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Installation - Principal - Saskatoon Campus - R.W. Begg
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8 Dec. 1967 (Creation)
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1 photograph : b&w-drymounted ; 12.5 x 9 cm
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R.W. Begg speaks at his Saskatoon Campus Principal installation ceremony. Seated in background are E.M. (Ted) Culliton, University Chancellor (extreme left); and J.W.T. Spinks, University President (second from left).
Bio/Historical Note: Robert William Begg was born in 1914 in Florenceville, New Brunswick. He received a BSc from the University of King's College in 1936. Begg received an MSc in 1938 and an MD in 1942 from Dalhousie University. During World War II, he served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. After the war, he received a PhD from Oxford University. From 1946-1950 Begg taught at Dalhousie University. From 1950-1957 he taught at the University of Western Ontario. In 1957 Begg became head of the Saskatchewan research unit of the National Cancer Institute of Canada, head of the cancer research department at the U of S and taught pathology. In 1962 he became Dean of the College of Medicine and Principal of the Saskatoon campus in 1967. From 1975-1980 Begg was the fifth president of the U of S. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1976. Begg died in 1982 in Saskatoon.