Born and raised in Szeged, Hungary. His parents died in a concentration camp in 1945, just as WWII was ending and Orban was returning home from a forced labour camp. After emigrating to Israel we was schooled in aviation mechanics by El Al Airline. He was station manager for El Al Airlines in Athens, Greece where he met and married Harriet. While visiting Canada with Harriet in 1956 he was hired by Canadian Pacific Airlines as an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer. He held Canadian, Israeli and US Aircraft Maintenance Engineer licences. In 1970 he was appointed as Chemist in the Engineering Department of CP Airlines where he worked until his retirement. throughout his career he collected aviation pins. Some of his collection items reach back to the start of aviation in Canada. After retirement he was active with the Quarter Century in Aviation Club and volunteering at Burnaby Village Museum.

Bob George was of Coast Salish, Tsleil-Waututh Nation.

Vickers was born on the Nass River but raised in Kitkatla, Hazelton, British Columbia, and Victoria, B.C. His father was a fisherman who was matrilineally Tsimshian, also with Haida and Heiltsuk ancestry. His mother was a schoolteacher whose parents had emigrated from England and who was in the 1940s adopted into the Eagle clan at Kitkatla, B.C. (making Roy also Eagle). His grandfather was a Kitkatla canoe-carver. The paintings and works that he has created reflect this mixed heritage as his work has many elements of the traditional art of the First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest, but remains quite distinctive.

Vickers became interested in Northwest Coast art partly under the influence of the anthropologist Wilson Duff.

His work has been the official gift of the Province of British Columbia to visiting foreign leaders several times. In 1987 the original of his painting A Meeting of Chiefs was the official gift to Queen Elizabeth II and in 1993 artist's proofs of his print The Homecoming were the Province's gift to Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin.

Vickers has been the artistic advisor to several events in British Columbia. In 1994 he was the artistic advisor to the architects and designers of the 1994 Commonwealth Games. For the Games Vickers also created more than 20 totem poles. Also, from 1987 to 1995, Vickers was the artistic advisor for the Vancouver International Airport's new terminal. Some of his work is prominently displayed there for travellers to admire.

Once a substance abuser, in 1992 he created VisionQuest, a non-profit organization designed to help individuals with addictive personalities.

David Alexander Hume was a BCIT project coordinator. He was also a Provincial Consultant at BCIT in 1979, when he had the opportunity to give Jack White—one of BCIT’s “founding fathers”—a tour of the “new” BCIT campus 15 years after its initial opening.

An endowment called the Dogwood Award was established in 1987 by David Hume to provide a first year achievement award to a student in Geomatics Engineering Technology.

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Joan Blair was one of the “pioneer” staff members of BCIT. She was present in its earliest days and its opening in 1964, and retired from her position as head of Medical Laboratory at BCIT in November, 1983.