A group of students gathered around a machine 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 Dr. Neil B. Hutcheon, College of Engineering, 1937-1952.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Neil Barron Hutcheon (1911-1989) earned a BEng from the University of Saskatchewan and a DPhil from the University of London. Returning to the U of S as professor of Mechanical Engineering, he remained there until 1953. Dr. Hutcheon joined the National Research Council as assistant director of the Division of Building Research. He became director in 1969. Dr. Hutcheon took early retirement in 1974 to prepare teaching material for building science courses associated with heat and moisture problems in buildings. Dr. Hutcheon was a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, a past president of the Association of Professional Engineers of Saskatchewan, and a Fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, of which he was a director for four years. The latter association honoured Dr. Hutcheon with its "Distinguished Service Award" in 1967 and with the "F. Paul Anderson Award" in 1975, the highest award for "notable scientific achievement." The U of S awarded him an honourary Doctor of Laws degree in 1975. The Neil Hutcheon Prize is awarded annually by the College of Engineering.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Thomas C. (Van) Vanterpool, Department of Biology, 1928-1965.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in Saba, West Indies on 22 April 1898, Thomas Clifford (Van) Vanterpool took his early education in Barbados, obtaining the Oxford and Cambridge Higher School Certificate in Science in 1916. The school in Barbados was modelled on the English Public School with its emphasis on sports. Dr. Vanterpool excelled at cricket, soccer and track. After two years as Overseer on a sugar plantation, he entered McGill’s MacDonald College, graduating in 1923 with a BSc and earning an MSc in 1925. He was a member of the basketball, baseball and track teams. Dr. Vanterpool joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan in 1928, where he spent his entire professional life, continuing to work in his laboratory until 1974, nine years after his formal retirement. Dr. Vanterpool did considerable research on browning root rot of cereals, a disease that caused average crop losses in 1928, 1933 and 1939. estimated at $10 million per annum. Dr. Vanterpool identified the causal organisms, as well as showing how the disease could be controlled. He also pioneered research on the diseases of oil seed crops on the prairies, and was responsible for teaching courses in plant physiology, plant pathology and mycology, and botany. In 1968 Dr. Vanterpool was given the first earned DSc awarded by the U of S. Dr. Vanterpool died on 15 January 1984 in Victoria, British Columbia.

Students being instructed by Jack McFaull, instructor in Agriculture, on the self propelled combine in the machinery laboratory. Tractor in background.

Students dancing in the Physical Education gymnasium to the musical stylings of the Western Kings. Streamers and the U of S logo on wall in background.

Two students standing by a display labelled "Globe Laboratories" that is covered with medical equipment like syringes, clamps, tubes, and medicines.

Bio/Historical Note: Following passage of the Saskatchewan Pharmacy Act in 1911, the newly incorporated Saskatchewan Pharmaceutical Association requested the University of Saskatchewan undertake the training and examination of pharmacists. A School within the College of Arts and Science was established in 1913 and the following year, 22 students enrolled in a one-year certificate program following a three-year apprenticeship. In 1921 the School became a College offering a four-year course leading to a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy. Three years later the certificate program was extended to two years. In 1946 the four-year BSP was a requirement for license in Saskatchewan. In 1987 a Division of Nutrition and Dietetics was established in the College of Pharmacy. Prior to this, Nutrition and Dietetics had been offered in the College of Home Economics. In 1994 the College was renamed the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition.

Male student standing in front of display of items made of plastic: "CIL Polythene is made in Canada, " "Containers, Closures, and Squeeze Bottles," Flexible P...," Packaging Films," Polythene Coatings and Laminates," Children's Toys," "Housewares."

A student choir stands among the seats of a lecture theatre while a man directs them from below.

Head and shoulders image of A.J.G. Maw (McGill '23), Biology.

Bio/Historical Note: In 1965, A.J.G. Maw (McGill ’23) taught in the Department of Poultry Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

Head and shoulders image of Taylor A. Steeves, professor, Biology.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in 1926 in Quincy, Massachusetts, Taylor Steeves obtained his B.Sc. at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and in 1951 was awarded his Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University. As part of his graduate training he had spent a year as a Sheldon Travelling Fellow at the University of Manchester, and in 1953, while still a Harvard Fellow, he was a Visiting Investigator at the Institut National de Recherches Agronomiques in Versailles, France. In 1954 he returned to Cambridge to join the faculty of Harvard University as an Assistant Professor. He remained at Harvard for five more years, and in 1959 was recruited by Professor Donald Rawson to the Department of Biology at the University of Saskatchewan as an Associate Professor. He was promoted to full Professor in 1964. He served as Head of his department from 1976 to 1981 and returned to serve as Acting Head in 1987-1988. For his distinguished service, he was named the Rawson Professor of Biology in 1985, and he retired from the University of Saskatchewan in 1994 as Professor Emeritus. His early research focused on several aspects of plant development, with particular emphasis on the application to this study of tissue culture techniques he had acquired in France and introduced to Canada. In the latter stages of his research career his focus shifted to the then somewhat unfashionable study of native plants of the prairies, and in this vein he supervised a number of graduate student projects on the prairie lands surrounding the wheat and hay fields of his farm on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River. Throughout his career he was active as an author and published many papers, some with his wife, Margaret Wolfe Steeves, also a professor of Biology. In 1992 the University of Saskatchewan awarded him the earned degree of Doctor of Science in recognition of his research, and in 1998 he received an honourary Doctor of Science from the University of Guelph. Of his many honors and awards, he stated that the most meaningful to him was the Master Teacher Award granted to him by the University of Saskatchewan in 1990. Steeves was an active member of the Anglican Church, which he joined only as a young man on his arrival at Harvard. He served as Deacon in his local parish in Saskatoon and for many years participated at the national level in the organization of his Church. In 1991 the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad of the University of Saskatchewan awarded him an honourary Doctor of Canon Law in recognition of his services to the College. Steeves died in Saskatoon in 2011.

Profile image of John Leicester, professor of Physical Education. Provincial crests of Manitoba and Ontario on wall in background.

Bio/Historical Note: John Leicester, a graduate of Nutana Collegiate in Saskatoon, enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan (BA 1948; BEd 1951) in 1946 after serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War. Prior to joining the Huskies, he played two years for the Junior Quakers hockey club and had won several provincial and Western Canadian tennis titles. Leicester played three years on both the Huskies hockey and tennis teams, two years on the badminton team and one year on the football team. He also served on the Men's Athletic Board. Leicester went on to coach the Huskies hockey team for two years - 1949-1950 and 1950-1951, and was professor of Physical Education from 1951-1988. Leicester helped found the Young Athletes of Saskatchewan sports schools in 1970s and was also a founding member of both the Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association and the Canadian Association of Sports Sciences. Leicester was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1984 and the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame in 1987.

Technician demonstrates the Cobalt-60 Beam Therapy Unit to a group of children in foreground; male [teacher] at far left.

Bio/Historical Note: This Cobalt-60 unit was constructed for the Saskatchewan Cancer Commission and was installed at University Hospital in August 1951. It was the first Cobalt-60 Unit placed in operation anywhere in the world. The unit was designed by Dr. Harold Johns of the U of S Physics Department in collaboration with Dr. T.A. Watson of the Cancer Clinic. The unit was constructed by J.A. MacKay of the Acme Machine and Electric Co., Saskatoon. A number of graduate students in physics and chemistry have carried on important research projects with the unit. The source contains 1,100 curies of cobalt and was produced in Canada's atomic pile in Chalk River, Ontario. This source is equivalent in power in about 1,500 grams of radium. This is about 1,500 times as much activity as is presently in use for other medical purposes in Saskatchewan. The radiation from the Cobalt-60 Unit, because of its great penetrating power, must be shielded by about ten inches of lead. This penetrating power makes it ideal for reaching tumours beneath the surface of the skin.
From The Green and White, fall 1953, pg. 1.

View of exhibit titled "Laboratory Synthesis of Sulfanilamide" showing beakers and test tubes with hoses are set up on a table over bunsen burners. A student in a lab coat uses a stick to point to the display.

A student in a lab coat talks with a woman with back to camera. all around are various medicines in jars on shelves.

Bio/Historical Note: Following passage of the Saskatchewan Pharmacy Act in 1911, the newly incorporated Saskatchewan Pharmaceutical Association requested the University of Saskatchewan undertake the training and examination of pharmacists. A School within the College of Arts and Science was established in 1913 and the following year, 22 students enrolled in a one-year certificate program following a three-year apprenticeship. In 1921 the School became a College offering a four-year course leading to a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy. Three years later the certificate program was extended to two years. In 1946 the four-year BSP was a requirement for license in Saskatchewan. In 1987 a Division of Nutrition and Dietetics was established in the College of Pharmacy. Prior to this, Nutrition and Dietetics had been offered in the College of Home Economics. In 1994 the College was renamed the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition.