Robert (Bob) Agnew was born in 1932 to William Edward Agnew and Evelyn Maud Morson. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1953 and a Master of Science in 1955, both from Dalhousie University. He obtained a Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1959. Agnew joined the staff at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1958 for a 30 year career, starting as a Sessional Lecturer (1958-1964), then an Assistant Professor (1964-1969), and finally Associate Professor. He was instrumental in designing the Microbiology Complex in the Laboratory Building at the University of Regina.
Dr. Agnew served as acting Head of the Department of Biology from June-December, 1980, and then again between 1981 and 1986. He retired to Saltspring Island in 1988 and passed away in 1995.
The Dr. Robert M. Agnew Memorial Award was established in his memory and is awarded to a graduating Biology major with the highest average in biology courses.
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1920-2009
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.
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Gladys Bethel Angley was born in Radisson, Saskatchewan in 1912 and moved to Regina in 1916 when her father, Frank B. Angley, became manager of Regina Pharmacy. She received her early academic and musical training at Model School, Central Collegiate, Qu'Appelle Diocesan Girls' School and at Regina College. She studied piano with Sister Agnes, S.S.J.D., William M. Buckley and Dr. Lyell Gustin, theory with George Coutts, and Fred Killmaster and vocals with W. Francis. Gladys received an Associate degree from the Toronto Conservatory of Music in 1931 and a Licentiate diploma from the Royal Schools of Music in London England in 1932.
She began teaching piano in public schools from 1931 to 1933, and taught piano in the Qu’Appelle Diocesan from 1933 to 1941, the Regina Conservatory of Music from 1941 to 1958 and the University of Regina from 1958 to 1980 when complications, due to rheumatoid arthritis in 1955, began to hinder her public performances.
Public performances between 1931 and 1956 included solo recitals, performing as a guest artist and as an ensemble member of the Buckley Piano Quartet. By local radio Angley entertained listeners on the Prairie Network and the Canadian Broadcasting System, know now as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (C.B.C.).
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1914-2004
John H. Archer was born on July 11, 1914, near Broadview, Saskatchewan. He was a teacher in rural districts between 1933 and 1940, and during World War II served with the Royal Canadian Artillery in the United Kingdom, North Africa and Italy. After the war he enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan where he earned a Bachelor’s degree and a Master of Arts degree in history and then a Bachelor’s Degree in Library Science from McGill University.
From 1951 to 1964 he served as Saskatchewan’s legislative librarian, was assistant clerk of the Legislature from 1956 to 1961, and the provincial archivist from 1957 to 1962. In 1964 Archer became director of libraries at McGill University where he worked until 1967. At Queen’s University he was archivist and an associate professor of history – while earning a Doctoral degree in history. Archer returned to his home province and to the new University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1969, and was installed in 1970 as the Principal and in 1974 became the first President of the new University of Regina, a position he held until his retirement in 1976.
Archer served on several boards, advisory councils and Royal Commissions, he is the author of Land of Promise (1969), Saskatchewan: A History (1980), Honoured with the Burden (1987), and edited the memoirs of John Diefenbaker in One Canada (1975 - 78).
John Archer received the Order of Canada and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, the main library of the University of Regina campus is named for him. He passed away on April 5, 2004.
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1932-2011
Lloyd Ingram Barber was born in Regina, Saskatchewan on March 8, 1932. He grew up and received his primary and part of his secondary education in Regina Beach then completed it at Luther College in Regina. He was married in 1956 to Muriel Pauline (Duna) and together they had six children.
Barber attended the University of Saskatchewan and received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1953, a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Administration and from the University of California he received a Masters degree in Business Administration (marketing) in 1955.
He joined the staff at the University of Saskatchewan as an Instructor in 1955 and obtained a Doctoral degree in Philosophy from the University of Washington in 1964. Barber served as Dean of Commerce in 1966 and as the University Vice-President of the University from 1968 to 1974. After a leave of absence, he was named President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Regina on January 1, 1976 a position he held until he retired in 1990.
Barber became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1976 and was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada 1993 and in 1995 invested as a member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. He received the Aboriginal Order of Canada in 1985, was an honorary professor at Shandong University in China, had honorary degrees from the Universities of Alberta and Concordia. He acted as Canada's Indian Claims Commissioner for the Privy Council of Canada from 1969 until 1977 and was very involved in the establishment of the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College.
Barber has been on the Board of Directors for the Bank of Nova Scotia, Canadian Pacific, and Husky Oil of Canada, Can West Global, Molson Limited and the Winnipeg Commodities Exchange. He was awarded the Vanier Medal in 1979 by the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. He was President of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, served on the executive council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, was a founding member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and in 1967 was appointed to the North West Territorial Council.
