1964 Fredericton Encaenia
Jenkins, John Henry
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1964
JOHN HENRY JENKINS
to he Doctor of Laws
Colonel J. H. Jenkins, O.B.E., E.D., was born in England and settled with his parents in Canada at the age of fifteen. He served his adopted country in two world wars. He was in the first class of two members to graduate in Forest Engineering from the University of British Columbia, and for forty intervening years he has promoted for the Government of Canada the use of her forest resources. Since 1960 he has been Director in the Federal Department of the Forest Products Research Branch, which he entered in 1924. They have been forty momentous years for wood, years which he has devoted to bringing it back into its own and finding for it new applications to rival the alloys and plastics.
His work, which has earned him international respect, has sent him on delegations around the globe, and he is a driving force in the Canadian Standards Association and kindred bodies.
In these Atlantic Provinces if timber is Allah, then Jenkins has been its Prophet. The Maritime Lumber Bureau collectively, and its members severally, have reason to bless his steering in the provident utilization of their product, and the scientific studies thereof he has instigated. The University of New Brunswick, home of the country's most famous Forestry School, is happy to recognize these achievements.
Nor is it surprising that the Federal Government has prolonged in office a servant of his calibre. But when the time does come for his retirement, let no fear be felt that he may cease to benefit his profession or to occupy his leisure. This large-hearted man has too many interests and too much energy ever to settle down. He likes this end of Canada, and as long as there are trees to become lumber, as long as there are boys' clubs to patronize, as long as he has a boat to navigate, a site to visit, a photograph to take, a slide to project, or a home to remodel -- as long, in a nutshell, as there remains one spruce stud into which his imperious hammer can drive one intractable nail, he will damn it, drive it, and be happy!
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
JOHN HENRY JENKINS
to he Doctor of Laws
Colonel J. H. Jenkins, O.B.E., E.D., was born in England and settled with his parents in Canada at the age of fifteen. He served his adopted country in two world wars. He was in the first class of two members to graduate in Forest Engineering from the University of British Columbia, and for forty intervening years he has promoted for the Government of Canada the use of her forest resources. Since 1960 he has been Director in the Federal Department of the Forest Products Research Branch, which he entered in 1924. They have been forty momentous years for wood, years which he has devoted to bringing it back into its own and finding for it new applications to rival the alloys and plastics.
His work, which has earned him international respect, has sent him on delegations around the globe, and he is a driving force in the Canadian Standards Association and kindred bodies.
In these Atlantic Provinces if timber is Allah, then Jenkins has been its Prophet. The Maritime Lumber Bureau collectively, and its members severally, have reason to bless his steering in the provident utilization of their product, and the scientific studies thereof he has instigated. The University of New Brunswick, home of the country's most famous Forestry School, is happy to recognize these achievements.
Nor is it surprising that the Federal Government has prolonged in office a servant of his calibre. But when the time does come for his retirement, let no fear be felt that he may cease to benefit his profession or to occupy his leisure. This large-hearted man has too many interests and too much energy ever to settle down. He likes this end of Canada, and as long as there are trees to become lumber, as long as there are boys' clubs to patronize, as long as he has a boat to navigate, a site to visit, a photograph to take, a slide to project, or a home to remodel -- as long, in a nutshell, as there remains one spruce stud into which his imperious hammer can drive one intractable nail, he will damn it, drive it, and be happy!
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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