Claire Thorseth retrieves material for Dr. Roland Dyck on the MEDLINE terminal located in second floor of Health Sciences Library.

Bio/Historical Note: The oldest wing of the Health Sciences Building, the A Wing, dating to 1949, was originally the Medical College Building. The Health Sciences A Wing has heritage value as the cornerstone of the medical precinct at the university and was designed by architects Webster and Gilbert. The A Wing was renovated and opened in 2019. The B Wing was completed by 1971.

Looking northeast at the Murray Library. Student walking on sidewalk on foreground; student on bicycle on Wiggins Avenue.

Bio/Historical Note: Though the first recorded withdrawal from the University Library occurred in October 1909, nearly five decades passed before the Library had its own building. The early collection was housed either on the second floor of the College Building (later known as the Administration Building) or was scattered among a number of small departmental libraries. Plans for a new library building in the late 1920s were ended by the start of the Great Depression; but a dramatically reduced acquisitions budget was offset by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation in 1933. In 1943 the University hired its first professional Librarian. A combination of provincial grants and University fundraising financed the construction of the Murray Memorial Library. The library was named after the University’s first President, Walter C. Murray. Designed by noted Regina architect Kioshi Izumi working under H.K. Black, Architect, it marked a change in campus architecture away from the more angular and elaborate Collegiate Gothic style to that of the less expensive cube. Building materials included granite at the entrance and Tyndall stone as a wall cladding and window trim. In addition to the library, the building housed the College of Law, an office of the Provincial Archives and a 105-seat lecture theatre equipped with the latest in audiovisual teaching aids. The most dramatic transformation took place between 1970 and 1976 when a six floor south wing was added along with an extensive renovation of the 1956 structure. Designed by BLM, Regina, the south wing was unlike any other building on campus. Clad in Tyndall stone panels made to look like concrete (through a "bush hammered" finish), the grey almost windowless building is industrial and utilitarian in appearance. The University's master plan required buildings in the core of campus to be clad in stone. However, the "bush hammered" finish was used since the Library addition was built during a period that saw the flowering of "Brutalist" Architecture, so called because of the wide use of exposed concrete. The new (south) wing, originally called the Main Library, was officially opened on 17 May 1974, and also became the home of the Department of Art and Art History, the College of Graduate Studies and the University Archives.

Dr. Robert G. Murray, dean of Medicine, presents the Lindsay Gold Medal in Medicine to Harold Robert Baldwin, BSc, at Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

John A. Dorgan, University Registrar, hoods an unidentified male graduand as John G. Diefenbaker, University Chancellor, looks down at a program during fall Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium. Dignitaries next to Mr. Diefenbaker include J.W.T. Spinks (second from right), University President; and R.W. Begg (right), Saskatoon Campus Principal.

View of campus looking west with the Bowl at centre with surrounding buildings. College Drive runs at left; the 25th Street Bridge and river in background.

Oval-shaped portrait of Edward L. Wetmore, first University Chancellor, wearing an official gown and mortarboard.

Bio/Historical Note: Edward Ludlow Wetmore was born 24 March 1841 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Wetmore received a BA from the University of New Brunswick in 1859. He was called to the New Brunswick bar in 1864. From 1874-1876 he was mayor of Fredericton. Wetmore was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick and was Leader of the Opposition from 1883-1886. In 1886 Wetmore was appointed to the Supreme Court of New Brunswick. In 1887 Wetmore was appointed puisne judge of the first Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories and from 1907-1912 he was appointed the first Chief Justice of Saskatchewan. In 1907 he became the first Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan and served in this position until 1917. He assisted the first president, Walter C. Murray, in setting the by-laws for the university. He attended the cornerstone laying of the Agriculture Building, done by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, to mark the beginning of the building of the University. An honourary Doctor of Civil Law degree, the first honourary degree awarded by the U of S, was awarded to Wetmore in 1919. Wetmore died 19 Jan. 1922 in Victoria, British Columbia.

Dr. Kenneth .J. McCallum, dean of Graduate Studies, speaking from podium during Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium. Dignitaries in robes sit on dais, including John G. Diefenbaker (left), University Chancellor, and J.W.T. Spinks (second from left), University President.

