Head and shoulders image of Don H. Clark, dean of Law from 1977-1982.

Bio/Historical Note: Don Clark is Professor Emeritus of Law (2023).

Head and shoulders image of M.A. Bree, Engineering.

Head and shoulders of Ronald Doucette, Anatomy.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Harold Gonyou, Prairie Swine Centre.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Harold W. Gonyou was born 12 January 1952 in Chatham, Ontario. His interest in the science of animal production began while growing up and working on the family farm in southern Ontario. He majored in Animal and Poultry Science at the University of Guelph and after receiving his BSc in 1974, he moved to the University of Alberta to pursue his MSc in Animal Physiology. Upon completion of his MSc degree in 1977 he was accepted into a PhD program at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Gonyou studied feeding behaviour of feedlot cattle and investigated the orientation of cattle to the sun during extreme winter conditions. His interest and expertise in animal behaviour led him to a faculty position at the University of Illinois in 1980. At Illinois Dr. Gonyou advanced through the ranks to full Professor, while actively engaged in research, graduate and undergraduate teaching and extension activities. Dr. Gonyou left Illinois in 1992 to lead the applied ethology research efforts at the Prairie Swine Centre in Saskatoon. He retired in 2011. Dr. Gonyou was an adjunct professor with the U of S during his tenure with the Prairie Swine Centre, as well as an adjunct professor with the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Dave Fowler, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Dave Fowler was born and raised in Casper, Wyoming. Veterinary medicine was his passion from a very young age, and he realized his dream of becoming a veterinarian at Colorado State University. After graduation he completed an internship at the University of Saskatchewan in 1980 in small animal medicine and surgery followed by a small animal surgical residency. Dr. Fowler successfully passed board examinations as a Diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1987. He served on the small animal surgical faculty at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon from 1984-2002. He also served as head of the Department of Anesthesiology, Radiology and Surgery from 1997-2000. Dr. Fowler’s specialty was in microvascular reconstructive surgery. Dr. Fowler left university life in 2002 to enter private practice helping to build a specialty and referral practice first in Calgary and now with VCA Canada Guardian Veterinary Centre in Edmonton (2021)

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Andrew Kirk, Neurology, Department of Medicine.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Andrew Kirk obtained his MD at the University of Western Ontario where he also completed his neurology residency after studying internal medicine at the University of Toronto. Post-residency, he did research fellowships in cognitive neurology for three years at the University of Florida and the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Kirk’s research and clinical interests include dementia and multiple sclerosis. He was appointed professor of Neurology at the University of Saskatchewan in 1991. In 2003 Dr. Kirk co-founded a CIHR-funded Rural and Remote Memory Clinic using telehealth technology and has also initiated a multi-disciplinary clinic for persons with Huntington’s disease in Saskatchewan. For six years he served as board member of the Alzheimer Society of Saskatchewan and is a Past-President of the Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation and Canadian Neurological Society. Dr. Kirk was twice nominated for the University of Saskatchewan Student Union Teaching Excellence Award and has received the Michael Wright Community Leadership Award from the Huntington Society of Canada. In 2012, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his work in neurology.

Head and shoulders image of P.J. Chedrese, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Douglas E. Caldwell, Applied Microbiology and Food Science, College of Agriculture.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Don Bailey, professor of Kinesiology.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Donald A. Bailey was born in Saskatoon in 1934 during the Great Depression. He graduated from Nutana Collegiate in the late 1940s and earned a BA from the University of Saskatchewan in 1955. Dr. Bailey’s postgraduate education began at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, and was completed at Indiana University where he received his PhD in 1959. He returned to Saskatoon in 1959 and was recruited into the School of Physical Education (later the College of Physical Education, and then the College of Kinesiology). During his scientific career Dr. Bailey studied child growth and development and the relationship between bone mineral accrual and physical activity in the growing years. He directed the landmark Saskatchewan Growth Study, a 10-year investigation of growth and physical fitness in school-age children. Dr. Bailey was a member of the original ParticipACTION SASKATOON Board of Directors, and longest serving member of the national ParticipACTION Board of Directors. Dr. Bailey remained in the College until his retirement in 1994, having taught over 5 decades, at which time he was granted the status of Professor Emeritus. In post-retirement Dr. Bailey assumed a visiting professor position at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, teaching the fall term growth and development course from 1995 to 2005. Don Bailey died 3 June 2023 in Saskatoon at age 89.

