Leslie Groome was a professor of education at the University of Regina from 1964-78. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education from the University of Saskatchewan, his Master of Arts from the University of British Columbia, and his Doctor of Education from Illinois State University. He was a flying officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. Groome was also a principal at Spectre School in Spectre, Saskatchewan. He taught at Scott Collegiate in Regina from 1946-1949 and the Moose Jaw Normal School from 1949-1959. When teacher training moved to Regina in 1959 Groome moved as well. Groome became the first art instructor in the Faculty of Education at Regina Campus in 1964 and taught at the University of Regina until his retirement in 1978. Groome was involved in several art education organizations. He promoted art education throughout the province and lead art education organizations at local, provincial and national levels. He was the president of the Canadian Society of Education through Art (CSEA) and involved with the Saskatchewan Society of Education through Art (SCEA), the National Art Education Association (NAEA) and the International Society for Education through Art (INSEA). This collection contains a sizable amount of material on these organizations. Groome was also an active artist and exhibited his work regularly in Saskatchewan Arts Board shows and Saskatchewan Civil Servants Exhibitions. Most of Groome's work tended to be ceramic or metal sculptures.

Theodore Allen Heinrich was born June 15, 1910, in Tacoma, Washington. He was raised primarily in Berkeley, California by his parents, forensic examiner Edward Oscar Heinrich, and Marion Allen Heinrich, a member of the social group Daughters of the American Revolution. He was educated mainly in California, and received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and art history from the University of California. This was followed by a Master of Literature (M.Litt) from Cambridge (King's College) in 1936. Although Heinrich claimed a PhD from the same in 1937, it is unclear whether this was actually obtained. Studying under professor Geoffrey Webb, his thesis was entitled: "Payne Knight, Price and Picturesque." Upon leaving university, Heinrich travelled for some time around the world. In 1942-43, after WWII started in Europe, Heinrich applied to become a bombardier but was unsuccessful. Instead, his father was instrumental in obtaining a place for him in military intelligence. He trained at Camp Ritchie in Maryland, then travelled to England to direct bombers against French, Belgian, and German railway lines with SHAEF, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. At the end of the war, Heinrich was perfectly placed to transfer to MFA (Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives), in Wiesbaden, Germany. There he helped the Allied efforts to retitue art that had been looted by the Nazis during the war. He organized several major exhibitions of significant art works before they were returned to their respective owners. Upon the termination of this effort, Heinrich returned to the United States where he joined the Henry E. Huntington Library, in Pasadena, California as Curator of Art Collections and Senior Fellow for Art History for the period 1951-52. Heinrich moved on to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he was Associate Curator of Paintings and Curator-in-charge of drawings. He stayed at the Metropolitan until 1956, when he became Director of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. He resigned from there under cloudy curcumstances in 1962. The following year he served a temporary appointment as Cultural Affairs Advisor jointly to the Asia Foundation and the Government of Pakistan. He conducted a survey of cultural resources and facilities in that country and prepared recommendations on the development of selected ones. Upon conclusion of this work he made an extended study tour of South and Southeast Asia and Japan. After following up with consulting work, preparing a report on the city art gallery and the museum in Vancouver among other projects, he was invited by Ron Bloore to come to the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, to be the first Visiting Professor of Art History (1964-65). From Regina Campus he was able to apply to York University , where he became a professor of art history. He worked there until his death from cancer in 1981. By the end of his life he had amassed an enormous and extremely valuable estate of books, prints, drawings, and lithographs, as well as illuminated manuscripts and contemporary art works. The main strength of his collection was in seventeenth and eighteenth century European works. Drawings possible by Velasquez, drawings gathered by the Italian collector, Pacetti, and a bound volume of 24 letters from Frederick the Great to Voltaire were among the art works. Their unknown provenance made their ultimate disposition difficult.

Manitoba painter Arthur Horsfall was born in Winnipeg in 1915. He was educated in England and Canada, and studied art at the Winnipeg School of Art under L.L. Fitzgerald and Joe Plaskett. He also attended night classes at the Forum Art Institute in Winnipeg with N. Bjelajac, and summer workshops under Ken Lochhead at St. Andrews By the Sea and Roy Kiyooka at the Banff School of Fine Arts. He began his career as a commercial artist in Winnipeg where he worked for Stovel Printing, Rapid Grip and Batten, Western Engraving, and the McConnel Eastman Advertising Agency. After thirty years in the commercial art business he left in 1967 to devote himself full-time to painting. Horsfall is best known for his realistic Winnipeg Street scenes. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the U.S., and he has won a number of awards including the Seagram Award (1965), the Price Fine Arts Award, Montreal (1966), and the Hudson's Bay Company Centennial Award (1974). He has received grants from the Canadian Council and the Manitoba Arts Council, and he taught art at the Forum Art Institute and the University of Manitoba Extension Department. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and was a founding member of the Art Directors Club of Winnipeg. Arthur Horsfall died in October, 1995 in Winnipeg, and was survived by his wife, Katherine, and a son, Brian.

