1954 Fredericton Encaenia
Needler, Alfred Walker Hollinshead
Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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ENCAENIA, MAY, 1954
ALFRED WALKER HOLLINSHEAD NEEDLER
to be Doctor of Science
I present to you in absentia a scientist of note who although neither born nor schooled in New Brunswick has given to this Province, as to the Nation, over thirteen years of valued professional service.
From 1931 until very recently Dr. Needler has been Director of the Atlantic Biological Station at St. Andrews, a post to which he was promoted as the result of his experimental work with oyster fisheries in Prince Edward Island. An excellent administrator, he was during the reorganization of the Federal department made assistant Deputy Minister of Fisheries, a post he held in conjunction with his work at St. Andrews from 1948 to 1950.
For his very considerable merits he was in 1945 made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1946 awarded the O. B. E.
His transfer to the Pacific coast creates a vacancy on the Atlantic seaboard calling for a very able successor; and we cannot on his departure more suitably show him our esteem than by conferring upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
ALFRED WALKER HOLLINSHEAD NEEDLER
to be Doctor of Science
I present to you in absentia a scientist of note who although neither born nor schooled in New Brunswick has given to this Province, as to the Nation, over thirteen years of valued professional service.
From 1931 until very recently Dr. Needler has been Director of the Atlantic Biological Station at St. Andrews, a post to which he was promoted as the result of his experimental work with oyster fisheries in Prince Edward Island. An excellent administrator, he was during the reorganization of the Federal department made assistant Deputy Minister of Fisheries, a post he held in conjunction with his work at St. Andrews from 1948 to 1950.
For his very considerable merits he was in 1945 made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1946 awarded the O. B. E.
His transfer to the Pacific coast creates a vacancy on the Atlantic seaboard calling for a very able successor; and we cannot on his departure more suitably show him our esteem than by conferring upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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