William (Bill) Andrew Waiser was born in Toronto on 6 June 1953. He earned a B.A. Honours in History from Trent University in 1975 and went on to complete an M.A. (1976) and a Ph.D. (1983) in History at the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to joining the faculty of the U of S Department of History in 1983, Dr. Waiser was employed as a Lecturer in History at the U of S 1980-1983 and as Yukon historian, Parks Canada, Prairie and Northern Regional Office in 1983. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate students, he has served as graduate director (1987-1990) and department head (1995-98). A specialist in western and northern Canadian history, Waiser has authored, co-authored, or co-editor several books, including All Hell Can't Stop Us: The On to Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot, Park Prisoners: the Untold Story of Western Canada's National Parks, Loyal Till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion, Saskatchewan's Playground - A History of Prince Albert National Park, The Field Naturalist - John Macoun, the Geological Survey and Natural Science and Saskatchewan: A New History. Between 1998-2002, Waiser hosted "Looking Back," a weekly Saskatchewan History column on of CBC Saskatchewan television. Dr. Waiser has served on the council of the Canadian Historical Association (1997-2000), chaired the Advisory Board of the Canadian Historical Review (2000-2003), and has been a member of the Board of Directors of Canada's National History Society (2001-2004), publisher of The Beaver magazine. His many honours include the Queen's Fellowship (The Canada Council), Doctoral Fellowship (Social Sciences and Humanities and Research Council of Canada), the College of Arts and Science Teaching Excellence Award for the Humanities and Fine Arts and the University of Saskatchewan Distinguished Researcher. In 2006 Dr. Waiser was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.

Arthur Gordon Wacker was born on October 10, 1933 in Jansen, Saskatchewan. He received his early education in Regina and won a scholarship to Queen's University, where he earned his B.Sc. (1955) in Electrical Engineering. He also earned a PhD from Purdue University. He worked briefly for both Northern Electric Co. Ltd. and the Schlumberger Well Survey Corporation, prior to being appointed Special Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan in 1957. He earned his M.Sc. in 1962. Wacker was promoted to full Professor in 1975. His research activities have included working with the Institute for Northern Studies to improve radio communications in the North; "ground truthing," or collecting agronomic data from microwave radars; and monitoring soil and crop conditions using satellites. He died on July 25, 1989 in Saskatoon.

Born in August 1915 in Zheleznovodsk. Russia, Dr. Vasilii Vasilevich Vladimirskii graduated from Moscow University in 1938. Since 1946, he has been deputy director of the Theoretical and Experimental Physics Institute in Moscow. His works have been in optics, propagation of ultrasound and electromagnetic waves as well as in the theory of linear accelerators and neutron spectroscopy. He participated in the creation of the Serpukhov accelerator whose energy level is 70 giga-electron-volts. He was awarded the State Prize in 1953 and the Lenin Prize in 1970. He served as an advisor to the Theoretical and Experimental Physics Institute (ITEP) in Moscow.

Merville O. Vincent was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on 21 November 1930. He earned a BA from Acadia University in 1950 and his medical degree from Dalhousie University in 1955; and later received his certificate in internal medicine (1960), fellowship in psychiatry (1962), and diploma in community mental health (1972). Between 1954 and 1959 he held internships or residencies in both psychiatry and internal medicine, and was clinical instructor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan from 1959-1960. In 1960, he returned to Canada, having accepted a position as staff psychiatrist at the Homewood Sanitarium in Guelph, Ontario - the largest private psychiatric hospital in the country. By 1972 he had been named executive director of Homewood, remaining in that office until he resigned from Homewood to take up private practice in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, in 1986. In addition to his own practice Vincent served as staff psychiatrist for the Shuswap Lake General Hospital (1986-1997), president of their medical staff (1988-1991), and took locams as a consultant psychiatrist in Australia and New Zealand. He retired from his medical practice in 1998. During his career Vincent published a book, God, Sex and You, and over 120 articles, chapters and essays in both medical and religious publications. In addition to other various honours, Dr. Vincent was awarded the Queen's Jubilee Medal and was a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Henry Unger was a Canadian Pacific Railway man who helped with the Fred Finch farm near Lanigan, Saskatchewan.

Ian William Tweddell was born on 12 January 1917 in County Durham, England. He emigrated to Canada with his parents in 1921, settling near Lashburn, Saskatchewan. Tweddell was educated in Lashburn and Prince Albert, prior to enrolling at the University of Saskatchewan, where he received a BSc in Civil Engineering (1948). He went on to the University of Manitoba, earning an MSc in Community Planning. He served in the RCAF and RAF from 1941 to 1945, and was a prisoner of war in Germany from 1942 to 1945. Tweddell worked as a surveyor, throughout Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories and Yukon. He joined the faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan in 1957 as a Lecturer, and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1962. Tweddell remained with the College of Engineering until his sudden death on 23 June 1975.

Edward Archer Tollefson attended Saskatoon's Nutana Collegiate before enrolling at the University of Saskatchewan, where he earned both a BA (1954) and a LL.B. (1956). Tollefson went on to study law at Oxford on an IODE overseas scholarship and was awarded a BCL in 1958. He joined the faculty of the College of Law that year as an Instructor and received several promotions before becoming a full Professor in 1968. He resigned in the spring of 1971. He taught courses in constitutional law, legal process and remedies, legal writing, evidence and comparative law. He also authored the book "Bitter Medicine" (1964), an overview of medical care legislation in Western Canada.

