Stan Hanson, Head Archivist, stands in the University Archives stack area with a file open in his hand.

Bio/Historical Note: Stanley Duane Hanson was born in 1942 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He received a BA degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1964 and a MA degree in history from the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, in 1972. Hanson began his career in 1964 as an archival assistant in the Saskatchewan Legislative Library. Two years later he joined the staff of the Saskatchewan Archives Board. In January 1970 he was appointed University Archivist at the University of Saskatchewan. He was not only the first person to hold that position, but he was also, briefly, the university archives’ sole employee. For all but the last eight years of his career with the university, with the occasional exception of a few transitory contract positions, the archives had a full staff complement of two. His MA thesis, completed in 1972, was on the 1931 Estevan strike and riot; he was subsequently invited to write a chapter for Irving Abella’s On Strike: Six Key Labour Struggles in Canada, 1919–1949 and frequently was a guest lecturer in Canadian labour history classes. With his good friend and colleague Don Kerr, Stan co-authored Saskatoon: The First Half-Century, considered by University of Victoria professor Alan Artibise to be “a particularly able and important addition to Western Canadian urban studies,” with “dimensions of depth and comprehensiveness that few urban biographies can match.” Hanson also co-edited, with professor Walter Kupsch, Gold and Other Stories: Prospecting and Mining in Northern Saskatchewan. In addition, Hanson was the sole or co-author of twenty articles and chapters in books or books, and curator of eleven exhibitions. He was elected to the first executive of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) and served on various committees of the ACA, the Canadian Council of Archives (CCA), and the National Archival Appraisal Board (NAAB). Hanson was elected as both chair and director of NAAB, was appointed to both the Planning and Priorities Committee and the Task Force on a Union List of Canadian Archival Holdings for the CCA, and was appointed or elected to six positions with the ACA. He helped establish both the Saskatchewan Council of Archives and the Saskatchewan Archivists’ Society, and served in various elected capacities for both these organizations. He was invited to give numerous lectures at archival conferences, particularly in the field of monetary appraisal. He was invited by the CCA to author what has become the standard work on monetary appraisal, and was co-editor of Canadian Archives in 1992. Hanson had just completed work on another manuscript at the time of his death. He was awarded the status of Archivist Emeritus and was given honorary membership in the ACA at the time of his retirement in December 1999. Hanson died in Saskatoon in 2001.

F. Hedley Auld, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Louis Hantelman during Convocation ceremony held in Physical Education gymnasium.

Bio/Historical Note: Louis Heinrich Wilhelm (Lou) Hantelman was a Saskatchewan farmer and politician. Born in 1884 and raised in Dubuque, Iowa, Hantelman came to Rouleau, Saskatchewan in 1905 to farm. During World War I he joined the 46th Battalion of the Royal Canadian Army and served in France; he reverted from the rank of captain to lieutenant so that he could remain with the men he had trained when they were sent to France. After the war Hantelman resumed farming near Plato, Saskatchewan, after the war. He became active in agrarian politics and was elected to the Saskatchewan legislature in the 1934 general election as a member of the Farmer-Labour Group which subsequently became the Saskatchewan CCF. Hantelman served for two terms before retiring in 1944. He subsequently served on the Board of Governors of the University of Saskatchewan and as chair of the university's hospital board. Hantelman received an Honourary Degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1955. In his will, he left the University $500,000 to be used to support agricultural research, agriculture scholarships, the humanities, and social sciences. The new interns' residence at the U of S, named the Hantelman Building, was built between 1961-1963. Louis Hantelman died in 1969 in Kyle, Saskatchewan.

Architect's sketch of the re-location and enlargement of Griffiths Stadium.

Bio/Historical Note: Prior to 1936, the University of Saskatchewan football team played its home games at Cairns Field on the corner of Avenue A (now Idylwyld Drive North) and 25th Street West. Athletic Director E.W. (Joe) Griffiths longed for a ‘‘home field’’ and had lobbied for its construction since his arrival on campus in 1919. Merits of the project were debated back and forth but little progress was made. In 1935 a student-organized bowling tournament raised $275 and kick-started the process. C.J. Mackenzie, first Dean of Engineering, next seized the initiative by organizing and chairing the U of S Stadium Fund Association. The plan was to fund construction in stages with donations from “students, graduates, faculty and well-wishing business men of the community.” Architectural plans, supplied “gratis” by faculty of the College of Engineering, envisioned a structure costing $25,000 whose final stages would include a grand entrance, bus mall, dressing rooms, showers, etc. The corner of College Street and Cumberland Avenue, site of the ill-fated 1912 City Hospital project, was chosen as the stadium location. Although tenders were initially called for, the University decided to build the project itself using primarily student labour. With the Depression showing no signs of lifting, the University saw the stadium as an opportunity to give financial aid to several students who were in danger of having to discontinue their studies. Sod was turned 17 May 1936, under the supervision of Professor A.R. Greig, Superintendent of Buildings; construction was carried out through the summer. The first stage of the original Griffiths Stadium was officially opened 3 October 1936 amid speeches, bands and a parade. In front of 2,000 fans, the University of Saskatchewan Huskies beat the Alberta Golden Bears 5-3. Decades later, the widening of College Drive and the desire for a new stadium combined to fuel construction of today’s Griffiths Stadium, a few hundred metres east of the original site. It was officially opened 23 June 1967. Improvements were made in 1988 to accommodate the 1989 Jeux Canada Games.

