From the Archives:
Ann and Buster

July 17, 2009

By Patrick Hayes, U of S Archives

Did you ever want a pony? Did you ever wish you could have grown up on campus? Anne Shaw experienced both. This issue’s image was taken sometime in the early 1930s in front of “Grey Gables”, the Dean of Agriculture’s Residence, now the Faculty Club. Anne was the daughter of John Alexander Malcolm Shaw, dean of agriculture from 1929 until 1937. A. M. Shaw was one of the outstanding pioneers in Saskatchewan agriculture and played a leading role in the development of livestock breeding and of agricultural marketing in Canada. He left the U of S in 1937 to become director of the newly formed marketing service in the federal Department of Agriculture. In 1950, he became chair of the Agricultural Prices Support Board; and from 1953 to 1955 he chaired the Royal Commission on Agriculture in Newfoundland. He retired in 1958 and died Aug. 16, 1974 in Ottawa.