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Dr. P.J. Thair - Portrait

Head and shoulders image of Dr. P.J. Thair, associate professor of Agriculture.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. P.J. (Phil) Thair was born and raised in the Lumsden-Regina area. He ttook his high school at Luther College in Regina, graduating in 1932. He obtained his teaching certificate from Regina Normal School, where he was president of the student association. He obtained his BSA (1942) and MSc (1944) from the University of Saskatchewan and joined the Canada Department of Agriculture as an agricultural economist. He was awarded a Social Science Research Council Fellowship in 1947 and obtained a PhD from Iowa State College in 1953. From 1949-1955 Dr. Thair was part of the Canadian brain drain serving the United States Department of Agriculture as an agricultural economist in Fargo, North Dakota. He returned in 1955 to join the Department of Farm Management at the U of S. Dr. Thair was appointed head of Agricultural Economics in 1969.

Dr. Margaret M. Cameron and Dr. J. Francis Leddy

Dr. Margaret M. Cameron, head of the Department of French, accepts a scroll from Dr. J. Francis Leddy at an unidentified event, [perhaps Dr. Cameron's retirement in 1963, or her honourary degree ceremony in 1967].

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Margaret M. Cameron, a native of Nova Scotia, received her early education in Sydney. She graduated with a BA from McGill University in 1916, obtained an MA from Radcliffe the following year, and later completed a doctorate at the University of Paris. She joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan as assistant professor of French in 1924. In 1945 Dr. Cameron became head of the department until her retirement in 1966. She was one of the first women in Canada to head a department not devoted exclusively to so-called women’s work. Dr. Cameron's record of service includes offices held in a number of organizations such as the Saskatoon women’s division of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, the local branch of the Humanities Association, the University Faculty Club, the Canadian Federation of University Women, and the Canadian Association of University Teachers of French. After retiring, Dr. Cameron translated three volumes of Gustave Lanctot’s historical work and the English version of Guy Fregault’s La Guerre de la Conquete. Dr. Cameron retired in 1963 and was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S in 1967. The Margaret M. Cameron Prize in French is awarded annually.

F.C. Cronkite - Painting Unveiling

Durward Thomas, LLB '29 (Sask), registrar of the Court of Queen's Bench and former Saskatoon alderman, pulls a cord revealing painting of F.C. Cronkite, Dean of Law from 1930-1961, on display.

Bio/Historical Note: Born on a New Brunswick farm on 22 December 1894, Frederick Clinton Cronkite received his early education locally, including a BA from the University of New Brunswick. Upon graduation he studied at Harvard, obtaining both an MA in economics and government and an LLB. Cronkite returned to New Brunswick were he practiced law until 1924, when he joined the faculty of Law at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1930 he succeeded Dr. Arthur S. Moxon as Dean. During his tenure enrollment in the College of Law increased and the College broadened its curriculum, providing classes in both labour and administrative law. Cronkite was active in civic politics, serving as an alderman for ten years. He was also active provincially and nationally, aiding in the presentation of the Saskatchewan case to the Rowell-Sirois Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations, serving on the Royal Commission on Transportation, corresponding on various other royal commissions, and serving on the Saskatchewan Reconstruction Council, the Committee on Urban Assessments, and on the Saskatchewan Health Services Planning Commission. Between 1945-1961 he was asked to hear several labour arbitration cases. Upon Cronkite's retirement in 1961 he was named Dean Emeritus; and in 1967 the U of S awarded him an honourary Doctor of Laws degree. Dr. Cronkite died in April 1973.

Jones, Gwyn O. - Portrait

Head and shoulders image of Gwyn Jones.

Bio/Historical Note: Gwyn Owain Jones CBE (1917-2006), often known as G.O. Jones, was a Welsh physicist and academic, who moved from being a professor at the University of London to become director of the National Museum of Wales.