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1909-2003
Frank Bates was born in Colorado in 1909 and moved to Luseland, Saskatchewan at a young age. He attended elementary and high school there and then attended Normal School in Calgary, Alberta for 1927-1928. At the University of Saskatchewan he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1942 and a Bachelor of Education degree in 1944. Frank was married to Martha Eilene Mathias in 1938. At the University of California in Berkeley in 1947 he completed a Doctor of Education degree with emphasis on Elementary Education and Educational Psychology, most of his education past high school was completed by correspondence.
Bates began teaching in 1958 at the Saskatchewan Teachers' College in Moose Jaw and Regina and in 1963 became Principal of the Saskatchewan Teachers' College in Regina and acted as Dean of the new Faculty of Education, University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus from 1964 to 1967 while teaching in the faculty until 1977 and retiring in 1978. Bates also served on the University Senate for a number of years and in the fall of 1984 Bates received an honorary.
Frank Bates passed away in June 2003.
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1946-1999
David L. Beattie was born in Regina in April 1946. He attended the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1967, a Bachelor Degree (Hons.) in 1968, and a Masters Degree in 1970. David received his Doctoral degree from Queen’s University in 1976.
Beattie was a member of the both the Canadian and the American Economics Associations, the International Association of Students of Economics and Commerce (AIESEC) at the University of Regina Branch (serving as Director for 1978-78), and a member of the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education and the Canadian Tax Foundation. David worked as a research assistant on the Royal Commission on Farm Machinery in 1968 and in 1972 began teaching as an assistant in the Department of Economics at Queen’s University. He returned to Regina as a special lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus from 1973 to 1975, as assistant professor from 1975 to 1978, was Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Regina from 1977 until 1981 and was a consultant for the Department of Finance, Government of Saskatchewan from 1974 to 1975.
In 1991 Beattie was awarded the University of Regina Alumni Association Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, an award recognizing his 25 years of teaching and encouragement of students.
Beattie died suddenly on November 1, 1999, and a memorial scholarship in his name is awarded each spring to an undergraduate student who meets the criteria.
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1910-1986
Dorothy Williamina Bee was born on November 1, 1910 in Lemberg Saskatchewan and moved to Regina at a young age. Dorothy played a string bass for the Regina Symphony Orchestra from 1943 to 1971, she also played and taught piano, was an author, editor and co-editor of material used to advance the teaching of music for the Western Board of Music. She introduced over 1000 new pieces as Head of the Piano Syllabus Committee from 1968 to1974.
Bee studied with William M. Buckley (1928-1936) and Lyell Gustin (1936), Master classes were taken with Rosalyn Tureck in 1940. Between 1944 and 1948 Dorothy studied with Max Pirani, Victor Babin for a year in 1960 and Andre Previn in 1970 and 1971.
Bee began as a faculty member at the Conservatory of Music in 1946 and began teaching at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1949. Very active in the area of music in Saskatchewan, Bee was an adjudicator and consultant for the Saskatchewan Music Festival Association, and an examiner for the Western Board of Music and Mount Royal College in Calgary. She co- authored, with Gordon Wallis, three volumes of studies for the piano which were especially designed to help students with specific technical problems.
From 1955 to 1957 Dorothy was president of the Saskatchewan Registered Music Teachers Association (SRMTA), and Vice-president of the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers Association (CFMTA). In 1976 Dorothy was editor-in-chief of 8 graded volumes of piano repertoire.
Dorothy Bee retired in 1979 and died in 1986.
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1920-2003
Margaret Belcher was born on December 19, 1920 in Dilke, Saskatchewan. She attended classes at Luther College in Regina and studied at the University of Saskatchewan and at the University of Toronto where she obtained a Masters degree in Arts. Margaret taught high school in Rosetown, Saskatchewan and became a professor of French at Regina College in 1944; becoming Dean of Women and later acting head of the French Department. Later she undertook postgraduate studies in France.
Margaret was very involved in the Saskatchewan Natural History Society, as a Member, President, and recording secretary of the Saskatchewan Natural History Society, and in 1996 Belcher wrote its history, The Isabel Priestly Legacy: The Saskatchewan Natural History Society, 1949-1990, and for twenty-one years she was associate editor of the Society’s quarterly, the Blue Jay, and also authored Birds of Regina (1961, 1980) and in 1987 Bird Imagery in the Lyric Poetry of Tristan L’Hermite was published.
Margaret was honoured by the Regina Soroptomist Club in 1988, and named a Fellow of the Saskatchewan Natural History Society in 1989. In 1997 she was invested with the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, and in 2003 received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. She died on June 29, 2003.
The Margaret Belcher Reading Room is located in Luther College at the University of Regina.