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| Elenor Roosevelt's Convocation Address | |
| Recently
two staff members who were exploring unidentified material in the
basement of the University of Manitoba Library came across a 2 1/2
record set of 78s. These 78s are a live recording of an acceptance
speech given by Eleanor Roosevelt during the awarding of her honorary
degree by the University of Manitoba fifty years ago on March 1, 1949.
Click on the links at right to hear her speech. In his speech introducing Eleanor Roosevelt, University of Manitoba President Gillson remarked: "Throughout her life she has constructed a career in the field of social service which has entailed travelling many hundreds of thousands of miles, writing well more than a million words, giving innumerable lectures on the platform and over the radio, becoming in the deepest sense the first lady of the United States." She was the American delegate to the UN General Assembly meetings held in Paris in 1948 and Chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1949. She was also the widow of deceased President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Once when asked what was her greatest fear, her reply was: "My greatest fear has always been that I would be afraid - physically, mentally or morally, and allow myself to be influenced by fear instead of by my honest convictions." |
Listen
to the address in RealPlayer
G2 format. Eleanor's speech begins with her observations of the relations between Canada and the United States.
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