1952 Fredericton Encaenia
Campbell, Hugh Lester
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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Source: UA PC-4 no.4k
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1952
HUGH LESTER CAMPBELL
to be Doctor of Laws
Hugh Lester Campbell, Air Vice-Marshal of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and your Alumni Orator of yester-eve, is the first of two sons and one daughter of New Brunswick whom you are today to honour.
Born in Salisbury, educated in the Moncton schools and at this University, he graduated from his Alma Mater as Bachelor of Science in 1930. But the seeds of an illustrious professional career in the Air, did he but know it, were already germinating. During his last three undergraduate summers he had been training as Reserve Aircrew, and received in the same year both Pilot's Wings and Bachelor's sheepskins combination which (in lighter vein) might be construed literally as Flying with a degree of Science.
He was commissioned in the Permanent Force in 1931 and from then on his advancement has been steady and impressive. He soon was commanding a Station -- several Stations -- only to be seconded to Headquarters; and when war broke out he became Director of Training for the vast Commonwealth Air Training Plan. In 1941 came England and the Middle East, where vital tasks awaited him. The rank of Air Commodore was followed a year later by that of Air Vice-Marshal, when he became Member of the Air Council for Personnel. In 1949 he was appointed Air Officer Commanding North West Air Command at Edmonton and finally, after but seven months in control of that other, and no less romantic, North West Passage, he was drafted to the Canadian joint Staff in Washington, of which he is Chairman.
Honours have not lagged behind advancement. The C.B.E. came in 1945 for distinguished services tendered throughout the war. The United States of America awarded him the Legion of Merit, Degree of Commander, in 1946. And in the same year Czechoslovakia, which in the first year of the War had bestowed on him the War Cross of its nation, conferred on this rising Canadian airman its Order of the White Lion.
Such, Mr. President, is the man, a true and an outstanding alumnus, whom I ask you now to honour with our degree of Doctor of Laws.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
HUGH LESTER CAMPBELL
to be Doctor of Laws
Hugh Lester Campbell, Air Vice-Marshal of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and your Alumni Orator of yester-eve, is the first of two sons and one daughter of New Brunswick whom you are today to honour.
Born in Salisbury, educated in the Moncton schools and at this University, he graduated from his Alma Mater as Bachelor of Science in 1930. But the seeds of an illustrious professional career in the Air, did he but know it, were already germinating. During his last three undergraduate summers he had been training as Reserve Aircrew, and received in the same year both Pilot's Wings and Bachelor's sheepskins combination which (in lighter vein) might be construed literally as Flying with a degree of Science.
He was commissioned in the Permanent Force in 1931 and from then on his advancement has been steady and impressive. He soon was commanding a Station -- several Stations -- only to be seconded to Headquarters; and when war broke out he became Director of Training for the vast Commonwealth Air Training Plan. In 1941 came England and the Middle East, where vital tasks awaited him. The rank of Air Commodore was followed a year later by that of Air Vice-Marshal, when he became Member of the Air Council for Personnel. In 1949 he was appointed Air Officer Commanding North West Air Command at Edmonton and finally, after but seven months in control of that other, and no less romantic, North West Passage, he was drafted to the Canadian joint Staff in Washington, of which he is Chairman.
Honours have not lagged behind advancement. The C.B.E. came in 1945 for distinguished services tendered throughout the war. The United States of America awarded him the Legion of Merit, Degree of Commander, in 1946. And in the same year Czechoslovakia, which in the first year of the War had bestowed on him the War Cross of its nation, conferred on this rising Canadian airman its Order of the White Lion.
Such, Mr. President, is the man, a true and an outstanding alumnus, whom I ask you now to honour with our degree of Doctor of Laws.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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