This fonds contains material relating to the students, faculty and administration of the College of Pharmacy. These records, which consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, memoranda and clippings, include material relating to national and provincial professional associations, pharmaceutical organizations, publications and research.

The Saskatchewan Homemaker's Clubs subseries contains: Saskatchewan Homemakers Life Membership Books (1940-1972); addresses to the Annual Convention (1933-1967); records from local Homemaker's Clubs; Cash Books; and correspondence, minutes, reports, financial statements, handbooks, press releases and publications relating to the activities of the Association. The Women's Institute subseries contains correspondence, reports, minutes, publications and other records (1971-1986). Included are submissions to the Institute's creative writing competition (1975-1981).

This fonds contains correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records relating to the administration of 4-H Clubs. Included are minutes of the Annual Meeting of Council (1957-1967) and the minutes of the Board of Directors (1962-1967).

This fonds contains material relating to all activities undertaken by the Extension Division. These records generally contain correspondence, minutes, reports, and memoranda; as well as publications and bulletins, and information on various provincial and national associations, societies, or clubs.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Edith C. Rowles, Supervisor of Girls' Work, and Dean of Women.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Edith Child Rowles Simpson was born on 9 April 1905 in Manchester, England, and was raised on a homestead on the Saskatchewan/Alberta border. She attended school at Empress, Alberta, and took her teacher training at the Normal School in Saskatoon. Dr. Simpson taught at a number of Saskatchewan schools in the Abbey and Mantario districts prior to enrolling at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Simpson received her BHSc in 1932 and won the Rutter Prize for most distinguished graduate. She continued her education at the University of Wisconsin (MSc in Extension, 1939) and Columbia (EdD, 1956). In 1932 Dr. Simpson joined the faculty of the Department of Women's Work at the U of S and served in a number of positions throughout her career: Supervisor of girls' work (1936); assistant professor in the College of Agriculture (1941); dean of Women (1944); and associate professor in the College of Home Economics (1950). In 1956 Dr. Simpson served as president of the Canadian Federation of University Women, having been a member since 1933. In 1965 she was appointed professor and Dean of Home Economics, serving until 1972. In her extension work she conducted Farm Girls' Camps and Extension Short Courses. Dr. Simpson’s academic specialty was in food science, an area in which she taught, researched and published. In 1964 Dr. Simpson published the book Home Economics In Canada: Prologue To Change. That same year she married Dr. George W. Simpson. historian and fellow professor. After spending her entire professional life at the U of S, she retired in 1972 and was named Dean Emerita. She was further honoured with the establishment of the Edith Rowles Simpson Lectureship, with the inaugural lecture occurring in 1974. In 1993 the U of S honoured her again with a honourary Doctor of Laws degree. Dr. Simpson's professional affiliations included memberships in the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canadian and American Dietetic associations and the Canadian Home Economics Association where she served as president. Among her many awards and honours are inductions into the Saskatchewan Agriculture Hall of Fame in 1981 and the Order of Canada in 1987. Dr. Simpson died in Saskatoon on 29 December 1997 at age 92.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Ethel B. Rutter, first Head of Household Science, 1929-1940.

Bio/Historical Note: In 1906, Ethel Brittain Rutter (1876-1964), PhB, MA, was widowed with two small children. Rutter received the Gold Medal for proficiency in Household Science from Macdonald College, McGill University, in 1908. She went on to serve on the faculty of Macdonald College. In 1916, Rutter joined the University of Saskatchewan to teach Household Science. Taking summers to study and a year’s leave, she earned the Bachelor of Philosophy degree from the University of Chicago and the Master of Arts degree from Columbia University. In 1928, the School of Household Science was established within the College of Arts and Science. Rutter was instrumental in setting up the degree program, and in 1929 was named Head of the School. She taught classes in food and nutrition, family relations and methods of teaching. To quote from the Canadian Home Economics Journal of March 1955: “Students in Mrs. Rutter’s classes recalled her insistence on accuracy, her high standards of workmanship, her apt phrasing and, above all, her enthusiasm for her subject.” Outside of the University, she encouraged the study of home economics in women’s organizations and constantly stressed the need for employing trained dietitians in hospitals. Upon her retirement in 1940, Professor Rutter was named Professor Emerita of the University of Saskatchewan. She was a Charter Member of the Canadian Dietetics Association (now Dietitians of Canada), Honorary Member of the Canadian Home Economics Association and Honorary Life Member of the McGill Graduate Society. The Rutter Prize was established in 1930 to recognize the most distinguished student in the graduating class of the College of Home Economics. The Rutter Medal now honours the most distinguished Bachelor of Science in Nutrition graduate. Rutter died in 1964; 'Rutter Crescent' in Greystone Heights is named in her honour.

Head and shoulders image of Bertha G. Oxner, director of Women's Work and professor in the College of Agriculture.

