The University of Regina will confer honorary degrees on a member of the Royal Family, a Renaissance scholar, one of Canada's pre-eminent poets, and a Saskatchewan champion of French language and culture, at convocation ceremonies June 6-9.

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal 
12:50 p.m., June 6 Special Convocation
University Theatre, Riddell Centre

The Princess Royal (Princess Anne) will receive a doctor of laws (honoris causa) during a special convocation June 6 at the University Theatre in the Riddell Centre.

The award recognizes The Princess Royal's charitable work. She became the working president of the Save the Children Fund in 1970. This work has taken her to many parts of the world and has given her great insight into the needs of children across the globe. 

In 1970, The Princess Royal was appointed to the Order of the Thistle, in recognition of her work for charities. She is president or patron of more than 220 organizations, including the Register of Engineers for Disaster Relief. She is colonel-in-chief of The Royal Regina Rifles in Saskatchewan, The Royal Newfoundland Regiment, The 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's) in New Brunswick, The Grey and Simcoe Foresters in Ontario, The Canadian Forces Communications and Electronics Branch, and The Canadian Forces Medical Branch. She became chancellor of London University in 1981.

The Princess is an expert horsewoman and has won several international equestrian events as an individual competitor and as a team member. She competed in the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games as a member of the British Three-Day Event team. In 1986 The Princess Royal became president of the International Equestrian Federation, a post which she has since relinquished. After five years as president of the British Olympic Association The Princess Royal was elected to the International Olympic Committee in 1988. She is also President of the Riding for the Disabled Association.

The Princess Royal comes to Canada frequently for engagements with her charitable organizations and regiments. Her last visit to Saskatchewan was in 1982. 

George M. Logan
2 p.m., June 7 Convocation
Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts

George Logan, an eminent Renaissance scholar and professor of English, will receive a doctor of laws (honoris causa) on June 7. 

Logan's scholarship combines mathematical precision with a passion for the English language. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BSc in 1962, at the top of his class in mathematics. He proceeded to graduate work in English at Harvard University, where he earned an MA in 1963 and a PhD in 1967. That year, he joined the faculty of Queen's University, Kingston, where he currently holds the James Cappon Chair in English. At Queen's he served for nine years as head of the department of English, and was chair of the advisory board of the University's Strathy Language Unit for the Study of Canadian English. He also served as chair of the Research-Intensive Universities' Steering Group for Humanities Computing.

In his published scholarship, Logan's contributions range from studies and editions of Renaissance literature to musical education and the application of computing to the humanities. He is one of the world's leading authorities on the writings of St. Thomas More. His book on More's Utopia (1983) is regularly cited as one of the three or four most influential pieces of scholarship on that seminal work. He is currently preparing an edition of More's other great political work, The History of King Richard the Third. 

In the late 1990s, Logan's interest in both academic administration and music led him to write a book in an entirely different field of scholarship: a history of the Indiana University School of Music, which rose from obscurity to become - under a visionary Canadian dean - the largest and greatest American music school. 

Over the past 20 years Logan has been an editor of the distinguished Norton Anthology of English Literature, serving as senior editor of both the sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century sections of this massive work. Setting new standards for integrity in the preparation of literary anthologies, "the Norton" has become by far the most widely used textbook in the history of English studies, used by millions of university students throughout the English-speaking world.

Lorna J. Crozier
2 p.m., June 8 Convocation
Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts

Lorna Crozier, one of Canada's pre-eminent poets, will receive a doctor of laws (honoris causa) on June 8.

Crozier was born and raised in Swift Current. She earned a bachelor of arts in 1969 at the University of Saskatchewan and also attended the University of Regina and the University of Alberta, where she received an MA in creative writing in 1980. 

A high school English teacher for several years, Crozier's first poem was published in the Prairie literary journal Grain in 1974. Since then she has published extensively in Canada and abroad. 

As a poet Crozier's themes are universal and her writing original. She has published a number of books, starting with Inside Is the Sky in 1976 and more recently Bones in Their Wings: Ghazals in 2003. She has also written essays and edited two collections: Addiction: Notes from the Belly of the Beast (with her husband Patrick Lane, 2001), and Desire in Seven Voices (2002). Her work has been translated into several languages and has been published in a number of anthologies used as university texts including, most recently, The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature in English (2002).

Always a mentor of young writers, Crozier is in demand for writers' workshops. She has taught creative writing at the Banff School of Fine Arts, the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts, the Sage Hill Experience and the Sechelt Summer Writing Festival. She was writer-in residence at the Cypress Hills Community College in 1980, the Regina Public Library in 1983, and the University of Toronto in 1989. 

She has held short-term residencies at the Universities of Toronto and Lethbridge and at Douglas College. She has been an invited guest at numerous literary festivals in Canada and around the world. She has worked as a reviewer and as a CBC arts show host. She taught at the University of Saskatchewan from 1986-1991 and is currently professor and chair of the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. 

Crozier's work has been recognized nationally and internationally. She has received numerous awards, including the Canadian Authors' Award for Poetry and the 1992 Governor General's Award for poetry.

Raymond J. Marcotte, C.M. 
2 p.m., June 9 Convocation
Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts

Raymond Marcotte has been a champion of French language and culture and a faithful member of the co-operative movement, and will receive a doctor of laws (honoris causa) on June 9. In his absence, his daughter, Monique Marcotte of Regina, will accept the award.

Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Raymond Marcotte attended school in Prud'homme and Gravelbourg. He went on to the Cours Classique at Collège Mathieu in Gravelbourg and then a year of law at the University of Saskatchewan. He owned a business in Saskatoon for seven years and then joined the Caisse populaire française de Saskatoon Ltée, becoming secretary and then manager. During this time, he also served as: managing director of Le Conseil de la coopération; general manager of CFNS radio in Saskatoon; and as a social development officer for the Government of Canada. In 1972 Marcotte returned to Gravelbourg as general manager of the French radio station CFRG.

CBC recognized Marcotte's managerial skills and his passion for French language and culture, and appointed him director of French radio in Regina in 1973. He served in a series of appointments and in 1988 was appointed CBC's associate vice-president, regional broadcasting (French services) in Ottawa, retiring from the position in 1992.

In more than 30 years in French broadcasting, Marcotte made an enormous contribution to the vitality of French language and culture in Canada, and to the francophone community through his involvement in other organizations. He was a founding member of La Comité de la radio française en Saskatchewan, Club Richelieu in Regina, and Fondation de la radio-française en Saskatchewan. He served on the boards of the Association culturelle franco-canadienne, Assurance-vie Desjardins, and Conseil de la coopération de la Saskatchewan. He also served on the board of the Conseil de la vie française en Amérique, including terms as president and then chancellor. In 1991 he was appointed the first life member of this august body.

Marcotte was also a member of the Co-operative Consumer Press Limited and served on the boards of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Credit Society, the Saskatchewan Mutual Aid Board, Sask. Sport Trust, and the Saskatchewan Arts Board, which he chaired from 1978-1981.

Marcotte holds the Ordre du Mérit coopératif de la Saskatchewan, Ordre du Mérit coopératif du Canada, Chevalier de la Compagnie des cent-associés francophones, President's Award CBC Radio-Canada, and the Order of Canada.