Neville Vincent Scarfe, UBC's first Dean of Education, was born in Essex, England, in 1908. He attended the University of London, graduating with first-class honours in geography. After teaching geography until 1935, Scarfe became Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Education at the University of London, where he remained until 1951. Internationally recognized for his research work in the teaching of geography and the principles and philosophy of education, he became Dean of Education at the University of Manitoba in 1951 and remained there for five years. In 1956, Scarfe became the founding Dean of Education at UBC. A consolidation of the Universityʹs School of Education and the Provincial Normal School had given rise to the new Faculty of Education. He continued to guide the faculty until his retirement in 1973. Throughout his career, Scarfe wrote over 100 articles and gave numerous speeches around the world on education. Always an advocate for educational reform, Scarfe was particularly critical of the Chant Report on Education (1961) findings.

Josef (Joe) Schlesinger was a Canadian foreign correspondent, television journalist, and author. He was born to a devout Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, in 1928, and raised in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). After Czechoslovakia was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1938, he and his younger brother Ernest were sent to England by his parents as part of the Kindertransport, organized by Englishman Nicholas Winton, that rescued 669 Jewish children. His parents were later killed in the Holocaust. Schlesinger would later appear in and narrate the 2011 documentary Nicky's Family about Winton and the Kindertransport.
Schlesinger pursued a journalism career after the war, first working at the Prague bureau of the Associated Press in 1948 as a translator. He fled Czechoslovakia again in 1950, after its Communist government began arresting journalists. He emigrated to Canada, arriving at Pier 21 in Halifax and travelling to Vancouver to join his brother, who had emigrated to Canada earlier under the Canadian Jewish War Orphans Project.
After studying at the University of British Columbia and editing The Ubyssey, Schlesinger started reporting for the Vancouver Province newspaper, before moving to the Toronto Daily Star. He then left Canada and edited for United Press International in London and the International Herald Tribune in Paris.
It was in Paris that Schlesinger met Myra “Mike” Kemmer, who was stationed there as a U.S. Foreign Service officer. They married and eventually had two daughters, Léah and Ann. Mike Schlesinger was primarily responsible for the preservation of Joe’s news scripts and other materials related to his professional life. As Léah Schlesinger later wrote:
[S]he supported him, stood by him and was incredibly, incredibly proud of him. As anyone who knows him even slightly has heard him say, she was the center of his life… she was the force that kept him grounded when all else was chaos and loss. [She was] both the person who stood by his side during all those decades, and … the person who loving archived all of these documents for posterity… because she believed in the importance of what he did and the passion with which he did it.
After Mike died in 2001 Joe penned a heartfelt obituary that was published in the Globe and Mail.
Schlesinger returned to Canada in 1966 and joined the CBC, eventually becoming executive producer of The National and providing occasional on-air commentary on world news events. However, he left his management position and returned to reporting in 1970, moving to Hong Kong as the CBC’s Far East correspondent. He would go on to serve as the CBC's senior foreign correspondent in various assignments around the world: China, Vietnam, Europe, Iran, the United States, Nicaragua, Africa, and the Middle East, to name a few. In 1989 he returned to Czechoslovakia to report on the Velvet Revolution in Prague, when the country’s Communist government fell.
In 1990, Joe Schlesinger published his autobiography, Time Zones: a Journalist in the World, which became a bestseller. After reporting on the 1990-91 Gulf War he returned to Canada, and was appointed chief political correspondent for The National. He was later promoted to managing editor of CBC News, producing commentaries and documentaries for CBC’s Prime Time News. He retired as a full-time reporter in 1994 but continued to produce essays and special reports for CBC News. Later that decade he hosted several foreign news magazine programmes on CBC Newsworld, including Foreign Assignment (shared with Ian Hanomansing), and Schlesinger. He continued to produce occasional documentaries for CBC and write commentaries for the CBC News website until he was well into his eighties. For example, in 2015 he wrote about the plight of Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Canada – as a former refugee himself he urged Canadians to show compassion rather than fear and resentment. His final piece for the CBC was published in September 2016, on that year’s U.S. presidential election.
During the course of his career Schlesinger was nominated for 18 Gemini Awards, winning three: "Best Reportage" (1987, 1992), and "Best News Magazine Segment" (2004). He also received the Gordon Sinclair Award for "Best Performance by a Broadcast Journalist" (1987), and the John Drainie ACTRA Award (1997), and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation in 2009. In 2016, he was inducted to the CBC News Hall of Fame. Schlesinger also received honorary doctorates from UBC (1992), the Royal Military College of Canada (1997), Dalhousie University (2000), Carleton University (2010), Queen’s University (2010), and the University of Alberta (2011). He was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 1994.
After his “retirement” Joe Schlesinger lived in Toronto with his second wife, Judith Levene. He died in 2019, at the age of 90, after a long illness.

