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Clifford Sparling joined Sir George Williams College in 1952 as assistant professor of mathematics. In 1956 he was appointed associate professor of mathematics. From 1965 to 1972, he occupied this position on a part-time basis. He died in 1983, at the age of 87.

Derek Stanford was a British writer born in Lambton, Middlesex on 11 October 1918. Educated at Upper Latymer School in Hammersmith, London, Stanford was primarily known as an essayist, poet and biographer. Stanford first met Christopher Fry in the winter of 1940 when serving in the non-combatant arm of the British Forces as a conscientious objector. Stanford later became the biographer of Christopher Fry. Writings on Christopher Fry include: Christopher Fry: An Appreciation (1951), Christopher Fry Album (1952), and number 54 of Writers and their Work titled Christopher Fry (1954). Other works include Dylan Thomas: A Literary Study (1954), Muriel Spark: a Biographical and Critical Study (1963), and Concealment and Revelation in T. S. Eliot (1965), among others. Derek Stanford died December 19, 2008, in Brighton, England.

While he was a student at Sir George Williams College in the 1940s and 1950s, David Stanger was photographer for the student paper The Georgian.

Victoria Stanton is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator. She studied Creative Arts at Dawson College, Montreal, until 1989, and continued thereafter at Concordia University, where she graduated in 1995 with a bachelor of Fine Arts.She works as part-time professor in Fibers and Materials Practices at Concordia University. Stanton has performed and exhibited at various spaces and events at the local, national, and international levels. Time, transaction, transition, the in-between, and liminal spaces are central to her time-based work. In the spring of 2007, Victoria Stanton founded, together with Sylvie Tourangeau and Anne Bérubé, the Montreal-based performance art trio TouVA Collective, that has been researching the practice of performance through multiple frameworks and approaches. Stanton is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2018 Prix Powerhouse. She has held numerous residencies, including at McGill University, DARE-DARE, and Artexte. "Impure, Reinventing the Word: The Theory, Practice and Oral History of Spoken Word in Montreal" (conundrum press, 2001), co-authored with Vincent Tinguely, was her first book.
Victoria Stanton lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.

Florence Steinberg entered Sir George Williams University in 1949 and graduated in 1953 (BSc). Within a year she married with a SGWU graduate, Shulom Friedman (BA Nov. 1952, BSc 1953), in June 1954 at Hillel House. Friedman became later Dr. Friedman, ophthalmologist.

William Archibald (Bill) Stewart, OBE (1914-2004) was born in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, February 28, 1914. He died in St. Lambert, Quebec, December 3, 2004. His father, Charles A. Stewart (d. 1960), a descendant of Scots who settled in Prince Edward Island in 1770, worked for the Temiscouata Railway Co.; he became president of the railway in 1940. His mother was A. Laura Walsh Stewart (d. 1982, age 94). Bill was the second eldest child, with five brothers and two sisters: E. Vaughan, Charles (m. Rolande Viel), Ruth (m. D. Ernie Burritt of Canadian Press), Anne T. (m. Bertrand Potvin), James Robert (d. 1995), Alan (m. Denise ?), and R. Lloyd (d. 1987). In 1946 Bill Stewart married Katherine Elizabeth (Kay) Young (b. Winnipeg, 1920, d. 2013). Kay and Bill Stewart had five children: Dugald (m. Ginette, children: Jonathan, Carine), Landon, Susan, John (had Charles-Antoine with Murielle Allain), and Janet (m. Marcelo ? , daughter Arlen).

Bill went to school in French at the Christian Brothers' Collège St-Patrice near Rivière-du-Loup. He began undergraduate studies at the University of Ottawa, but had to return home because the Depression diminished family resources. He ran the family farm and studied art by correspondence in 1932-1933. He continued to be active in visual art for a number of years thereafter, creating portraits, caricatures, and cartoons. Some are signed JF, a pseudonym he adopted when his artwork appeared in newspapers.

In 1933 he contributed articles to Canadian Press as a correspondent in Rivière-du-Loup. In 1934 he became a CP staff member in the Halifax bureau. He was to work in various positions with CP until retirement in 1979. In 1935-1936 he worked successively in Charlottetown , P.E.I. and Sydney, N.S., and St. John, N.B. In 1936 he was transferred to Montreal, then to CP's Toronto bureau. In 1937-1939 he was a correspondent in Quebec City. He served on the Montreal bureau editorial staff in 1940.

