Born in Fort Macleod, Alberta on July 20, 1909, the son of a Yorkshire coal miner, Stanley Rands attended a rural public school and MacLeod High School, graduating in 1928. In 1931 he received a B.A. from the University of Alberta, and an M.A. in psychology and education in 1937. As a Rhodes Scholar he attended Oxford University in England, earning a Diploma in Theology in 1934 and a B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics in 1936. From 1937-1942 Rands taught high school in Alberta, serving as Dean of Alberta College for one year and Senior Instructor with the Correspondence School Branch for two years. In 1942 he moved to Winnipeg where he served concurrently as Assistant/Acting Director of Adult Education at the University of Manitoba and Western Regional Supervisor for the National Film Board. Promoted to NFB headquarters in Ottawa, he worked as Director of Research and Reports, and Program Coordinator, from 1945-1950. He then moved to Regina to work for the Saskatchewan Department of Public Health, first as Director of Health Education (1950-1951), and later as Assistant to the Director of Psychiatric Services (1951-1954) and Deputy Director of Psychiatric Services (1954-1963). In 1963, in the wake of the doctors' strike in Saskatchewan over Medicare, Rands left the civil service to serve as Executive Director of the Community Health Services Association (Saskatchewan), an organization dedicated to establishing community clinics throughout the province. He was forced to leave that position in 1966 when funding for a full time director was no longer available, although he continued to work on behalf of the Association for some time on a volunteer basis. Having served as a sessional instructor in 1965-1966, he joined the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus as Lecturer in Psychology, achieving the rank of Associate Professor in 1971. Rands formally retired in 1976, although he continued to teach as a sessional. In 1977 he was named Professor Emeritus. Stan Rands participated widely in community organizations in the areas of health, education, peace, civil liberties, and aging. He held executive positions in the Canadian Mental Health Association (Regina), the Regina Defense Committee, the Regina Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Public Health Association, Saskatchewan Branch, the Saskatchewan Psychological Association, Regina Pioneer Village and the Saskatchewan Federation of Home and School. He was an advocate of medicare and played a central role in the community clinic movement in Saskatchewan. He was a founding board member and served for a number of years as secretary-treasurer of the Community Health Services Association (Regina), and was named honorary board member of the Regina Community Clinic in 1972. As well, he was a member of numerous professional societies, and was a founding member of the Canada-China Friendship Association (Saskatchewan). On December 24, 1943 he married Doris Fraser of Pilot Mound, Manitoba. They had three children, Jeanie, Brian and Ailsa. Stan died in Regina in 1985. His book 'Privilege and Policy: A History of Community Clinics in Saskatchewan' was finished by friends and published posthumously in 1994.

Canadian artist Don Proch was born in Inglis, Manitoba in 1944. Of Ukrainian heritage, he was raised on his grandparent's farm at Grandview, Manitoba until the age of eight, when he moved back to Inglis with his father, Dymetro. He enrolled in engineering at the University of Manitoba at the age of sixteen but quit, dissatisfied. His father persuaded him to return to the University, but this time Proch enrolled in the School of Art, where he studied under George Swinton and Ivan Eyre. He submitted a three-dimensional multi-media assemblage entitled "Asessippi Tread" in 1970 to the Winnipeg Biennial, and launched a successful art career that combines very fine drawing with three-dimensional sculpture. He formed a company of friends and family under the tongue-in-cheek name "Opthalmia Company of Inglis" shortly after his official artistic debut. It included Bill Lobchuk (printer and boss of the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop), Kelly Clark, and Gord Bonnell, among others. Proch also worked solo with the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop to produce prints of his drawings. In 1976 his work was chosen to be shown at Place Bonaventure in Montreal for the all-Canadian Olympic show. He completed a large mural for the Winnipeg Convention Centre in 1977, and has since had his work exhibited throughout North America, from the National Gallery of Canada to the Maney Collection in New York.

Born in Benito, Manitoba on September 13, 1950, James Michael Pitsula grew up in Saskatchewan and graduated from Campbell Collegiate in Regina in 1968. He obtained a B.A.(Hons.) in history from the University of Saskatchewan in 1972, then studied at York University in Toronto, earning his M.A. in 1973 and Ph.D. in 1979. He lectured in history at the University of Winnipeg, 1977-1978, and at the University of Regina, 1978-1979. Dr. Pitsula was appointed Assistant professor of History at the University of Regina in 1979 and was promoted to full professor in 1994. He has published several articles and reviews in Canadian social history and is the author of three books including 'An Act of Faith: The Early Years of Regina College' (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1988).

