 While at the U of T, Black played basketball and tennis for the school and was part of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.During the summer of 1934 he returned to Regina worked with the firm Storey and Van Egmond, and in the spring of 1935 graduated.After graduation Black moved to Swift Current, Saskatchewan to work as a construction engineer for the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA), designing water-control structures.