Head and shoulders image of Howard Birnie, professor of Curriculum Studies.

Bio/Historical Note: Howard H. Birnie was born and raised in southern Saskatchewan. He has two undergraduate degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and did his doctoral studies at the University of North Dakota. Birnie joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan in Teacher Education and physics after teaching in high school. He had an academic publishing record before retiring in 1991 as Professor Emeritus. Birnie is the author of Southward the Winter Visitor, Return to Willows: Celebrating the centenary of the Prairies, and Romancing the Tee Shot: The 5-Iron Murder.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Howard Adams, College of Education.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Howard Adams was born 8 September 1921 in St. Louis, Saskatchewan, the son of Olive Elizabeth McDougall, a French Métis mother and William Robert Adams, an English Métis (Anglo-Metis) father. He was the maternal great grandson of Louis Riel's lieutenant Maxime Lepine who fought in the North-West Rebellion of 1885. In 1940, he completed high school and joined the RCMP as a constable, a position he held until 1944. Dr. Adams became the first Métis in Canada to gain his PhD after studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 1966. That same year he returned to Canada and took up a position in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan and became a prominent Métis activist, contributing regularly to newspapers and magazines and appearing on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio shows. Dr. Adams published his first book, The Education of Canadians 1800–1867: The Roots of Separatism, in 1968. Another book, Prison of Grass: Canada from the Native Point of View, published in 1975, thrust him into the national and international limelight. In 1969,he was elected president of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan. Dr. Adams' intellectual influences included Malcolm X whom he saw lecture at Berkeley, and the general radical environment of that institution during the 1960s. In 1995, he published Tortured People: The Politics of Colonization, unleashing a scathing attack on the effects that racism, Euro-centrism, and neo-colonialism have had on Aboriginal people. Howard Adams died 8 September 2001 In Vancouver on his 80th birthday.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Howard Adams, College of Education.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Howard Adams was born 8 September 1921 in St. Louis, Saskatchewan, the son of Olive Elizabeth McDougall, a French Métis mother and William Robert Adams, an English Métis (Anglo-Metis) father. He was the maternal great grandson of Louis Riel's lieutenant Maxime Lepine who fought in the North-West Rebellion of 1885. In 1940, he completed high school and joined the RCMP as a constable, a position he held until 1944. Dr. Adams became the first Métis in Canada to gain his PhD after studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 1966. That same year he returned to Canada and took up a position in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan and became a prominent Métis activist, contributing regularly to newspapers and magazines and appearing on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio shows. Dr. Adams published his first book, The Education of Canadians 1800–1867: The Roots of Separatism, in 1968. Another book, Prison of Grass: Canada from the Native Point of View, published in 1975, thrust him into the national and international limelight. In 1969,he was elected president of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan. Dr. Adams' intellectual influences included Malcolm X whom he saw lecture at Berkeley, and the general radical environment of that institution during the 1960s. In 1995, he published Tortured People: The Politics of Colonization, unleashing a scathing attack on the effects that racism, Euro-centrism, and neo-colonialism have had on Aboriginal people. Howard Adams died 8 September 2001 In Vancouver on his 80th birthday.

Note on back: "Pam Taylor, instructor in household equipment, [College of Home Economics], prepares to monitor the energy an electric kettle uses in boiling water. The monitoring panel measures the energy consumption of various electrical appliances and provides a reading in terms of kilowatt hours".

Dr. Cecil F. Patterson, head, Department of Horticulture, stands beside pots in a greenhouse.

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.

Note on back: "A new lily, named 'Saskatoon', was unveiled at the 30th International Lily Show by Saskatoon Mayor Cliff Wright (right) while E.A. Maginnis [Maginnes], Associate Professor of Horticulture Science, looks on".