We are working on creating a Chris Hadfield, congratulatory page in the upcoming edition of the Veritas magazine. We would like to include the support of  may Ex Cadets & members of the mil col community, as possible

We will print college number – if applicable, first and last names.

Respond with a “comment” and / or an e-mail to william.oliver@rmc.ca if you are interested in being part of this venture. To offset magazine related expenses there will be a charge of $23 for each entry (includes tax).

Chris will be receiving a copy of the magazine.

Who can we count on as “in”? We will contact those who respond. Deadline is May 24th! Which will give us time to insert everything into the magazine.

TDV

Nous travaillons à la création d’une page dans la prochaine parution de la revue Veritas pour féliciter Chris Hadfield. Nous aimerions présenter les expressions de soutien du plus grand nombre possible des Anciens et des membres de la communauté des collèges militaires.

Nous imprimerons le numéro de collège – le cas échéant, et le prénom et le nom de famille.

Si le cœur vous en dit, embarquez-vous dans cette aventure en envoyant un “commentaire” et/ou un courriel à william.oliver @ rmc.ca. Pour défrayer les dépenses liées au magazine, il vous en coûtera  23 $  (y compris la taxe) pour chaque entrée.

Nous ferons parvenir un exemplaire du magazine à Chris.

Pouvons-nous compter sur vous ? Nous communiquerons avec ceux qui nous répondront. La date limite est le 24 mai! Cela nous donnera le temps d’insérer le tout dans le magazine.

VDV

Bill, I noticed you did not have a photo of Chris Hadfield with the article in the recent e’Veritas

Here are 5276 Digger MacDougall – Class of  ’61 and 13738 Chris Hadfield – Class of ’82 with Holly Nimmons, Executive Director of the Coalition for Music Education in Canada (CMEC).

The charity I founded and chair is the official charity of the Barbershop Harmony Society in Canada and is a special charity for Harmony, Inc. and Sweet Adelines International. The values of Sing Canada are closely aligned with those of CMEC. CMEC is partnered with the Canadian Space Agency, CBC Music and together spearheaded their annual Music Monday sing-off across Canada with Chris singing the song he co-wrote with Ed Robertson, lead singer of Bare Naked Ladies – “Is Somebody Singing” from space. It is estimated that close to one million children, youth and adults from across Canada joined Chris to sing “Is Somebody Singing” at one time on Music Monday.

It is my wish that RMC Cadets and staff will someday stand with other Canadians on Music Monday and join in singing to celebrate the power of music and the importance of music in the lives of not only military personnel but of every Canadian.

Digger

J. R. Digger MacDougall

Chair and CEO

Sing Canada Harmony Scholarship Fund

www.SingCanadaHarmony.ca

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 Fitness flashback to 1960: Training with the Royal Military

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12364 Commander J.H.R.N. Comeau, entered CMR 1975 CD – Branch Advisor – Cadet Instructors Cadre Commander Comeau joined the Cadet Program with Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps 218 Drummondville in 1970. In 1974 he enrolled as an officer in the Cadet Instructors Cadre (CIC). As a member of the CIC he was part of the first group of officers selected to serve aboard the Sea Cadet Summer Training Establishment, HMCS Quebec. In 1975 he was admitted to College militaire Royal de St-Jean. He graduated from the University of Sherbrooke in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration majoring in accounting. In 1982 he became a chartered accountant (CA).

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14464 Doug Lawrie, Head Coach – Red River College – Winnipeg Class of ’84 has been coaching the “beautiful game” for 15 years. He coached boys and girls youth teams in the Winnipeg Youth Soccer Association at all levels of competition until 2009. In 2007, Doug was selected the WYSA Coach of the Year for the St Charles Soccer District. Doug is currently President and Head Coach of the Hornets Soccer Club competing in the Winnipeg Women’s Soccer League. Doug is a certified CSA Level 3 (Senior) soccer coach, and has successfully completed the NCCP Competition Development Multi-Sport program and the CSA Provincial Pre-B Licence assessment. More

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16017 James O’Brien - Class of ’87 is an assistant professor in the Department of Management at Saint Mary’s University. He earned his Ph.D. from the Ivey Business School in 2009, having obtained master’s degrees in English literature (Queen’s University) and business administration (Memorial University) and a BA from the Royal Military College of Canada. He served in the Canadian Army and worked in communications in both the private and public sectors. These experiences have shaped his wide-ranging interests in management and organizational behaviour.

James’s current research interests include decision-making in staffing, personal resilience in organizations, and evidence-based management. He also continues to have a keen interest in literature, philosophical debate, and many sports, both as a spectator and as an occasional participant. More

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16501 Cliff Trollope – Class of 1988 is a partner in MNP’s Enterprise Risk Services practice and the firm’s National Business Resilience Practice Leader. With more than 20 years of experience helping organizations with emergency response, business continuity, crisis management, and physical security, Cliff delivers effective, efficient solutions to address the most complex business challenges.

Cliff has led business continuity and emergency management projects for private companies, with all levels of government, post secondary education institutions and for organizations such as NATO and the United Nations. He has unique and extensive experience managing real world disruptions and crisis in both in the private and public sectors.

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23245 Captain Gina L. Decarie (nee Snyder) Class of RMC ‘05 is a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada. After she earned a chemical engineering degree, she worked as a communications and electronics engineer. She managed the radars in the early warning system in Ottawa, as part of the Directorate of Aerospace Engineering and Program Management (DEAPM). In Afghanistan, she was the second in command for the Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) Company, headquartered in Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar City.

She returned to RMCC to earn a MASc. She presented her research on “The effect of hydrate guest on clathrate morphology” at the 7th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH 2011), Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom in July2011.

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22309 Dr. Jan Adamowski – Class of ’02 is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioresource Engineering in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at McGill University. He came to McGill University in 2009 after working as a Post Doctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. He completed his graduate studies in Europe; prior to pursuing his graduate studies, he worked as a Lecturer in Tokyo, Japan for one year. During and after his undergraduate studies, he served in the Canadian Armed Forces (Reserves) for six years, first as an Infantry Soldier in the Canadian Army, then as an Officer Cadet at the Royal Military College of Canada, and finally as an Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy. On entry at RMC he was ROTP and switched to RETP following I Year which is a rariety.

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Chris Hadfield holds 1st news conference after return from space

Canada’s own Colonel Cool: How the CSA helped launch Chris Hadfield to stardom

Wounded Warriors Canada is honoured to announce that 7860 Lieutenant-General (ret) The Honourable Roméo A. Dallaire, (Ret’d) Class of ’69 has agreed to become Wounded Warriors Canada first ever, National Patron. Article

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10137 Gord Loney, Class of ’74 is an engineering graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada. Since his retirement from active duty 18 years ago, he has specialized in the field of perimeter protection for military, government, industrial, transportation and other critical infrastructure facilities. A long time member of ASIS and the National Defense Industrial Association, he has lectured numerous professional audiences on outdoor security and has written on the subject. He currently resides in Ottawa where he is employed as the Vice President of Product Sales for Senstar Corporation, a leading supplier of outdoor security solutions worldwide.

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11575 Grant Turnbull graduated as a civil engineer from Royal Military College of Canada – Class of ‘77 after growing up in a small rural farm community in Manitoba. He served in the Canadian Armed Forces from 1973 to 1981 completing construction and civil projects as a Military Engineer all across Canada and in the Canadian High Arctic.

In 1983 he joined Dominion Construction as a Project Manager in Regina, Saskatchewan. As Dominion did many design build projects in Saskatchewan, Grant’s responsibilities were split between that of structural design engineer, design team manager and construction project manager. In 1990 he was transferred by Dominion to head office in Vancouver where he managed such projects as General Motors Place (now Rogers Arena) and the Pacific Press Kennedy Heights Printing Plant where the Vancouver Sun and Province newspapers are produced to this day. While at Dominion, Grant’s career progressed to the level of Vice President of Construction.

In 1998, Grant promoted himself to President by forming his own company, Turnbull Construction Services Ltd. (TCSL), with the goal of acting strictly on the Owner’s behalf as Project Manager and Owner’s Representative on major projects. Today the firm consists of 6 people, including Grant’s wife Michelle and four Project Managers. TCSL typically manages 6 to 8 major projects at any one time through all stages from inception, through programming, planning, design, construction and Owner move in. Website www.turnbullconstructionservices.com.

In 2007 Grant achieved an MBA degree in Project Management from Athabasca University. He has three adult children and five grandchildren under the age of seven. The grandkids are very good at distracting Grant from the project woes whenever the need arises!”

