Group photo of unidentified competitors; Dr. Cecil L Kaller (back row left) and Dr. Gerald J. Langley, professor of Education (back row right).

Bio/historical note: Each year the University of Saskatchewan conducts a province-wide academic competition for high school students.

Big and Little Sisters hockey game during Pente Kai Deka Week.

Bio/Historical Note: From the Greek for ‘five and ten,’ Pente Kai Deka was created on 8 April 1911 with the first 15 women students on campus – five “big sisters” and ten “little sisters.” Every woman entering the University automatically became a member. Eventually the group became its own directorate within the Students Representative Council, and the PKD president, the vice-president of the SRC. Activities of the group included a Big Sister-Little Sister Dance, June in January, Jeanboree, a Spring Tea and a Frosh Week fashion show. As the sexual revolution loomed large in the late 1960s women on campus grew increasingly ambivalent toward the group, which had been seen by many female students as irrelevant and antiquated since midway through the decade. It was this attitude, as well as the sheer increase in the number of women and students in general at the University by the late 1960s that led to the group’s demise after the 1968-1969 academic year.

Hockey team members, back row (l to r): Allan A. Smith, Arthur Hughes Sargeant, J. Harvey Harrop, Arthur Wellesley Henry (coach). Front row: Thomas Caldwell, Leonard Cooney, Pontus Wicklund, Henry Dell Perley. Outdoor image.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Harry C. Rowsell, professor and head, Department of Veterinary Pathology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in 1921 in Toronto, Dr. Harry Cecil Rowsell served as a lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. Upon his return he received a DVM from the Ontario Veterinary College in 1949, a DVPH from the University of Toronto in 1950, and a PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1956. From 1953-1956 Dr. Rowsell was an assistant professor in the Department of Bacteriology at the Ontario Veterinary College. From 1958-1965 he was a professor and head of pathological physiology. Dr. Rowsell was head of the Department of Veterinarian Pathology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine from 1965-1968. From 1970-1986 Dr. Rowsell was a professor in the Department of Pathology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. In 1968 he established the Canadian Council on Animal Care, was its first executive director, and was the first recipient of the CCAC Outstanding Service Award. In 1987 Dr. Rowsell was made an Honourary Associate of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. In 1988 Dr. Rowsell was the first veterinarian made an Officer of the Order of Canada for being "recognized and respected throughout the world for his outstanding contributions to the promotion of the responsible and humane treatment of animals in biomedical and scientific research". Dr. Rowsell died in 2006.

Head and shoulders image of Grant F. Royan, winner of the Faculty Gold Medal awarded by the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at spring convocation.

View of interior of the lounge at St. Andrew's College. People seated on couches and chairs are gathered near the fireplace. A grand piano is visible in background; a plant stand is in foreground.

View looking west of St. Andrew's College addition construction nearing completion. Scaffolding visible in foreground; Ellis Hall partially visible in background.

View of double room St. Andrew's College residence. One male student is working at a desk, and a second student sits in a chair and reads a book. Two couch/beds visible in foreground; shelving, a window, and a dresser are visible in background.

Elevated view of St. Andrew's College library. Stacks at left; students studying while seated at tables.

Group photo of three St. John Ambulance officers participating in a course held in the Chemistry Building. College of Pharmacy pennants and memorabilia in background.

View looking northwest of St. Thomas More College building, with front entrance at left. Landscaping and trees in foreground.

