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Rose Schmalz was a student at the Regina Conservatory of Music from 1948 to 1956, studying voice, piano, history, theory, etc. As a student there, Rose was given special permission to practice on the pipe organ located in Darke Hall. She was asked by her voice teacher to usher (wearing a long gown) at Darke Hall when visiting artists performed there. Rose also studied voice and piano, as well as musical history, etc., at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and obtained her A.R.C.T. in both voice and piano. She continued her musical studies in Europe, majoring in voice (Germany and Italy), and while in Europe did radio programmes and concerts in Germany, France, Spain and England.

On her return to Canada, Rose continued to study French & Russian at the University of Toronto, as foreign languages were vital to her singing career. To support herself, she worked full-time for the Ontario provincial government, and sang with opera groups, on television programmes, for weddings, funerals, etc.

In 1996 she established the "Rose E. Schmalz Bursary for Voice", which is awarded annually to students at the Conservatory and the Department of Music, Faculty of Fine Arts. In 2002 she also established a $500 vocal award at the Saskatchewan Music Festival provincial finals for the Saskatchewan vocal representative to the Nationals -- this is also awarded each year. She remains a supporter of Regina's SaskExpress, and of other groups and individuals who enrich Regina's cultural life. She was organist at St. Mary's R.C. church for 17 years, and is presently organist at Blessed Sacrament Church; she also was organist at St. James Anglican church for 19 years (now fills in only occasionally).

Oscar Drumheller Seawell was born in 1923 in Yakima, Washington State, United States of America. He began studies at Whitman College in Washington in 1941 with a military draft deferment to study physics. In 1943 he enlisted in the U.S. Army and was assigned to the Army Specialized Training Program to study advanced Civil Engineering for a school year at the University of Utah. After serving in the United States and on Guadalcanal, the Philippines and Japan, he was discharged in January 1946 and returned to studies at Whitman College and worked as part-time assistant physics laboratory instructor.

In 1947 he received a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) with major subjects physics and mathematics from Whitman College and took post-graduate civil engineering classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge obtaining a Masters degree in Science in Civil Engineering in 1948.

While employed by General Electric Company analysing nuclear reactors Seawell also attended the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology and from 1964 to 1970 he took additional nuclear and mechanical engineering classes part-time, at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Through continuous part-time training which began in 1949 as an Officer in the Corps of Engineers in the United States Army Reserve Seawell rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and over time, was engaged in duties as a construction engineer, combat engineer company commander, public works and utilities officer, and sanitary engineer. Through correspondence courses Seawell earned a Diploma from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1974.

Seawell worked in the construction industry for a short time and was a nuclear engineer for eleven years. His work at that time mainly concerned nuclear reactor design and safety, and performing systems and operations analyses with an emphasis on creating computer simulations which were, between 1948 and 1989 quite diverse.

Seawell’s teaching career included work as an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Idaho from 1952 to 1956, where he met and married Bonnie Scott in 1953. In 1956 they moved to Los Angeles, California where he worked as a nuclear engineer for Atomics International and The Marquardt Corporation. In 1956/57 and again in 1961/62 Seawell taught a nuclear reactor design extension class for the University of California, Los Angeles and in 1964 he and Bonnie moved to Palo Alto, California, where he taught engineering classes at San Jose State College.

He was then employed as Principal Analyst with Computer Usage Development Corporation and as Senior Operations Analyst in the Systems Applications Group of Stanford Research Institute.

In 1971 Oscar moved his family to Regina having accepted an appointed as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus (known as the University of Regina since 1974). After initiating a short-lived Mechanical Engineering program he then planned and initiated a new Industrial Systems Engineering program, and his title was changed to Professor of Systems Engineering. He taught a variety of subjects from introductory through upper level engineering for students in other fields as well as Industrial Systems Engineering.

In 1960 Seawell was the Task Force Chairman for the American Standards Association with a mandate to prepare of a general guide for analysing nuclear reactor accidents. He was Chairman of the Los Angeles Section of the American Nuclear Society for 1963/64 and Vice-Chairman for the University of Regina Faculty Association Executive Committee in 1975/76 and the Chairman in 1976/77. Seawell was the Engineering Curriculum and Program Committee Chairman from 1972 to 1980 and the Chairman of the President’s Budget Advisory Committee in 1979/80, and Committee Chairman for the Faculty Association in 1988/89.

Seawell retired as Professor Emeritus in 1989 but continued to teach Engineering part-time through 1993. He passed away in September 2018, followed by his wife Bonnie in January 2020.

Maggie Siggins is a journalist, writer, and broadcaster of national stature. Born in Toronto in 1942, she received a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism in 1965 from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and began her career as a reporter for the Toronto Telegram. During the 1970s she worked as a political reporter, commentator, interviewer, and producer for CBC and CITY-TV Toronto. As a freelancer, her work has appeared in such major national magazines as Chatelaine, Macleans, Reader’s Digest, Today Magazine, and Financial Post Magazine. She wrote a monthly political column in Toronto Life from 1981 to 1983. She has produced documentaries for CBC and CITY-TV and spent 1985-1986 in China, where she worked at the New China News Agency and taught at the Beijing Broadcast Institute.

Siggins is the author of numerous books. She has won a number of awards and honours. In 1985 her book on the JoAnn and Colin Thatcher murder case, A Canadian Tragedy, won the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award. Revenge of the Land received the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction in 1992. The City of Regina Best Book Award was won by Siggins for Riel: A Life of Revolution; In Her Own Time: A class Reunion Inspires a Cultural History on Women and Bitter Embrace: White Society’s Assault on the Woodland Cree. Love and Hate, a 1989 CBC television miniseries was based on her book on the Thatcher case. It has aired in Canada, the United States, Britain and over forty other countries. A miniseries, based on Revenge of the Land was broadcast on CBC and CBS.

Siggins has lectured widely and taught journalism, holding the Southam Fellowship for Journalists, University of Toronto (1973-1974), and the Max Bell Chair in Journalism at the University of Regina (1983-1984).

Siggins is the Vice-President of 4 Square Productions and has written over 50 hours of television.

Walter Douglas Stewart was born in Toronto. He studied history at the University of Toronto, but left before graduation to work for the Toronto Telegram where he served as general reporter, picture editor, and financial feature writer. He joined the Star Weekly magazine as assistant picture editor in 1962 and the following year became their Ottawa correspondent. In 1968 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 (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 United States. Stewart is the author of fifteen non-fiction books, chiefly on Canadian political, historical, and economic subjects, and two detective novels. 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).