Robert McKercher (left), graduate of Law, presents the donation to fund the Stack Lectureship to Dr. Leo F. Kristjanson (centre), University President, at a ceremony attended by Peter MacKinnon, Dean of Law.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Leo F. Kristjanson, University President, 1980-1989.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Leo Friman Kristjanson was born on 28 February 1932 at Gimli, Manitoba. He attended the University of Winnipeg, earning a BA and an MA in history. In 1957 he began studies in Agricultural Economics at the University of Wisconsin. Upon finishing his course work in 1959, he accepted a position with the Centre for Community Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. The Centre was established to undertake a program of applied social research related to the development of Saskatchewan communities. In 1960 he began lecturing in the Department of Economics and Political Science, and completed his PhD in 1963. Two years later Dr. Kristjanson joined the Department of Economics and Political Science. He was vice-president (Planning) from 1975-1980, and in 1980 he became president of the U of S. The atrium in the Agriculture Building at the U of S is named in honour of Dr. Kristjanson’s contribution to the University. As president he sought funding for agricultural research and a new College of Agriculture building. He formed a “Sodbusters Club” to raise planning funds and undertook a leadership role in raising over $12 million from private sources for the construction of the building. Dr. Kristjanson was also instrumental in improving the Soil Testing Laboratory, the Poultry Centre, the Kernen Crop Research Laboratory, the Horticulture Field Service Building, the Saskatchewan Institute of Pedology’s Field Facilities, and the Large Animal Research Facility. Dr. Kristjanson was also instrumental in having an art gallery become part of the new College of Agriculture building, named in honour of the first resident artist at the university, Gus Kenderdine. Also during his term as president, the Centre for the Study of Co-Operatives, Toxicology Research Centre and the Centre for Agricultural Medicine were established. Dr. Kristjanson made major contributions to rural Saskatchewan as a consultant to farm organizations, co-operatives, credit unions, and governments. He served on boards and participated in projects designed to improve living conditions for farmers and their communities. Dr. Kristjanson was chairman of the Saskatchewan Natural Products Marketing Council from 1973-1979; a member of a committee to recommend restructuring of the Department of Co-operation; and chairman of the Board of Public Inquiry into the Poplar River Power Project, a provincial study of the environment. Dr. Kristjanson also wrote extensively and gave many public speeches on co-operatives, population and rural development, marketing boards, and commissions. He retired as president in 1989 due to health reasons, a year before the end of his second term. In 1990 Dr. Kristjanson was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He was inducted into the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame the same year. After retirement, Dr. Kristjanson moved back to his hometown of Gimli, where he died on 21 August 2005.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Heinz George Kyritz, instructor in German.

Head and shoulders image of Peter R. Lane, Professor, Department of Medicine, 1977-1993.

Image of Otto E. Lang, dean of Law from 1961-1968, leaning on his desk and holding a book.

Bio/Historical Note: Otto Emil Lang was born 14 May 1932 in Handel, Saskatchewan. In 1961 he was appointed dean of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, the youngest person to be appointed to that position, and served until 1969. A Rhodes Scholar, Lang holds a BA and an LLB from the University of Saskatchewan, a BCL from Oxford University (Exeter College) and an LLD from the University of Manitoba. He played for the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club, winning two Blues. Lang was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1968 election, and was re-elected in the 1972 and 1974 elections as the Member of Parliament for Saskatoon-Humboldt. He served as Minister without Portfolio (1968-1970), Minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board (1969–79), Acting Minister of Mines, Energy and Resources (1969), Minister of Manpower and Immigration (1970-1972), Minister of Justice and Attorney General (1972-1975), Minister of Transport (1975-1979), Acting Minister of Communications (1975), Acting Minister of Justice and Attorney General (1978), and Minister of Justice and Attorney General (1978). He was defeated in the 1979 federal election by Robert Ogle of the New Democratic Party. Following his career in politics, Lang served as executive Vice-President of Pioneer Grain Co. Ltd., chairman of the Transport Institute at the University of Manitoba and as president, CEO of Centra Gas Manitoba Inc. He is currently retired, but serves as a director of several companies, including Investor's Group and the Winnipeg Airport Authority. In 2005-2006 Lang served as the co-chair of the federal Liberal election campaign for Manitoba. In 1999, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Lang was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Saskatchewan in 2013.

