Honorary awards

Walter Albert Selle CBE

At a special meeting of the Senate held at Epping, New South Wales on 23 October 1967, the degree of Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) was conferred on Walter Albert Selle CBE, MA – Registrar of this University from 1924 to 1947 and Fellow of the Senate from 1944 to 1964 – by the Chancellor Sir Charles George McDonald KCMG KSG.

From left: Deputy Chancellor The Reverend Bertram Russell Wyllie, Walter Albert Selle CBE, Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Bruce Rodda Williams KBE and Chancellor, Sir Charles George McDonald KCMG KSG, 1967, photo G3_224_1576, University of Sydney Archives.