Emrys Jones (drama professor)

For other people with the same name, see Emrys Jones.
Emrys Jones
Emrys Jones aboard the tug boat Canadusa on the Athabasca River in 1928
Emrys Jones aboard the tug boat Canadusa on the Athabasca River in 1928
Born
Emrys Maldwyn Jones

(1905-09-15)September 15, 1905[1]
Dowlais, Wales
Died1973 (aged 67–68)
Other namesEmrys Maldwyn Jones
Occupation(s)sailor, high school teacher, professor
Known forhistoric photos he took of Canada's north

When Emrys Jones was appointed professor of Drama at the University of Saskatchewan, in 1944, he is credited with being the first full professor of Drama at any University in the Commonwealth.[2]

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.[2][1]

Jones earned a B.A. from the University of Alberta in 1931.[1] 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, and studied for his PhD at Cornell University and Columbia University.

He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1971.[1]

He taught at the University of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1971.[1]

In 2008 Dwayne Brenna published an illustrated history of the Greystone Theatre, entitled Emrys' Dream: Greystone Theatre in Photographs and Words.[3] Jones was the founding director of this Theatre.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Biography: Emrys Maldwyn Jones was born in Dowlais, Wales on 14 September 1905". University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved 2020-08-30. In the summer of 1928 Jones took a train north from Edmonton to the terminus at Waterways where he boarded a boat that would eventually take him north to the Mackenzie River Delta.
  2. ^ a b "Emrys Jones: Pictured here is Emrys Jones, who in 1944 was appointed the first professor of Drama at the University of Saskatchewan". University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
  3. ^ Shelley A. Leedahl (2008-08-27). "Emry's Dream: Greystone Theatre in Photographs and Words". Sask books. Retrieved 2020-08-31. Variety shows and choruses had been performed at the U of S since 1909, but when Emrys Jones, a journalist, director, actor and educator, took the Drama Department's helm in 1945, Greystone Theatre's curtains rose on a new era of superbly directed and acted live theatre, and that tradition of excellence continues to the present.