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Baker, Elsworth
Person · 1903-1985

Elsworth F. Baker was born in 1903 in South Dakota, USA and was a 17 year old student at Regina College during the school year 1920/21, and won first prize in Mathematics that year, he later attended the Regina Normal School. Baker became a psychotherapist who studied and worked with Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) for 11 years. Reich is credited with the discovery of a biological energy, “orgone energy”, the study of which is Orgonomy, and which follows along Freud’s idea on the libido. In 1967 Baker founded the Journal of Orgonomy and the American College of Orgonomy located in Princeton, New Jersey.

Dr. Baker’s publication, Man in the Trap was published 18 times during 1957 and 2000, he died in 1985.
Balon, Brett
Balon, Brett
Person · 1953-1996

Brett Balon, who has also written under the name John Peterson, was born in Regina in 1953. He studied at the University of Regina from 1971 until 1976, when he received his Bachelors of Arts (Honours). He also studied French at the University of Victoria in 1971, the CEGEP de Jonquiere in Quebec in 1973, and at the Universite de Laval, also in Quebec. He received a Master of Library Science from the University of Western Ontario in 1978 and his Ph.D. from Greenwich University, Hilo, Hawaii, in 1993.

Balon was branch supervisor at the Southeast Regional Library in Weyburn from 1978 until 1982, when he joined the City of Regina as records management supervisor.

He contributed to various anthologies such as Cracked Wheat (1984), More Saskatchewan Gold (1985), Heading Out: the New Saskatchewan Poets (1987), 200% Cracked Wheat (1992), and Black Water II (1990). He edited Survival of the Imagination: The Mary Donaldson Memorial Lectures (1993) with Peter Resch, and wrote many articles on records management, librarianship and archives for a number of different publications. Balon received an Honourable Mention in the Children's Literature category of the Saskatchewan Literary Awards for 1981.

Among his various activities, Balon co-founded and was president of the Weyburn Writers Group, chair of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, president of the Saskatchewan Library Association and a board member of Coteau Books.
Barber, Lloyd
Barber, Lloyd
Person · 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.
Bates, Frank
Person · 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.
Beattie, David
Beattie, David
Person · 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.
Bee, Dorothy
Person · 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.
Begamudré, Ven
Begamudré, Ven
Person · 1956-2026

Ven (Venkatesh) Sopher Begamudré was born in 1956 at Bangalore, India. Immigrating to Canada at the age of six, he lived in Ottawa, Kingston, Vancouver, and Regina.

Begamudré served with the Governor-General’s Foot Guards of the Canadian Armed Forces, Land Reserve from October 1973 until September 1974 in Ottawa and with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada in 1973 in Vancouver. At Schiller College in Paris in 1975, he studied international administration and French. In 1977 he graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Public Administration. A Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing was obtained from Warren Wilson College in 1999.

Begamudré was a short story writer, novelist and editor. He published numerous short stories, articles, poems, prose, essays and reviews in various journals and anthologies. Several of his short stories have been broadcast on radio and television. He provided readings at conferences and workshops.

Begamudré was a writer-in-residence at the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Programme at the University of Calgary, Canada-Scotland Exchange Writer-in-Residence Program in Edinburgh, the University of Alberta, McMaster University, the Regina Public Library, and the Yukon Public Libraries. He also taught creative writing at the Sage Hill Writing Experience, the University of Regina Extension Department, the Saskatchewan School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University and Iowa State University.

Ven Begamudré passed away in Regina on July 5, 2026.
Belcher, Margaret
Person · 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.
Bell, Charles
Person · 1916-2011

Charles Edward Bell was born in La Prairie, Manitoba in 1916 to parents E.G.W. Guy and Jean Bell. The family moved to Weyburn for a time and in 1924 settled in Regina. Charles attended elementary school at Thompson and later Central Collegiate.

Active in the sport of rowing, Charlie was a member of the Regina Boat Club and in 1935 became a Navy Cadet while working for the Canadian Farm Loan Board. He joined the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1938 and was called to active service in 1940. After the war he returned to Regina and rejoined the Naval Reserve and Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) Queen. Bell enjoyed painting and in 1947 was hired by the Regina Leader Post as a cartoonist where he spent the next 35 years working in various editorial positions, including Associate Editor before he retired in 1982.

Charles Bell’s paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the City of Regina and various private collections, he was a member of the Navel Officers Association of Canada and the Royal United Services Institute. Charles Bell passed away in January 2011.