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::"Although he loved baseball and Robert Frost, he was born into an old Maritime farm family and he soon put down Canadian roots, spending much of his life in this country's public service. In later life he protested that he was not a scholar, but he certainly had a scholarly nature. Throughout his career as university professor, superintendent of city schools, president of two Canadian universities, and senior civil servant, he maintained his academic interests. He was a serious student of Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature, a devotee of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and spent many happy hours tracing the origins of our language. While he was Commissioner of the National Film Board, for example, he translated Beowulf from beginning to end, just for the exercise. In his youth, he had a trained and resonant baritone voice. During the late 1930's, when he was a young English professor doing summer courses at Columbia University in New York City, he was urged strongly by one of the city's most respected voice coaches at that time, Wilhelm Van Giesen, to consider singing professionally. My father was tempted, but he opted instead to remain in academic life. He sang frequently for relaxation, however, and gave concerts well into his fifties ... Until his death in 1988, he regarded a day without mental exercise as a day wasted." (Trueman, 2002)

::"Although he loved baseball and Robert Frost, he was born into an old Maritime farm family and he soon put down Canadian roots, spending much of his life in this country's public service. In later life he protested that he was not a scholar, but he certainly had a scholarly nature. Throughout his career as university professor, superintendent of city schools, president of two Canadian universities, and senior civil servant, he maintained his academic interests. He was a serious student of Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature, a devotee of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and spent many happy hours tracing the origins of our language. While he was Commissioner of the National Film Board, for example, he translated Beowulf from beginning to end, just for the exercise. In his youth, he had a trained and resonant baritone voice. During the late 1930's, when he was a young English professor doing summer courses at Columbia University in New York City, he was urged strongly by one of the city's most respected voice coaches at that time, Wilhelm Van Giesen, to consider singing professionally. My father was tempted, but he opted instead to remain in academic life. He sang frequently for relaxation, however, and gave concerts well into his fifties ... Until his death in 1988, he regarded a day without mental exercise as a day wasted." (Trueman, 2002)

{{Quotation| "''Albert Trueman was a tall man, with a commanding physical presence, measured and a little formal in speech, but without pomposity.  He had a deep, resonant voice that he used on the public platform with calculated dramatic effect, hinting at the operatic career that he might well have had.  He was a genial and a witty companion, given occasionally to bouts of hamletian self-analysis, from which he would rapidly emerge with renewed vigour and undiminished joviality.  He took satisfaction in the honours he had received - honorary degrees from a number of universities and membership in the Order of Canada - but he rejoiced most in the love that encompassed him in his family and in the affectionate esteem in which he was held by friends and colleagues everwhere.''."

{{Quotation| "''Albert Trueman was a tall man, with a commanding physical presence, measured and a little formal in speech, but without pomposity.  He had a deep, resonant voice that he used on the public platform with calculated dramatic effect, hinting at the operatic career that he might well have had.  He was a genial and a witty companion, given occasionally to bouts of hamletian self-analysis, from which he would rapidly emerge with renewed vigour and undiminished joviality.  He took satisfaction in the honours he had received - honorary degrees from a number of universities and membership in the Order of Canada - but he rejoiced most in the love that encompassed him in his family and in the affectionate esteem in which he was held by friends and colleagues everwhere.''."

|Claude Bissel (Bissel, 1982, p.8)}}

|Claude Bissel (Bissel, 1982, p.8)}}