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4-H Homecraft Clubs

Group photo of three participants in the 4-H Homecraft Dress Revue standing in front of runway. Location unknown.

Bio/Historical Note: As early as 1913 Agriculture societies were sponsoring the "Farm Boys Club and the Farm Girls Club,” organizations for youth. The Saskatchewan Agriculture Extension Department promoted the idea of separate classes for youth to exhibit and judge their produce or livestock at local fairs. The "Farm Boys and Farm Girls Clubs" were combined and the name changed to "4-H Clubs" in 1952 and the motto became "Learn To Do By Doing.”

Musical Performance - Lorin Hollander

Lorin Hollander at the piano in Convocation Hall during the University's 'Month of Music.'

Bio/Historical Note: Lorin Hollander (born 1944) is an American classical concert pianist. He has performed with virtually all of the major symphony orchestras in the United States and many around the world.

Frank Holroyd

Frank Holroyd, professor, Department of Drama, poses with a stage display.

Bio/Historical Note: Frank Holroyd was appointed instructor of Drama at the University of Saskatchewan in 1948. One year later he was promoted to assistant professor, a position he held until his retirement in 1959. Holroyd performed the technical work and was a set designer. He returned to the Drama Department as a part-time instructor after his retirement. He eventually moved to Tangiers in 1962 and died there in 1971. The workshop in the Hangar Building was named the Frank Holroyd workshop.

E. Cora Hind

Image of E. Cora Hind, Editor, Winnipeg Free Press, checking grain in a field.

Bio/Historical Note: Ella Cora Hind, journalist, agricultural authority, activist and suffragist (1861-1942), was an acclaimed grain expert, a champion of women’s rights and an advocate for the franchise. Hind helped her grandfather on the family farm, where she learned about tending livestock, sowing wheat and judging when crops are ready to harvest. She was initially homeschooled but began attending classes at the age of 11 when a school was built nearby. During high school, Hind considered a career in teaching and wrote the exam. However, after failing the algebra section, she decided to become a journalist. Accompanied by her aunt, Ella Cora Hind boarded a train for Manitoba in 1882, travelling west for career opportunities. Armed with a letter of introduction from an uncle, Hind confidently entered the Manitoba Free Press office in Winnipeg. Editor William Fisher Luxton warmly welcomed her to the office but was astonished when she asked for a job as a reporter. Luxton refused. There were no women on staff, and he would not change policies. Hind left, feeling disappointed; however, she was not defeated. Hind heard about a brand-new office machine, the typewriter, and immediately rented one. She taught herself the two-finger hunt-and-peck method. After a month of intensive practice, she returned the machine and left with a job prospect. Shortly after, Hind secured a job working for a lawyer named Hugh John Macdonald (the son of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, who later became a politician and premier of Manitoba). Macdonald’s law office purchased the first typewriter in Winnipeg. Hind, the only typist west of the Great Lakes, was hired at a salary of six dollars a week. In 1893 Hind established Western Canada’s first public stenography bureau. At the same time, she was following developments in prairie farming. Among others, Hind’s clients included farmers, from cattlemen to grain farmers, and brokers. These men enjoyed working with Hind, who had an in-depth knowledge of farming due to her upbringing. Hind often submitted articles on agriculture to the newspaper under her preferred byline, E. Cora Hind. She soon became known as a grain expert. In 1901, editor John W. Dafoe of the Manitoba Free Press offered Hind a job as an agricultural editor. Tramping through fields to examine crops, she earned an international reputation as an agricultural journalist and “the oracle of wheat” for her accurate harvest yield predictions. She was also renowned for her non-traditional work wardrobe of riding breeches, high leather boots and a Stetson hat. Farm inspections later took Hind on travels throughout Canada and abroad. In 1924 alone, she travelled more than 10,000 kilometers to survey crops. Hind was a founding member of the Winnipeg branch of the Canadian Women’s Press Club. At the time, female journalists were not allowed to become members of the Canadian Press Club. Hind used her status to advocate for women in journalism and in the community.
Hind became involved in temperance movements shortly after arriving in Winnipeg in 1882. Her first job as typist for lawyer Hugh John Macdonald introduced her to a range of contacts and situations, including the desperate need for social reform. Unbearable living conditions, drunkenness, crime and child and spousal abuse were common in Winnipeg. Hind and her aunt joined the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in Winnipeg to press for prohibition. In 1894 she was a founding member of the Manitoba Equal Franchise Association with prominent suffragist Dr. Amelia Yeomans, who became the first president of the club. Hind composed and typed fiery suffrage speeches. In 1912 Hind co-founded the Political Equality League (PEL) with suffragist friends Nellie McClung and Lillian Beynon Thomas. Fighting for rights for all women, the core members of the PEL were professional women, such as journalists and physicians. Using education, speeches and satire, the PEL attracted public attention by holding a “mock parliament” in January 1914. Hind was part of the play’s cast, along with McClung and Thomas. The work of Hind and other suffragists ignited historic change. In 1916 Manitoba was the first province to grant women the right to vote and hold office. In 1935, the University of Manitoba awarded Hind an honourary Doctor of Laws degree. Seven years later, E. Cora Hind died at age 81. In 1997, a plaque was erected in Winnipeg, designating the journalist and suffragist as a National Historic Person.

