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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.

Kathleen Wall was born in Michigan and took both her Bachelor’s and her Master’s degrees in English Literature at the University of Michigan. She moved to Winnipeg in 1973 with her first husband, Dan Geminder, who was a trumpet player with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Told that “there were no jobs for English PhDs,” in 1976, she nevertheless pursued this degree at the University of Manitoba, working with Evelyn Hinz on a study of the Callisto myth that ranged from Renaissance sources to Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, tracing the way in which changes in women’s circumstances were accompanied by changes in the ways authors used the myth and its variants. Her thesis, defended in 1984, was latter accepted by McGill-Queen’s University Press and published as The Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: Initiation and Rape in Literature in 1988. During her Ph.D. studies she began writing poetry more deliberately and published her second book, Without Benefit of Words with Turnstone Press in 1991.

In the meantime, she had secured (despite the Graduate Chair’s advice) a full-time job at Winnipeg Education Centre in 1982, an off-campus program of the Faculties of Social Work and Education that was designed to educate and train inner city teachers and social workers. WEC’s students were both dedicated and underprepared; as well, the program was, like many marginalized endeavours, under-funded. She ended each day feeling that something had been left undone, some student left unhelped. As well, she was the only English professor for the program, which left her feeling isolated. When she and her first husband separated, she began looking for jobs elsewhere, coming to the University of Regina in 1990, where she found a supportive environment she could not have predicted. The English Department at the University of Regina values the creative as well as the academic work of its faculty. In 2001, Wall won the University’s Alumni Award for Teaching; she gives significant credit to those dedicated and underprepared students at WEC for teaching her how to teach.

The Theory Group organized by Ray Mise and attended by Ken Probert, Bernie Selinger, Aydon Charleton, and Jeanne Shami, among others, introduced her more formally to narratology, which she had been exploring rather directionlessly on her own. Thus her early essays after the Callisto book explored the dimensions of the unreliable narrator in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day as well as other works (from As for Me and My House to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) that helped provide a framework for the way the reader makes sense of the narrative in the face of the narrator’s unreliability. This was followed by an essay on two short stories by Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood and their use of the mise en abyme for exploring the challenges to women’s lives in the seventies. Still working in the vein of feminist criticism, Wall began teaching very popular classes in Jane Austen and less popular class in Virginia Woolf. She initially used her knowledge of narratology to puzzle out Woolf’s use of form in A Room of One’s Own (Journal of Narrative Theory 1999) and Jacob’s Room (Texas Studies in Literature and Language). The latter essay would soon appear in the Norton Edition of Jacob’s Room. Sought out for her skills as a teacher of composition by McGraw-Hill Ryerson, she significantly revised Barbara Fine Clouse’s Patterns for a Purpose and added Canadian readings in 2010. Her work on Woolf led her to explore aesthetics and theories of beauty. She published one of the first critical essays, “Ethics, Knowledge, and the Need for Beauty” on two popular novels, Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty in the University of Toronto Quarterly in 2008.

In the meantime, Wall continued to write poetry, winning a John V. Hicks Major Manuscript Award for the manuscript that would become Time’s Body (Hagios Press) in 2005. Her second novel Blue Duets, was published by Brindle & Glass in 2010; both the poems and the novel were shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Book Award. (Her first novel, entitled Still Lives, remains appropriately in a box, now in the archives, to be resurrected when she discovers what its heroine wants). Wall has attended workshops and colloquia with Lisa Moore and Robert Kroetsch (2007), Don McKay (2013), and Ken Babstock (2015). After 24 years in the English Department, Wall retired in 2014 to write. At this time (August 2015), she is at work on a book of ekphrastic poems currently being edited by Don McKay; on a study of Virginia Woolf’s aesthetics that grew out of the earlier articles, entitled Virginia Woolf’s Poetics of Engagement; and on a third novel, Soul Weather. Lengthy essays on minimalism and craftsmanship wait in the wings. She keeps a popular blog entitled “Blue Duets.”

Bernard Wilhelm was born in Switzerland in February 1927. In 1950 he obtained a degree in Secondary Education from the University of Neuchatel in Berne and a Doctor of Letters degree in 1966 from the University of Berne. Wilhelm married Rita Marie Wilhelm (Finnerty) in August 1953 and had three children. With 15 years of teaching experience in Switzerland, Bernard moved the family to Regina in 1967 when he became employed at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages. He became an Associate Professor in 1970 and was Acting Director of the Bilingual Center from 1970 to 1972, a pioneer of French distance education teaching at the University and attained the rank of full professor in 1978, also serving as Director of the Bilingual Center until 1981.

Wilhem has been broadcast on radio and has published several books in the French language, among them: Anthologie littéraire fransaskoise et de l'Ouest canadien in 2000; S.V.P.: Racontez-nous votre vie / récits recueillis et présentés par Bernard Wilhelm published in 2001; Saskontario: projet de communication a distance en vue du developpement communautaire de deux localities francophones en milieu isole in 1982; and Zenon Park: un village en Saskatchewan in 1976. Wilhelm has also published with writing partners Pierre-Yves Mocquais and André Lalonde on Colloque du Centre d'études Franco-Canadiennes de l'Ouest (3e : 1983 : Regina, Sask.) Langue, la culture et la société des francophones de l'Ouest, preparing text for the publication released in 1984.

