Virginia Fisher, instructor for the pre-school centre, Institute of Child Guidance and Development, tells a story to a group of children during Story Hour.

J.C. Bates, Assistant Dean of Education, presents a scroll to Mrs. G.C. Heard of the graduating class of 1912.

From back of photo: "M.M. Gupta (right) and J.M. Chudobiak of the Systems and Adaptive Control Research Group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering have developed computer techniques for predicting when failures are about to occur in rotating machines."

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Madan M. Gupta was born on 10 April 1936 in Lansdowne, India. He received his BE (Hons.) and ME degrees in electronics-communications engineering from the Birla Engineering College (now the Birla Institute of Technology and Science), Pilani, India, in 1961 and 1962, respectively. He was awarded the university's gold medal for being the top graduate. Shortly thereafter Dr. Gupta was awarded a prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship to continue his education in the United Kingdom. As a commonwealth scholar, he received his PhD with a specialization in adaptive control systems from the University of Warwick in 1967. Then Dr. Gupta was recruited to be an engineering professor at the University of Saskatchewan starting in November 1967. Over the next 54 years Dr. Gupta was a prolific full-time researcher. In 1998, for his extensive contributions in neuro-control, neuro-vision, and fuzzy-neural systems, Dr. Gupta was awarded an earned DSc by the U of S. In 2010, he was one of only four professors who were honoured with newly created appointments as distinguished research chairs (now distinguished professors). Dr. Gupta won a University of Saskatchewan Prime of Life Achievement Award and the NSERC Outstanding Merit Award. Dr. Gupta's full-time research at the U of S started in November 1967, and he continued doing full-time research as director of the Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory until being hospitalized on 5 October 2021. Dr. Gupta died 8 November 2021 in Saskatoon.

Richard D. Sullivan, professor of Classics, studying reproductions of papyri in a search for clues to some of the behind-the-scenes influences in eastern Greek history.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in Denver, Colorado in 1936, Richard Douglas Sullivan spent his formative years studying Latin, Greek and History at Regis Preparatory School and College. He earned a BA (1959) from the University of Chicago, and a PhD (1970) at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to his studies at UCLA, Sullivan spent much of the 1960s researching and teaching at various institutions, including the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the Vergilian Society in Naples, Harvard, Berkeley, and Oxford. In 1967 Sullivan was appointed Lecturer in Classics at the University of Saskatchewan; by 1977 he had been promoted to full Professor. He resigned from the University in 1980 to accept a position at Simon Fraser University. In 1984, he became the Historian for the National Geographic Society's Kavouvi Project in Crete. Sullivan was a prolific scholar of international scope and reputation. Perhaps his most lasting contribution to the U of S was in connection with his work as a papyrologist; he secured for the Library film and slide reproductions of papyrus documents housed at major museums around the world. To his credit are three books and more than 25 published articles and reviews. Sullivan died in Vancouver in 1988 at the age of 53.

The Honourable Brenda Robertson, New Brunswick Minister of Social Services, delivers the inaugural Edith Rowles Simpson Lecture at the University of Saskatchewan.

Chemistry equipment in lab of Dr. Art Knight, professor of Chemistry.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Art Knight was born in St. John's, Newfoundland. He attended Memorial University, earning both a BSc and an MSc before moving on to the University of Alberta for his Ph.D. He came to the University of Saskatchewan in 1964, progressing through the ranks becoming a full professor in 1972. Dr. Knight was appointed head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in 1976, dean of Arts and Sciences in 1981 and associate vice-president (Academic) in 1990. In 1993 he joined SIAST Saskatoon Campus as president, where he remained until his retirement in 2003. Through the years Dr. Knight served his community as president of the Saskatoon Rotary Club, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic School Board, member of the Knights of Columbus, and as a volunteer with his church and community association. His passion in retirement was to work as chair of the Board of the Mendel Art Gallery and toward the creation of the new Art Gallery of Saskatoon. Dr. Knight died in Saskatoon in 2011.

George Dempster, head, Department of Bacteriology, gives a lecture in a new classroom of the Health Sciences Building Addition, B Wing. View of back of class looking toward Professor Dempster.

A note signed by Commander C.G. Phillips, of the Royal Navy, more than 120 years ago is surprisingly well preserved. It is pictured lying on the poster it was found wrapped in on Cornwallis Island in Canada's Central Arctic. The poster is an advertisement for steamboat pleasure trips on the Thames River.

