Arthur J. Porter - Presentation
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- 11 Apr. 1961
Bob Hills (left), president, Engineering Students' Society, presents a Robert Hurley painting to Arthur J. Porter, departing Dean of Engineering.
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Arthur J. Porter - Presentation
Bob Hills (left), president, Engineering Students' Society, presents a Robert Hurley painting to Arthur J. Porter, departing Dean of Engineering.
Physics Building - Addition - Architect's Model
View of model of Physics Addition with minor landscaping. Made by Nik Semenoff, according to The Business Leader, Vol. 1 no.1 August 1964.
J.A. (Jack) Pringle - Portrait
Head and shoulders image of J.A. (Jack) Pringle, University Vice-President (Admin).
Bio/historical note: John Alexander (Jack) Pringle was appointed Vice-President (Admin) on 1 July 1975. The Board of Governors created the position as part of the major administration reorganization after the creation of the University of Regina. Pringle had been employed by the University since 1947 in a variety of administrative positions including Bursar and Controller. His V.P. duties included the development of policy and procedures in the area of financial management, personnel relations, physical plant administration, purchasing and business operations, such as residences, food services and the bookstore. Pringle retired in 1981.
A male laboratory worker stands at a control panel.
A male laboratory worker stands at a control panel.
Faculty - Retirement Banquet - Group Photo
Image of seven University of Saskatchewan faculty members honoured at the retirement banquet sponsored by the Faculty Club at Marquis Hall. Front row (L to R): Emrys Jones; J.D.F. Beattie; and Murray Adaskin. Back row (L to R): J.W. Paul; C.E. Miller; Dr. B. Fleming; T.J. Arnason; and D.R. Robinson.
St. Andrew's College - Exterior
View of St. Andrew's College south entrance facing College Drive. Trees in foreground; summer scene.
St. Andrew's College - Addition - Construction
Progress shot looking west of construction of St. Andrew's College addition. Construction workers visible at centre of photograph.
St. Andrew's College - Addition - Construction
View looking west of steel structure of St. Andrew's College addition. Ellis Hall partially visible at right of photograph.
St. Andrew's College - Chapel - Interior
View of the interior of the chapel at St. Andrew's College where a sermon is in progress. Congregation sits in pews with backs facing camera, with person at lectern in background. Stained glass window and roof visible in background.
St. Andrew's College - Stained Glass Window
View of stained glass window located in St. Andrew's Chapel. Portion of roof visible.
St. Andrew's College - [Staff]
Posed group photo of [staff] standing and seated of St. Andrew's College.
St. Andrew's College - Front Entrance
View looking east of front entrance of St. Andrew's College. Trees in foreground.
Artist William Kurelek contemplates his work - a 32 by 36 foot mural on the inside front wall of the St. Thomas More Chapel.
Bio/Historical Note: William Kurelek, CM (1927-1977) was born in a shack near Whitford, Alberta, north of Edmonton. Kurelek spent most of his boyhood on the family farm in Manitoba. He hated the life and grew up with an increasing sense of alienation at home and at school, and decided in his last year at the University of Manitoba to devote his life to the one talent that brought admiration: his ability to draw. It was after reading Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at university that Kurelek decided to find out if he, too, could become an artist. He tested himself in characteristic fashion, by creating a self-portrait that involved 16 hours of frantic, non-stop painting. As the work neared completion, Kurelek recalled years later, he realized 'the painting had taken over and was directing me. I was an artist. I knew I was an artist.' But Kurelek faced a tortured journey before anyone else accepted him as an artist. He travelled to Toronto in search of an art teacher but left the Ontario College of Art after only a few months and began hitchhiking to Mexico. The artist had been plagued as a young boy by a series of frightening visions and hallucinations, all dealing with pain, suffering, cruelty. While resting under a bridge in Arizona he underwent a vision of a different kind. It was a white-robed figure calling him to be a shepherd. That figure is the someone of Kurelek's autobiography, Someone With Me, published in 1974. Kurelek failed to find an art teacher in Mexico. He returned to Canada and worked as a lumberjack to earn the money for passage to England. But his sense of 'depersonalization, of non-existence' had grown intolerable and he turned himself over to the psychiatric hospital at Maudsley. It was here and in other hospitals that Kurelek finally found himself as a painter. Later, he credited electric shock treatment and his conversion to Catholicism for his reclamation. Kurelek died in Toronto in 1977; he was only 50 years old.
Dr. Kenneth J. McCallum, professor and head, Department of Chemistry, stands beside equipment located at the Saskatchewan Research Council that is used for carbon 14 radioactive dating.
Bio/historical note: The Carbon 14 radioactive method of determining the ages of substances is carried out on the campus by the Saskatchewan Research Council, and is the only one in Canada. One of the experiments showed there were Indigenous peoples in British Columbia more than 8000 years ago. The method was applied by scientists outside Canada to confirm the age of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls (2000 years old).