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Arnold Bell initially came to Jordanhill College of Education in 1972, as a Lecturer in the Geography Department. In session 1975-1976, he was transferred to the newly established Staff Tutor Team, which was set up within the Inservice Department to help primary school teachers implement the 'Expressive Arts' and 'Environmental Studies' components of the school curriculum as outlined in the 1965 Scottish Office Primary Memorandum. These two components were completely new to Scottish teachers, who were unsure of how to go about teaching them. Headed by Fred Rendell and including Bill Michael, Steve Bell and Sally Harkness as well as Arnold Bell, the Staff Tutor Team visited schools throughout the Strathclyde Region to deliver courses for serving primary school teachers in how to teach Expressive Arts and Environmental Studies. Rendell and Bell focused on Environmental Studies, jointly producing and delivering numerous courses on this subject. The courses were known as Staff Tutor Topics, and each took the form of a storyline with associated activities. The Staff Tutor Team at Jordanhill was the only full-time entity of its kind in Europe, delivering three-day courses throughout the year, plus longer, four-week courses in the late Autumn and a summer course during the first week of the school vacation in June. The team was disbanded in session 1988-1989, with Fred Rendell leaving Jordanhill in 1988 and Arnold Bell taking early retirement in 1989. Arnold Bell is now the only member of the Staff Tutor Team still living.

John Bell was an evening class student at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. He was a foundry engineer and in 1955 the Institute of British Foundrymen founded the John Bell Travelling Scholarship at the Royal Technical College in his honour. In 1957 he was made a Freeman of the City of London.

Joe Beltrami was born on 15 May 1932 in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire. He was educated at St Aloycious' College in Glasgow, then studied law at the University of Glasgow and completed a legal apprenticeship with the local firm of Baird Smith Barclay and Muirhead. He set up his own legal firm, Beltrami & Company, in Glasgow in 1958. Willie Dunn joined him as a partner shortly afterwards and the business soon established a large clientele. Beltrami specialised in criminal law and first came to public prominence when he successfully defended Walter Scott Ellis, who was accused of murder in 1961. In a similarly high-profile case, Beltrami defended Patrick Meehan, who was accused and wrongfully convicted of murder in 1969. After a 15-year battle, which also involved a campaign by the television commentator, Ludovic Kennedy, Beltrami and Nicholas Fairbairn succeeded in having Meehan's conviction quashed. Meehan was granted a Royal Pardon and received a large compensation payment and Beltrami subsequently published a book about the case, entitled 'A Deadly Innocence'. Beltrami was also known for representing Arthur Thompson, the self-styled Glasgow gangster, for over four decades. In 1993 he became the first Solicitor-Advocate to plead in the Court of Criminal Appeal. He died in Glasgow on 24 February 2015.

French painter and engraver.

Italian engraver.

Bennett was born on 15 March 1894. From sometime in the autum of 1911 until the outbreak of WW1, he worked at the Singer sowing machine plant in Clydebank. In 1988 he was interviewed about working conditions and labour unrest at the plant, becoming a key witness for Scottish labour history.

French painter and lithographer.