Dr. Howard Leyton-Brown was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1918. He began violin lessons at the age of seven and at twelve, obtained a three year university scholarship, eventually graduating with a Diploma of music from Melbourne University. In 1937, Leyton-Brown moved to England with his mother and sister, where he continued to study the violin. He also went on to study in Germany and Belgium. With the advent of the Second World War, Leyton-Brown joined the Royal Air Force, spending time in Estevan, Saskatchewan as an instructor as well as flying with the bombing command, which led to his receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross. In 1948, Leyton-Brown joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as deputy concertmaster, eventually becoming concertmaster. Doubts about the future of the London Philharmonic brought Leyton-Brown back to Estevan where he began to search for employment in Canada's music world. In 1952 he became head of the string department at the Conservatory of Music in Regina. In 1955, he became Director of the Conservatory, a position which he occupied until his retirement in June of 1986. His activities within the Department of Music at the University of Regina led to a Full Professorship in 1966. As well, Leyton-Brown has been an intregal part of the Regina Symphony Orchestra, conducting the Symphony from 1960 to 1971 and becoming concertmaster in the mid-seventies. In 1971, Leyton-Brown completed a Doctorate of Musical Arts and Musical Performance at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Leyton-Brown was appointed to the Canada Council for a four year term (1971-74), as a member from 1966 to 1972, and as Director in 1967. He was also appointed to the Order of Canada in 1987. Leyton-Brown has performed internationally and many of his students have gone on to play in major symphonies in Canada, the United States, and overseas. He continued to teach violin and viola at the Conservatory after his retirement as its Director.

Artist Kenneth Campbell Lochhead was born in Ottawa, Ontario on May 22, 1926, the son of Allan Grant and Helen Louise (Van Wart) Lochhead. Following high school graduation, he took a commercial art course at the Ottawa Technical High School (1944-1945) and attended art school at Queen's University, Kingston, during the summer of 1944. He then entered the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he studied until 1949. He won a number of awards at the academy, including travelling scholarships which enabled him to travel and study in Europe. He also studied art history and appreciation for two years at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania (1946-1948). Ken Lochhead began his academic working career as the Director of the School of Art at the University of Saskatchewan Regina College, in 1950. He was also charged with developing what became the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery. Under his guidance both the School and the Gallery blossomed. In 1955, Lochhead began the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops. While the first was led by Canadian artist Jack Shadbolt, this summer series was soon taught by such New York artists as Herman Cherry, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, and Jules Olitski, as well as famed art critic Clement Greenberg. About this time Lochhead also began to garner major commissions, completing an enormous mural at Gander, Newfoundland, entitled: "Flight and its Allegories" (1957-58). In 1961, the National Gallery of Canada, through Richard Simmins, mounted the exhibit "Five Painters from Regina". Lochhead, Arthur McKay, Ronald Bloore, Douglas Morton and Ted Godwin became known as "The Regina Five", and made their permanent mark in Canadian art history. In 1964 Lochhead left Regina to take up an appointment as a professor of painting at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He moved to a similar post at York University in 1973, and on to the University of Ottawa from 1975 until his retirement in 1990. Lochhead's work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions at public and commercial galleries throughout Canada and in the United States, and is widely represented in major institutional collections. He has served on many arts committees, including the Art Advisory Committee of the National Capital Commission, Ottawa (1976-1985) and the Fine Arts Advisory Committee, Wascana Centre Authority, Regina (1975-76, 1979-88). He has won several awards for his work and in 1971 he was awarded the medal of the Order of Canada. Ken Lochhead married Patricia Ann Poole in 1952. Following their divorce in 1973 he married Joanne E. Bryers. He has two sons and four daughters. He continues to reside in Ottawa, Ontario.

