1952 Fredericton Encaenia
Weldon, Richard Laurence
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Richard Laurence Weldon, Albert W. Trueman
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Source: UA PC-4 no.4a
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1952
RICHARD LAURENCE WELDON
to be Doctor of Laws
What I have said to Dr. Vernon Johnson must be understood in equal measure of Richard Laurence Weldon; for he is the representative of that other great company whose foresight and whose resources have combined so worthily to promote our Forestry School.
His career and his many appointments fill too lengthy a page to be rehearsed here, and he would be the first to waive their recital.
Suffice it that your benefactor is an outstanding mechanical engineer with an M.Sc. from McGill, a member inter alia of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the Engineering Institute of Canada, he was this year awarded the Julian C. Smith medal of the latter Institute.
During the war he was Newsprint Administrator of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and, both before and since, has devoted his rich talents to that staple of our Province, the Pulp and Paper industry.
Mr. President, I present to you Richard Laurence Weldon, officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, President and Managing Director of the Bathurst Power and Paper Company, that he be admitted to the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
RICHARD LAURENCE WELDON
to be Doctor of Laws
What I have said to Dr. Vernon Johnson must be understood in equal measure of Richard Laurence Weldon; for he is the representative of that other great company whose foresight and whose resources have combined so worthily to promote our Forestry School.
His career and his many appointments fill too lengthy a page to be rehearsed here, and he would be the first to waive their recital.
Suffice it that your benefactor is an outstanding mechanical engineer with an M.Sc. from McGill, a member inter alia of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the Engineering Institute of Canada, he was this year awarded the Julian C. Smith medal of the latter Institute.
During the war he was Newsprint Administrator of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and, both before and since, has devoted his rich talents to that staple of our Province, the Pulp and Paper industry.
Mr. President, I present to you Richard Laurence Weldon, officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, President and Managing Director of the Bathurst Power and Paper Company, that he be admitted to the 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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