1953 Fredericton Convocation
MacKenzie, Graham Stewart
Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
Citation:
CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1953
GRAHAM STEWART MACKENZIE
to be Doctor of Science
Our honours fall today in their several guises to Geology, whereof the visible rewards be great and doubtless will flow into many outstretched hands. There is one man, standing before you, who making Science his lawgiver and Geology the field of his research has patiently tracked down the hidden treasures, yet will stretch out no hand to seize them. For him his reward has been, and will always be, his work.
Graham MacKenzie, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has for sixteen years given himself without stint to the scientific exploration of our Province's mineral deposits, and for as many winters to the training of students like himself. And he has come to know New Brunswick's rocks like the palm of his hand.
If material success has crowned those long months in the field, his greater crown consists for him in the success of his many devoted pupils who, as miners or prospectors, consultants, lecturers, or professors, are practising around the globle -- from Iran to South America, from Oxford to Northern Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes -- the science they learned, with the enthusiasm they caught, from their Professor of Geology.
He is, indeed, that goodly mixture of scientist, field-worker and teacher, and we do right well to honour him.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
GRAHAM STEWART MACKENZIE
to be Doctor of Science
Our honours fall today in their several guises to Geology, whereof the visible rewards be great and doubtless will flow into many outstretched hands. There is one man, standing before you, who making Science his lawgiver and Geology the field of his research has patiently tracked down the hidden treasures, yet will stretch out no hand to seize them. For him his reward has been, and will always be, his work.
Graham MacKenzie, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has for sixteen years given himself without stint to the scientific exploration of our Province's mineral deposits, and for as many winters to the training of students like himself. And he has come to know New Brunswick's rocks like the palm of his hand.
If material success has crowned those long months in the field, his greater crown consists for him in the success of his many devoted pupils who, as miners or prospectors, consultants, lecturers, or professors, are practising around the globle -- from Iran to South America, from Oxford to Northern Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes -- the science they learned, with the enthusiasm they caught, from their Professor of Geology.
He is, indeed, that goodly mixture of scientist, field-worker and teacher, and we do right well to honour him.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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