E.M. Hall walking in line with other head table guests to their places. People on the sideline standing and clapping their hands. [J. Pringle], reaches out to shake his hand.

View of the head table and some of the smaller ones with the guests enjoying their meal. Windows and a view of the outdoors in the background.

Lieutenant Colonel John S.M. Allely, dressed formally and wearing his medals, addresses the banquet guests. J.W.T. Spinks, University President, among the guests.

Bio/Historical Note: "One of the chief prices which Canada paid in the last war for her lack of preparation was the tragic waste of thousands of her best young men killed while fighting in the ranks because they had not been previously trained for a more useful career as officers. It is to prevent such a waste in any possible future war that every Canadian University is now giving facilities to its students to qualify as officers during their undergraduate course. Our own contingent of the C.O.T.C. came to life in January of this year and is already recruited up to a strength of 170." (The Spectrum, 1921) The Canadian Officers' Training Corps was a unit in the Active Militia of Canada. The Corps prepared university students for the examinations for a Lieutenant's or Captain's Commission and the universities granted course credit for COTC work. Senior commissions were held by faculty while all junior commissioned and non-commissioned ranks were open to undergraduates. Interest in the Corps declined in the 1950s and came to an end in 1964.

W.C. MacAulay speaking at the gathering before the ceremony. Dignitary seated to his left.

John G. Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada, speaking from podium during an Alumni Association Golden Jubilee banquet at the [Bessborough Hotel].

The Legionnaires, a six-piece band, perform during an Alumni Association Bierstube event at the Saskatoon Armouries.

Alumni standing at head table and diners seated during the University Day banquet at Yorkton.