Head and shoulders image of Dr. Hugh Nicholson, professor, Department of Animal and Poultry Science.

Boi/Historical Note: Dr. Hugh H. Nicholson was born 30 September 1923 near Lloydminster, SK. After high school he joined the RCAF and served during World War II. After the war he enrolled at UBC and earned his BSc in Agriculture. He earned his PhD in Corvallis, Oregon. After many years with the Range Experimental, Department of Agriculture Canada in Kamloops, British Columbia, he joined the Department of Animal and Poultry Science as a professor until his death 11 December 1990 in Saskatoon.

Head and shoulders of Wei Ze Huang, Soil Science.

Howard Leyton-Brown, director of Conservatory, in recording booth in Darke Hall addition, Regina Campus.

Bio/Historical Note: Howard Leyton-Brown was born 19 December 1918 in Melbourne, Australia, and raised in that city. At an early age he demonstrated an extraordinary talent for music, and in 1937 he left Australia to study violin in Europe. World War II interrupted these studies and he enlisted in the Royal Air Force, serving as a pilot in Bomber Command and also as an instructor and examiner with the Commonwealth Pilot Training Program. Leyton-Brown received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his wartime service. While stationed in Estevan, Saskatchewan he met his future wife, Myrl, and she joined him in England in 1944. earned the Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music, receiving the highest marks ever awarded in the British Isles. Leyton-Brown subsequently performed as a soloist and also served as leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1952 he accepted a position as head of the String Department of the Regina Conservatory of Music, becoming director in 1955, and was appointed director of the Western Board of Music Examination system in 1953. He held both directorships until his retirement in 1987. Leyton-Brown remained active as a soloist and conductor, notably of the Regina Symphony Orchestra, and served on the boards of many organizations dedicated to music and the performing arts. He was founding Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Regina, earned a PhD from the University of Michigan and continued to contribute long after retirement in 2016. He was the recipient of many honours, the most significant of which include being named a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1955, Member of the Order of Canada in 1991, Member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 1996, and Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour in 2015. Howard Leyton-Brown died 13 January 2017.

Dr. Wilf Rae standing with Mrs. Rae and holding a plaque that reads:"Testimonial to Prof. Wilfrid John Rae on the occasion of his retirement from the Poultry Science Department of the University of Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Poultry Board presents this testimonial in appreciation of his thirty seven years of devotion, and for the outstanding contribution made to all phases of the poultry industry."

Bio/Historical Note: Wilfrid John Rae was professor and head, Department of Poultry Science, between 1929 and 1966.

R.W. Begg, University President, cuts a cake. Standing in background are; D. Ponto, W. Drozda, B. Bayda, V. Herauf, an unidentified person and J. Hill.

Looking south at the Hospital Systems Study Group building at 3337 8th St. E. CKOM radio station at left.

A class in session during Hort Week.

Dr. Cecil F. Patterson, head, Department of Horticulture, holding a potato and standing near many pots which contain dirt and potatoes.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in 1892 at Watford, Ontario, Dr. Cecil Frederick Patterson graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College with a BSc in Agriculture. He then took his MA and PhD at Urbana, Illinois. He came to the University of Saskatchewan in 1921 as a lecturer in horticulture. In the following year, a Department of Horticulture was organized, and plans laid for a program of fruit variety testing and fruit breeding. In his thirty-nine years as head of the Department of Horticulture, Dr. Patterson was responsible for the introduction of more than thirty new varieties of hardy fruits, including apples, pears, plums, cherries, raspberries and strawberries. He was also responsible for an improved potato variety, well adapted to prairie growing conditions. In the realm of floriculture, his name became synonymous with a collection of lily varieties in pink, white, rose and other colours - the result of twenty years of patient crossing and selection. Other flower introductions included geraniums and gladioli. Dr. Patterson was a charter member of the Agricultural Institute of Canada, a Fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, a charter member of the Western Canadian Society for Horticulture, and an honorary life member of the Saskatchewan Horticultural Societies Association. Cecil Patterson died in 1961. He was posthumously inducted into the Saskatchewan Agriculture Hall of Fame in 1973. The Patterson Garden, an arboretum on campus, was named in his honour in 1969.

Outdoor group photograph of attending members; trees in background.

Elevated view of field showing small shrubs as the beginning of a nursery; unknown location.

Dr. Ed Maginnes, professor of Horticultural Science, and G. Green check the growth of tomatoes inside their experimental greenhouse.

Dr. Ed Maginnes, professor of Horticultural Science, and E. Brooks are checking the growth of tomatoes inside the experimental greenhouse which is heated with waste heat.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Edward Alexander Maginnes was born 19 April 1933 in Ottawa. He attended Lisgar Collegiate in Ottawa and then went on to attend MacDonald College in Montreal where he received his BSc in 1956. He then worked at the Experimental Farm in Ottawa and helped establish the family tree nursery, A.D. Maginnes and Son. From 1957-1964 he attended Cornell University where he received his MSc and PhD, following which he accepted the position of Professor of Horticulture Science at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Maginnes remained there teaching and conducting research for 36 years, retiring in 2000. Areas that were of particular interest to him included Waste Heat Greenhouse Management, turf grass growth and maintenance as well as hydroponics growing methods. Ed Maginnes died 20 May 2010 in Saskatoon.

Dr. Laurence M. Winters, professor of Animal Husbandry, judging horses at Saltcoats, Saskatchewan, in an open field. People, buildings and vehicles in distance.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Laurence Merriam Winters was born 15 June 1891 in Pepin Township, Wabasha County, Minnesota. Winters was professor of Animal Husbandry at the University of Saskatchewan Bio/Historical Note: Laurence Merriam Winters was born 15 June 1891 at Lake City, Minnesota. He earned his BS degree (in animal husbandry) in 1919 and his PhD degree (in zoology) in 1932, both at the University of Minnesota. His MS degree was earned at Iowa State College in 1920. His search for knowledge led him to study at the University of Wisconsin in 1925 and at the Boyce Thompson Institute (Harvard University) in 1927. Dr. Winters was a professor of animal husbandry at the University of Saskatchewan from 1920 to 1928. He published in 1925 his first edition of "Animal Breeding". This work was a useful addition to the shelves of students and livestock men, and as a text book to the former and as a reference volume and means of better understanding of the many breeding problems met with by the practical and experienced stockman. The second edition was published in 1930. Late in 1928 he returned to Minnesota as associate professor in charge of animal breeding in the Division of Animal Husbandry. Dr. Winters oversaw the first successful artificial insemination (AI) attempt in American farm history. The first animal born with AI technology was a Guernsey calf named Minnehaha Tuba. The breeding journals called him 'the Al Capone of the animal industry.' Promotion to rank of professor came in 1934. Dr. Winters retired in 1956 to accept a post as an agricultural adviser to the Government of Iraq where he acted for the International Cooperation Administration of the United States Department of State. Dr. Winters was in Baghdad at the time of his death on 16 March 1958. He was elected in 1999 to the Minnesota Livestock Breeders' Association Hall of Fame.

Dr. Laurence M. Winters, professor of Animal Husbandry, judging teams of horses which are hitched to open wagons. Unidentified people sitting in wagons; buildings in background.

Horses and men stand together in a row in a field; grain elevator in distance.