Dr. John Dolan awaits presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree at a special convocation held at Centennial Auditorium to celebrate the Jubilee year of the College of Education.

Bio/Historical Note: In 1955 John Dolan (d. 1961) became the founder-president of the Saskatoon Parents' Council for Retarded Children and he was one of the charter members of the Saskatchewan Association for the Mentally Retarded and of the Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded. The original John Dolan School opened in 1955 at 1408 Kilburn Avenue. It became the Saskatchewan Council for Crippled Children and Adults in the late 1970s (name later changed to the Saskatchewan Abilities Council). The second school opened on Arlington in the early 1980s and serves students ages 3 to 22 with multiple disabilities. Coming closer to the University of Saskatchewan, he was instrumental in negotiating the establishment of the Alvin Buckwold Centre, the biochemical laboratory and the genetics laboratory at University Hospital.