Sam Stewart joined the faculty of Regina College in 1940, after teaching at Upper Canada College in Toronto. Originally a native of Halifax, he completed a Bachelor and Masters of Arts degrees and played basketball at Dalhousie University. He also studied at the University of Toronto. At Regina College he taught Classics and coached basketball. He coached men's basketball (1940-1941, 1943-1945, and 1947-1948 to 1962-1963), junior varsity men's basketball (1950-1951 to 1954-1955), and women's basketball (1949-1950 to 1952-1953). In 1964 he was appointed assistant to the Dean of Arts and Science. He then spent seven years as Assistant Dean of Arts and Science and a further seven years as Assistant Dean of Arts. He was variously President of the Regina Classical Club, a Referee-in-Chief for Luther Invitational (Basketball) Tournaments, a member of the Sub-Committee to Investigate the 5/3 System, Chair of the Appeals Committee, and Arts Representative to the Search Committee for a Dean of Science. He retired from the University of Regina in 1981, and died shortly thereafter in 1983. He was survived by his wife Luverne and four children, Bud, Diane, and twins Sam and Marcia. In 1995 he was recognized for his contributions to Cougar Athletics by being named the first Builder in the Awards for Cougar Excellence (ACE).

Canadian editor, author, and journalist Walter Douglas Stewart was born in Toronto on April 19, 1931. He studied history at the University of Toronto, 1949 to 1953, but left before graduation to work for the Toronto 'Telegram' where he served as general reporter, picture editor, and financial feature writer until he joined 'Star Weekly' magazine as assistant picture editor in 1962. The following year he became Ottawa correspondent staying until 1968 when he assumed the same duties for 'Maclean's' magazine. At 'Maclean's' he moved on to become Toronto associate editor (1970-1972, 1973-1975), Washington correspondent (1975-1977), and managing editor (1977). He has worked as a feature writer for the Toronto 'Star' (1972-1973), as Ottawa correspondent and national columnist for FP News Service (1979-1980), as editor of 'Today' magazine, Toronto (1981-1982), as editor of 'Policy Options' magazine (1988-1992), and as columnist for 'The Toronto Sun' (1983-1997). As a freelancer, his work has appeared extensively in daily newspapers and magazines in Canada and the US, and on radio and television. Stewart is the author of fifteen non-fiction books, chiefly on Canadian political, historical, and economic subjects, and two detective novels. He edited a book on Canadian journalism; 'Canadian Newspapers: The Inside Story' (Hurtig, 1981), and is co-author, with Eric Kierans, of 'Wrong End of the Rainbow' (Collins, 1988). He has also ghost-written a number of books. Mr. Stewart's work has earned a number of awards including the Canadian Business Writers' Award for Investigative Journalism (1983), and the Canadian Magazines Award for Business Writing (1983). He has served as Professor and Director of the School of Journalism at King's College, Halifax (1984-1986) and as Max Bell Professor of Journalism at the University of Regina (1987-1988). Walter Stewart married Joan Marie Finley of Peterborough, Ontario, on September 24, 1955. They have a son, Craig, a daughter, Sandra, and two grandchildren.

Myra (Smith) Stilborn was born at Indian Head in 1916, the daughter of Wilbert and Jessie Smith. After graduating from Regina Normal School, she taught school in southern Saskatchewan. Coming back to Indian Head, she taught at Squirrel Hills School and then at Indian Head Collegiate. She married Arthur Stilborn and moved to Saskatoon (see Indian Head History Book p 679).

Denis A. St-Onge was born in 1929 in Ste-Agathe, MB. He earned a B.Sc in Geology from the University of Manitoba (Collège de St-Boniface) in 1951 and a L.Sc. from l'université de Louvain, Belgium in 1957. He then joined the Geographical Branch of the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys as chair of the Committee responsible for the translation of the Atlas of Canada. A year later, he became a member of the original group of the Polar Continental Shelf Project which took him to Ellef Ringnes Island, carrying out geomorphological surveys during the summers of 1959 to 1961. This work would form the basis of his doctoral dissertation for the D.Sc. granted by l'université de Louvain in 1962. Dr. St-Onge worked as a research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada from 1965 until 1973 with a two-year hiatus (1968-1970) as a professor at the University of Ottawa. He rejoined the faculty at the University of Ottawa in 1973, where he held a series of positions including Chair of the Department of Geography, Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and the Vice-dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research. He returned to the Geological Survey in 1982 as chief of the Quaternary Geology Subdivision and later Director of the Terrain Sciences Division. As an Emeritus Scientist, he served as Scientific Advisor to Polar Shelf and as research scientist with Terrain Sciences Division. St-Onge was also been active in many national and international bodies. He was the first chair of the Canadian National Committee for the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) and was Vice-President of the organizing committee for the 1987 congress. He also served as President of the Canadian Association of Geographers, President of the Geological Association of Canada, Vice-President for External Relations of the Canadian Social Sciences Federation and President of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. In May 1996, he was elected President of the Canadian Geoscience Council. Among his many honours are Honorary Membership in the Société géographique de Belgique, a commemorative medal of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II in 1979, the medal of the université de Liège in 1980, Honorary Doctorate in Science from the University of Manitoba in 1990, membre honoraire (médaille André Cailleux) from the Association québécoise pour l'étude du Quaternaire in 1991, and election as Honorary Life Member by the General Assembly of INQUA also in 1991. The Arctic Institute of North America made him a Fellow in 1994. In September 1994, he was awarded the Scottish Geographical Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and in 2002 he was appointed chair of the FLUXNET, a national research network studying carbon cycling. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in May 1996. As of 2020, St-Onge was Emeritus Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, at the University of Ottawa.

