Image of an oil painting of Dr. Leo F. Kristjanson, University President, 1980-1989; painting located in the Administration Building.

T.K. (Kurt) Kyser, Professor, Geological Sciences, checks equipment used to determine the oxygen isotope composition of earth samples.

Head and shoulders image of Samuel Laimon, Associate Professor, College of Commerce.

Posed indoor image of Mike Lamborn, Huskie football player and Canada West all-star, posing with a football and kneeling on one knee.

Bio/Historical Note: Mike Lamborn was a two-time CWUAA All-Star defensive back and was a starter over four years. He was drafted in the 6th round (48th overall) by the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1978.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Ed Larter, Professor, Department of Crop Science.

Bio/Historical Note: By 1957 Dr. Edward N. Larter was professor of Field Husbandry at the University of Saskatchewan. By 1974 he was professor of Plant Science at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Larter is Professor Emeritus, Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Manitoba (2021).

Panel of three Law students seated up on a stage taking questions from a faculty member standing behind a table; possibly Moot Court. View from back of room looking toward bench. Held in Law-Commerce Building.

R.W. Begg, Saskatoon Campus Principal, gives an address at the official opening of the new Law Building. Guests seated on dais; the Centennial flag 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 image of Derek W. Lawrence, instructor, Department of French.

Head and shoulders image of Maurice Lebel, honourary Doctor of Laws degree recipient,l ikely at the time of presentation.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in Saint-Lin, Quebec, Maurice Lebel received a BA in 1928 from Université de Montréal and an MA in 1930 from Université Laval. In 1931 Lebel received a Diplôme d'Études Supérieures in language and classical literature from the Sorbonne. In 1932 he received a Diploma in language and English literature and a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1935 from the University of London. He received a Ph.D. in education in 1952 and a D.Litt. from the University of Athens in 1957. From 1937-1975 Lebel was a professor of language and Greek literature at Université Laval. From 1957-1963 he was the dean of the Faculty of Letters. From 1963-1964 he was the president of the Royal Society of Canada (he was made a Fellow in 1947) and was awarded the Pierre Chauveau Medal in 1962. In 1967, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1994 he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec. Lebel died in 2006 at age 96.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. J. Francis Leddy, Dean, College of Arts and Science, 1949-1964.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. John Francis Leddy was born 16 April 1911 in Ottawa but was raised and educated in Saskatoon. He received both a BA (1930) and MA (1931) from the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Leddy took up postgraduate work at the University of Chicago in 1932 and went to Oxford as the Saskatchewan Rhodes Scholar; he earned a BLitt (1935) and a DPhil (1938). In 1936 he joined the Classics Department at the U of S as instructor; by 1946 he was professor and head of the department. Dr. Leddy held several administrative positions, many of them concurrently: member of the University Senate (1945-1964); director of Summer School (1942-1949); dean of Arts and Science (1949-1964); and Vice-President (Academic) (1961-1964). That same year Dr. Leddy was appointed president of the University of Windsor, retiring in 1972. Throughout his career Dr. Leddy served on a variety of national and international organizations, and his contributions in the field of education have been widely recognized. He received honourary degrees from ten Canadian universities (U of S, 1965) and one from the Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1972. Dr. Francis Leddy died on 17 September 1998 in [Windsor, Ontario].

Image of Dr. Louis B. Jaques, Department of Physiology, seated at his desk.

View looking northwest of construction of Medical Building; Chemistry (Thorvaldson) Building in background.

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.

Elevated view looking southeast of the new south wing of the Murray Library nearing completion. Construction equipment and truck in foreground.

Bio/Historical Note: Though the first recorded withdrawal from the University Library occurred in October 1909, nearly five decades passed before the Library had its own building. The early collection was housed either on the second floor of the College Building (later known as the Administration Building) or was scattered among a number of small departmental libraries. Plans for a new library building in the late 1920s were ended by the start of the Great Depression; but a dramatically reduced acquisitions budget was offset by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation in 1933. In 1943 the University hired its first professional Librarian. A combination of provincial grants and University fundraising financed the construction of the Murray Memorial Library. The library was named after the University’s first President, Walter C. Murray. Designed by noted Regina architect Kioshi Izumi working under H.K. Black, Architect, it marked a change in campus architecture away from the more angular and elaborate Collegiate Gothic style to that of the less expensive cube. Building materials included granite at the entrance and Tyndall stone as a wall cladding and window trim. In addition to the library, the building housed the College of Law, an office of the Provincial Archives and a 105-seat lecture theatre equipped with the latest in audiovisual teaching aids. The most dramatic transformation took place between 1970 and 1976 when a six floor south wing was added along with an extensive renovation of the 1956 structure. Designed by BLM, Regina, the south wing was unlike any other building on campus. Clad in Tyndall stone panels made to look like concrete (through a "bush hammered" finish), the grey almost windowless building is industrial and utilitarian in appearance. The University's master plan required buildings in the core of campus to be clad in stone. However, the "bush hammered" finish was used since the Library addition was built during a period that saw the flowering of "Brutalist" Architecture, so called because of the wide use of exposed concrete. The new (south) wing, originally called the Main Library, was officially opened on 17 May 1974, and also became the home of the Department of Art and Art History, the College of Graduate Studies and the University Archives.

View of the courtyard showing the east doors of the Murray Library, located on the east side of the library. Shrubbery and benches in foreground; Murray Library at left, with Art Department at right in background.

Progress shot looking south of construction of the Linear Accelerator Building. Workers in foreground; heating plant in background.

Bio/Historical Note: The building of the Linear Accelerator (Linac) was not a random event but rather the result of a series of developments on campus. The Department of Physics had over the previous decades built a reputation for experimentation and innovation. The post-war period saw the University of Saskatchewan in the forefront of nuclear physics in Canada. In 1948, Canada’s first betatron (and the world’s first used in the treatment of cancer) was installed on campus. It was used for research programs in nuclear physics, radiation chemistry, cancer therapy and radiation biology. Next the world’s first non-commercial cobalt-60 therapy unit for the treatment of cancer was officially opened in 1951. With this unit research was undertaken in the areas of radiological physics, radiation chemistry and the effects of high energy radiation on plants and animals. When the construction of the Linear Accelerator was announced in the fall of 1961, it was portrayed as the next logical step on the University’s research path. Varian Associates, Palo Alto, California, designed and built the accelerator with Poole Construction of Saskatoon employed as the general contractor. The 80 foot electron accelerator tube was to create energy six times that of the betatron. The cost of the $1,750,000 facility was split between the National Research Council and the University of Saskatchewan with the NRC meeting the cost of the equipment and the University assuming the costs of the building. The official opening in early November of 1964 was more than just a few speeches and the cutting of a ribbon. It was a physics-fest, with 75 visiting scientist from around the world in attendance presenting papers and giving lectures over the period of several days. Three eminent physicists were granted honorary degrees at the fall convocation and hundreds of people showed up for the public open house. For three decades the Linac has served the campus research community and will continue to do so as it has become incorporated into the Canadian Light Source synchrotron.