Action shot of a Huskies football game against the Calgary Dinos at Griffiths Stadium. Fans in bleachers in background.

Group photo of competitors in a lecture theatre.

Bio/Historical Note: Each year the University of Saskatchewan conducted a province-wide academic competition for high school students.

Head and shoulders of Robert J. Baker, Professor of Crop Science.

Head and shoulders image of Itzak [Isaac] Bar-Lewaw, Professor of Spanish.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. John V. Bateman, Head, Department of Philosophy.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. John Victor Bateman was born 11 June 1897 at Eden Terrace, Limerick, Ireland. He attended Trinity and was a lecturer there. He played rugby and was a member of Pembroke Swimming Club. Dr. Bateman moved to Canada and took a post in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan. He was awarded a doctorate by Edinburgh University in 1934. Dr. Bateman died at Colwood, British Columbia in 1986. He was the brother of Reginald J.G. Bateman (1893-1918), first professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan, who was killed in action in France on 3 September 1918.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. D.A. Beach, Professor of Family Medicine.

Head and shoulders of Robert William Begg, University of Saskatchewan Dean of Medicine.

Robert William Begg, University of Saskatchewan Dean of Medicine, standing and wearing an academic gown. Painting on the wall in the background.

Bio/historical note: Robert William Begg was born in 1914 at Florenceville, New Brunswick. He received his B.Sc. from Kings College in 1936; M.Sc. and Doctor of Medicine from Dalhousie University in 1938 and 1942; a Ph.D. from Oxford University in 1950. He served with a parachute regiment during the war. Dr. Begg came to the University of Saskatchewan as head of the Saskatchewan and Research Unit of the Cancer Institute of Canada in 1957. In 1962 was appointed Dean of the College of Medicine; in 1967 was appointed Principal of the Saskatoon Campus; and was appointed President of the University, a position which he held from 1974-1980. He was married to Elsie Baker and they had four children, Beverley, Robert, Cathy, and Ronald.

Head and shoulders image of Robert J. Bens, Professor of Agricultural Economics.

Head and shoulders image of Alwyn Berland, dean of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in Chicago in 1921, Alwyn Berland served in the United States Navy during World War II. Berland was a University of Chicago graduate, a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University, a professor of English at Kansas State, chair of the English Department and dean of Arts at the University of Saskatchewan-Regina, executive secretary of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, dean of Humanities and professor of English at McMaster University, and visiting professor at Nanjing University. Berland died 1 March 2014.

Head and shoulders image of Ian Bickle, University Publicity Officer.

Bio/Historical Note: Ian Bickle was born 31 March 1931 in The Pas, Manitoba, He attended university at Western in London, Ontario, then moved to Saskatoon in the mid 1950s to begin a career in TV with CFQC. Bickle died in Regina in 2008.