1968 Fredericton Encaenia
Earp, Alan James
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Colin B. Mackay, C.L. Mahan, Alan James Earp, Lt.-Gov. Wallace Samuel Bird
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Source: Joe Stone fonds-UA RG340, 1968 (#7577A)
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1968
ALAN JAMES EARP
to be Doctor of Laws
We are honouring today a Vice-Chancellor and a Vice-President whose two Universities are of recent establishment.
Of widely differing backgrounds, Moses Morgan and Alan Earp share that noblest heritage of a classical education, the power to project into their contemporary world the humanistic values of those older civilizations, and to educate the whole man.
Alan Earp, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana, was born in Canada but went to school in England, at Cheam and Marlborough. His undergraduate career at Toronto was interrupted by the war, the harsh lights of which revealed his toughness, enterprise, and positive predilection for danger. These round out a character stamped by utter integrity and a deep feeling for his fellow man.
When he was Dean of Men at Trinity College, he and his talented wife opened their residence to students of every colour, caste, and creed. All were their friends, and from that home-from-home more than one was married.
For West Indians Alan Earp has a specially soft spot in his, heart, having come to know them intimately during his lectureship in Jamaica. It is a tribute to himself no less than to the University of Guyana that he was appointed to the Vice-Chancellorship.
Through channels unbuoyed and uncharted he has steered a course that has called for his every talent. Like the Commonwealth Secretary, and with no clearer guidelines, he has firmly put his own interpretation on his task; and is attempting to relate a young university to an almost virgin hinterland.
He has had to face national prejudices, to oppose excessive professionalism and, with all his eloquence and on every occasion, to plead for money to finance his new campus.
But, in a building which has had perforce to serve as a high school by day and a university by night, he has fostered an institution the products of which will be more durable than salt fish, molasses, and rum. It is one with which our Association of Atlantic Universities feels a strong kinship, and of which you, Mr. President, are a member of the Board of Governors.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
ALAN JAMES EARP
to be Doctor of Laws
We are honouring today a Vice-Chancellor and a Vice-President whose two Universities are of recent establishment.
Of widely differing backgrounds, Moses Morgan and Alan Earp share that noblest heritage of a classical education, the power to project into their contemporary world the humanistic values of those older civilizations, and to educate the whole man.
Alan Earp, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana, was born in Canada but went to school in England, at Cheam and Marlborough. His undergraduate career at Toronto was interrupted by the war, the harsh lights of which revealed his toughness, enterprise, and positive predilection for danger. These round out a character stamped by utter integrity and a deep feeling for his fellow man.
When he was Dean of Men at Trinity College, he and his talented wife opened their residence to students of every colour, caste, and creed. All were their friends, and from that home-from-home more than one was married.
For West Indians Alan Earp has a specially soft spot in his, heart, having come to know them intimately during his lectureship in Jamaica. It is a tribute to himself no less than to the University of Guyana that he was appointed to the Vice-Chancellorship.
Through channels unbuoyed and uncharted he has steered a course that has called for his every talent. Like the Commonwealth Secretary, and with no clearer guidelines, he has firmly put his own interpretation on his task; and is attempting to relate a young university to an almost virgin hinterland.
He has had to face national prejudices, to oppose excessive professionalism and, with all his eloquence and on every occasion, to plead for money to finance his new campus.
But, in a building which has had perforce to serve as a high school by day and a university by night, he has fostered an institution the products of which will be more durable than salt fish, molasses, and rum. It is one with which our Association of Atlantic Universities feels a strong kinship, and of which you, Mr. President, are a member of the Board of Governors.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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