Looking west at The Rutherford Rink.

Bio/Historical Note: Built on a site previously used for an open outdoor rink, construction of “The Rink”, later known informally as the “Dog House”, was due to student initiative. A campaign to have a closed rink facility began in 1920; by 1928, the Students Representative Council appointed a committee to look into the feasibility of the student body assuming responsibility for construction. The Board of Governors loaned SRC the funds; which the student council hoped to pay back by instituting a $3 student fee. Although opened for use in December 1929 the rink, “already the most popular place on campus,” had its official opening on 23 January 1930, with an inter-varsity hockey game against the University of Manitoba (Saskatchewan won, 5-1). 650 attended the opening; and between 18,000-20,000 people used the rink during its first year of operation. The original design included “waiting rooms” on the west and east side, primarily for use by men and women respectively. The rink was used for general skating, “scrub,” faculty, senior men’s and girls’ varsity team hockey practices, the “fancy skating club,” children’s skating, and band practice, and winter carnival activities. Speed skates were allowed, but the rink was “not responsible for injury resulting therefrom.” During general skating, “playing tag,” “cutting in,” “cracking the whip,” and “reckless disregard and abandon in speed skating” were not tolerated. The building was renamed in honour of William J. Rutherford, the University’s first Dean of Agriculture, after his sudden and unexpected death on 1 June 1930. Minor renovations occurred over the next 88 years. Merlis Belsher Place, a multi-use ice facility, opened in 2018, mercifully replacing the ancient Rutherford Rink. The new arena is located on the south side of College Drive near the Field House.

Participants seated in desks chatting during an evening class in English 40.

Dr. Ken Domier (seated) works in the Engineering Lab. Dexter Beach, professor, is standing.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Kenneth Walter Domier was born 30 August 1933 on the family farm near Norquay, Saskatchewan. He earned his BSc (1955) and MSc (1957) in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and his PhD from Michigan State University (1967). After some years of teaching at the University of Manitoba, Dr. Domier moved his family in 1969 to Edmonton as chair of the Department of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Alberta. He was a Fellow of Engineers Canada, the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, and an Honourary Fellow of Geoscientists Canada. Dr. Domier retired at age 60, becoming professor emeritus in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences.
He had a strong and lengthy interest in all things Scandinavian. He was awarded the Sankt (Saint) Olav's medal by His Majesty King Harald V of Norway in 2019 for his "important contributions in serving Norway's interest and growing the relations between Canada and Norway in the Province of Alberta." He has held a variety of offices of Alberta Scandinavian organizations. Dr. Domier died 7 March 2020 in Edmonton.

Group photo of club members seated and standing on benches inside [Livestock Pavilion, University of Saskatchewan] at annual Saskatoon Exhibition.

Members of College of Medicine class standing on the steps of the Lilly Research Laboratories building in Greenfield, Hancock County, Indiana. From l to r: Ralph Pendleton, Eric Petkau, Mrs. Winnifred [Lauren?], Mike Krachak, and one unidentified man.

Progress shot looking northwest at construction of St. Thomas More College building. Original College building at right.

Bio/Historical Note: Saint Thomas More College (STM) has the distinction of being the first and only federated college at the University of Saskatchewan. It was established as a Catholic college in 1936 following negotiations between Fr. Henry Carr of the Basilian Fathers of Toronto and President Walter Murray of the University of Saskatchewan, and was named for Thomas More, who had been canonized in 1935. Yet the pre-history of the college and its buildings goes back more than a decade earlier. For several years, Saskatoon Catholics had been asking for a Catholic college at the newly established University of Saskatchewan. The first step was taken in 1926, when a group of Catholic laymen established the Newman Society, with the long term goal of establishing a Catholic college at the university. By September of that year, "arrangements were in place for Fr. Dr. Basil Markle from the Archdiocese of Toronto to teach Scholastic Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan and to serve as chaplain for the Catholic students." The first facility for the Catholic chaplain, with chapel and clubrooms for the use of the Catholic students, was Newman Hall (usually called "the white house"), built in 1927 on land on the south side of the campus at the corner of College Drive and Bottomley Avenue. This building later became St. Thomas More College in 1936 and in 1943 it was enlarged in anticipation of an expected large influx of students when the war would end. The first section of the present greystone building was constructed in 1954-1956 at a cost of $600,000; it was designed by architects Webster and Gilbert and built by Shannon Brothers of Saskatoon, for whom the college's Shannon Library is named. The new building was officially opened on 7 February 1957. Subsequent additions to the college building were completed in two phases, one in 1963 and another in 1969. This three-stage period of construction on the building translated into well over a decade of constant construction between 1954 and 1969, and included a chapel, library, cafeteria, auditorium, faculty offices, classrooms, and an art gallery. Living quarters on the third and fourth floors, used by the Basilian Fathers for many years, have been converted to offices and classroom space in recent years. Renovations since 2000 have involved changes to the auditorium, cafeteria, student and faculty lounges, library, art gallery and the rededication of some areas to use as classrooms.

Two negatives, one showing a telephone operator working at the switchboard. The second one shows the telephone exchange equipment.

A large piece of equipment sitting atop the Physics Building roof.

Robert "Bob" O'Toole, fourth year medical student at the College of Medicine, examines Eleanor Down, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Down of Rosetown while Dr. Felix Lafferty, Rosetown practitioner, looks on.

Bio/Historical Note: A preceptorship is a period of practical experience and training for a student.

Two photographs of the University of Saskatchewan telephone exchange.

Image of Dorothy Wright sitting at the switchboard, connecting an incoming call to a location at the University of Saskatchewan. The switchboard was part of the new U of S telephone exchange.

Bio/Historical Note: Dorothy Wright was born on 3 July 1929 in Lanigan. She attended Stoner Rest S.D. 4056, east of Lanigan, and then completed her high school education by correspondence. Wright moved to Saskatoon where she worked at the University of Saskatchewan as a telephone switchboard operator. After her father, John Wright, died in 1961, she moved back to Lanigan to be with her mother. She was employed at the Royal Bank and stayed there until she retired. Wright died in 2012 at age 83.

Shots of various performers from a variety show including what looks like dancers, singers, and skits.

A crane train car hooked to a piece of train wreckage and five men standing among a train wreck.

Train wreckage, a pile of sand bags and a pile of lumber.

15 men standing among train wreckage.