Members of the Pharmacy Students' Society sit, socialize, study, and smoke together.

E.M. (Ted) Culliton, University Chancellor, makes presentation of the first DSc awarded by the University of Saskatchewan to Dr. Thomas C. Vanterpool, professor of Biology.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in Saba, West Indies on 22 April 1898, Dr. Thomas Clifford (Van) Vanterpool took his early education in Barbados, obtaining the Oxford and Cambridge Higher School Certificate in Science in 1916. The school in Barbados was modelled on the English Public School with its emphasis on sports. He excelled at cricket, soccer and track. After two years as overseer on a sugar plantation, he entered McGill’s MacDonald College, graduating in 1923 with a BSc and earning an MSc in 1925. He represented McGill in track, basketball and baseball. Vanterpool joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan in 1928, where he spent his entire professional life, continuing to work in his laboratory until 1974, nine years after his formal retirement. Dr. Vanterpool did considerable research on browning root rot of cereals, a disease that caused average crop losses in 1928, 1933 and 1939 estimated at $10 million per annum. Dr. Vanterpool identified the causal organisms, as well as showing how the disease could be controlled. He also pioneered research on the diseases of oil seed crops on the prairies, and was responsible for teaching courses in plant physiology, plant pathology and mycology, and botany. He earned the first DSc awarded by the U of S in 1968. Van Vanterpool died 15 January 1984 in Victoria, British Columbia.

E.M. (Ted) Culliton, University Chancellor, makes presentation of the first DSc awarded by the University of Saskatchewan to Dr. Thomas C. Vanterpool, professor of Biology.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in Saba, West Indies on 22 April 1898, Dr. Thomas Clifford (Van) Vanterpool took his early education in Barbados, obtaining the Oxford and Cambridge Higher School Certificate in Science in 1916. The school in Barbados was modelled on the English Public School with its emphasis on sports. He excelled at cricket, soccer and track. After two years as overseer on a sugar plantation, he entered McGill’s MacDonald College, graduating in 1923 with a BSc and earning an MSc in 1925. He represented McGill in track, basketball and baseball. Vanterpool joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan in 1928, where he spent his entire professional life, continuing to work in his laboratory until 1974, nine years after his formal retirement. Dr. Vanterpool did considerable research on browning root rot of cereals, a disease that caused average crop losses in 1928, 1933 and 1939 estimated at $10 million per annum. Dr. Vanterpool identified the causal organisms, as well as showing how the disease could be controlled. He also pioneered research on the diseases of oil seed crops on the prairies, and was responsible for teaching courses in plant physiology, plant pathology and mycology, and botany. He earned the first DSc awarded by the U of S in 1968. Van Vanterpool died 15 January 1984 in Victoria, British Columbia.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Thomas C. (Van) Vanterpool, Department of Biology, 1928-1965.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in Saba, West Indies on 22 April 1898, Dr. Thomas Clifford (Van) Vanterpool took his early education in Barbados, obtaining the Oxford and Cambridge Higher School Certificate in Science in 1916. The school in Barbados was modelled on the English Public School with its emphasis on sports. He excelled at cricket, soccer and track. After two years as overseer on a sugar plantation, he entered McGill’s MacDonald College, graduating in 1923 with a BSc and earning an MSc in 1925. He represented McGill in track, basketball and baseball. Vanterpool joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan in 1928, where he spent his entire professional life, continuing to work in his laboratory until 1974, nine years after his formal retirement. Dr. Vanterpool did considerable research on browning root rot of cereals, a disease that caused average crop losses in 1928, 1933 and 1939 estimated at $10 million per annum. Dr. Vanterpool identified the causal organisms, as well as showing how the disease could be controlled. He also pioneered research on the diseases of oil seed crops on the prairies, and was responsible for teaching courses in plant physiology, plant pathology and mycology, and botany. He earned the first DSc awarded by the U of S in 1968. Van Vanterpool died 15 January 1984 in Victoria, British Columbia.

