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Chemist, Author, 1906-1988. Roland Young was born in Portage La Prairie in 1906. Upon entering university age, he entered the University of Alberta, graduating with a B.Sc. in 1928 and a M.Sc. in 1930. In 1934, Dr. Young received his doctorate from Cornell University and began working for Inco Mines in Sudbury Ontario before moving to South Africa, first to work as a chemist in the diamond belt of what is now Northern Zimbabwe before moving to Johannesburg to take up a post as head of the Diamond Research Laboratory. In 1949, after a whirlwind courtship, Dr. Young married Gladys May (maiden name unknown) and the pair remained happily married until Dr. Young's death in 1988. The Youngs returned to Canada in the early 1950s and the childless couple moved to Victoria where Young worked for the B.C. government's Ministry of Energy and Mines. In 1972, the Youngs spent a year in Amman, Jordan, where Dr. Young for the UN as a resident consultant helping to set up the first chemical analysis facility for the government. When he returned to Canada, he spent the rest of his career writing and consulting on chemical issues. A world leader in the study of cobalt, Dr. Young published numerous articles and several books on the topic including The analytical chemistry of cobalt (1966) and Chemical analysis in extractive metallurgy (1971).

Mathematician, Administrator, 1916-1991. Dr. Max Wyman joined the University staff in 1943 as a mathematics lecturer. He became a full professor in 1956, Chair of the Department of Mathematics in 1961, Dean of Science in 1963, Vice-President (Academic) in 1964 and president of the University in 1969, which position he held until his retirement in 1974. In 1976 Dr. Wyman was appointed University Professor. Other areas of service included work on various commissions, including the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission and the Board of Review for Provincial Courts in Alberta (Kirby Commission). He also served as Chair of the Alberta Human Rights Commission, 1974-1979.

Author, Naturalist, 1907- . Kerry Wood, also known as Nobby, began his writing career as a contributor to Edmonton and Red Deer newspapers. He has since produced 19 books; thousands of short stories, columns and articles; and hundreds of radio and televison programs. He has won Governor General's Awards for Juvenile Fiction for his books The Map-Maker (1955) and The Great Chief (1957) and was awarded the first Vicky Metcalf Award in 1963 for his sustained contribution to Canadian juvenile literature. He has also been recognized for his work as a naturalist, for helping to create 26 wildlife sanctuaries in Western Canada. The University of Alberta granted him an honorary doctorate of laws in 1969.

Geographer, 1924- . William C. Wonders was the founder and first professor of the Department of Geography at the University of Alberta. He was appointed University Professor in 1983. Co- founder and first chair of the Boreal Institute for Northern Studies (now the Canadian Circumpolar Institute), his research, teaching, writing and consulting work has centred strongly on the North, native land claims, and Scandinavia, and special atlases.

Lawyer, Judge, Civil servant, 1896-1983. A graduate of the University in 1915 and President of the Alumni Association in 1936, Harry J. Wilson served as Deputy Attorney General of Alberta from the 1930s until 1961, when he was appointed provincial court judge, retiring in 1971. During World War I he served in France with the Tank Corps.

Educator, [1893]-1973. Rupert Williams, deaf since the age of five, graduated from the Manitoba School for the Deaf in Winnipeg and established a successful career in the printing trade. He moved to Saskatchewan in 1927 to work as a printer and to campaign for a provincial school for the deaf similar to the one in Manitoba. When the school was finally established in Saskatoon he was offered a position which he thought would be temporary. He stayed for 30 years as chief supervisor of resident students. He served frequently on the executive of the Western Canada Association of the Deaf, as well as on the board of its journal.

Teacher, Librarian, Educator, 1925-1982. Teacher-librarian in Toronto, Calgary and Edmonton, 1951-1960, and Supervisor of School Libraries for the Edmonton Public School Board, Laurie Wiedrick joined the University's Department of Elementary Education in 1964. He coordinated the program of the University's Curriculum Laboratory from 1967 to 1981, and was awarded full professorship in elementary education in 1974. He assisted in the establishment of the University's School of Library Science in 1968.

Physician, 1910-1963. Benjamin Wheeler graduated from the University in 1935. He studied tropical medicine in London, then served in the India Medical Service, 1937-1941. While a medical officer with the British in Malaya, he became a POW and spent 1942-1945 in a Japanese camp in Formosa. During his time there, he maintained detailed diaries and case records. After the war he worked at the Baker Clinic in Edmonton; co-founded the Alberta Society of Internists; and did extensive research on extreme deficiency states, congestive heart failure, and peptic ulcers. At his death in 1963, he was the head of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Alberta.

Writer, Director, Filmmaker. 1946-. Anne Wheeler was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1946. Upon completing high school, Ms. Wheeler entered the University of Alberta, graduating with a B.Sc. in Mathematics in 1967. During her twenties, Ms. Wheeler was employed at a variety of careers including computer programming, teaching high school and acting. In 1971, Ms. Wheeler joined a collective of nine individuals determined to document in film the trials and tribulations of life in Western Canada. The collective, entitled Film West, and with no previous filmmaking experience, was within a year winning awards from major film festivals for their documentaries. In 1976, Ms. Wheeler left the collective and continued her career in film as a freelancer, primarily by writing and directing documentaries and short films for the National Film Board of Canada. In 1981, she wrote and directed her first feature film, A War Story (1981), starring Donald Sutherland and based on her father's experiences as a doctor in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp. Ms. Wheeler has gone on to produce numerous other feature films including Bye Bye Blues (1990), Better Than Chocolate (1999), Loyalties (1984) and Angel Square (1989). Ms. Wheeler has also directed several vehicles for television including a Movie of the Week adaptation of Margaret Laurence's The Diviners (1990) which received a Genie Award for best M.O.W. in 1990. Ms. Wheeler has also directed episodes of Canadian television dramas such as Davinci's Inquest and Cold Squad. Ms. Wheeler's works have received acclaim and won awards in Canada, the United States, and Europe, and she has been the recipient of six honorary doctorates including her alma mater, the University of Alberta in 1990. Ms. Wheeler was also elected an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1994.

Farmer, Civil servant, 1916-1991. Mr. Wetherell graduated with a BSc in Agriculture, University of Alberta, 1950.