1952 Fredericton Encaenia
Mayrand, Oswald
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Hugh Lester Campbell, Oswald Mayrand, Anne Isabel Chestnut, Vernon Edward Johnson, Richard Laurence Weldon
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Source: UA PC-4 no.4f
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1952
OSWALD MAYRAND
to be Doctor of Laws
You have before you a distinguished French-Canadian journalist, a graduate of Laval University, and the progenitor of what reads like an even more distinguished family.
Son of a poet and himself not bereft of the Muse, he has been associated for his long professional life with two of our most famous papers in the French language -- La Presse and La Patrie.
Of La Presse he rose to be chief editor in 1912, and for La Presse he covered the front in the First World War' on the invitation of our Chancellor and as guest of both the British and the French Governments. And this journal, too, he represented at several of those historic international congresses which punctuated the peace that followed. He is now Managing Director of La Patrie of which, many, many years earlier, he had been News and City editor.
No details are needed of so responsible a career and so liberal a personality. I give you, instead, the man, Oswald Mayrand, Officer de l'Académie Française, Knight of the Serbian Order of St. Sava, Chevalier du Saint-Sépulcre à Jerusalem, Doctor (honoris causa) of the University of Montreal, that you may further honour him by conferring our own honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
OSWALD MAYRAND
to be Doctor of Laws
You have before you a distinguished French-Canadian journalist, a graduate of Laval University, and the progenitor of what reads like an even more distinguished family.
Son of a poet and himself not bereft of the Muse, he has been associated for his long professional life with two of our most famous papers in the French language -- La Presse and La Patrie.
Of La Presse he rose to be chief editor in 1912, and for La Presse he covered the front in the First World War' on the invitation of our Chancellor and as guest of both the British and the French Governments. And this journal, too, he represented at several of those historic international congresses which punctuated the peace that followed. He is now Managing Director of La Patrie of which, many, many years earlier, he had been News and City editor.
No details are needed of so responsible a career and so liberal a personality. I give you, instead, the man, Oswald Mayrand, Officer de l'Académie Française, Knight of the Serbian Order of St. Sava, Chevalier du Saint-Sépulcre à Jerusalem, Doctor (honoris causa) of the University of Montreal, that you may further honour him by conferring our own honorary 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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