Don Drinkwater (l), assistant professor of Kinesiology, and Robert Loney, College of Dentistry, work together to improve teaching.

Bio/historical note: Image appeared in 26 Jan. 1996 issue of OCN.

Marvin Eckroth, Department of Music, stands outside the Education Building.

Image of Dr. Frederick Edell, Department of Drama, standing outside Hangar Building.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Frederick Edell earned a BA in English and Psychology from Hobart and William Smith colleges in Geneva, New York (1957), and an MFA in Theatre from Yale University (1960). He did post-graduate studies in Theatre, Education, and Asian Theatre at New York University (1963). Dr. Edell continued with further graduate studies In Film at the University of Bristol, England. Dr. Edell served as assistant professor in the Drama Department of the University of Victoria (1966-1970), and was associate professor and director of the Film and Theatre Programme at the University of Manitoba (1970-1975). He spent a year as associate professor and acting head of the Drama Department at the University of Winnipeg (1975-1976), and the following year as associate professor and director of the Acting and Directing Program in the Theatre Department at Brock University (1976-1977). Dr. Edell served as professor and director of the Drama Programme at Acadia University (1977-1990). He joined the Department of Drama at the University of Saskatchewan in 1990. Dr. Edell has written on film for various Canadian and American publications and has broadcast film criticism for CBC in Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Halifax. He has also directed numerous theatre productions in Canada, the United States and Sweden. Upon retirement in July 2000, Dr. Edell became Professor Emeritus.

Elevated view of red-clad Engineering students rally around the E-plant while College of Agriculture students probe the defences.

Bio/historical note: Appeared in 20 Sept. 1996 issue of OCN.

Peter MacKinnon, University President, and Peggy McKercher, University Chancellor, reveal the new College of Engineering Alumni Wall of Distinction.

Justice Willard ('Bud') Estey (left) poses with Janice MacKinnon, Minister of Saskatchewan Economic and Cooperative Development, and Ralph Goodale, federal minister of Natural Resources at the Centre's dedication. The Centre will help to counter aggressive and sometimes unfair trade policies of other nations.

Bio/Historical Note: Willard Zebedee "Bud" Estey, CC (1919-2002) was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He was the son of James Wilfred Estey, a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and Muriel Baldwin. He studied at the University of Saskatchewan earning a BA in 1940 and an LL.B in 1942. He joined the armed forces and fought during World War II, including acting as a Canadian Observer with US forces during the battle for Okinawa. Upon returning to Canada went to study at Harvard Law School and received a LL.M in 1946. From 1946 he taught at the University of Saskatchewan and then moved to Ontario the following year to practice law. In 1973 Estey was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario and two years later was named Chief Justice of the High Court of Justice of Ontario. He became Chief Justice of Ontario in 1976. Estey was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1977 to replace Wilfred Judson. He drafted the first major judgment on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Skapinker judgment, in 1984. That same year the University of Saskatchewan awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree. Estey retired from the Supreme Court of Canada in 1988. Estey was appointed a trustee of the Stanley Cup in 1984 on the nomination of Red Dutton, succeeding Clarence Campbell. In 1985, he was appointed as Commissioner of Inquiry into the collapses of the Canadian Commercial Bank and the Northland Bank, both of which had been closed by the Canadian government that year. Estey’s report, Report of the Inquiry into the Collapse of the CCB and Northland Bank, was issued in 1986. In 1990 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. Estey died in Toronto in 2002.

Bio/historical note: Appeared in the March 26, 1999 OCN.

Staff are to clear about 50 trees from the land around the old Physical Education gym site to make way for an expansion to Parking Lot R.

Bio/Historical Note: Image appeared in 27 October 2000 issue of OCN.

Elevated view of Emily Farnham, Registrar's Office, standing on a sheet of curling ice.

