The University of Queensland Mountain Club (UQMC) is an outdoor sports club formed in 2007 and affiliated with the University of Queensland Sport. The club aims to inspire and teach outdoor enthusiasts to improve their outdoor skills. They organise hiking, rock climbing, trail-running, rogaining and other outdoor trips predominately in south-east Queensland. UQMC is the amalgamation of two former University of Queensland clubs: the University of Queensland Bushwalking Club (1950-1997) and the University of Queensland Rockclimbers Club (1975-2007).

The Women's Information and Support Association (WISA) operated from 1981 to approximately the mid-90s. Initially called Women's Group, WISA changed its name to the Women's Information and Support Association in 1983. WISA operated from the Sunshine Coast and was the catalyst for many of the women’s services of today, such as domestic violence services, family planning and women’s refuges. The objective of WISA was to promote feminism and eliminate sexism by providing support and information to the women of the Sunshine Coast.

The University of Queensland Bushwalk Club (UQBWC), also known as Uck-buck, formed in 1950 after the dissolution of the Science Students Association in the same year. The aims and goals of the club: to encourage people not familiar with the bush to experience it; to develop and encourage the spread of knowledge and good practice in bushwalking; to serve as a meeting place and forum for walkers of all levels and experience; and to extend peoples experiences beyond track. Initially the club was permitted to build a stone hut in the saddle between East and West peaks of Mt Barney but with more people visiting Mt. Barney the hut was demolished in the mid-seventies. The clubs magazine was called Heybob, with a smaller issue called Mini-heybob. 'Heybob' was the clubs alternative call to 'Cooee' when calling to fellow bushwalkers.

UQBWC worked closely with the Brisbane Bushwalking Club (BBWC) which formed in 1948, two years prior to the UQBWC. Many members of the UQBWC were also members of the BBWC. From these two clubs, the Brisbane Rock Climbing Club (BRCC) was formed in 1965. In 1975, the University of Queensland (UQ) formed its own rock climbing club called the UQ Rock Climbers Club (UQRCC). In 2007, the UQRCC changed their name to the UQ Mountain Club (UQMC). The UQBWC disbanded in 1997. At this time, many members were active members of the UQRCC, now called the UQMC.

Fedora Fisher was a long-time active member of the Friends of Fryer and was instrumental in negotiating the transfer of manuscript material to the Fryer Library. She and her husband Len Fisher secured for the Fryer Library the papers of Sir Raphael Cilento, John Cooper, Dick Roughsey, Percy Trezise, and the McConnel Family.

Juliet Ella Flesch was born on 6 June 1943 in Melbourne, Australia. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Melbourne, she spent over 30 years working as a librarian, first at the National Library of Australia and later at the University of Melbourne Library, before transitioning to a career as a professional historian. She obtained her PhD in 2002 from the Department of History (Women's Studies) at the University of Melbourne. Her dissertation, which examined twentieth-century Australian popular romance novels, was subsequently published as From Australia with love in 2004. Flesch has written and contributed to articles in both librarianship and history journals. In the early 2000s, she became interested in asylum seeker issues after visiting the Maribyrnong Detention Centre in Victoria. Following this, she began regularly visiting and keeping correspondence with detainees of detention centres across Australia, including on Nauru. In 2009, Flesch presented a paper at the Fryer Library as part of Australia's first annual conference on popular romance studies organised by the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR), and hosted by The University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology.

Seamus Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 in Northern Ireland. He was a poet, playwright, translator and lecturer based in Dublin. In 1995 he was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature. Heaney passed away in 2013 at the age 73.

Jock Pedro (Waanyi) contributed to David Trigger's anthropological research conducted in Doomadgee and various other locations around the Gulf Country region during the late 1970s.

Came to Queensland from Ireland. He was a farmer prior to joining the Queensland Police Force.

Teaching member of the University of Queensland Department of Civil Engineering from 1960 to 1997. Received a Masters of Engineering in 1964 from the University of Queensland, then his PhD in 1978. He taught, researched and consulted in the field of coastal engineering, hydraulics, harbours and rivers. He was involved in the construction and operation of scale models built to examine the effects of water movement on various locations and engineering projects. He also undertook contract work for the State on projects such as the Brisbane Airport and Cleveland jetty, among others.