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Proch, Donald
Proch, Donald
Person · 1944-

Winnipeg artist, Don Proch was born in Manitoba in 1944 and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Manitoba in 1966. He taught from 1967 to 1970 and then won a purchase award for his submission "Asessippi Tread" and formed the Opthalmia Company of Inglis, a collective setting that was inspirational to Proch as well as to other artists.

Don Proch has been recognized for his substantial contribution to multi-media art in Canada and has won awards including those from the Canada Council and the Manitoba Arts Council.

Proch’s work can be found in major collections throughout North America including the Richardson Foundation-Greenshields Collection in Winnipeg, Manitoba; the Mancy Collection in New York; the Bronfman Collection; Crown Life Insurance Company; the Winnipeg Art Gallery; the Art Gallery of Ontario; the National Gallery of Canada; the Canada Council Art Bank; the Glenbow Museum; the Province of Manitoba Art Collection as well the Musee d’art moderne de la ville de Paris in Paris, France as well as many others.
Prendergast, Gabe
Prendergast, Gabe
Person · 1934-2000

Gabriel (Gabe) Prendergast was born in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand, to parents Maurice and Colleen on January 23, 1934.

He spent 4 years studying law at the University of Auckland before being bitten by the ‘theatre bug’. After a three month trip across Asia in 1960 Gabe discovered that he’d been accepted as a senior directing student at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in England.

After graduation, with no real prospects for employment and a new baby, Gabe and wife Audrey decided to stay in Bristol at the Theatre School as an assistant stage manager and learn about every aspect of the theatre. During 11 months he played 20 different roles and in 1964 he helped run the company’s tour of Europe and Israel and also became company manager of the Little Theatre (a subsidiary operation of the Old Vic). In 1968 he moved to the Nottingham Playhouse as manager and stage director of the repertory company and helped produce 11 shows in 9 months.

In 1969 a teaching position opened up in the Drama Department at the University of Regina, Regina Campus. Though he knew nothing of Regina except ‘that it was a place of sub-zero temperature’ Prendergast accepted the job and he and his family moved to Regina.

Prendergast retired in 1998 from the Department of Theatre at the University of Regina. He taught stage management and technical theatre training courses, was involved in over 200 productions and was, for a time, the department head. Many of his former students have gone on to enjoy professional careers all across North America.

Gabriel shared the last years of his life with his partner Sharon Blue, enjoying his four daughters and his grandchildren, he retired in 1998.

Gabriel Prendergast, Professor Emeritus, was awarded the Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology (CITT) Educational Achievement Award in 2000, this annual award recognizes longstanding career achievement in a technical or related discipline within the Canadian cultural industries.

In 2002 he was inducted into the Margaret Woodward Memorial Saskatchewan Theatre Hall of Fame.
Pope, Richard
Person · 1929-2008

Richard (Dick) Pope was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1929, he was a student at Reed College from 1948 to 1953 where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree and discovered anthropology as a student of the American anthropologist and linguist David H French. Pope attended graduate school at the University of Chicago from 1953 to 1957

Pope was involved in teaching anthropology at institutions such as the University of California-Berkeley, the College of the University of Chicago, he taught for a few years at Monteith College (Wayne State University in Detroit) and York University in 1962 for five years.

He was hired to teach workshops on American Indian Affairs at the Colorado College in Colorado Springs in the summers of 1964 and 1966 and in 1967 he accepted a position at the newly established University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in the Anthropology Department where they were experimenting with interdisciplinary course offerings in the Division of the Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science, as it was then known.

On sabbatical from September 1971 to June 1972 Dick working for the Indian Association of Alberta (IAA), another sabbatical was spent on North American Indian Nationalism and another, in the 1990s, studying innovative educational institutions that gave emphasis to cultural and community values. Pope retired from the University of Regina in the late 1990s and died on Gabriola Island in January 2008. He was 79 years of age.
Poirier, Thelma
Poirier, Thelma
Person · 19-

Thelma Poirier grew up on a ranch in southern Saskatchewan and has since spent her adult life on ranches near Fir Mountain, Saskatchewan. She moved to Glentworth 2004 and writes about the land, the animals and vegetation of Southwestern Saskatchewan and ranching. She has published poetry collections titled Grasslands, The Private Hearings (1990), Double Visions (1984), Rock Creek Blues (1998), two books for young readers: Children of the Wood Mountain Uplands, The Bead Pot and a creative non-fiction memoir, Rock Creek. In 2012 Poirier won the Sask Poetry Award for Rock Creek Blues.

Poirier has contributed to portions of the Parks Canada publication, .Field Guide to the Grasslands National Park and has edited several books about ranching, among them: Beyond the Range, Cowgirls: 100 Years of Writing the Range (2002), Grass Roots, Wood Mountain Uplands and A Voice of Her Own (2005).

Other publications include Rodeo Kids (1998), and most recently The Grasslanders: Ranch Stories from Grasslands National Park to be published in 2017.

In 2012 she was the winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the Acorn-Plantos Award.