Dr. Hadley Van Vliet, head, School of Agriculture, and J.W.T. Spinks, University President, stand together.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Hadley Van Vliet was born in 1914 at Quinton, Saskatchewan and graduated with a BA with Great Distinction from the University of Saskatchewan in 1934. He received his MSc in 1936, specializing in farm management. Dr. Van Vliet studied for his PhD at the University of Wisconsin. It was the Wisconsin tradition of studies in economics, law and rural sociology that give him his orientation for his teaching, research and community work in Saskatchewan. He returned to the U of S in 1938 when he was appointed instructor in the School of Agriculture. Dr. Van Vliet became assistant professor in 1940 and full professor and department head in 1944. Three of his students became Rhodes Scholars; three were awarded the Governor General's medal as the most distinguished university graduates of the year. Dr. Van Vliet died suddenly 8 December 1968 at Quinton at age 54. Two days before his death, he gave the principal paper at a meeting of the Saskatchewan branch of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society.