Canadian poet. G. L. Aitkens, née Chadderdon, born in Lexington, Minnesota in 1891. Emigrated to Alberta in 1914. Poetry published in periodicals and/or anthologies in the United States, England, Belgium and Italy and in poetry collection Ponderings in print.
Canadian artist, designer, teacher and writer Stephen Andrews was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on May 16, 1922. Studied art at Winnipeg School of Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Camberwell School of Arts, London, England, privately with Martin Bloch in London, England, at the Académie Julian, Paris, France, and the Scuola del Mosaics, Ravenna, Italy. Died in Spain in 1995. Biographical information available in Biographical dictionary of Saskatchewan artists, v. 2, 1990, p. 5-8; Canadian art, v. 1, 1988, p. 12-13; Canadian who's who, v. 29, 1994, p. 22; and A dictionary of Canadian artists, 5th ed., v. 1, 1997, p. 122.
Canadian composer, teacher, trombonist and conductor Malcolm Forsyth was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on December 8, 1936. Came to Canada in 1968. Died in Edmonton, Alberta on July 5, 2011. Biographical information available in Encyclopedia of music in Canada. 2nd ed., p. 488-489.
Abel Joseph "Jack" Diamond was born in Piet Retief, South Africa, November 8th 1932. He received his Bachelor of Architecture, with distinction, at the University of Capetown in 1956, where he was awarded the Thornton White Prize for design, an Italian State Bursary and the Marley Scholarship. Diamond holds a Master's degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, completed in 1958. In 1962, with the help of a Graham Foundation Scholarship, he completed a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied with Louis Kahn. In 1964, Diamond immigrated to Canada to become the founding director of the Master of Architecture program at the University of Toronto, a position he held until 1970. He has held full professor rank at York University and the University of Texas, and has taught as a visiting scholar at Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, and University of California Berkeley. Diamond was made a fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1980, was named an Honourary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1994, was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1995, and received a RAIC gold medal in 2001. Jack Diamond established his practice as A.J Diamond Architect in 1965. In 1969 Barton Myers joined the firm and the two practiced together as Diamond and Myers until 1975. A.J Diamond and Associates was formed when Diamond established his own firm in 1975.
Dr. Fred Terentiuk was born in Coalhurst Alberta 12 December 1927. He received his B.Sc in Physics from the University of Alberta in 1948 and his M.A. Physics (1949) and Ph.D. Physics (1953) from the University of British Columbia. Upon graduation, he worked as a Research Officer for the National Research Council in Ottawa before transferring to the University of Calgary in 1958 as the 2nd full-time faculty member of Department of Physics.| Throughout his career at the University, Terentiuk held a variety of academic and administrative positions. He was appointed the first Director of the newly created Division of Continuing Education in April 1965; the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts in March 1968; Acting Director of the School of Nursing in November 1972 and the Provost of University College in April 1976. In May 1982 Terentiuk was appointed Chief University Olympic Programme Coordinator, the lead coordinator for all the University’s involvement with the 1988 Olympic Winter Games. He resigned from the University in 1985.|Terentiuk was active in a number of professional organizations relating to his academic appointments: the Alberta Association for Continuing Education, Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), Western Association of Summer Session Administrators (WASSA), and the Alberta Educational Communication Corporation (ACCESS). He was also active as a committee member and trustee of the Calgary Zoo.|He died 23 February 2013 in Maui, Hawaii.
Lady Ouida Touche was a former Fleet street journalist turned art consultant. Moving to Calgary in 1961 she started her own business as an art consultant for companies building art collections. She started the annual Calgary Art Walk, served as chairwoman of the Calgary Region Arts Foundation, sponsored Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, and gave a weekly arts talk on CBC Radio. Ouida married Rodney, a fellow Fleet Street reporter, in 1955. She died in 2009.
Margaret J. Osler was born on November 27 1942. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College in 1963 and later graduated from Indiana University with her Master of Arts (1966) and Ph.D. (1968) with degrees in History and the Philosophy of Science. Her dissertation was "John Locke and Some Philosophical Problems in the Science of Boyle and Newton.
Osler held teaching appointments at Oregon State University, Harvey Mudd College and Wake Forest University; she moved to Calgary in 1975 with a position in the Department of History. During her tenure she was instrumental in the creation of the major and minor undergraduate programs in History and Philosophy of Science, the interdisciplinary M.A and Ph.D. programs and the Research Institute in Gender Studies. She published widely in the areas of history of science and religion, intellectual history, mechanical philosophy and the scientific revolution.
Osler was the recipient of the Science and Religion Course Prize from the Centre for Theology and the Natural Sciences, the Richard S. Westfall Lecture from Indiana University and the Stillman Drake Lecture from the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, of which she was President from 1987-1990. She was also active as the editor of several journals including the Journal of the History of Philosophy, and she served in many community organizations including the Rocky Mountain Civil Liberties Association and the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership.
Osler died in Calgary on September 15, 2010.