Lecture is being given to the first year class. Classroom has double windows and a painting of wild cattle on the background wall.

Jean G. Bayer, Department of English, 1915-1945, crouching by two ducks at an unknown location.

Bio/Historical Note: Jean Gordon Bayer joined the staff of the university in 1909 as President Walter Murray's secretary. Bayer previously had been his secretary at Dalhousie University. She arrived in Saskatoon in time to witness the registration of the first students. She was the President’s secretary, university librarian, and unofficial adviser to students. Bayer helped choose the university colours and motto, and was one of the founders of the Pente Kai Deka Society. In 1915, due to staff shortages caused by the Great War, Bayer was appointed Instructor in English. She proved so effective she was encouraged to continue, and took a year of study at Bedford College, London, prior to being formally appointed to the faculty. Like Murray, “she possessed a wide vision of the function of a university and, like him, she…dedicated herself to Saskatchewan.” “A most kindly guide” to her students, “many caught their first glimpse of what a literary ‘salon’ of the great days might have been in the genial atmosphere of tea and literature in her book-lined suite. She was a most loyal and cooperative colleague….She made it seem an easy thing to be happy and brave.” When Bayer returned from London in 1921 she was named Assistant Professor of English, a rank rarely held by women in that period. Bayer retained the post until her death in 1945. A scholarship in her name is available to a student who has completed at least two years of university studies

Teachers and inspectors gathered in field of sweet clover.

R.J. St. Arnaud instructs a first year class in auditorium of Kirk Hall. Painting of wild cattle, and windows along wall.

Head and shoulders image of L.V. St. Louis, Associate Professor, Department of Economics.

Head and shoulders image of J. Howard Richards, Professor and Head, Department of Geography.

Bio/Historical Note: J. Howard Richards was born 21 May 1916 in Caerphilly, Wales. He enrolled at the University of Wales in 1934 and graduated in 1938 with a B.Sc. in Geography. Richards remained in Wales the following year to teach at a private school and spent the next two years as a Meteorologist in the United Kingdom and Canada. He joined the Royal Canadian Army, serving in Europe from 1942-1946. After his discharge, Richards enrolled at the University of Toronto; in 1947 he received his MA. Richards taught at Utica College of Syracuse University and the University of Manitoba before returning to the University of Toronto, where he earned his PhD in 1956. He briefly joined the staff of the Royal Military College of Canada prior to coming to the University of Saskatchewan in 1960 as Professor and Head of the newly formed Department of Geography. He was to remain in that post until his retirement in 1979. He was named Professor Emeritus in 1983. During his tenure, Richards developed academic programs in Geography and the interdisciplinary programs of Land Use, Environmental Studies and Regional and Urban Development and Planning. He was the editor of the first "Atlas of Saskatchewan" and the author of "Saskatchewan Geography" and "Saskatchewan: A Geographical Appraisal," among other publications.

Group photograph of teacher, Marie Jopp, and students at the White Beach outpost school in 1943; the students stand by the school that is a frame shanty with mud plaster, a board roof, no shingles and no chimney.

Written in Arbos 1983: STF Memories, p. 21; "In 1909 Georgina McGill, a student at McMaster University, came west to visit her brother Jud at his farm near Stranraer. She stayed to teach for several months at Wynona school? built in 1907. Miss McGill taught fourteen students in this sodded frame schoolhouse." Georgina McGill standing outside the Wynona sod schoolhouse.

Students holding homemade crafts in front of the Anchor School District building.

Inglewood School with Miss Reid, the school's first teacher, and her students

A 1947 class from Zealandia High School. Back row: Herb Morrison, Mr. Greenman (teacher), Pat Mooney, Cliff Malkovich, Doug Morris, Shirley Robertson (m. McFaull), Murray Belina, Cora Mayne. Second row: Sarah Sutherland (m. Clark), Edna MacDonald (m. Jonassen), Grace Morris (m. Thomson), Bernice Orr, Bernard Brennan, Bob Greenman, David Cunningham, Mr. Mersereau (teacher). Third row: Delores Brennan, Marj McCool (m. Forrest), Ruth Cairns, Evelyn Kidd (m. Bors), Elda Johnston (M. Windsor), Bonnie Greenman, Bill Mersereau, Doug Forrest, Dean Morphy. Front row: Cora Doherty, Marie Hicks (m. Dodge), Alice Malkovich, Audrey Potratz (m. Macdonald), Margaret Mooney (m. Mandin), Pauline Johnson, Thelma Morphy (m. Brown), Maureen Mayne.

St. Joseph's Convent staff. Lower right: Rita Marie McDonald (Sister Catherine Marie). No other names provided.

St. Joseph's Convent staff members. Lower left: Rita Marie McDonald. No other names provided.

Staff of St. Joseph's Convent. Names not provided.