Chief Justice Edward D. Bayda, honourary Doctor of Laws degree recipient, speaking from podium during Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: Edward Dmytro Bayda was born in 1931 at Alvena, Saskatchewan. He attended the University of Saskatchewan, where he received a BA in 1951 and an LLB in 1953. After nearly twenty years of law practice, he was appointed to the Queen's Bench in 1972 and the Court of Appeal in 1974. He became Chief Justice of Saskatchewan in 1981 and retired in September 2006. Bayda died in 2010 in Izmir, Turkey and is buried at Alvena.