Head and shoulders image of Wilfrid B. Lewis, honourary Doctor of Science degree recipient; taken possibly near time of presentation.

Bio/Historical Note: Wilfrid Bennett Lewis (1908-1987) was born in Castle Carrock, Cumberland, England. He earned a doctorate in physics at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge in 1934, and continued his research in nuclear physics there until 1939. From 1939-1946 he was with the Air Ministry, becoming Chief Superintendent of the Telecommunications Research Establishment. In 1946 he moved to Canada to become director of the division of Atomic Energy Research at the National Research Council of Canada in Chalk River, Ontario. From 1952-1963 he was Vice President, Research and Development of the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, and was Senior Vice President, Science from 1963-1973. Starting in the mid-1940s Lewis directed the development and championed the CANDU system, with its natural uranium fuel moderated by heavy water (deuterium oxide) to control neutron flux. The CANDU has proven its value for commercial power applications, showing outstanding efficiency and safety records. AECL also became a world leader in the production of radioisotopes for medical purposes. From 1955 until 1987, he was the Canadian Representative on the United Nations Scientific Advisory Committee. From 1973 until his death in 1987, Lewis was a Distinguished Professor of Science at Queen's University.

Award acceptees included Tom Steele (Physics), John Porter (Classics), Shane Doucette (The Sheaf), Maria Medel (The Sheaf), Gerry Rank (Biology), Darlene Fichter (Library), Don Drinkwater (Phys. Ed./CIT Circle), Darryl Friesen (Library Systems/Computing Services), Norm Kolb (Physics/SAL), Fred Phillips (Commerce), Linda Fritz (Library), and Gord Holtslander (Biology).

Bio/historical note: Image appeared in the May 8, 1998 OCN.

Campus scenic of the Bowl with Geology, Physics Buildings in background.

Students in the Bowl with Geology and Physics Buildings in the background.

Campus scenic of the Bowl with Geology and Physics Buildings in the background.

View of Geology and Physics buildings across from flowerbeds

View of Geology and Physics buildings across from flowerbeds

View of Geology and Physics buildings across from flowerbeds

Separate door entrance ways with artwork over the tops of them. Pine tree in the foreground and a bicycle leaning against the railing on the right side. Part of the Architectural Display.

Double door entrance way set into a curved archway with a stone pillared front. Windows above and on the sides of it. Bicycle leaning against the left corner near the steps.

Huskiettes player Sylvia Fedoruk wearing her number 5 basketball sweater.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Sylvia Olga Fedoruk was born in 1927 in Canora, Saskatchewan. She completed high school in Windsor, Ontario, and enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan in 1946. She earned her BA in 1949 and her MA in 1951. Dr. Fedoruk was a member of 12 intervarsity championship sports teams. She played on the Huskiette basketball team that won the Cecil Race Trophy five times, competed on the track team that won the Rutherford Trophy two times, was on the volleyball team that captured the Landa Trophy three times and was a member of the golf team that won the Birks Trophy two times. Dr. Fedoruk was co-captain of the basketball team for four years. In addition to her athletic endeavors for which she received a Major Athletic award, Dr. Fedoruk was active in other facets of campus life, including serving as president of the Women's Athletic Board in 1948-49. She was awarded the prestigious Spirit of Youth Trophy in 1949 as the female student-athlete combining leadership, sportsmanship, character, academics and athletics. Dr. Fedoruk went on to a distinguished career in medical physics, specializing in the use of radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Dr. Fedoruk became the first female Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan, serving from 1986-1991. In 1987 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan from 1988-1994. In 2009 Dr. Fedoruk was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. In 2012 the name of the Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation (CCNI) was changed to the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation in honor of the pioneering work she did in the treatment of cancer using cobalt-60 radiation therapy in the 1950s. Dr. Fedoruk died in 2012 in Saskatoon at age 85. The city of Saskatoon honoured her by naming Fedoruk Drive, located in the northeast sector of the city, after her. Sylvia Fedoruk Public School, located in the Evergreen neighbourhood, opened in 2017.

Group photo of the University's Golden Jubilee Committee. Names on back of photo (back row, l to r): John H. Archer of Regina, head of the committee on the film and community program; Dr. George W. Simpson; John A. Pringle, treasurer; Bruce Rawson, head of the committee on student activities; Eric Knowles, head of the publicity committee; Dean J. Francis Leddy, head of the program committee; Dr. S.W. Steinson; J.J. Graham; E.E. MacKenzie of Regina; Prof. Carlyle A. King, head of the committee on history and publications. Front row (l to r):: Frank Lovell, head of the homecoming and reception committee, and general secretary; A.C. McEown, head of the budget committee; Judge E.M. (Ted) Culliton of Regina, general chairman; F. Hedley Auld, University Chancellor; Dr. Thorbergur Thorvaldson - retiring professor of Physics and dean of Graduate Studies.