Herbert Berry was a Professor of English and Associate in Drama at the University of Saskatchewan. He joined the University in 1967 as a tenured professor, having previously taught at the University of Western Ontario and several American universities. Berry received his BA from Furman University in 1947; his MA from the University of Nebraska in 194; and his PhD from the University of Nebraska in 1953. He specialized in the literature of the English Renaissance and particularly, the history of the Elizabethan stage. His publications include The Boar's Head Playhouse; The First Public Playhouse : the Theatre in Shoreditch, 1576-1598; and Shakespeare's Playhouses. When he retired in 1989 he was named Professor Emeritus. He died on 11 March 2006 at age 83. The 2006 edition of the journal Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England was dedicated in his memory (along with one other scholar), and this edition included a posthumous article by Berry.

Rattan Singh Bhatty was born on November 14, 1932 in Panjab, India. He graduated with a B.Sc. in agriculture in 1953 from the Government Agricultural College, Ludhiana, Panjab University. Later, he studied at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and obtained post-graduate Diploma (1958), M.Sc. (1960) and Ph.D. (1966) degrees. On completion of his doctorate degree he was selected by the National Research Council of Canada for a post-doctorate fellowship at the Prairie Regional Laboratory on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. In 1971 he was offered a position of Research Scientist (Assistant Professor Research) in the Crop Development Centre (CDC), Department of Crop Science in the College of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. He was promoted to Senior Research Scientist (Full Professor) in 1981 and on retirement in 1998 appointed Professor Emeritus (by selection at that time). During his tenure at the CDC he was Adjunct Professor (1982-1998) in the Department of Crop Science and Plant Ecology, Associate Member (1976-1989) Interdisciplinary Food Science Graduate Program, and Visiting Biochemist (July1-December30, 1984) at the University of California, Davis.

Peter Bietenholz was born January 7, 1933 in Basel, Switzerland. He received his Ph.D. from Basel in 1958. He came to Saskatoon in 1963 after having taught in the Sudan. He joined the faculty of the Department of History, University of Saskatchewan, in 1963, becoming a full professor in 1970 and serving as department head from 1974 to 1977. In 1996, the University of Saskatchewan awarded him an earned doctor of letters degree, in recognition of the excellence of his scholarship on Renaissance humanism generally and on Erasmus specifically. From 1970 to 1986, he was on the editorial board for The Collected Works of Erasmus and annotated several volumes of Erasmus' correspondence within that series. He was also the editor of Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation (3 vols., 1985-1987). Other books authored or edited by Bietenholz include Basle and France in the sixteenth century; the Basle humanists and printers in their contacts with Franco-phone culture (1971); Thesaurus de la Littérature Interdite au XVIe Siècle (1996); History and Fabula: Myths and Legends in Historical Thought From Antiquity To the Modern Age (1994); and In Haereticis Coërcendis Quatenus Progredi Liceat : Poems-Correspondence / Mino Celsi (1982). He has also lectured widely and is the author of many articles and chapters in books. He retired in 2000 and was named a Professor Emeritus.