Head and shoulders of Barbour, S. L., Engineering.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Beth Bilson, professor of Law.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Beth Bilson, KC PhD, earned a BA (1967), an MA (1970) and an LLB (1977), all from the University of Saskatchewan, followed by a PhD (1982) at the University of London. Dr. Bilson began her career in law at the U of S in 1979, teaching and writing in the areas of torts, labour and administrative law, and legal history. A pioneer in her profession at a time when there were only three female faculty members in the college when she started, Dr. Bilson was admitted to the bar in Saskatchewan in 1984. She twice served as the first female acting dean of the College of Law, and one of only two individuals to serve as a dean on three separate occasions. Dr. Bilson was dean of the college from 1999-2002 and was acting dean in 2010-2011. She is also an associate member of the faculty of the Johnson Shoyama School of Public Policy at the U of S and the University of Regina. She served as Senior Grievance Officer of the U of S Faculty Association from 1982-1985, and as assistant Vice-President (Administration) for the University from 1986-1988, with special responsibility for faculty collective bargaining. From 1992-1997 she chaired the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board. She serves as deputy chair of the Discipline Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan. Dr. Bilson was awarded the designation of Queen’s Counsel for Saskatchewan in 2000. Also in 2000, she was appointed as chair of a federal task force on pay equity, which reported in 2004. Since 2006 she has been editor of the Canadian Bar Review. Dr. Bilson currently chairs the Standing Committee on Equity of the Canadian Bar Association, and the Equity Committee of the Canadian Bar Association Saskatchewan Branch. She was appointed University Secretary in [2017]. Dr. Bilson was interim dean of Education in 2022. In 2023 she is Professor Emerita of Law.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Bruce Brandell, Anatomy.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Bruce R. Brandell Sr. was born in Detroit in 1926 and spent his early years in Dearborn, Michigan. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1945; upon his return in 1947 he joined the ROTC at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Dr. Brandell finished his BSc and MSc in Zoology and started his course work towards his PhD. Dr. Brandell spent several summers as an employee of the National Park Service in the western United States and discovered his love for mountain climbing. Because of his enrolment with the ROTC he was recalled back into the United States Army in September 1952 and served another 2 years as an officer. Upon Dr. Brandell's release from the service, he returned to the University of Michigan and finished his PhD in Zoology. He taught in the Department of Biology at the University of Akron (Ohio) and in the Department of Anatomy at the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks, before coming to the College of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, University of Saskatchewan, where he taught for 29 years. In retirement Dr. Brandell continued to teach anatomy to medical, physical education, physical therapy, and mortician students. Dr. Brandell died in 2010 in Saskatoon.

Head and shoulders of S.K. Bhadula, Biochemstry.

Head and shoulders image of Professor Lindsay Edouard, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Cecil C. Ewing, Department of Opthalmology.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Cecil Cameron Ewing was born in 1925 in Huddersfield, England, to a medical family. He graduated with his MD from the University of Bristol in 1950. Dr. Ewing practiced in Central America and the Caribbean. While in Panama, he worked for the United Fruit Company on a banana plantation. Dr. Ewing completed a residency in Ophthalmology and the universities of Bristol and Liverpool from 1956 to 1963. He was appointed lecturer in Ophthalmology at the University of Saskatchewan in 1963 and later became head of the Department. He was the editor of the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology and was awarded a silver medal by the Canadian Ophthalmological Society for his outstanding contributions to medical eye care in Canada. Dr. Ewing died in Saskatoon in 2006.