Head and shoulders image of Dr. John Dolan, Department of Medicine.

Bio/Historical Note: In 1955 Dr. John Dolan (d. 1961) became the founder-president of the Saskatoon Parents' Council for Retarded Children and was a charter member of the Saskatchewan Association for the Mentally Retarded and of the Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded. That same year the original John Dolan School opened 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 3144 Arlington Avenue in the early 1980s and serves students ages 3 to 22 with multiple disabilities. Dr. Dolan was instrumental in negotiating the establishment of the Alvin Buckwold Centre, the biochemical laboratory and the genetics laboratory at Royal University Hospital.