In 1941 CP stationed him in London to report on Canadian military personnel training there for the 1942 invasion of Dieppe. After a few weeks in North Africa in 1943, he covered Canadian action in the 1943 Sicily and Italian campaigns. In January 1944 he reported on action in northwest Europe. His eyewitness account of the Normandy D-Day invasion was among the first to reach the outside world.

In 1944, Stewart was the first Canadian correspondent accredited to the Southeast Asia Command; he was based in the Philippines where a Canadian force of army, air force and navy personnel was preparing to take part in an invasion of Japan, a plan that was abandoned when two atomic bombs were used against Japan in August 1945. Following the surrender of Japan, Stewart interviewed Canadians who had been taken prisoner by the Japanese in Hong Kong in 1941. Some of his dispatches from the Pacific war were signed with the pseudonym George Hawkes. In 1946-1947 he was CP's Far East correspondent, based in Australia.

In 1947 he became Quebec City bureau chief (1948-1952). He was a member of the Quebec Parliamentary Press Gallery. In 1952-1974 he was Montreal bureau chief. In 1951 he was instrumental in establishing CP's French service La Presse Canadienne, which he headed at its inception. (He was also involved in CP's radio service, Broadcast News, which offered service in English and French starting in 1945.) In 1954, he accompanied Canadian Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent on a world tour. He presided over coverage of Quebec's Quiet Revolution and the FLQ October Crisis of 1970.

He helped his friend Roger Lemelin developed scripts for the English-language version of La Famille Plouffe/The Plouffe Family, a popular series shown on the CBC 1954-1959.

From 1975 to 1979 he was a CP general executive, based in Montreal.

After retirement he continued writing, often on Quebec subjects, until the year he died, when he filed a story on the 60th anniversary of D-Day. He also did freelance translation. He was a member of the Canadian War Correspondents Association and served on its board of directors until his death.

Throughout his life he maintained an active correspondence with family members, friends, and colleagues, retaining a copy of many of the letters he sent.

In 1948 he was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of his wartime reporting. He was inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame in 1986. He was listed in Canadian Who's Who.

Margaret Stredder is the daughter of Frederick Owen Stredder and the granddaughter of Anson Walt Young. A.W. Young served as principal of the Montreal YMCA Schools (foreunner of Sir George Williams Schools, which in 1926 became Sir George Williams College, a founding institution of Concordia University) until his retirement in 1928, when F. O. Stredder became principal of the College. F.O. Stredder was married to the daughter of A.W. Young.

Leila Sujir is an artist and associate professor at Concordia University, Department of Studio Arts in the Intermedia (Video, Performance, Electronic Arts) area. She was born June 19, 1951, in Hyderabad, India and moved to Canada as a child. She first studied English Literature at the University of Alberta and graduated in 1972 (BA). Later, at the graduate level, University of Calgary, she studied post-colonial and postmodern theory with Canadian cultural theorists and writers Robert Kroetsch (1979-1980) and Eli Mandel (1984-1985).

As an artist Leila Sujir has been building up a body of video artworks exploring such themes as memory, migration, family history and culture with digs into archival materials. Her projects involve video installations, interactive video projections and, mainly from 2013, the making of 3D stereoscopic (anaglyph) works. Leila Sujir’s video art works have been shown in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Gallery in Liverpool, England as well as galleries and festivals all over the world. Her works are in collections, including the National Gallery of Canada (four video artworks), the Glenbow (two video art installations and one video artwork), the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery (one video art installation), and numerous library collections.

Leila Sujir joined Concordia University in 1998. In 2005-2006, she was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Calgary, a one-year research position as an artist in the Interactions Lab in the Department of Computer Science. She received a three-year Social Sciences Humanities Research grant, “Exploring Elastic 3D Spaces: Bodies and Belonging” (2016-2019). She has been the Chair of the Department of Studio Arts at Concordia since 2017.

Sur Rodney (Sur) is a Canadian visual artist and multimedia performance artist, who is also known for his work as an archivist, writer and curator, but above all for his impact on the awareness about AIDS/ HIV and the Aids crisis in the arts scene.

Born as Rodney Adams in Montreal on December 28, 1954, he is the second child of photographer Desmond Rupert Adams and Jean Gertrude Adams, born Gordon. Sur Rodney grew up in the Jewish neighborhood of Mount Royal in Montreal, but his family was part of Montreal’s black community and Union United Church. In 1975, he officially changed his name from Rodney Adams to Sur Rodney (Sur), referring to himself as a surrealist. He was married to Gracie Mansion (then known as Joanne Mayhew Young) until 1989. Sur was married to Geoffrey Hendricks from 1995 until Hendrick’s death on May 12th, 2018.

