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Joachimowski, Alfons
Person · 1906-1997

Alfons Joachimowski was born in 1906. He received his Bachelor of Law in Poznan, Poland in 1928.

Joachimowski served in the Polish Civilian Guard during World War II and for a time after the war had officially ended. His last assignment to the Liaison Section 104 Labour Supervision Center began on May 1947. During his employment Joachimowski served as a Liaison Assistant and a Legal Officer within several different sections of the Guard. Notably, Joachimowski served as a legal advisor during a trial involving the sentencing of a group of men accused of killing a fellow Allied Soldier of African descent.

He applied for US citizenship in 1948 and moved to New York where he pursued his M.A. (1960) and Ph.D. (1966) at the New School for Social Research in New York City. His doctoral dissertation was titled “The Polish Wage Structure: Theory, Problems, Practice”.

Joachimowski was hired as a Special Lecturer in Economics at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1963. He held this position until 1967 when he advanced to Assistant Professor. In 1969 Joachimowski was promoted to the status of Associate Professor, a title he held until his retirement in 1973. His research interests included comparative economic systems, economic history in Europe and the history of economic analysis. During his career at the University of Regina, Regina Campus Joachimowski published several well received economic papers, including “Marxism: System and Critique, “Poverty in the Doctrines of the English Classical Economists” and “Problems of Manpower Planning: The Polish Experience”.

Joachimowski retired from the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus in 1973, and was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus in 1978.
Jonescu, Evelyn
Jonescu, Evelyn
Person · 19-

Evelyn (Ching) Jonescu was born on a farm in Alameda, Saskatchewan and recalls her father teaching her to read at a young age. Evelyn later attended the University of Saskatchewan with an entrance scholarship in 1948 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1954, and a Bachelor of Education degree in 1962.

Jonescu taught in high schools for the Qu’Appelle Diocesan School for Girls in Regina, Markinch and in Cupar, Saskatchewan. In 1963 she began to pursue graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and obtained a Master’s degree in Botany there in 1966. She returned to Saskatchewan and began teaching at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus (fore-runner to the University of Regina) as an Assistant Professor while working on a Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, which she obtained in 1974.

In 1975 Evelyn was appointed Director of the Canadian Plains Research Center and reappointed in 1981 for a 5-year term. She was chairperson of the Environmental Advisory Council for Saskatchewan and in 1976 was appointed to the Social Science Research Council’s Committee on the Human Environment.

Throughout a very long career with the University of Regina, Jonescu presented papers, led seminars and served on committees while working in areas involving the land’s natural resources and other environmental issues. She was recognized with meritorious certificates in 1978, 1981, and 1983. In 1985 she left the Canadian Plains Research Centre to work in the Faculty of Education as part of the Saskatchewan Instructional Development and Research Unit. Jonescu retired from University life in June 1989, becoming Professor Emeritus in 1991. In 1995 Evelyn was awarded a certificate of appreciation from the Community Health Division of the Regina Health District and in 2000 retired from the Board of Governors of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, where she had been a Fellow of the Society for many years. Still giving back to her community and to the University of Regina, Evelyn supports the University’s College Avenue Renewal Project and is a lifetime-member of the University of ReginaAcademic and Administrative PensionersAssociation (URAAPA).
Kirk, Florence
Person · 1909-1999

Florence Kirk was a Canadian missionary and member of the English Department at Ginling College in Nanjing China. She, and her sister Lillian, were both on the staff at Ginling College, which was the first Christian women’s college in China. Florence was there before and during the Second World War, as well as the civil war that followed and the Communist takeover. She completed her Ph.D. in English at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

In 1991 at age 89, Kirk self-published her memoir entitled Sunshine and Storm; a Canadian Teacher in China, 1932-1950.

Florence Kirk was also the author of a short story “One Hundred Dollars”, 1975, co-author with W. Gordon Kirk for the Kirk Family Tree: from Scotland to Ireland to Canada: An Account of One Branch of the Kirk Family from the 18th Century to the Present; 4 articles in the Islander (Time-Colonist) Heigh-Ho, the Holly, 1983; Mistletoe – All Healer or Tree Thief; 1984, The Ginko Tree – a Living Fossil, 1984 and The Metasequoia - a Living Fossil, 1986; and 2 articles in Prime Time Organize Christmas to Recapture Joy, 1984; and China After Thirty Years, 1985.

She was also the final editor of The History of West China University, Chengtu, Szechwan, China in the early 1970’s and the author of a sonnet called A Walk in Nanking, 1984.
Kiyooka, Roy
Kiyooka, Roy
Person · 1926-1994

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
Kostash, Myrna
Kostash, Myrna
Person · 1944-

Myrna Ann Kostash is a journalist, essayist and writer of regional and national acclaim. She was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1944. She attended the University of Alberta, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 with a major in Russian. She then pursued graduate studies in Slavic language and literature at the University of Washington and the University of Toronto where she received a Master of Arts in 1968.

Kostash is the author of several books, All of Baba’s Children, Long Way From Home: The Story of the Sixties Generation in Canada, No Kidding: Inside the Life of Teenage Girls, Bloodlines: A Journey into Eastern Europe, The Doomed Bridegroom: A Memoir, The Next Canada: In Search of the Future Nation, Reading the River: A Traveller’s Companion to the North Saskatchewan River, Locating the Past/Discovering the Present, The Frog Lake Reader, Slice Me Some Truth, Prodigal Daughter, Unbound: Ukrainian-Canadians Writing Home and more recently, The Seven Oaks, a companion volume to The Frog Lake Reader.

Her articles and creative non-fiction have appeared in several anthologies, and extensively in periodicals such as Chatelaine, Maclean's, Geist, Border Crossings, Literary Review of Canada and Canadian Geographic. She has contributed radio, television, and film scripts to the CBC and the National Film Board, and has written stage plays. She has lectured widely in Canada and Europe and has taught courses, workshops, and seminars across the country. Kostash was Max Bell Professor at the School of Journalism, University of Regina for 1989 and 1990.

Kostash has recived numberous awards for her writing: in 1989 she received the Alberta Achievement Award, in 2008 the Writers Guild of Alberta presented her with the Golden Pen Award for lifetime achievement. She was inducted into the City of Edmonton’s Cultural Hall of Fame in 2009 and in 2010 she was awarded the Writers' Trust Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life. Kostash accepted the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Nonfiction at the Writers Guild of Alberta awards gala in 2011, where Prodigal Daughter, won for Best Nonfiction Book. In 2012 Kostash was shortlisted for the Kobzar Literary prize.

Myrna Kostash resides in Edmonton.