The son of Swedish immigrants, Lloyd Hjalmen Person was born and grew up in Aylesbury, Saskatchewan. Following service with the Canadian Army during World War II, he studied French and German at university, obtaining a B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan and earning a doctorate in French at the University of Nancy in France. During the 1950s he taught French and German at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina College before returning, in the 1960s, to studies in the U.S. and receiving an M.A. in cultural anthropology from the University of Washington. Then he taught anthropology at Regina Campus until he assumed the position of Director of Fine Arts and Humanities with the Department of Extension in 1971. Mr. Person published two fiction books which related the experiences of a boy growing up in a small prairie town, 'Growing Up in Minby' (1974) and 'No Foot in Heaven' (1978). Also for several years he organized popular film series sponsored by the Extension Department. Upon his retirement from the University of Regina in 1981, a scholarship fund was established in his name and he was designated Professor Emeritus. Lloyd Person died in Regina on December 8, 1985 at the age of 67 years.

Lucy Murray, the middle of three daughters of Walter Murray, the University of Saskatchewan's first President, was born in Halifax in 1902. She moved to Saskatoon with her parents in 1909 and was educated locally earning a B.A. and B.Ed. from the University of Saskatchewan in 1923. Her academic career next took her to the University of Toronto and a M.A. in 1925 followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1935. Dr. Murray taught English at the Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan from 1936 until her death in July, 1967. She had reached the rank of Associate Professor.

Dr. Anatol Murad was born in Vienna, Austria, where he received his elementary and secondary education. He moved to New york in 1924, and in 1929 entered Columbia university where he earned his B.S. (1931), M.S. (1932), and Ph.D. (1939) in Economics. Following academic posts at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (1939-1946), Rutgers University (1946-1958), and the University of Puerto Rico (1958-1968), he was appointed Professor of Economics at the University of saskatchewan, Regina Campus. He held this position until 1972, and in 1975 he was named Professor Emeritus. Dr. Murad is the author of numerous scholarly books, articles, papers, book reviews, translations, and essays. His work has appeared in German and English, and some have been translated into Japanese and Spanish. Anatol Murad and his wife, Orlene Wettingel, whom he married July 13, 1939, had two sons - Anthony, born in 1942, and Timothy, born in 1944. He married Gillian Wadsworth Minifie in the late 1980s.

Visual artist Douglas G. Morton is one of the senior academic art administrators in Canada. He was born on November 26, 1926 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he received his primary and secondary education. After a short stint in the Canadian Army in 1945, he studied art at the Winnepeg School of art (1946), the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (1946-1948), the Academie Julian, L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris (1949), and the Camberwell School of Art in London (1950-1951). He also studied at the famous Emma Lake workshops of the early 1960s under Barnett Newman, Herman Cherry, Kenneth Noland, Clement Greenberg, and others. Morton's professional artistic career began in Winnipeg in 1946 as a commercial artist, and continued in 1951-53 as curator for the Calgary Allied Arts Centre. Although involved in the business world as vice-president and manager of MacKay-Morton Ltd. from 1954 to 1967, Morton remained active in his artistic endeavours. His work was shown in the National Gallery of Canada's "Five Painters from Regina" exhibition in 1961. Morton and the other "Regina five" members, Ken Lochhead, Ron Bloore, Ted Godwin and Art McKay, produced vibrant abstract works. Morton subsequently produced such important works as "Brownscape" (1961), "Fractured Black" (1964), "Green Centre" (1967) and "Token" (1970), to name a few. His paintings have been shown in galleries across Canada in one-man and group exhibitions, and are represented in various public and corporate collections. Morton's academic career began when he joined the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1967 as Director of Visual Arts and Associate Professor of Art. He was also Acting Chairman of Fine Arts. He held a variety of posts during his tenure as Professor of Art at York University from 1969 to 1980, including Associate Dean and Director of the Graduate M.F.A. Program (1973-76), Acting Chairman, Department of Visual Arts (1978), and Vice Chairman of the Senate (1979). Morton was the Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria (1980-85), and President, Alberta College of Art (1985-87). Morton has served on Canada council juries and committees, and has taught at the Banff School of Fine Arts. He has received grants and awards for his work, and he has been active in various academic and arts organizations. He and his wife, Mickey, have six children - five daughters and a son.