Dr. Mohindar S. Sachdev, a DSc in Electrical Engineering recipient, stands between George Ivany, University President, and Ted Turner, University Chancellor, during spring Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Mohindar S. Sachdev was born in 1928 in Amritsar, India. He received a BSc from Baneras Hindu University, India; and MSc degrees from Punjab University, Chandigarh, India and the University of Saskatchewan; and PhD and DSc degrees from the U of S. Dr. Sachdev worked for the Punjab P.W.D. Electricity Branch and the Punjab State Electricity Board from 1950-1968. In 1968 he joined the University of Saskatchewan. His areas of interest are power system analysis and power system protection. Dr. Sachdev is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India) and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers- London (England). He is also a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Saskatchewan and a Chartered Engineer in the UK. An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Sachdev is professor emeritus with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2024).

Roger Carter, dean of Law, makes presentation of a Bachelor of Laws degree with distinction to William F.J. Hood during convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: William F.J. Hood earned a BComm with Great Distinction (1972) from the University of Saskatchewan, and earned a LLB with Distinction the following year. Hood was admitted to the Saskatchewan Bar in 1974.

F. Hedley Auld, University Chancellor, presents B.D. Cochrane with a BSc in Engineering. This was the first degree in Petroleum Engineering conferred at the University of Saskatchewan.

Doug Cherry, dean of Arts and Science, presents the award to P.K.B. Koit at the fall convocation at Centennial Auditorium..

Head and shoulders image of Adam Shortt, who donated the initial bulk of the Shortt Collection of Canadiana, which makes up the basis of the University of Saskatchewan Special Collections.

Bio/Historical Note: Adam Shortt was born 24 November 1859 in Kilworth, Ontario. He attended Queen's University with the intention of becoming a Presbyterian minister. When Shortt graduated in 1883 , he pursued graduate studies in philosophy, chemistry and botany. In 1886 Shortt married Elizabeth Smith, one of the first women to receive a medical degree in Canada. In 1887 he was appointed a lecturer in the field of political economy at Queen's. In 1891 he was the first to be appointed the John A. Macdonald Professor of Political Science. While a lecturer at Queen's Shortt was appointed editor of The Queen's Journal. He is credited with establishing the first card catalogue at the Queen's Library. Regarded as the father of professional economics in Canada, Shortt took a historical approach as differentiated from economic theory, as he believed that the economics of nations depend on natural resources, geographic location, and specific economic attributes. Shortt went on to Glasgow University for his MA in political economy. Shortt was one of five men on the shortlist for the position of first president of the University of Saskatchewan. He is most well known for his research into the history of Canadian banking and for his association with the National Archives of Canada. In 1906 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1911. At the time of his death on 14 January 1931, he was a chairman of the Board of Historical Publications at the National Archives, a position he had held since 1918.

Bio/Historical Note: Special Collections at the University of Saskatchewan Library began with the purchase of the Adam Shortt collection of Canadiana in 1921. Dr. Shortt, a professor and University Librarian at Queen's University was an inveterate collector. Indeed, the collection at the University of Saskatchewan was one of his two personal collections. This collection has been augmented over time and now concentrates on western Canadian history. While it includes old and rare materials, such as 18th- and 19th-century editions of explorers' and missionaries' accounts, it also emphasizes the history of First Nations and Metis people. The library is particularly proud to own an original letter/poem written by resistance leader Louis Riel to his jailer just two weeks before he was hanged for treason.

Head and shoulders image of A. Forrest Angus, first chairman, University Board of Governors, May 1908-1911.

Bio/Historical Note: Alexander Forrest Angus was born in 1857 in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. He emigrated to Canada in 1877. Angus was employed by the Bank of Montreal in different cities from 1879 to 1901. He was transferred to Regina in 1901 and retired to Victoria in 1920. Angus was the first chairman of the University Board of Governors from May 1908 to 1910, and remained on the Board until 1920. Forrest Angus died in Victoria in 1927.

Dr. Wes MacAulay, dean of Pharmacy, presents a BSc in Pharmacy to R.D.M. Currie at Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium.