Item A-9512 - Awards - Commerce

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Awards - Commerce

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A-9512

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  • 7 Nov. 1964 (Creation)

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1 photograph : b&w-drymounted ; 9 x 11.5 cm

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Georgia Goodspeed, acting dean of Commerce, presents the University Prize in Commerce to James Robert Gerrity of Saskatoon during Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium.

Bio/Historical Note: Georgia Marie (Dodie) Goodspeed was born in Battlefords, Saskatchewan. She was awarded a Governor General’s Medal while in high school, and entered the University of Saskatchewan to study accounting in 1935, earned her Bachelor of Accounting degree in 1939. Goodspeed returned to the Battlefords for three years to article with V.J. Ferguson and Company. She became an instructor in Accounting at the U of S in 1942, an assistant professor in 1950 and professor in 1956. Goodspeed earned an MBA from the University of Chicago in 1949. She was assistant dean of Commerce for many years, and was acting dean twice – in 1962, and from 1964-1965. A champion of the college, Goodspeed was instrumental in upgrading the Bachelor of Commerce program to a four-year degree, and fought hard for the establishment of the Commerce Building. She was also the first woman in Canada to be named a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (1960). She retired in 1984 and was named Assistant Dean Emerita. Dodie Goodspeed died in [October] 1986 in Saskatoon. The Goodspeed Award is given to the top graduate of the Edwards School of Business. A state-of-the-art lecture theatre in the college was named in her honour in 2000.

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Photographer: Gibson

Copyright holder: University of Saskatchewan

Copyright expires: 2014

Other terms: Responsibility regarding questions of copyright that may arise in the use of any images is assumed by the researcher.

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Vol. 72

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