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Rose Schmalz was a student at the Regina Conservatory of Music from 1948 to 1956, studying voice, piano, history, theory, etc. As a student there, Rose was given special permission to practice on the pipe organ located in Darke Hall. She was asked by her voice teacher to usher (wearing a long gown) at Darke Hall when visiting artists performed there. Rose also studied voice and piano, as well as musical history, etc., at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and obtained her A.R.C.T. in both voice and piano. She continued her musical studies in Europe, majoring in voice (Germany and Italy), and while in Europe did radio programmes and concerts in Germany, France, Spain and England.

On her return to Canada, Rose continued to study French & Russian at the University of Toronto, as foreign languages were vital to her singing career. To support herself, she worked full-time for the Ontario provincial government, and sang with opera groups, on television programmes, for weddings, funerals, etc.

In 1996 she established the "Rose E. Schmalz Bursary for Voice", which is awarded annually to students at the Conservatory and the Department of Music, Faculty of Fine Arts. In 2002 she also established a $500 vocal award at the Saskatchewan Music Festival provincial finals for the Saskatchewan vocal representative to the Nationals -- this is also awarded each year. She remains a supporter of Regina's SaskExpress, and of other groups and individuals who enrich Regina's cultural life. She was organist at St. Mary's R.C. church for 17 years, and is presently organist at Blessed Sacrament Church; she also was organist at St. James Anglican church for 19 years (now fills in only occasionally).

John Sawatsky was born in Winkler, Manitoba in 1948. A graduate of Simon Fraser University, he has taught and lectured on journalism at various universities. These include Carleton University and the University of Regina.

A former parliamentary correspondent with the Vancouver Sun, Sawatsky left daily journalism in 1979 to embark on a career as the author of several acclaimed books. His works include Men in the Shadows: The RCMP Security Service (1980), For Services Rendered: Leslie James Bennett and the RCMP Security Service (1982), Gouzenko: The Untold Story (1984), The Insiders: Government, Business, and the Lobbyists (1987), and Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition (1991).

In 1976 Sawatsky received the Michener Award for meritorious public service in the field of journalism. He has received various other professional honours and awards including the Ottawa Citizen Book of the Year for The Insiders and the Ottawa-Carleton Book Award for Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition.

John Sawatsky now lives in the United States.

Before moving to Canada Nick Russell was a cub reporter on a British weekly. Subsequently, he worked in radio, TV, magazines, and for the Canadian Press. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) English from McGill; Master of Arts (Medieval English) from the University of London; and a Ph.D. (Journalism Ethics) from the University of Cardiff.

In 1968 he took over the journalism program at Vancouver Community College, which he built into a thriving career program. In 1983, he moved to Regina where he taught journalism for 15 years at the School of Journalism at the University of Regina. He is well known for conducting ethics and editing workshops for working journalists and is the winner of numerous heritage awards.

Russell is interested in heritage development and the restoration of historic homes throughout the Canadian West. He is president of the Hallmark Society, speaking for heritage in Victoria's Capital Regional District where he currently lives.

Nick Russell has written Morals and the Media, Canada's first study of journalism ethics (1994; revised edition 2006); in 1999 he co-authored Page 1, an anthology of fine Canadian newspaper writing. He has also co-edited a unique collection of archeological essays with photographs, Victoria Underfoot: Excavating a City’s Secrets, and is co-editor of a four-volume study of Victoria heritage homes, This Old House.

Born in Kerrobert, Saskatchewan November 19, 1935, Otto Donald Rogers attended the Saskatchewan Teachers College during 1952-53 and was a student of Wynona Mulcaster. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Art Education in 1958 from the University of Wisconsin and in 1959 completed work for a Master's degree, majoring in painting and sculpture. Returning to Saskatchewan in 1959, he taught at the University of Saskatchewan and in 1975 became a full professor serving as head of the Art department from 1973 to 1978 and helped develop the “Open Studio” method of instruction.

Otto Rogers has had one-man shows at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, the Galleria Del Millione in Milan, Espace 5 in Montreal and the Mira Godard Gallery in Toronto and well as many others. His work is represented in several notable public and corporate collections: the National Museum of Art in Iceland; Toronto-Dominion Bank; the Shell Oil Collection and the Imperial Oil Limited Collection.

He is an appointed member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Artists, and has received various Canada Council Awards.

Otto Rogers is a member of the Baha’i faith and has served on the Local Spiritual Assembly of Saskatoon as well as regional and national committees. He was a delegate to several national and intercontinental conferences and in 1988, following several years of service he departed for Haifa, Israel to assume an appointment on the faith's International Teaching Committee.

Rogers passed away in April 2019.

Beverly (Bev) Ellis Robertson was born on February 5, 1939 to parents John and Margaret Robertson in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He married and raised two children with his wife Elaine. Bev attended the University of New Brunswick to study physics and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in 1961. His 1965 Masters degree in Science, and his Doctoral degree, obtained in 1967, were from McMaster University and a Post-doctoral Associate in Chemistry was attained from Cornell University in 1969.

Robertson's research interests included crystal structures analysis and the relation to the physical properties of inorganic compounds and materials, polymorphism, polytypism and phase transformations.

He joined the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus faculty in 1969 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, was a member of the Canadian Association of Physicists for several years and was involved with revisions to the Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act.

On sabbatical in Germany at the Universitãt der Stuttgart in 1976/77, Bev began to appreciate a distinctive pale lager known as Dortmunder and the locally produced premium label, Pilseners, which was been produced in Pilsen, Czech Republic since 1842. It was on the family's return to Canada, around 1979, that Bev began to search out a source for a better tasting beer and as an alternative to what was being offered, Robertson started making his own full mash beer and with a group of friends, the "Bushwhacker Brewers", bottling up to 3,000 12 oz. bottles over the winter months.

From 1988 to 1992 Robertson was chairman of the Saskatchewan Health Research Board. In 1988 Robertson suggested to the Conservative government of the day that the province of Saskatchewan allow brewpubs. After government legislation and regulations were finalized, and more than one attempt at obtaining a license was made, Bev and his group were successful at obtaining one of them and on January 25, 1991 Bushwakkers Brewpub in Regina's Old Warehouse District opened with Elaine Robertson as general manager. Bev's son Scott and daughter Kelly were on the team as well.

Dr. Robertson is also noted as being an Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel (Ret) of 38 Brigade Communications Regiment, Regina squadron. He was a member of the Canadian Association of Physicists and the Chemical Institute of Canada.

In 2014 Dr. Robertson became the founder of the Centre for Science and Public Policy within the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (JSGSPP) with a gift of $500,000 establishing two graduate fellowship scholarships.

Robertson became professor emeritus in 2003 and throughout his career published over 80 scientific and technical papers related to physics, chemistry, education, beer, hospitals, economics, the University and its role in the community, he also continued to publish papers until 2014. Bev Robertson passed away in November 2017.

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.