John G. Diefenbaker, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Elsie Hart, a pioneer of the organized farm movement, at Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: Born Elsie Mabel Atkinson in 1893 in Rugby, North Dakota, her family moved to a homestead in the Landis district of Saskatchewan in 1910. In 1915 she married Warren Hart of Landis and she became involved with the farm movement. Hart was the women’s district director of the United Farmers of Canada when the first Farm Women’s Week was held on the U of S campus in June 1928--an annual event for 38 years. During the Depression she was an active participant in the State Hospital Medical League and served on the Saskatchewan Health Planning Commission which preceded Saskatchewan’s universal hospital and medical care insurance programs. Hart became president of the women’s section of the United Farmers of Canada (Saskatchewan section) in 1941 for one year. Then she managed the family farm, after the 1942 death of her husband, for several years, before returning to the presidency of the UFC (Sask.) in 1945. Inspired by her, the women’s section took a deep interest in a project that resulted in financing medical scholarships and equipment to fight cancer at the University of Saskatchewan. She was named to the first Labour Relations Board from 1945 and served until 1964. She was a member of a delegation to Ottawa that sought the retention of rent controls and an expanded housing program in 1947. When the UFC Saskatchewan section was formally dissolved in 1949, Hart eased the transition to Saskatchewan Farmers’ Union by serving as women’s president for the first two years. Hart died in 1986 at age 92.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Jim Dosman, head, Centre for Agricultural Medicine.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. James Dosman grew up on a farm and attended school in Annaheim, Saskatchewan and at St. Peter’s College in Muenster, Saskatchewan, graduating in Medicine from the University of Saskatchewan in 1963. He was a family doctor in Saskatoon before specializing in Respiratory Medicine at McGill University in Montreal. His work has encompassed 301 scientific publications and 7 books, with his early work resulting in the Canadian Grain Dust Medical Surveillance Program, a historic federal program protecting workers highly exposed in grain elevators. In 1975 Dr. Dosman became founding head of the Division of Respiratory Medicine, in 1986 founding Director of the Centre for Agricultural Medicine, in 2006 founding Director of the Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture, and in 2011 established the National Agricultural Industrial Hygiene Laboratory, all at the U of S. Dr. Dosman was the founding chair of the Canadian Coalition for Agricultural Safety and Rural Health, now the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association, and the driving force behind the establishment of the Canadian Agriculture Safety Program supported by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. He was the founding co-chair of the Canadian Rural Health Research Society. He established the Agricultural Health and Safety Network in Saskatchewan, a farm safety program involving 30,000 families. He worked with the International Labour Organization of the United Nations in establishing an International Code of Safe Practice in Agriculture, now translated into numerous languages. From 2005 to 2009 he served on the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. In 2007 Dr. Dosman was instrumental in founding and is currently president and CEO of Agrivita Canada Inc., a not-for-profit company that has established the Canadian AgriSafety Applied Science Program supported by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. In 2013 he completed the American Board of Internal Medicine examinations to become Certified in Sleep Medicine. Dr. Dosman continues an active medical practice in sleep medicine and research in health and safety of rural and indigenous populations (2021).

View of Griffiths Stadium, from l to r: bleachers at far left, front gate, goalposts and scoreboard (in front of Main Barn), and bleachers at far right.

Bio/Historical Note: Prior to 1936, the University of Saskatchewan football team played its home games at Cairns Field on the corner of Avenue A (now Idylwyld Drive North) and 25th Street West. Athletic Director E.W. (Joe) Griffiths longed for a ‘‘home field’’ and had lobbied for its construction since his arrival on campus in 1919. Merits of the project were debated back and forth but little progress was made. In 1935 a student-organized bowling tournament raised $275 and kick-started the process. C.J. Mackenzie, first Dean of Engineering, next seized the initiative by organizing and chairing the U of S Stadium Fund Association. The plan was to fund construction in stages with donations from “students, graduates, faculty and well-wishing business men of the community.” Architectural plans, supplied “gratis” by faculty of the College of Engineering, envisioned a structure costing $25,000 whose final stages would include a grand entrance, bus mall, dressing rooms, showers, etc. The corner of College Street and Cumberland Avenue, site of the ill-fated 1912 City Hospital project, was chosen as the stadium location. Although tenders were initially called for, the University decided to build the project itself using primarily student labour. With the Depression showing no signs of lifting, the University saw the stadium as an opportunity to give financial aid to several students who were in danger of having to discontinue their studies. Sod was turned 17 May 1936, under the supervision of Professor A.R. Greig, Superintendent of Buildings; construction was carried out through the summer. The first stage of the original Griffiths Stadium was officially opened 3 October 1936 amid speeches, bands and a parade. In front of 2,000 fans, the University of Saskatchewan Huskies beat the Alberta Golden Bears 5-3. Decades later, the widening of College Drive and the desire for a new stadium combined to fuel construction of today’s Griffiths Stadium, a few hundred metres east of the original site. It was officially opened 23 June 1967. Improvements were made in 1988 to accommodate the 1989 Jeux Canada Games.

