Head and shoulders image of Alice Stevens, Department of Women's Work.
Bio/Historical Note: Alice Stevens was born in Hamiota, Manitoba, and completed her high schooling there. She graduated with a BSc in home economics from the Manitoba Agricultural College at the University of Manitoba. On graduation, she taught home economics in Guelph Collegiate Vocational institute (Ontario) and in Vernon, British Columbia. During World War II Stevens gave up teaching and writing to become home economist and laboratory technician of a food processing plant in Vernon, preparing dehydrated foods for overseas shipment. In August 1947 Stevens joined the Department of Women’s Work of the University of Saskatchewan as assistant director. She became Director of Women's Work in 1949. Stevens died in 1952 after a long illness.
Two aliens from the planet DAVS (?) complete with Star Wars-type shrouds, eerie grey faces, and waist-band voice synthesizers, and accompanied by Division of Audio Visual Services production assistant Shannon Cossette, begin to abduct President Peter MacKinnon right from his office Aug. 30. They only stopped when he agreed to accept their invitation to visit Passport '99, the Oct. 14 exhibition in the Education Bldg. of the campus-wide services of units like DAVS, Consumer Services, Human Resources, and Printing Services. The aliens appeared suspiciously like earthlings DAVS receptionist Teresa Grzybowski and producer/animator John Ogresko.
Bio/historical note: Image appeared in 17 Sept. 1999 issue of OCN.
Access Services Division Head Alison Nussbaumer, left, holds the ribbon as Library Assistant Iffat Ahmed makes the cut that officially opens the totally renovated main area for Circulation, Reserves, Interlibrary Loans.
Alison Pickrell, director of international recruiting (l.), and Kelly Saretsky, assistant registrar (enrolment management), will be attending a large international recruitment fair in Minneapolis-St. Paul next week, hoping to lasso some American students for the U of S.
Bio/historical note: Image appeared in the September 18, 1998 OCN.
Head and shoulders image of Alison Renny, assistant professor, Commerce.
Bio/Historical Note: Image appeared in 22 May 1998 issue of OCN.
Bio/Historical Note: Alison Renny earned her BComm and MBA from the University of Saskatchewan. She started teaching in the College of Commerce in 1991. From 1998-2013 she was associate / assistant dean of undergraduate programs. Renny was designated a Fellow of the Society of Management Accountants in 2006. The Associate Dean Alison Renny Bursary was established upon her retirement in 2013.
Part of the "Canadian Reading Development Series" published by Copp Clark Publishers. These readers were used throughout Canada. The poem "Wild Horses" by Myra A. I. (Smith) Stilborn is on page 97.
