The Globe and Mail — May 15, 2004.
Leona Paterson died on April 4 in failing health. She was 91.
Over the course of 16 summers at the Banff School of Fine Arts beginning in 1946, she taught notable Canadians including the late Bruno Gerussi, a star of The Beachcombers television series, as well as Ted Follows, father of actress Megan Follows and himself an accomplished actor of both television and film.
Grant Paterson said his mother’s fondest memories of the mountain school was the highly charged artistic and creative atmosphere that existed there as well as the opportunity to rub shoulders with artists from all over the world. ”I only wish she’d bought a painting from A.Y. Jackson.” He said she also admired David Leighton, who headed up the school in the 1970s, but spoke very fondly of Donald Cameron as an administrator and a “man of vision and encouragement.”