June 28th, 1951
Thursday, June 28, 1951
Alfred C. Fuller Wins New Honor At
Hartford
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A Welsford farm boy who left his
native home, forty years ago, to seek fame and fortune in
the land from which his ancestors had themselves migrated
to Kings County, in 1760, came to new distinction and
honor, ten days ago, in Hartford, Connecticut, when he
received from Trinity College the honorary degree of
Master of Arts. The freshly
honored Nova Scotian is Alfred C. Fuller, whose name has
become known throughout the world as the founder of the
Fuller Brush Company, of Hartford. Mr. Fuller, now
Chairman of the board of the Company, was described in a
Hartford newspaper editorial following his capping and
gowning as "the essence of Hartford life –
commercial, social and cultural."
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Mr. Fuller was in distinguished company when
his honorary degree was conferred, others similarly honored by
Trinity College at the same time being: Governor Lodge, Governor
of Connecticut, Doctor of Laws; Martin W. Clement, Philadelphia,
Board Chairman of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Doctor of Humane
Letters; Benjamin F. Fairless, President United States Steel
Corporation, Doctor of Laws; Rev. Charles F. Whiston, Church
Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkley, California, Doctor of
Divinity; Alfred N. Guertin Actuary of the American Life
Convention, Chicago, Master of Science; Robert M. Brady, Detroit,
Master of Science; Mrs. Beatrice Fox Auerbach, Hartford, master
of Science; Rt. Rev. Robert M. Hatch, Suffragan Bishop of
Connecticut Episcopal Diocese, Hartford, Doctor of Divinity.
The Hartford Times, under the title,
"Merited Honors", commented as follows on the four
Hartford citizens honored by Trinity College:
"Hartford is especially complimented in
Trinity College’s selections for the awarding of honorary
degrees. Governor Lodge and Bishop Hatch we may claim as
ex-officio Hartfordites. But Mrs. Beatrice Fox Auerbach and
Alfred C. Fuller are of the essence of Hartford life –
Commercial, social, cultural. Trinity has, of course, honored
them as distinguished individuals. But because they are such
decidedly public spirited citizens there is also a large civic
aspect to these awards.
"As the first woman to receive an MS from
Trinity and as the fourth to be recognized with an honorary
degree there, Mrs. Auerbach marches in the van of the academic
parade, a position to which she is accustomed in whatever field
of endeavor she appears.
"To Mr. Fuller the degree of Master of
Arts comes with an appropriateness that will be recognized by all
who know of his useful activities in industrial, educational, and
musical endeavors.
"It was a group of nine noteworthy persons
that Trinity selected for honorary degrees at her 125th
Commencement. Connecticut is proud to claim four of them. And
Hartford is especially happy to be represented by two such good
citizens as Mrs. Auerbach and Mr. Fuller."
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