Dalhousie University - Pharos Yearbook (Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada)

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1 Henry Hicks never was a fair weather sailor, which is just as well for Dalhousie, because a weaker per- sonality could not have put the university into the top flight of Canadian higher education. Yes, he enjoyed the respite of the calm periods: but he was practical enough to recognize that there would be times of controversy, both within and without. And when controversy arose, Henry Hicks not only stood firm, but took action, more determinedly than ever if he believed that what he and the university were doing was right. As one writer said of him, He rushes his fences as though they were not there. Dr. Hicks was born on March 5, 1915 in Bridgetown, NIS. That one of his ancestors was active in public life more than two centuries ago may have had something to do with Henry Hicks bent for law and learning and public life. The ancestor, a Rhode Island Quaker and pre-Loyalist immigrant, was in 1759 one of the original grantees of Falmouth township, who later moved to Granville and was a member of the Nova Scotia Legislature. -- NN .Q . . 5 ,.,W ,Qt ,vs X

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Educated in Bridgetown, Mount Allison University, Dalhousie and Oxford, Henry Hicks was a good chemistry student, but after winning a Rhodes scholarship and arriving at Oxford, turned to law. His university days were not all work. At Mount Allison he was a good track man, and at Oxford was active in ice hockey, rowing and mountaineering. As president of the Oxford Rowing Club he organized the first wartime Oxford-Cambridge Board Race, and at one stage was cox of the Oxford crew. After war service as a radar officer in Europe, Dr. Hicks began a law practice in Bridgetown and became Liberal Member for Annapolis County in the Legislature. He was the province's first Minister of Education, serving also as Provincial Secretary and Premier l1954-561. He was Opposition Leader from 1956 to 1960, when he lost his Annapolis seat. Henry Hicks was on the verge of joining a Halifax law firm when his predecessor, the late Dr. A.E. Kerr, in- vited him to become Dean of Arts and Science. At first he said 'No' but some members of the Board of Governors painted an interesting picture of the prospects if I came. So I came and I've not been sorry. In 1972 he was appointed to the Senate of Canada, and unlike the reaction to his joining Dalhousie, no one objected this time. Dr. Hicks took over the presidency in 1963, at a time of rapid growth, and immediately embarked on the biggest building program Dalhousie has had, a program to cope with the then tremendous enrolment boom. I think really I have not been a planner so much as I've been a pragmatic doer of the things that seemed to be necessary, he says today. A pragmatic, forthright, doer he has been - and more. An intellectual with a love of good jazz and the music and words of the Beatles, an Oscar Wilde fan, a salmon angler and rod-maker of note, a stamp collector, a cabinet-maker lthe furniture kindj, Henry Hicks is a master of many trades and jack of none. His departure as president may mean that he will be missed, by students, faculty and administrators alike. But he will not be forgotten, for everywhere on campus the products of his drive as a builder and leader are much in evidence - the residence extensions, the library, the Arts Centre, the Life Sciences Centre, the Tupper building and so on are all monuments to the Hicks era.