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10838 Colonel (retired) Marc Grondin, CD, Class of ’76

Au service du MDN depuis 43 ans, colonel à la retraite et employé de RDDC depuis neuf ans comme ingénieur, Marc Grondin s’est mérité la Médaille du jubilé de diamant de la reine Elizabeth II pour son leadership dans la création et la gestion du programme Support aux opérations, notamment, les nombreux programmes d’acquisition des véhicules de combat, la protection des aéronefs, les programmes d’acquisition des Forces spéciales et les projets spéciaux qui ont permis d’optimiser l’apport de la S & T auprès des FC à un sommet inégalé.

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11356 J. A. Paul J. Downie, Class of ’78, was recently honoured with a Canadian Blood Services framed certificate for “One Hundred Donations”, in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Paul started giving blood as first year cadet at RMC Kingston, in 1973 because he felt it was important. Presently, he is now a 102 bagger, after forty years.

After RMC Paul had not donated again until 1987, for lack of opportunity, having been in the petroleum industry in the field and offshore.

He feels it is still important to give blood.

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Retiring naval officer picks Barrie to hoist his flag – “When it came time to think about flags, the big option is the Peace Tower in Parliament, but there’s such a backlog there that you’d be years waiting for it and I didn’t want that,”- 12190 Ross Lambert – Class of’79    article

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Women in Leadership: Reflections from Wise Women – G55 Valerie Spencer Keyes graduated from the War Studies program with a Master of Arts (History) Class of ’80 Article

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Helping homeless veterans

12529 Mark Eldridge – Class of ’81 – Full article

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13122 Bill Kelly – Class of ’81 joined CFN consultants in May 2013. He brings to the consultancy extensive experience in leadership, management, strategic planning, and materiel acquisition and support gained through various positions held within the Canadian Forces and Department of National Defence. His focus in CFN is on aerospace projects.

Bill served as an Aerospace Engineer in the Canadian Forces for over 31 years. He has served operationally as an Engineering Officer on tactical fighter squadrons in Canada and overseas.

He also commanded 10 Field Technical Training Squadron in Cold Lake Alberta from 1996 to 1997, 15 Service Support Branch in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan from 1998 to 1999 and the Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Centre in Ottawa from 2002 to 2005.  More

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13738 Chris Hadfield, Class of ’82  hands over command of ISS

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How Chris Hadfield turned earthlings on to space  Article

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New base commander takes over May 30 – CFB Kingston’s new base commander brings 30 years of military experience to his new posting. 16206 Col. F.J. Chagnon, Class of ’88 article

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17383 Lucy Cerantola recently returned from the Canadian Naturals (body building competition)in Winnipeg MB – competing this time in Women’s Physique division. The RMC Class of ’90 graduate wanted to try out this new division and finished in 2nd place in the Physique Tall Category.

Lucy is currently looking into potential competitions outside of Canada as a top 5 finisher she qualifies to compete internationally.

Her next goal short term is to Run the Spartan Obstacle Course race – 5km with 15 or so obstacles in Oro, ON on June 22nd. She will be running it with a great group of parents and teachers from Ecole Elementaire de Sainte-Marie, Oakville!

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18365 Glenn Lanteigne – Class of ’92 joined the South West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) as chief information officer in 2010. As CIO, Glenn provides direct leadership and accountability for the creation and implementation of a shared LHIN wide eHealth strategic plan that will ensure an integrated, aligned, and community-responsive health care system. He is responsible for electronic and information sharing initiatives to promote, maintain and improve health care delivery throughout the LHIN.

Glenn brings over 18 years of leadership, management, and consulting experience across the entire healthcare continuum. Most recently, Glenn was the director, healthcare at TELUS Healthcare Solutions providing overall strategic leadership for a full range of business and electronic health initiatives in regional care, acute care, community care, primary care, home care and consumer care. Glenn is a graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada where he holds an honours degree in economics and politics. In addition, Glenn holds an MBA from the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa and a Six Sigma Black Belt certification.

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18395 Mike Potter obtained his B.Eng. in Engineering Physics (electrical) from the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Class of ‘92. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, in 2001. From 1992 to 1997 he served as an officer in the Canadian Navy as a Combat Systems Engineer. After completing his service and attaining the rank of Lieutentant(Navy), he completed his doctoral work in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include computational electromagnetics and the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method, as well as applications of computational methods for acoustic and seismic modeling.

Mike is currently an Associate Professor – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of  Calgary.

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21364 Jeremy Hansen, Class of  ’99 – The former Ingersoll resident and IDCI graduate shared his dream along with Canada’s achievements and goals in space exploration with students at elementary schools in Ingersoll and Embro on Tuesday, May 7.  article

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RMC Class of 2004 gives lasting gift to campaign

The RMC Class of 2004 has voted to contribute $4,000 to this year’s Kingston Whig-Standard Campaign designated to the Matthew Dawe Memorial Fund. 22596 Matthew Dawe, a member of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Regiment (PPCLI) and a member of the class of 2004 was killed tragically while leading an operation near Kandahar, Afghanistan, on July 4, 2007. He attended LaSalle Secondary School and later graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada as the Cadet Wing Commander in 2004. He played many sports but volleyball was his favourite and he was named league all-star while playing at RMC. Article

Two Athletic Department Legends Feasted!

Recently, Major (ret) Danny McLeod (sitting right) former RMC Athletic Director (1960 -71) and Squadron Leader (ret) Doug Hargreaves (sitting left) former Redmen football and basketball coach (1965-70), accompanied by their wives, Sheila and Norma respectively were special guests at a private dinner hosted by six Ex Cadets in Kingston.

Five of the six Ex Cadets are from the Class of 1969: 8034 Michael Gainer (Toronto, soon moving to  Sudbury area); 8019 John Carlston, Kingston; 8056 John (Pole) McCormick (Burlington, ON) 7761 Mike Johnston, Ottawa;  8074 Doug Smith, flew in from Santa Rosa, California;  8469 Jim Simpson, Class of ‘70 drove East from Schomberg, ON. Bill and Rolande Oliver were also attendees.

The evening was low key but classy. Both the Ex Cadets and the two legends and their wives shared many stories, yarns, and a few tears of joy reminiscing about the golden years of sports at RMC.

The three and a half hour get-together wrapped up amid smiles and hearty hand-shakes all-round. A good time was had by all!

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18866 Eva Martinez (Class of ’93) will be the keynote speaker at the Gala Dinner for the 2013 Canadian Women in Aviation biennial conference in Toronto June 19-22. Every two years women from all areas of aviation come together with experts, specialists and role models at the Canadian Women in Aviation Conference. Participants can expect speakers and panel discussions to enhance their knowledge of aviation and also prepare to succeed at their careers. This is an excellent opportunity for valuable networking, renew old friendships and create new ones. The theme of this year`s conference is Prepare to Succeed. Eva will be presenting the story of her role as Canada’s first female United Nations Military Observer and the only female on the international contingent deployed to Guatemala to oversee a ceasefire following a 36-year long civil war. For more information about the conference click on www.cwia.ca/conference.htm.

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We came across an interesting link  an article written by M0925 Captain Robert Curtis, Class of ’09 – to an article that he wrote and submitted while recently deployed on Op Ignition.

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Class of ’69 – Well Turned Out (Again) for Toronto Branch Dinner

Over the past number of years the Toronto Branch holds a high profile Spring dinner on the last Friday in April. Traditionally the Class of ’69 attends in large numbers. The numbers were down a bit this year, however, a dozen ‘69ers attended. Well done!

In the order they appear in the photo are:

7761 Mike Johnson; 7855 Paul Hession; 8034 Michael Gainer; 7530 Fletcher Thomson; 7964 Don Bell;

14835 BGen Eric Tremblay, RMCC Commandant (wishes he were a ’69 class member)

8099 Roger Bradley; 8056 John McCormick; 8162 Ken Moulden; 8067 Gerry Poffenroth; 8074 Doug Smith; 8184 Gary Stewart; and 8073 Derrick Sloan.

14059 Ross McLaughlin, Class of ’83 (RRMC) has a reputation for getting results. An award-winning investigative consumer reporter, with 17 Emmys, 4 Edward R. Morrows, and 30 years broadcasting experience makes him a valuable asset on any team. He has built a career on exposing injustice and giving a voice to those who can’t be heard.

McLaughlin’s stories and specials have focused on making a positive impact on viewers, no matter where he’s worked and lived. As the head of WXIA-TV’s Center for Investigative Action team in Atlanta since 2009, McLaughlin helps fulfill a station-wide commitment to provide positive change in the community. His in-depth investigative reporting has reached to the top levels in local and national government: EBT Welfare Fraud resulted in the introduction of a new law in Georgia; Red Light Camera Intersections investigation was used during testimony at a Congressional hearing on Capitol Hill. Much more

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MaxSys Founder & President 15737 Bryan Brulotte, Class of ’87 Sets Sights On Market Dominance

MaxSys Staffing and Consulting began in1993 with one man in a basement with a phone and a phonebook. Today it has almost $50 million in annual revenue and is within reach of ranking in the top 10 for its industry. But Founder and President Bryan Brulotte has a greater ambition – becoming the largest in Canada bar none. To visit MaxSys’s head office downtown in the ByWard Market is to be struck by how modest the location is. With only 3,000 square feet tucked away in an old two-storey commercial space on Dalhousie Street, it doesn’t look like the HQ of a national enterprise on track to achieve hundreds of millions in annual revenue. That’s in keeping with Brulotte’s modest approach to life. He would rather buy his suites from Moores than from Harry Rosen and his casual ware from Mark’s Work Warehouse than from Holt Renfrew. Such frugality has defined MaxSys’s corporate culture and operational philosophy. Running a tight ship has allowed the company to achieve operating margins that are at least 40 per cent higher than the industry average.

