Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada, placing the medal around W.P. Thompson's neck; unidentified people in background.

Bio/Historical Note: W.P. Thompson was the third president of the University of Saskatchewan (1949–1959).

Image of William C. McNamara, honourary Doctor of Laws degree recipient; possibly taken at time of presentation.

Bio/Historical Note: William Craig McNamara was born in 1904 in Winnipeg, Manitoba but raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. In 1923, McNamara found work with the Standard Bank of Canada but left in 1924 to become an office boy with the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. McNamara joined the Canadian Wheat Board in 1942 and was appointed commissioner in 1955 becoming assistant chief commissioner in 1947 and then chief commissioner in 1958. McNamara held that position until 1970 when he was appointed to the Senate where he sat as a Liberal representing Manitoba. McNamara retired from the upper house in 1979. McNamara died in 1984.

View of cattle on feeding trails; feed mill in background and cattle within the pens.

View looking southwest of Commerce Building.

Empty classroom in Commerce Building. View from back of class looking towards front of classroom.

Mary Spinks (left) makes presentation to Jean E. Murray at retirement banquet.

Bio/Historical Note: Jean Elizabeth Murray was born on 29 April 1901 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the second of three daughters of Walter Charles and Christina (Cameron) Murray. In September 1909, Murray, her sisters, and her mother moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to join her father who had been made president of the University of Saskatchewan a year earlier. She completed her primary and secondary education at King Edward and Victoria schools and Nutana Collegiate and then went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts (1922) and a Master of Arts (1923) from the University of Saskatchewan. She subsequently received a second MA from the University of Toronto (1924) and a PhD from the University of Chicago (1936). After working as an instructor at the University of Alberta between 1928 and 1930 and at Regina College from 1930 to 1931, Murray joined the University of Saskatchewan as an instructor in history in 1931. She became an assistant professor in 1937 and a full professor in 1966. Upon her retirement in 1968, the University of Saskatchewan awarded Murray the rank of Professor Emeritus of History. After retirement she continued to work at the university, first as a sessional lecturer, then as chairman of the library committee of the history department. She was made acting archivist for the university in 1936, and was a leading member of several women's interest groups. Murray died at Saskatoon in 1981.

Dr. Lucy D. Willis, Associate Professor of Nursing, gives address at Nurses' Graduation held in Physical Education gymnasium.

Bio/Historical Note: Lucy Dorothea Willis (1918-2018) was born and raised in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Her initial training at Toronto Western Hospital as a nurse stimulated a lifelong dedication to nursing education. After a post-RN Certificate in Teaching at UBC and six years of nursing and education work at Saskatoon's City Hospital, she joined the faculty of the School of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan, where she remained until her retirement in 1984. In the 1950s she spent two scholarship years at Columbia University in New York City before earning a prestigious Ph.D. in Education at UC Berkeley in 1967. She was the first Saskatchewan nurse to obtain a doctorate, and only the second in all of Canada. In 1969 she became the School's third Director, and was largely responsible for its 1973 conversion to the College of Nursing and for the development of its post-RN education programs. She remained active in retirement, and in 1988 she published Fifty Years: Just the Beginning, a history of nursing education in Saskatchewan. Willis died at Saskatoon in 2018 at age 99.

Class members, first row: Balogh, Dianne N.; Beech, Doris E.; Bell, Bonnie M.; Benson, Marlene B.; Coulter, F. Beverley; Duncan, Kathleen P.; Heinrich, Jean V.; Hnatiuk, Lorraine D.; Kozicki, Sandra L. Second row: McDOnald, Mary B.; Moneo, Jean E.; Nicholson, Colleen G.; Panko, J. Dione; Quine, Jean L.; Reid, Shirley E.; Scott, Mary E.; Stuehler, Edna K.; Wiesner, Yvonne M. Third row: Broda, Donna M.; Dahle, Arlene A.; Emmerson, Margaret C.; Epp, Janice M.; Fenty, Daryl J.; Friesen, Mildred M.; Hunt, Carol F.; Lacelle, Rose Marie G.; Misselbrook, Carolann. Bottom row: Nault, Louise P.; Osborne, arla C.; Paavilainen, Jeanette E.; Popowich, Elaine C.; Railton, O. Sandra; Sagi, Roberta Marilyn; Simonot, Carmen Y.; Smith, Marlene F.; Twordik, Donna J. Absent: Leschasin, Adele B.; Mildner, Inez J.; Jones, Joyce.

Top row: Amthor, Darlene; Bucholtz, Connie; Burton, Jean (Mrs.); Climenhaga, Darlene (mrs.); Ellis, Linda (Mrs.); Friesen, Marion
Second row: Godfrey, Faye; Grant, Cheryl; Hegarty, Margaret; Ho, Nancy; Hooper, Gail; Kidd, Maureen; Little, Janet (Mrs.)
Third row: Riches, Thersa (Mrs.); Spencer, Arlette (Mrs.); Steinson, Karen; Voth, Norlaine (Mrs.); Walz, Lynn; Wiebe, Hilda; Wilts, Muriel (Mrs.)

Nursing diploma class members, back row: Allen, Bartko, Brown, Campbell, Carlson, Desjardins, Endel, Ewanchuk, Forbes. Third row: Froh, Goodman, Gregor, Hangs, Harder, Inkson, Johnson, Karaloff, Langland. Second row: Loeppky, McCutcheon, Melnychuk, Moncrief, Mulder, Nord, Reddekopp, Robb, Sherrick. Front row: Sherwin, Sletto, Smith, Thompson, Tindall, Tisnic, Voigt. Absent: Clark, Knutson, Mackay, Sabo.

Representatives from the Saskatoon banks; J.E Taylor, Royal Bank; J. Anderson, Imperial Bank of Commerce; N.G. Henderson, Toronto Dominion; M. Bell Nova Scotia; [?] Bowman and A.E. Gedge, Bank of Montreal.

Head and shoulders image of Oliver Symes, professor, Agricultural Engineering.

Bio/Historical Note: Oliver Symes was born in 1913 at Pense, Saskatchewan, and raised on his family’s farm. He attended public and high schools at Pense and went on to Teachers’ College in Regina in 1931-1932. He taught in several Saskatchewan schools before enlisting in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941. Following the war he enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan, earning a BA iin 1948 and a BEng (agricultural engineering) in 1949. He was hired by the Ford Motor Company in Regina as tractor and implement sales representative for Saskatchewan. He left Ford in 1950 to become acting head of the department of agricultural engineering at the University of Saskatchewan. He became full department head in 1953 and served in that capacity until 1955 when Ford Motor Company hired him back, giving him world-wide responsibility for tractors and implements. Two years later he returned to the agricultural engineering department as a professor. In 1981 he was once again department head. In 1985 he established a research and development section which added an important dimension to his department. Symes died in 1986.