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Honourary Degrees - Addresses - John Stoik

John Stoik, Gulf Canada Ltd. and honourary Doctor of Laws recipient, addresses the special 75th anniversary Convocation held in Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: John Lentis Stoik has born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, where he completed his high school education. He entered the College of Engineering in 1937, but left at the beginning of World War II to serve with the RCAF. He resumed his education after the war and graduated in Chemical Engineering in 1947. After graduation Stoik joined what is now Gulf Canada Ltd.as an assistant chemist at the Moose Jaw refinery. After occupying positions of increasing responsibility in the refining department, he was named General Manager of Refining in 1965, and Vice-President of Refining in 1968. In 1971 Stoik was transferred to Seoul, South Korea, where he served three years as Executive Vice-president and Chief Executive Officer of the Korea Oil Corporation. Stoik returned to Gulf Canada Ltd. in 1974 and was named Senior Vice-president. In 1976 he was elected President, Chief Operating Officer and a Director, and in 1979 he was named Chief Executive Officer. Stoik was a director of the Toronto-Dominion Bank and the Canadian Executive Service Overseas. He was also a member of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC) on Energy and Raw Materials to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He was also active in the University of Saskatchewan National Expansion Excellence Fund in 1969 as Corporations Chairman in Toronto. Stoik was a member of the Engineering Institute of Canada and the American Petroleum Institute. In 1980, he received honourary Doctor of Laws degrees from St. Francis Xavier University and from the University of Saskatchewan in 1984. Stoik died in 2003.

Agriculture - Conventions

Group photo of attendees taken in Regina; several men with ribbons on coats. Attendees identified are: Raymond K. Baker, Samuel E. Greenway, M. Smith, Walter C. Murray, University President; W.J. Rutherford, Dean of Agriculture, A.M. Shaw and Leslie Quick are identified. Flags hang on wall in background.

University Hospital - Cornerstone Laying Ceremony

Premier T.C. Douglas lays the cornerstone of University Hospital.

Bio/historical note: Designed by Webster and Gilbert, architects, and built between 1948-1955 by Smith Bros. and Wilson, contractors, at a cost of $7 million, the 6-storey, 7-wing University Hospital was officially opened by T.J. Bentley, Saskatchewan Minister of Health, in May 1955. The name was officially changed to Royal University Hospital on 23 May 1990.

Honourary Degrees - Presentation - William J.F. Warren

F.H. Auld, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to William J.F. Warren at Convocation held in Physical Education Gymnasium.

Bio/Historical Note: William John Finley Warren (1873-1963) was born in Balderson,, Ontario, near Perth, and was educated at the Saskatchewan Agricultural College. He settled in Belbeck, Saskatchewan. near Moose Jaw, in 1906. In 1917 Warren enrolled in the Associate Course in the School of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. He received his Diploma in 1919, but returned to take another year of special studies. Warren soon became prominent as a producer and exhibitor of registered seed. He was president of the Moose Jaw Agricultural Society, of the Saskatchewan Registered Seed Growers’ Association and of the Saskatchewan Agricultural Societies' Association. He represented Thunder Creek in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1921 to 1925 as a Progressive Party member. Warren was defeated by Robert Scott Donaldson when he ran for re-election to the provincial assembly in 1925. As a rancher, Warren had Aberdeen-Angus cattle and won a grand championship at both the Toronto Royal and the Chicago International. Warren died in 1963 and is buried in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

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