Yvonne Schmitz was a correspondent and personal friend of Claire Culhane's from the 1970's until Culhane's passing in 1996.

Stuart James Schofield was born in Kent, England. After moving to Kingston, Ontario as a child, he completed his BA (1904), MA (1906), and B.Sc. (1908) at Queen's University. He later completed a Ph.D. at MIT (1912). He began his geological career with the Geological Survey of Canada as a student assistant to R.W. Brock in 1906. In 1915, Schofield accepted Brock's invitation to start courses in Geology and Mineralogy at the newly established University of British Columbia. He was appointed professor of Structural Geography at the university in 1920. After accepting responsibility for making a geological survey of Hong Kong in 1906, Brock sent Schofield to undertake a general reconnaissance for six months. Ill health forced Schofield to retire from UBC in 1940; he died in Vancouver in 1947.

Barbara "Bim" Schrodt was born in 1929 attained her Ph.D. in Physical Education in 1979 at the University of Alberta. Schrodt held tenure as a Physical Education Instructor at UBC from 1957 until her retirement in 1994. Schrodt also coached the UBC Women's Field Hockey Team from 1957-1977 and served as the Women's Athletic Director from 1957-1963. Schrodt has served in various administrative positions at the local and national levels and actively established the BC Women's Field Hockey Federation in 1966. Schrodt has published several articles on the history of athletics in Canada. She was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.

The Science Council of British Columbia is a Crown agency created under the Innovation and Science Council Act.

Anthony Scott was born on August 2, 1923, in Vancouver. He studied a Bachelor of Commerce in 1946 and a Bachelor of Arts in 1947, both at UBC. He received a Master of Arts from Harvard University in 1949 and a Doctorate from the London School of Economics in 1953. The title of his dissertation was "The Economics of Natural Resource Conservation." In 1953, Scott joined the Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia, where he remained until his retirement in 1989. He attained the rank of full professor in 1961, and from 1967 to 1971, he was chair of the department.
Scott was also the recipient of several honours and awards. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, received an Honourary Doctorate from the University of Guelph in 1980, and became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982. In 1987, he received the Innis-Gerin Medal. In 1992, he was granted an honorary degree by UBC.
Scott's research interests developed in three areas: the economics of federalism, federal-provincial relations, and the problems of regionalism; the economics of natural resources, particularly as it relates to mining, energy and fishery problems; and the organization of international environmental coordination. He also studied the economics of developing private tenures of mineral, timber, water resources and fisheries.
Scott spent extended periods on leave at Chicago, Harvard, and the Australian National University throughout his career. He also participated in several government commissions:
• 1955-56 - Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects (Gordon Commission);
• 1966-71 - Member, National Advisory Council on Water Resources Research;
• 1968-72 - Canadian Commissioner, International Joint Commission under the U.S.-Canada Boundary Water Treaty;
• 1971-75 - Advisor, Environment Directorate of the OECD in Paris;
• The 1970s - Coordinator, Programme in Natural Resource Economics at UBC;
• 1982-84 - Royal Commission on Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada (McDonald Commission);
• 1982-86 - Editor, Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques

John Alexander Scott (1910-2000) was born on May 12 in Belfast, Ireland. Starting at the age of 14, Scott worked on the docks, then as a delivery boy for a small bakery before immigrating to Canada in May 1927. After landing in Quebec City, Scott worked at various jobs in and around Montreal, including as a farm labourer in the Eastern Townships.

Scott’s interest in political activism began when he participated in a 1929 May Day rally in Montreal. Scott joined the Communist Party within the year and became a Workers Unity League organizer whose territory encompassed the western Ontario centres of Sarnia, London, Brantford, Kitchener, and adjacent towns. He helped to organize the high-profile Ontario Hunger March from Windsor to Toronto in 1934, and also participated in the Ontario segment of the On-to-Ottawa Trek in 1935. In 1936, he helped to organize Sunday evening demonstrations against fascism, war, and unemployment on the boardwalk of the Toronto Beaches. In 1939, he began working in the tobacco fields of Delhi, during which time he organized the workers to strike for higher pay. In 1941, while working in the shipping department, he helped to organize a strike at Campbell’s Soup Company in New Toronto.

