William S. Heckscher
From 1918 to 1921, the family lived in the Netherlands while Heckscher's father served as the Weimar Republic's ambassador to The Hague; there, Heckscher enrolled at the Nederlandsch Lyceum. Heckscher pursued his interests in history and Flemish art by spending his off hours studying at the Dutch Royal Library, the Mauritshuis and the Kröller-Müller Museum, but was dismissed from the Lyceum in 1920 for "lack of scholarly potential". After the family returned to Hamburg, Heckscher attended the city's Kunstgewerbeschule, now the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, but failed a class in ceramics.
Eli Bornstein
In 1950 Bornstein became head of the newly established Department of Fine Arts at the University of Saskatchewan.
During his summer breaks he studied in Paris, France at the Académie de Montmartre of Fernand Léger in 1951 and at the Académie Julian in 1952.
He also studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and obtained an MSc in 1954.
Bornstein resigned from his position as head of the Fine Arts department in 1971.
Bornstein became a Canadian citizen in 1972.
He continued to teach art at the University of Saskatchewan until 1990, when he retired.