Bio/Historical Note: Bertha Georgina Oxner was small of stature but the organizational skills she brought to Saskatchewan loomed large in the difficult years of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in 1885 at Chester Basin, Nova Scotia, she obtained her schooling at Chester Basin, Chester, and Truro and taught school for a period before moving to Saskatchewan in 1908. Oxner taught school in Saskatoon, Brock and Saltcoats. At Brock she is remembered for having instituted hot school lunches which proved valuable for the children of homesteaders in the 1920s. She also set up a basketball league. After serving as principal at Saltcoats, Saskatchewan, Oxner left the school teaching profession to study household science at the University of Saskatchewan, obtaining a BA. At Chicago University she earned an MA and did post-graduate work in textiles and clothing. In 1925 Oxner came to the University of Saskatchewan as assistant professor in household science. With Ethel B. Rutter she helped plan the Bachelor of Household degree, which resulted in a School of Household Science at the university in 1928. In 1930 Oxner was appointed director of women’s extension work. In this role she introduced a broad educational program for rural women and members of Saskatchewan Homemakers' Clubs. Through Oxner’s guidance women were encouraged to expand their knowledge of agriculture, arts and letters, family law, public health and international affairs. Through a weekly column in The Western Producer she passed along program ideas and advice to the 350 Homemakers' Clubs. Oxner began short courses for rural girls in 1933 and helped launch Homecraft Clubs in 1938. In the first year, 124 Homecraft Clubs were organized. Oxner helped start Farm Women’s Week on the university campus. She organized the first Homemakers' Club on a First Nation and these spread across the province and initiated short courses for Métis women. Oxner served on the boards of the Canadian Association for Adult Education, the National Vocational Training advisory council, Canadian Association of Consumers, National Farm Radio Forum, Canadian Home Economics Association, Saskatchewan Physical Fitness Council, Saskatchewan Technical Education Committee and the Saskatchewan Farm Housing Committee. Oxner retired in 1949 and moved back to Chester, Nova Scotia. Oxner died in Chester on 7 December 1960 and is buried there.

Head and shoulders image of Thomas H. McLeod, dean, College of Commerce, from 1953-1964.

Bio/Historical Note: Thomas Hector McLeod was born 11 August 1918 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, and took his schooling there, graduating from Weyburn Collegiate with honours. It was in Weyburn that Tommy McLeod met T.C. Douglas, the young Baptist minister who would play such an important role in his life. During the Depression, Douglas organized a boys' group which devoted its time to sports and boxing, and to debating and drama. Douglas was a graduate of Brandon College, and persuaded several of his 'boys' to attend that venerable institution. There McLeod received a BA with distinction. After earned a MA from Indiana University, he was urged by President Evans to come back to Brandon to teach economics, where he stayed for three years. In 1944, when T.C. Douglas led the CCF party to a landslide election victory in Saskatchewan, Premier Douglas asked McLeod to work for the new government. He began as advisor to the premier and general troubleshooter, taking on assignments as Secretary of Health Services Planning, Secretary of the Economic Planning Board, Chair of the new Budget Bureau, and ending as Deputy Provincial Treasurer. Together with Dr. Mindel Sheps in the Health Service Planning Commission, Dr. McLeod helped plan the introduction of hospitalization in 1947. In between jobs, he earned two degrees from Harvard University, an MA in Public Administration and a PhD in Economics. In 1952 McLeod was appointed dean of Commerce. During this period he served on several boards and commissions, chairing the Saskatchewan Commission on Taxation. In 1964 McLeod returned to Regina as dean of Arts and Vice-Principal at the new university. In 1971 the Canadian International Development Agency offered a broader mandate, where McLeod joined the senior ranks of CIDA travellers, attempting to sort out administrative problems in several countries, including Turkey, Iran, Nigeria, and Botswana. So the family moved to Ottawa, where they stayed for 26 years. McLeod moved from CIDA to the Federal Management Institute, acted as administrator of the Anti-Inflation Board, and held other management positions. McLeod was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S in 1972. He was awarded the Vanier Medal from the Institute of Public Administration in 1971 and the Order of Canada in 2003. He co-wrote a popular biography of T.C. Douglas with his son Ian; Tommy Douglas, Road to Jerusalem was published in 1987. In 1997 Tommy McLeod moved to Victoria, where he died New Years' Day, 2008.

Group of graduates wearing academic gowns and some with mortarboards, seated and standing. Walter C. Murray, is seated in front row, second from left. Murray earned an MA (first class honours in Philosophy).

