TARGET IN SIGHT!
Leonard Birchall Pavilion: Target $900,000

We have now received $810,000 in donations and pledges and require $90,000 to reach our target by year end 2007. Support to the project has been overwhelming! We ask that if you have not done so to please make a gift to the Birchall Pavilion before December 31st.

You will receive an income tax receipt and be a part of a great sports facility that will benefit Cadets everyday!

To those of you who have already given, THANK YOU!

2008 REUNION CLASSES

The Birchall Pavilion Project could benefit from your generous support and will ensure your class is recognized on our donor wall of honour.Please see the RMC Foundation’s Website for details on donating: www.rmcclubfoundation.ca

See the video of Don Cherry wearing the RMC "red & white" scarf (available in the RMC Gift Shop) on HNIC.

For many of your Shopping ideas, consider the RMC Club Gift Shop:
http://www.rmcclub.ca/GiftShop/GiftShop.htm

IN THIS ISSUE 28

Death Notice: 3746 Paul Roy Lavallée, (CMR ’52 / RMC ’57);

10973 Rocky McManus (RMC ’76) changes flight path;

Danny McLeod Honoured @ Toronto Leadership Dinner;

Calgary Branch to Host Hockey Team Over The Holidays;

RMC Principal to Retire in July;

Author Christie Blatchford Visits RMC;

Rob Parent and 15 Rifles Training For Afghanistan;

29 Ex cadets – Where are they now;

Class of ’65 Ex Cadet – Honoured With International Pension Award;

Flashback: Things go bump in the night in Hatley Castle;

CDAI Seminar & AGM for CDA Scheduled for February in Ottawa;

Democracy: Diversity and the RMC connection;

Class of ‘84 & the Marine Corps Marathon;

Courir pour sauver des vies / Running to Save Lives

And much, much more…

“The Royal Military College is a higher education institution that plays an essential role for the Canadian Forces and for our country…  Throughout the ranks, the leadership of the Canadian Forces is smart, flexible and adaptive. And a good deal of the credit for this should  go to the Royal Military College. This is a vital national institution… Here, today, much of tomorrow’s military leadership is being forged. RMC will continue to provide the professional development that the CF needs to successfully face the challenges that surely lay head.”
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/newsroom/view_news_e.asp?id=2518

Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence

The following four have another thing in common besides being gentlemen Ex cadets:
7264 KR Betts; 8241 VM Caines; 8335 JEC Naud; & 9318 DB Bindernagel.

a. RMC was their CMC of entry;
b. All are former Commandants of RRMC;
c. All attended CMR prior to arrival at RMC; or
d. All four were varsity team curlers.

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3746 Paul Roy Lavallée, (CMR ’52 / RMC ’57) est décédé le 23 novembre, 2007, à Aylmer, QC. Funérailles à l’église St. Paul, Aylmer, à 13h30 mardi, 27 novembre.

3746 Paul Roy Lavallée, (CMR ’52 / RMC ’57), died November 23, 2007 at Aylmer, QC. Funeral service at St. Paul’s Church, Aylmer, at 1:30 PM Tuesday, November 27.

Voir avis à http://www.whughes.ca/RMC/Obit%20Lavallee.htm

10973 Rocky McManus (RMC ’76) changes flight path Victoria Lookout – Victoria,British Columbia,Canada

At 21, after graduating from the Royal Military College (RMC) and then completing Air Navigator Training in Winnipeg, he received his wings and a posting to …http://www.lookoutnewspaper.com/archive/20071126/4.shtml

The RMC, CMR and RRMC Class of 1995 has created a Group on Facebook:
http://rmcca.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5593331308.
Please consider joining in order to keep current on Class events. You can always visit the Class of 1995 website too: http://classof1995.rmcclub.ca/.