Bio/Historical Note: Emily Blanche Farnham was born in 1937 and grew up in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, where she was introduced to curling by her dad. She moved to Prince Albert in 1956 and worked at the Bank of Montreal, transferring to Saskatoon in 1962. In 1964 Farnham began a 35-year career with the University of Saskatchewan, working in the Dean of Arts and Science Office, the Office of the Registrar and the College of Dentistry. Farnham retired in 1999. She was an avid curler and a member of the Nutana Curling Club for over 35 years. She was the first woman president of her club and served on the board of directors for several years. In addition to her competitive curling Farnham was involved administratively at various levels - club, city, provincially and nationally. She served as a volunteer on many bonspiels and national competitions. In addition to competing at the city, northern and provincial play downs, she competed at the national level in one women’s and four senior women’s competitions.
Farnham and her team of Linda Saunders, Pat McBeath and Donna Collins from the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon, dominated the women's curling scene during the 1973-1974 season, capping the year off by winning the 1974 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Canada's national women's curling championship (and forerunner to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts). During the 1973-74 season the team won four major cashpiels in Saskatchewan before winning the provincial championship and representing Saskatchewan at the 1974 Macdonald Lassies Championship. Farnham had tried unsuccessfully for 13 years before winning the Saskatchewan provincial championship. At the national championship her rink went undefeated, winning all nine of their games en route to the national championship. It would be the sixth championship in a row for rinks representing Saskatchewan. Team Farnham won 118 of 120 games over the course of the season, losing just two games – one practice game to a men's team, and one game in the Northern Saskatchewan playdowns. In 1989 Farnham became the first woman to win the Canadian senior curling championship after having previously won the national women's championship. Farnham and her rink of Mary Todarchuk, Mary Heidt and Arlie Ellsworth won the seniors championship that year for Saskatchewan. At the national championship the team finished the round robin with a 7-3 record, and then had to win a tiebreaker, before winning two playoff games to claim the championship. Farnham and Heidt were also members of Team Saskatchewan at the 1988 Canadian senior championship, where they finished with a 5-5 record. Farnham won another provincial seniors title in 1991, and lost in the finals of the 1991 national championship. She was particularly proud of being voted by her peers for the all-star skip award at the national level on three occasions. The 1973-1974 Farmham rink was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame in 1993. Her 1989 senior team was inducted into the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame in 1993 as well. Farnham was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame as a builder and player in 1993. She was also a member of the Saskatchewan Curling Association Legends of Curling Honour Roll.
Farnham also played golf recreationally, playing at Greenbryre Golf Club in Saskatoon for many years. In 2007 Farnham and her wife of 33 years, Sandi Sheppard, moved in Airdrie, Alberta, to be closer to family. Emily Farnham died on 20 November 2021 in Airdrie.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Brett Fairbairn, professor of History, Centre for the Study of Cooperatives.

Bio/Historical Note: Image appeared in 3 Oct. 1997 issue of OCN.

Head and shoulders image of Professor Len Findlay, M.A. (Aberdeen), D.Phil. (Oxford), Department of English.

Bio/Historical Note: Image appeared in 3 Oct. 1997 issue of OCN.

Group of young women seated and standing on a lawn with trees in background in North Battleford. Edith C. Rowles, instructor, standing at far left in back row.

Dr. Isobel M. Findlay (M.A. Aberdeen, M.A. Sask, Ph.D. McGill), and Dr. Len Findlay, M.A. (Aberdeen), D.Phil. (Oxford), both of the Department of English, sit together outdoors.

Bio/historical note: Image appeared in 3 May 1998 issue of OCN.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Isobel M. Findlay (M.A. Aberdeen, M.A. Sask, Ph.D. McGill), Department of English. Taken outdoors.

Head and shoulders of Curriculum Studies Assoc. Prof. Reg Fleming uses Lego kits with his Education students, to show them practical examples of technology in action - and to encourage their classroom creativity.

Bio/historical note: Image appeared in the September 1, 2000 OCN.

Head and shoulders image of Larry C. Fowke, Professor of Biology.

Bio/Historical Note: Lawrence Carroll Fowke was born 6 June 1941 in Toronto, and raised in Saskatoon. He earned a BA (Biology) from the University of Saskatchewan in 1963 and his PhD from Carleton University (1968) in plant cytology. Following a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Australian National University in Canberra, he joined the Department of Biology at the University of Saskatchewan as an assistant professor. By 1979 Dr. Fowke was a full professor. Author of over 160 research papers, Dr. Fowke was appointed visiting scientist at universities and research institutes in Australia, Switzerland, Sweden and England. He was awarded the Distinguished Researcher Award and named Jarislowsky Chair in Biotechnology and Rawson Professor in Biology. He was recognized as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in the plant and animal category. Dr. Fowke served as an editor for Plant Cell Reports and has served on the editorial boards of three other botanical and cell biology journals. He was nominated three times for the USSU Teaching Excellence Award. In 2006, the University of Saskatchewan awarded him an earned Doctor of Science degree.