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Patricia Jean Koster was born in Victoria on 25 September 1932. She obtained an Honours B.A. in English at the University of British Columbia in 1953, an M.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1955, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of London in 1958. Her B.A. graduating essay was entitled "Voyage Literature of the Eighteenth Century" and her Ph.D. thesis dealt with "Political Satire in the Works of Dr. Arbuthnot", which was issued in 1981 in the first series of British Theses relating to British History, 1688-1715, A Collection on Microfilm.

From 1953 to 1955 Professor Koster worked as a teaching assistant at Berkeley, and in 1958 was appointed instructor at Victoria College, being promoted to lecturer in 1959. She continued as a part-time lecturer at Victoria College/U. Vic. until 1964; from 1965 to 1966 she was a research assistant at U. Vic., and in 1966 was appointed Assistant Professor, receiving a promotion to associate professor in 1973.

Professor Koster's major fields of interest have been eighteenth-century literature, the novel, drama, satire, stylistics and bibliography, and she had published numerous articles in these areas. Her edition of Anecdotes by Baptist Noel Turner, 1739-1826, was published by Garland Publishing Inc. in 1982. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a Canada Council Research Grant in 1977-78 and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant in 1978-79 and 1979-80.

Professor Koster has also served on several administrative committees, including the Campus Development Committee (1979-1980), the Graduate Faculty Admissions and Awards Committee (1980-1981), the Senate Committee on Extension Programmes (1988-1991), and the Senate Committee on Academic Standards (1990- ). In the last few years she has been developing courses at the upper level (300 and 400 courses) and the graduate level on women's fiction in the 18th century, and is now directing a number of theses in this area.

Hugh Pearson was born in Lachine Quebec in 1909 and retired to Victoria in 1980. He was the Secretary-Treasurer of the C.C.F. Provincial Council (Quebec), 1936-194?, member of the League for Social Reconstruction for years, organized the Lachine C.C.F. Club in the 1930s, acted as Campaign Manager for the Jacques Artier Constituency in 1945, and was Treasurer of the Saanich and the Islands Constituency Association from 1980 to 1989. During his political activities he collected left-wing politics pamphlets.

Percy Scott was a British citizen who worked in China in a variety of government departments, including Chinese Customs, Treaty Ports, Transit Pass Office, Statistical and Returns Department, and Postal Office. He married a Japanese woman, Suzu Ichiki Baba. Percy and Suzu retired to Victoria in about 1931, and purchased a home at 1850 Oak Bay Avenue, in which they frequently rented rooms. He opened a music studio where he taught mandolin and guitar, composed mandolin music, and established and conducted the Victoria Plectral Orchestra.

Thomas Warren Cornett, B.A., graduated from Victoria College (Toronto) in 1913, and in 1915 became a teacher at Victoria High School (B.C.). From 1922-1924 he was he was president of the Victoria Teachers' Association and was also on a part-time appointment teaching history at Victoria College(B.C.) He drowned in at Shawnigan Lake in August 1924.

Malcolm G. Taylor (1915-1994) was president of UVic (1964-1968). Dr. Taylor earned his BA, MA and doctorate in political science at University of California, Berkeley. From 1947 to 1960, Dr. Taylor taught political economy at the University of Toronto. In 1960, he was appointed the first principal of the Calgary campus, University of Alberta, where he led Calgary through the transition period when the institution sought independence from the University of Alberta.

While principal at Calgary, Dr. Taylor continued to contribute to his academic field, as seen in his consultancy work for the Hall Royal Commission on Health Services from 1961 to 1964. Taylor was also an active member of the NCCUC (later called the AUCC) where he played a role in the decision process that led to the admission of the University of Victoria.

Peter Mannering (1925-2000) was born in Vancouver, BC. Mannering (spelling changed from Mainwaring in 1952) was an actor, director, and producer and, in the 1960s and 1970s, he was the leading theatre figure in Victoria, BC. He first became involved in theatre at North Vancouver High School and Mannering advanced his skills in the Pasadena Playhouse (Calif.) from 1945-1947. As a freelance actor and director in Canada and England from 1940s to1961, Mannering was involved in hundreds of television and radio plays, stage plays and musical comedies. He worked with the CBC, the National Film board, the BBC, ITV, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Winnipeg Symphony Theatre. In Vancouver, his venues included: The Little Theatre, North Vancouver Community Players, Everyman Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, the Canadian Players National Tour, and the Totem Theatre (Vancouver and Victoria). From 1961-1963 he was at the Manitoba Theatre Centre and Rainbow Stage in Winnipeg. In Victoria, he started the Victoria Theatre Studio as a theatre school in 1963. In 1964 the name was changed to the Bastion Theatre Studio to harmonize with the Bastion Theatre which he founded that same year. The Bastion Theatre became the presiding company for the new McPherson Theatre building which opened in 1965. He remained Artistic Director until 1971. The Bastion did not renew Mannering’s contract in 1976 and ended his Bastion Studio Theatre and Children’s Theatre that year. He returned to freelance work in 1976 as actor, director and teacher. He continued his work in the Four Seasons Musical Theatre and other Victoria and Vancouver venues.

Peter Russell Newroth attended the University of New Brunswick (UNB) from 1962 to 1970, spending one year at the University College of North Wales at the Menai Bridge research station (1967-68). He received a BSc (1966) and PhD in Phycology (1970) from UNB, then worked at the University of British Columbia as a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1970 to 1972. He pursued a love of the marine environment and seashores in this interval, studying marine plants in the littoral and sublittoral zones. In February 1972 he was appointed to the British Columbia Department of Lands, Forests and Water Resources in Victoria, BC, and worked as a biologist and manager in what became the Ministry of the Environment until January 1997. Most of his projects involved management of nuisance aquatic plants and water quality issues in fresh water. He then joined the Royal British Columbia Museum as Manager of Natural History. He retired from the provincial public service in 2002.