Two images on card stock. Image 1: "The "Bowl" Looking West" with north wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library at left, Chemistry and Arts buildings in background. Image 2: "Looking East from the Arts Building" with elevated view of buildings from l to r: Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Administration and Physics buildings and north wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library.

Looking west at Main Barn at centre; Chemistry Building, Administration Building, and other campus buildings also visible. College Drive runs at bottom left.

View of construction work on Biology and Arts buildings. Chemistry Building, Administration Building, north wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library, and the Bowl in background.

Elevated view looking northeast at construction of the Heating Plant addition; taken from roof of Thorvaldson Building.

Official opening of the new addition to the Thorvaldson Building.

Bio/Historical Note: The Chemistry Building was enlarged with an addition and was renamed in honour of Dr. Thorbergur Thorvaldson, professor and dean of Chemistry from 1919-1959. The Thorvaldson Building opened on 6 June 1966. Architect John B. Parkin’s modern design continued with exterior stone cladding. The near windowless, stone three-storey addition provided classrooms, undergraduate and research laboratories, offices, a library and service facilities.

Official opening of the new addition to the Thorvaldson Building.

Bio/Historical Note: The Chemistry Building was enlarged with an addition and was renamed in honour of Dr. Thorbergur Thorvaldson, professor and dean of Chemistry from 1919-1959. The Thorvaldson Building opened on 6 June 1966. Architect John B. Parkin’s modern design continued with exterior stone cladding. The near windowless, stone three-storey addition provided classrooms, undergraduate and research laboratories, offices, a library and service facilities.

Students at work in the Thorvaldson Laboratory.

Interior of the new Library in the Thorvaldson Building, showing work desks and bookshelves.

Image of exterior of Thorvaldson Building.

Dr. Choi C. (Chuck) Lee, professor, Department of Chemistry, takes readings from a machine in the Thorvaldson Building.

Looking west across the Bowl. Campus buildings (l to r): Arts Tower, Chemistry Building, Biology Building, Physics Building.

Foundation being laid for the Geology Building. Excavation equipment in foreground, with crane in background. Buildings in background from l to r: Arts Tower, Chemistry (Thorvaldson) Building and Physics Building at far right.

Bio/Historical Note: The construction of the Geology Building marked a return to the early style of campus architecture. The Department of Geology had been formed in 1927 and for the next six decades was based in the east wing of the Engineering Building. A growing faculty and student population had forced the department to cobble together makeshift accommodation in trailers and remote campus buildings. Designed by the architectural firm Black, McMillan and Larson of Regina, the building was given a neo-Collegiate Gothic exterior to blend harmoniously with the other buildings in the central campus. The two-and-a-half-storey building was erected just south or the Bowl side of the W.P. Thompson Biology Building, providing 8,543 square metres for office, laboratory, library, classroom, and storage space for rock and fossil samples. The exterior was clad with greystone and dressed with tyndal limestone. The dominant feature of the interior was a two-story atrium that featured the mosaics for the former exterior walls of the Thompson Building, a life-size skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex and geological and biological displays. The $18.5 million Geology Building was completed in 1988 and fused the space between Physics and Biology and linked, through a walkway, with Chemistry, creating an integrated science complex on campus.

Looking southwest from Administration Building of students changing classes. Buildings (l to r): Saskatchewan Hall, Qu'Appelle Hall, and north wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library. Chemistry Building at far right; winter scene.

Looking southwest from Administration Building of students changing classes. Buildings (from l to r): Saskatchewan Hall, Qu'Appelle Hall, and north wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library. Chemistry Building at far right; winter scene.

Looking east at University Hospital and Ellis Hall in foreground, Chemistry Building; north wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library in background.