Group photograph of honourary degree recipients at the special convocation at the opening of University Hospital. Back row (l to r): Dr. J.B. Ritchie, Regina, Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons; Dr. F.D. Mott, Washington, DC, former Saskatchewan deputy minister of Public Health; Dr. G.H. Agnew, professor of hospital administration, University of Toronto; Dr. R.D. Defries, Connaught Laboratories, University of Toronto. Front row (l to r): Dr. Edward James Baldes, Arts '18, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Kathleen W. Ellis, first U of S director of Nursing, Penticton, British Columbia; Dr. W.S. Lindsay, ad eundem, Dean Emeritus of Medicine, Saskatoon.

Bio/Historical Note: Special Convocation was held in conjunction with the opening of the new University Hospital. Honourary Doctor of Laws degrees were conferred on seven outstanding persons in the field of medicine.

F. Hedley Auld, University Chancellor, congratulates an unidentified male graduate at the Special Golden Jubilee Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium.

F. Hedley Auld, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Arnold D. Dunton at Convocation ceremony held in Physical Education gymnasium.

Bio/Historical Note: Arnold Davidson Dunton (1912-1987) was a Canadian educator and public administrator. From 1943-1958 Dunton was chairman of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

F. Hedley Auld, University Chancellor, makes presentation of a PhD to A.G. MacNamara.

F.H. Auld, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to William J.F. Warren at Convocation held in Physical Education Gymnasium.

Bio/Historical Note: William John Finley Warren (1873-1963) was born in Balderson,, Ontario, near Perth, and was educated at the Saskatchewan Agricultural College. He settled in Belbeck, Saskatchewan. near Moose Jaw, in 1906. In 1917 Warren enrolled in the Associate Course in the School of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. He received his Diploma in 1919, but returned to take another year of special studies. Warren soon became prominent as a producer and exhibitor of registered seed. He was president of the Moose Jaw Agricultural Society, of the Saskatchewan Registered Seed Growers’ Association and of the Saskatchewan Agricultural Societies' Association. He represented Thunder Creek in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1921 to 1925 as a Progressive Party member. Warren was defeated by Robert Scott Donaldson when he ran for re-election to the provincial assembly in 1925. As a rancher, Warren had Aberdeen-Angus cattle and won a grand championship at both the Toronto Royal and the Chicago International. Warren died in 1963 and is buried in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

Emmett M. Hall, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Isabel G. Auld at Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Isabel G. Auld was born in 1916 in Winnipeg. She was educated at Regina Central Collegiate, the University of Saskatchewan on scholarships at undergraduate and graduate levels, and McGill University on a National Research Council award. The war cut short her doctoral research. In 1941 Dr. Auld joined the Federal Department of Agriculture’s Rust Research Laboratory at the University of Manitoba, and worked in cytogenetic research. Dr. Auld’s lifelong career of voluntarism began during wartime with the Canadian Red Cross, as a blood tester at donor clinics. After marriage to Walter Murray Auld (1916-2015), while raising three children, she became involved in the consumer movement through the University Women’s Club. Dr. Auld’s focus in the mid-1960s was advocacy for consumer credit law reform. This broadened to family and social services, post-secondary education, health care, and medical research. Dr. Auld led or was a director of many community boards, including the Consumers Association of Canada (Manitoba Chair), Family Services of Winnipeg, Westminster United Church (Chair), Middlechurch Home (Chair), Klinic, Mount Carmel Clinic, and the Women’s Canadian Club of Winnipeg (Chair). In 1968 Dr. Auld was appointed a citizen representative on the Board of Governors of the University of Manitoba. She served 14 years, including four years as the Board’s representative to the University’s Senate. In 1977 Auld was installed as ninth Chancellor of the University of Manitoba, the first woman elected to this office and second female university chancellor in Canada. She served nine years (re-elected 1980 and 1983) on a full-time basis, concurrently serving on the boards of Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre (Chair, 1988-89), Social Planning Council of Winnipeg and Canada World Youth. Honours included investiture as a Member of the Order of Canada, and honourary degrees from the universities of Saskatchewan (1979) and Manitoba. Auld died in Winnipeg in 2016.

Emmett M. Hall, University Chancellor, is making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Colonel Robert L. Houston at Convocation at Centennial Auditorium. Iain MacLean, University Secretary, prepares to hood recipient.

Bio/Historical Note: Col. Robert Laird (Bob) Houston was born in Melville, Saskatchewan in 1911. He grew up in Arnprior, Ontario and then attended Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York on a hockey scholarship from which he graduated in 1934 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. In 1935 he was commissioned into the Canadian Army. He served in various capacities in the Army until retiring as a Colonel in 1963, including fighting in World War II as a Commanding Officer of the Fourth Canadian Armoured Divisional Signals and being awarded the French Croix de Guerre, instructing at the Canadian Army Staff College in Kingston, Ontario and the NATO Defence Staff College in Paris, France and serving on different international committees. In 1963 Col. Houston founded the Canada Japan Trade Council and led the Council until his retirement. In 1987 he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Star from His Majesty, The Emperor of Japan for his efforts through the years to promote friendly relations and economic ties between Canada and Japan. Col. Houston initiated the Western Transportation Advisory Council and he is a past chairman of the Canadian National Committee of United World Colleges (which ultimately led to the establishment of the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific), past president of Clarkson University Alumni Board of Governors, past President of the NATO Defence College Association of Canada, past Chairman of the National Committee for the Diefenbaker Canada Centre and a past Director of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society and the Big Rideau Lake Association. Col. Houston died in Ottawa in 2002 at age 90.

