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Students - Group Photos

Various group images of students on campus. Images 1-2 show two women on horses in background with male students in foreground. Image 3 shows male students standing with the river in background. Images 4-6 show male students standing in front of [Streetcar #53] with one student holding a beer and wine bottle.

Dr. L.E. Kirk - Portrait

Head and shoulders image of Dr. L.E. Kirk, College of Agriculture, 1917-1946.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Lawrence Eldred Kirk was born in 1886 in Bracebridge, Ontario. He received a BA in 1916, a BSc in 1917, and an MSA in 1922, all from the University of Saskatchewan. In 1927 Dr. Kirk received a DPhil from the University of Minnesota. He was an instructor in agronomy at the U of S from 1917-1919. From 1919-1920 he taught agriculture at Moose Jaw Collegiate. He returned to the U of S to become professor of Field Husbandry. In 1931 Dr. Kirk was appointed Dominion Agrostologist and head of the Division of Forage Crops of the Experimental Farms Service in Ottawa. He returned again to the U of S in 1937 with his appointment as dean of Agriculture at the U of S. In 1946 [or 1947] Dr. Kirk became chief of the Plant Industry Branch in the Agricultural Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome. He was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S in 1949. He retired in 1955. In 1968 Dr. Kirk was awarded the Medal of Service (S.M.) of the Order of Canada (which later became the Officer level) "for his service in various branches of agriculture at home and abroad." Dr. Kirk died in 1969.

Christina Cameron Murray - Portrait

Head and shoulders image of Christina Cameron Murray.

Bio/Historical Note: Christina Cameron Murray, eldest daughter of the University of Saskatchewan's first President, Walter Charles Murray, and Christina Cameron Murray, was born in 1896 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She earned a BA from the University of Saskatchewan in 1917 and graduated from Montreal's Royal Victoria School of Nursing in 1924. In 1930 Christina returned to Canada to become an instructor at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. In 1934-1935 she completed a course in hospital administration and instruction from the Bedford College for Women at the University of London. Christina held a number of teaching positions during her career: University of Wisconsin (1925-1930); Ottawa Civic Hospital (1930-1934); and Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing in Vancouver (1934-1938). Christina was active in district, state, and national nursing organizations in the United States and at the time of her death was chairman of the membership committee of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing. Christina earned the rank of full professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing where she worked from 1938 until her death in Madison in 1948 at age 51. The School of Nursing Alumnae designated a memorial reading room in the library in honour of Christina. ‘Murray House’ in Chadbourne Hall is also named after her.

Lucy Murray

Lucy Murray and an unidentified friend trying to put up a tent; clothes on clothesline and trees in background.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in 1902 in Nova Scotia, Lucy Hunter Murray was the second daughter of Walter C. Murray, the University of Saskatchewan's first president, and Christina Cameron Murray. Lucy Murray received her BA at the University of Saskatchewan in 1923 and her MA from the University of Toronto in 1925. Then followed a B.Ed. degree in 1933 at the University of Saskatchewan where she received the McColl scholarship in 1933. Murray earned a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1935. She joined the Regina College's department of English in 1936 and was an Associate Professor there at the time of her death in 1967. Murray was given the Cliff Shaw Memorial Award for her contributions to the Blue Jay, the journal of the Saskatchewan Natural History Society.

Lucy Murray

Lucy Murray standing with a stone building [on campus] in background.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in 1902 in Nova Scotia, Lucy Hunter Murray was the second daughter of Walter C. Murray, the University of Saskatchewan's first president, and Christina Cameron Murray. Lucy Murray received her BA at the University of Saskatchewan in 1923 and her MA from the University of Toronto in 1925. Then followed a B.Ed. degree in 1933 at the University of Saskatchewan where she received the McColl scholarship in 1933. Murray earned a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1935. She joined the Regina College's department of English in 1936 and was an Associate Professor there at the time of her death in 1967. Murray was given the Cliff Shaw Memorial Award for her contributions to the Blue Jay, the journal of the Saskatchewan Natural History Society.

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