Otto Lang, Dean, College of Law, sits in foreground in a lecture theatre during an event marking the opening of the new Law Building. Students seated in background.

Bio/Historical Note: The Law and Commerce Buildings were designed and constructed as part of a single project between 1965 and 1967. The architect was John Holliday-Scott of the Saskatoon firm Holliday-Scott & Associates.

Head and shoulders photo of Samuel R. Laycock, Dean of the College of Education, from 1947-1954.

Bio/Historical Note: Samuel Ralph Laycock, ’16 MA, ’20 BDiv, ’23, BEd, was born in Marmora, Ontario, in 1891. He received his BA from the University of Toronto before moving to Edmonton, where he taught math and Latin for five years while earning a MA from the University of Alberta. During the First World War Dr. Laycock enlisted in the Canadian Signals Corps and served in France. After demobilization he joined the staff of the University of Alberta and earned a master’s degree in education. He attended summer sessions at Columbia and Harvard before enrolling at the University of London, from which he received a PhD in 1927. Two years later Dr. Laycock was appointed assistant professor of educational psychology and became one of the two original members of the staff of the School of Education at the University of Saskatchewan. For the next 26 years, in the last six of which he served as Dean of the College, Dr. Laycock enjoyed a distinguished career as a teacher and administrator. Upon retirement Dr. Laycock continued to teach summer session courses at a number of Canadian and American universities and in 1958 accepted a University of British Columbia appointment as special lecturer. He was the author of 14 books and published more than 700 articles, as well as conducting the CBC’s School for Parents for 18 years. Dr. Laycock also pioneered the Canadian Home and School and Parent-Teacher movement and served on a number of boards, councils, committees and commissions. Among the many honours bestowed upon Dr. Laycock were an honourary degree from the University of Saskatchewan and the Medal of Service of the Order of Canada. Laycock died in Vancouver on 5 September 1971.

Head and shoulders image of Helen J. Ledingham, district home economist for the North Battleford area.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Chuck Lee, professor, Department of Chemistry.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Choi C. (Chuck) Lee received BEng and MSc degrees from the University of Saskatchewan before earning his DSc at M.I.T. He returned to Saskatoon to work as a research assistant in the Chemistry Department of the U of S prior to being hired as an assistant professor of Chemistry in 1955. He was an early advocate of diversity in that he mentored graduate students from around the world over his career. Dr. Lee retired from the Department in 1988 and held the title of Professor Emeritus until his death in Toronto in 2008. The Professor C.C. Lee Memorial Bursary was established by Dr. Lee’s family in his honour. Awarded annually since 2009-2010, the bursary is awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to a graduate student working in the area of organic chemistry.

George E. Lee, Professor, Agricultural Economics, works with plants in a campus greenhouse.

Head and shoulders image of Max Wyman, President, University of Alberta.

Bio/Historical Note: Max Wyman (1916-1991) was a Canadian mathematician and academic administrator. He served as president of the University of Alberta from 1969 to 1974. He was educated at the University of Alberta (BSc 1937) and California Institute of Technology (PhD magna cum laude). He rejoined his alma mater in 1943, the University of Alberta as a lecturer, and became a professor in 1956. In 1961, he was Chair of the Department of Mathematics, and from 1963 to 1965 was the Dean of Science. He was named Vice President (Academic) of the university in 1964, and became president in 1969. He was the first former student of the University to become president. Wyman retired in 1974 and died in 1991.