La classe de RMC, de CMR et de RRMC de 1995 a créé un groupe sur Facebook :
http://rmcca.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5593331308.
Considérez svp se joindre afin de garder le courant sur des événements de classe. Vous pouvez toujours visiter la classe du site Web 1995 aussi:
http://classof1995.rmcclub.ca/.
Best Regards, 19930, Nicholas Vlachopoulos, Class of 1995 Secretary

 Danny McLeod honoured at dinner

CDS attends fundraiser for wounded warriors

… bursary to allow members of the reserve forces to attend the royal military college. the royal military college (rmc) is a national academic institution … http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=795940

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RMC principal to retire in July; Cowan praised as ‘renaissance man’
The Kingston Whig-Standard – Kingston,Ontario,Canada
He came to Royal Military College at a time of great change in Canada’s Armed Forces. During his tenure as RMC principal, John Scott Cowan was instrumental … [Read More]

New Principal for RMC

Many ex-cadets will be aware that John Cowan, the College’s Principal for the past almost nine years, will be retiring in the summer of 2008. He will be a tough act to follow but the search for a successor is already underway. The executive search firm in which I am a partner, Ray & Berndtson, is proud to have been selected to assist the Board of Governors in this recruitment effort and I, as an ex-cadet, am particularly happy to be involved.

The position of Principal is of vital importance to the College’s reputation and its future and we, as ex-cadets, have a direct and vested interest in who that person will be. John Cowan himself suggested to me that there may potentially be no better source of advice and recommendations on a successor than RMC ex- cadets themselves.

My motive in contacting you today is to invite your participation in the process. If you know personally or have any thoughts about a distinguished Canadian, male or female, who would be ideally suited for the job, please send me a note at ross.betts@rayberndtson.ca and let me know. To give you an idea of the type of individual we are looking for, I have enclosed below the French and English language versions of ads that we ran recently in major Canadian newspapers.

Thanks in advance for your interest in this important undertaking,
7264 K. Ross Betts (RMC ’67)

RMC Principal Career Opportunity – English
RMC Principal Career Opportunity – French

Fifteen Days in Afghanistan Blatchford style
By Capt Paule Poulin

“A typical Afghan day is all messed up and unpredictable,” says columnist and author Christie Blatchford.

Ms. Blatchford should know, she is after all the author of the new book Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army. She wrote the book after three trips as an embedded journalist in Afghanistan in 2006, and after numerous interviews back in Canada with soldiers, commanders, families and friends of soldiers who survived or died during their deployment.

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By next summer, Brockvill Rifles commanding officer Lt.-Col. Robert Parent and up to 15 reservists and regular forces members about 15 per cent of its total effective strength – will have their boots on the ground in Kandahar as part of Canada’s 2,500-member mission in Afghanistan.

Rob Parent is a former assistant hockey coach at RMC during the Andy Scott era and the head coach of the varsity rugby team during the mid to late 1990s and beyond
US Army recruiting anthropologists Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada

“I want people to ask the hard questions: Why is the Royal Military College still producing engineers for what other people are calling the anthropologists’ …

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/279646

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5196 Rob I Martin (RMC 1961) is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, where he has been a member of the Faculty of Law since 1975. He earned a B.A. from the Royal Military College of Canada (1961), a LL.B. from the University of Toronto (1967) and a LL.M. (with distinction) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, (1971). He was called to the Bar of Ontario (1978). He was a member of the Faculty of Law, at the University of Nairobi (1973-1975) and at the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (1971-1973). He served as a Lieutenant in the Canadian Army, Regular Force (1961-1964). He has authored ten books and articles in Canadian and International Periodicals. caejc@uwo.ca

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6584 Keith Ambachtsheer (RRMC RMC ’65)
Honoured With International Pension Award.

Toronto – A world-renowned expert in pensions, who is the director of the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM) at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, has been recognized with the top Outstanding Industry Contribution Award at the 7th annual IPE European Pension Fund Awards.

Keith Ambachtsheer, an adjunct professor at the Rotman School, was one of ten nominees for the award, which was voted on by readers of Investments & Pensions Europe, a London-based pension magazine and website. He received his award during an awards dinner held in Vienna on November 15.

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Things go bump in the night in Hatley Castle

A team from the B.C. Society of Paranormal Investigation and Research into the Supernatural (B.C. SPIRITS) came to Royal Roads University in 2006 to investigate widely told stories of paranormal activity in and around Hatley Castle, once the home of James Dunsmuir and Royal Roads Military College between 1940 and 1995. B.C. SPIRITS uncovered video evidence of what they described as a grey cloud moving quickly up a staircase and several still shots of a shadow behind one of their people and a floating face in the main foyer of the castle.

http://www.royalroads.ca/about-rru/

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