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.

Dr. R.G. Murray, Dean of Medicine, makes presentation of a Doctor of Medicine degree with great distinction to James George Herman during spring convocation at Centennial Auditorium.

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.

H. Burnstien and D.J. Reddekopp being presented with the first Bachelor of Religious Studies degrees awarded by the University of Saskatchewan at spring convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

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.

Head and shoulders image of George W. Simpson, Department of History.

Bio/Historical Note: George Wilfred Simpson was a descendant of Loyalists who resettled in Canada after the American Revolution. Simpson was born in 1893 at Chatsworth, Grey County, Ontario, and received his primary and secondary education in that province. After a brief stint as a schoolteacher and homesteader in Saskatchewan, he enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan and graduated with a BA in 1919. He earned an MA in History from the University of Toronto in 1930. Simpson taught at the University of Saskatchewan from 1922 to 1957, eventually becoming Head of the History Department and Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Science. During World War II he was Chair of the Advisory Committee on Co-operation in the Canadian Citizenship Branch of the Department of National War Services. He helped initiate the formation of the Saskatchewan Archives and was the first provincial archivist from 1945 to 1948. In addition, he was instrumental in establishing 'Saskatchewan History', a publication of the Saskatchewan Archives, in 1948. There was a large Slavic population in Saskatchewan, and Simpson befriended many members of the Slavic community. As a non-Slav he helped them considerably to raise their image vis-à-vis the predominant Anglo-Saxon population. Simpson was instrumental in introducing Slavic Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, and helped establish similar programs in other Canadian universities. He was an editor of the first comprehensive history of Ukraine to be published in English, and wrote many articles on Ukrainian and Slavic history. In 1947, the Free Ukrainian University awarded Simpson an honorary Doctorate. He was further honoured by the Royal Society of Canada, the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences, the Canadian Historical Association, the Canadian Association of Slavists, the American Historical Association, the Canadian and American Geographical Society, and many other scholarly societies and institutions. Simpson retired in 1958 and was received an honourary Doctor of Laws degree the following year. In the 1960s he served on the Board of Governors at the U of S. Simpson married twice. He and his first wife, Muriel Jessie Simpson (1889–1963), were married in 1923. Edith C. Rowles (1905-1997) became Simpson’s second wife in 1964. George Simpson died in Saskatoon in 1969.