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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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 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.

Ronald Cynewulf Robbins served as the first Director of the University of Regina's School of Journalism and Communications, beginning in September, 1980 until his retirement in 1983. Born in Wales in 1918, received an honours English degree and other post-secondary education in the fields of communications and management. He worked for 26 years with CBC radio and television, serving as manager of editorial resources for CBC Television News and as coordinator of television news training programs. He also had experience as a desk editor with the Canadian Press in Toronto. Mr. Robbins has written a war-time novel entitled 'Blood for Breakfast' and a book of verse, 'Out of Solitude'. His poems have been published in various literary magazines and anthologies, and he has contributed to the journalism textbook, 'A Media Mosaic: Canadian Communications Through a Critical Eye'.

Artist Otto Rogers was born in Kerrobert, Saskatchewan in 1935, and his youth was spent in an agrarian setting. During 1952-53 he attended Saskatchewan Teachers College where he studied under Wynona Mulcaster. In 1953 he left the province to enroll at the University of Wisconsin where in 1958 he received his Bachelor's degree in Art Education. In 1959 he completed his Master's degree, majoring in both painting and sculpture. During his stay in Wisconsin he exhibited his work widely and presented several one-man shows. By his departure from the U.S. he had won fifteen awards. In 1959 Rogers returned to Saskatchewan to teach art at the University of Saskatchewan. He received full Professor status in 1975, and between 1973 and 1978 he served as the Head of the Department of Art. Eventually, he played a substantial role in developing the "Open Studio" method of instruction still extant within that department. Rogers' accomplishments within both Canadian and international art circles are noteworthy. He has had major one-man exhibitions at places such as the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, the Galleria Del Millione, Milan, Espace 5 in Montreal and the Mira Godard Gallery in Toronto. The artist has had works included in major exhibitions like: "Seven Prairie Painters," Art Gallery of Ontario; "Modern Painting in Canada," Edmonton Art Gallery and "Abstraction West: Emma Lake and After," organized by the National Gallery of Canada. Rogers' works are represented in several major public and corporate collections such as: the National Museum of Art, Iceland; the Shell Oil Collection; the Imperial Oil Limited Collection; and the Toronto-Dominion Bank collection. Besides being an appointed member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Artists, he has received various Canada Council Awards. Another aspect of Rogers' life is his involvement with the Baha'i Faith. After entering the faith in 1960, he served on the Local Spiritual Assembly of Saskatoon until 1963. After being domiciled outside of Saskatoon for several years the artist returned to the city and bought a home that was designated the Saskatoon Baha'i House until 1973. Throughout the remainder of the 1970s he served on several local, regional and national committees. He acted as delegate to several national and intercontinental conferences. In 1988 he assumed an appointment on the faith's International Teaching Committee, in Haifa, Israel.

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).