Wilhelm passed away in November 2016.

Victor Cicansky (Czekanski) was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. He completed a Bachelor of Education degree at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon in 1964, and a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1967. In 1970 Cicansky received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Davis. Cicansky also studied at Haystack Mountain School of Art at Deere Isle, Maine.

In addition to teaching at the University of Regina for over 20 years, Cicansky has taught courses at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the University of California at Davis and the Banff Centre of Fine Arts. He has also presented various workshops, lectures and slide presentations across Canada.

Cicansky’s sculptures and wall murals have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in public and commercial galleries across Canada, the United States, England, France and China. He has been a member of several Canada Council and other art competition juries and has also served on the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery Board, the Wascana Centre Arts Advisory Committee, and the Applied Arts Advisory Committee of the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Woodland Campus in Prince Albert.

Vic Cicansky retired as Professor Emeritus from the University of Regina Department of Visual Arts in 1994 and in 2007 received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Regina.

Victor Cicansky’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, the United States, Japan, and Europe.

His clay and bronze sculptures, often describing cultural, agricultural and historical circumstances of the Canadian prairies, are represented in collections at the Mackenzie Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Fine Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo — just to name a few.

Some of his commissioned works have include pieces created for the City of Regina, Government of Saskatchewan, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the 1976 Olympic Games and in 1989 for the provincial visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York.

Victor is the recipient of many Canada Council grants and has won awards such as the Victoria and Albert Award for Ceramic Sculpture, the California Kingsley Annual Award for Sculpture and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.

In 2009 his many contributions to the arts, as a sculptor, an educator and mentor were recognized as he was named a member of the Order of Canada. Victor Cicansky passed away on March 3, 2025 .

Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was an influential Canadian photographer, poet and artist of national and international acclaim. He was a second generation Japanese Canadian, born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and raised in Calgary.

Kiyooka studied at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and Art, Alberta College of Art from 1946 to 1949, and in 1955 to 1956 he studied at the Instituto San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.

Following Kenneth Lochhead and Arthur McKay to the Regina College School of Art, he was the third instructor to be appointed. Along with Kenneth Lochhead and Arthur McKay, Doug Morton, Ted Godwin, Ron Bloore and Clifford Wiens were other artists heavily engaged in the Regina art scene. These young artists led the expansion of the Emma Lake Workshops by inviting major artists (or critics) as instructors. Kiyooka was one of the leading figures of this workshop and had great influence over decision making. The very successful 1959 workshop, which introduced abstract expressionist painting to Saskatchewan, was a crucial decision made by Kiyooka and his colleagues.

In 1960, Kiyooka’s new position at the Vancouver School of Art (Emily Carr College of Art and Design) required him to leave Regina, he became involved in poetry, photography, video, film, and music.

His book, Pear Tree Pomes, was nominated for the 1987 Governor General’s Award and in 1978, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada

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.

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.

Natalie received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Arts majoring in Art History from the University of Regina in 1993. She was awarded a Master of Arts (Canadian History) in 1998. The Honour’s paper she wrote was about the art work of ten Saskatchewan women of Ukrainian descent and the Master’s thesis explored the involvement of Savella Stechishin and the first Ukrainian-Canadian women’s movement.

In the fall of 1998, Natalie presented a paper at a conference at the University of Toronto comparing Ukrainian Canadian women’s experiences in Canada and the United States with emphasis on Savella and in 1999 the Saskatchewan History journal published her paper on Savella Stechishin and the Ukrainian-Canadian women movement.

Natalie has authored two books: 75 Years of Service, Friendship and Commitment published by the Ukrainian Women’s Association of Canada (2002), and Blossoming of a Ukrainian Canadian: Savella Stechishin was published in 2009.

Natalie is an active community volunteer. In 1993 she received a Canada 125 Medal and the City of Regina Volunteer Vital Link, Citizen of the Week in both 1990 and 2002.

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.

Born in Kerrobert, Saskatchewan November 19, 1935, Otto Donald Rogers attended the Saskatchewan Teachers College during 1952-53 and was a student of Wynona Mulcaster. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Art Education in 1958 from the University of Wisconsin and in 1959 completed work for a Master's degree, majoring in painting and sculpture. Returning to Saskatchewan in 1959, he taught at the University of Saskatchewan and in 1975 became a full professor serving as head of the Art department from 1973 to 1978 and helped develop the “Open Studio” method of instruction.

Otto Rogers has had one-man shows at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, the Galleria Del Millione in Milan, Espace 5 in Montreal and the Mira Godard Gallery in Toronto and well as many others. His work is represented in several notable public and corporate collections: the National Museum of Art in Iceland; Toronto-Dominion Bank; the Shell Oil Collection and the Imperial Oil Limited Collection.

He is an appointed member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Artists, and has received various Canada Council Awards.

Otto Rogers is a member of the Baha’i faith and has served on the Local Spiritual Assembly of Saskatoon as well as regional and national committees. He was a delegate to several national and intercontinental conferences and in 1988, following several years of service he departed for Haifa, Israel to assume an appointment on the faith's International Teaching Committee.

Rogers passed away in April 2019.