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Clark, Wally

  • SCN00142
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  • 1918-2010

Wallace (Wally) Clark (1918-2010) attended the University of Saskatchewan and earned a degree in Agricultural Economics. Clark played varsity football, was an all-star in his first year and team captain in his final year, and won the Tommy Fraser Memorial Athletic Award.

Redl, Doug

  • SCN00146
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  • 1956-

Doug Redl (b. 1956) enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan (B.S.P.E.1982; B.Ed. 1983) in 1974. He played on the Huskies football team from 1974 to 1977. Redl was named to the Canada West conference all-star team at offensive guard in 1976 and 1977. He also earned CIAU All-Canadian honours both years. Redl was named to the Canadian team for the Can-Am Bowl in Tampa, Florida, featuring college all-stars from Canada and the U.S, in 1977. Redl was selected by the Saskatchewan Roughriders as a territorial exemption in the 1978 CFL Draft. He played for the Toronto Argonauts from 1978 to 1979. Redl played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1980 and 1982. His career ended due to a leg injury. Redl was an assistant coach for the Saskatchewan Huskies in 1984.

Therrien, Sandra

  • SCN00160
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  • [193-?]-

Sandra (Therrien) Schemmer, a graduate of West Vancouver Secondary, enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan (BA, 1959) in 1957. She was a member of the Huskiette basketball team for three years, leading the team in scoring in 1957. Sandra was also on the swim team for three years. In addition to participating in sports, Therrien served on the Women's Athletic Board for two years and worked for The Sheaf as a roving reporter.

Foster, William W., Major-General

  • SCN00195
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  • 1875-1954

William Wasbrough (Billy) Foster (1875-1954) was born in Bristol, England in 1876 and immigrated to Canada in 1894. In a 1913 by-election, Foster was elected Conservative member for The Islands in the British Columbia legislature. In November 1914, he joined the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles. After distinguishing himself at the Somme and Vimy Ridge, he was promoted to command the 52nd Battalion in August 1917. Aside from a temporary post to command the 9th Infantry Brigade in September 1918, Foster remained with the 52nd until the end of the war. He received two DSO Bars, was twice wounded and was five times mentioned in dispatches. Foster was appointed Chief Constable of the Vancouver Police Department on 3 January 1935. Foster remained active in veteran affairs during peacetime and was the president of the Royal Canadian Legion from 1938 to 1940. His career as chief constable was cut short when he was called off to war in 1939 and was promoted to major general. Foster died in 1954 in Vancouver.

Storey-Thompson, Jean

  • SCN00215
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  • 1924-2011

Jean Storey Thompson was born 21 April 1924 and spent the majority of her life in Saskatoon. A graduate of Nutana Collegiate in Saskatoon, enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan (BA 1946) in 1943. She was a member of the Huskiettes basketball team for four years, serving as captain in 1945-1946 and was noted for her playmaking ability. Thompson was also an accomplished tennis player and won the 1946 intervarsity doubles title. Thompson served on the Women's Athletic Board for four years and was vice president of the Students' Representative Council. Following graduation Thompson was an alumni representative on the Women's Athletic Board and was assistant director of physical education at the U of S from 1946-1950. Her first teaching job was at Balfour Tech in Regina. After two years she returned to Saskatoon. Thompson worked at Nutana and Mount Royal collegiates as a physical education teacher. Her love of sports allowed her to enrich many female students and athletes. Her move to Mount Royal in guidance counseling enabled her to focus on her compassion for mentoring students. Thompson was actively involved in the Saskatoon Kiwanis Club, members at Saskatoon Golf and Country Club and Nutana Curling Club. She was inducted into the U of S Athletic Wall of Fame as a two-sport athlete in 1984. Jean Thompson died 23 June 2011 in Saskatoon.

Cameron, John

  • SCN00233
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  • 1889-194-?

