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Aldis Peterson - Portrait

Formal studio head and shoulders image of Aldis Peterson, star athlete in basketball and tennis.

Bio/Historical Note: Aldis Marjorie (Pete) Peterson graduated from Nutana Collegiate and enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan in 1941. Peterson competed in both basketball and tennis. An outstanding forward, she served as team captain for two years. As a member of the tennis team, she was runner-up in singles at the 1944 Western Championships. For her participation in sports, Peterson was awarded a Major Athletic Award in 1943-1944. She served as secretary to the Women's Athletic Directorate and became the first president of the women's Athletic Board. She was a cheerleader for two years and served as vice-president of the SRC in 1944-1945. In 1944-1945 Peterson was awarded the prestigious "Spirit of Youth" Trophy for having exhibited outstanding athletic skills combined with high qualities in leadership. Peterson married Fred (Bud) Carson (1923-2013), also an inductee into the University of Saskatchewan Athletic Wall of Fame. She died in Toronto on 16 April 1998.

Doug McGillivray collection

  • MJ-127
  • Collection
  • 1904-1993

This is Doug McGillivray’s “Memory Lane” sports collection. It is a compilation of newspaper and magazine clippings of sporting events from 1904-1993. The sporting events include: horse racing, golf, collegiate sports, boxing, wrestling, soccer, ladies and men’s softball, Western Hockey Association (W.H.A.) hockey, track and field, basketball, old-timer hockey and National Hockey League (N.H.L.) hockey. The clippings are mounted on coloured bristol board.

McGillivray, Doug

Girls Basketball team

Team photograph of a girls' basketball team in uniform sitting in a row; one of the girls is holding a basketball. Team members identified as: Ethel Frampton, Bertha France,s Agnes Crozier, Kathleen Drummond, Beth Mooney, Mine Wornin,g Connie Horseman, Myrtle Joy, Gladys Lindgren.
Stamped on the back in blue ink: "Mooney" and "6"
Written on the back in blue ink: "#6"
Written in blue ink on a piece of paper taped to the back of the photo: "Ethel Frampton bertha Frances Agnes Crozier Kathleen Drummond Beth Mooney Mine Worning Connie Horseman Myrtle Joy Gladys lindgren about 1922-23 girls basketball team coached by j Mooney" and "Trim x8 1/2"

University of Saskatchewan Huskiettes Basketball Team - Sylvia Fedoruk

Huskiettes player Sylvia Fedoruk wearing her number 5 basketball sweater.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Sylvia Olga Fedoruk was born in 1927 in Canora, Saskatchewan. She completed high school in Windsor, Ontario, and enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan in 1946. She earned her BA in 1949 and her MA in 1951. Dr. Fedoruk was a member of 12 intervarsity championship sports teams. She played on the Huskiette basketball team that won the Cecil Race Trophy five times, competed on the track team that won the Rutherford Trophy two times, was on the volleyball team that captured the Landa Trophy three times and was a member of the golf team that won the Birks Trophy two times. Dr. Fedoruk was co-captain of the basketball team for four years. In addition to her athletic endeavors for which she received a Major Athletic award, Dr. Fedoruk was active in other facets of campus life, including serving as president of the Women's Athletic Board in 1948-49. She was awarded the prestigious Spirit of Youth Trophy in 1949 as the female student-athlete combining leadership, sportsmanship, character, academics and athletics. Dr. Fedoruk went on to a distinguished career in medical physics, specializing in the use of radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Dr. Fedoruk became the first female Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan, serving from 1986-1991. In 1987 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan from 1988-1994. In 2009 Dr. Fedoruk was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. In 2012 the name of the Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation (CCNI) was changed to the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation in honor of the pioneering work she did in the treatment of cancer using cobalt-60 radiation therapy in the 1950s. Dr. Fedoruk died in 2012 in Saskatoon at age 85. The city of Saskatoon honoured her by naming Fedoruk Drive, located in the northeast sector of the city, after her. Sylvia Fedoruk Public School, located in the Evergreen neighbourhood, opened in 2017.

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