Honorary degree citation - Samuel H. Schecter*

By: Douglass Burns Clarke, June 1968

Mr. Chancellor:

I present to you Samuel H. Schecter, businessman, impressario, bon vivant, patron of the arts, and benefactor of this university.

A native Montrealer, Mr. Schecter is prominent in the business life of this city; a life member of the Million Dollar Round Table, he is one of the elite of the world's outstanding life underwriters and a leader in his chosen profession.

His interests have ranged widely from his career, however. In the summer of 1958, he was a delegate to the UNESCO East West Cultural Mission that Canada sent to Japan, and in 1959 he spent some time in the Soviet Union with the distinguished Canadian