Lucy Murray was born in 1902, the middle of three daughters born to Walter Murray, the University of Saskatchewan's first President. She was born in Halifax in 1902 and moved to Saskatoon with her parents in 1909. Lucy attended the University of Saskatchewan and earned a B.A. and B.Ed. in 1923. At the University of Toronto she obtained an M.A degree in 1925 and in 1935 she was awarded a Doctoral degree from the University of Chicago. Lucy Murray wrote The Ideal of the Court Lady in England, 1558-1625, which was published in 1935. From 1936 to July 1967 Dr. Murray taught English at the Regina Campus of the University of
Saskatchewan and was an Associate Professor of English until she passed away in July 1967.
Keith Moulding is a freelance photographer based in Saskatchewan, specializing in capturing urban and rural landscapes. He pursued his photography education at Sheridan College, graduating in 1974. He has contributed to publications like Canadian Art, The Globe and Mail, Reader’s Digest, and Saturday Night Magazine. He’s shared his expertise as a sessional instructor at the University of Regina’s School of Photojournalism and has exhibited his work at the Dunlop Art Gallery. He has worked on notable projects, including Dead Reckoning: A Photographic Survey of the Palliser Triangle, which documents the changing landscapes of downtown Regina and the Canadian prairies. Fonds illustrates Keith Moulding's work as a photographer from the 1970s onward. This collection consists of Keith Moulding's photographic records of rural and urban images, dating from 1939 to 2013.
Douglas Morton is one of the senior academic art administrators in Canada. Born in 1926 in Winnipeg, he studied art at the Winnipeg School of Art (1946-47), the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (1947-48), the Academie Jullan, L'Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Studio of Andre L'Hote in Paris, France (1949), and the Camberwell School of Art and the studio of Martin Bloch in London, England (1950-51). His professional artistic career 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 in Regina from 1954 to 1967, Morton took an active interest in art.
In 1961 Morton exhibited with Ken Lochhead, Art McKay, Ron Bloore, and Ted Godwin at the National Gallery of Canada in the show "Five Painters from Regina". He joined the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1967 as Director of Visual Arts and Associate Professor of Art. He left Regina few years later to take up a position at York University in Toronto. From 1969 to 1980, he held a variety of posts, including Associate Dean and Director of the Graduate M.F.A. Programme (1973-76), Acting Chairperson, Department of Visual Arts (1978), and Vice-chairperson of Senate (1979). Morton was also Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria 1980-85, and President, Alberta College of Art, 1985-87.
Throughout his academic administrative career, Morton developed a reputation for effective management and the formulation of innovative and creative fine arts programs.
Kenneth Ronald Mitchell was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and has lived in Regina since 1969.
In 1958-59 he enrolled at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (School of Journalism) but failed the course, upon which he obtained a job at the Regina Leader-Post. He worked for some time as a journalist and proofreader at Regina, Toronto, and London England, before returning to Regina in 1965. He then took up studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, earning earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 and a Masters of Arts in 1967.
Mitchell taught Introductory English, Canadian Literature and Creative Writing workshops in the Department of English at the University of Regina; he has also conducted senior and Honours classes in Modern Canadian Literature and Creative Writing. He retired in 2005 as Professor Emeritus.
Besides his professorship in the Department of English at the University of Regina, he has been appointed Visiting Professor, University of Victoria 1975-76; Instructor, Banff School of Fine Arts 1977, 1978 and 1980; Scottish-Canadian Exchange Fellow, University of Edinburgh, Scotland 1979-80; Foreign Expert, University of Nanking, China 1980-81; and Foreign Expert, Foreign Affairs College, Beijing, China 1986-87; he was also Director of Creative Writing at the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts from 1970 to 1975.
Ken Mitchell’s stage play Heroes was produced over 50 times in Canada, the United States, England, Germany, New Zealand, Turkey and Scotland. Other poems, plays, stories and articles have been published in at least 40 collections and anthologies. Published works include Wandering Rafferty, The Meadowlark Connection, Cruel Tears, Sinclair Ross: a Reader’s Guide, Ken Mitchell Country, The Shipbuilder, The Plainsman, and Stones of the Dalai Lama. Film scripts have also been produced for The Hounds of Notre Dame, The Shipbuilder, The Giant, and The Dream Seekers.
Ken Mitchell was founding chairman for professional associations such as the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild 1969 to 1971; Grain 1973 and the Saskatchewan Writers’ Colony 1978. He was a member of the National Council, Writers’ Union of Canada, 1974-75; Edinburgh Playwright’s Workshop 1980 and Saskatchewan Playwright Centre 1982; Mexico-Canada Writers’ Colloquium, Guanajuato, Mexico 1982; National Board, Guild of Canadian Playwrights, 1982 – 1984; National Board, Playwrights Canada, 1983 – 1984; he later served as Vice-president, Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild 1987 – 1989, and as President in 2004-2005.
Margaret Messer was born in Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan and moved with her family to Saskatoon where she attended public and high school. She graduated from Nutana Collegiate and the University of Saskatchewan receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1939 and a Bachelor of Education degree in 1942.
She did graduate work throughout Canada, the United States and Europe and obtained a Masters of Arts degree in Fine Art Education from Columbia University in New York 1958.
For 23 years Margaret was involved in many of the dramatic and musical productions put on at Balfour Technical School in Regina where she taught commercial art and played a major role in the organization and opening of its present art department.
In 1966 she was appointed Assistant Professor of art education at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus. Margaret remained with the Faculty of Education until 1973.
Messer was actively 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, 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 also 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.
In 1986 Margaret Messer designed many of the stained glass windows for St. Matthew's Anglican Church located in Regina and while she was interested in history and of Saskatchewan artists as well as the settlement of the province she wrote several articles which were published in the Regina Leader Post, she also illustrated many books and journals including historical books, instructional books on sewing, children's colouring books and also science workbooks.