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Psychologist, Administrator, 1921-1989. Joseph Royce joined the University in 1960 as professor and first head of the Department of Psychology. In 1967 he founded the Centre for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology, an interdisciplinary research institute which was the first of its kind in the world. He retired from the Centre in 1978 and from the University as Professor Emeritus in 1986. Dr. Royce published widely in numerous fields, including behavioural genetics, individuality and personality, and philosophical psychology.

Historian, 1919-1984. Ivan L. Rudnytsky was born in Vienna, completed his schooling in L'viv (then a city in Poland) and subsequently studied history, law and international relations in Germany and Czechloslovakia. After teaching at a number of American institutions, Dr. Rudnytsky came to the University of Alberta in 1971 to teach Ukrainian and east-central European history. He was one of the founders of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University.

Lawyer, Politician, Chancellor, 1857-1941. Alexander Cameron Rutherford came west to the Northwest Territories (now Alberta and Saskatchewan) to practise law. He was Deputy Speaker of the N.W.T. Assembly from 1902 to 1905; from 1905 to 1910 he served as the first premier of the new province of Alberta. It was he who in 1906 introduced the bill for the establishment of the University of Alberta. He was elected Chancellor of the University in 1927, an office he held until his death. The Rutherford Library is named for him, in recognition of his services to the University and his gift of books which established the first Library.

Anatomist, Ornithologist, 1905- . An alumnus of the University, W. Ray Salt began lecturing as an assistant professor of anatomy in 1949. He gained his full professorship in 1958 and retired as Professor Emeritus in 1971. Besides being an anatomist, he is an ornithologist who has written popular guidebooks on Alberta birds.

Educator, Teacher, 1917- . A graduate of the Camrose Normal School (1937), Gordon Sanders taught in schools and colleges in Edmonton and other Alberta communities, including the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art, and was also employed with the Departments of Education and Labour in Alberta. Director of the Edmonton Public Schools District for ten years, he was chair of the Alumni Career/Life Profiles Project for the Camrose Normal School reunion, 1988.

Chemist, 1897-1991. A University of Alberta alumnus, Reuben "Bob" Sandin was hired by his alma mater in 1922 as a lecturer in Chemistry. He gained his full professorship in 1943 and retired as Professor Emeritus in 1965. As a biochemist he contributed to the synthesis of chemical agents for cancer treatment, but it was as a teacher that he gained the most recognition, receiving chemical education awards from the Chemical Institute of Canada and the Manufacturing Chemists Association.

Administrator, [19þ]- . Mr. Schwarzkopf was Media Centre Manager for Universiade '83, the world student games held in Edmonton.

Farmer, [19þ]- . In 1928 Peter Schwerdt moved from Ida, Ontario with his parents and brother Chuck to homestead in the Peace River country near Worsley, Alberta. These ten letters to Lillian B. Hootner and her mother describe the hardships experienced by settlers during the Great Depression.

An association founded by members of the scientific departments at the University of Alberta, its mandate included the provision of a forum to exchange scientific ideas on campus and a lobby to petition the various levels of government to facilitate scientific research. Its predecessor was the Mathematical Club, founded in 1913.

Physicist, Ombudsman, Administrator, [1913]-1975. Dr. Scott came to the University of Alberta in 1940, after receiving a PhD in physics from McGill. He became a full professor in 1954 and head of the Physics Department in 1959. As a member of the President's Committee on Electronic Equipment, he helped bring the first computer to the University in 1957. He was the Director of the Computing Centre from 1961 to 1971 and the Chair of the Computing Department from 1964 to 1971. He was a founder and first Chair of the Academic Welfare Committee and President of the Association of Academic Staff of the University of Alberta (AASUA) from 1961 to 1962. He was appointed as the first full-time Ombudsman of the University in 1971, a position he held until his death.