1966 Fredericton Encaenia
Robarts, John Parmenter
Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Colin B. Mackay, John Parmenter Robarts, C.L. Mahan
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Source: UA PC-4 no.13(11)
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1966
JOHN PARMENTER ROBARTS
to be Doctor of Civil Law
The Prime Minister of Ontario is a graduate of Western with Honours in Business Administration. He then attended Osgoode Hall and practised law. But he is better known as the Minister of Education for Ontario who founded the Robarts Plan and who, as the leader of a powerful government, is seeing it decisively implemented.
Views do differ on certain of its assumptions, but none can doubt the wisdom of a province which faces the annual increase of 70,000 school children by building new teachers' colleges and trade schools, and allots vastly expanding aid to its growing family of universities.
For a man whose handshake, it has been remarked, communicates more than his speechmaking, what I have said is enough. His deeds speak more than his words or mine. I will only add how valued will be his comparison of our educational problems and how happy this university feels to enroll so devoted an alumnus and an alumna of their own as the Hon. John Parmenter Robarts, and Mrs. Robarts, whom we are delighted to see in this audience.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
JOHN PARMENTER ROBARTS
to be Doctor of Civil Law
The Prime Minister of Ontario is a graduate of Western with Honours in Business Administration. He then attended Osgoode Hall and practised law. But he is better known as the Minister of Education for Ontario who founded the Robarts Plan and who, as the leader of a powerful government, is seeing it decisively implemented.
Views do differ on certain of its assumptions, but none can doubt the wisdom of a province which faces the annual increase of 70,000 school children by building new teachers' colleges and trade schools, and allots vastly expanding aid to its growing family of universities.
For a man whose handshake, it has been remarked, communicates more than his speechmaking, what I have said is enough. His deeds speak more than his words or mine. I will only add how valued will be his comparison of our educational problems and how happy this university feels to enroll so devoted an alumnus and an alumna of their own as the Hon. John Parmenter Robarts, and Mrs. Robarts, whom we are delighted to see in this audience.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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