L-R: Dr. Charles Giles, Verna Lynn Gibbings, Peter Glendenning.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Giovanni De Domenico, assistant dean of Medicine and director of School of Physical Therapy.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Giovanni De Domenico was born on 14 January 1949 in England and qualified there as a physiotherapist in 1970. Following a period of general experience in a variety of clinical settings, he undertook the Teacher of Physiotherapy program at the Coventry School of Physiotherapy and the North London Polytechnic, graduating in 1975. He was then appointed to the staff of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, School of Physiotherapy, Birmingham, U.K. While in the U.K., Dr. De Domenico gained an MSc from the University of Aston, also in Birmingham, followed by an appointment to the staff of the Wolverhampton School of Physiotherapy, in Wolverhampton. Dr. De Domenico emigrated to Australia in 1978 to take up an appointment in the School of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Sydney University (Australia). In 1984 he was appointed senior lecturer in the School of Physiotherapy at Curtin University, in Perth, Australia. While there, Dr. De Domenico was responsible for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research in the broad areas of electrophysical agents and soft tissue manipulation (massage). Dr. De Domenico was awarded a DPhil in 1988 for his thesis entitled "Kinaesthetic Acuity and Motor Control in Humans". This work was undertaken in the School of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of New South Wales (Australia). In 1989 Dr. De Domenico emigrated to Canada to take up an appointment as associate professor in the School of Physiotherapy, at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was again responsible for teaching all aspects of electrophysical agents and soft tissue massage. Dr. De Domenico moved to Saskatoon in 1992 as professor and director of the School of Physical Therapy, and assistant dean in the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1994 he moved to Mobile, Alabama as professor and chairman of the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of South Alabama. His final appointment took him to Texas in 2000 as professor and chairman of the Department of Physical Therapy, at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. In August 2008 he stepped down as chair of the department in order to concentrate on teaching and research in electrophysical agents and soft tissue massage as well as engage in his personal fight against cancer, which ended on 10 April 2010 in Melbourne, Australia.

Dr. Glen Green and Alex Aaron standing at chalk board which lists the defeated liberals and the election results, election night, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, 31 Mar. 1958.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Gordon G. Rowland, director, Crop Development Centre.

Bio/Historical Note: Image appeared in 4 Sept. 1998 issue of OCN.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Gordon G. Rowland was the director of the Crop Development Centre from [1994]-1999. He is professor emeritus of Plant Sciences (2021).

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Gordon McKay, College of Pharmacy & Nutrition.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Gordon McKay is associate dean, Research and Graduate Studies, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition (2024).

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Gordon McKay, adjunct professor, College of Pharmacy.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Gordon McKay is associate dean, Research and Graduate Studies, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition (2024).

Dr. Graham A. Jones, College of Agriculture, sits in his office.

Bio/Historical Note: Image appeared in 13 Mar. 1998 issue of OCN.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Graham A. Jones is Professor Emeritus, College of Agriculture (2021),

Head and shoulders image of Dr. H. Kelm, Psychology.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Hadley Van Vliet, head, Agricultural Economics.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Hadley Van Vliet was born in 1914 at Quinton, Saskatchewan and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1934 with Great Distinction. He received his MSc in 1936 specializing in farm management. Dr. Van Vliet studied for his PhD at the University of Wisconsin. It was the Wisconsin tradition of studies in economics, law and rural sociology that give him his orientation for his teaching, research and community work in Saskatchewan. He returned to Saskatchewan where he was appointed instructor in the School of Agriculture in 1938. Dr. Van Vliet became assistant professor in 1940 and full professor and department head in 1944. Three of his students became Rhodes scholars and many of them took awards of similar stature in Canada and abroad. Five were awarded the Governor General's medal as the most distinguished university graduates of the year. Hadley Van Vliet died suddenly 8 December 1968 at Quinton at age 54. Two days before his death, he gave the principal paper at a meeting of the Saskatchewan branch of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society.

Dr. Hadley Van Vliet, head, head, School of Agriculture, and J.W.T. Spinks, University President, stand together.

Bio/Historical Note: Hadley Van Vliet was born in 1914 at Quinton, Saskatchewan and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1934 with Great Distinction. He received his MSc in 1936 specializing in farm management. Van Vliet studied for his PhD at the University of Wisconsin. It was the Wisconsin tradition of studies in economics, law and rural sociology that give him his orientation for his teaching, research and community work in Saskatchewan. He returned to Saskatchewan where he was appointed instructor in the School of Agriculture in 1938. He became assistant professor in 1940 and full professor and department head in 1944. Three of his students became Rhodes scholars and many of them took awards of similar stature in Canada and abroad. Five were awarded the Governor General's medal as the most distinguished university graduates of the year. Van Vliet died suddenly 8 December 1968 at Quinton at age 54. Two days before his death, he gave the principal paper at a meeting of the Saskatchewan branch of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Hamilton wearing a lab coat.

Informal portrait of Dr. Hamilton.

Two story building with no visible name, Pizzeria Piccolo, Moore & Associates and Duff's Color Centre as viewed from the north west side of the street.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Hans Michelmann, acting associate dean (academic), Arts and Science.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Hans Michelmann earned his BA (honours) from the University of Alberta and his PhD from Indiana University. Dr. Michelmann is author, editor or co-editor of 12 books; book chapters and journal articles on European Integration; Public bureaucracies; International Relations in Federal Countries; German, British and Canadian government and politics; International Trade; International Cities; and Public Policy.

Bio/Historical Note: Image appeared in 29 Nov. 1996 issue of OCN.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Harold E. Johns, professor of Physics from 1945-1956.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Harold Elford Johns was, perhaps, the most influential medical physicist in Canadian history. He was born in 1915 in West China where his parents were educational missionaries. After the family returned to Canada in 1926, Dr. Johns obtained an MA in Physics from McMaster University and a PhD from the University of Toronto. He worked first at the University of Alberta and then at the University of Saskatchewan (1945-1956), where he became interested in cancer treatment. In May 1948 Dr. Johns, Dr. Newman Haslam and Dr. Leon Katz, all Physics faculty, travelled to Milwaukee to inspect the betatron that had been built for Saskatchewan. In August of that same year, the U of S installed in the Physics Annex the first betatron in Canada - the world’s first betatron used for a cancer treatment program. Dr. Johns then began the design and construction of one of the first cobalt-60 teletherapy units. In 1951 Dr. Johns and his graduate students became the first researchers in the world to successfully treat a cancer patient using cobalt-60 radiation therapy. In early 1952 Maclean's magazine had dubbed the cobalt-source radiotherapy machine the cobalt bomb - a tongue-in-cheek tribute to this peaceful use of nuclear technology. Dr. Johns’ pioneering work in cobalt-60 teletherapy became the gold standard for radiation therapy for many years and thousands of units were installed worldwide, helping countless patients. Working with Dr. Johns was Dr. Sylvia Fedoruk, part of the team of U of S scientists involved in the development of the cobalt-60 unit. The original treatment device was used in Saskatchewan until 1972. The work Dr. Johns and his team did on the physics of high energy photon beams was fundamental, and still forms the basis of most treatment planning systems in use today. In 1953 he published the first edition of “The Physics of Radiology” which became the leading textbook in its field for several decades. In 1956 he became head of the Physics Division of the Ontario Cancer Institute and professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. For several years he studied the chemical processes that lead to radiation damage, and finally in the 1970s he turned his hand to x-ray imaging. All of Dr. Johns’ work was aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The U of S awarded him an honourary Doctor of Laws degree in 1959. Harold Johns died in 1998 at Kingston, Ontario.