Students at work in the Medical Lab in the College of Medicine, from l to r: L. Upelwicks; R. Harrington; Theodoric (Ted) Nwafor Chukwulobe Agulefo; L.W. Wasew; T.R. Morris; P.C. Thorfinnson.

Three images of the funeral procession of William Hamilton, who died while working as a volunteer nurse in the temporary hospital the City had set up at Emmanuel College during the Spanish Influenza Pandemic.
Photos A, B, C: Procession on campus; Dean of Agriculture's Residence at left, Saskatchewan Hall at right.
Photos D and E show a funeral procession [held around the same time as William Hamilton's; perhaps in Eastern Canada].
Photo D: Pallbearers carry a casket down a residential street. Marchers, women and men, walk behind.
Photo E: Procession on a residential street; marchers walking away from camera. People standing at far right.

Bio/Historical Note: William George Hamilton, Pharmacy student and widower with three children, contracted the Spanish Flu and died after serving as a volunteer nurse. Hamilton died on 15 November 1918, age 39. Hamilton’s wife, Mabel Isabelle (Coxworth) Hamilton, died on 28 March 1917, age 21. They are buried at Fairmede Cemetery, Wawota, Saskatchewan.

Marilyn Truscott of Glidden, Saskatchewan, a PhD candidate in geological sciences at the University of Saskatchewan, makes use of an electron probe x-ray microanalyzer. Mrs. Truscott uses the machine to analyze samples of volcanic rock from the Sweetgrass Hills in Montana. She is obtaining information that will help provide a more complete picture of the geological history of the Western Plains.

Students at work in the Thorvaldson Laboratory.

M. Ruth Murray takes paper currency from a freshman wearing a beanie in exchange for a book.

Bio/Historical Note: Margaret Ruth Murray was born on 17 October 1909 in Westville, Nova Scotia and in 1917 moved with her family to Saskatchewan. Ruth attended Caswell Hill School and Bedford Road Collegiate and graduated from the Saskatoon Normal School and taught for one and a half years. Ruth received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saskatchewan in 1933. She worked in various departments in the University, until beginning her career with the Library in 1935. Murray took a years' leave in 1943 to obtain her BLS from the University of Toronto. She retired in 1977. Murray died in Saskatoon in 2006 at age 97.

Group photo of University of Saskatchewan students (Agriculture, Arts & Science, Theology) in front of the Administration Building.

Three men with backs to camera watch wall projection on screen.

Welding class in session in the machine shop.

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