John Cameron was born in 1889 at Greenock, Scotland, and was educated at local schools. His family arrived in Saskatchewan in 1903 and homesteaded near Saskatoon. Cameron enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan by 1912. With war breaking out, he joined the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, University Unit, in 1915. He went overseas (France) in May 1915. Sergeant Cameron was wounded in April 1916. He rejoined his unit in June 1916, and was again wounded five months later. Cameron was Invalided to Canada and discharged in April 1917. He returned to the U of S and graduated with a BSA in 1918. Cameron was manager of the Saskatchewan Farmers' Mutual Fire Association in Saskatoon for many years.

Vladimirskii, Dr. Vasilli Vasilevich

  • SCN00192
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  • 1915 - 1995 [?]

Born in August 1915 in Zheleznovodsk. Russia, Dr. Vasilii Vasilevich Vladimirskii graduated from Moscow University in 1938. Since 1946, he has been deputy director of the Theoretical and Experimental Physics Institute in Moscow. His works have been in optics, propagation of ultrasound and electromagnetic waves as well as in the theory of linear accelerators and neutron spectroscopy. He participated in the creation of the Serpukhov accelerator whose energy level is 70 giga-electron-volts. He was awarded the State Prize in 1953 and the Lenin Prize in 1970. He served as an advisor to the Theoretical and Experimental Physics Institute (ITEP) in Moscow.

Hutcheon, Dr. N.B.

  • SCN00093
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  • 1937-1953

Dr. Neil B. Hutcheon was professor of Mechanical Engineering from 1937-1953.

Rutherford, Dorothy

  • SCN00136
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  • [1918?]-1966

Dorothy (Rutherford) Logan, a graduate of Nutana Collegiate in Saskatoon, enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan (BHSc, 1934) in 1929. In track & field Rutherford excelled in the 220-yard dash and broad jump. She was an outstanding scorer in basketball. As well as competing on the two teams for four years, Rutherford was a member of the University Athletic Directorate, including a term as vice-president. Rutherford received a Major Athletic Award in 1933. She was killed in a car accident in Terre Haute, Indiana, in May 1966.

Farthing, Dan

  • SCN00135
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  • 1969-

Dan Farthing (b. 1969) played with the Huskie football team from 1987 to 1990. In his rookie season, Farthing made his mark in football as a receiver with three touchdowns on 31 receptions for 759 yards. He was named the Canada West and CIS Rookie of the Year – just one of five Huskies to ever win a national football award. The next season Farthing again took the league by storm finishing with three touchdowns on 33 receptions for 756 yards, leading the conference and country in receiving. As well as winning the Canada West MVP award, Farthing was named both an all-star and a CIAU All-Canadian. Dan added another all-star nod in 1990 after helping the Huskies to their first-ever Vanier Cup championship. He was also awarded the Huskie Athletics Rusty MacDonald Cup, given to the athlete who best combines sportsmanship, leadership and athletics. He graduated from the College of Physical Education and was the first student in the college to win the President’s Medal for most distinguished graduate. He was drafted in the CFL in 1991 by the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the first round, second overall - the second highest of any Huskie. Farthing had an 11-year career as a receiver with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, starting in 1991. He won a Grey Cup in 1989. Farthing retired in 2001 and was inducted into the Roughriders Plaza of Honour in 2009.

Kerr, Donald Cameron

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  • 1936-

Donald Cameron Kerr was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1936 and educated at St. Joseph’s School, Nutana Collegiate and the University of Saskatchewan where he received an Honours B.A. in English in 1958. He earned an M.A. in English at the University of Toronto in 1960. Kerr taught at the U of S from 1960 to 1962 and, after two years in London, U.K., from 1964 until his retirement, as professor emeritus, after a 42-year career. During his tenure at Saskatchewan, Kerr was promoted from instructor to lecturer (1965), assistant professor (1966), associate professor (1976) and professor (1983). In addition to serving as acting chair of the department of English in 1985-1986, Kerr served on a number of departmental, college and university committees.

In addition to his university work, Kerr served on numerous boards, including the World University Service, the Saskatoon Public Library, the Meewasin Valley Authority, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and SaskFilm. He served as both board member and editor for Coteau Books and NeWest Press, and was the first chair of Saskatoon’s Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee.

Kerr's literary career as a poet, historian, playwright and editor included publication of several books of poetry; plays produced including at 25th Street Theatre, Greystone Theatre, Roxy Theatre and Persephone Theatre; and books relating to Saskatchewan history and politics. These literary and academic pursuits often overlapped, such as with his historical plays Two-Gun Cohen and Lanc (for which Kerr interviewed veterans of World War Two Lancaster Bomber crews).

He was awarded the Order of Merit in 2007 for his service to the province, and later served as Saskatchewan’s poet laureate (2011-2012). He also received the Saskatoon Musicians Association’s Kenny Shields Award for contributions to the professional arts in 2018.

He met Mildred McNamee at St. Thomas More in 1956; they were married in 1961 and they had three sons, David, Robert and William. Don Kerr died 8 December 2020 in Saskatoon.

Hayter, Charles

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Charles Hayter is associate professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, and a radiation oncologist at Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre. Prior to embarking on a career in medicine, he studied drama at Queen’s University and the University of Calgary, and he has remained active as a writer and actor. He is the author of An Element of Hope: Radium and the Response to Cancer in Canada, 1900-1940 (McGill-Queen’s Press, 2005). In 2001 Dr. Hayter was awarded the John B. Neilson Award for his “significant long-standing contributions to the history of health care in Canada.”

McPhail, Hugh Duncan

  • CA SCNUSA MG 402
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  • 1915-2001

Hugh Duncan (“Howdy”) McPhail was born 14 March 1915 near Bankend, Saskatchewan. His early schooling was in Prince Albert, and in 1934 he won a hockey scholarship to Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Saskatchewan. He attended the University of Saskatchewan from 1938-1942, graduating with a BSc in agricultural economics. Just over a week after writing his final exams, Howdy enlisted in the air force, learning how to fly in a de Havilland Tiger Moth at the Prince Albert Elementary Flying Training School. He served throughout the war, surviving a bail-out over Sweden and flying 28 missions. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for “his unselfishness, splendid record, and high degree of courage…”. Initially a Sask Wheat Pool field man, Howdy established McPhail Airways in North Battleford (later, McPhail Air Services Ltd.) in 1952. During the spring and summer he sprayed crops; offered flying lessons; and began taking aerial photographs of farms and towns throughout the West and extending into BC, Ontario, and the United States. Farm photographs were ordered by the farm owners, often as small prints and in some cases, hand-tinted (a young Allan Sapp was one of the people hired to do this). Products were later expanded to include greeting cards and for images of towns, postcards and calendars. By 1962 he effectively stopped his aerial photography. He continued to operate McPhail Air Services until 1981. He was inducted into the Saskatchewan Aviation Hall of Fame in 1995; into the Agricultural Hall of Fame in 1999; and a park in North Battleford was named in his honour. Howdy died in March 2001. [Source: Bill Waiser, Portraits of an Era).

St. George, Marie Elyse Yates

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Marie Elyse St. George is a visual artist, poet and author. Her work has been used for the covers of several Canadian books, and she has exhibited in both Canada and the United States. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Saskatchewan Writers Guild first prize for poetry (1989); The League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest first prize (1989); and the Saskatchewan Book Award for Nonfiction (2006). A collaboration of St. George’s art and Anne Szumigalski’s poetry at the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, resulted in Voice, 1995 winner of the Governer General’s Literary Award. Her other books include Heading Out (1986), White Lions In The Afternoon (1987), and Once in a Blue Moon: An Artist's Life (2006). In 1996 she was given the Saskatchewan YWCA’s Women of Distinction Award for Arts and Culture. Born near St. Catherine’s, Ontario, St. George has lived in Canada, England and the United States but her home is in Saskatoon.

Woods, R.J, 1928- (Professor of Chemistry)

  • SCN00098
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  • 1928-

R.J. Woods was born in London, England in 1928 and by 1951 had earned a B.Sc. Honours (1949) and a Ph.D. (1951) from Imperial College, University of London. From 1951-1953, Woods worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Prairie Regional Laboratory of the National Research Council in Saskatoon. He spend the following year at the University of New Zealand before accepting his first appointment at the U of S was in 1955 as a Research Associate in Chemistry. Dr. Woods advanced through the ranks obtaining the rank of Full Professor.

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