"Climbing into a T33 Silver Star jet trainer, Flight Cadet Lila Palmer, Arts '58, is handed a jet helmet by Flight Cadet Shirley Clay, Pharm '58. The two girls are training with the R.C.A.F. under the reserve university training plan. They will return to the University of Sask. in the fall."

Bio/Historical Note: Image found in The Green and White, August 1956, pg. 23.

Bio/Historical Note: During the early years of the Cold War Canadian universities provided military training programs sponsored by the three armed services. The Royal Canadian Air Force version was known as the University Reserve Training Plan (URTP), and its purpose was to stimulate interest in the Air Force and to ensure a flow of trained university students as commissioned officers for the Regular service or the Reserves. To deliver the program, provision was made in 1948 for the establishment of RCAF (Auxiliary) University Flights at all the major schools across the country. In the 1950s, the recruitment of women was open to roles in medicine, communication, logistics, and administration.