Eight COTC cadets pose indoors with a Triumph motorcycle; other motorcycles visible in background.

Four COTC officers in Germany looking at mill stone; mill wheel and building in background; [H. Watson]

Presentation of award to unidentifed COTC cadet. Names of men written on back of photograph: Brig. Gen. J.A.W. Bennel, Commander M.D.P. Allely, and D. McPherson.

Students walking on campus during winter. Chemistry Building and Murray Memorial (Main) Library in background.

Audrey Duffy (foreground) and Phoebe Matthews sit at a piano as other students look on.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Thorbergur Thorvaldson, Department of Chemistry, 1914-1949.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Thorbergur Thorvaldson was born in Iceland in 1883, and emigrated to Canada with his parents in 1885, settling near Gimli, Manitoba. Dr. Thorvaldson received a BSc (1906) from the University of Manitoba, and both his MSc (1909) and PhD (1911) from Harvard. From 1911-1913, on Fellowships, he studied in Dresden, Germany, and at the University of Liverpool. Dr. Thorvaldson returned to Harvard for one year as a research associate before joining the University of Saskatchewan in 1914 as assistant professor of Chemistry. He was promoted to professor in 1918 and named department head the following year, a post he held until 1948. In 1949 he was named the first dean of the College of Graduate Studies, and in 1959, named Dean Emeritus upon retirement. Dr. Thorvaldson gained an international reputation for his research into the chemistry of cements and the development of sulphate-resistant cement and concrete. He remained active after his retirement, as co-ordinator of research for the Saskatchewan Research Council and as a member of the National Research Council. Dr. Thorvaldson was also retained as a consultant on major construction projects such as the South Saskatchewan River Dam. The Chemistry Building on the U of S campus was named in 1966 in his honour, as was Thorvaldson Lake in northern Saskatchewan. Dr. Thorvaldson died in Saskatoon on 4 October 1965. The Thorvaldson Professorship is an endowed chair established in 1977 to honour Dr. Thorvaldson and to continue recognition of his important research accomplishments. The appointment recognizes outstanding research and teaching accomplishments of a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, who is selected for the professorship by their colleagues in the department.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Ertle L. Harrington, Department of Physics, 1920-1952.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Ertle Leslie Harrington was born on 7 March 1887 in Bucklin, Linn County, Missouri. He attended the University of Missouri, Harvard and the University of Chicago before teaching at Missouri State Teachers’ College. After working as a research physicist with Westinghouse, Dr. Harrington joined the Department of Physics of the University of Saskatchewan in 1920, eventually serving as head. Elected to fellowships by both the Royal Society of Canada (1932) and the American Physical Society, Dr. Harrington promoted the study of physics by those interested in other sciences. He wrote a physics textbook for medical and biology students. Dr. Harrington was interested in establishing a close connection between the Physics Department and the Saskatchewan Cancer Commission. Dr. Harrington retired in 1952, and died on 31 January 1956 in Alameda, California, at age 68. Harrington Place in the College Park neighborhood is named in his honour.

Group standing out of doors showing their accomplishments in dressmaking, "Achievement Day". Sign above doorway "Homemakers Club", of building in the background. [Farm Girls Homecraft Club]?

Group standing out of doors, showing their accomplishments in dressmaking, "Achievement Day". Building in the background.
[Farm Girls Homecraft Club]?

A female [research techician] examines a mouse; rack of cages in background.

Bio/historical note: The Department of Animal Husbandry used white mice to indicate nutritional quality of livestock rations since their rates of gain and their efficiency of converting food into body gain depend on food quality.

Bio/Historical Note: The name of the Department of Animal Husbandry changed to the Department of Animal Science in May 1962.

A woman sitting and working at a table in a lab with test tubes in front of her, testing for pullorum, a poultry disease.

Dr. Wilf Rae, professor of Poultry Science, kneeling and taking a chicken out of a nest, with another chicken at his knee.

Murray Adaskin, head, Department of Music, gathers with the students around the classroom piano. Students include Audrey Duffy, Boyd McDonald, Garth Beckett and Roy Romanow (standing at far left).

Cattle being fed in a pen beside a barn.

Three students in the woodwork shop.