John William Tranter Spinks was born in Methwold, England 1 January 1908. He attended the King's College at the University of London, recieving both a BSc (1928) and PhD (1930) in Chemistry. Spinks joined the University of Saskatchewan in 1930 as Assistant Professor. He spent the 1933-34 academic year at the University of Darmstart, Germany, where he first met Dr. Gerhard Herzberg. Spinks was promoted to Professor (1938); named Head of the Department of Chemistry (1948); Dean of Graduate Studies (1949); and became the fourth President of the University (1959). Spinks led the university through its most active period of development. He retired from the presidency in 1974 but continued to pursue his academic interests. Spinks published more than 260 scientific fonds and larger works including a study for the Massey Commission, a translation of "Atomic Spectra and Molecular Spectra," "An Introduction to Radiation Chemistry," and an autobiography, "Two Blades of Grass." His many honours include a MBE (1943), LL.D (Carleton University, 1958), D.Sc. (Assumption University, 1961), Companion of the Order of Canada (1970), and a LL.D. from the University of Saskatchewan. He died in Saskatoon in 1997.

Harold Spurrier owned and operated a shoe and harness repair shop in Indian Head. He served in WWII in the Signal Corps. (see IH History Book p 685)

Marie Elyse St. George is a visual artist, poet and author. Her work has been used for the covers of several Canadian books, and she has exhibited in both Canada and the United States. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Saskatchewan Writers Guild first prize for poetry (1989); The League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest first prize (1989); and the Saskatchewan Book Award for Nonfiction (2006). A collaboration of St. George’s art and Anne Szumigalski’s poetry at the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, resulted in Voice, 1995 winner of the Governer General’s Literary Award. Her other books include Heading Out (1986), White Lions In The Afternoon (1987), and Once in a Blue Moon: An Artist's Life (2006). In 1996 she was given the Saskatchewan YWCA’s Women of Distinction Award for Arts and Culture. Born near St. Catherine’s, Ontario, St. George has lived in Canada, England and the United States but her home is in Saskatoon.

Barbara Leete Stange was a Special Lecturer and Assistant Professor at the University of Regina, Faculty of Education, from 1975 to 1987. In addition, Stange acted as Director of the University of Regina Children's Centre, (which operated under the direction of the Early Childhood subject Area, Faculty of Education), from 1978 to 1982, and from January to June 1987. Stange retired in 1987. She was married to Karl Stange, who was a professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Regina and who died in 1997.

Ron Steer received his B.Sc. (1963), Ph.D. (1968) and D.Sc. (1995) degrees from the University of Saskatchewan. From 1968-1969, he did postdoctoral research with Jim Pitts, Jr. at the University of California, Riverside, where he first became interested in the chemistry and relaxation dynamics of electronically excited molecules. He returned to the University of Saskatchewan in 1969 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry. He was promoted to full Professor in 1978, served a term as department head from 2002 to 2005, and served as the elected representative of the faculty on the University of Saskatchewan's Board of Governors from 2001 to 2004. He has taught at all levels, from introductory general chemistry, through introductory and advanced undergraduate physical chemistry, to graduate courses in laser chemistry and physics and excited state chemistry. Steer received the Master Teacher Award in 1996; was awarded the title of distinguished professor by the University in 2011; and received the John C. Polanyi Award (from Canadian Society for Chemistry) in 2013.

Lilja Stefansson was born in Vestfold, Manitoba in 1921. After the collapse of her first marriage, she moved to Saskatchewan with her two children. A second marriage to a farmer in the Rouleau district produced another child. After seventeen years, that union also ended unhappily. By happenstance, a close friend from church circles was in a similar situation. In 1971, they took a weekend trip to the States as friends. She and Evelyn Rogers came back as lovers. This was the beginning of a devoted relationship that lasted, as Lilja had hoped, until her death. The two women moved to Regina in 1975 and established a busy life, including participation in the city’s early lesbian and women’s community. Lilja was a prolific writer of short essays that dealt with both personal and public concerns. Lilja Stefansson died on June 16, 2013.
(taken from https://library2.usask.ca/srsd/memoir_stefansson.php?part=refl3)