Dr. Allan B. Van Cleave - In Class

Dr. Allan Van Cleave (right), professor of Chemistry, with his arm in a cast, and an unidentified female assistant observe a male student working with machinery.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Allan Bishop Van Cleave, known as “Van”, was born on 19 August 1910 in Medicine Hat, Alberta. He obtained BSc (1931) and MSc (1933) degrees in chemistry from the University of Saskatchewan. After earning PhD degrees from McGill and Cambridge, he joined the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the U of S in 1937, where he built a reputation as an educator and researcher in surface chemistry. In 1962 Dr. Van Cleave became chairman of the Division of Natural Sciences at Regina Campus. He was appointed director of the School of Graduate Studies in 1965 and then dean in 1969. For five years Dr. Van Cleave also was dean of Graduate Studies, which oversaw graduate education on both campuses of the University. From 1974 until his retirement in 1980, he continued as dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Regina. Dr. Van Cleave is best known for his work in designing the new high school chemistry curriculum in the 1960s. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada, and a member of many organizations such as the Defence Research Board, the Faraday Society, the Saskatchewan Research Council, and the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He also served as chair of the Canadian Services College Advisory Board (1965) and as president of the U of S Alumni Association (1949-1951). He received the Centennial Medal (1967), the Order of Canada (1976), and an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Regina (1980). Dr. Van Cleave died on 27 April 1992.

Archibald P. McNab - Portrait

Posed indoor image of Archibald P. McNab, member, University Board of Governors.

Bio/Historical Note: Archibald Peter (Archie) McNab was born 29 May 1864 in Glengarry, Ontario, He moved west to Winnipeg in 1882 before homesteading at Virden, Manitoba. Successive years of drought forced McNab to give up farming by 1887, after which he became a grain buyer for Ogilvie Flour Mills. In 1902 he was transferred to Rosthern where he invested in two grain elevators. McNab later sold his interest and moved to Saskatoon. There he established the Dominion Elevator Company and helped found the Saskatchewan Central Railway Company and the Saskatchewan Power Company. McNab's political career began in 1908 with his election as Liberal MLA for Saskatoon City. Shortly after he was named commissioner of Municipal Affairs and in 1912 was named minister of Public Works. In addition to overseeing the construction of some of the province's most notable public buildings, McNab played an instrumental role in acquiring the University of Saskatchewan for Saskatoon. In 1926 he secured a position on the local government board until accusations of impropriety forced his resignation four years later. Although he had been comfortably retired for six years, McNab accepted the vice-regal appointment on 1936. During McNab's two terms as Lieutenant-Governor, the frugal character of Government House reflected the prevailing mood of a province suffering through drought and war. Nevertheless, an appropriate welcome was extended to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth during their visit to Government House in 1939. McNab also welcomed children to play on the grounds of the vice-regal residence before the CCF government announced the home's closure in September 1944. The last Lieutenant Governor to live in Government House, McNab resigned on 26 February 1945, due to failing health. Archie McNab died of pneumonia on 29 April 1945 in Regina.

Rt. Hon. Louis St. Laurent and Group

image of the Right Honourable Louis St. Laurent (at centre), Prime Minister of Canada; and from l to r: Russell Hopkins (left), Law '32, Ottawa branch president; George Hugh Castleden, MP, Arts '35 (CCF-Yorkton); Neil Harris, Arts '47, Director of Musical Production, Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee Committee, all standing amongst the female choir in the Railway Committee Rooms at Ottawa.

Women Graduates - Group Photo

Group photograph of four women in black academic robes, one holding a piece of paper. L to r: Caroline Fraser (Bruce); Elsie Hall, LLB '20; Agnes Mary Valens (Balfour) (holding paper), LLB '21; Iva Zella Young (Conboy), LLB '21.

Bio/Historical Note: Agnes Valens Balfour, BA '14, LLB '21, died in Saskatoon on 23 August 1944. Iva Zella Conboy, LLB '21, died in Chilliwack, British Columbia, on 23 December 1970.

Louis Brehaut and Reginald J.G. Bateman

Louis Brehaut (standing), head, Department of Philosophy, and Reginald J.G. Bateman, head, Department of English, looking at [some papers].

Bio/Historical Note: Louis Brehaut (1881-1932) was born in 1881 in Nova Scotia and graduated from Dalhousie University in 1904 with high honours and medal in Greek and English. Brehaut spent several years teaching at Oxford and St. Andrews University in Scotland. Brehaut eventually returned to Oxford and finished his degree. He then lectured in Manchester University (England) and acted as examiner for St. Andrews. Brehaut joined the University of Saskatchewan. He enlisted in 1914, became a victim of shell-shock in 1915 and was invalided home to Canada. Brehaut was unable to continue teaching and resigned in 1916. He died in [Prince Edward Island] at age 51.
Bio/Historical Note: Reginald J.G. Bateman (1883-1918) enlisted in 1914, went overseas in 1915, and returned to the U of S in 1916 to raise a company of the 196th (Western Universities) Battalion. Of the 5,374 men in the 46th Battalion, 4,917 were either killed or wounded. Bateman was killed near Dury, France on 3 September 1918.

