Head and shoulders image of Dr. Franklin M. Loew, pathologist, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.
Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Franklin Martin Loew was born in 1939 in Syracuse, New York. He received his DVM from Cornell and a PhD in nutrition from the University of Saskatchewan. During the 1970s Dr. Loew was one of the many members of the research team that developed canola oil. In 1977 the Governor-General of Canada awarded Dr. Loew a Queen's Jubilee Medal. In the same year he became the head of the Division of Comparative Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Loew died in 2003 in Boston.
View looking northeast with College Drive running along bottom of image. University greenhouses and Physical Education Building in foreground; Western College of Veterinary Medicine and surrounding buildings in background.
Head and shoulders image of Dr. Clarence Fraser, Head, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.
Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Clarence M. Fraser was born in 1926 at Hamiota, Manitoba. He served in the Royal Canadian Army (Infantry) from 1944-1946. He earned his BSA in 1949 (Manitoba); his DVM (Toronto) in 1954; and his MVSc. (Toronto) in 1963. Following graduation Dr. Fraser was in mixed practice in Manitoba. In 1957 he joined the Ontario Veterinary College in the ambulatory clinic as a clinician and teacher. Dr. Fraser went on to head the ambulatory clinic and the division of medicine in the Department of Clinical Studies. In 1965 he joined the assembling faculty at the new Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon, serving as head of the department of clinic studies. In 1970 Dr. Fraser began his career at Merck & Company as associate veterinary editor. He also served as editor of the Canadian Veterinary Journal from 1963-1965. Dr. Fraser was a member of the American Association of Industrial Veterinarians, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Biological Science Association, the Canadian Veterinary Association, and the British Veterinary Association. He retired in 1992. Dr. Fraser died in 2005 in Salmon Arm, British Columbia.
Dr. Otto M. Radostits (right), Associate Professor of Veterinary Medicine, receives a Distinguished Teachers Award from an unidentified presenter at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine Awards banquet at Marquis Hall.
Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Otto M. Radostits was born on 31 August 1934 in Edmonton, Alberta. His early years on a mixed farm and his high school job at the Blue Cross Animal Hospital in Edmonton were the beginnings of a lifelong passion for veterinary medicine. Dr. Radostits received his DVM from the Ontario Veterinary College in 1959 and an MSc degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1967. As a veterinary educator, clinician and author, Dr. Radostits had a profound influence on his students, and on the establishment and growth of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the U of S. On his retirement in 2002 he was appointed Professor Emeritus and the Western Canadian Association of Bovine Practitioners established the O.M. Radostits Legacy Fund to fund an annual lecture series on bovine medicine. He received many awards and honors during his career. Dr. Radostits treasured his teaching awards, particularly the Master Teacher award from the U of S, and was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2003. In 2006 he received the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association President's Award to recognize his dedication and contributions to the Association and he also received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal in 2006. Dr. Radostits died in Saskatoon on 15 December 2006.
Head and shoulders image of Dr. Murray R. Woodbury, professor, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.
Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Murray R. Woodbury is an amateur street photographer living in Saskatoon and working as an associate professor and research chair at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine. While a student at the University of Saskatchewan, he was a sprinter and member of the national championship Huskies 4x400m relay team in 1970-1971.
Dr. Harry Rowsell (left) and Dr. Christopher H. Bigland cut the ribbon.
Bio/Historical Note: Dr. John Stevenson Fulton was born in Scotland and attended the University of Glasgow. He emigrated to Saskatchewan in 1913. He received a degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from McKillop Veterinary College in Chicago in 1918 and did postgraduate work in pathology, virology, and bacteriology at the Rush Medical School in Chicago in 1922. Dr. Fulton joined the University of Saskatchewan in 1926. Dr. Fulton’s most extensive work was done with equine encephalomyelitis, first recognizing that the disease was appearing in horses in Saskatchewan in 1935. He then proved that a disease in humans, previously diagnosed as non-paralytic poliomyelitis, was caused by the same virus as the equine disease. In 1938, during the encephalomyelitis epidemic, Dr. Fulton developed a vaccine for horses. It was manufactured at the University of Saskatchewan and distributed throughout western Canada. He later developed a purified vaccine for humans. Dr. Fulton was recognized as the foremost veterinary research scientist of his time in Western Canada. Dr. Fulton was director of the animal diseases laboratory and professor and head of the department of animal hygiene at the time of his retirement in 1958. Dr. Fulton died in Saskatoon in 1966.
Head and shoulders image of Dr. Charles L. Martin, Assistant Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, 1968-1971.
Dr. Otto M. Radostits, professor and head, Department of Veterinary Internal Medicine, and winner of the 1986 Master Teacher Award, works with a cow and a small group of students.
Head and shoulders image of Dr. Hugh Townsend, professor, Large Animal Clinical Sciences.
Bio/Historical Note: Image appeared in 30 Oct. 1998 issue of OCN.
Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Hugh Townsend earned a BSc from the University of Calgary, a DVM at University of Saskatchewan; an MSc from the University of Saskatchewan; and an MSc from the University of Guelph. Dr. Townsend is Professor Emeritus of Large Animal Clinical Sciences at the U of S (2021).
Head and shoulders image of Dr. Franklin Loew, Director, Animal Research Centre, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.
Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Franklin Martin Loew was born in 1939 in Syracuse, New York. He received his DVM from Cornell and a PhD in nutrition from the University of Saskatchewan. During the 1970s Dr. Loew was one of the many members of the research team that developed canola oil. In 1977 the Governor-General of Canada awarded Dr. Loew a Queen's Jubilee Medal. In the same year he became the head of the Division of Comparative Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Loew died in 2003 in Boston.
Dr. Henry Tabel, Associate Professor, Veterinary Microbiology, works with a 'de-scented' skunk. The objective is to be able to vaccinate the skunk orally through bait containing killed rabies virus.