Status Quo Is Never An Option

It’s a track record of sound fiscal management that Brulotte believes will serve the company well as it embarks on its next stage of growth. But why is he not content with being in the top 10 of his industry? He answers with a line from poet Alfred Lord Tennyson:

“It’s a consistent desire to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield,” he said. “I truly believe that if you are not growing, you are dying. The status quo is never an option.” Such persistence has allowed MaxSys to grow organically from Ottawa to Toronto, Montreal and Ogdensburg and earned Brulotte both Silver and Gold jubilee medals for community service from the Queen, among other honours. “Every inch of that success has come through client satisfaction,” he said. But four years ago, the company realized that further growth required acquisitions. The company has since grown to 10 locations across the country. And having spent the past few years building an executive team capable of managing a large national enterprise, MaxSys is ready to ramp up its acquisition strategy. The company is already on track to close one deal before year end that will propel it to the $100-million revenue mark, but Brulotte is already looking past that. “At $200 million, we will be in the top three,” he said. “That’s where we are planning to be a few years from now. At $300 million we will be number one in Canada – that’s the ultimate goal.”

Dedicated To Our Clients, Committed To Our People

Today MaxSys has more than 1,600 employees and consultants working with clients across Canada and internationally. It has been recognized as a Profit 100 Fastest Growing Company and as one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies. Central to its success is an emphasis on understanding and serving the unique needs of each client, on time and on budget. MaxSys gives back to the communities in which it operates by supporting the United Way, the Royal Canadian Legion Poppy Fund, Shepherds of Good Hope, the Cancer Society and Disabled American Veterans.

To learn more about how MaxSys can fulfill your professional staffing needs, please visit www.MaxSys.ca or call (613) 562-9943.

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Post Grads Complete HAM

Recently two graduate students from the Department of Physics at RMCC participated in the Hand Amateur (HAM) Radio course and successfully completed their basic license with honours. They are Maj. Patrick Perron (VA3 PPJ) and Mr. Michael Earl (VE3 HEO). Congratulations to both!

The Physics Department amateur satellite communicatations ground station is located on the roof of Sawyer mod 4 with supporting hardware in S5334. This capability supports the training, research and development for staff and students. In addition to the academic and research applications for which VE3RMC was designed, it also facilitates practical training and experience for developing officers. Communications skill s are important for all officers, regardless of element. If students or faculty are interested in obtaining their HAM licence please contact Alex Cushley (VA3CUS) at Alex.Cushley@rmc.ca.

 We are always on the lookout for ex-Cadets to add to our Class Notes section. If you are or if you know of an Ex Cadet with something interesting going on, or you just want to put yourself out there for old friends to find, we want to hear from you! Whether it’s career related news or something more related to personal/family life, we would like to know what’s going on with you and give you a chance to reconnect with former classmates.

Just send a short write up, and, if you want, a recent JPEG appropriate photo,to: everitas.classnotes@gmail.com.

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3847 Rear Admiral (Retired) Denis Richard Boyle, CMM, CD2, Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Class of ’57 and past Director of Member Support for the Naval Association of Canada (NAC), has been named a Worldwide Who’s Who Professional of the Year in Military Leadership. While inclusion in Worldwide Who’s Who is an honor, only a small selection of members in each discipline are chosen for this distinction. These special honorees are distinguished based on their professional accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, years of service, and the credentials they have provided in association with their Worldwide Who’s Who membership. More

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5562 General Jim Gervais graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada, Class of ‘62 with a BSc, and attended the Royal Military College of Science (UK). He retired from the Canadian Forces as a Lieutenant General before joining the Public Service of Canada as a senior executive. General Gervais’ military career of 35 years consisted of a variety of command and staff appointments in Canada (and abroad), leading to command of the Canadian Army in 1991. On his retirement in 1993, he then served as Deputy Secretary to the Governor General of Canada until 2004.

Born in the mining community of Rouyn-Noranda, General Gervais worked in mines prior to his military career and has always maintained a strong interest in mining. He is fluently bilingual (French/English) with good communication skills, contacts and leadership experience. General Gervais was Lead Director of Northern Gold Mining Inc. until October 2012 and served as their non Executive Chairman of the Board for 4 years. He is Chairman of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires (Ottawa Division), a not for profit security firm, and he co chairs a committee of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship involved in the integration of new Canadians into society.

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11623 John P. Carswell graduated from the Royal Military College with a Bachelor of Arts (Commerce) Class of ’78 and served as an Air Force navigator. He then earned an MBA degree from Queen’s University (Dean’s List, Award in Finance) in 1985. John completed the Chartered Financial Analyst program and was awarded a CFA charter in 1988. He began his investment career at Mutual Life of Canada in 1985 where he was an Investment Analyst in the Private Placement and Corporate Debt area. He then moved to TAL Investment Counsel Ltd. in 1988 where he was Vice President, Fixed Income, responsible for credit analysis and specialty fixed income products. In 1992, John then moved to Foyston, Gordon & Payne, where he was the Partner responsible for fixed income and preferred shares. He founded Canso Investment Counsel Ltd. in 1997.

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A graduate of Royal Military College in Kingston, Class of ’81 with a BEng Electrical, 13172 Adrian Round, OMM, MSc had a full career in the Canadian Navy. Over his 26 years in uniform, he served in a number of sea-going and shore command appointments including the Commanding Officer of HMCS ALGONQUIN and the Base Commander of Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt.

In 2002, Adrian retired from the Canadian Forces and in March 2003 joined the VENUS Project as the Project Manager. For 9 years he led the design, construction and operation of the VENUS Coastal Network, an ocean observatory using fibre optic cables in the waters around Victoria. In January 2013 he assumed his current role as Director, Observatory Operations for ONC

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16852 Dr. Derek Fingler – has been a companion animal veterinarian since 2000 and Greenboro Veterinary Clinics’s (GVC) practice owner since its creation in 2003. Derek grew up always having a family dog and many of his fondest memories of childhood had Ginny, a retriever-cross who was possibly the best dog ever, by his side. He did not start out on the path of animal medicine leaving high school but rather ventured into engineering and the challenges of the Royal Military College where he graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree, Class of ’89 and the start of a career as a Naval Marine Systems Engineering Officer.

Although the next five years were successful and rewarding, he came to understand that in his professional life he wanted to make a significant difference in people’s lives and he was missing that animal bond. Veterinary medicine was the key! He seized an opportunity and went back to school and have never looked back. Oddly enough, he lost his engineering ring shortly after being accepted into veterinary college; some might call this fate.

He wears a couple of “hats” at GVC. His vet role allows him the pleasure of engaging with clients and their furry companions and helping them with their issues and providing education. He also gets the opportunity to perform surgery and dentistry (a special interest) which plays nicely into his fix it, logical (engineering-trained) thinking process. His ownership role affords him the opportunities and challenges of leadership while his team endeavors to provide an exceptional client experience in a welcoming environment.

Derek lives in a busy home with his wife, Anne, four teenage children, two dogs (Grace and Kia) and a cat (Zazou; who thinks he is a dog!). His home life mostly involves chauffeuring kids to their sporting, recreational and social events, spending tons of time at arenas as a hockey trainer and squeezing in time to run, play shinny on his outdoor rink and get away to the cottage (one of the best places on earth) where he can swim, kayak, tinker and fix stuff and enjoy reading a good novel.

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G0620 Andy Osburn, BSc.MSc.MBA. (Co-founder and CEO, Equals6.com) PG, Class of ’93 is a seasoned entrepreneur and has over 20 years of experience in software engineering and start-up technology ventures. His latest start-up, www.Equals6.com , is the professional social network for students. Equals6 connects students with the three things they need most; funding, career opportunities and mentoring.

Equals6 allows students to build a professional network of peers, mentors and potential employers which they can leverage to gain that critical first job in their chosen career path. Members are able to participate in scholarship crowdfunding, access the hidden job market where personal connections dominate and find mentors to guide them. For employers, Equals6 offers recruiting tools to identify and engage the best students and graduates.