After enlisting in 1942, Scott served as a communications operator overseas during World War II, receiving the Croix de Guerre avec Étoile de Bronze from the provisional government of the French Republic and a citation from the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division headquarters. Shortly after returning from the war, he married his first wife, Ann Walters, a Finnish-Canadian woman whom he had known since the 1930s, but they soon separated.

Among other jobs he had following the war, Scott worked for 18 months at Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Limited in Trail, British Columbia, before being dismissed for distributing leaflets critical to the company. While in Trail, Scott was married to Hilda Bernadette Scott. After losing the job at Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, Scott worked at a dairy until the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers asked him to organize for them. Scott spent two years as union business agent in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories before moving to Vancouver in 1951.

In 1964, Scott was expelled from the Communist Party for speaking in favor of Communist China and for voicing opposition to what he believed to be the party's movement away from revolutionary Marxist-Leninist principles. The same year, he was also expelled from the New Democratic Party. During this time, Scott was instrumental in founding the Canada-China Friendship Association (CCFA) and the Vancouver-based Progressive Workers’ Movement (PWM), which drew strength from a pro-Chinese faction within the Communist Party. Scott also became the chief writer / editor for the political party’s journal, Progressive Worker. Scott visited China four times starting in 1967, at which time he met Mao Zedong. On his second visit in 1974, his wife Hilda suffered a heart attack and died in Beijing.

In the 1970s, Scott was an active member of the Vancouver Study Group (VSG), which eventually became the Red Star Collective (RSC), and wrote on such topics as labour history, Canadian unions, Canadian political economy, and Chinese foreign policy. His books include “Yankee Unions Go Home,” “Sweat and Struggle: Working Class Struggles in Canada,” “Canadian Workers, American Unions,” and “Plunderbund and Proletariat.” After retiring as a maintenance man for the Pender Auditorium, Scott continued to write and to volunteer at the co-op bookstore, Spartacus Books. In 1990, following the publication in 1988 of Jack Scott’s oral history recollections entitled “A Communist Life: Jack Scott and the Canadian Workers Movement, 1927-1985,” four members of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) mentioned in the book submitted a claim of libel against Scott and the Committee on Canadian Labour History. The case was settled in 1995 before being brought to trial. At the time of his death on December 30, 2000, Scott was completing the final chapters of a critique of Vladimir Lenin.

R. W. "Dick" Scott is a prominent member of the forest products industry in British Columbia. In the 1960s he founded the Vancouver firm of Barnett Lumber Industries Ltd. that was involved in logging, manufacturing, wholesaling, and world export. He later founded R.W. Scott Industries, Pac-Deck Sales Ltd., and Scott Forest Products Ltd. His lumber interests led him into the membership of the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo that was devoted to the interests of the lumber industry and to promoting the use of forest products. He was initiated in the Vancouver Hoo-Hoo Club in 1951 and became President of the Club in 1955 and the International Order in 1959. As President, he initiated an international wood promotion campaign in 1960. He has continued his involvement in the organization.

As a diplomat, S.M. Scott represented Canada in London, Berlin, New Delhi, Tokyo and Karachi. He attended three General Assemblies of the United Nations (1943-1963) and taught at the University of Michigan.

S.D. Scott was born in Westbrook, Nova Scotia where he lived on a farm until beginning his apprenticeship as a ship's blacksmith. He attended Dalhousie University for a year, but he was forced to return to work periodically as a blacksmith while also working on the college paper. In 1876 Scott completed his M.A. and became editor of the Sackville Post. He edited newspapers in Halifax and St. John for 25 years. In 1909 Scott came to Vancouver to work until 1917 on the News-Advertiser.

The Honourable Alfred “Alfie” John Scow, OC, OBC, of the Kwicksutaineuk-ah-kwa-mish First Nation was born in Alert Bay on Cormorant Island in 1927. He went to school in Richmond and later Kitsilano high before studying an LLB at UBC, graduating in 1961. He was the first Indigenous person to graduate with a degree in law from UBC. Scow served as the prosecutor for New Westminster before becoming a Provincial court judge. In 2001, he founded The Scow Institute, which works to promote a greater understanding between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.

