Head and shoulders image of Christopher D. Pritchet, Head and Assistant Professor, Department of Classics.

Bio/Historical Note: Christopher Dixon Pritchet (C.D. - known as "Seedy") was born in 1915 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and was educated at the Royal College in Colombo from 1925-1933. He attended University College, Colombo where he gained a BA (2nd Class) in Latin, Greek and Philosophy with a final year (1938-1939) at University College, London. Pritchet served in the Royal Air Force as a radio operator from July 1940 until May 1945 when he was demobilised. He received his Teacher's Diploma from the Institute of Education in July 1946. After teaching at Westminster City School and Hackney Downs School, Pritchet came to Harrow County School in 1950 to teach classics. In 1957 he emigrated with his family to Canada. For many years Pritchet was professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Saskatchewan. He retired to Victoria in 1983 and died there in 2004.

Image of dignitaries on dais during ground-breaking ceremony for the POS Pilot Plant. Unidentified speaker at lectern. R.W. Begg, University President, standing fourth from left. A dynamite detonator awaits at left.

Bio/Historical Note: The POS (Protein, Oil and Starch) Pilot Plant is a research organization that specializes in extraction, fractionation, purification, and modification of biologically derived materials. The company, which was founded in July 1977, is located in the Innovation Place Research Park on the University of Saskatchewan campus. POS Pilot Plant, the largest pilot plant operation of its kind in North America, has grown from eighteen employees in 1977 to over ninety employees in 2003. The company employs people from a wide range of disciplines: scientists, engineers, technicians, operators, tradespeople, logistics and information researchers, and administrative personnel. POS Pilot Plant is dedicated to finding personalized solutions for clients' bioprocessing needs. Services provided include: process and product development, optimization and scale-up; hazard analysis and critical control points; protocols and good manufacturing practice plans; and ingredient sourcing, shelf-life testing and analytical development. There are also consulting services, and support services concerning materials management, maintenance, and information. The Plant serves bioprocessing industries including nutraceuticals and functional foods; cosmetics and fragrances; fats, oils and lipids; food and ingredients; animal feeds; and Biotechnology and agricultural biotechnology. In 2019 the plant was rebranded KeyLeaf Life Sciences.

Group of dignitaries gather around newly-unveiled plaque marking the opening of the Pulmonary Research Laboratory in University Hospital.

View looking southeast across the Bowl at Saskatchewan Hall and Qu'Appelle Hall, with the Medical Research (Cancer and Medical Research) Building in the background.

View looking south across the Bowl at the courtyard between Saskatchewan Hall (left) and Qu'Appelle Hall. Sidewalk and shrubbery in foreground.

Image of CJUS-FM Radio Station official opening of new transmitter. Standing (l to r): Al Pippin, CJUS-FM technical director; Gordon Walburn, station manager; Joanne Bristol, student volunteer; and Cliff Wright, mayor of Saskatoon. Tower in background; taken on top of Arts Building.

Bio/Historical Note: In 1959 a campus group calling themselves "University Radio Productions" approached the federal government for a broadcast license to operate a student-run FM station on a non-commercial basis. Licensing requirements demanded that licenses only be issued to the university itself; in 1960 students approached the Board of Governors for approval. Operation of the station, including a constitution, was formalized in 1965 between the University and the Students Union (USSU), and CJUS-FM was launched. Studios were initially located in the basement of the university's Memorial Union Building, but were moved to the basement of the Education Building in 1980 next to the Department of Audio Visual Services. The station was launched through a partnership between the university's board of governors and its student union. For a number of years, the station also aired some programming from the CBC Stereo network before CBKS was launched. In 1983, with the station in financial trouble, it began to accept limited commercial advertising, and briefly changed its call sign to CHSK. The following year, the university's board decided to discontinue its funding of the station, and CHSK ceased broadcasting on 30 September 1985. CJUS was relaunched as an Internet radio stream in 2005.

Informal group photo of CJUS-FM staff members. List of names submitted with photograph. Back row (l to r): Doug Small, Ken Bagnall, Bill York, Mike Hunt, Harold Saltzberger, W.E. Ector, Dan Schwan, Anthony J. Allen, "Book." Top middle row (l to r): Bob More, Walter Kot, Duke Carlson, Brucie Grant, Jerry Karpokevamanich, Ray Crosbie, Dave McKay. Front middle row (l to r): "Shec", Linda Patterson, Rick Gort, Dudley Newell, John Beveridge, Paul Botkin, Rod Bergen. Front row (l to r): Brenda Rea, Valerie Kool, Rhonda F., Jill Russell, Sandy Price, Janet Maclean, Joan Richardt.

Bio/Historical Note: In 1959 a campus group calling themselves "University Radio Productions" approached the federal government for a broadcast license to operate a student-run FM station on a non-commercial basis. Licensing requirements demanded that licenses only be issued to the university itself; in 1960 students approached the Board of Governors for approval. Operation of the station, including a constitution, was formalized in 1965 between the University and the Students Union (USSU), and CJUS-FM was launched. Studios were initially located in the basement of the university's Memorial Union Building, but were moved to the basement of the Education Building in 1980 next to the Department of Audio Visual Services. The station was launched through a partnership between the university's board of governors and its student union. For a number of years, the station also aired some programming from the CBC Stereo network before CBKS was launched. In 1983, with the station in financial trouble, it began to accept limited commercial advertising, and briefly changed its call sign to CHSK. The following year, the university's board decided to discontinue its funding of the station, and CHSK ceased broadcasting on 30 September 1985. CJUS was relaunched as an Internet radio stream in 2005.