Walter C. Murray, University President, turns the first sod while C.J. Mackenzie and E. Kent Phillips stand on his right. A group of students look on; some have "NBC" on their shirts.

Bio/Historical Note: Prior to 1936, the University of Saskatchewan football team played its home games at Cairns Field on the corner of Avenue A (now Idylwyld Drive North) and 25th Street West. Athletic Director E.W. (Joe) Griffiths longed for a ‘‘home field’’ and had lobbied for its construction since his arrival on campus in 1919. Merits of the project were debated back and forth but little progress was made. In 1935 a student-organized bowling tournament raised $275 and kick-started the process. C.J. Mackenzie, first Dean of Engineering, next seized the initiative by organizing and chairing the U of S Stadium Fund Association. The plan was to fund construction in stages with donations from “students, graduates, faculty and well-wishing business men of the community.” Architectural plans, supplied “gratis” by faculty of the College of Engineering, envisioned a structure costing $25,000 whose final stages would include a grand entrance, bus mall, dressing rooms, showers, etc. The corner of College Street and Cumberland Avenue, site of the ill-fated 1912 City Hospital project, was chosen as the stadium location. Although tenders were initially called for, the University decided to build the project itself using primarily student labour. With the Depression showing no signs of lifting, the University saw the stadium as an opportunity to give financial aid to several students who were in danger of having to discontinue their studies. Sod was turned 17 May 1936, under the supervision of Professor A.R. Greig, Superintendent of Buildings; construction was carried out through the summer. The first stage of the original Griffiths Stadium was officially opened 3 October 1936 amid speeches, bands and a parade. In front of 2,000 fans, the University of Saskatchewan Huskies beat the Alberta Golden Bears 5-3. Decades later, the widening of College Drive and the desire for a new stadium combined to fuel construction of today’s Griffiths Stadium, a few hundred metres east of the original site. It was officially opened 23 June 1967, one month before the death of Joe Griffiths. Improvements were made in 1988 to accommodate the 1989 Jeux Canada Games.

Walter C. Murray, University President, turns the first sod while C.J. Mackenzie and E. Kent Phillips stand on his right. A group of students look on; some have "NBC" on their shirts.

Bio/Historical Note: Prior to 1936, the University of Saskatchewan football team played its home games at Cairns Field on the corner of Avenue A (now Idylwyld Drive North) and 25th Street West. Athletic Director E.W. (Joe) Griffiths longed for a ‘‘home field’’ and had lobbied for its construction since his arrival on campus in 1919. Merits of the project were debated back and forth but little progress was made. In 1935 a student-organized bowling tournament raised $275 and kick-started the process. C.J. Mackenzie, first Dean of Engineering, next seized the initiative by organizing and chairing the U of S Stadium Fund Association. The plan was to fund construction in stages with donations from “students, graduates, faculty and well-wishing business men of the community.” Architectural plans, supplied “gratis” by faculty of the College of Engineering, envisioned a structure costing $25,000 whose final stages would include a grand entrance, bus mall, dressing rooms, showers, etc. The corner of College Street and Cumberland Avenue, site of the ill-fated 1912 City Hospital project, was chosen as the stadium location. Although tenders were initially called for, the University decided to build the project itself using primarily student labour. With the Depression showing no signs of lifting, the University saw the stadium as an opportunity to give financial aid to several students who were in danger of having to discontinue their studies. Sod was turned 17 May 1936, under the supervision of Professor A.R. Greig, Superintendent of Buildings; construction was carried out through the summer. The first stage of the original Griffiths Stadium was officially opened 3 October 1936 amid speeches, bands and a parade. In front of 2,000 fans, the University of Saskatchewan Huskies beat the Alberta Golden Bears 5-3. Decades later, the widening of College Drive and the desire for a new stadium combined to fuel construction of today’s Griffiths Stadium, a few hundred metres east of the original site. It was officially opened 23 June 1967, one month before the death of Joe Griffiths. Improvements were made in 1988 to accommodate the 1989 Jeux Canada Games.