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Douglas Elstow Smith was born in Syndenham, Ontario on March 10, 1912. He was the child of C. Kenneth Smith, a railway station agent, and A. Maud Davis, a schoolteacher. He attended high school in Belleville, Ontario. Owing to the itinerant nature of station agent work, the family moved often and Smith's mother gave Douglas considerable home schooling until high school. Smith excelled in school, winning scholarships in middle school and high school. These included a County Scholarship, Memorial Scholarship, and finally a scholarship to attend university that he applied to his studies at Queen's University in Kingston. By his second year Smith began to place his focus on psychology. While at Queen's Smith studied psychology almost exclusively under George Humphrey. In his fourth year Smith won a scholarship to continue studying psychology as a Queen's graduate student. He completed his Queen's M.A. Thesis, "Inhibition in Maze-Learning by the White Rat", under Martyn Estall in the spring of 1934. The following year Smith went to the University of Chicago to continue graduate studies in psychology under the renowned Karl Spencer Lashley with the ultimate intention of completing a Ph.D. in psychology. The following year Lashly moved to Harvard University and Smith followed to continue studying under him. He completed his dissertation, "Cerebral Localization in Somaesthetic Discrimination in the Rat, " in 1937. In 1937 the University of Alberta contacted Harvard University looking for a Canadian graduate candidate in psychology. Smith accepted the University of Alberta's offer of a position as sessional instructor; the position became permanent in 1939. During this time, Smith gradually became involved in the Second World War. In 1938 he went into the COTC. He began training as a provisional Second-Lieutenant. By 1941-42 he had advanced to Captain working at the basic training centre in Vernon. In 1942 he moved to the Department of Personnel Selection Headquarters in Ottawa where he applied his knowledge of psychology to military duty selection. After the war, Smith returned from Ottawa to the University of Alberta. He became Dean of Arts and Science on a part time basis in the fall of 1957 and he was appointed acting Dean in August of 1958. Smith continued to teach a course in the history of psychology in the Department of Psychology but his primary responsibility remained as an administrator. Smith took a sabbatical leave in 1972-73 to do research in the Department of Psychology in University College London. Upon his return to the University of Alberta he resumed a position as professor of psychology and worked as a counselor in the University Student Counseling Services. He continued in these positions until retirement in 1975. Smith passed away in 1995.

Psychologist, Administrator, 1912- . Douglas E. Smith began lecturing in psychology at the University in 1937. He left (1941- 1946) to serve in the Canadian Army as personnel officer. Appointed full professor in 1949, he chaired the Department of Philosophy and Psychology between 1952 and 1958. Dr. Smith served as Dean of Arts from 1959 to 1972, retiring as Professor Emeritus in 1975.

Educator, Administrator, Teacher, 1890-1969. After a varied teaching career in Saskatchewan and Alberta, Herbert E. Smith was appointed assistant professor of Philosophy at the University in 1929. Following a wartime leave of absence, he served as Director of Summer Session (1945-1949). In 1949 he was granted a full professorship, and from 1950 until his retirement in 1955 he was Dean of the Faculty of Education. He also taught as a special lecturer in Psychology from 1935 to 1950. Under his deanship, the education faculty expanded its teaching program to become a centre for graduate study and research.

French scholar, Administrator, 1880-1971. Edouard Sonet first taught at the University in 1911 as an instructor in French. After his leave to return to France for military duty, 1914-1919, he returned to the campus in 1920, becoming full professor in 1936. From that year until 1947 he served as head of the Department of Modern Languages. He left the University to lecture at the University of California at Berkeley (1947-1948) and Royal Roads, Esquimault (1948-1953). The University of Alberta named him Professor Emeritus in 1951 and honorary LLD in 1960. Dr. Sonet was known for his strict teaching methods; his book Voltaire et l'influence anglaise (1936) was considered the authority on the subject for many years.

Zoologist (1893-1982). Joseph Dewey Soper worked as a naturalist with the National Museum of Canada (1923-1927) and led Baffin Island expeditions for the Northwest Territories Branch of the Department of the Interior. Later he served as chief Federal wildlife officer, Canadian Wildlife Services, for the Prairie Provinces (1934-1948) and Alberta, Northwest Territories and Yukon (1948-1952). As an explorer, he made corrections to the map of Baffin Island. As a zoologist, he was one of the first scientists to study the wildlife of the Arctic, discovering a new sub-species of ringed seal and the breeding ground of the blue goose on Baffin Island. Three geological features on the island and several zoological sub-species were named after him. For his contribution to the field of Arctic and Prairie Zoology, in 1960 he was given an honorary doctorate and research associateship in zoology by the University of Alberta.

Sara Stambaugh was born in New Holland Pennsylvania on December 4, 1936. She received her B.A. from Beaver College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Minnesota. From 1969 until 1995, she taught in the English Department at the University of Alberta. Ms. Stambaugh is the author of several works of fiction but is best known for her critical analyses of the works of Isak Dinesen entitled <i>Isak Dineson in America</i> and <i>The Witch and the Goddess in the stories of Isak Dinesen: a Feminist Reading</i>. Ms. Stambaugh's works of fiction include <i>I Hear the Reaper's Song</i> and <i>The sign of the Fox</i>. Ms. Stambaugh died in 2002.

Nurse, Administrator, [19þ]- . After serving as Advisor to the Schools of Nursing for the Universities Coordinating Council for five years, Margaret Steed joined the faculty of the University in 1974 as associate professor of Nursing and Director of Continuing Nursing Education. She acted as Associate Dean of Nursing, 1980- 1981. Active with the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses, she has been a consultant for many education and health groups, including the World Health Organization.

Lawyer, Civil Servant, Author, [1865]-1946. A witness to the driving of the last spike for the trans-Canada railway line, Duncan Stuart was a major with the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry during the Boer War from 1899 to 1900. He was then employed as a civil servant for Great Britain in the Transvaal, 1900-1908. Returning to Canada, he studied soil and water management and wrote several books that proposed solutions to problems of soil erosion in Western Canada during the 1930s.

Historian, 1914- . Lewis Gwynne Thomas joined the University in 1938 as a sessional lecturer in history. He served as secretary of the Faculty of Arts from 1946 to 1951 and in 1958 was appointed professor and head of the Department of History. He retired from the chair in 1964 and from the University as Professor Emeritus in 1974. Dr. Thomas introduced the first course in western Canadian history to the University of Alberta in 1949/50, and he shared his interest in western Canadian history through his many publications and his participation in historical associations.

Lewis H. Thomas was born April 13, 1917 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan with high honours in history and economics, Dr. Thomas obtained his PhD from the University of Minnesota. His thesis, The Struggle for Responsible Government in the North-West Territories, was first published by the University of Toronto Press in 1956 and confirmed his reputation as a leading figure in the developing field of Western Canadian history. Dr. Thomas was Provincial Archivist of Saskatchewan from 1948 to 1957. He joined the University of Alberta in 1964, and assumed the Chairmanship of the Department o of History the following year. He presided over a period of rapid growth in the department until illness forced him to give up his administrative duties in 1968. Dr. Thomas continued to write and teach at the University, and was Chairman of the Archives and Documents Committee from 1964 to 1976. Following his retirement in 1982 from the University of Alberta, Dr. Thomas returned to Regina to live. He was awarded the Order of Canada in October 1982, and passed away there in November 1983.