John G. Diefenbaker, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Elsie Hart, a pioneer of the organized farm movement, at Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: Born Elsie Mabel Atkinson in 1893 in Rugby, North Dakota, her family moved to a homestead in the Landis district of Saskatchewan in 1910. In 1915 she married Warren Hart of Landis and she became involved with the farm movement. Hart was the women’s district director of the United Farmers of Canada when the first Farm Women’s Week was held on the U of S campus in June 1928--an annual event for 38 years. During the Depression she was an active participant in the State Hospital Medical League and served on the Saskatchewan Health Planning Commission which preceded Saskatchewan’s universal hospital and medical care insurance programs. Hart became president of the women’s section of the United Farmers of Canada (Saskatchewan section) in 1941 for one year. Then she managed the family farm, after the 1942 death of her husband, for several years, before returning to the presidency of the UFC (Sask.) in 1945. Inspired by her, the women’s section took a deep interest in a project that resulted in financing medical scholarships and equipment to fight cancer at the University of Saskatchewan. She was named to the first Labour Relations Board from 1945 and served until 1964. She was a member of a delegation to Ottawa that sought the retention of rent controls and an expanded housing program in 1947. When the UFC Saskatchewan section was formally dissolved in 1949, Hart eased the transition to Saskatchewan Farmers’ Union by serving as women’s president for the first two years. Hart died in 1986 at age 92.

First dental students to receive degrees; graduands assembling on the platform (l to r): Nancy Anne Earl; Stewart Thomas Gordon; Robert Ian Hamilton; Donald Charles Johnson; Dennis Thomas Lanigan; Linea Ruth Lanoie; David James Plosz; Paul Elliot Teplitsky; Bernard Eugene White; James Anthony Wilson. During Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

John G. Diefenbaker, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Allan A. Tubby at Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: Allan A. Tubby was the son of Harry James Tubby (d. 1969), founder of H.J. Tubby Construction. In 1947 Allan joined his father in business and the company was re-named H.J. Tubby and Son Construction Ltd. Allan served on the University Board of Governors from 1964-1970. Allan died in 1990. 'Tubby Crescent' is located in the North Industrial area of Saskatoon.

J.W.T. Spinks, University President, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to William G. McIntosh at fall convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: William Gordon McIntosh was born in 1915 in Hanley, Saskatchewan. He grew up in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where he received his early education. McIntosh attended the University of Saskatchewan in 1932-1933 and obtained his pre-dental qualifications. McIntosh, a scholarship student, received his Degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of Toronto in 1937. McIntosh became one of Canada’s first teachers and researchers in the field of Periodontics, a new clinical field at the time. During World War I McIntosh was a member of the Royal Canadian Dental Corps; he carried out highly significant research into the management of periodontal diseases. He conducted a practice for many years, primarily in Toronto, specializing in the field of Periodontics. McIntosh was a valued contributor to the teaching program in his specialty at the University of Toronto. He held positions of great responsibility in the Canadian Dental Association, the largest and most influential dental organization in Canada. He was chairman of the Research Committee of the Association during its early formative years; he was a member of the Board of Governors of the Canadian Dental Association from 1957-1961; and he was the Association President in 1959-1960. In 1965 McIntosh accepted the position of Secretary (now Executive Director) of the Canadian Dental Association. Following his outstanding dental career, McIntosh attended the Ontario College of Art from 1977-1984, building a hobby career as a fine sculptor. Primarily working in bronze, his works range from fountains and decorative pieces to the cranial mould that is still used by the Canadian Standards Council to test helmet safety. McIntosh combined his dental dexterity and artistic skills volunteering for many years as a tactile sculptor for the CNIB. For this and for years of recording talking books at the CNIB, he received the Queen's Jubilee Medal. McIntosh died in 2015 in Ontario at age 100.

E.M. (Ted) Culliton, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Dr. George M. Brown at Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. George Malcolm Brown was born in 1916 in Campbellford, Ontario and was educated at Queen's University and Oxford University. Malcolm Brown served in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in Europe. He was a professor of medicine at Queen's from 1951 to 1965. He served as president of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1956 to 1958 and of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada from 1962-1964. Brown was a committee member of the Medical Research Council of Canada from 1953-1965 and served as its first full-time president from 1965 to 1977. Dr. Brown died in 1977. He was posthumously entered into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2000. The G. Malcolm Brown Memorial Fund was established in his memory to promote health science research in Canada.