Artist Otto Rogers was born in Kerrobert, Saskatchewan in 1935, and his youth was spent in an agrarian setting. During 1952-53 he attended Saskatchewan Teachers College where he studied under Wynona Mulcaster. In 1953 he left the province to enroll at the University of Wisconsin where in 1958 he received his Bachelor's degree in Art Education. In 1959 he completed his Master's degree, majoring in both painting and sculpture. During his stay in Wisconsin he exhibited his work widely and presented several one-man shows. By his departure from the U.S. he had won fifteen awards. In 1959 Rogers returned to Saskatchewan to teach art at the University of Saskatchewan. He received full Professor status in 1975, and between 1973 and 1978 he served as the Head of the Department of Art. Eventually, he played a substantial role in developing the "Open Studio" method of instruction still extant within that department. Rogers' accomplishments within both Canadian and international art circles are noteworthy. He has had major one-man exhibitions at places such as the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, the Galleria Del Millione, Milan, Espace 5 in Montreal and the Mira Godard Gallery in Toronto. The artist has had works included in major exhibitions like: "Seven Prairie Painters," Art Gallery of Ontario; "Modern Painting in Canada," Edmonton Art Gallery and "Abstraction West: Emma Lake and After," organized by the National Gallery of Canada. Rogers' works are represented in several major public and corporate collections such as: the National Museum of Art, Iceland; the Shell Oil Collection; the Imperial Oil Limited Collection; and the Toronto-Dominion Bank collection. Besides being an appointed member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Artists, he has received various Canada Council Awards. Another aspect of Rogers' life is his involvement with the Baha'i Faith. After entering the faith in 1960, he served on the Local Spiritual Assembly of Saskatoon until 1963. After being domiciled outside of Saskatoon for several years the artist returned to the city and bought a home that was designated the Saskatoon Baha'i House until 1973. Throughout the remainder of the 1970s he served on several local, regional and national committees. He acted as delegate to several national and intercontinental conferences. In 1988 he assumed an appointment on the faith's International Teaching Committee, in Haifa, Israel.

The Moose Jaw Normal School opened in 1927. The normal schools in Moose Jaw and Regina, with their sister institution in Saskatoon were responsible for administering teacher education programs in the province. They reported to a superintendent of education in the Government of Saskatchewan., and later to the Deputy Minister of Education. Each normal school was organized separately under the control of a principal. The Student Assembly was made up of an executive body, various clubs and committees, and executive bodies for each class.
Originally called the Regina Provincial Normal School, the word "Provincial" was deleted when the Moose Jaw school opened. They became known as the Regina and Moose Jaw Normal Schools. In 1953, the Moose Jaw school was renamed the Saskatchewan Teachers College, Moose Jaw. It closed in 1959 and its operations were transferred to Regina. The Regina school closed in 1964 and its functions assumed by the University of Saskatchewan Regina Campus. From 1930 to 1959 the Moose Jaw Normal School was located in what is now the SIAST Palliser Campus in Moose Jaw.

A U.S. native, Oscar D. Seawell received a B.A.(Hons.) in mathematics and physics from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington in 1947. In 1943-44, in the midst of his undergraduate studies, he participated in a U.S. Army specialized training program in advanced civil engineering at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. For post-graduate work he enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, graduating with an M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in 1948. In the years prior to his arrival at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1971, Mr. Seawell worked in private industry gaining experience in construction (2 years) nuclear (11 years), and systems (5 years) engineering. He also maintained a lengthy association with the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Reserve (1949-1983), rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and completing various correspondence courses in engineering, management, and officer training. His career as an educator began in 1952 to 1956 when he taught engineering at the University of Idaho. In 1956-1957, and again in 1961-1962, he taught an engineering extension course in nuclear reactor design at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also taught at San Jose State College in 1964-1965. In 1971 Oscar Seawell moved to Canada to accept an appointment as professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus. He was heavily involved in the planning of the new Industrial Systems Engineering Program and served as its coordinator from 1977-1985. He also served on a number of university and faculty committees. Upon his retirement from the University of Regina in 1989 Mr. Seawell was named Professor Emeritus of Systems Engineering. He continues to reside in Regina.

Mandate:The University Controller's Office was responsible for administering financial activities of the University of Regina. Included under their mandate were such things as: contracts, services, faculty and staff matters. These matters dealt with accountable allowances, and charitable donations, university pension fund, the administration of grants, scholarships and funds, and university insurance. Predecessor and successor bodies:The University Controller's Office was established on July 1, 1974. Prior to 1974, the University Controller was known as the Office of the Assistant Controller, University of Saskatchewan Regina Campus. In 1984 the title of the Controller was changed to Associate Vice President of finances and Services and Controller. In 1988, the Controller, S.G.Mann, retired. In 1991 the office was dissolved and became the duties of the Associate Vice-President of Administrative Services. Administrative relationships:The Controller, S.G.Mann, reported to the President of the University, Dr. Lloyd Barber. Administrative structures:The University Controller's Office consisted of the Controller, and one secretary.

