Elizabeth Meikle (later Mrs Wilson) was a student at Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow from 1962 to 1963.
William McIlvanney was born in 1936 in Kilmarnock, Scotland. After graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1960, he trained to be a teacher at Jordanhill College of Education. He reached the position of assistant headmaster, but, in 1975, resigned to become a freelance writer. He is best known as a writer and poet. His works include Laidlaw, The Papers of Tony Veitch, and Walking Wounded.
Mary (Molly) McLiver Dixon (later Mrs Cumming) was born in 1947 and attended Lanark Grammar School. She was a student at Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow from 1964 to 1967. She was a member of the Jordanhill College Students Representative Council in 1964.
John Crabbe Cunningham was born in Duke Street, Glasgow in 1927. At the age of 17, he became a member of the Creagh Dhu Mountaineering Club. He visited New Zealand, the Himalayas, Antarctica and Nepal rock climbing and spent many years working for the British Antarctic Survey. He was a student at Jordanhill College of Education from 1965 to 1967, studying a youth leaders' course.
Cunningham was killed in 1980, when a wave swept him to his death below the sea cliffs at Anglesey.
Nancy MacLeod Nicol was born in 1939 in Edinburgh. She attended Mary Erskine School and after leaving, became a student at Princess Margaret Rose hospital. She went on to train at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and studied midwifery at Elise Inglis Memorial Hospital.
She later took the clinical instructor’s course at the Royal College of Nursing in Edinburgh. After taking a post as nursing officer at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, she left to take up the post of senior nursing officer for in-service education with South Lothian District.
Nancy undertook the nurse teacher’s course in 1985 at Jordanhill College of Education. After gaining the diploma, she returned as a senior nurse tutor. From 1991 onwards, she was head of the continuing education department at Lothian College of Health Studies (now part of Napier University).