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Indian Head Agricultural Society Minute Book

Indian Head Agricultural Society Minute Book

A large black and red hardcover notebook containing the meeting minutes for the Indian Head Agricultural Society from 1926 to 1930. The book also contains the minutes of a meeting on January 23, 1945 to gift the cash assets of the society to the Indian Head Athletic Association.

Indian Head Agricultural Society

Joe Griffiths and Orvald Gratias

Joe Griffiths and Orvald Gratias

Joe Griffiths, coach of the track and field team, and Orvald Gratias, captain of the team, stand outside a tent.

Bio/Historical Note: Orvald Arthur Gratias, a native of Kinistino, Saskatchewan, enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan (BSc ‘28; MSc ‘30) in 1925. During his five years on campus he competed in basketball, football and track & field. He excelled in discus and hammer throw and was captain of the track & field team in 1930. In 1928, the Sheaf named him Saskatchewan's most versatile athlete. Joe Griffiths later described Gratias as one of the greatest all-around athletes to wear the green and white. He received a Major Athletic Award in 1930. Gratias was president of the University Athletic Directorate and went on to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, studying particle physics. Gratias parlayed an MBA into a second career as a research analyst with the Montreal blue-chip firm MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier, specializing in market movements. Gratias died on 23 July 1996 in Ottawa at age 87.

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