Image of Thorvaldson Building.

New addition to the Thorvaldson (Chemistry) Building.

Bio/Historical Note: The Chemistry Building was enlarged with an addition and was renamed in honour of Dr. Thorbergur Thorvaldson, professor and dean of Chemistry from 1919-1959. The Thorvaldson Building opened on 6 June 1966. Architect John B. Parkin’s modern design continued with exterior stone cladding. The near windowless, stone three-storey addition provided classrooms, undergraduate and research laboratories, offices, a library and service facilities.

Looking north at Thorvaldson Building.

Official opening of the new addition to the Thorvaldson Building.

Bio/Historical Note: The Chemistry Building was enlarged with an addition and was renamed in honour of Dr. Thorbergur Thorvaldson, professor and dean of Chemistry from 1919-1959. The Thorvaldson Building opened on 6 June 1966. Architect John B. Parkin’s modern design continued with exterior stone cladding. The near windowless, stone three-storey addition provided classrooms, undergraduate and research laboratories, offices, a library and service facilities.

Official opening of the new addition to the Thorvaldson Building.

Bio/Historical Note: The Chemistry Building was enlarged with an addition and was renamed in honour of Dr. Thorbergur Thorvaldson, professor and dean of Chemistry from 1919-1959. The Thorvaldson Building opened on 6 June 1966. Architect John B. Parkin’s modern design continued with exterior stone cladding. The near windowless, stone three-storey addition provided classrooms, undergraduate and research laboratories, offices, a library and service facilities.

Semi-circle of club members at Melfort, Saskatchewan, sitting on grass with two men kneeling within the circle, one holding a sheep. Part of tent in foreground. Trees and wooden fence in background.

Boys and men sitting on tiered stands, leaning on fence, and sitting on grass in front at Regina, Saskatchewan. Another man is standing before them; building in background.

Boys standing in rows with arms above their heads, appearing to be exercising in front of Buena Vista Elementary School. Houses in background.

Students in lecture theatre.

Competitors in classroom with Norman K. Cram instructing. View from back of classroom looking towards instructor.

Bio/Historical Note: Each year the University of Saskatchewan conducts a province-wide academic competition for high school students.

Robert (Bob) Teed operating Kjeldahl nitrogen analysis apparatus at the Cereal Chemistry Research Lab. The first stage of the two-step process shown entailed the boiling of concentrated sulfuric acid.

Bio/Historical Note: Robert Gordon Teed was born in Humboldt on 21 Dec.1924, He moved to Saskatoon and graduated from Nutana Collegiate. He joined the Royal Canadian Army in 1943, serving overseas from 1944 until July 1946, the last year as part of the Army of Occupation. In 1947 Teed joined the Department of Chemistry, where he worked as a technician until sickness forced him to retire. Teed died on 29 Dec. 1985 in Saskatoon.

Club members shown sitting and standing in a building.

Men, boys and horses standing in a row; boys holding papers in their hands. Location unknown.

Dr. Thorbergur Thorvaldson, head of Chemistry, examining concrete samples in Cement Testing Lab in the Chemistry Building.

Dr. R.J. Woods, professor of Chemistry, manipulates a Co60 source in the radiation laboratory in a Chemistry annex.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. R.J. Woods, professor of Chemistry, 1964-1995.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Robert James Woods was born in London, England in 1928. He earned a BSc (1949) and a PhD (1951) from Imperial College, University of London. From 1951-1953 Dr. Woods worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Prairie Regional Laboratory of the National Research Council in Saskatoon. He spent the following year at the University of New Zealand before accepting his first appointment at the University of Saskatchewan in 1955 as a research associate in Chemistry. Dr. Woods served as acting head of Chemistry from 1984-1985 and head from 1985-1988. Dr. Woods retired in 1993. In 1964 the book An Introduction to Radiation Chemistry, written by J.W.T. Spinks and Dr. Woods, was the first textbook in English to attempt to bring the various strands of radiation chemistry in one place. Revised editions were published in 1976 and 1990. In 1994 Dr. Woods and A.K. Pikaev collaborated to publish Applied Radiation Chemistry: Radiation Processing.