Prior to co-founding Equals6 he was CEO and CTO at Diaphonics, a voice biometric technology company. Andy has previously occupied various technical and operational roles with the Royal Canadian Navy, primarily in the area of combat control systems. Andy holds a B.Sc. from McMaster University, a M.Sc. in acoustics from Royal Roads Military College and a MBA from Saint Mary’s University. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, a Certified Information Systems Auditor and is certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT. Andy has competed in a number of marathons and triathlons including Ironman Canada and Ironman Florida.

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22455 Jeff Jones was born in British Columbia and grew up in Calgary. He joined the Army at 17 and earned a B.A. in Business Administration from the Royal Military College in Kingston, ON – Class of ’02. In 2003, Jeff suffered a training injury which God used to awaken a living faith in Christ. After leaving the Army in 2005, Jeff took his M.Div. from Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary in Cochrane, AB. Jeff also works in a hotel and he and his wife Erin live in Calgary with their four children.

We are always on the lookout for ex-Cadets to add to our Class Notes section. If you are or if you know of an Ex Cadet with something interesting going on, or you just want to put yourself out there for old friends to find, we want to hear from you! Whether it’s career related news or something more related to personal/family life, we would like to know what’s going on with you and give you a chance to reconnect with former classmates.

Just send a short write up, and, if you want, a recent JPEG appropriate photo,to: everitas.classnotes@gmail.com.

4519 Larry A. Ashley, Class of ’59, graduated as a naval cadet. He was the quintessential General List Officer qualifying as a pilot, naval officer and AERE. During his 36 year career, he served on numerous HMC Ships including the aircraft carrier Bonaventure and was the Air Officer of HMCS Iroquois on her commissioning in 1972. He commanded two naval air squadrons, the Air Wing at CFB Shearwater and finally retired as Commander of Air Command. Immediately after retirement, he commenced a 20 year industrial career: first, as President of the Canadian branch of a large US aerospace corporation and later as an aerospace consultant in the field of heavy helicopters. Throughout his careers, Larry devoted much time to charitable work. He served on the Board of Bytown Brigantine, a very successful organization which assisted disadvantaged children through the medium of Tall Ship training. He was a founding director of the Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation Foundation and, most recently, was invested into the Knightly Order of St George as a Knight Commander. The Order’s mission is to support military families, hospitals and hospices. A recent recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, he continues to live in Ottawa with his wife Gail who long ago could not resist the charm of a Fourth Year Cadet resplendent in his Scarlets!! They have three grown children and a squadron of grand and great grand children. He and Gail are currently enjoying some of the fine golf courses in the south of Florida and will shortly return to their home in Ottawa and Eagle’s Landing, their country home and gardens, on Palmerston Lake about 100 kilometres west of Ottawa.

6577  George Vanderkuur, Class of ’65 - This summer for 54 days in July and August, he will be cycling from Los Angeles to New York City. The route has some challenging elements like the Mojave Desert and mountain passes in Colorado and also passes through Toronto, Kingston and Montreal before heading south. This will be his third crossing of the continent with  “Sea to Sea” (seatosea.org) which has raised over 2 million dollars for projects that help the poor help themselves. In 2005 they rode from Vancouver to Halifax and in 2008 from Seattle to New Jersey. So far over 200 riders have registered to ride all or part of the tour.

24594 Christopher Chan, Class of ’10, recently competed and won the International Criminal Court Student Network Moot Competition at the University of Cambridge, representing the University of Edinburgh (see the news article here: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/news/newsitem.aspx?blogentryref=9139). He is currently finishing up his law degree at the University of Edinburgh, and is due to graduate in July 2013. He will then be qualifying as a barrister in London, UK starting September 2013, focusing in the practice areas of commercial and public law.

7786 Doug Matthews, Class of ’68, is a twenty-year veteran of the special events industry. An award-winning event producer and entertainment agent, he has extensive teaching experience in the industry and has published three books on the subject of event planning and production. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.

We were in touch with Doug recently to catch up:

“I am proud to announce that my latest book, Stumbling Toward Applause: Misadventures in Entertainment, has just been published. Unlike my previous three textbooks, this one is readable by anyone. It is a collection of short stories and anecdotes about crazy things that actually happened to me while I was in the entertainment and special events industry.”

He added, “Most of the stories are humourous, a few more serious. Overall, it is an easy read, only 176 pages.”

Here is a short synopsis:

Unusual brushes with celebrities like Michael Buble and Diana Krall, jungle animals on the loose, bar fights, pyrotechnics gone awry, technical glitches at award ceremonies, and a sweltering outdoor show for UN troops in war-torn Cambodia – these are a sampling of the stories that await within Stumbling Toward Applause. This inspiring book is the first to reveal real-life, backstage experiences within the relatively young industry of special events. With the consequences of human frailty and conversely human determination as the theme, it takes readers from hilarious live, onstage mishaps to the poignancy of an actor’s untimely death. Under the surface lurk nuggets of wisdom and lessons about life, business, and relationships.

The book is available in both paperback and Kindle versions from Amazon. The direct link to the Amazon page is: Here

Here also is a link to a book preview that is better than the one on Amazon.

Doug’s  writing web site ss Doug’s  special events blog ss Doug’s  photography web site

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10973 John McManus, Class of ’76, finally retired from the CF in March 2013. He served 36 years in the Regular Force completing six Sea King flying tours including appointments as CO HOTEF and CO 443 (MH) Squadron. Serving five more years in the Reserves, highlights included appointments as COS and D/Air Component Commander during the 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Olympics as well as CAOC Director at several RIMPAC exercises.

He capped his final month of service by completing two extremely challenging international triathlons – ‘Escape From Alcatraz’ in San Francisco Bay on March 3rd and ‘Ironman Los Cabos’ in Baja, Mexico on March 17th. The Alcatraz swim this year was brutal with 10.5C rough water which resulted in one death and more than 150 hypothermic athletes. John had a great swim and stayed in the lead during the entire race to win his M55-59 age group.

His first-ever Ironman started well with an age group victory in the Sea of Cortes swim (3800m in 1:03), but extreme heat and four flats on the 180 km ride caused him to concentrate on just completing the event. Residing in North Saanich, BC with his bride of 29 years, Julie, John can usually be found swimming, running and biking in the lakes, trails and roads surrounding Victoria.

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17557 Troy Crosby,  Class of ‘91 was appointed as the new Director General Major Project Delivery (Air), March 27th, 2013. Mr. Crosby was until recently, the Project Manager of the Next Generation Fighter Capability (NGFC) Project in DGMPD(Air). He retired from the Canadian Forces in late 2008 after a 23-year career during which he served as Senior Maintenance Manager for the CF18 Hornet, Officer-in-Charge of Fixed Wing Flight Test, and Weapon System Manager and Project Manager for Tactical and Medium Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Prior to joining the NGFC Project, Mr Crosby was the Director of Operational Services at the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Mr. Crosby is a graduate of the Collège militaire royal de St-Jean, the University of Tennessee, the Empire Test Pilots’ School and the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College. He is married and has two teenage children.

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M0488 Dawn Ottman, Class of ’91, was recently recognized as part of National Women’s History Month by the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development staff of South Dakota for her tenacity in overcoming a debilitating head injury. After a career in the military followed by a decade of success as an engineer, Dawn sustained a head injury. After years of relearning to walk and adjusting to her disability, she made the decision to work when she could, and not give up. So what’s a woman to do when she spends her life contributing and now finds herself requiring too many “accommodations” in the workplace? She creates her own job where she can accommodate her disability challenges. And so it was in 2005, when CanDew Scientific, a small business of one employee and a renewable energy “green engineering” company was formed with assistance received through the Small Business Development Center (SDBC). Centers of this type are funded across the nation in part with assistance from USDA Rural Development.

With experience in satellite electrical power and learned knowledge in wind and other renewable energy technologies, she advises clients on energy efficiency and conservation techniques. She does research development of her ideas for the future energy marketplace. She calls her office building her “Off the Grid Lab”.

Dawn has received two patents and is partnering with the Governor’s Office of Economic Development and National Science Foundation to create a prototype of her first invention (a solar powered LED Christmas light) and exploring ways to optimize her second invention (a hybrid turbine that also collects solar energy).

“My story is a success story or better yet, a story of tenacity,” she says. “Pure and simple tenacity! Don’t give up, you may just be the inspiration your fellow woman needs in order for her to imagine her own success.”