Bio/Historical Note: Saint Thomas More College (STM) has the distinction of being the first and only federated college at the University of Saskatchewan. It was established as a Catholic college in 1936 following negotiations between Fr. Henry Carr of the Basilian Fathers of Toronto and President Walter Murray of the University of Saskatchewan, and was named for Thomas More, who had been canonized in 1935. Yet the pre-history of the college and its buildings goes back more than a decade earlier. For several years, Saskatoon Catholics had been asking for a Catholic college at the newly established University of Saskatchewan. The first step was taken in 1926, when a group of Catholic laymen established the Newman Society, with the long term goal of establishing a Catholic college at the university. By September of that year, "arrangements were in place for Fr. Dr. Basil Markle from the Archdiocese of Toronto to teach Scholastic Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan and to serve as chaplain for the Catholic students." The first facility for the Catholic chaplain, with chapel and clubrooms for the use of the Catholic students, was Newman Hall (usually called "the white house"), built in 1927 on land on the south side of the campus at the corner of College Drive and Bottomley Avenue. This building later became St. Thomas More College in 1936 and in 1943 it was enlarged in anticipation of an expected large influx of students when the war would end. The first section of the present greystone building was constructed in 1954-1956 at a cost of $600,000; it was designed by architects Webster and Gilbert and built by Shannon Brothers of Saskatoon, for whom the college's Shannon Library is named. The new building was officially opened on 7 February 1957. Subsequent additions to the college building were completed in two phases, one in 1963 and another in 1969. This three-stage period of construction on the building translated into well over a decade of constant construction between 1954 and 1969, and included a chapel, library, cafeteria, auditorium, faculty offices, classrooms, and an art gallery. Living quarters on the third and fourth floors, used by the Basilian Fathers for many years, have been converted to offices and classroom space in recent years. Renovations since 2000 have involved changes to the auditorium, cafeteria, student and faculty lounges, library, art gallery and the rededication of some areas to use as classrooms.

Head and shoulders image of L.G. Saunders, Professor, Department of Biology.

Bio/historical note: Leslie Gale Saunders was born 3 December 1895 in London England. He attended Highgate Grammar School but emigrated to Canada (at 16) prior to completing his matriculation. He had been sent to Nova Scotia by his father to investigate fruit growing possibilities and subsequently entered the Truro Agricultural College. In January 1919 Saunders enrolled in Macdonald College, McGill University; by 1921 he had completed both a BSc and MSc, and was awarded the "1851 Exhibition Scholarship". This allowed him to enter the Molteno Institute for Medical Parasitology at Cambridge. In 1923, while at Cambridge, he was invited to join a private expedition to Brazil. He was granted a Ph.D. in 1924 and then joined the staff of the University of Saskatchewan the following year, where he was assigned to teach invertebrate zoology, entomology and parasitology. In 1927 Saunders spent the summer at the Pacific Biological Station at Departure Bay, Vancouver Island. In 1932, with budget restraints during the Depression, bachelors on staff at the U of S were asked to take a year off with three months' salary: and Saunders secured a teaching position at Hong Kong University for the fall session. Extremely well travelled, Saunders' academic career included research on tropical diseases in Central America for the United States government (1943); and a study cocao plants and midges in Costa Rica and the Phillipines (1956). Upon his retirement in 1961, Saunders was named Professor Emeritus. In addition to his reputation as a biologist, Saunders' work as a photographer brought him much praise and acclaim. He was elected Associate of the Royal Photographic Society of London and had work displayed in leading galleries in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Saunders died in Victoria in 1968.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Bruce R. Schnell, assistant professor, Pharmacy.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Bruce Robert Schnell was born in 1937 in Maymont, Saskatchewan. A 1960 University of Saskatchewan pharmacy graduate, he later earned a MBA degree at the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin. He joined the faculty of the College of Pharmacy of the U of S in 1966, became dean in 1976, and vice-president (academic) in 1982. Dr. Schnell was responsible for the establishment of the Master Teacher Award program and was intimately involved in the academic reorganization resulting in the creation of the current College of Pharmacy and Nutrition. Named professor emeritus in 1994, Dr. Schnell subsequently served as the first executive director of The Canadian Council for Accreditation of Pharmacy Programs and developed the first accreditation standards for academic pharmacy in Canada. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists. Dr. Schnell directed two national research projects that significantly influenced hospital pharmacy standards and practice in Canada and abroad -- the Study of the Unit-Dose System of Drug Distribution in Canada and the Development of a Canadian Hospital Pharmacy Workload Measurement System. Dr. Schnell was a member of the Medical Research Council of Canada, associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy and, for 28 years, chaired the editorial advisory panel of the Canadian Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS), the primary source of pharmaceutical product information for health professionals in Canada. He was chair of the Formulary Committee of the Saskatchewan Prescription Drug Plan for 17 years. In 2014 Dr. Schnell authored Pharmacy: An Art, a Science, a Profession - Reflections on 100 Years of Pharmacy Education in Saskatchewan. He was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree by the U of S in 2015.