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David Ross Drummond was born at Toronto in 1953. He graduated from Queen's University with a Bachelor of Arts degree (Honours) in Political Science (1976) and a Bachelor of Law degree (1978). He was called to the bar in 1981 and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. He was appointed a member of the National Parole Board from 1986 to 1991 and was reappointed for a second five year term. Mr. Drummond has been active as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and Canada, holding various positions including the Chair of the 1984 Election Company. He has been a delegate to numerous provincial and federal conventions including all of the leadership conventions between 1976 and 1991.
In 1978 Mr. Drummond married Arletta Ruth Ranson.

William Henry Drummond, was born at Mohill, County Leitrim, Ireland on the 13th of April 1854. Drummond arrived in Canada with his parents in 1864. He studied at Bishop's and practised as a general physician in Montréal and Brome County, Qué. Attracted by the folkways of rural Québec, he began writing narrative verse in the English idiom of the French Canadian farmer. His first book of poetry, The Habitant (1897), was extremely successful.He died at Cobalt, Ontario on the 6th of April 1907.

Professor W.M. Drummond was born at Britol, Quebec in 1897 (date indefinite). He graduated from Queen's University in 1923 with an honours B.A. and medal in political science. He received the M.A. degree from the University of Toronto in 1924. He then lectured at the University of Alberta from 1924 to 1926 before taking an A.M. and Ph.D. at Harvard. In 1937 W. M. Drummond was appointed Professor and head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Ontario Agricultural College. During World war II he served on various federal commmittees and boards before returning to O.A.C. in 1945. He served as a member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in Newfoundland (1953), the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects (1955), and the Royal Commission on Price Spreads (1957). He died at home in 1965.

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Deirdre Hurst was born in British Columbia in July 1906. She attended the Cornish School, Seattle, in 1932 and attended the School of Dance-Mime at Dartington Hall. Hurst studied under Michael Chekov at Dartington and continued to do so after the move of the Chekov school to Ridgefield, Conneticut in 1938. Deirdre Hurst became the unofficial archivist of the Chekhov Theatre Studio, preserving a significant collection of his lessons and other Chekhoviana. Hurst's shorthand notes of Chekhov's acting lessons dating from 1935 to 1942 were later turned into an 11 volume set entitled "'The Actor is the Theatre'.

Deirdre Hurst married Edgard du Prey and settled in Westbury, New York. In the 1950s, Deirdre began teaching children's theatre at the Garden City Waldorf School. Later she taught drama at the Adelphi University Childrens Centre for the Creative Arts. In September of 1980 the Michael Chekhov Studio was incorporated in New York City. The first lessons were held in November with 40 students enrolled in 4 classes. Deirdre Hurst du Prey was one of the first two teachers at the Studio. The Studio went through a number of changes before closing in or around 1992. Deirdre went on to teach at international conferences, worked on collecting archival material, and edited two books of Chekhov's lessons: 'Lessons for the Professional Actor' (1985); and 'Michael Chekhov: Lessons for Teachers of his Acting Technique' (2000). Deirdre Hurst du Prey died February 23, 2007 at the age of 100.

Dr. Pierre du Prey received his Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. He went onto study at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London University (1965-1966), then received his Master of Fine Arts (1969) and his PhD in Art (1973) from Princeton University. Dr. du Prey started his career at Queen's in 1971 as a lecturer in architectural history in the Department of Art.

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Angèle Dubeau is a musician.

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