Honorary degree citation - Jack Bordan

By: M.N.S. Swamy, June 1982

Mr. Chancellor, I have the honour to present to you Jack Bordan, teacher founder of this Faculty, and tireless university administrator.

Jack Bordan came to Sir George Williams University in 1952 as Lecturer in Physics, his first academic appointment. A Montrealer, he had taken his Bachelor of Engineering at McGill two years previously, with honours in Engineering Physics, studied at MIT and then completed his Master of Science at McGill. The career that followed was dedicated to one institution, and initially, to one discipline - Engineering.

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