Head and shoulders image of Elaine Cadell, executive director of Alumni and Development.

Bio/Historical Note: Elaine Cadell is the longtime executive director of Alumni and Development (2024).

Head and shoulders image of Elaine Cadell, executive director of Alumni and Development.

Bio/Historical Note: Elaine Cadell is the longtime executive director of Alumni and Development (2024)

E.C. Leslie, chancellor, University of Regina; George F. Curtis, dean of Law, University of Calgary; and Walter A. Tucker, Saskatchewan CCF politician, chat at an unidentified event.

Bio/Historical Note: Everett Clayton Leslie (1893-1978) contributed to the profession of Law and post-secondary education in his adopted province of Saskatchewan. He served with the 85th Battalion, Nova Scotia Highlanders during World War I. Following his return from Europe, he earned a BA from Acadia University and an LLB from the University of Saskatchewan. In addition to carrying on a general law practice, he served as a member of the Board of Governors of the U of S and was installed as the first Chancellor of the University of Regina in October 1974. Leslie was awarded honourary degrees from Acadia and Queen’s universities and the University of Saskatchewan (1959), Leslie was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1969.

Bio/Historical Note: Walter Adam Tucker (1899-1990) earned his BA from the University of Manitoba and an LLB from the University of Saskatchewan. He won a seat in the House of Commons of Canada where he was a Liberal MP for Rosthern, Saskatchewan from 1935-1948. Tucker served as parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Veterans Affairs from 1945-1948. He moved to provincial politics to lead the Saskatchewan Liberal Party in the 1948 provincial election against the CCF government of Tommy Douglas promoting the Liberals as the defenders of capitalism against the socialist CCF. While Tucker was able to win a seat in the provincial legislature and become Leader of the Opposition, he failed in his attempts to defeat the CCF government in 1948 and then again in 1952. Tucker resigned his seat in the provincial legislature in 1953 and returned to the federal House of Commons in the 1953 federal election. Tucker was re-elected in the 1957 election but was defeated in the Diefenbaker landslide the following year in the 1958 election. In 1963 Tucker was appointed to the Court of Queen's Bench of Saskatchewan where he served as a judge until 1974.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. E.C. (Charles) Hope, assistant professor of Farm Management, College of Agriculture, 1930-1943.

Bio/Historical Note: Ernest Charles Hope was born 29 March 1900 in Vancouver, British Columbia. He earned a BSA in 1924 at the University of British Columbia. He later received an MA (1929) and a PhD (1939) from Cornell University. In 1930 he became an assistant professor of agricultural economics at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Hope was appointed chairman of a Committee of Review for the year 1939 under the Prairie Farm Assistance Act. Charles Hope died 30 January 1958 in Montreal at age 57.

Exterior view of the implements shed.

Lorne Hepworth, Saskatchewan Minister of Advanced Education and Manpower, cuts the ribbon marking the official opening of the new Immuno-Virology Research Unit. Assisting are (l to r): Dr. Ian M. McDonald, dean of Medicine; Cliff Wright, mayor of Saskatoon; George McLeod, Saskatchewan Minister of Health; and Dr. Leo F. Kristjanson, University President.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Irwin MacAmmond Hilliard, head, Department of Medicine and physician-in-chief at University Hospital from 1954-1962.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Irwin MacAmmond Hilliard was born 24 March 1911 in Morrisburg, Ontario and attended medical school at the University of Toronto. He was chief of medicine, Toronto Western Hospital; first clinical chair, Department of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan; professor, University of Toronto. Dr. Hilliard [retired in 1990]. Dr. Hilliard and his wife Agnes served as United Church of Canada missionaries at Foochow, Sichuan Province, China from 1938-1944. Their elder two children were born there. Irwin Hilliard died 4 October 2000 in Scarborough, Ontario, at age 89.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Irwin Mcammond Hilliard, head, Department of Medicine and physician-in-chief at University Hospital from 1954-1962.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Irwin MacAmmond Hilliard was born 24 March 1911 in Morrisburg, Ontario and attended medical school at the University of Toronto. He was chief of medicine, Toronto Western Hospital; first clinical chair, Department of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan; professor, University of Toronto. Dr. Hilliard [retired in 1990]. Dr. Hilliard and his wife Agnes served as United Church of Canada missionaries at Foochow, Sichuan Province, China from 1938-1944. Their elder two children were born there. Irwin Hilliard died 4 October 2000 in Scarborough, Ontario, at age 89.

Head and shoulders image of Dr. Ian Sutherland, University Hospital.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Ian Douglas Sutherland was born 21 June 21 1939 in Lethbridge, Alberta. Following his father he went to work for Canada Trust, which took him to London, Ontario then Regina. Ian then became a health care administrator for nearly thirty years and in 1982 his career brought the family to Saskatoon, where he worked at Royal University Hospital before joining the Department of Health. During this period he ably chaired the SAHO Employee Benefits Committee for twenty years. While serving as a senior administrator at the hospital he took evening classes at the College of Commerce and received his MBA at age 58. A special highlight of this course was a project in Ukraine while balancing studies and full-time work. Four days before his unexpected passing, his service to the community was acknowledged by the province with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal. Ian Sutherland died 28 March 2023 [in Saskatoon].

Ian Bickle, acting News Secretary, university of Saskatchewan, looks at [graduation program]; unidentified photographer at right.

Bio/Historical Note: Ian Bickle was born 31 March 1931 in The Pas, Manitoba, He attended university at Western in London, Ontario, then moved to Saskatoon in the mid 1950s to begin a career in TV with CFQC. Bickle died in Regina in 2008.