1966 Fredericton Encaenia
McKeen, Henry Eugene
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Colin B. Mackay, Henry Eugene McKeen, C.L. Mahan
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Source: UA PC-4 no.13(17)
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1966
HENRY EUGENE McKEEN
to be Doctor of Laws
"Whenever", runs The Brunswickan of 1910, "a few jovial spirits were to be found . . . you might be sure of finding Mac. He gained a well deserved place on the football team and took the greatest interest in all sport."
"Mac" McKeen he has remained, and so has his active interest in sport. All golfers present will salute the veteran who at 74 last year "shot his age." All engineers will salute a Canadian whose firm has invaded the United States and set up a plant in South Carolina.
From the budding Engineers of his old university, whom he shrewdly endows, he seeks out but one quality, which is the root of his own success -- ingenuity. In his own firm, where he now reigns as Head of the Wisdom Department, and the "Keen" is more prominent than the "Mac", he is credited with an aphorism which, though not definitely attributable to Confucius or McKeen, he utters at nine o'clock of a morning with electrifying effect: "Salesman who covers office chair instead of territory is bound to end up on bottom."
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
HENRY EUGENE McKEEN
to be Doctor of Laws
"Whenever", runs The Brunswickan of 1910, "a few jovial spirits were to be found . . . you might be sure of finding Mac. He gained a well deserved place on the football team and took the greatest interest in all sport."
"Mac" McKeen he has remained, and so has his active interest in sport. All golfers present will salute the veteran who at 74 last year "shot his age." All engineers will salute a Canadian whose firm has invaded the United States and set up a plant in South Carolina.
From the budding Engineers of his old university, whom he shrewdly endows, he seeks out but one quality, which is the root of his own success -- ingenuity. In his own firm, where he now reigns as Head of the Wisdom Department, and the "Keen" is more prominent than the "Mac", he is credited with an aphorism which, though not definitely attributable to Confucius or McKeen, he utters at nine o'clock of a morning with electrifying effect: "Salesman who covers office chair instead of territory is bound to end up on bottom."
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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