Head and shoulders portrait of A.E. (Arnold) Krause, professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, and associate member in Computational Science.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Wilf Rae, professor and head, Department of Poultry Science; image taken possibly at time of retirement.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Wilfred John Rae was born in 1899 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 1903 the family homesteaded near Roblin, Manitoba. His devotion to the Canadian West prompted him to write, "Between the Shell and the Boggy," a history of that Manitoba area where he grew up and received his elementary and secondary education. Dr. Rae earned a BSc in agriculture and gold medal from the University of Manitoba. He also earned an MA in Agriculture from the University of Wisconsin. For 36 years he was a member of the faculty at the University of Saskatchewan, retiring in 1966 as professor emeritus of agriculture and poultry husbandry. Dr. Rae's special interests were in the breeding and genetics of poultry. He wrote many articles about poultry breeding and poultry management for scientific journals. Dr. Rae was active in Saskatchewan in the encouragement and leadership of youth in the 4-11 agricultural clubs, especially during the Depression years. His interest of this work continued after moving to Victoria in 1966. Dr. Rae died in Victoria in 1979.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Wilf Rae, professor and head, Department of Poultry Science.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Wilfred John Rae was born in 1899 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 1903 the family homesteaded near Roblin, Manitoba. His devotion to the Canadian West prompted him to write, "Between the Shell and the Boggy," a history of that Manitoba area where he grew up and received his elementary and secondary education. Dr. Rae earned a BSc in agriculture and gold medal from the University of Manitoba. He also earned an MA in Agriculture from the University of Wisconsin. For 36 years he was a member of the faculty at the University of Saskatchewan, retiring in 1966 as professor emeritus of agriculture and poultry husbandry. Dr. Rae's special interests were in the breeding and genetics of poultry. He wrote many articles about poultry breeding and poultry management for scientific journals. Dr. Rae was active in Saskatchewan in the encouragement and leadership of youth in the 4-11 agricultural clubs, especially during the Depression years. His interest of this work continued after moving to Victoria in 1966. Dr. Rae died in Victoria in 1979.

Image of Dr. Donald S. Rawson, Professor and Head, Department of Biology, seated at his desk.

Head and shoulders image of Richard Ernest Rashley, Assistant Professor, Department of English, from 1969-1974.

Image of Dr. George W. Rea, Bacteriology, seated in front of a microscope.

Head and shoulders image of Alexander Reisman, acting head, Department of Music.

Bio/Historical Note: Alexander Reisman was born 11 October 1909.and graduated from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, New York, and earned degrees of Bachelor of Music, and Master of Music with further study at the University of California at Los Angeles. Reisman was both a cellist and arranger, and performed as a cellist with major orchestras and chamber groups. He was assistant professor of music at the University of Saskatchewan in the 1960s. Reisman was conductor of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra from 1960-1963. He played with South Bay Chamber Music Society, Inc., performing several concerts in 1964, much of their repertoire consisting of Classical composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert. Five years later, he returned to the SBCMS, this time as a member of the Lyric Arts String Quartet, in a program ranging from Franz Joseph Haydn to 20th-century American composer, Samuel Barber. As an arranger, he re-worked Johann Michael Haydn’s “Trio No. 1 in G” into a wind quintet, and boiled down Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Valse sentimentale” for cello and piano. A performance of this latter work can be heard on the Nathaniel Rosen/Doris Stevenson 1994 release, Orientale. Reisman died 24 January 1999.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Jake Rempel, Department of Biology, 1933-1970.

Bio/Historical Note: Having lost both parents and an older brother during the conflict and typhus that swept Mennonite colonies during the Russian Revolution in 1919, Dr. Jacob G. Rempel (b. 1903) and his brother David (b. 1899) emigrated to Canada, arriving in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, in July 1923. They spoke German, some Russian, but no English; and had the equivalent of $1.25 Canadian in funds. By 1928, however, Dr. Rempel had secured a three-year scholarship to the University of Saskatchewan, from which he graduated with the Governor General's Gold Medal and high honours in Biology in 1931. He joined the Biology department that year as an instructor and earned his MSc by 1933. He took a leave of absence in 1936 to attend Cornell University, earning his PhD in 1937. He remained with the U of S for the rest of his career, becoming a full professor by 1953 and being named Rawson Professor in 1962. Dr. Rempel retired in 1970. He made lasting contributions to science in several research areas, beginning his career with the study of the midge Chironomus hyperboreus in Prince Albert National Park. This led to work on chironomid (fish fly) taxonomy. Dr. Rempel then turned to biting flies: first to the ecology and control of blackflies, which adversely affected cattle populations; and then to mosquitoes, which were vectors of the virus causing the western equine sleeping sickness (encephalitis) which occurred as a pandemic in the late 1930s. Dr. Rempel closed off his distinguished research career with classic studies in insect embryology. He studied the development of the bertha army worm, two species of beetle, and the black widow spider. His last major contribution, The Evolution of the Insect Head: The Endless Dispute, was published a year before he died (1975). It clarified an issue that had elicited twelve different theories. Dr. Rempel contributed more than fifty publications. He won many honours. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956, and received the Centennial Medal in 1967 “in recognition of valuable service to the nation.” In 1971 he received the Gold Medal of the Entomological Society of Canada. Dr. Rempel was president of the Entomological Society of Saskatchewan and of the International Conference on Diseases of Nature Communicable to Man. He also served for ten years as associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Zoology, and for a similar period on the Advisory Panel on Entomology of the Defence Research Board of Canada. After his retirement, he moved to Victoria, but remained active in research until just before his death on 30 May 1976.