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Robbins, Ronald
Robbins, Ronald
Person · 1917-2009

Ronald C. Robbins was born in Wales in 1917. He attained an Honours degree in English as well as other certificates and diplomas from technical institutes and colleges in Britain and North America. Robbins served as a Royal Navy officer during the Second World War and as a reporter, desk editor, and news editor with British newspapers and the British Broadcasting Corporation in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Robbins spent 26 years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He was responsible for overseas bureaus, federal and provincial election coverage, and for coordinating staff training programs. At the same time he worked as desk editor for the Canadian Press wire in Toronto.

Robbins was appointed Director of the University of Regina School of Journalism and Communications in 1979 for a three-year term. During that time Robbins and a committee of journalists and academics arranged the curriculum for Saskatchewan's new journalism school.

Ron Robbins died in Victoria in 2009.
Ridley, Arthur
Person · 1938-1960

Arthur (Art) Edward Ridley was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on November 24, 1938 and moved to Regina in 1942. He attended Herchmer Elementary School and Scott Collegiate where he was an outstanding athlete. Attending Regina College from 1958 to 1960, Arthur was a third year arts student when he was killed in a highway car crash on his way home for Thanksgiving in October, 1960.

In high school he was active in sports such as Track and Field, establishing the 1955 provincial record for the junior boys mile, he was a charter member of the Order of DeMolay, a Freemasonary organization for boys and young men. Ridley was co-winner of the 1957 Forbes trophy at Scott collegiate where the Art Ridley Memorial Trophy was later named for him. This trophy, which was to be given to the outstanding male athlete in the senior class was “still very active” in 1989, but has since disappeared.
Rands, Stan
Person · 1908-1985

Stanley (Stan) Rands was born in Fort Macleod, Alberta on July 20, 1909. His father was a Yorkshire coal miner and Stanley attended a rural public school and MacLeod High graduating in 1928. Rands married Doris Fraser of Pilot Mound, Manitoba on December 24, 1943 and had three children, Jeanie, Brian and Ailsa.

Rands received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alberta in 1931 and a Master of Arts degree in psychology and education in 1937. As a Rhodes Scholar, he attended Oxford University in England, and earned a Diploma in Theology in 1934 and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, politics, and economics in 1936.

From 1937 to 1942 Rands taught high school in Alberta and served as Dean of Alberta College for one year and Senior Instructor with the Correspondence School Branch for two years then moved to Winnipeg where he served concurrently as Assistant/Acting Director of Adult Education at the University of Manitoba and Western Regional Supervisor for the National Film Board. He was promoted to the National Film Board headquarters in Ottawa where he worked as Director of Research and Reports and Program Coordinator from 1945 to 1950.

He moved to Regina in order to work for the Saskatchewan Department of Public Health as the Director of Health Education from 1950 to 1951 and from 1950 to 1954 Rands was Assistant to the Director of Psychiatric Services; he acted as Deputy Director of Psychiatric Services from 1954 to1963.

During the time of the doctors' strike in Saskatchewan over Medicare in 1963, Rands left the civil service to serve as Executive Director of the Community Health Services Association (Saskatchewan), an organization dedicated to establishing community clinics throughout the province. In 1966 the funding for his position was no longer available but Rands continued to work on behalf of the Association on a volunteer basis.

In 1965 Stan Rands joined the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus staff serving as a sessional instructor lecturing in Psychology. Rands achieved the rank of Associate Professor in 1971 and formally retired in 1976 although he continued to teach as a sessional. He was name Professor Emeritus in 1977.

Throughout his career, Rands held many executive positions: the Canadian Mental Health Association in Regina, the Regina Defense Committee, the Regina Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Public Health Association, Saskatchewan Branch, the Saskatchewan Psychological Association, Regina Pioneer Village and the Saskatchewan Federation of Home and School. He was an advocate of medicare, and community organizations in the areas of health, education, peace, civil liberties, and aging were areas of great interest him.

Rands was also a founding member of the Canada-China Friendship Association (Saskatchewan); and a founding board member, (serving a number of years as secretary-treasurer) of the Community Health Services Association, Regina and in 1972 was named as honorary board member of the Regina Community Clinic.
Stan’s book, 'Privilege and Policy: A History of Community Clinics in Saskatchewan' was finished by his friends and in 1994 was published posthumously.