Emmett M. Hall, University Chancellor, is making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Boyd Anderson at Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: Boyd Maynard Anderson was born in 1920 at Fir Mountain, Saskatchewan, where he was a farmer and rancher. He was a director of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities for nine years before being elected vice-president in 1973 and president in 1977. While on the SARM executive he worked on the Canada Grains Council Committee, the Saskatchewan Advisory Committee on Transportation, and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Committee, among several others. Anderson was reeve of the Rural Municipality of Waverly since 1953 and before that was a municipal councillor for nine years. He was active in promoting 4-H clubs and various sports in his home community. Anderson was a director, vice-president, and president of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association, and director and president of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association. Among Anderson’s accomplishments were entry in the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame, an honourary Doctor of Laws degree (1979) from the University of Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Order of Merit and membership in the Order of Canada. Anderson died in 2016 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, at age 96.

John G. Diefenbaker, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to William G. Davies at spring Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: William Gwynne "Bill" Davies (1916-1999) was born in Indian Head, Saskatchewan, and moved to Regina with his family at the age of 7. Davies worked as an office boy at the Regina Daily Star. He was present at the Regina Riot of 1935, where he was tear gassed by police. During the 1940s he worked at the Swift Canadian slaughterhouse in Moose Jaw and helped organize the plant for the United Packinghouse Workers of America. Davies served on the Federal Wartime Labour Relations Board and the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board. Davies was executive secretary for the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour for 25 years. From 1948-1956 he was a member of Moose Jaw City Council. Davies served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Public Works and as Minister of Public Health. Medicare was introduced in Saskatchewan while he held the Public Health portfolio. Davies published a book of poetry called The Buffalo Stone. He also researched and wrote a history of the Saskatchewan trade union movement in partnership with Murray Cotterill. In 1975 Davies was named a member in the Order of Canada.

John G. Diefenbaker, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Dr. Balfour W. Currie at Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Balfour Watson Currie was born in 1902 in Montana and grew up at Netherhill, near Kindersley. He came to the University of Saskatchewan as a student and received a Bachelor-level degree in Physics (1925) and a Master-level degree in Physics (1927). Dr. Currie’s Ph.D. program at McGill University was completed in 1930. He was a staff member of the Department of Physics at the U of S (1928-1981), was Professor of Physics (1943-1970), Head of the Department (1952-1961), founder of the Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies (1956-1966), Dean of Graduate Studies (1959-1970) and Vice-president, Research (1967-1974). Early in Dr. Currie’s career, he spent two years in the Canadian Arctic. He and Frank Davies worked together at Chesterfield Inlet during the Second International Polar Year (1932-1933). An online archive of Currie's work on 2nd IPY studies of the Polar Year data continued under his direction at the U of S after World War II. Upon his retirement as vice-president, he was appointed by the President of the University to be Special Advisor in Research Matters (1974-1978). Later in 1974 he became Canadian Coordinator of the International Magnetospheric Study, and gave it his fullest attention until its completion at the end of 1979. During this period Dr. Currie also pursued an earlier research interest in the possible influence of solar activity on prairie weather and rainfall. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to his fields of study, Dr. Currie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Meteorology Society of Great Britain in 1940, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1947. In 1967 he received the Patterson Medal from the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. Dr. Currie retired from the U of S in 1970. In 1972 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada "for his services to science and education especially in the fields of meteorology and climatology". He was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S in 1975. Dr. Currie died in Saskatoon in 1981.

John G. Diefenbaker, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Dr. Balfour W. Currie at Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Balfour Watson Currie was born in 1902 in Montana and grew up at Netherhill, near Kindersley. He came to the University of Saskatchewan as a student and received a Bachelor-level degree in Physics (1925) and a Master-level degree in Physics (1927). Dr. Currie’s Ph.D. program at McGill University was completed in 1930. He was a staff member of the Department of Physics at the U of S (1928-1981), was Professor of Physics (1943-1970), Head of the Department (1952-1961), founder of the Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies (1956-1966), Dean of Graduate Studies (1959-1970) and Vice-president, Research (1967-1974). Early in Dr. Currie’s career, he spent two years in the Canadian Arctic. He and Frank Davies worked together at Chesterfield Inlet during the Second International Polar Year (1932-1933). An online archive of Currie's work on 2nd IPY studies of the Polar Year data continued under his direction at the U of S after World War II. Upon his retirement as vice-president, he was appointed by the President of the University to be Special Advisor in Research Matters (1974-1978). Later in 1974 he became Canadian Coordinator of the International Magnetospheric Study, and gave it his fullest attention until its completion at the end of 1979. During this period Dr. Currie also pursued an earlier research interest in the possible influence of solar activity on prairie weather and rainfall. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to his fields of study, Dr. Currie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Meteorology Society of Great Britain in 1940, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1947. In 1967 he received the Patterson Medal from the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. Dr. Currie retired from the U of S in 1970. In 1972 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada "for his services to science and education especially in the fields of meteorology and climatology". He was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S in 1975. Dr. Currie died in Saskatoon in 1981.