Dawn lives in Lemmon, South Dakota with her husband. She is a cattle farmer’s wife, an engineer and a successful inventor. In her spare time, she is a poet and writer.

http://blogs.usda.gov/2013/03/25/a-south-dakotan%E2%80%99s-commitment-advances-women%E2%80%99s-history/

E3161 Victoria Edwards, Class of ’03 - Approximately 22 years ago, she added her name to the waiting list for a Canadian flag that has flown on Parliament Hill. Her flag, which flew over the Peace Tower on December 4, 2012 arrived from the Department of Public Works on 21 March 2013. To request a flag that has flown on Parliament Hill, you must send a written request with your name, complete home address and telephone number, as well as your choice of flag to minister@pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca. The approximate waiting period is currently at 38 years for a Peace Tower flag and 25 years for the East and West Block flags. Be sure to notify the office of your change of address so that they may update your file. http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/collineduparlement-parliamenthill/batir-building/centre/tour-tower/drp-flg-eng.html

Small World – 5611 Gerry Stowe, Class of ’62, 6715 Yvan Gagnon, Class of ’65 and Dr. Roy Boness, former prof in Mech Engr at RMC, meet during a cruise from Singapore to the Netherlands in MS Rotterdam. The photo was taken during transit of the Red Sea.

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5846 Peter Watson, Class of ’63, is Chairman of the Board at SCM Insurance Services. He has held numerous Board positions in publicly traded, private, public sector and NFP corporations in a number of industries including insurance, mining, oil and gas, aviation, technology health care and government, and he is also a Director of the Institute of Corporate Directors. Prior to becoming fully engaged as a Corporate Director, Peter was President and CEO of Willis Corroon Melling Ltd. He lives in Edmonton.

10238 Ron Guidinger, Class of ’74, currently serves as a TEC Canada Chair. He spent seven years as Vice-President and General Manager of the Services and Support Division with Raytheon Canada, and from 1998 to 2004, as the Senior Program Manager for Command, Control and Communications (C3) Systems for General Dynamics Canada. He served 28 years in the RCAF as a fighter pilot and senior officer, and flew 12 combat sorties in the CF18 Hornet during the 1st Gulf War. He was named the Honorary President of the Air Force Association for Alberta from 2005 to 2010 and is currently the Honorary Colonel for the 419 Tactical Fighter Training Squadron in Cold Lake, Alberta. Living in Airdrie, Alberta with his bride of 36 years, Cindy, Ron is the proud father of Nicole and Chloë and grandfather to Madison and Gabriel.

13605 Greg Caws, Class of ’82, is currently serving as the Vice President of Technical Operations at InboundWriter, where he is responsible for managing the product development and technology operations teams.. Prior to that, he led the team that designed the telecommunications and information technology infrastructure for Vancouver’s successful 2010 Olympic bid. Outside the office Greg is an avid skier and kiteboarder. He particularity enjoys sailing in the Bahamas with his family.

17604 Randy Peckham, Class of ’91, is the Founder of IDS Systems and has been spearheading the organization since its inception in in 1995. In addition to providing strategic direction, he is the Senior Technologist within the organization. He has been assuming various consulting roles since 1996 and continues to service clients in this capacity.As a strong leader, Randy ensures that his team of professional resources are properly selected and supported and that client deliverables meet or exceed required standards.

17431 Stephen Boyne, Class of ’90, is the Head of the Individual Behaviour and Performance Section at Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) Toronto. He retired from the Canadian Forces in 2010 after 23 years of service, 18 as an Infantry Officer and 5 as a Bioscience Officer. His military career includes employment with 3PPCLI, at the Land Forces Western Area Training Centre, as a project officer in the Director of Land Requirements and in a number of positions at DRDC Toronto.

Upon his retirement from the CF he became a civilian employee of the Department of National Defence in his current position. His research interests include spatialized audio and situation awareness and the human factors aspects of small arms. He also has extensive experience with field experimentation. He has provided Human Factors input to a number of military acquisition projects and several major research projects. He has served as Canada’s Human Factors representative on a number of NATO and TTCP panels and workgroups. He is currently filling the role of Acting Deputy Director General for DRDC Toronto in addition to his section head position.

19167 Greg Ivey, Class of ’95, is the Commanding Officer of the 2nd Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. He deployed to Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, with the 1RCR Battle Group as part of Task Force 3-06 with E Battery, 2 RCHA, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his role in Operation Medusa. He completed the Joint Command and Staff Programme, Toronto, in 2009-2010 and was immediately posted to the Canadian Forces Counter-IED Task Force in July 2010 to lead strategic level Attack the Network activities with other government departments. He took command of 2 RCHA in November 2010.

He is an avid hockey and rugby player, and he enjoys a number of hobbies including guitar and photography. He is married to Joanne and is the proud father of three children: Grayson, Jenna and Jillian.

23140 Chris Dare, Class of ’05, is in the process of climbing the “7 Summits”, the highest peak on each continent. To date, he has completed Kilimanjaro in Africa, Elbrus in Europe, Denali in North America, and Aconcagua in South America. Dare plans to summit Carstensz pyramid in Oceania in the summer of 2013, Vinson in Antarctica in 2014, and finish off with Everest in 2016. As of March 2010, there have been less than 300 climbers who have accomplished this feat and only 7 Canadians. To be able to stand amongst the world’s great would be an incredible honour, Dare says. He only hopes that he can live up to their standard and hopefully motivate others around him to do the same.

He spent his first 6 years as an Army Signals Officer and is now studying to become a dentist at the University of British Columbia for the forces.  Military life has kept him on my toes and he’s had the opportunity to train and travel all across Canada and the United States.  In 2009-2010, he deployed to Kandahar Province, Afghanistan for a 10 month deployment.

3 Ex-Cadets on Executive Team at Discovery Air

Discovery Air provides safe and reliable aviation and logistics services in challenging environments. They operate over 160 aircraft with their 850 team members, delivering airborne training to the Canadian military; air ambulance services; airborne fire services; helicopter operations; fixed-wing air charter services; expediting and logistics support; and a range of maintenance, repair, overhaul, modification, engineering and certification services. (http://www.discoveryair.com/)

17428 Paul Bouchard, Class of ’90, is currently President, Discovery Air Defence Services. He is a former CF-18 Pilot and graduate of the the prestigious CF-18 Fighter Weapons Instructor Course, Canada’s “Top Gun” School. He previously served as President of Discovery Air Innovations.

17398 Didier Toussaint, Class of ’90, serves as the Group President, Government Services. He is also a former CF–18 Pilot, and was awarded the prestigious “Top Gun” award for his best overall performance on his CF-18 Fighter Weapons Instructor Course. He is also the founder of Top Aces, which provides tactical aviation training to the Canadian Armed Forces.

14741 Jean Genest, Class of ’85, is the President of Discovery Air Technical Services. He is a former Chairman of the Flight Test Section of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, and he previous served as Top Aces’ Vice President of Engineering and Maintenance.

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4151 Allan Tattersall, Class of ’58, retired from NDHQ on 3Feb.1989 where he was serving as DGMEO and CME Branch Advisor. He and Dianne returned to their house in Kingston to begin restoring the house and gardens from the ravages of six family tenants who rented while Al & Dianne were posted away. They are still renovating! Al joined the Kingston Club of the Rideau Trail Association Inc. and became involved on the Club executive and the Board of Directors for some 22 years. He also joined and became actively engaged with other trail enthusiasts lobbying various local municipal councils and adjacent landowners in acquiring abandoned railway right of ways for recreational purposes. Consequently Kingston and area are fortunate to have an excellent trail network comprising the Rideau, Cataraqui, K&P and Waterfront Trails. Al remains active, all be it, at a reduced intensity in hiking, cross-country skiing, canoeing, fishing and hunting and maintaining the family cottage on the Pickeral River. His fondest memories are of his Nahanni River canoe trek with his son Alan to celebrate his 65th and Alan’s 40th birthdays in 2000.

5457 Marc Terreau entered CMR in 1957 and left in 1959. He retired in 1995 as a Major-General and did a few years of consultation in applied ethics. Marc remains focused on his volunteer work with, over the years, the Alzheimer Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County, the Ethics Practitioners’ Association of Canada, the Ottawa Division of the Corps of Commissionaires, the Aerospace Advocacy Committee of the Air Force Association of Canada, the RCAF Commander’s Council, and he also served a number of years as Honorary Colonel of 429 Transport Squadron. He and Lucille have just returned from their ninth cruise and are booked for another one in 2014.

5505 Ron Murray, Class of ’62, retired in 2005 after careers including military service with the RCR, teaching at Queen’s University, management roles in the Ontario Public Service, and private consulting. He now devotes his writing time to an updated and re-focused version of his 1975 PhD thesis at Queen’s University in the field of International Relations. The updated version combines recent neuroscience discoveries regarding the human brain and behaviour with social science and philosophy. The current book entitled “The Reality Instinct: Humanity’s Evolutionary Advantage and Recurring Trap,” explains how human behaviours constrained by the reality of their time and place have provided tremendous evolutionary advantages but have also proved impervious to change when destroying conditions necessary for humanity’s survival. This phenomenon has led to the periodic collapse of societies and civilizations, with obvious implications for humanity’s present global reality trap. The project has evolved over several years with encouragement from Ron’s RMC classmate, Wilf Cude, himself an independent scholar working as writer and publisher in rural Cape Breton. In addition to writing, Ron spends wonderful times with Hélène, family and friends in Toronto and at their cottage near Bancroft, wonderful times with grandchildren, and “less-wonderful” times renovating and repairing his children’s’ homes.

