Two men and one woman standing on the back of a train car

The graduating class of 1953 posing for a group photo

The Graduating Students of 1953 posing for a group photograph

Combines, Swathers and trucks parked in a field

Burning the diamonds before the tournament was done to dry them out

The Indian Head Rockets (Florida Cubans) with a recently won trophy

Jose Hernandez and the rest of the Rockets (Florida Cubans) receiving their trophy

An unidentified Indian Head Rockets player in his uniform sitting in the stands of a baseball game

The members of the Indian Head Citizens Band in white uniforms posing outside and holding instruments

This collection is comprised of The Study Club’s yearly programs from 1925-1953. The programs provide details about their meetings, such as date, topic, hostess and leader. The programs also offer lists of club officers and members.

Freshman students enrolled as first year Medicine class, to graduate in 1957. Back row: Douglas Lloyd Anderson, Saskatoon; Ernest Henry Baergen, Vauxhall, Alberta; Mark Errol Boyd, Blaine Lake; Robert Charles Cooper, Prince Albert; Homer Edward Friesen, Rosthern; Jerry Sidney Grobman, North Battleford; Wilfred Walter Hathway, Saskatoon; Arthur William Hindmarsh, Saskatoon; Michael Anton Jacobi, Saskatoon. Third row: Edward Herman James, Eston; Gerald John Joseph Junk, Annaheim; Norwood Wilson Kavanagh, Saskatoon; William Arnold Stuart Klass, North Battleford; Michael Boris Krochak, Wroxton; Ronald David Ledray, Winter; Lowell Mervin Loewen, Herschel; David John Martin, Cut Knife; Stanley Joseph Mazurkie, Mortlach. Second row: Walter Lancelot Munholland, Strasbourg; Z.F. Muskovitch, Saskatoon; Eric Jacob Paetkau, Picture Butte, Alberta; Pearl Renpenning, Granby, Quebec;; R.L. Pendleton, Swift Current; H.J. Renpenning, McMahon; Donald Joseph Schmidt, Richmound; Peter Siemens, Saskatoon. Front row: Maxwell Roderick Smart, Drinkwater; John Clarence Specken, Saskatoon; Theresa Marie Laurendeau, Saskatoon; L.W. Perry, Regina; Edith Pauline Rogoman, Saskatoon; John Luther Spencer, Prince Albert; Robert Ross Wheaton, Saskatoon.

Bio/Historical Note: A medical college was part of President Walter Murray’s design for the new University of Saskatchewan, and was consistent with his view that the university should serve the needs of the province. In 1926 a School of Medical Sciences was established, which provided the first two years of medical training. Between 1928 and 1954, 605 students completed the course and then went elsewhere in Canada for the clinical years. In 1944, a survey of the health needs of the province (Sigerist Report) recommended that the School be expanded to a “complete Grade A Medical School” and that a University Hospital of 500 beds be constructed for scientific teaching, clinical instruction, and research. A medical building was completed in 1950, a four-year degree-granting College was inaugurated in 1953, and University Hospital opened in 1955. The College admits sixty medical students per year, supervises the training of 200 residents, and provides basic science training to 330 students in Arts/Science. The aim of the program is to produce a “basic” or undifferentiated doctor capable, with further training, of becoming a family practitioner, specialist or research scientist. Between 1953 and 2003, the College of Medicine has graduated 2,134 MDs, of whom 30.5% were women.

View looking southwest of Medical College. Trail through trees leading to building in foreground; trees in front of building.