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Agriculture - Poultry - Saskatoon Exhibition

Display on a table and a wall showing posters of "Poultry Husbandry", "Soil Sciences". Chickens in wire cages and soil samples in containers on table.

Bio/Historical Note: The Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture gave every encouragement to poultry producers to improve the quality of their market. "Poultry Public", fattening stations were established and numerous killing and fattening demonstrations were given.

Honourary Degrees - Addresses - Frank Scott

Frank Scott, honourary Doctor of Laws degree recipient, speaking from podium during Convocation ceremony held in Physical Education gymnasium.

Bio/Historical Note: Francis Reginald Scott (1899–1985), commonly known as Frank Scott or F.R. Scott, was a Canadian poet, intellectual, and constitutional expert. He helped found the first Canadian social democratic party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and its successor, the New Democratic Party. He won Canada's top literary prize, the Governor General's Award, twice, once for poetry and once for non-fiction.

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.

Honourary Degrees - Presentation - Alfred Blalock

J.W.T. Spinks, University President, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Alfred Blalock at 52nd annual convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium.

Bio/Historical Note: Alfred Blalock (1899-1964) was an American surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as Tetralogy of Fallot— commonly known as Blue baby syndrome. He created, with assistance from his research and laboratory assistant Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig, the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig Shunt, a surgical procedure to relieve the cyanosis from Tetralogy of Fallot. This operation ushered in the modern era of cardiac surgery.

Honourary Degrees - Presentation - Clifford H. Whiting

J.W.T. Spinks, University President, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Clifford H. Whiting at Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium. N.K. Cram, University Registrar, waits to hood recipient.

Bio/Historical Note: Clifford Henry Whiting, farm and community leader, was born in 1908 in a log house on the family farm at Pleasant Valley, Saskatchewan. His formal schooling was obtained in a rural school, in Melfort High School and in the School of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. Except for two years when he worked for a farm implement agency in Melfort, Saskatchewan, his home and his career has been on the family farm at Pleasant Valley. He was a school trustee in his district for 22 years; a councillor of the Rural Municipality of Flett’s Springs No. 276 for 10 years; president of the Saskatchewan Agricultural Societies Association; director and chairman of livestock and oil co-operatives; Saskatchewan Wheat Pool delegate for 17 years; 4-H Club leader for five years; and a board member of the 4-H Foundation, convener of farm boys’ camps; a board member of Northern Co-operative Trading and Co-operative Fisheries; a member of the provincial council of the Commonwealth Co-operative Federation; a member of the Saskatchewan Jubilee committee (1955); and a member of the Thompson Advisory Committee on Medical Care (1959-1961). Whiting served 12 years (1946-1958) on the Board of Governors of the University of Saskatchewan, five as chairman. He was honoured by the Saskatchewan Agricultural Graduates, Saskatchewan Agricultural Societies, the Melfort Agricultural Society, the Melfort Credit Union, Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and the Canadian Council on 4-H Clubs. He received the Co-operative Certificate of Merit. In 1963 the University of Saskatchewan conferred on him an honourary Doctor of Laws degree. Whiting retired from his grain and livestock farm in 1987. He died in 1997 at age 89.

Honourary Degrees - Presentation - Edward Stamp

Edward Stamp awaits presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree at fall Convocation ceremony held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: Edward (Eddie) Stamp (1928-1986) was bom in Liverpool. A naturalized Canadian, he became an academic in New Zealand, returning to Britain in 1968 to professorships at Edinburgh and then at Lancaster University, where he founded (and directed until his death in 1986) the International Centre for Research in Accounting. The only Professor of Accounting Research in Britain, he became widely known to accountants worldwide, less for the originality of his ideas than for his robust campaigns to raise standards of corporate reporting, auditing, and open administration.

