Head and shoulders image of Dr. Don Rennie, acting Head, Department of Soil Science.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Donald Andrews Rennie was born in 1922 in Medicine Hat, Alberta and raised on the family farm southeast of Gull Lake, Saskatchewan, where he took his public and high school education. His first job was as a clerk in the Bank of Nova Scotia from 1940-1942. Dr. Rennie served as a Flight Lieutenant in the RCAF from 1942-1945, flying with the 407 Coastal Squadron on anti-submarine patrol. Following the war he completed his BSA (Soil Science, Sask.) and PhD (Wisconsin). Dr. Rennie accepted a faculty position in the Department of Soil Science of the U of S in 1952, served as head of the department from 1964 1980, and director, Saskatchewan Institute of Pedology. Dr. Rennie was appointed dean of the College of Agriculture in 1984 and remained until retirement in 1989. Dr. Rennie died in 2007.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Robert (Bob) A. Rennie, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, and Director, Student Counselling, and Dean of Students.

Bio/Historical Note: In 1967, as part of the administrative reorganization precipitated by the implementation of the one-university, two-campus concept, the Board of Governors created the position of Dean of Students. The Dean was to be responsible for student counselling, the Student Health Centre, and the operating philosophy of student residences. Problems in the area of student-University relations were to be referred to the Dean's office for study and recommendation. R.A. Rennie, who was Director of Counselling and Student Affairs from 1958-1967, served as the only Dean of Students from 1967 until his death on 30 Aug. 1973. With the creation of the University of Regina in 1974, the position of Dean of Students was made redundant.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Robbie Robinson, Assistant Professor of Surgery, and specialist in general and thoracic surgery.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Clayton L.N. (Robbie) Robinson was born on 28 April 1919 in Chapeau, Quebec and raised on a farm at Meath, Ontario. Educated in the Ottawa Valley towns of Pembroke and Renfrew, he graduated early from Queen's Medical School in 1943 and volunteered for the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserves, serving on Atlantic convoy escorts as a Surgeon Lieutenant. Later in the war Dr. Robinson joined the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy and he travelled to Ceylon for three months. After the war Dr. Robinson demonstrated anatomy at the University of Toronto under Dr. J.C.B. Grant and wrote Grant's biography in 1993 for the Canadian Medical Association. His medical training in thoracic surgery continued in Vancouver and England. Dr. Robinson was appointed to the Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, at the University of Saskatchewan in 1958 and worked at University Hospital. He was president of both the Canadian Thoracic Association and Saskatoon Medical Association in 1965. Dr. Robinson moved to Vancouver in 1966 and worked primarily at Vancouver General, Shaughnessy, and St. Vincent's hospitals. He also was professor of surgery at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Robinson died on 13 November 2011 in [Vancouver] at age 92.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. James Rollins, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology.

Bio//historical note: Dr. James Rollins was Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, from 1 July 1963 until his death on 18 Sept. 1964.

Four grain elevators are seen with railway grain cars in front of them in Indian Head, Saskatchewan.

A spider web hangs between branches of a bush with morning dew on it.

A single bloom is seen of an unknown flower.

A sunrise is seen over a point of land at Anglin Lake, Saskatchewan

Two blooms of the Gumbo evening-primrose (oenothera caespitose) plant are seen near Anglin Lake, Saskatchewan