Kenneth Ronald Mitchell was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and received his elementary and secondary education there. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 and a Master of Arts (English) in 1967 from the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus. He has taught English at the University of Regina and it's predecessor University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, since 1967, specializing in Canadian Literature. He has also travelled to China, the Philippines, Korea, Mexico, and Scotland for various colloquia and teaching stints, and has instructed at the University of Victoria (1975-76), the Banff School of Fine Arts (1977,1978,1980), and the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts (1970-75). As a writer, whose work deals chiefly with prairie themes, Mitchell has tackled many genres (novels, poetry, drama, short stories, film scripts, and criticism), and he has also worked as an editor and actor. He is the author of several published works including, "Wandering Rafferty" (1972), "Sinclair Ross: a Reader's Guide" (1981), "Cruel Tears: a Country Opera" (1976), "The Shipbuilder" (1990), and "Stories for the Dalai Lama" (1993). His poems, interviews, stories and plays have been published in over 45 anthologies and collections, and in numerous journals. He has written more than 20 plays, which have been produced in Canada, the United States, England, Germany, New Zealand, China, and Ireland, and his work has been adapted for radio, television, and film. His play "Gone the Burning Sun" won the 1985 Canadian Authors Association Award for Drama, and was nominated for a Governor General's Award. Besides giving literary readings and creative writing workshops internationally, Ken Mitchell has participated in a number of professional activities, most notably as a founding member and frequent executive officer of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, founding editor of the literary journal "Grain", and a founding member of the Saskatchewan Writers' Colony.

Margaret Messer was born in Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan. She and her family then moved to Saskatoon where she attended public and high school. After graduating from Nutana Collegiate she attended the University of Saskatchewan and received her Bachelor of Arts in 1939 and her Bachelor of Education in 1942. She did graduate work throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. She received her Master of Arts in Fine Art Education from Columbia University in 1958. Messer taught high school for four years in North Battleford before moving to Balfour Technical School in 1944 where she taught for 23 years. She taught commercial art at Balfour and played a major role in the organization and opening of the present art department. She was also an advisor to the "Beacon", the Balfour yearbook, and was involved in many of the dramatic and musical productions put on by the school. In 1952, Messer was an exchange teacher at Dame Allan's School for Girls in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Great Britain. She was appointed Assistant Professor of Art Education at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1966 and remained with the Faculty of Education until 1973. Messer was involved in several organizations. She was a chartered member of the Canadian College of Teachers, an honorary member of the Saskatchewan Technical Teachers Association and the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation, and a member of the Canadian Society for Education through Art, the University's Women's Club and the National Art Education Association (USA). She was past president and secretary for the Regina Local of the Saskatchewan Society for Education through Art and the first woman president of the Saskatchewan Historical Society. Margaret Messer illustrated many books and journals, from historical books and instructional books on sewing to children's coloring books and science workbooks. In 1986, she designed many of the stained glass windows for St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Regina. She wrote several articles for the Regina Leader Post on everything from the history of Saskatchewan artists, and the first Saskatchewan settlers to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Thomas Hector MacDonald McLeod was born August 11, 1918 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. He graduated from Weyburn Collegiate Institute in 1936, and attended Brandon College (B.A. in Economics, 1940); Indiana University (A.M. in Economics, 1941); and Harvard university (M.P.A., 1948, Ph.D., 1959). Dr. McLeod taught economics and sociology at Brandon College from 1941 to 1944, and from 1944 until 1946 he was an economic adviser to the Government of Saskatchewan. For the next three years he was secretary of the Economic Advisory and Planning Board of the Saskatchewan Government and, from 1949 to 1950, he was director of the Saskatchewan Budget Bureau. He was appointed deputy provincial treasurer in 1950. He joined the University ofSaskatchewan, Saskatoon as Dean of the College of Commerce in 1952, serving until 1964 when he was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Science at Regina Campus. He served as Vice-Principal of Regina Campus from 1968 to 1970. During his tenure at the University Dr. McLeod served on numerous university and external bodies. In 1970 he chaired the University of Sasktchewan committee studying the role of the university in the community, and was chairman of the Sasktchewan Royal Commission on Taxation, 1963-1964. As an economic consultant Dr. McLeod undertook several appointments. In 1960, he was in Turkey on a Ford Foundation appointment as chief consultant to the Turkish government on a project involving the central government planning agency. The following year he spent in Iran as supervisor of an eight-man Harvard University advisory team to advise the Iranian government on economic planning activities and organization. In 1970 he travelled to Africa as a member of a commission to advise on the academic and physical reorganization of the University of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland, and in 1971-72 he worked in Ottawa advising the Canadian International Development Association (CIDA) on foreign aid to post-secondary institutions in 30 countries. Dr. MacLeod was married and had five children.