Honourary Degrees - Presentation - June S. Menzies

June S. Menzies, honourary Doctor of Laws degree recipient, awaits presentation at Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: June Susanna Menzies was born in 1925 in Arcola, Saskatchewan and later moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The local Member of Parliament, John G. Diefenbaker, encouraged her father to move to Saskatoon so his children could attend good high schools and the University. Immediately after high school, against her father’s wishes, June enlisted in the Armed Forces. She went to Japanese language school in Vancouver, and worked as an intelligence officer in Fort Richie, Maryland. After the war, she met her husband Merrill Menzies at University who was also studying economics. They lived in Canada and in London, where Merrill was taking his PhD in Economics. June worked as a volunteer chair of the Manitoba Action Committee on the Status of Women, changing laws to increase equality and civil rights, and had a lengthy career as a senior civil servant in Ottawa, including Chair of the Anti-inflation Board (1976) and Chair of the National Farm Products Marketing Council for 13 years. Menzies was named to the Order of Canada in 1980. After retirement, June and Merrill settled in Winnipeg, where she continued to do social justice work with homeless and AIDS sufferers. Menzies died in Terrace, British Columbia, on 10 Aug. 2020, at age 91.

Honourary Degrees - Presentation - Sir John Cockcroft

F.H. Auld, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to Sir John Cockcroft, Nobel prize-winning British scientist, during 51st annual Convocation at Physical Education gymnasium. N.K. Cram, University Registrar, hoods recipient.

Bio/Historical Note: Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, OM, KCB, CBE, FRS (1897-1967) was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

Honourary Degrees - Presentation - Stephen Worobetz

Stephen Worobetz, honourary Doctor of Laws degree recipient, awaits presentation at special 75th Anniversary convocation held at Centennial Auditorium. Iain MacLean, University Secretary, prepares to hood Dr. Worobetz.

Bio/Historical Note: The President’s Residence is among the original buildings constructed on campus. The residence was designed by Brown and Vallance, and was built under the direction of A.R. Greig, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. The building was originally planned as a wooden structure. However, a proposal to construct the building out of a local river rock, later known as greystone, was raised prior to the commencement of construction- if the government would foot the bill. Eventually the latter material was chosen, though the government perhaps came to regret its decision. Construction on the President's Residence began in 1910 and finished in early 1913. By the time it was completed the original cost for the building had ballooned from $32,000 to $44,615. Walter Murray, the first president of the University, was deeply embarrassed by the cost of what was to be his personal residence, even though it was also a public building. However, the people of Saskatoon were proud of the building and the status it gave their University, and no public outcry over the cost ever materialized. Renovations to the President's Residence were completed in 1989 by PCL-Maxam at a cost of $96,752. The renovations were designed by architects Malkin/Edwards.

Honourary Degrees - Presentation - T.C. Douglas

F. Hedley Auld, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to T.C. Douglas at Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium. Norman K. Cram, University Register, prepares to hood recipient.

Bio/Historical Note: Thomas Clement Douglas PC CC SOM (1904-1986) was a Scottish Canadian politician who served as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944-1961 and Leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961-1971. A Baptist minister, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He left federal politics to become Leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan. His cabinet was the first democratic socialist government in North America and it introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program. After setting up Saskatchewan's universal healthcare program, Douglas stepped down and ran to lead the newly formed federal New Democratic Party (NDP), the successor party of the national CCF. He was elected as its first federal leader in 1961. Although Douglas never led the party to government, through much of his tenure the party held the balance of power in the House of Commons. He was noted as being the main opposition to the imposition of the War Measures Act during the 1970 October Crisis. He resigned as leader the next year, but remained as a Member of Parliament until 1979. Douglas was awarded many honorary degrees, and a foundation was named for him and his political mentor M. J. Coldwell in 1971. In 1981, he was invested into the Order of Canada, and he became a member of Canada's Privy Council in 1984, two years before his death. In 2004, a CBC Television program named Tommy Douglas "The Greatest Canadian", based on a Canada-wide, viewer-supported survey.

Honourary Degrees - Presentation - Wilbur R. Jackett

F.H. Auld, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Civil Law degree to Wilbur R. Jackett at Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium.

Bio/Historical Note: Wilbur Roy Jackett, OC QC (1912-2005) was born in Tompkins, Saskatchewan, Jackett moved with his family to Kamsack, Saskatchewan in 1920 at the age of eight. After graduating from high school in Kamsack, Jackett graduated with degrees in both Arts and Laws from the University of Saskatchewan. In 1933 he was elected a Rhodes Scholar and went to study at the University of Oxford. Jackett was called to the Bar of Saskatchewan. From 1957-1960 Jackett was the eighth Deputy Minister of the Department of Justice. In 1960 he became general counsel for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was later appointed president of the Exchequer Court of Canada. He was the first Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada from 1971-1979. In 1981, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Jackett died in 2005 in Ottawa at age 93.

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