Head and shoulders image of Dr. John F. Patience, Prairie Swine Centre, Department of Animal Science.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. John Patience received his BA in 1974 and an MA in 1976 from the University of Guelph, Ontario. He received his DPhil from Cornell University in 1985. Dr. Patience was president and chief executive officer of both PSC Elstow (Saskatchewan) Research Farm, Inc., and of Prairie Swine Centre, Inc., University of Saskatchewan. In 2008 Dr. Patience came out of retirement to join Iowa State University as a professor of Animal Science. His numerous awards and recognitions include the New Frontiers in Animal Nutrition Award from the Federation of Animal Science Societies / American Feed Industry Association, the Animal Industry Service Award from the American Society of Animal Science, the Lifetime Achievement Award from Alberta Pork Congress, and the Award for Excellence in Nutrition and Meat Sciences, from the Canadian Society of Animal Science. In 2017 Dr. Patience was awarded the John B. Swisher Annual Leadership Award (by United Animal Health Inc) for extraordinary leadership qualities and who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the swine industry in the United States.

Blaine Holmlund, acting President, University of Saskatchewan, speaks to the crowd gathered for the Kenderdine Campus open house.

Bio/Historical Note: Artist workshops have been held at Emma Lake, Saskatchewan, since 1935. Augustus F. (Gus) Kenderdine, an artist trained at the Academie Julian in Paris and an instructor in the fledgling Department of Art at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, established a summer art camp on an eleven-acre boreal forest peninsula on the shores of Emma Lake. He convinced Dr. Walter Murray, first president of the University of Saskatchewan, that the art camp could perform a vital role in the offerings of the department, and in 1936 the Murray Point Art School at Emma Lake was officially incorporated as a summer school program. Participants were teachers and artists who came from all over the province to learn how to teach art in Saskatchewan schools. After Kenderdine's death in 1947, a new generation of Saskatchewan artists came of age or moved into the province, including Kenneth Lochhead, Arthur McKay, Ronald Bloore, Ted Godwin, and Douglas Morton— popularly referred to as the Regina Five.

Image of Hans Dommasch, Professor, Art and Art History, stands over propaganda posters on a table.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in Tilsit on 25 August 1926, Hans Dommasch's early life was shadowed by the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany. By 1936 membership in the Hitler Youth was virtually compulsory. He was sent to military college at age 14 and into action on the Eastern Front at 16, where he was wounded twice. But his was never a military mindset. It was, he said later, a time he would rather forget. By 1954, he was eager to leave Germany. Dommasch got a position with Photographic Services at the University of Saskatchewan in 1955, and took a further course at the New York Institute of Photography. He was an associate with the Royal Photographic Society (1963) and a Fellow of the Biographical Photographic Association (1965), and quickly became known in the College of Medicine as a superb photographer with "an excellent eye to good medical illustration." Dommasch’s work earned several international awards: bronze (1970) and silver (1972) medals from the British Medical Association for his films; the Cliff Shaw Memorial Award from the Natural History Society (1964); and Canada's highest award at the time, the William V. Gordon Award for contributions to photography (1974). Dommasch was recruited by Eli Bornstein into the department of Art and Art History, where he offered the first class in photography. He served as head of Art and Art History from 1984-1993, and upon his retirement from the university was named Professor Emeritus. Dommasch’s own work was exhibited widely and often reflected the natural landscape. A trip with Bornstein to the Canadian arctic resulted in "Canada North of 60," an exhibit and lecture he presented internationally. Prairie Giants, a book of his photographs documenting grain elevators, was published in 1986. Dommasch studied the use of photography in propaganda, leading to a touring exhibition, Posters Against War and Violence. His final exhibition, My World, was held concurrently in the Mendel Art Gallery, the Kenderdine Gallery, and the Saskatoon Public Library galleries – a first in Saskatoon. Dommasch died on 20 November 2017 in Saskatoon at age 91.

View of marine, shore-line erosion along Oregon coast. Note the sea-cave.

Bio/historical note: Frederic Harrison Edmunds was born in Hawarden, North Wales in 1898. He received his B.Sc. (1922) and MSc. (1923) from the University of Liverpool. In 1925 he came to Canada and joined the Department of Soils at the University of Saskatchewan. Professor Edmunds was named chairman of the Department of Geological Sciences in 1961, a position he held until his death in February, 1965.

Aerial view of tephra cone strata volcano; location unknown.

Bio/historical note: Frederic Harrison Edmunds was born in Hawarden, North Wales in 1898. He received his B.Sc. (1922) and MSc. (1923) from the University of Liverpool. In 1925 he came to Canada and joined the Department of Soils at the University of Saskatchewan. Professor Edmunds was named chairman of the Department of Geological Sciences in 1961, a position he held until his death in February, 1965.

Joe Carmody and three others with an oxen team pulling a wagon. An old thresher is seen in the background.

Two people are seen sitting in the front of a covered wagon.

View of the grass and foundation of an old building on the grounds of the Saskatchewan Western Development Museum in North Battleford.

Old barn on the property of the Saskatchewan Western Development Museum in North Battleford