Head and shoulders image of B. Fleming, 1957-1973.

Head and shoulders image of D.R. Robinson, 1944-1973.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. A.H. Douglas, professor of Civil Engineering, 1947-1974.

Portrait of J. Farrell, 1964-1974.

Portrait of W.J. White, 1956-1974.

Illustrated card featuring a building from the University of Regina campus. Includes typed message from P.J. Moran to Dr. J.W.T. Spinks.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Thomas C. Vanterpool, Department of Biology, 1928-1965.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in Saba, West Indies on 22 April 1898, Thomas Clifford (Van) Vanterpool took his early education in Barbados, obtaining the Oxford and Cambridge Higher School Certificate in Science in 1916. The school in Barbados was modelled on the English Public School with its emphasis on sports. Dr. Vanterpool excelled at cricket, soccer and track. After two years as Overseer on a sugar plantation, he entered McGill’s MacDonald College, graduating in 1923 with a BSc and earning an MSc in 1925. He was a member of the basketball, baseball and track teams. Dr. Vanterpool joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan in 1928, where he spent his entire professional life, continuing to work in his laboratory until 1974, nine years after his formal retirement. Dr. Vanterpool did considerable research on browning root rot of cereals, a disease that caused average crop losses in 1928, 1933 and 1939. estimated at $10 million per annum. Dr. Vanterpool identified the causal organisms, as well as showing how the disease could be controlled. He also pioneered research on the diseases of oil seed crops on the prairies, and was responsible for teaching courses in plant physiology, plant pathology and mycology, and botany. In 1968 Dr. Vanterpool was given the first earned DSc awarded by the U of S. Dr. Vanterpool died on 15 January 1984 in Victoria, British Columbia.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Donald Rawson, 1905-1961, Biology Department.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Donald Strathearn Rawson was born on 19 May 1905 in Claremont, Ontario. He enrolled at the University of Toronto in 1922 and earned BA, MA, and PhD degrees by 1929. Dr. Rawson demonstrated outstanding ability as a student and was awarded a doctorate at age 24; his doctoral thesis investigated the bottom fauna of Lake Simcoe. He was a champion wrestler at the U of T. Dr. Rawson joined the Biology Department of the University of Saskatchewan as assistant professor of Zoology in 1928 and became head of the department in 1949. His research in limnology covered two distinct periods. From 1928 to 1934 Dr. Rawson concentrated on lakes of the newly established Prince Albert National Park. This work involved physico-chemical, biological, and fisheries studies, and included specific experiments in fisheries management. Dr. Rawson married Dr. Hildred Patton in 1932. From 1935 to 1941 he carried out extensive research in the National Parks of the Canadian Rockies and in Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba. The primary aim of these investigations was the collection of limnological information as applied to fisheries management. In the late 1930s Dr. Rawson surveyed saline lakes in southern Saskatchewan. In 1942 Dr. Rawson began work on Canada's large northern lakes (including Reindeer, Athabasca and Great Slave Lakes) that brought him international fame. After 1947 he devoted most of his attention to investigations of Lac La Ronge and Amisk Lake in the Churchill River drainage system. Subsequently, many other northern Saskatchewan lakes were studied. Dr. Rawson's death, on 16 February 1961, came at the apex of his scientific and teaching career. Rawson Crescent in the College Park neighbourhood honours him.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Jake Rempel, Biology.

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.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Ted Hammer, Biology.

Bio/Historical Note: Ulrich Theodore Hammer was born 25 March 1924.in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. He attended the University of Saskatchewan, receiving a BEd in 1950 and a BA (Biology) in 1956. From 1946 to 1958, Dr. Hammer taught in public and high schools in Saskatchewan and Alberta. In 1959 he completed a MS from Montana State University. He returned to the U of S, completing a PhD in 1963 under D.S. Rawson and T.J. Arnason. He was appointed Instructor in the Biology Department in 1961 and rose through the ranks to become full professor in 1972. He served as department head from 1973 -1976. Dr. Hammer retired in 1991 and was named Professor Emeritus (2023).

A desk set up with beakers, flasks, and tubes in a [lab setting].

Composite of the U of S SRC. Names of members:
H. Templeton, J. Holme, B. Jefferson, L. Greer, A. Howes, J. Summers, L. Salembier, P. Pederson, D. Woods, L. Jasechko, B. Carr, H. Rowbotham, S. Medland, D. Strumm, F. MacDonald, S. Moore, F. Lovell, A. McGillivary, B. Murphy, J. Mcphail, H. Clarke, D. Child, B. Phillips, R. Welch, H. Johnson, James Creighton Cavanagh, E. Zaph, B. Bannister, B. Bye.

Saskatchewan Hall, with trees in front of it. Photographers fingertips in frame.

Composite of University of Saskatchewan's Student Representative Council, 1951-1952. Names:
A. Wood, S. Elliott, K. MacLeod, J. Downs, B. Wolff, R. Lalonde, D. McGillivray, W. Chadwick, B. Ward, J. Wimmer, K. Hill, B. Spicer, M deManbey, A. Wakabayashi, P. Brand, J. Waldron, D. de Vertevil, J. Smith, B. McKercher, S. Kutz, M. Jones, D. Garner, W. Toombs, J.Fraser, B. Miner, J. Dyck, C. Boe.

Individual photographs of SRC members grouped. Names: D. Spencer, D. Haggerty, Barry Strayer, B. Brown, B. Turner, J. Stein, B. Caldwell, Corinne Cram, M. Dokken, B. Tibbit, N. Fages, P. Corrigan, D. Cherry, A. Winship, T. Rayment, L. Barton, N. Partridge, A. Cross, D. Bernie, A. Domes, W. Walker, P. Warner, D. Wright, N. Markewich, W.A. Swinton, Blaine Holmlund, R. Kutz, Stirling Macdowell, B. Cooper, J. Martin.