Education Ministers of Canada, and which will continue to do so in the office of President of that organization to which he has but recently succeeded.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 1
WENDELL WYNN MELDRUM
to be Doctor of Civil Law
New Brunswick is fortunate in its neighbours, and while largely dependent on her native sons and daughters, she owes a debt of gratitude not least to Nova Scotia. Sir William Dawson, a native of that province, sat over a century ago on the Royal Commission that was responsible for the reorganization of this University. Another, Theodore Harding Rand, was the father of our Common Schools Act of 1871.
Now we are happy to relate that the Honourable Mr. Meldrum, our Minister of Education, was born at Simpson's Corner, Nova Scotia, and received his elementary and high school education at Bridgewater. The Second World War interrupted his formal educated, when in 1942 he volunteered for service in the Royal Canadian Air Force. As a pilot for Ferry Command he delivered aircraft from Canada to the United Kingdom, North Africa and India. In 1948 he graduated in Law from Dalhousie University, and in the same year was admitted to the Bar of both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. While practising law in Sackville he lectured in Commercial Law at Mount Allison University from 1956 to 1965, and in the latter year was elected to the legislature and appointed to a cabinet post as Attorney General, assuming his present position in 1966.
To the counsels of the Board of Governors of this University he has brought moderation, tolerance, and understanding, qualities which also have served him well as Vice-President and Atlantic Regional Director of the Council of Education Ministers of Canada, and which will continue to do so in the office of President of that organization to which he has but recently succeeded.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 1
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