Dr. Aaron Horowitz - Portrait

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Aaron Horowitz, head and associate professor, Department of Veterinary Anatomy, Western Canadian Veterinary Medicine, 1966-1973.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Aaron Horowitz was on staff at the Department of Structure and Function, School of Veterinary Medicine at Ross University, St. Kitts, West Indies, in 2011.

Dr. Bill Howell - Portrait

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Bill Howell, professor of Department of Animal and Poultry Science.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. William Edwin (Bill) Howell was born 23 March 1923 in Toronto. Dr. Howell served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II, first in the North Atlantic and later in the Mediterranean and Pacific. He earned his DVM from Ontario Agricultural Clinic. After obtaining his PhD at the University of Minnesota in 1952, he joined the Department of Animal Husbandry (later Animal Science), retiring in 1993. Bill Howell died 30 May 2009 in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia.

Dr. Eiler S. Humbert - Portrait

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Eiler S. Humbert, Associate Professor, Department of Dairy and Food Science.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Eiler Shirley Humbert was born in 1927 and raised on a farm south of Regina, Saskatchewan. During the Depression his family was forced off the farm, then relocating to be with family in San Diego, California. The family later returned to Saskatchewan to the family farm. After completing elementary school near his farm, and high school at Central Collegiate in Regina, he enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan. He completed his undergraduate and Master's degree in Dairy Science in the College of Agriculture and was awarded the Tommy Fraser Memorial Trophy for sportsmanship. Dr. Humbert earned his PhD at Michigan State University. In 1954 the U of S offered him a faculty position in the Dairy and Food Science Department in the College of Agriculture. He served as president of the Saskatchewan Agricultural Graduates Association and was awarded an honourary life membership. He and his wife Jean were members of the "Sod Busters", a donor group that enabled the initial planning of the new College of Agriculture building. Upon retirement he became Professor Emeritus. Dr. Humbert died in December 2020 in Saskatoon at age 93.

Mary H. Hull - Portrait

Head and shoulders image of Mary H. Hull, Associate Professor of Extension.

Bio/historical note: Mary Helene Hull (nee Robin), Associate Professor of Extension, was a specialist in clothing and textiles with the Extension Division, University of Saskatchewan from 1961 to her retirement in 1979. She received her formal training in Winnipeg as an apprentice and was granted a diploma in dressmaking and tailoring. In 1949 she graduated from the University of Manitoba in Home Economics. An M.Sc. graduate in Sociology from the University of London, Hull had a thorough background of experience as a teacher of clothing construction. Before joining the staff at the University, she worked in Extension in Prince Edward Island. Mary died in Saskatoon on 14 January 1999.

Dr. Zdzislaw F. Jaworski - Portrait

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Zdzislaw F. Jaworski, Departments of Medicine and Surgery, University Hospital.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Zdzislaw Feliks (George) Jaworski was born 14 June 1921 in Tsingtao, China, and grew up in Bydgoszcz, Poland. A prisoner of war in Germany during World War II, he graduated in Medicine from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium in 1949 and then he settled in Canada. Dr. Jaworski practiced medicine as well as embarking on a distinguished research career as a Medical Research Council scientist. In 1986, as Professor Emeritus, he retired from the University of Ottawa, Department of Medicine (Nephrology), but continued to practice medicine until 1997. Dr. Jaworski died 15 February 2012 in Ottawa at age 91.

