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July 11 - July 18, 2004 |
A Calabrian of greatness
Judge Frank Iacobucci garners honourary degree in Italy
By Astolfo Perrongelli
Originally Published: 2003-11-16
Frank Iacobucci is granted an honourary degree from the Faculty of Science of the University of Calabria. The ceremony occurred recently when the magistrate visited the places to which he once belonged.
The Supreme Court of Canada judge is a person of amazing culture who holds important academic and institutional assignments and maintained strong ties with Calabria, his homeland. In fact in 1922, with America as his destination, he left his family. To accompany the magistrate to Rende, the seat of the University of Arcavacata was his wife Nancy Elisabeth Eastman, also a lawyer.
"In the nourished Italo-Canadian firmament, there is without a doubt the most heavenly body," declared Nancy Elisabeth Eastman, speaking of her husband.
At the ceremony held in the university's great hall were other personalities of the Calabrian-Canadian world, such as Gabriel Niccoli, director of St. Jerome's Italian Department and the president of the Calabrian-Canadian community, Mimmo Sisca, both organizers and contacts for Unical's student and university teacher exchange project with the University of Toronto and University of Waterloo.
In the audience were the first students who left last year for "Project Canada," those who will leave next January, and a Canadian student who will attend Unical for her third year in Political Science, daughter of another Canadian authority of Calabrian origins, Peter Li Preti, Toronto city-councillor.
"I accept the immense honour, which I am awarded, in the name of my parents because Calabria was the most important thought in my life," declared Iacobucci in his lecto magistralis on the constitutional aspects of multiculturalism.
Shortly beforehand, the dean Silvio Gambino had the task of explaining the conferring of the honourary degree. "The faculty thought of Judge Iacobucci for his high services obtained in scientific research, in professional life, and in the practice of Supreme Court jurisdictional functions," began Gambino. "Son of emigrants of this ancient land, he traveled a cursus honorum that sheds light on himself, on his family, on his homeland," concluded Gambino. In subsequent days, Frank Iacobucci met the mayor of Rende, Sandro Principe and the rest of the city council.
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