6644 Al Kennedy, Class of ’65, received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal earlier this year. It was presented to him by RAdm William Truelove, Commander Maritime Forces Pacific at MARPAC HQ in Esquimalt on 21 Jan 2013, and was presented for service to Canada, notably on the Boards of Directors of both the Royal Canadian Naval Benevolent Fund and the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Educational Foundation.

7272 Ralph Coleman, Class of ’67 - After retiring in June 2011, Ralph has been enjoying the life of a gentleman of leisure. He and his wife, Sonia, live in Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa. They have two daughters and two granddaughters who also live in the National Capital Region, one daughter working at the National Research Council and the other for National Defence, as a civilian and also as a military reservist.

Because of his extensive experience in the Prime Minister’s Office, the Privy Council Office and as a senior public affairs officer at NDHQ, Ralph makes occasional presentations to military public affairs officer trainees at the Defence Public Affairs Learning Centre on the topics of how Canada is governed and how communications is managed within the federal government. He and his wife, Sonia, like to travel and recently returned from a two-week Caribbean cruise. At last Fall’s RMC reunion, Ralph entered the Old Brigade along with the rest of the Class of 1967 and was pleased that this major milestone was witnessed not only by his immediate family, but also his brother and sister and their spouses. Later in the Fall, Ralph received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to Canada over 50 years of military and public service.

10751 Allan Lee Smith, Class of ’75 – On 28 Feb 13, after over 41 years in uniform, LCol Lee Smith retired from the CF. An Aerospace Engineer, LCol Smith retired from the regular force in 2007. For the past five years, he has been working in the reserve as the Aviation Life Support Equipment Officer at 1 Canadian Air Division Headquarters in Winnipeg. Career highlights included a tour in St. Louis, Missouri in the early days of the CF-18 program and a tour at the High Commission in London as the Assistant Air Force Advisor. For now, Lee and his wife Pat will be remaining in Winnipeg while they make plans for a possible future relocation to Vancouver Island.

20838 Alex Ruff, Class of ’97, is in the second and final year in command of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (2 RCR) at CFB Gagetown; a definite career highlight! This past November, he along with approximately 400 soldiers of the Battalion returned from an eight month deployment on Op ATTENTION Roto 1 based in Kabul, Afghanistan. He will have the honour and privilege of handing over command of 2 RCR to fellow ’97 grad, 20875 LCol Russ Washburn on 13 June 2013. On the personal side, LCol Ruff married his beautiful wife, Erica, just prior to deploying to Afghanistan last February; they celebrated their honeymoon in Mongolia/China last June and then Belize this past January. As well, they were fortunate to have over 30 RMC grads (majority from 1997 but in attendance were 5786 Col (retd) Joe Aitchison, Class of ’63 and 14378 BGen Denis Thompson, Class of ’84) attend their belated wedding reception in Ottawa in January of this year. Finally, they are expecting their first child this August along with a posting back to Ottawa. Pro Patria and TDV!

M0811 Ken Duff, Class of ’01, was recently awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal by BC Premier Christy Clark in recognition of his service to British Columbia and Canada. He was among 75 British Columbia residents who received the Medal at the ceremony. He received it for a “mixed bag” of service, but for the purposes of the award was identified under the “Canadian Forces” category since his most noteworthy service was either in or out of uniform but for the expressed benefit of the CF.

11002 Bill Sergeant’s Efforts Help Needy Children of India

11002 Bill Sergeant, Class of  ’76, who lives in Barrie, ON, traveled with six other volunteers to India with the Canadian charity, “Sleeping Children Around the World” (SCAW) from 7 February – 01 March 2013. Working closely with volunteers from various Rotary Clubs in India, they helped the ‘100% Charity’ distribute 7,000 bed kits to needy children in 17 villages surrounding Mumbai and Belgaum, India.

For Bill, it is his third trip with SCAW but his first as a Team Leader. He has previously distributed bedkits in the Philippines and India. His wife and parents have also been travelling with SCAW since 1984.

Pictured above are some of the 7,000 children who received a bedkit during their distributions. 100% of the $35 donated goes towards purchasing the items shown in the picture. Each bedkit had 37 items in it, including a mat to sleep on and mosquito net to protect them from Malaria.

SCAW is one of the few charities that can claim that 100% of each donation goes towards the bed kits for needy children. It is operated by volunteers, from the processing of donations to the distribution of bed kits. The Travelling Volunteers do so at their own expense and without benefit of a tax receipt. Travelling volunteers supervise the distribution of bed kits, photograph children with their bed kits, and write articles for the donor newsletter. Since SCAW’s inception, over 200 individuals have gone on bed kit distributions. Requisites for travelling volunteers are a love of children and travel experience — with the physical and emotional capacity to withstand this form of travel. All pay their own travel expenses. SCAW offers volunteer information workshops twice a year. If you are interested in travelling with SCAW, please contact us to attend an upcoming workshop at the following link http://www.scaw.org/about/zero.html#travel.

SCAW relies on Overseas Volunteers in the country of distribution who select children with the greatest need, organize the manufacture of bed kits, choose distribution sites, and help travelling volunteers distribute bed kits. Examples of overseas volunteers include groups such as Community Service Clubs, Salvation Army, and Religious Orders. Locally produced bed kits result in:

- elimination of transportation costs

- provision of materials and labour at minimal cost

- employment for families in the country

- assistance to the local economy and the country as a whole.

More information about SCAW can be found at www.scaw.org.

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5119 William Shead, Class of ’61 – Bill is a member of the Peguis First Nation. In retirement he currently serves on the boards of several organizations that support aboriginal economic development, training and education. He is Chair of the Aboriginal Centre of Winnipeg, Vice Chair of the Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development, Secretary-Treasurer of the Sgt. Tommy Prince MM, SS(USA) Memorial Corp and a member of the Board of Directors of Indspire (formerly the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation). At a 14 February gathering of the Indspire Board of Directors prior to the Indspire Awards Show in Saskatoon, Indspire’s President CEO, Roberta Jamieson and the Board Chair, David Tuccaroo presented Bill with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his contributions to the work of Indspire.

6203 Barry Read, Class of ’64, originally from London, England, joined the RCAF in 1960 and graduated from RMC with the Class of 64 in Maths and Physics. He then did post-grad at the University of Western Ontario (now rebranded as Western University). Barry served 35 years in the Canadian Forces as a CELE officer in a great variety of technical positions, principally as a staff officer in Ottawa but not to forget exotic tours in the US and Germany and a radar site in Northern Ontario. On retirement Barry worked 8 years under contract to National Defence Headquarters. In his retirement he volunteers at the Canadian Museum of Nature in its school program, continues his GB stamp collection and pursues the genealogy of family and friends with great interest.

21974 Marc Granlund, Class of ’01, just recently finished his MBA at the Schulich School of Business (York University) with a triple concentration in strategic management, organizational behaviour, and business & sustainability. To celebrate, Marc and his girlfriend will be leaving soon to backpack New Zealand and Australia with a couple major items planned including skydiving in New Zealand and scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef. He has been working in a technical sales role over the past six+ years in the GTA and currently resides in Richmond Hill. Marc played on the varsity hockey team during his four years and continues to play organized hockey today but admits his skills are not quite at the same level! He makes a point of trying to attend one of the RMC varsity hockey games on a yearly basis when they come to Toronto to play.

23671 Pierre-Luc Rivard, Class of ’07, is currently attending Westminster Seminary California, pursuing his calling to the pastoral ministry. This pursuit began when he was an Officer Cadet at the Royal Military College of Canada, when he found himself wrestling with truths that shattered his prejudices and wrong preconceptions about the purpose of existence and the divine. Particularly, he was compelled to consider the trifold credibility of a faith which is anchored in historical events bearing metaphysical weight, logically consistent when the overthrow of old paradigms is considered, and attested by personal experience of the power therein.

In particular, his concern for the souls of men and women flows from the love that was shown to him when he was kicking against the goads of the moral law within and the redemption that was accomplished by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on behalf of sinners. When forced to consider the pursuit of vanity, the end of the matter is inevitable: injustice prevails, power is never enough, pleasure is insatiable, riches perish, and death takes us all. But, when we enter God’s courtroom, we learn that every deed will be brought into judgment, our daily lot is a gift to enjoy, and the song of the redeemed will ever be heard, since the sting of death is removed along with their transgressions.

To those old colleagues and friends, here is a word to contemplate: Consider that there is a sure hope, a saving faith, and a true God. Far from the vain imaginations of men, there is a divine being who has revealed Himself to a fallen humanity, reaching down from eternity to heal our broken bodies and souls. The truth of the matter cannot be conjured up; it can only be received and believed.