Head and shoulders image of W. Stewart Lindsay, first Dean of College of Medicine, 1927-1952.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Walker Stewart Lindsay came to the University of Saskatchewan in 1919. For the next three decades he would play a pivotal role in the education of the province’s future doctors. Born in Halifax in 1885, he received his medical training at the University of Edinburgh. He was invited by Walter C. Murray, University President, whom he had known as a child, to create the small Department of Bacteriology under the aegis of the College of Arts and Science. Dr. Lindsay’s laboratory, in one of the greenhouses, was the first medical teaching facility in what would become in the School of Medical Sciences in 1926. Between 1926 and 1956, students at the University of Saskatchewan were able to take two years of basic pre-medical classes prior to enrolment at a major medical school in Canada for the final two years of instruction. The School became a College in 1952. Dr. Lindsay served as Dean of Medicine from 1926 until 1951. Dr. Lindsay retired from the University of Saskatchewan in 1952. From 1956-1960 he was the Assistant Medical Director at University Hospital. In 1955 he received an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S at a ceremony marking the opening of University Hospital. In 1971 the U of S established a named chair in the College of Education known as the W.S. Lindsay Professorship. In 1976 Lindsay became a member of the Canadian Association of Pathologists. Lindsay died in 1979. The W.S. Lindsay Gold Medal in Nursing is named in his honour and is given annually to the student with the highest cumulative grade-point average in the entire nursing program that year. Lindsay Drive and Place in Greystone Heights are named in his honour.

Image of Dr. George J. Millar, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, 1946-1980, holding a cigarette.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. George John Millar (1914-1988) received his BA from the University of Toronto in 1939 and worked at the Banting Institute from 1939-1941. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941 and carried out medical research for the RCAF until he was honourably discharged in 1943. Dr. Millar joined the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Saskatchewan in 1946, and received his PhD from the U of T in 1950. One of his areas of research involved the chemistry and physiology of heparin, a substance which prevents coagulation of the blood and is useful in the treatment of thrombosis.

Posed outdoor image of participants of a research seminar with Sir Henry Dale, chairman, British Medical Council, and members of the Department of Physiology during the opening of the Medical College. Front row: T.P. Ting; Dr. John Fiddes, professor emeritus of Physiology; Dr. Louis B. Jaques, head, Department of Physiology; Sir Henry Dale. Middle row: Ms. O. Maduke; Ms. G. Johns; Erica Lepp; Ms. M. Ogilvie; Ms. H,J. Bell (who later received the first PhD awarded in the College of Medicine; J.G. Ashwin; G.J. Millar. Back row: S.W. Levy; R. Schucher; J. Lowenthal; P.F. Solvonuk; G.N.P. Musgrove.

Bio/Historical Note: A medical college was part of President Walter Murray’s design for the new University of Saskatchewan, and was consistent with his view that the university should serve the needs of the province. In 1926 a School of Medical Sciences was established, which provided the first two years of medical training. Between 1928 and 1954, 605 students completed the course and then went elsewhere in Canada for the clinical years. In 1944, a survey of the health needs of the province (Sigerist Report) recommended that the School be expanded to a “complete Grade A Medical School” and that a University Hospital of 500 beds be constructed for scientific teaching, clinical instruction, and research. A medical building was completed in 1950, a four-year degree-granting College was inaugurated in 1953, and University Hospital opened in 1955. The College admits sixty medical students per year, supervises the training of 200 residents, and provides basic science training to 330 students in Arts/Science. The aim of the program is to produce a “basic” or undifferentiated doctor capable, with further training, of becoming a family practitioner, specialist or research scientist. Between 1953 and 2003, the College of Medicine has graduated 2,134 MDs, of whom 30.5% were women.

Head and shoulders image of Frank Lovell, Alumni and News Secretary..

Bio/Historical Note: Frank E. Lovell was born 20 July 1925 in Saskatoon, where he received his early education. He was an apprentice printer and sometime sportswriter at the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix until he went east to play hockey. Lovell enlisted in the RCAf in 1943. He never saw active duty and remained active in the reserves until 1972, serving with 406 Squadron, 23 Wing Headquarters and 108 University Squadron. In 1945 Lovell enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan. He was involved in student activities and Huskies athletics and graduated in 1949 with a BComm. He received his BA in 1966. Lovell began his career at the U of S in 1949 as executive secretary of the Memorial Union Building Fund Campaign. He held a number of posts, including Alumni and News secretary, director of Alumni Affairs and editor of The Green and White. In 1964 he was appointed director of Development, a position he held until retirement in 1987. Lovell died in 1998.