The Susan Whitney Gallery was founded in 1978 in Regina, Saskatchewan, by Susan Whitney. At the time of the founding there were four other shareholders in the venture: Victor Cicansky, Joe Fafard, Jill Rawlinson, and Richard Spafford. Whitney's mother June Whitney, was also a shareholder at one time. Susan Whitney became the sole shareholder sometime in the late 1980s. The mandate of this commercial art gallery is to exhibit and sell contemporary art, including painting, sculpture, tapestry, photography, and furniture, as well as Canadian folk art. The Gallery has participated in a number of international art fairs.

Architect Clifford Wiens was born in Saskatchewan in 1926. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Architecture in 1954. In 1957 he became a registered architect in Saskatchewan, and set up practice in Regina under the firm name Clifford Wiens Architect Ltd. On September 5, 1970 the name of the firm was changed to Wiens and Associates Ltd. It became Wiens Johnstone Architects Ltd. from 1981 to 1986. From 1986 until 1995, he practiced as "Clifford Wiens Architect Ltd." Then moving to Vancouver he has continued to practice as "Clifford Wiens Architect". In 2010 he was given life membership in the Saskatchewan Association of Architects.

As an architect, Wiens created numerous public, private, residential, commercial, and industrial buildings and projects throughout Saskatchewan, including schools, houses, apartments, stores, campsites and picnic shelters, motels, churches, and heritage restoration projects. His work has earned several awards such as three Massey Awards Silver Medals in 1967 and 1970, two National Design Council of Canada Awards in 1967, and a City of Regina Heritage Award in 1983. In 2011 he received the award of the century for the design of the Heating and Cooling Plant at the University of Regina, known as the PRIX du XXe Siecle Award.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, an Associate Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and formerly a registered architect in the United Kingdom (1975).

He taught architecture and design as a visiting professor at the University of Manitoba (1968), the University of Calgary (1977), and the University of British Columbia (1985), the University of Arizona (1990) and the Arizona State University (1995). He has also lectured at the University of Saskatchewan (1966-1967), and North Dakota State University (1970).

He has served on juries for various architectural competitions, and his work has been widely published in architectural journals and reference books. He was active in local and national professional organizations, serving the Saskatchewan Association of Architects as president (1970) and council member (1967-1973), the Regina Chapter of Architects as president and past president (1960-1969), and the Canada Department of Public Works as a member of the Advisory Committee on Art for Public Buildings, 1974-1981.

Jan Gerrit Wyers was born on July 20, 1888 in Emmer, The Netherlands. He left school at the age of 12 to work on his father's farm. On February 18, 1913 he left for the United States with three friends. He worked as a hired hand and on threshing crews in North Dakota and South Dakota until 1916 when he moved to Canada and bought a quarter section of land at Windthorst, Saskatchewan. Jan Wyers started painting in 1937-38 to keep himself busy during the cold winters. His first exhibition was in 1956. He exhibited 'The First Saskatchewan Harvest' and 'These Good Old Thrashing Days' in the seventh annual Saskatchewan Art Exhibition sponsored by the Saskatchewan Arts Board and held at the Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina. He received an Award of Merit for the 'The First Saskatchewan Harvest'. In 1959, eight of Jan Wyer's paintings were included in the National Gallery of Canada's exhibition 'Folk Painters of the Canadian West' which toured to galleries throughout Canada and the United States. Through these exhibitions and articles in 'Canadian Art', 'artscanada' and 'Time', Wyers gained national recognition for his 'naive' style of folk art. He remained in Windthorst for most of his life until he developed Parkinson's disease and had to move to a nursing home in 1970. He died in Regina July 4, 1973.

Dr. Bernard Zagorin received his post secondary education in history at the University of Illinois, receiving a B.A. in 1950, a M.A. in 1951, and a Ph.D. in 1957. He taught high school in Skokie, Illinois from 1956 to 1963 when he was appointed assistant professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus. Upon the creation of the University ofRegina in 1974 Dr. Zagorin achieved the rank of full professor, and was named Professor Emeritus upon his retirement in 1995. During his tenure at the University he served on a number of university and external committees and was chairman, and later head of the History Department from 1969 to 1995. He represented the University as a member of the Saskatchewan Archives Board from 1966 to 1996, serving as the Board's chairman from 1985 to 1996. Dr. Zagorin resides in Regina, Saskatchewan.