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Fred W. Anderson was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan on April 20, 1920 to Edward and Leila (Woodley) Anderson. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree as well as a Master of Arts degree from the University of Saskatchewan and did post-graduate work at the London School of Economics. In 1951 he joined the University of Saskatchewan, Regina College as a special lecturer in Economics and Political Science. Anderson held several posts throughout his career including an appointment as associate Dean of Arts and Sciences (Social Sciences) from 1969-1975. He was also co-ordinator of the Canadian Plains Study program from 1977 until his retirement in 1983.

From 1959 to 1961, he was the Secretary and Research Director to the (Canadian) Royal Commission on Transportation, under Murdoch MacPherson. The MacPherson Commission report advocated increased freedom for railways to eliminate uneconomic passenger service and branch lines, called for increased subsidies for grain handling responsibilities which had been imposed by Parliament, and also included a critique of the Canadian air transport system. Anderson’s focus within the report was a criticism of the lack of consistency and inclusiveness in Canadian air transport policy with regards to distant and scattered settlements, and as well as a criticism of the lack of a clear policy to address whether air services would be offered apart from market considerations.

In 1962 Anderson advised the Saskatchewan Farmers’ Union on a rational approach to follow in the abandonment of unprofitable branch rail-lines, based on the main tenets of the MacPherseon report.

Including the MacPherson Commission in the 1960’s, a number of other federally initiated commissions were established to investigate the grain handling situation, among them the Hall Commission on Grain Handling and Transportation (1975 to 1977); and the Snavely Commission on railway costing (1975 to 1977). From 1973 to 1975, Anderson organized and launched the Western Transportation Advisory Council and later became the Chairman of the Prairie Rail Action Committee (1977 to 1978) which was created to establish the fate of rail lines left undecided in the Hall Commission on Grain Handling and Transportation.

In 1968 Anderson was invited, along with nine fellow experts from several countries, to be part of a committee established by the Asian Development Bank which would lay the foundations for transportation system development in South East Asia.

In 1980 Anderson was appointed by joint request of the Railway Association of Canada and eight shopcraft unions to a one-man commission which inquired into the level and structure of railway shopcraft employees’ compensation.

William Clifford Blight was born in Oakville, Manitoba in 1908 to parents George and Isabella Blight. He married Elizabeth A. Chaytor in December 1933.

After attending the Brandon Normal School, Blight obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Manitoba in 1940 and a Masters degree of Science in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin in 1952.

He began his teaching career in rural schools in Manitoba from 1928 to 1937, including a new position as Assistant Principal in the Village of Isabella in the Municipal School District of Miniota where he was also able to teach high school classes. During the Second World War he served as an armament instructor with the Commonwealth Air Training Plan.

Blight was employed at the University of Regina (succesor to Regina College, and the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus) from 1945 to 1974. In 1945 he started work as an instructor in mathematics, as Assistant to the Dean in 1952 to 1959; Assistant to Registrar and Registrar at Regina College/Campus, from 1959 to 1969; Regina Campus Secretary from 1967 to 1973; and Registrar Emeritus beginning in 1974. He served on numerous committees and assisted in developing the institution’s academic program.

Blight passed away in October 1994.

John (Jack) A. Boan became a faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1962, and a full professor in 1969. Prior to 1962 he worked for the federal government in several capacities: as an economist with the federal Department of Agriculture from 1949 to 1956; for the Defense Research Board from 1956 to 1960; in the Economics Division of the Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources from 1960 to 1961; and as a member of the Research Staff of the Royal Commission on Health Services from 1961 to 1964 with leave of absence for educational purposes for parts of some years.

His service activities range widely from local concerns on the quality of television broadcasting to United Way and Miles for Millions fund-raising campaigns. One of his closest interests is International Development and Resource management. His committee work in this area shows a desire to address the problems of both development and underdevelopment, problems about which, as an economist, he is aware. Firm in the conviction that education will redress some of the wrongs and inequities of these international situations, he has done much work for agencies which promote general education in underdeveloped regions of the world, and awareness about effective stewardship in the developed regions. He and some others including Robert McLaren founded the University of Regina Group for Refugees (U.R.G.R.) in 1979-80. To all of this can be added extensive participation in committees dealing with the administration of both his particular academic division and the University itself.