Image of Dr. john B. Gregory (standing), director, Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, watching an unidentified man working at a desk in a lab setting.

Mrs. Mary Griffiths, widow of Joe Griffiths, and J.W.T. Spinks, University President, standing on the cinder track during ribbon cutting ceremony at Griffiths Stadium. Dignitaries and band members in background.

Two images showing excavation for new track and adjacent field facilities at Griffiths Stadium, which will be used for the 1979 Jeux Canada Games.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Herbert V. Guenther, head, Department of Far Eastern Studies.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Herbert Vighnāntaka Günther (Guenther) was born in 1917 in Bremen, Germany. Because he showed a great interest in the Orient from an early age his father encouraged him to pursue studies in this field. To this end he began the study of the Chinese language when he was nine. By the time he graduated from high school in 1936, he had also learned the Sanskrit language. He went to Munich for further study after graduation, earning a PhD in 1939. Four years later he received the degree Dr. Phil. Habil. in Vienna. From this beginning, Günther went on to become one of the leading Buddhist scholars of his time. Amongst the most influential of his European mentors were Professor Wilhelm Geiger, a specialist in Pali and Sinhalese, and Walter Wüst – both of Munich. In Vienna, W. Havers was his main teacher. During this time his aptitude for languages manifested itself. In addition to Pali, Sinhalese, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, English, German, Russian, and Hindi, there were those languages he studied 'for enjoyment' – Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Spanish, and Italian. He progressed to teaching and taught at Vienna University from 1943-1950. Günther left in 1950, refusing to serve under the rehabilitated ex-Nazi, Erich Frauwallner, whose academic chair had been restored to him. Dr. Günther journeyed to India, where he lived and taught for the next fourteen years. From 1950-1958 he was at Lucknow University, where he developed a deep friendship with Kailas Nath Kaul, a naturalist, ethnologist and philosopher. He then went to the Sanskrit University in Varanasi, where he was Head of the Department of Comparative Philosophy and Buddhist Studies from 1958-1963. The following year was spent at the International School of America. Dr. Günther was Invited in 1964 by J. Francis Leddy to become professor and head of the Department of Far Eastern Studies, where he carried on his teaching and research work up to his retirement. Dr. Günther died in 2006 at age 88.

Head and shoulders image of Andy Guinand, professor and head, Department of Mathematics, 1960-1964.

Bio/Historical Note: Andrew Paul (Andy) Guinand was born 3 March 1912 in Renmark, South Australia. He attended school at St Peter's College, Adelaide from 1924 to 1929. He then entered St Mark's College of the University of Adelaide in 1930 to study mathematics, graduating in 1933. In 1934 Guinand won a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford in England. In session 1937/38 Guinand studied at Göttingen, then in 1939/40 at Princeton. In 1940 he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, returned to England and was a navigator on many missions. After being an assistant at Cambridge, he became a lecturer at the Royal Military College of Science in 1947. He was promoted to associate professor of Mathematics before returning, in 1955, to a chair at the University of New England at Armidale which lies on the valley slopes of Dumaresq Creek in the New England Range in New South Wales, Australia. During his two years at Armidale he was head of the department, then he left to take up a post at the University of Alberta. His next appointment was to the University of Saskatchewan in 1960, then in 1964 he became the first chairman of the mathematics department at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Guinand died 22 March 1987 in Peterborough.

Head and shoulders image of K.M. Gunvaldsen, Head, Department of Germanic Languages,1947-1974.

Bio/Historical Note: Kaare Martin Gunvaldsen was born on 17 July 1908 in Koparvik, Norway. After arriving in Canada in 1928, he attended the University of Saskatchewan (B.A. Honours, 1935). He went on to earn a M.A. (1938) and a Ph.D. (1948) from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Gunvaldsen joined the faculty of U of S in 1947, serving the institution for over forty years as Professor, Head of the Department of Germanic Languages and finally as Professor Emeritus. In addition to his teaching, he spent much of that time researching and writing about the Czech born German language writer of visionary fiction, Franz Kafka. Gunvaldsen died in 1986 with his Kafka manuscript unfinished and unpublished. He had been convinced that he had made a breakthrough in Kafka interpretation based on his research at Oxford's Bodleian Library.

View with Griffiths Stadium and residential areas at top right; Arts Tower at right.

The Saskatoon Boys Choir sings at the Engineering 50th Anniversary Reunion banquet at the Bessborough Hotel.

Image of F.R. "Dick" Dwyer, Eng. '41, and Bert A. Valde, Eng. '36, chatting during the Engineering 50th Anniversary Reunion banquet at the Bessborough Hotel.

Former Huskie football players, seated at tables, enjoy drinks at an Alumni Homecoming reunion dinner at the Sheraton Cavalier Hotel.

Note on back: "Herb Clarke (center) and group at Western Stockyards." Herb Clarke stands in front of a pen gate. This course was offered by the Extension Division and was held at Western Stockyards in Saskatoon.

J.W.T. Spinks, University President, presenting the $1,000 P.F. Collier Scholarship to Stephen A. Hynes (looking at camera), second-year law student, in Spinks' office.

Bio/Historical Note: A $1000 scholarship was awarded by P.F. Collier Inc. of New York, to a second-year law student at the University of Saskatchewan. The award was based on the selling of encyclopedias for the Collier company. Each year a worldwide contest was held in which 15 scholarships were awarded. Stephen A. Hynes, of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, won the Canadian section of the contest.