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8391 Larry Cade, Class of ’70; 15598 James Bachynsky, Class of ’86; 19874 Brian Macdonald, Class of ’95; and 24078 Morgan Oliviero, Class of ’08

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ex-Cadet named Sr Vice President, PSP, in Ottawa

16158 Commodore Mark B. Watson, (Class of ’87) Director General Personnel and Family Support Services, made the announcement this past Thursday that 13068 Peter Atkinson, Class of ’81, has been named Sr Vice President, PSP, in Ottawa. Mr. Atkinson retired from the CF in December of 2011 at the rank of BGen. He served as the Chief of Staff to the Vice Chief of the Defense Staff as well as Deputy Commanding General of III Corps, United States Army, from July 2008 to July 2011. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from RMCC, as well as a Masters in Military and Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College. Mr. Atkinson will officially assume the position of VP PSP on 1 May 2013.

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6606 Capt(N) (Ret) RCN Roger Chiasson, Class of ’65 was presented the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal with his wife, Bonnie in attendance by RAdm David Gardam on board HMCS SACKVILLE on Friday the 22nd of February.

9758 Shawn Coyle, Class of ’73, was recently awarded ‘Communicator of the Year’ by the Helicopter Association International. He says it’s not bad for an engineer who didn’t want to write reports!

17312 Jennie Carignan, Classe de ’90, est chef d’état-major du Secteur du centre de la Force terrestre/Force opérationnelle interarmées du centre dans les Forces canadiennes à Toronto depuis 2011. En 2011, la colonelle Carignan reçoit la médaille du Service méritoire par le Gouverneur général du Canada pour son service en Afghanistan en 2009-2010. Elle est aussi récipiendaire du prix Major General Hans Schlup pour l’excellence en relations internationales. En 2011, elle est nommée parmi les 100 femmes les plus influentes au Canada par le Réseau des femmes exécutives. Jennie Carignan est mère de quatre enfants.

21750 Marie-Noël Duhaime, Class of ’00, recently returned to work from the maternity leave of her second baby girl. She currently works as a Manager, Resource Planning with Sun Life Financial in Montréal, Québec.

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While many cadets and staff were away to points all over the world during Reading Week, the 2013 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the national women’s curling championship was being held in Kingston. A number of Cadets who stayed around for the week attended a number of the games. One such cadet, 1st year Naval Cadet Marisa Warner who met up with 7301 Earle Morris, Class of ’67, coach of the Ontario team who eventually won the championship by defeating Manitoba in the final.

Earle, Marisa and Paddy (her mom) share a love for curling. Marisa is curling in the recreational curling league at RMCC on Friday evenings. She was 3rd in the province for the Boys (yup – boys – she played 2nd and held the broom for skips rocks) high school curling championships last year.

Paddy and husband, Dale  were thrilled to chat with Earle last weekend. Team Ontario provided Marisa and one other lucky girl each 2 tickets for the weekend Scotties last weekend.

The Warner family went to 5 draws between Saturday and Sunday.

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All Ex Cadets who attended RMC Kingston: if you were at RMC between 1974 & 1994, you might remember my friend and co-worker, Norleen Hope.

Among other things such as arranging vehicles for exercises and TD claims for military & civilian staff, Norleen Hope was a key to the success of the yearly graduation. In one week, the college sent up to 750 cadets off to their futures as graduates or to their summer training, often involving 3 or 4 training places for one cadet between end May to end August. Every cadet & every location involved a separate travel claim with message numbers and the myriad of other admin details, all of which had to be 100% correct with flights booked and/or POMV details. In my time as staff (1981 to 1983), there were easily in excess of 2000 claims to be initiated, signed, etc; then the sometimes green-as-grass cadet had to be briefed on what he/she was doing, where he/she was going and how he/she was going to get there. Mrs Hope managed this incredibly complex work for 20 years, usually with the help of only one other staff member. It was an incredible feat that repeated itself yearly and as the number of cadets increased, the amount of work expanded as well. Her middle name was Devoted!

Maybe you were one of the cadets or staff who received a claim that officially didn’t exist and would be destroyed on your safe return to the college? Snuck into the signing authority with instructions “just sign, don’t ask” so that someone could make it to a wedding or to visit a relative whose situation didn’t quite qualify as compassionate yet? (No, Harky/Bob/Gerry, no, she never really did this, I’m just making this part up, honest!) Norleen had only one child but to her, every cadet who went through RMC in her years is like one of her children or grandchildren now. Norleen was an amazing woman and was rewarded with numerous awards and so on but there is nothing she appreciates as much as a word or two from her RMC cadets & co-workers. This past week in Stratford ON where she now lives, we reviewed some of the RMC memories and people of which she is most proud, currently Chris Hatfield and Tom Lawson, although there have been so many over the years.

Norleen will turn 75 in May 2013. I am hoping to compile a scrapbook of birthday greetings from former cadets and staff of all ilk. Please send them to: Theresa Winchester by email – tjw_ca@yahoo.ca – or postal mail (988 McPherson Cres, Kincardine ON N2Z 1M4), with a photo if possible. Also, please pass this along to any ex-RMC people you know.

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M0361 Theresa Winchester

The night before he turned 90 years young, a number of friends of 2745 Don Clevland (centre) met up at the Halifax Club to help celebrate the special occasion. Included in the large group were fellow RMC graduates – 11837 Dale Robertson (left) and 8120 Bill Gard (right).

Mayor of Halifax, Mike Savage also attended and made a special presentation to Don which marked the special occasion.

We are always on the lookout for ex-Cadets to add to our Class Notes section. If you are or if you know of an Ex Cadet with something interesting going on, we want to hear about it! Whether it’s career related or more related to personal/family life, we would like to know what’s going on with you and / or them.

Just send a short write up, and, if you want, a recent JPEG appropriate photo, to: everitas.classnotes@gmail.com.

The Role of the Militia in Today’s Canadian Forces:

5557 Lt. Col.-Dr. John A. English, Class of ’62 retired from the Canadian army in 1993 with 37 years service in the King’s Own Calgary Regiment, the Queen’s Own Rifles, and Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. Educated at Royal Roads and the Royal Military College, he went on leave without pay to attain an MA in history from Duke University in 1964. He graduated from Canadian Forces Staff College in 1972, attained an MA in war studies from RMC in 1980, and a Ph.D. from Queen’s University in 1989. During his career he served as a NATO war plans officer, Chief of Tactics of the Combat Training Centre, instructor at the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College, and curriculum director of the National Defence College. He is the author of A Perspective on Infantry republished in paperback as On Infantry (Praeger, 1984), The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command (Praeger, 1991), Marching through Chaos: The Descent of Armies in Theory and Practice (Praeger, 1996), Lament for an Army: The Decline of Canadian Military Professionalism (Irwin, 1998), Patton’s Peers: The Forgotten Allied Field Army Commanders of the Western Front 1944-45 (Stackpole, 2009), and Surrender Invites Death: Fighting the Waffen SS in Normandy (Stackpole, 2011). He is also co-author of On Infantry: Revised Edition (Praeger, 1994)[translated into Chinese] and principal editor of The Mechanized Battlefield: A Tactical Analysis (Pergamon, 1984). In 1992 he received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council fellowship and a professorship at Queen’s University. In 1994 he was awarded a SSHRC research grant and between 1997 and 2002 served as a Professor of Strategy with the US Naval War College. Source: http://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Role-Of-The-Militia/138841

16169 Andrew Anderson, Class of ’88 – Andy, Heidi and son Daniel (10) live in Seattle, WA. For the most part Heidi and Andy spend their time getting Daniel to and from various hockey rinks in the Pacific North West and Lower Mainland BC. To finance these efforts, Andy does, however, have to go to work. He is Vice President of Hayward Baker – a geotechnical services specialty contracting company. He oversees the work they do in the Pacific North West, USA and Western Canada. Please don’t hesitate to look him up if travels bring you through Seattle.

16257 Mario Gagne, Class of ’88, is married to Helene Gilbert and has 3 sons (14 and 9 year old twins). He lives in Sept-Îles, in the northern part of Quebec. It is a mining region and has one of the biggest Aluminium smelter in America. Mario has been working for ArcelorMittal Mines Canada since 1995 and he is actually working as the Engineering and Construction manager for their Expansion plan in Port Cartier (Québec), the largest mining project in Canada. This project consists essentially of going from 16M tons to 24M tons of iron ore concentrate production a year.

Mario has lived in Sept-Îles since 1991 after completing his Mechanical engineering degree at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. He is also involved in his community participating in a Salmon river conservation committee. He has also been involved in the local downhill ski resort since 1996.

