Group photo of the YWCA executive. Standing (l to r): Florence Thomas '18, Elizabeth Smith, Hulda Haining, Edith Anne Trumpour '17, Hattie Johnston '18. Sitting: Maude Margaret Lamont (president), Mrs. Christina Murray (honourary president), Vivian Brown.

Head and shoulders image of Yvonne Brown, Associate Dean of Nursing, 1990-2000.

Bio/Historical Note: Yvonne Margaret Rose Brown was born in 1940 in Strasbourg, Saskatchewan, She attended school in Strasbourg prior to entering the College of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan in 1958 where she earned a BSN and BA with Great Distinction, as well as a subsequent M.C.Ed. in 1983. Brown had a long and distinguished career in Health Sciences culminating in eleven years as Dean of the College of Nursing, 1989-2000. Other milestones include: General Duty Nurse, University Hospital, 1963-64; Lecturer in Anatomy and Physiology, Centralized Teaching Program, 1964-66; Clinical Instructor in Obstetrical Nursing, University of Saskatchewan School of Nursing,1966-67; Sessional Lecturer,1975-81; Lecturer,1981-83; Assistant Dean, 1986-1989; Professor Emeritus, 2008-present. Brown published numerous articles and participated in a major nursing textbook and history of the College of Nursing. She received many awards, medals, and scholarships throughout her academic career. The Yvonne Brown Award for Nursing Excellence was established by the SRNA in 2000; as well as two awards, one for Saskatoon site student and one for Regina site student, for a graduating four-year degree student with the highest cumulative nursing average during the total program. Brown died in 2016 in Saskatoon.

Members of YMCA Executive, standing (l to r): Flora Elizabeth Forge (secretary), Dorothy Barnes (treasurer), Emma Lucinda Davies (vice-president). Seated: Margaret Helen Strang (president), Mrs. Christina Murray (honourary president).

Group photo of the YMCA executive. Back row (l to r): Thomas Hunter Wells (chairman, devotional committee); George Arthur Harding (chairman, bible study); Reginald Miller Luckraft (vice-president); Abraham J. Leoppkey (treasurer). Front row: J.A. Graham (secretary); James W. Cruikshank (president).

Participants included (l to r) Leslie Hoyga (Vancouver), Gladys Horan (St. John's), Sandra Stuart (Winnipeg), Jo-Ann Sutherland (Saskatoon), Ingelise Nherlan (Vancouver), Ginette Séguin-Swartz (Saskatoon), and Patricia Dewar (Saskatoon).

Bio/Historical Note: Image appeared in 22 Mar. 1998 issue of OCN.

Head and shoulders image of Y. Mahadoo, Education.

W.S. Lindsay, professor of Medicine, reading a book in the Library Reading Room in the Administration (College) Building.

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.

Head and shoulders image of W. Stewart Lindsay, first Dean of College of Medicine, 1927-1952.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Walker Stewart Lindsay came to the University of Saskatchewan in 1919. For the next three decades he would play a pivotal role in the education of the province’s future doctors. Born in Halifax in 1885, he received his medical training at the University of Edinburgh. He was invited by Walter C. Murray, University President, whom he had known as a child, to create the small Department of Bacteriology under the aegis of the College of Arts and Science. Dr. Lindsay’s laboratory, in one of the greenhouses, was the first medical teaching facility in what would become in the School of Medical Sciences in 1926. Between 1926 and 1956, students at the University of Saskatchewan were able to take two years of basic pre-medical classes prior to enrolment at a major medical school in Canada for the final two years of instruction. The School became a College in 1952. Dr. Lindsay served as Dean of Medicine from 1926 until 1951. Dr. Lindsay retired from the University of Saskatchewan in 1952. From 1956-1960 he was the Assistant Medical Director at University Hospital. In 1955 he received an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S at a ceremony marking the opening of University Hospital. In 1971 the U of S established a named chair in the College of Education known as the W.S. Lindsay Professorship. In 1976 Lindsay became a member of the Canadian Association of Pathologists. Lindsay died in 1979. The W.S. Lindsay Gold Medal in Nursing is named in his honour and is given annually to the student with the highest cumulative grade-point average in the entire nursing program that year. Lindsay Drive and Place in Greystone Heights are named in his honour.

Head and shoulders photo of William Richard Hubbard, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Education (Curriculum Studies).

Head shot of W.R. Staples, Engineering.

W.P. Thompson receiving his Order of Canada medal.

W.P. Thompson, future University President, playing tennis [on campus], Unidentified woman on the court in background, house and trees in the distance.

Bio/Historical Note: Walter Palmer Thompson was born 3 April 1889 near Decewsville, Ontario. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA (1910), and from Harvard with an AM (1912) and PhD (1914). Thompson came to the University of Saskatchewan as professor and head of the Biology Department in 1913. He was an important figure at the university for the next fifty years. Thompson served in a variety of administrative positions: dean of Junior Colleges (1934); dean of Arts and Sciences (1938); acting president (1942); director of Summer School (1948); and president of the University (1949). Dr. Thompson retired in 1959 and became President Emeritus. During his academic career Thompson gained international recognition for his work as a geneticist, particularly for the development of rust resistant wheat hybrids. The W.P. Thompson Biology Building, opened in 1960, was named in his honour. Upon his retirement as president Thompson was appointed chairman of the Advisory Committee on Medical Care. The recommendations of this committee were an important foundation for the provincial Medicare system. In 1967 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, one of the first to receive this award. He was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws degree in 1960 by the U of S. Walter Thompson died in Toronto in 1970.

Lounging on some unknown material in the [desert], hills in the distance.

Bio/historical note: Walter Palmer Thompson's association with the University of Saskatchewan began in 1912 in the Department of Biology as a graduate student where he organized the first Biology course. His Under graduate studies included Bachelor of Arts from Toronto University 1906-10, Masters and Doctorate from Harvard. He was awarded a fellowship that allowed him to travel to Africa and Java to study and collect plants, also to visit many European laboratories. He became Professor of Biology in 1913; Junior Dean 1933; Dean of Arts and Science 1938; President of University of Saskatchewan 1949; and President Emeritus 1959. In 1967 he was made Companion of the Order of Canada, one of the first group to receive this award for "merit of the highest degree". The W.P. Thompson Biology Building was named in his honour, which opened in 1960. W.P. Thompson married Marjorie Gordon in 1914 and had two children, Mary Gordon (Smith) born 19 August 1916 and a son James Scott born 31 July 1919.

W.P. Thompson and his family outside the Biology Building; Marjorie Thompson at far left.