The Biggar Elementary School Staff posing for a group photograph. A sign at their feet reads "Biggar Elementary Staff 1985 86 JK 5013"

Lecture is being given to the first year class. Classroom has double windows and a painting of wild cattle on the background wall.

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

Head and shoulders image of L.V. St. Louis, Associate Professor, Department of Economics.

The pupils and teachers in the stone school in 1899. The principal was Mr. J. A. Gregory, right rear, and his assistant was Mr. J. A. M. Patrick, later be came Judge Patrick, left rear. A list of the pupils shown here may be found on another page in the album.

Jean G. Bayer, Department of English, 1915-1945, crouching by two ducks at an unknown location.

Bio/Historical Note: Jean Gordon Bayer joined the staff of the university in 1909 as President Walter Murray's secretary. Bayer previously had been his secretary at Dalhousie University. She arrived in Saskatoon in time to witness the registration of the first students. She was the President’s secretary, university librarian, and unofficial adviser to students. Bayer helped choose the university colours and motto, and was one of the founders of the Pente Kai Deka Society. In 1915, due to staff shortages caused by the Great War, Bayer was appointed Instructor in English. She proved so effective she was encouraged to continue, and took a year of study at Bedford College, London, prior to being formally appointed to the faculty. Like Murray, “she possessed a wide vision of the function of a university and, like him, she…dedicated herself to Saskatchewan.” “A most kindly guide” to her students, “many caught their first glimpse of what a literary ‘salon’ of the great days might have been in the genial atmosphere of tea and literature in her book-lined suite. She was a most loyal and cooperative colleague….She made it seem an easy thing to be happy and brave.” When Bayer returned from London in 1921 she was named Assistant Professor of English, a rank rarely held by women in that period. Bayer retained the post until her death in 1945. A scholarship in her name is available to a student who has completed at least two years of university studies

A group of women posing for a group photo in front of the new Nova Wood School in Biggar, Saskatchewan

Written in Arbos 1983: STF Memories, p. 21; "In 1909 Georgina McGill, a student at McMaster University, came west to visit her brother Jud at his farm near Stranraer. She stayed to teach for several months at Wynona school? built in 1907. Miss McGill taught fourteen students in this sodded frame schoolhouse." Georgina McGill standing outside the Wynona sod schoolhouse.

A group of retired teachers posing for a group photograph at a reunion in Biggar, Saskatchewan.

Group photograph of teacher and students at the Meadow Bank School

The full cast for theatrical, March 1914. Left to right, front row: Joy Carpenter, Elder Fleming, Leslie Trueman, John Young, Ralph Clark, Wm. Ross, Harold Brown, Lorne Burke, George Parker and Douglas Ewen. Centre row: Miss Hockley- teacher, Doris Trueman, Dorothy Hill, Mr. Ross- Principal, Constance Vaughan, Mary Christopherson and Miss Ostrum-Teacher, Bach row: Mr. Leighton-Asst. Principal, Bert Lancaster, Miler Magrath, Dan Young, Milton Lloyd and Gregory Fehrenbach.