R.W. Begg, University President, cuts a cake. Standing in background are; D. Ponto, W. Drozda, B. Bayda, V. Herauf, an unidentified person and J. Hill.

Looking south at the Hospital Systems Study Group building at 3337 8th St. E. CKOM radio station at left.

A class in session during Hort Week.

Dr. Cecil F. Patterson, head, Department of Horticulture, holding a potato and standing near many pots which contain dirt and potatoes.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in 1892 at Watford, Ontario, Dr. Cecil Frederick Patterson graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College with a BSc in Agriculture. He then took his MA and PhD at Urbana, Illinois. He came to the University of Saskatchewan in 1921 as a lecturer in horticulture. In the following year, a Department of Horticulture was organized, and plans laid for a program of fruit variety testing and fruit breeding. In his thirty-nine years as head of the Department of Horticulture, Dr. Patterson was responsible for the introduction of more than thirty new varieties of hardy fruits, including apples, pears, plums, cherries, raspberries and strawberries. He was also responsible for an improved potato variety, well adapted to prairie growing conditions. In the realm of floriculture, his name became synonymous with a collection of lily varieties in pink, white, rose and other colours - the result of twenty years of patient crossing and selection. Other flower introductions included geraniums and gladioli. Dr. Patterson was a charter member of the Agricultural Institute of Canada, a Fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, a charter member of the Western Canadian Society for Horticulture, and an honorary life member of the Saskatchewan Horticultural Societies Association. Cecil Patterson died in 1961. He was posthumously inducted into the Saskatchewan Agriculture Hall of Fame in 1973. The Patterson Garden, an arboretum on campus, was named in his honour in 1969.

Outdoor group photograph of attending members; trees in background.

Elevated view of field showing small shrubs as the beginning of a nursery; unknown location.

Dr. Ed Maginnes, professor of Horticultural Science, and G. Green check the growth of tomatoes inside their experimental greenhouse.

Dr. Ed Maginnes, professor of Horticultural Science, and E. Brooks are checking the growth of tomatoes inside the experimental greenhouse which is heated with waste heat.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Edward Alexander Maginnes was born 19 April 1933 in Ottawa. He attended Lisgar Collegiate in Ottawa and then went on to attend MacDonald College in Montreal where he received his BSc in 1956. He then worked at the Experimental Farm in Ottawa and helped establish the family tree nursery, A.D. Maginnes and Son. From 1957-1964 he attended Cornell University where he received his MSc and PhD, following which he accepted the position of Professor of Horticulture Science at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Maginnes remained there teaching and conducting research for 36 years, retiring in 2000. Areas that were of particular interest to him included Waste Heat Greenhouse Management, turf grass growth and maintenance as well as hydroponics growing methods. Ed Maginnes died 20 May 2010 in Saskatoon.

Dr. Laurence M. Winters, professor of Animal Husbandry, judging horses at Saltcoats, Saskatchewan, in an open field. People, buildings and vehicles in distance.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Laurence Merriam Winters was born 15 June 1891 in Pepin Township, Wabasha County, Minnesota. Winters was professor of Animal Husbandry at the University of Saskatchewan Bio/Historical Note: Laurence Merriam Winters was born 15 June 1891 at Lake City, Minnesota. He earned his BS degree (in animal husbandry) in 1919 and his PhD degree (in zoology) in 1932, both at the University of Minnesota. His MS degree was earned at Iowa State College in 1920. His search for knowledge led him to study at the University of Wisconsin in 1925 and at the Boyce Thompson Institute (Harvard University) in 1927. Dr. Winters was a professor of animal husbandry at the University of Saskatchewan from 1920 to 1928. He published in 1925 his first edition of "Animal Breeding". This work was a useful addition to the shelves of students and livestock men, and as a text book to the former and as a reference volume and means of better understanding of the many breeding problems met with by the practical and experienced stockman. The second edition was published in 1930. Late in 1928 he returned to Minnesota as associate professor in charge of animal breeding in the Division of Animal Husbandry. Dr. Winters oversaw the first successful artificial insemination (AI) attempt in American farm history. The first animal born with AI technology was a Guernsey calf named Minnehaha Tuba. The breeding journals called him 'the Al Capone of the animal industry.' Promotion to rank of professor came in 1934. Dr. Winters retired in 1956 to accept a post as an agricultural adviser to the Government of Iraq where he acted for the International Cooperation Administration of the United States Department of State. Dr. Winters was in Baghdad at the time of his death on 16 March 1958. He was elected in 1999 to the Minnesota Livestock Breeders' Association Hall of Fame.

Dr. Laurence M. Winters, professor of Animal Husbandry, judging teams of horses which are hitched to open wagons. Unidentified people sitting in wagons; buildings in background.

Horses and men stand together in a row in a field; grain elevator in distance.

Colts standing in a group and a crowd of observers standing near Sunkist School, southeast of Girvin, Saskatchewan.

Display of grains fastened to a wall in background with trophies sitting on a table below. Signs, flags, emblems and pictures also visible.

F.H. Auld, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Thomas Lax at Convocation in Physical Education gymnasium. N.K. Cram, University Registrar, hooding recipient.

Bio/Historical Note: Thomas Lax was born in 1885 at Bishop Auckland in the County of Durham, England. In 1911 Lax came to Canada and in December of that year, while stone masons were still hard at work on the Legislative Building in Regina, he entered the Provincial Audit Office. In 1916 he was appointed supervising accountant in the Treasury Department and in 1925 became superintendent of revenue. After serving as acting deputy provincial treasurer, he was appointed provincial auditor in 1936. In 1938 he returned as deputy provincial treasurer, a post he occupied (while labouring at the same time on innumerable government boards and commissions) until his retirement in 1950. In the King's Honour List of [1946] the Imperial Service Order was conferred on him and long before this his profession had recognized him by making him a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Lax was appointed to the Board of Governors of the University (1946-1950) and later to the University Hospital Board. Thomas Lax died in 1964 in Regina.

Series of five photographs of injecting a virus into the brain of a guinea pig and its results.