Ulrich Theodore Hammer was born in Maple Creek Saskatchewan on 25 March 1924. He attended the University of Saskatchewan, receiving a B.Ed. in 1950 and a B.A. (Biology) in 1956. From 1946 to 1958, Dr. Hammer taught public and high schools in Saskatchewan and Alberta. In 1959 he completed a M.S. from Montana State University. He returned to the University of Saskatchewan, completing a PhD in 1963 under D.S. Rawson and T.J. Arnason. He was appointed Instructor at the U of S in 1961 and rose through the ranks to become full professor in 1972. He served as Biology Department Head from 1973 to 1976. Dr. Hammer retired in 1991 and was named Professor Emeritus.

Sam A. Hamilton was born in Fitzroy Harbor, Ontario in 1875. He was educated in the local schools as well as Almonte and Renfrew Collegiate institutes.
At 18 years of age he traveled west for a year and worked in Oxbow, returning to Ontario in 1893 and was engaged in the lumber business for nine years. At that point he again came to Radisson, Saskatchewan were he again partook in the lumber business.

He came to Moose Jaw in 1907 involved in the lumber trade until 1911 when he sold in favor of coal and wood business. He was a coal merchant in Moose Jaw for many years, retired in 1949 to live in Victoria, British Columbia.

He became Mayor of Moose Jaw in 1919 and again in 1920, and served as an Alderman for the city for several years. He was keenly interested in politics both as a Conservative and a candidate for several offices

He died at the age of 82 on January 27, 1957. He was married to wife Jessie, had a son Dr. Kenneth Hamilton (a Rhodes Scholar) and a daughter Mrs. Alfred (Jean) Bailey. A sister, Mrs. Mary L. Borrowman, and a brother, Robert J. Hamilton, also survived him.

Ruth Hamilton (nee Clarke) was born in Moose Jaw on April 30, 1914. She attended King George School, and Central Collegiate. She volunteered as a nurse in China during the Second World War. She later married an American and moved to Norco, Louisiana in 1952. She became a winning member of the Louisiana Senior Olympics in swimming.

Ruth died on January 14, 2003.