Diamond Jenness - Portrait

Head and shoulders image of Diamond Jenness, honourary Doctor of Laws degree recipient. Image possibly taken near time of presentation.

Bio/Historical Note: A New Zealander by birth in 1886, Diamond Jenness’s first introduction to Canada came about quite by accident in 1913 when, fresh out of Balliol College, Oxford, he served as anthropologist on the motor vessel Karluk that carried members of the Canadian Arctic Expedition into the Arctic Ocean under the leadership of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. He was one of the few to survive that ill-fated voyage and established himself as a leading anthropologist by way of his ground-breaking study of the Copper Inuit, with whom he lived for two years from 1914-1916 in the then-extremely remote and isolated high Arctic, living the same primal existence as had their forebears thousands of years earlier. Jenness went on to undertake first-hand ethnological and anthropological studies in the Arctic and elsewhere in Canada. He authored more than 100 works on Canada’s Inuit and First Nations peoples and committed himself to fostering social and economic justice for Canada’s Indigenous population. He held senior positions in the Canadian federal public service during his long career and saw service in the trenches in the First World War and as deputy director of intelligence for the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War. Jenness’s achievements and honours are many, including a Guggenheim fellowship, terms as president of the American Archaeological Society and the American Anthropological Association and five honourary degrees, including one from the University of Saskatchewan (1965). Jenness served as chief of anthropology at the National Museum of Canada and as chief of the Geographic Branch of the Canadian Department of Mines and Resources. Jenness was named a companion of the Order of Canada in 1968. A peninsula on the west coast of Victoria Island, an island and a river in the Canadian Arctic and a high school in Hay River are named after him. In 2004 his name was used for a rock examined by the Mars Exploration Rover. Chief among his publications are Life of The Copper Eskimos, The People of the Twilight and The Indians of Canada, now in its 7th edition. One biographer, Barnett Richling, mentions that in his retirement, Jenness expressed his views on the treatment of Indigenous Peoples in Canada, advocating for the preservation of Indigenous cultures, greater integration of Indigenous people into Canadian society and a greater voice for them in national politics. Jenness died in 1969 in Gatineau, Quebec.

Dr. Chris Knapper - Portrait

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Chris Knapper, Department of Psychology.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Christopher Knapper earned a BA from the University of Sheffield (England) in 1961 and was awarded a PhD at the University of Saskatchewan in 1969. He is Professor Emeritus of the Psychology Department of Queens’ University in Kingston, Ontario (2021).

Dr. Doug Knott - Portrait

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Doug Knott, associate professor, Department of Crop Science.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Douglas Ronald Knott was born in 1927 in New Westminster, British Columbia. He obtained a BSA from the University of British Columbia in 1948, followed by a Master’s and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1952, specializing in plant genetics. That same year Dr. Knott joined the Department of Field Husbandry at the University of Saskatchewan. From 1965-1975 he was head of the Crop Sciences Department. Dr. Knott also served as Acting Dean of Agriculture in 1979 and again in 1989. Dr. Knott was Associate Dean of Research from 1988-1993. In 1986 he was named as the first holder of the W.J. White Chair in Crop Science. He was instrumental in developing the Crop Development Centre at the U of S. Dr. Knott became an internationally recognized expert in wheat stem and leaf rust resistance. He developed methods for identifying genes that can be used in breeding rust resistant wheats, and an innovative way to transfer genes from wild wheats to domesticated varieties. Dr. Knott’s book, The Wheat Rusts: Breeding for Resistance, is highly regarded by specialists. He also developed several varieties of durum: Stewart 63 durum in 1963; Arcola in 1983; Sceptre in 1985; and Plenty in 1990. His skills were in demand internationally: he was wheat research director for the Zambia-Canada Project from 1983 to 1988, and was a research consultant and lecturer in Brazil, China, and Kenya. Dr. Knott was inducted into the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame in 1995, and in 1999 was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to agricultural science. Dr. Knott contributed to the development of soccer, track and field, and tennis in Saskatoon and was an organizer and the chairman of the Saskatoon Field House committee when its construction was completed in 1979. Dr. Knott died in 2009.

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