Head and shoulders image of Dr. D.V. Cormack, professor of Physics and a member of the Saskatchewan Cancer Commission from 1956-1967.

View facing northwest of Physics Building; landscaping in foreground.

Bio/Historical Note: The Physics Building was constructed by Smith Bros. & Wilson General Contractors from 1919 to 1921 for $437,000, and was designed by D. R. Brown and H. Vallance. It was officially opened in 1922. The building originally housed the Departments of Physics, Botany and Zoology, the Plant-pathology section of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, as well as the soils branch of the Canadian Department of the Interior. The Physics Building possessed non-vibratory walls, laboratories for Electricity and Magnetism, Light, Electron Physics, wireless work, a number of smaller research rooms, a dark room and a large lecture theatre, which was quickly put to use by many different colleges. The attic of the building was used as a temporary museum, with meteorological recording equipment situated on the roof. The basement was fitted with offices and classrooms, as well as with two fireproofed rooms containing the Shortt Library of Canadiana. During the 1946-1947 academic term a Physics Annex was "constructed" on campus at a cost of $46,000. Built initially to accommodate the Betatron, the Annex was a World War II air force hut that was reassembled on campus. After the completion of the Betatron Building in 1951 the annex was used to provide “temporary” classroom space for the department. Though scheduled to be demolished after the completion of the Physics Addition in 1967, the annex would remain on campus until it was destroyed in fire on 28 April 1979. A proper addition to the Physics Building was finally completed in 1967 by W.C. Wells Construction for $2,029,876.

Head and shoulders of William M. Adams, Professor, Veterinary Medicine.

Dr. Leo Kristjanson, University President, speaks at the official opening of the new Administration Building.

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Looking north with Griffiths Stadium in foreground, College Drive running through at centre, and campus buildings in background.

Image of a float lampooning Canadian politics and campus political parties at Griffiths Stadium. Students dressed in academic gowns, as mounted police and some other things. Banners on top reads "sex, excitement and money". Banner at the bottom reads "With benefits like this - Who can remain aloof? Join the Conservative Liberal or Democratic party (clod)". Also small banner reads "You can fool all the people all of the time". I the centre of the float there is a beer box "Peace Tower".

R.W. Begg, University President, speaks at the gallery opening.

Bio/Historical Note: Gordon W. Snelgrove (1898–1966) was a painter, art historian and one of the first people in Canada to receive a PhD in art history. In 1936 he served as professor of art and art history at the University of Saskatchewan’s Regina campus. Later he joined the University of Saskatchewan’s Saskatoon campus as head of the Art Department and remained in that position until his retirement in the fall of 1965. He died in February 1966. The Gordon Snelgrove Gallery was opened in the basement of the Murray Building in 1966. It serves as a venue for students to showcase their work and acts as a tribute to a man devoted to art and teaching new generations of artists. It also curates the collection for the department of art and art history, comprised of select works from graduating students that are displayed throughout the campus.

Looking east across the Bowl at the Administration Building; Saskatchewan Hall at far right.

Looking east across the Bowl at Administration Building; partial view of Saskatchewan Hall at right.

Head and shoulders of Robert A. Hickie, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Brian Habbick, Paediatrics.

Dr. Brian Ferguson Habbick graduated from the University of Glasgow with his MD in 1963. He was certified by the Royal College in Pediatrics in 1971. From 1976 to 1981 Dr. Habbick served on the Royal College Pediatrics Examination Board. He was a professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology in the College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, by 1991. Dr. Habbick died 9 March 2019 in Victoria, British Columbia.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Ian Holmes, Medicine.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Ian Hugh Holmes was born on 30 September 1926 in Schreiber, Ontario. He received his MD from the University of Manitoba in 1953, and his Certificate in Internal Medicine from the University of Alberta in 1960. Dr. Holmes practiced in Yorkton, Edmonton, Red Deer and Saskatoon. While practicing in Saskatoon, Dr. Holmes also taught in the Faculty of Medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, until 2011. Dr. Holmes died on 19 August 2012 in Saskatoon at age 85.

Head and shoulders image of Graham Jones, Agriculture.

Head and shoulders image of E. Kostashuk, Cancer Centre.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Jose Lopez, General Cardiology, Medicine.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. José Lopez, along with Dr. Louis Horlick, spearheaded the cardiac care program at University Hospital in the 1950s and 1960s. He is clinical professor of Cardiology at Royal University Hospital (2019).