Close up of memorial plaque commemorating Robert Reid Moffat, co-architect of the Memorial Union Building. Plaque and the "Island of Trees" are located in front of the Arts Tower.

Bio/Historical Note: Robert Reid Moffat (1906-1960), partner in the leading postwar firm of Shore & Moffat, established in Toronto in 1945. Born in Edrans, Manitoba, he obtained a degree in Science from the University of Saskatchewan in 1926, and worked for one year as a junior draftsman for David Webster, a leading architect in that city. He moved to Boston and studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology from 1927 to 1931, then returned to Canada where he worked for Darling & Pearson, for Mathers & Haldenby, and for S.B. Coon & Son, all of Toronto. He served as Assistant Superintendent of Buildings at the Univ. of Toronto from 1932 to 1936, then opened an office under his own name. He embraced the new modernist style being promoted in Europe and the United States, and entered the T. Eaton Co. Architectural Competition for House Designs in 1936, receiving an Honourable Mention for his progressive concept. His striking design was a radical departure from the neo-Georgian conservatism evident in some of the other entries. After serving overseas with Canadian Forces during WWII, he formed a new partnership in 1945 with Leonard Shore and during the next fifteen years they were credited with a number of significant modernist landmarks in Toronto (see list of works under Shore & Moffat). The firm also designed the Memorial Student Union Building on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan. Their firm was awarded a Massey Medal for the York Township Municipal Offices (1952), and another Silver Massey Medal for the Imperial Oil Research Centre in Sarnia, Ont. (1961). Moffat died suddenly on 17 December 1960 at Port Credit, Ont.

Gene Horton, chief of NASA's Manned Flight Awareness Program, addresses faculty and students during the University's participation in the "Earth I Care" program; held in the Physical Education gymnasium.

Note on back: "Walt Cunningham, Apollo Astronaut, addresses faculty and students during the University's participation in the "Earth I Care" program," held in the Physical Education gymnasium. A model of a spacecraft resting on a table at left.

From back of photo: "Dr. J.E. Merriman (foreground), director of the Exercise Laboratory at the Univ. of Sask, and James McHugh, general manager of Simpsons-Sears in Saskatoon, look over data produced on a new $3,500 computer printer. The printer was donated to the Univ. by Simpsons-Sears Ltd. of Toronto, to help speed up the processing of information on coronary risk factors and exercise performance."

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. John Edward Merriman was born on 12 August 1924 in Hamilton, Ontario. He was granted his MD from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario in 1947. In 1954 he took his young family west to Saskatoon, to the University of Saskatchewan where he was a professor of medicine. Always an innovator, he took a sabbatical leave in 1963 to London, England to research computer applications in medicine. He helped pave the way for modern cardiac rehabilitation techniques, when established one of the first cardiac rehabilitation programs at the U of S in 1965. In 1977 Dr. Merriman moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he established a medical practice where he worked until his retirement in 2010 at the age of 85. Dr. Merriman was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the American Academy of Orthopedic Medicine in 2005. He died in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 7 February 2011 at age 86.

From back of photo: "Picture taken at the time of the 10th Reunion of the Class of '57 / College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan / October 19, 1967." Back row: E.J. Patkau, H.E. Friesen, R.C. Cooper, L.M. Loewen, D.L. Anderson, E.H. Baergen. Front row: R.R. Wheaton, R.L. Pendleton, W.W. Hathway, M.B. Krochak, N.W. Kavanagh, A.W. Hindmarsh, D.J. Schmidt.

Gathered around a desk in the new Library in the Health Sciences Building are (l to r): Dr. J.R. Gutelius, Head, Department of Surgery; Dr. C. Bryce Orchard, Department of Surgery; and Dr. Carman H. Weder, Associate Clinic Professor, Department of Surgery, watch as Lorie Horky, Librarian, signs out a book.

Bio/Historical Note: The oldest wing of the Health Sciences Building, the A Wing, dating to 1949, was originally the Medical College Building. The Health Sciences A Wing has heritage value as the cornerstone of the medical precinct at the university and was designed by architects Webster and Gilbert. The A Wing was renovated and reopened in 2019. The B Wing was completed by 1971.

Three men looking through a card catalogue from l to r: Dr. George Peacock, Dr. Mel G. Kunkel, and Dr. Sydney R. Gelmon.