"Climbing into a T33 Silver Star jet trainer, Flight Cadet Lila Palmer, Arts '58, is handed a jet helmet by Flight Cadet Shirley Clay, Pharm '58. The two girls are training with the R.C.A.F. under the reserve university training plan. They will return to the University of Sask. in the fall."

Bio/Historical Note: Image found in The Green and White, August 1956, pg. 23.

Bio/Historical Note: During the early years of the Cold War Canadian universities provided military training programs sponsored by the three armed services. The Royal Canadian Air Force version was known as the University Reserve Training Plan (URTP), and its purpose was to stimulate interest in the Air Force and to ensure a flow of trained university students as commissioned officers for the Regular service or the Reserves. To deliver the program, provision was made in 1948 for the establishment of RCAF (Auxiliary) University Flights at all the major schools across the country. In the 1950s, the recruitment of women was open to roles in medicine, communication, logistics, and administration.

Elevated view of COTC officers in uniforms and hats standing at ease during break.

Image of Col. Ronny Morton, Area Commander of Saskatchewan.

Bio/Historical Note: Ronald Edward Alfred Morton was born in Toronto in 1900. Morton went overseas in 1942 as commander of the Fort Garry Horse, a Winnipeg armoured regiment. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for bravery on 23 December 1944. Morton was stationed in Japan as head of Canada’s Far East Military Mission until 1947, when he was transferred to Regina as area commander for Saskatchewan. Morton died in Toronto in 1976.

Image of John Payson Oliver, lecturer in Civil Engineering in 1915-1916, and Captain and second in command of "B" Company, 196th Western Universities Battalion.

Head and shoulders image of Major General R.W. Browne in uniform and hat.

Image of Brigadier-General Arthur E. Potts, professor of Dairy Science, walking on lawn with Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, taken in England. Bare trees in background.

Inspection of COTC cadets at Dundurn Camp with J.S. Thomson, University President, (in suit) at centre. Camp buildings with flags in background.

Elevated view of Accounting students and faculty at an unknown event; alongside are three photographs of individuals with names F.J. Hart, G.H. Kargut and J.F. Lafreniere; emblem at top.