Mabel Frances Timlin was born in Forest Junction, Wisconsin on December 6, 1891. She attended Normal School in Wisconsin and taught for 10 years at various schools in Wisconsin and Saskatchewan, prior to accepting a position as a secretary at the University of Saskatchewan in 1921. Taking a few classes a year, she earned a BA in 1929 and then completed her PhD in 1940 from the University of Washington during summer sessions. Timlin began lecturing in Economics at the University of Saskatchewan in 1935. She was promoted to full Professor in 1950 and retired in 1959. Timlin was the first tenured female Economics professor at a Canadian university. Timlin was an authority on Keynesian economic theory, monetary policy, and immigration. Among her many publications were "Keynesian Economics" (1942) and "Does Canada Need More People?" (1951). Following her retirement, the Canada Council granted her a special Fellowship to study Canadian immigration. Later, she was appointed research assistant with the Social Science Research Council of Canada and co-authored "The Social Sciences in Canada: Two Studies" (1968). She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, first woman president of the Canadian Political Science Association, and a member of the Order of Canada. Timlin was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Saskatchewan in 1969. Timlin died in Saskatoon on September 20, 1976 at the age of 84.

Born in Nottingham, England, Joseph H. Thompson received his early education in Saskatoon. Enlisting for service in the Great War, he joined the RAF overseas. Badly injured in a crash he lost the sight of one eye and the other was seriously impaired. He later became an accountant with his own practice in Saskatoon until 1938 when he became an accounting instructor at the university. Thompson became dean of the School of Accounting in May 1940 and also took over command of the COTC that same month. He continued as dean of the newly named College of Commerce from 1944-1951. Thompson’s command came to an end 21 March 1947 having served with the COTC since 1921 (with the exception of Active Service in Regina from 1939 to 1940). In addition to being Dean of Commerce he was chairman of the Board of Governors of Emmanuel College. He had retained his military affiliations as aide-de-camp to lieutenant governors J. M. Ulrich and William J. Patterson and was also Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the COTC. Thompson died suddenly on 9 March 1952 at 55 years of age.

Ida Thompson lived in Saskatchewan and held various government and community positions during the early part of the 20th century including Principal Clerk in charge of land registers and technical staff of the School Lands Branch and editor of the Topographical Survey of Canada. She was a civil servant and author.

Sandra (Therrien) Schemmer, a graduate of West Vancouver Secondary, enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan (BA, 1959) in 1957. She was a member of the Huskiette basketball team for three years, leading the team in scoring in 1957. Sandra was also on the swim team for three years. In addition to participating in sports, Therrien served on the Women's Athletic Board for two years and worked for The Sheaf as a roving reporter.

David Thauberger was born in Holdfast. He studied ceramics at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, where ceramic sculptor David Gilhooly served as an early mentor, inspiring Thauberger and others to create art that was rooted in their own life experience and their own geographical region. He earned his BFA in 1971 and his MA in 1972 from California State University (Sacramento). He then studied with Rudy Autio at the University of Montana in Missoula, earning his MFA in 1973.
David Thauberger is known for his paintings of the vernacular architecture and cultural icons of Saskatchewan. Thauberger's achievements were recognized when he was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. He was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2008, is a recipient of the Queen's Diamond Medal in 2012, the Lieutenant Governor's Saskatchewan Artist Award in 2009 and is member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. When named as a Member of the Order of Canada, he was cited for his contributions to "the promotion and preservation of Canadian heritage and folk art in the province of Saskatchewan, in addition to his work as a painter, sculptor and educator."
Thauberger has become known as an iconoclastic artist, creating colourful portraits of vernacular prairie buildings, legion halls, quonset huts, false fronted shops and inner-city bungalows.

Howard Tennant, then Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Saskatchewan, served on the Board of Directors of both companies.

Henry Taube was born in Neudorf, Saskatchewan in 1915. He attended Luther College in Regina; then received his B.Sc. from the University of Saskatchewan in 1935, followed by his M.Sc. in 1937. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley in 1940. Unable to obtain an academic position in Canada, he spent his entire professional career in the United States, and became a U.S. citizen in 1942. He served on the faculties at Berkeley (1940-41), Cornell University (1941-46), and the University of Chicago (1946-1961), before moving to Stanford University in 1961. Upon his retirement in 1986 he was named Professor Emeritus.

He published 380 articles and one book. A Royal Society of Canada obituary notice summarizes Taube’s scientific contributions: his “research interests were in both inorganic and organic chemistry: he established the foundations of oxidation – reduction reactions for both electron and atom transfer reactions. In a key paper in Chemical Reviews in 1952 he showed the all-important correlation of ligand exchange reactions and the electronic configuration of coordination compounds. His work has been central to many different fields such a electron transfer at semiconductor electrodes, chemiluminescence, solar energy conversion, photosynthesis, electron transfer in proteins, in colloids, in polymers, and others.” His Nobel Prize was awarded “for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes.”
Taube received many honours and awards throughout his career, including the National Medal of Science (1977), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1983), the Robert A. Welch Foundation Award in Chemistry (1983), and the Priestly Medal (American Chemical Society, 1985). He was the first Canadian-born individual to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He also received honorary doctorates from nine universities in Canada, the U.S., Hungary and Sweden; and was a fellow or honorary member of several academic societies, including the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society of London.
He died on 26 November 2005, survived by his wife Mary Alice Taube (married 1952), and by his children Linda, Karl and Heinrich.