Painter and art professor Arthur McKay was born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan in 1926. He studied art at the Alberta Institute of Technology and Art in Calgary (1946-1948), the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris (1949-1950), and at Columbia University in New York and the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania (1956-1957). He also attended the Emma Lake Artists Workshops under Jack Shadbolt (1955), Joe Plaskett (1956), Will Barnet (1957), Barnett Newman (1959), and Jules Olitski (1964). In 1952 Art McKay was appointed Special Lecturer in Art at the School of Art, University of Saskatchewan, Regina College. He was Head of the School from 1964-1967, eventually retiring from the University of Regina as Associate Professor in 1987, whereupon he was named Professor Emeritus. During a leave from the University, McKay also taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art in Halifax, 1967-1969. Art McKay is a member of the famous 'Regina Five' abstract painters who received international attention when their work was featured in an exhibition entitled 'Five Painters from Regina' organized by the National Gallery of Canada in 1961. His work has been shown across Canada and internationally and is represented in many public and private collections. He currently lives in British Columbia.

Born in London in 1919, John Bertram Mantle came to Canada that same year. He attended Paynton Consolidated School in Paynton, Saskatchewan and City Park Collegiate in Saskatoon. From the University of Saskatchewan he earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1941, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. After working for a year with the Canadian General Electric Co. in Peterborough and Toronto, Ontario, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, trained in Lachine, Quebec and at the Aeronautical Engineering School in Montreal, and served at the Flying Service Training School in Moncton, New Brunswick and at Air Force Headquarters in Ottawa. Following the war, in the fall of 1945, Mantle took up a position as Instructor in Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan. While teaching he earned a M.Sc. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1947. His major area of research was photoelasticity. In 1948 he was promoted to assistant professor, and in 1956 to full professor, and assumed the position of Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1958. In 1967 he transferred to Regina Campus to serve as first Dean of the new Faculty of Engineering, a post he held until 1979. He was instrumental in developing Engineering programs and in introducing the innovative concept of co-operative education. John Mantle was active in professional engineering organizations and was made a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 1970. In recognition of his achievements in engineering education, research and leadership the Association of Professional Engineers of Saskatchewan presented him with its first Distinguished Service Award in 1979. He was made a life member of both these groups, as well as the Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia and the American Society for Engineering Education. Professor Mantle retired from the University of Regina in 1983 and was named Professor Emeritus of Engineering. Besides his academic and professional activities, John Mantle was also active for several years in air force reserve work, beginning in 1948 when he assumed command of the University of Saskatchewan R.C.A.F. Cadets. John Mantle married Nina Dorothy Akchurst of Saskatoon on June 9, 1942 in Toronto. They have two sons, Brian John (1945) and Gregory Lionel (1950). Since his retirement Professor and Mrs. Mantle have resided in Creston, British Columbia.

Name:David Teal Lowery. He was most often referred to by his middle name Teal. His parents were Harold and Mary Lowery. Mr. Lowery had four children and five step-children. Place of Residence:Teal Lowery was born in Calgary, Alberta on November 22, 1936. He completed high-school in Calgary and then moved to Saskatoon,Saskatchewan. He recieved his bachelor of commerce degree in 1962 at the University of Saskatchewan. In July, 1965, Mr. Lowery moved to Regina to become an accounting professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus. He then moved to Fort Qu'Appelle and commuted to work at the University of Saskatchewan,Regina Campus and eventually the University of Regina, until his sudden death on August 27, 1986. Occupation, life and activities:In 1964, Mr. Lowery became a chartered accountant with Clarkson, Gordon, and Company; and in 1970, he became a registered industrial accountant. He was hired by the University of Saskatchewan Regina Campus as an accounting professor in July, 1965. He was subsequently promoted to associate professor of administration and served as assistant dean in the Faculty of Administration from 1966 to 1972. Mr. Lowery became the University Secretary in 1972 until 1985. He was appointed University Vice-President Corporate Development in 1986 and fulfilled the requirements of this position until his death. Mr. Lowery served as director for the Gabriel Dumont Institute, the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, and the Wascana Authority. He also edited accounting manuscripts for Irwin Dorsey and McGraw Hill publishers. He served as president for the Society of Management Accountants of Canada and past president of the Regina Campus Faculty Association. He was a member of the Saskatchewan and Alberta Institute of Chartered Accountants and served on several national committees, boards, and associations in professional and academic circles. Mr. Lowery was the first person to be awarded the University of Regina's Distiguished Service Award posthumously.

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.