OLD BRIGADE ADVISORY COUNCIL

The following members of the Old Brigade have offered to serve on the Old Brigade Advisory Council (OBAC):

3959 Phil Smith — Entry Class 1953 RMC

4595 Jarrott Holtzhauer — Entry Class 1955 RRMC

4800 Bruce Morris — Entry Class 1956 RMC

5604 Ken Smee — Entry Class 1958 RRMC

5758 Mike Morres — Entry Class 1958 CMR

7207 Edmond Ferenczi — Entry Class 1962 CMR

The Club’s Constitution calls for a Council consisting of the Assistant Adjutant and one representative from each of at least ten Old Brigade classes.

There is a possibility for 4 more members to join this select Council. If you are interested, please contact me at: clocloarch@sympatico.ca.

6116 Claude Archambault Assistant Adjutant Old Brigade

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CONSEIL CONSULTATIF DE LA VIEILLE BRIGADE

Les membres de la Vieille Brigade suivants ont offert de servir au sein du Conseil Consultatif de la Vieille Brigade (CCVB):

3959 Phil Smith Classe d’entrée 1953 RMC

4595 Jarrott Holtzhauer Classe d’entrée 1955 RRMC

4800 Bruce Morris Classe d’entrée 1956 RMC

5604 Ken Smee Classe d’entrée 1958 RRMC

5758 Mike Morres Classe d’entrée 1958 CMR

7207 Edmond Ferenczi Classe d’entrée 1962 CMR

La constitution du club veut que le Conseil soit composé de l’adjudant adjoint et d’un représentant d’au moins dix promotions de la Vieille Brigade.

Il y a une possibilité pour que quatre autres membres puissent se joindre à ce Conseil prestigieux. Si vous êtes intéressé, veuillez communiquer avec moi par courriel à: clocloarch@sympatico.ca.

6116 Claude Archambault Adjudant adjoint de la Vieille Brigade

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We are always on the lookout for ex-Cadets to add to our Class Notes section. If you are or if you know of an Ex Cadet with something interesting going on, we want to hear about it! Whether it’s career related or more related to personal/family life, we would like to know what’s going on with you and / or them.

Just send a short write up, and, if you want, a recent JPEG appropriate photo, to: everitas.classnotes@gmail.com.

10351 Claude Émond, Class of ’74, est un des fondateurs et le président des Entreprises Qualiscope Inc. (www.qualiscope.ca), une firme de Montréal spécialisée en consultation, coaching et formation-action en gestion de projets, programmes et portefeuilles. Il a un baccalauréat en génie chimique du Royal Military College (Beng), une maîtrise en ingénierie de l’université McGill (Meng), un MBA de l’université d’Ottawa, une formation en animation d’atelier du Centre québécois de la PNL et est certifié PMP. Il a plus de 25 ans d’expérience dans la gestion de projets majeurs autant dans le secteur public que privé. Il enseigne la gestion des risques de projet pour les programmes de certification avancée en gestion de projet du Schulich School of Business (U. York) et de l’université Laval, en plus d’enseigner plusieurs cours en gestion de projets, de programmes et de portefeuilles pour le programme de Mastère spécialisé en management par projet du CESI, à Lyon et à Aix-en-Provence, France. Il est un des co-auteurs de la nouvelle norme du PMI, «The Standard for Portfolio Management».

12977 Raymond Kao, Class of ’82 - On 31 January 2013, Raymond Kao was awarded the Group Captain G. Edward Hall AFC, RCAF Chair in Military Critical Care Research by the Surgeon General, his 1982 classmate 13712 BGen Jean-Robert Bernier. It is the first such research chair in Canada and will support Capt(N) Kao’s innovative research in shock management and resuscitation for battle casualties. Capt(N) Kao, originally a naval engineer, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Western University, a research scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute, a critical care specialist at London Health Sciences Centre, the senior internal medicine and critical care adviser to the Surgeon General, and one of the world’s top critical care researchers.

19033 Nick Grimshaw, Class of ’93, is currently the Commanding Officer of the First Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton, AB. Upon graduating from RMC in 1993, Nick served with the Second Battalion PPCLI and was deployed on operations to Croatia under UNPROFOR and Bosnia under the NATO SFOR mission. In 2006, then Major Grimshaw deployed to Afghanistan under Operation Enduring Freedom with Task Force Orion and commanded B Company 2PPCLI. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for his actions during this operational tour. Prior to assuming command of 1PPCLI, Nick spent time in Ottawa with both CEFCOM and CANSOFCOM. He currently resides in St. Albert, AB with his wife Joanna and their two daughters, Rowen (11) and Jamie (8). He still listens to loud rock music and has an impressive music collection.

19349 Chris Howlett, Class of ’94, graduated from RMC Kingston in 1994 and has since served in a variety of positions on the East and West Coast, as well as at NDHQ. He recently completed the Joint Command and Staff Programme at the Canadian Forces College, Toronto, and is presently serving as the Fleet Technical Officer for the Canadian Fleet Atlantic. Commander Howlett is married with two young sons, and lives in Hubley, NS. Together, he and his family enjoy kayaking around their home and spending time around a camp fire.

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We are always on the lookout for ex-Cadets to add to our Class Notes section. If you are or if you know of an Ex Cadet with something interesting going on, we want to hear about it! Whether it’s career related or more related to personal/family life, we would like to know what’s going on with you and / or them.

Just send a short write up, and, if you want, a recent JPEG appropriate photo, to: everitas.classnotes@gmail.com.

RCNC 16 Christopher G. Pratt, Royal Roads 1942-43, Retired from the Navy in 1978 with the rank of Captain. He is living by the sea not far from Royal Roads University, where at a recent meeting of the Vancouver Island Branch of the Ex Cadet Club, he was elected their Honorary President.

He is Chair of The Metchosin Foundation and a Patron of the nearby Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, in which he takes an active interest. He’s also a Younger Brother of Trinity House, one of the two Canadians who hold that distinction.

He enjoys kayaking in the summer and yoga all year round, as well as travel and family visits to Nova Scotia and Ontario. Last May 25459 OCdt Christopher W. Pratt, graduated from RMC, and Chris was honoured to present his grandson with his commission.

Chris has lost contact with his classmates, except for RCNC 15, John L. Nicol, who lives in Vancouver. He’d like to hear from any others who may read this. cgpratt@shaw.ca

8276 Marc Garneau, Class of ’70, and former astronaut, is again striving to take Canada to new heights, this time as a candidate for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. As well as all his other accomplishments, Marc is obviously very proud of being a graduate of RMC and proud of his service in the Navy. He will be visiting all parts of Canada over the next couple of months, giving many of his ex-Cadet friends an opportunity to meet with him. As well, many will undoubtedly watch Marc on TV during the five televised debates across the country. Marc was recently in Kingston, and has two more visits planned on 11 and 15 February. All of Marc’s RMC friends wish him all the best in his further service to Canada. His campaign website is at: http://marcgarneau.ca/.

9143 Bruce McAlpine, Class of ’72, President of Fulcrum Search Science Inc., saw his company grow 48% in 2012. He attributes his success to staying true to their core values while broadening their reach, and by focusing on relationships built through meaningful and consistent communication.

10120 Peter Hoes, Class of ’74 – After 35 years in the uniform Peter retired in Sep 2005 with classmate Roger Westwood in a ‘2-for-1 special’ that made several officers in the Navy’s MARE occupation very happy. Peter then worked as a Class ‘B’ Reservist at the Navy’s request in two different positions until Apr 07 when he joined ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems Canada (TKMSC), which is pursuing contracts related to the Joint Support Ship (JSS) project to replace the Navy’s PROTECTEUR- class supply ships, VICTORIA-class submarine in-service support, JSS and Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship in-service support and the Canadian Surface Combatant ship project. He will mark 6 years with TKMSC soon and enjoys his three-day work weeks (and four-day weekends!).

Peter and his wife Trish (a Director in Health Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health branch) are currently owned by their 4th and 5th Shetland Sheepdogs who are ‘rescues’ (from non-abusive circumstances) in need of a new home. In his spare time, Peter enjoys walking the aforementioned dogs, home computing, home improvement, and Broadway shows and Pops Series concerts at the National Arts Centre. He and Trish also take Ballroom and Latin dance classes but find progress slow in an activity that is more difficult than it looks. They have recently discovered the wonderful world of cruise ships and have two cruises booked in 2013 and at least one in 2014. Still wondering where time went, Peter hopes to see as many classmates as possible at the 40th reunion in 2014.

12855 Robert Perron, Class of ’81 – After 36 years of service which included assignments as Director of Cadets and Junior Canadian Rangers, the Canadian Defence Attache in Abu Dhabi, UEA, and the Director of Foreign Liaison, Robert Perron retired on 1 Oct 2012 and now enjoys the winter slopes as a ski instructor in St-Donat, QC. Summer will be spent volonteering at the local sailing club. He also has the priviledge of being the personal taster for the Pastry Chef at a local resort, his wife Sylvie.