Dr. Geoffrey Scudder (b. 1934) was born at Fawkham, Kent, UK. In 1955 he earned an undergraduate degree with First Class Honours from the University of Wales at Aberystwith, and in 1958 he earned his doctorate in entomology from Oxford University. His postgraduate career was at the University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology from 1958 until his retirement in 1999. He is a founding member of the Osoyoos Desert Society and a member of the Science Committee of the Okanagan – Similkameen Conservation Program.

The history of Seaboard Lumber Company and Seaboard Shipping Company dates back to 1919. At this time thirty sawmills joined together to form the Associated Timber Exporters of British Columbia Ltd. (Astexo). The organization provided a cooperative clearinghouse for its members in the sale of lumber to Vancouver wholesalers and exporters. In 1928 Astexo formed a subsidiary, Seaboard Lumber Sales Company, to market British Columbia lumber on the international market, and later established the Seaboard Shipping Company to transport the lumber. John Humbird of Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing in Chemainus, B.C. served as president of the company from 1935 to 1946.

Olof Seaholm was born in Sweden in 1897. He came to Canada in 1928 and then to British Columbia in 1929. He was employed primarily in the construction industries in Vancouver. Seaholm had a continued interest in Swedish immigration history and was a member of the leading Swedish organizations in Vancouver, including the Hariedals Society and the Swedish Press Society.

William Ronald Frank Seal was born in Nelson, BC, on April 7, 1914. He attended high school in Nelson and was awarded a bursary from the Rotary Club to attend Victoria Normal School on Vancouver Island. In 1932 he began teaching in a one-room school at Mirror Lake. He married Olivia Dickson in 1934, and they had a son, Michael, in 1937 and a daughter, Helen, in 1939. He taught in small schools in Shutty Bench, Silverton, Gibsons and Prince Rupert. In 1943 Seal took a job with Boeing Aircraft on Sea Island. He joined the Canadian Navy in 1944 and was discharged in 1945. The Vancouver School Board then hired him, and in 1957 began training Industrial Arts teachers. In 1958 he was appointed to the Faculty of Education at UBC as a senior instructor, later becoming chairman of the Industrial Education Division. The Division eventually grew to nine faculty; a facility was built on Willingdon Avenue in Burnaby, becoming a UBC degree‐granting program. Seal retired in 1979 – after retirement, he continued with his first love, boat building, and became active in community affairs. His wife Olivia died in 2000, so in 2005 he moved to North Vancouver to live with his daughter.

Garnett Gladwin Sedgewick was born May 20, 1882, in Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia, to Henry A. and Bessie Woolery (née Gladwin) Sedgewick. He attended high school while living with relatives in Oxford, Nova Scotia and then taught grade school (1900/01) in Oyster Pond, Jeddare, Nova Scotia. He then attended Dalhousie University in Halifax, graduating with a BA in 1903 (Honours in Classics and English). Sedgewick served as principal of schools in Oxford, Nova Scotia (1903-1905) and Nanaimo High School (1905-1907), History Master at St. Andrew's College in Toronto (1907-1908), and high school teacher in Vancouver (1908-1910). Sedgewick received his MA from Harvard University in 1911 and Ph.D. from Harvard in 1913. He was an instructor and assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis from 1913 to 1918 when he became an associate professor and acting head of the Department of English at UBC. In 1920, he was made a professor and first head of the department. In 1934 he was the Alexander Lecturer at the University of Toronto (these lectures were later published), and in 1946 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He retired from UBC in 1948 and the same year was awarded an honorary LLD from Dalhousie.

Sedgewick was known for his lectures on Shakespeare and Chaucer; he also wrote scholarly articles, radio broadcasts and a weekly column, "More Heat than Light" for the Vancouver Sun. He served on the University Senate and was involved with the Vancouver Art Gallery, Symphony and Little Theatre, as well as the Civil Liberties Union. The former undergraduate library at UBC was named in his honour, as were the Sedgewick Lectures, sponsored by the Department of English. Sedgewick died in Vancouver in September 1949.

Adam Sedgwick was born on March 22, 1785 in Dent, Yorkshire, England. He was a geologist who first applied the name Cambrian to the geologic period of time, now dated at 570 to 505 million years ago. He died on January 27, 1873 in Cambridge, England.