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- Sept. 1963
View looking north of Kirk Hall (School of Agriculture), with trees in front of building. Unfinished landscaping in foreground.
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View looking north of Kirk Hall (School of Agriculture), with trees in front of building. Unfinished landscaping in foreground.
Physics Building - Addition - Architect's Model
View of model of Physics Addition with minor landscaping. Made by Nik Semenoff, according to The Business Leader, Vol. 1 no.1 August 1964.
Saskatchewan Flying Farmers' Association
Image of an unidentified U of S employee showing members of the Flying Farmers' Association a variety of potted plants in a greenhouse.
Bio/Historical Note: In 1955 a group of thirty-two people met in Estevan, Saskatchewan to discuss the formation of a Saskatchewan chapter of the National Flying Farmers Association. On 2 November 1955, the National Flying Farmers Association issued a charter officially granting membership to the Saskatchewan association. The first annual meeting was held in Regina in 1956. The Saskatchewan Flying Farmers' Association was incorporated as a non-profit organization in Saskatchewan on 3 March 1977. The objectives of the Association are to promote the practical use of airplanes in the agricultural industry; to sponsor education and research on general aviation; to urge minimum regulations for general aviation; to encourage landing strips close to towns and cities; to develop public acceptance of light aircraft and to promote safe flying through education of pilots in the use of radio and other navigational aids. Executive members include a president; vice-president; secretary; treasurer and directors. Other officers include a public relations officer; newsletter editor and junior-teen advisor. The Queen is the official hostess of the Association. Monthly meetings and annual conventions are held and activities are planned to include members' spouses and children.
Western College of Veterinary Medicine - First Class of Students
Posed group photo of the first class of students in Veterinary Medicine who have started their four-year professional course.
Western College of Veterinary Medicine - First Class of Students
Image of the first class of students taking instruction in Veterinary Medicine who have started their four-year professional course. At far left is Dr. R.H. Dunlop, head, Department of Veterinary Physiology.
Western College of Veterinary Medicine Building - Interim Housing Unit
Image of initial housing unit of WCVM.
Head and shoulders image of Carol J. Pardoe, Assistant Professor, Home Economics, 1973-1976.
Linear Accelerator Building - Sod Turning
Herb Pinder, member, University Board of Governors, gives an address at the sod turning of the Linear Accelerator Building. Pinder is standing on a raised platform with J.W.T. Spinks, University President, seated directly behind. Unidentified seated men, chairs, and microphones also on platform. Architectural drawing visible next to stand in foreground.
Bio/Historical Note: The building of the Linear Accelerator (Linac) was not a random event but rather the result of a series of developments on campus. The Department of Physics had over the previous decades built a reputation for experimentation and innovation. The post-war period saw the University of Saskatchewan in the forefront of nuclear physics in Canada. In 1948, Canada’s first betatron (and the world’s first used in the treatment of cancer) was installed on campus. It was used for research programs in nuclear physics, radiation chemistry, cancer therapy and radiation biology. Next the world’s first non-commercial cobalt-60 therapy unit for the treatment of cancer was officially opened in 1951. With this unit research was undertaken in the areas of radiological physics, radiation chemistry and the effects of high energy radiation on plants and animals. When the construction of the Linear Accelerator was announced in the fall of 1961, it was portrayed as the next logical step on the University’s research path. Varian Associates, Palo Alto, California, designed and built the accelerator with Poole Construction of Saskatoon employed as the general contractor. The 80 foot electron accelerator tube was to create energy six times that of the betatron. The cost of the $1,750,000 facility was split between the National Research Council and the University of Saskatchewan with the NRC meeting the cost of the equipment and the University assuming the costs of the building. The official opening in early November of 1964 was more than just a few speeches and the cutting of a ribbon. It was a physics-fest, with 75 visiting scientist from around the world in attendance presenting papers and giving lectures over the period of several days. Three eminent physicists were granted honorary degrees at the fall convocation and hundreds of people showed up for the public open house. For three decades the Linac has served the campus research community and will continue to do so as it has become incorporated into the Canadian Light Source synchrotron.
Memorial Gates - Dedication Ceremony
Image of dedication service of Memorial Gates. Unidentified University and civic officials standing at centre of image, with audience standing in foreground. Union Jack draped over the tablet that commemorates those killed in World War I. University buildings from l to r: Qu'Appelle Hall, Stone School House, Emmanuel College. St. Andrew's College visible directly behind Gates.