25 Lives Exhibit

Image of Neil Richards (Library assistant) and Valerie Korinek (professor of History) with a part of the 25 Lives display.

Bio/Historical Note: "25 Lives: Out & Proud," was the 25th-anniversary project of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA). The Toronto-based organization selected 25 inspirational people in the LGBTQ community to honour those whose achievements and openness about their sexuality have had an impact on Canadian society. Their portraits, mainly done by artists within that community, were donated. There are 13 women and 12 men, there is regional representation, and people from a number of different cultural backgrounds. Indeed, the honourees range from politicians and entertainers to writers and activists. Among the 25 were Svend Robinson, k.d. lang, Jim Egan, Mary-Woo Sims, Anne Bishop, Persimmon Blackbridge, Robin Metcalfe, Ken Popert, Robert Laliberte, Jovette Marchessault. Tim McCaskell, Shelley Tremain, and Audrey Butler. The exhibit was co-ordinated by Neil Richards (Library) and Valerie Korinek (History).

John Kenneth Galbraith - Portrait

Head and shoulders image of John Kenneth Galbraith, Honourary Degree recipient; possibly taken at time of presentation.

Bio/Historical Note: John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as Ken Galbraith, was born in 1908 at Iona Station, Ontario. After study at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Agricultural College (now part of the University of Guelph; BS 1931) and the University of California, Berkeley (PhD 1934), Galbraith, who became a U.S. citizen in 1937, taught successively at Harvard and Princeton universities until 1942. During World War II and the postwar period, he held a variety of government posts and served as editor of Fortune magazine (1943-48) before resuming his academic career at Harvard in 1948. He established himself as a politically active liberal academician with a talent for communicating with the reading public. A key adviser to President John F. Kennedy, Galbraith served as ambassador to India from 1961 to 1963, when he returned again to Harvard; he became professor emeritus in 1975. He also continued his involvement in public affairs, and in 1967-68 he was national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action. Galbraith’s major works included American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power (1951), in which he questioned the competitive ideal in industrial organization. In his popular critique of the wealth gap, The Affluent Society (1958), Galbraith faulted the “conventional wisdom” of American economic policies and called for less spending on consumer goods and more spending on government programs. In The New Industrial State (1967) he envisioned a growing similarity between “managerial” capitalism and socialism and called for intellectual and political changes to stem what he saw as a decline of competitiveness in the American economy. Among his many other works were The Great Crash, 1929 (1955), The Liberal Hour (1960), Ambassador’s Journal (1969), A Life in Our Times: Memoirs (1981), The Anatomy of Power (1983), Economics in Perspective: A Critical History (1987), and The Culture of Contentment (1992). He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1946 and 2000. Galbraith died in 2006 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at age 96.

Straw Gas Retort

A straw gas retort made of brick with a metal front in [Engineering Building]. In a chemistry laboratory, a retort is a device used for distillation or dry distillation of substances.

Bio/Historical Note: Prof. R.D. MacLaurin, head, Department of Chemistry, was interested in the production of gas from straw as a fuel for heating and for engines. Though he was not alone in the research field, MacLaurin built a small extraction plant in the late 1910s and operate a McLaughlin Motor Car using straw gas. The research was promising but far from a breakthrough. The volume of gas produced was small and the mileage between fill-ups low. The most significant aspect of the research was not scientific but financial. MacLaurin felt cheated when Walter C. Murray, University President, distributed provincial research funds to several campus projects. Though he had the largest share of the grant, MacLaurin felt he deserved it all. He alleged Murray had misappropriated funds. A battle ensued for the control of the University administration. Murray was able to maintain the confidence of the Board of Governors and MacLaurin and three of his supporters - Samuel Greenway, Extension director; Ira MacKay, professor of Law; and John L. Hogg, head, Physics - were dismissed. Research into straw gas was discontinued.

Ceramics Society - Group Photo

Posed image of members of the Ceramics Society at standing on front steps of the Engineering Building. Front row (l to r): E. Welter (pres.), M. Reagen (sec.), Prof. Wolsey G. Worcester, Elene Isfan, K. Bill, R.A. Campbell, H.S. Wilson; Second row: J. Scott, K. Jumphrey, H.N. Burrows, E.G. Child, W.M. Naish (Treas.), A. Posnick, S. Johnson, M.F. Parsons, S.A. Perry, R. Robinson, L.R. Sargent, F.C. Muttit.

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