Jean Storey Thompson was born 21 April 1924 and spent the majority of her life in Saskatoon. A graduate of Nutana Collegiate in Saskatoon, enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan (BA 1946) in 1943. She was a member of the Huskiettes basketball team for four years, serving as captain in 1945-1946 and was noted for her playmaking ability. Thompson was also an accomplished tennis player and won the 1946 intervarsity doubles title. Thompson served on the Women's Athletic Board for four years and was vice president of the Students' Representative Council. Following graduation Thompson was an alumni representative on the Women's Athletic Board and was assistant director of physical education at the U of S from 1946-1950. Her first teaching job was at Balfour Tech in Regina. After two years she returned to Saskatoon. Thompson worked at Nutana and Mount Royal collegiates as a physical education teacher. Her love of sports allowed her to enrich many female students and athletes. Her move to Mount Royal in guidance counseling enabled her to focus on her compassion for mentoring students. Thompson was actively involved in the Saskatoon Kiwanis Club, members at Saskatoon Golf and Country Club and Nutana Curling Club. She was inducted into the U of S Athletic Wall of Fame as a two-sport athlete in 1984. Jean Thompson died 23 June 2011 in Saskatoon.

Born in Saskatchewan in 1929 Gertrude E. Story (nee Wudrick) is one of Saskatchewan's best known storytellers and writers. Her early years growing up in a German Lutheran farming environment have formed the background to much of her writing. Starting in the early 1950s, she developed her craft as a freelance writer and broadcaster. Her works include adult and children's fiction, poetry, radio plays, commentary and non-fiction. For many years she entertained CBC Radio audiences with her literary reports from her home in Vanscoy southwest of Saskatoon. An active member of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, her poetry and stories have appeared in a variety of publications across the country. In 1980 her first volume of poetry, The Book of Thirteen, was published. A year later a collection of stories, The Way to Always Dance, was also published. Other major publications include After Sixty: Going Home; Black Swan; Counting Two; How to Saw Wood With An Angel; It Never Pays To Laugh Too Much; and The Last House on Main Street. In addition to her writing and radio work, Story has devoted much of her time to teaching the craft to others through workshops and writer-in-residence programs throughout the province. In 1981 she graduated with a B.A. with distinction from the U of S, winning the President's Medal as the most distinguished graduate in the College of Arts and Science. She passed away on January 18, 2014.

Johanna Tappert was born on October 4, 1892 in Meriden, Connecticut. She worked at the Lutheran College on 8th Street in Saskatoon from 1927 to 1933 as a high school teacher, Dean of the Girls Dormitory, and, eventually, Assistant Principal. She served as dorm mother for the girls and taught English to German immigrants on the weekends. At these classes, she met Ernest Lindner, who was subsequently given a room at the dorm in order to do his artwork. Johanna Tappert married Eugene Strack sometime around 1933. She died in Edmonton, Alberta on November 13, 1984.

Dmytro Stryjek was born in 1899 in the village of Lanivtsi, Ukraine. Leaving Ukraine in 1923, he immigrated to Canada, settling in Hafford, Saskatchewan. In 1926, he joined the Canadian National Railway, retiring 38 years later. During his working life, he gardened and kept bees, but there is little reference to his making art. The outdoor life had its effect, however. Over all those years, he stored up observations of nature that make his landscapes and skyscapes so vital. He once stated that he "...worked 38 years on the railroad and every five minutes the sky is changing." He was also influenced artistically through the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Hafford which is full of folk ecclesiastical architecture and decoration. When Stryjek did start painting, he was misunderstood by local people in his town. He was sometimes referred to as "Durny Stryjek" (crazy Stryjek). A local acquaintance explained that it was very strange for an old man to use crayons and pencils as if he were a child. Stryjek moved to Saskatoon in the late 60's and it was there that he began to show his artwork. He showed from 1975-79 in the Saskachimo Exposition, an annual exhibition of cattle, agricultural industry and homemade goods. One room was set aside for the display of art, all unjuried. It was here that his work started to gain some attention, and he was awarded a red ribbon in 1978. From that time on, Stryjek began to receive support and encouragement, selling his work to local collectors and to public collections, and being included in exhibitions of prairie folk art. His work is now in many public collections, including the Glenbow Museum, the Mendel Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Canadian Museum of Civilization. The artist was a prolific worker up until his death in 1991. (Kate Davis, Director, MacKenzie Art Gallery)