Artist William Kurelek contemplates his work - a 32 by 36 foot mural on the inside front wall of the St. Thomas More Chapel.
Bio/Historical Note: William Kurelek, CM (1927-1977) was born in a shack near Whitford, Alberta, north of Edmonton. Kurelek spent most of his boyhood on the family farm in Manitoba. He hated the life and grew up with an increasing sense of alienation at home and at school, and decided in his last year at the University of Manitoba to devote his life to the one talent that brought admiration: his ability to draw. It was after reading Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at university that Kurelek decided to find out if he, too, could become an artist. He tested himself in characteristic fashion, by creating a self-portrait that involved 16 hours of frantic, non-stop painting. As the work neared completion, Kurelek recalled years later, he realized 'the painting had taken over and was directing me. I was an artist. I knew I was an artist.' But Kurelek faced a tortured journey before anyone else accepted him as an artist. He travelled to Toronto in search of an art teacher but left the Ontario College of Art after only a few months and began hitchhiking to Mexico. The artist had been plagued as a young boy by a series of frightening visions and hallucinations, all dealing with pain, suffering, cruelty. While resting under a bridge in Arizona he underwent a vision of a different kind. It was a white-robed figure calling him to be a shepherd. That figure is the someone of Kurelek's autobiography, Someone With Me, published in 1974. Kurelek failed to find an art teacher in Mexico. He returned to Canada and worked as a lumberjack to earn the money for passage to England. But his sense of 'depersonalization, of non-existence' had grown intolerable and he turned himself over to the psychiatric hospital at Maudsley. It was here and in other hospitals that Kurelek finally found himself as a painter. Later, he credited electric shock treatment and his conversion to Catholicism for his reclamation. Kurelek died in Toronto in 1977; he was only 50 years old.
Linear Accelerator Building - Sod Turning
Image of audience seated and standing during the sod turning of the Linear Accelerator Building. University buildings in background; outdoor scene.
Bio/Historical Note: The building of the Linear Accelerator (Linac) was not a random event but rather the result of a series of developments on campus. The Department of Physics had over the previous decades built a reputation for experimentation and innovation. The post-war period saw the University of Saskatchewan in the forefront of nuclear physics in Canada. In 1948, Canada’s first betatron (and the world’s first used in the treatment of cancer) was installed on campus. It was used for research programs in nuclear physics, radiation chemistry, cancer therapy and radiation biology. Next the world’s first non-commercial cobalt-60 therapy unit for the treatment of cancer was officially opened in 1951. With this unit research was undertaken in the areas of radiological physics, radiation chemistry and the effects of high energy radiation on plants and animals. When the construction of the Linear Accelerator was announced in the fall of 1961, it was portrayed as the next logical step on the University’s research path. Varian Associates, Palo Alto, California, designed and built the accelerator with Poole Construction of Saskatoon employed as the general contractor. The 80 foot electron accelerator tube was to create energy six times that of the betatron. The cost of the $1,750,000 facility was split between the National Research Council and the University of Saskatchewan with the NRC meeting the cost of the equipment and the University assuming the costs of the building. The official opening in early November of 1964 was more than just a few speeches and the cutting of a ribbon. It was a physics-fest, with 75 visiting scientist from around the world in attendance presenting papers and giving lectures over the period of several days. Three eminent physicists were granted honorary degrees at the fall convocation and hundreds of people showed up for the public open house. For three decades the Linac has served the campus research community and will continue to do so as it has become incorporated into the Canadian Light Source synchrotron.
Marquis Hall - Architectural Model
View of model of Marquis Hall; Qu'Appelle Hall Addition in background.
View looking northwest of Medical College; road and trees in foreground.
Faculty - Retirement Banquet - Group Photo
Image of seven University of Saskatchewan faculty members honoured at the retirement banquet sponsored by the Faculty Club at Marquis Hall. Front row (L to R): Emrys Jones; J.D.F. Beattie; and Murray Adaskin. Back row (L to R): J.W. Paul; C.E. Miller; Dr. B. Fleming; T.J. Arnason; and D.R. Robinson.
View looking southwest of St. Thomas More College, with the corner of the Memorial Union Building at left. Road and trees at centre of image.