Don LeQuesne, Associate professor of Art and Art Education at Brandon College 1962-1965 was from the Toronto area where he had been supervisor of art in the Pickering school system and taught Art Methods in Summer school for teachers at the Ontario College of Education. His parents immigrated to Quebec from the Channel Islands. Don obtained his B.F.A. degree from Mount Allison University. (1969 inventory)
Inscription: Presented to Brandon University by the class of 1937 in the memory of Frank Bowman, Matilda Dallas, Jack Muirhead, Jack Prugh, Harvey Shaw, Dan Stark, Jean Taylor and Dorothy Walker.
Joan Pruden is a Western Manitoban artist. Widow, mother of four, draftsman with Bell Telephone; has been an active painter for eight years; mostly self-taught; has a sensitive interpretation; good sense of design. (1969 inventory)