Two aliens from the planet DAVS (?) complete with Star Wars-type shrouds, eerie grey faces, and waist-band voice synthesizers, and accompanied by Division of Audio Visual Services production assistant Shannon Cossette, begin to abduct President Peter MacKinnon right from his office Aug. 30. They only stopped when he agreed to accept their invitation to visit Passport '99, the Oct. 14 exhibition in the Education Bldg. of the campus-wide services of units like DAVS, Consumer Services, Human Resources, and Printing Services. The aliens appeared suspiciously like earthlings DAVS receptionist Teresa Grzybowski and producer/animator John Ogresko.

Bio/historical note: Image appeared in 17 Sept. 1999 issue of OCN.

includes Peter MacKinnon, Shannon Cossette, Teresa Gryzbowski, John Ogresko

Access Services Division Head Alison Nussbaumer, left, holds the ribbon as Library Assistant Iffat Ahmed makes the cut that officially opens the totally renovated main area for Circulation, Reserves, Interlibrary Loans.

Alison Pickrell, director of international recruiting (l.), and Kelly Saretsky, assistant registrar (enrolment management), will be attending a large international recruitment fair in Minneapolis-St. Paul next week, hoping to lasso some American students for the U of S.

Bio/historical note: Image appeared in the September 18, 1998 OCN.

Head and shoulders image of Alison Renny, assistant professor, Commerce.

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

Bio/Historical Note: Alison Renny earned her BComm and MBA from the University of Saskatchewan. She started teaching in the College of Commerce in 1991. From 1998-2013 she was associate / assistant dean of undergraduate programs. Renny was designated a Fellow of the Society of Management Accountants in 2006. The Associate Dean Alison Renny Bursary was established upon her retirement in 2013.

"Alkali" salt flat at shore of a saline lake near Cantuar, Saskatchewan; note abundance of salt wort (Salicornia rubra).

Dr. Anna Szmigielska; Dr. Terry Tollefson; Grade 6 students; Soil Sciences Lab

Head and shoulders image of Allan Tubby, honourary Doctor of Laws degree recipient and member of the University of Saskatchewan Board of Governors. Image taken possibly near time of presentation.

Bio/Historical Note: Allan A. Tubby was the son of Harry James Tubby (d. 1969), founder of H.J. Tubby Construction. In 1947 Allan joined his father in business and the company was re-named H.J. Tubby and Son Construction Ltd. Tubby served on the University Board of Governors from 1964-1970. Tubby died in 1990. Tubby Crescent is located in the North Industrial area of Saskatoon.

Portrait of Allan A. Bowerman, early postmaster of Saskatoon, and donor of scholarships and rare books to the University of Saskatchewan.

Bio/Historical Note: Allan Arthur Bowerman was born 20 May 1844 on a farm near Picton, Ontario. He was educated at Victoria University (Cobourg, Ontario) and the Kingston Military School. In 1870 he came to Manitoba as a member of the Wolseley Expedition and stayed after it was demobilized, becoming principal of the newly-established Wesleyan Institute. During the Winnipeg real estate boom of the early 1880s, Bowerman invested heavily in real estate, owning land along Portage Avenue where he erected a residential building known as the Bowerman Terrace and established a florist shop. He lost most of his investments in the subsequent crash. In December 1883 Bowerman accepted a position as Classics master at the Winnipeg Collegiate Institute, becoming principal the following year. He resigned in mid-1889 to concentrate on his florist business. After the business closed in the mid-1890s, Bowerman took a position as principal of Griswold School, serving until early 1899. He then traveled west and became principal of the school at Moose Jaw, North West Territories. Bowerman left Moose Jaw for Saskatoon; he became the first postmaster in Saskatoon on the west side of the river (1900-1906), and a member of Saskatoon's first town council (1903-1905). Again, Bowerman invested in real estate and amassed a substantial fortune over a period of less than a decade. He built the Canada Building and was an early supporter of the University of Saskatchewan. He sold a piece of property to the government for the site of a sanatorium. In his retirement years, Bowerman wintered in California, where he died at Los Angeles on 25 December 1923. He left an estate valued at about $3 million.

Allan Blakeney, former Premier of Saskatchewan and visiting scholar in the College of Law, sits on a stone wall outside the College of Law.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in Nova Scotia in 1925, Allan Emrys Blakeney studied law at Dalhousie University and was a Rhodes Scholar. Attracted by the progressive political agenda of the CCF under Tommy Douglas, he moved to Saskatchewan in 1950 and worked as a senior member of the civil service. Blakeney entered politics in 1960, and served in both the Douglas and Woodrow Lloyd administrations before becoming leader of the provincial NDP in 1970. In comparison with the Waffle movement on the far left, Blakeney was regarded as a moderate member of the NDP. Nonetheless, when he led the party to victory over the Liberal government under Ross Thatcher in 1971, he did implement a fairly radical agenda of nationalization in the oil and potash industries that aroused the ire of corporate Canada and even the U.S. government. By the late 1970s Blakeney was an elder statesman among Canadian premiers, and he played a key role in the patriation of the Canadian Constitution and the creation of the Charter of Rights in 1982. Along with Alberta premier Peter Lougheed, he was a strong advocate for provincial ownership of natural resources. Following a devastating defeat at the hands of the Grant Devine Conservatives in 1982, Blakeney stayed on as NDP leader and led the party back to respectability in the 1986 election. He stepped down as leader then, and was replaced by Roy Romanow. In the 1990s he served as a consultant in the Roy Romanow NDP government, and received a number of awards including the Saskatchewan Order of Merit and Order of Canada. He was also a past president of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Blakeney died in 2012 in Saskatoon at age 85.

Allan Blakeney, former Premier of Saskatchewan and visiting scholar in the College of Law, sits on a stone wall outside the College of Law.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in Nova Scotia in 1925, Allan Emrys Blakeney studied law at Dalhousie University and was a Rhodes Scholar. Attracted by the progressive political agenda of the CCF under Tommy Douglas, he moved to Saskatchewan in 1950 and worked as a senior member of the civil service. Blakeney entered politics in 1960, and served in both the Douglas and Woodrow Lloyd administrations before becoming leader of the provincial NDP in 1970. In comparison with the Waffle movement on the far left, Blakeney was regarded as a moderate member of the NDP. Nonetheless, when he led the party to victory over the Liberal government under Ross Thatcher in 1971, he did implement a fairly radical agenda of nationalization in the oil and potash industries that aroused the ire of corporate Canada and even the U.S. government. By the late 1970s Blakeney was an elder statesman among Canadian premiers, and he played a key role in the patriation of the Canadian Constitution and the creation of the Charter of Rights in 1982. Along with Alberta premier Peter Lougheed, he was a strong advocate for provincial ownership of natural resources. Following a devastating defeat at the hands of the Grant Devine Conservatives in 1982, Blakeney stayed on as NDP leader and led the party back to respectability in the 1986 election. He stepped down as leader then, and was replaced by Roy Romanow. In the 1990s he served as a consultant in the Roy Romanow NDP government, and received a number of awards including the Saskatchewan Order of Merit and Order of Canada. He was also a past president of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Blakeney died in 2012 in Saskatoon at age 85.