When Emrys Jones was appointed professor of Drama at the
University of Saskatchewan
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, in 1944, he is credited with being the first full professor of Drama at any University in the Commonwealth.
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Jones is also known for rare historic photos he took in the late 1920s, when he worked aboard vessels working in Canada's sparsely settled North. Jones donated his photos to the University in the late 1960s.][
Jones earned a ]B.A.
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from the University of Alberta
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in 1931.[ He spent the next eight years working as a high school teacher, before returning to University to complete his Masters and PhD. He earned his Masters at the University of Alberta. He earned a ]Rockefeller Fellowship
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, and studied for his PhD at Cornell University
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and Columbia University
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.
He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
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in 1971.[
He taught at the University of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1971.][
In 2008 Dwayne Brenna published an illustrated history of the ]Greystone Theatre
Greystone Theatre associated with the University of Saskatchewan. The theatre was founded in 1946, by Emrys Jones, the first professor of Drama in the Commonwealth.
In 1949 an RCAF hangar was converted to the Theatre's first dedicated building.
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, entitled '' Emrys' Dream: Greystone Theatre in Photographs and Words.['' Jones was the founding director of this Theatre.
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1905 births
1973 deaths
Rockefeller Fellows
British emigrants to Canada