Dignitaries parading from the Administration Building to the special convocation ceremonies in the Bowl during the Learned Societies Conference, U of S, 22 May-8 June 1979.

Bio/historical note: A special convocation was held 2 June 1979 to celebrate the "Learned Societies Conference". It was 20 years since the last conference was held at the University of Saskatchewan. Honourary Doctor of Literature (D.Litt.) degrees were conferred on four outstanding scholars: Jean Sutherland Boggs, Sir Moses I. Finley, Amartya Kumar Sen, and Arthur G.C. Whalley.

Bio/Historical Note: Learned Societies, a term applied in Canada to the large group of scholarly organizations that hold conferences annually from late May to mid-June at a different university location each year. Society members come not only to hear and discuss scholarly papers on the latest work in their fields, but also to renew contacts and share common concerns. The gathering of these associations in one place over one period is distinctively Canadian and owes more to practical evolution than to planning power. Selecting one site with suitable university accommodation was an answer to Canadian distance that allowed scholars more economical joint arrangements, let them attend meetings of societies besides their own, and encouraged them to visit varied geographical areas. The older Royal Society opened the way by moving from its Ottawa base to annual conferences at Montréal, Kingston or Toronto. Younger, more specialized associations - such as those in history, political science and economics - joined in, holding their own meetings along with, or just following, the senior scholarly society. By the 1930s the practice of holding an annual learned-conference period at a different site each year was well established, though such sites were usually in central Canada, where most larger universities were located. But in 1949 "the Learneds" went to Halifax, and soon afterwards to Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver. In April 1996, the conference name was changed to the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

R.C. Strayer, associate professor of Agricultural Engineering, and Ray Chopiuk, extension specialist in Agricultural Engineering, check the operation of a six cylinder tractor engine fueled by canola oil.

Art Knight, dean of Arts, presents the University Prize in Science to David Llewellyn Twist of Prince Albert at Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

F.W. Johnson, Lieutenant Governor, Province of Saskatchewan, presents the Governor General's Gold Medal to John David Melin of Saskatoon at Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium. Seated dignitaries in background applaud winner; U of S logo hanging on wall in background.

Dr. Ian M. McDonald, Dean of Medicine, speaks at the 75th annual Spring Convocation and the occasion of installation of Dr. Sylvia Fedoruk as Chancellor. Seated dignitaries in background; lectern with Centennial Auditorium banner in foreground.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Sylvia Olga Fedoruk was born in 1927 in Canora, Saskatchewan. She completed high school in Windsor, Ontario, and enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan in 1946. She earned her BA in 1949 and her MA in 1951. Dr. Fedoruk was a member of 12 intervarsity championship teams. She played on the Huskiette basketball team that won the Cecil Race Trophy five times, competed on the track team that won the Rutherford Trophy two times, was on the volleyball team that captured the Landa Trophy three times and was a member of the golf team that won the Birks Trophy two times. Dr. Fedoruk was co-captain of the basketball team for four years. In addition to her athletic endeavors for which she received a Major Athletic award, Dr. Fedoruk was active in other facets of campus life, including serving as president of the Women's Athletic Board in 1948-49. She was awarded the prestigious Spirit of Youth Trophy in 1949 as the female student-athlete combining leadership, sportsmanship, character, academics and athletics. Dr. Fedoruk went on to a distinguished career in medical physics, specializing in the use of radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Dr. Fedoruk became the first female Chancellor at the University of Saskatchewan, serving from 1986-1991. In 1987 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan from 1988-1994. In 2009 Dr. Fedoruk was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. In 2012 the name of the Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation (CCNI) was changed to the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation in honor of the pioneering work she did in the treatment of cancer using cobalt-60 radiation therapy in the 1950s. Saskatoon honoured Dr. Fedoruk by naming Fedoruk Drive, located in the northeast sector of the city, after her. Dr. Fedoruk died in 2012 in Saskatoon at age 85. In 2017 Sylvia Fedoruk Public School opened in the Evergreen neighbourhood.

Roxanne Utley, systems programmer, Department of Computational Science, accesses different computers simultaneously through Ethernet.

Head and shoulders of E.H Oliver and students. Name of students below their image.

J.W.T. Spinks, University President, presents the Governor General's Gold Medal to Janet Ann Randell during Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.