Cattle in stalls inside a campus barn.

Four students working on an engine in the machine shop.

Bio/Historical Note: Walter C. Murray, University President, saw that the College of Agriculture would keep the university close to the life of the people. Between 1909-1912, before they had teaching space, the agriculture faculty developed the agriculture farm and traveled doing extension work, most significantly, with the Better Farming Train. The Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture, W.R. Motherwell, supported extension work with tax revenue funds. In October 1912, the first agriculture class was taught. Both a 3-year associate course and a degree course were available. In 1937 the associate program became the School of Agriculture. The school responded to local farming problems by teaching and research and with new departments directed to these areas.

Head and shoulders image of John M. Lothian, head, Department of English, 1940-1949.

Bio/Historical Note: John M. Lothian was a native of Scotland and graduated from the University of Glasgow where he took first class Honours in English. He did post-graduate work at Oxford, London, Florence, Siena, Italy; and Venice. He was an authority on Shakesperian literature and on French and Italian comedy. Lothian joined the Department of English in 1922 and became head in 1940. He was also University Librarian from 1941-1944. Lothian resigned in 1949 to became senior lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Ray Frey, College of Engineering, 1925-1945.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Raymond Philip Frey earned his BE in Agriculture from the University of Saskatchewan in 1925, and later earned his MSc in Engineering at the University of Iowa. Dr. Frey was professor of Agricultural Engineering at the U of S from 1925-1945. Dr. Frey and Professor Evan Hardy, professor of Engineering, made history in the fields of lubrication of internal combustion engines and in tillage. After leaving the U of S, he then served as manager of farm sales for Imperial Oil at Islington, Ontario. Dr. Frey was president of the Computer Science and Application Engineering organization on two occasions. He was made an honourary life member of the Saskatchewan Agricultural Graduates Association. Dr. Frey died 2 December 1991 at St. Thomas, Ontario, at age 89.

Elevated view of presentation of an [honourary degree] in Convocation Hall.

Image of Alexander Campbell, director of Pharmacy from 1914-1923, and first dean from 1923-1928, wearing a suit and tie and standing on a shore.

Bio/Historical Note: Alexander Campbell's association with the University of Saskatchewan began in 1913 as professor of Pharmacy. The Saskatchewan Pharmaceutical Association had been the first in Canada to request the education of its members be under the direction of a university and twenty-one students enrolled when the School of Pharmacy was first established in January 1914. By 1921 the School had become a College and in 1922 Campbell became the first dean of Pharmacy. Enrolment had increased substantially every year; and Campbell, there since the school’s inception, had taught a majority of the classes even as faculty numbers increased. The College of Pharmacy as it existed in 1927 was largely Campbell’s creation. Remarkably, he had joined the University at age 62 – but “no one,” Walter C. Murray wrote, had “ever associated age with the active veteran of the rebellion of 1885.” Indeed, Campbell had been part of the 7th Fusiliers from London, Ontario, called into active service on 1 April 1885. By the time they had made the trip west the Northwest Resistance was over: the 7th Fusiliers left for their return journey to Ontario in mid-July without ever having seen combat. Campbell had done pencil sketches at the time and later turned these into watercolours, with a narrative of his service: An Account of the Advances of the 7th Fusiliers of London to aid in the suppression of the North West Rebellion of 1885. Following his retirement in 1928 Campbell moved to Victoria, where he died in [1943 at the age of 91]. The Saskatchewan Pharmaceutical Association established the Campbell Prize in his honour.

Dr. L.E. Kirk, dean of Agriculture. standing in front of a fence and a small shed or building.

A table set up with many trophies to be awarded during 'The Little Royal,' a farm show held by Agriculture students.

Bio/Historical Note: For many years Agriculture students competed in The Little Royal for which they groomed and trained their animals. Parents, fellow students and faculty attended the show in the Livestock Pavilion.

Dr. Rudolf Altschul, Department of Anatomy, in a lab setting, with hands on a microscope surrounded by lab equipment.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Rudolf Altschul was born 24 February 1901 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He graduated as a Doctor of Universal Medicine from the German University in Prague in 1925, and did postgraduate work in neurology and neuropathology in Paris and Rome. In September 1939 the Nazi Occupation forced Altschul and his wife Anna (née Fischer, b. 1903) to flee to Canada. The Altschuls were aboard the S.S. Athenia, the first Allied ship to be torpedoed in World War II. They survived, but lost all their possessions and scientific records. They eventually arrived in Canada, and Dr. Altschul accepted a position in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Saskatchewan. By 1955 he was head of the department. Prior to coming to Canada he had to his credit 32 scientific papers, and in the following years he contributed another 71 papers dealing with various subjects, including pathology of the nervous system, skeletal muscle degeneration, cell division and in particular, arterial degeneration. He published Selected Studies on Arteriosclerosis (1950), and Endothelium - Its Development, Morphology, Function and Pathology (1954). His later research led to niacin therapy for lowering blood-serum cholesterol and in 1964 to the publication of Niacin in Vascular Disorders and Hyperlipemia. His most notable contribution was in demonstrating the cholesterol-lowering effect of nicotinic acid. Dr. Altschul died 4 November 1963 during a mid-day’s rest from work. The Altschul Symposia Series, relating to different areas of scientific research, was established by an endowment left by Anna Altschul and other contributors. The series is held at the U of S; the first symposium was in 1990, with the last symposium held in 2008.

Three actors on stage in a saloon/wild west/country cabin-type set.

Drama students in costume pose in front of a backdrop.

Students sitting around a table smoking, eating, and drinking coffee.

Drama students in costume pose in front of a forest backdrop.

Elevated view of an audience watching a show inside an unidentified [town hall/theatre].

Head and shoulders image of Lt. Col. J.H. Thompson in COTC uniform and hat.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in Nottingham, England, Joseph H. Thompson received his early education in Saskatoon. Enlisting for service in the Great War, he joined the RAF overseas. Badly injured in a crash he lost the sight of one eye and the other was seriously impaired. He later became an accountant with his own practice in Saskatoon until 1938 when he became an accounting instructor at the university. Thompson became dean of the School of Accounting in May 1940 and also took over command of the COTC that same month. He continued as dean of the newly named College of Commerce from 1944-1951. Thompson’s command came to an end 21 March 1947 having served with the COTC since 1921 (with the exception of Active Service in Regina from 1939 to 1940). In addition to being Dean of Commerce he was chairman of the Board of Governors of Emmanuel College. He had retained his military affiliations as aide-de-camp to lieutenant governors J. M. Ulrich and William J. Patterson and was also Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the COTC. Thompson died suddenly on 9 March 1952 at 55 years of age.