Image of Dorothy Wright sitting at the switchboard, connecting an incoming call to a location at the University of Saskatchewan. The switchboard was part of the new U of S telephone exchange.

Bio/Historical Note: Dorothy Wright was born on 3 July 1929 in Lanigan. She attended Stoner Rest S.D. 4056, east of Lanigan, and then completed her high school education by correspondence. Wright moved to Saskatoon where she worked at the University of Saskatchewan as a telephone switchboard operator. After her father, John Wright, died in 1961, she moved back to Lanigan to be with her mother. She was employed at the Royal Bank and stayed there until she retired. Wright died in 2012 at age 83.