From 1973 to 1975, Sur Rodney (Sur) studied at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design. After having graduated, he moved to the East Village in New York City in the summer of 1976. At the time, Sur Rodney was working as a visual artist, mostly known through video projects. In the early 1980s, Sur became a member of the Blackheart Collective, a group of gay black poets, writer and multi-media performance artists, which allowed him to be included in various anthologies. At the same time, Sur Rodney (Sur) was program coordinator of The Sur Rodney (Sur) Show (1980) and the All New Sur Rodney (Sur) Show (1981), hosted on Manhattan Cable Television and featuring many young artists of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Also in 1981, Sur Rodney (Sur) and Tessie Chua co-produced the video Scary Truth About Cockroaches and Landlords. In 1982, Sur Rodney (Sur) “abandons his practice as a visual and performing artist to form a partnership with Gracie Mansion as co-director of the Gracie Mansion Gallery” in the Manhattan East Village. Later, Sur acted for two years as program director of Kenkeleba House, an African American cultural institution in Manhattan.

With the spreading of the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s, Sur’s main occupation became the support of friends living with HIV/AIDS and the organization and preservation of their estates. From 1989 to 1994, he worked as an independent archivist for artists living with HIV/AIDS. He archived, among others, the estates of Swiss artist Andreas Senser, of photographer Timothy Greathouse, and of photographer Bern Boyle. In 1994, together with Geoffrey Hendricks and Frank Moore, Sur helped set up the Visual AIDS Archive Project to document the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and to secure the management of their estates. Sur also served on the Visual AIDS' Board of Directors for over ten years and worked on several curatorial projects and exhibitions relating to art and AIDS.

In the mid-1990s, Sur Rodney re-entered the art scene, working with Fluxus artist Geoffrey Hendricks on performances and other projects.

In 2012, Sur Rodney (Sur) received the Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards (VAVA Voom). In 2016, Sur was awarded the first ever Candy Darling Award during the Acker Awards for his community engagement as a community activist.

Myron Pierman Mynie Sutton was born October 9, 1903 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and died there June 17, 1982. He began piano lessons at age nine with a church organist, and he began clarinet lessons when he was 17. He later took up alto saxophone. While attending Stamford Collegiate he played piano at dances, and at 18 he joined St. Anne's Symphonic Band, playing clarinet. At age 19 he organized a school band and joined a quartet in Niagara Falls, N.Y. He quit school in Grade 12 and played in pianist Joe Stewart's dance band from 1924 to 1926. He was also a member of the Birds of Paradise, a nine-piece band led by Eugene Primus. He declined trombonist J. C. Higginbotham's invitation to accompany him in New York City around 1927, preferring to join tuba player Lester Vactor's Royal Ambassadors, a 10-piece band working in Buffalo, until they disbanded in 1931. Back in Canada in 1931 he and pianist John Walden formed a six-piece band, the Canadian Ambassadors, which was based in Guelph, Ontario. In 1933 the band moved to Montreal. During the next six years, Sutton led the band through a series of short-term engagements in different cities.

He wrote many arrangements and at least one original composition, Moanin' at the Montmartre, for the Canadian Ambassadors. The Canadian Ambassadors disbanded in 1939. Between 1933 and 1941, he frequently lead small bands, usually quintets drawn from the Canadian Ambassadors. He registered two songs for copyright in the United States, To See You Smile and Dreams Seldom Come True. He was a member of the Canadian Clef Club, a musicians' association. In 1941, with the intention of quitting music, he gave away his clarinet and moved back to Niagara Falls to take care of his mother. He worked as a welder at Abex Industries from 1943 until he retired in 1973. Soon after returning to Niagara Falls he was asked to put together a band for a dance, and continued to lead the 10-piece group part-time until 1945. Thereafter he worked with several pick-up bands, including a quartet called the Casuals. He gave private saxophone lessons. He served more than 30 years on the executive board of the Niagara Region Musicians' Association, where he became a life member in 1967. He founded the Canadian Brotherhood Club of Niagara Falls in 1945 and served as president until his death. In May 1977 he was honoured by the Niagara Promotions Association for outstanding community service as a musician. He continued performing until two weeks before his death.