Bio/Historical Note: Walter Charles Murray, first president of the University of Saskatchewan, was born in Kings County, New Brunswick, in 1866 and received his BA with honours in 1886 from the University of New Brunswick. Having won the Gilchrist Scholarship for Canada, for continued studies overseas, he attended the University of Berlin and the University of Edinburgh, where he received his MA with first class honours in 1891. Later that year he joined faculty at the University of New Brunswick as Professor of Philosophy and Economics. In 1892 he was appointed Professor of Philosophy and lecturer in Education at Dalhousie, where he remained until joining the University of Saskatchewan as president in 1908. Murray served as president for 26 years, retiring in 1937. Murray was successful in building a progressive university of high standards with a beautiful campus. His own work was in education and education history, but he was also a supporter of art and music. Murray served on numerous councils and commissions, including the National Research Council from 1916-1932. Murray married Christina Cameron (1866-1947), born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 1895. They had three daughters: Christina Cameron Murray, Lucy Hunter Murray and Jean Elizabeth Murray. Murray died in Saskatoon in 1945. The city of Saskatoon honours Murray with several landmarks: "Murray Place" in the Dundonald area; Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, opened in 1965 and located near Market Mall; the Murray Building on the University of Saskatchewan campus; and President Murray Park, located in the Varsity View neighbourhood.

Photo of a painting done by Ernest Fosberry of Walter C. Murray, first University President, seated in a chair.

Bio/Historical Note: Ernest George Fosbery was born in Ottawa in 1874. He received his education at the Model School and Collegiate Institute, Ottawa and the Ottawa Art School and under Franklin Brownell, RCA. Fosbery also studied in Paris, France under the French artist Fernand Cormon. He served with the Canadian Grenadier Guards during the First World War, was wounded and mentioned in dispatches. Fosbery was discharged with the rank of major. He became an associate of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1912, a member in 1929, and was elected the academy's president in 1943, 1944, 1945 and 1946. Among his better-known portraits is one of Viscount Byng, Governor-General of Canada. His portraits hang in the National Gallery, Government House, Ottawa, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Canadian Senate, the Canadian War Memorial Collection and the Dominion Archives. Fosbery died in Cowansville, Quebec in 1960.

Bio/Historical Note: Walter Charles Murray, first president of the University of Saskatchewan, was born in Kings County, New Brunswick, in 1866 and received his BA with honours in 1886 from the University of New Brunswick. Having won the Gilchrist Scholarship for Canada, for continued studies overseas, he attended the University of Berlin and the University of Edinburgh, where he received his MA with first class honours in 1891. Later that year he joined faculty at the University of New Brunswick as Professor of Philosophy and Economics. In 1892 he was appointed Professor of Philosophy and lecturer in Education at Dalhousie, where he remained until joining the University of Saskatchewan as president in 1908. Murray served as president for 26 years, retiring in 1937. Murray was successful in building a progressive university of high standards with a beautiful campus. His own work was in education and education history, but he was also a supporter of art and music. Murray served on numerous councils and commissions, including the National Research Council from 1916-1932. Murray married Christina Cameron (1866-1947), born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 1895. They had three daughters: Christina Cameron Murray, Lucy Hunter Murray and Jean Elizabeth Murray. Murray died in Saskatoon in 1945. The city of Saskatoon honours Murray with several landmarks: "Murray Place" in the Dundonald area; Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, opened in 1965 and located near Market Mall; the Murray Building on the University of Saskatchewan campus; and President Murray Park, located in the Varsity View neighbourhood.

Looking northeast at the front facade of Chemistry Building; exterior nearing completion.

Bio/Historical Note: The Department of Chemistry was established in 1910, and in 1912 conducted its first laboratory instruction in a poorly ventilated space in the basement of the College Building. The Chemistry Building opened in 1924 and was one of the last of the original stone collegiate gothic buildings designed by the Montreal architect David Brown. The building was sheathed in greystone and the façade has a castellated roof line and an arched portal. The four-storey building was built to house the colleges of Home Economics and Pharmacy, and the Department of Chemistry. It was the most elaborate of the early campus buildings. Designed specifically to meet the needs of teaching and research in chemistry, it was a far cry from the makeshift laboratories in the basement of the College Building and reflected the confidence of the 1920s. It faced not inward toward the Bowl and the original buildings, but outward to what was expected to be an expanding future. Dubbed by one critic as an “expensive show to make an impressive front,” it was to have a second identical north wing but depression and war brought a halt to all thoughts of capital expansion. The first floor was composed almost entirely of classrooms, with two small laboratories. An auditorium was located on the second floor, with a tile dome rising 68 feet, as well as laboratories featuring acid-proof lining on all fume vents and drains. Storerooms were located in the basement, with a sub-basement containing the ventilation, heating and sewage systems. The Chemistry Building was finally expanded with a second wing and was renamed in honour of Dr. Thorbergur Thorvaldson, professor and dean of Chemistry from 1919-1959. The Thorvaldson Building opened on 6 June 1966.

Dr. Hope H. Hunt speaks at a special ceremony held to recognize her work in the College of Home Economics as former dean. The ceremony was part of the 25th anniversary reunion of the Home Economics class of 1946.

Dr. Edith C. Rowles Simpson, dean of Home Economics, presents the Rutter Prize in Home Economics to Janis Lynn McLean of Prince Albert at Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.