From the Sheaf, vol. 5, no. 1, December 1916. Text continues on photo A-10941. Essay on increasing casualty lists.

From the Sheaf, vol. 3, no. 2, November 1914. Text "To the Representatives of the University incorporated with the Second Canadian Contingent."

From the Sheaf, [Graduation number] vol. 5, no. 3, April 1917. Biographies and images of Robert Sifton Turriff and Wilfrid Grant Wilson, under the general title of "Members of Class '17 at the Front."

From The Sheaf, vol. 6, no. 4, April 1918. Images and biographies of Clifford Baron Hallett and Glen Hedley [Glenn Hawthorne Headley]. Under the general heading of "Soldier Graduates." The first pages of this section of the Sheaf can be found on A-10939 and A-10962 - A-10963.

From the Sheaf, vol. 6, no. 4, April 1918. Image and biography of Frederick William Streib. Under the general heading of "Soldier Graduates." The first pages of this section of the Sheaf can be found on A-10939 and A-10962 - A-10965.

From the Sheaf, vol. 7, no. 1, December 1918. Image and biographies of Captain John Ross Macpherson and Harold Blair, under the general heading of "Military." Earlier pages of this section of the Sheaf can be found on A-10967.

From the Sheaf, vol. 7, no. 1, December 1918. Images and biographies of Roy Shuttleworth and Willis G. Hunt, under the general heading of "Military." Earlier pages of this section of the Sheaf can be found on A-10967 - A-10970.

From the Sheaf, vol.7, no. 1, December 1918, p. 58-59. Image and biography of John Fraser a student who died during the influenza (flu) epidemic of 1918.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Harold E. Johns, professor of Physics from 1945-1956.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Harold Elford Johns was, perhaps, the most influential medical physicist in Canadian history. He was born in 1915 in West China where his parents were educational missionaries. After the family returned to Canada in 1926, Dr. Johns obtained an MA in Physics from McMaster University and a PhD from the University of Toronto. He worked first at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and then at the University of Saskatchewan (1945-1956), where he became interested in cancer treatment. In May 1948 Drs. Johns, Newton Haslam and Leon Katz, all Physics faculty, travelled to Milwaukee to inspect the betatron that had been built for Saskatchewan. In August of that same year, the U of S installed in the Physics Annex the first betatron in Canada - the world’s first betatron used for a cancer treatment program. Dr. Johns then began the design and construction of one of the first cobalt-60 teletherapy units. In 1951 Dr. Johns and his graduate students became the first researchers in the world to successfully treat a cancer patient using cobalt-60 radiation therapy. In early 1952 Maclean's magazine had dubbed the cobalt-source radiotherapy machine the cobalt bomb - a tongue-in-cheek tribute to this peaceful use of nuclear technology. Dr. Johns’ pioneering work in cobalt-60 teletherapy became the gold standard for radiation therapy for many years and thousands of units were installed worldwide, helping countless patients. Working with Dr. Johns was Dr. Sylvia Fedoruk (1927-2012), part of the team of U of S scientists involved in the development of the cobalt-60 unit. The original treatment device was used in Saskatchewan until 1972. The work Dr. Johns and his team did on the physics of high energy photon beams was fundamental, and still forms the basis of most treatment planning systems in use today. In 1953 he published the first edition of “The Physics of Radiology” which became the leading textbook in its field for several decades. In 1956 Dr. Johns became head of the Physics Division of the Ontario Cancer Institute and professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. For several years he studied the chemical processes that lead to radiation damage, and finally in the 1970s he turned his hand to x-ray imaging. All of Dr. Johns’ work was aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The U of S awarded Dr. Johns an honourary Doctor of Laws degree in 1959. Harold Johns died in 1998.

Head and shoulders image of Richard Albert Wilson, Department of English, and author of "The Birth of Language."

Bio/Historical Note: In 1937 Dr. Richard Albert Wilson, Professor of English, published a slim volume titled The Birth of Language. Dr. Wilson had worked for 20 years on the book which, he said, set out "to describe the problem that gave birth to language in the general scheme of world evolution, and to point out its basic relation to the two forms of sense, Space and Time." The Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist, George Bernard Shaw, was so taken by the book that he used his influence to facilitate a paperback edition. When the second edition appeared it included a twenty-six page preface written by Shaw. He offered Wilson’s book as proof that the University of Saskatchewan was “apparently half a century ahead of Cambridge in science and of Oxford in common sense."1 With a few reprintings and an American edition, over 100,000 copies were sold.