Who said – “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” – 2Lt Kayne Carr just days before he leaves for Gagetown has been teaching an old dog, aka Bill Oliver how to do some of the technical side of putting out the e-Veritas. Although the “Old Dog” has not mastered all the tricks he is trying. We still have a long way to go!

Regular readers are asked to bear with us for a few editions! We have a number of great articles In This Issue – Ex cadets should find the three articles from Cadets interesting – in particular, Plans for the New RMC Uniform (What’s Happening Around RMC).

W2392 HOLMAN, Frances Margaret (nee Macdonald)
FRANCES MARGARET HOLMAN (NEE MACDONALD) 1915 ¬ 2008 Peacefully at the Ottawa (Civic) Hospital following a stroke, Frances died in her 93rd year on 23 January 2008 in the loving company of her daughter Susan. Born in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia on Friday, 13 August 1915, she was the daughter of the manager of the Marconi wireless station, Donald Macdonald and Katherine Fraser. Predeceased by her beloved husband Air Commodore Donald Morison, brother Bill Macdonald and sister-in-law Dorothy (Gainesville, Florida), and infant daughter Mary. She is survived by her son Fraser and wife Sandy (Toronto), daughter Sue and husband Ted Baker (Ottawa) and son Rob and wife Kathy (Cor vallis, Oregon), as well as five grandchildren, Robin (Jenny), Lori, Kelly (Christa), Aran (Chrissy) and Sean (Elizabeth), and five greatgrandchildren, Brandon, Alexandra, Kylie, Rhys, and newborn Maeve. She will be fondly remembered by her numerous friends and relations, who were touched by her love of life, her grace and wisdom, and not least her unique singing voice. The family wishes to thank the caring staff of the Ottawa Hospital for ensuring her comfort for the last few weeks of her life. The family will receive visitors in Ottawa at Rideau Place, 550 Wilbrod Street, on Friday, 1 February between 2 and 5p.m. A memorial service will be held in Kingston at St George’s Cathedral, 270 King Street at 2p.m. on Saturday, 2 February, followed by a reception at the Kingston Yacht Club, 1 Maitland Street. Donations in Frances’ memory may be made to the CNIB, 1929 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, M4G 3E8, or to a charity of your choice. Arrangements entrusted to Robert J. Reid & Sons Funeral Home, 613-548-7973. Online condolences at www.reidfuneralhome.com
 

8482 Patrick J. Bitz (RRMC 1966), Q.C. April 17, 1948-December 26, 2007.
He was accepted in to the Royal Canadian Navy and attended Royal
Roads Military College in Victoria, BC but returned to the U of S to
eventually graduate from the College of Law. Pat articled with the
firm of MacDermid, Wright, Dickson, Malloy and Biss, now known
as MacDermid Larmarsh and he had been a partner since 1978. In his 36
years of practice he enjoyed litigation more than anything, did hundreds of
trials over the years and eventually gravitated exclusively to Family Law. Pat
was appointed Queen’s Council in 2003 in recognition of his many
accomplishments over the years. In addition to his legal career, Pat was
very involved with his church and the Saskatoon community. He is lovingly
remembered by his loving wife, Colleen; son, Shane; daughter, Erin, son-inlaw,
Kraig and granddaughters. He was predeceased by their beloved daughter,
Amanda on August 2, 1996. The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on
Monday, December 31, 2007 at Holy Family Church.
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 THANK YOU!
$900,000 for The Leonard Birchall Pavilion…. SUCCESS!
Construction to commence in 2008
http://www.rmcclubfoundation.ca/en/index-e.shtml

Commemorative Stones
Order your Commemorative Stone online!
http://www.rmcclubfoundation.ca/en/giving/stones.shtml
 

2008 RMC Graduation Schedule:  Read the rest of this entry »

15133 LCdr Wade Knorr (RRMC RMC 1985) CD1,
LCdr Wade Knorr will retire on 24 February 2007, after 26+ years of dedicated service to the Canadian Forces, the Navy, and the MARE Branch. A retirement reception was held for him 18 Jan. During his 26 years of service LCDR Knorr acquired two degrees. His first degree, a BEng, was earned by splitting his time between RRMC and RMC. His second degree, a masters of science, was earned attending the University of Arizona. He completed his initial training on the west coast, sailing on HMCS Mackenzie, before moving to Halifax to complete cse phase training. He completed his phase vi and a/cseo training on HMCS Ottawa and then worked ashore for four years at the naval engineering unit atlantic (neu(a)) before returning to sea on HMCS Nipigon as the cseo hod from 1993 to 1995 and then onwards to Tucson, Arizona for post-graduate studies. Upon completing studies LCdr Knorr was posted to Ottawa where he worked for DGMEPM, PMO MASIS and Canada Command in succession. He recently returned to Ottawa from attending the JCSP course in Toronto. Wade intends to remain in Ottawa with his wife Ann and his four daughters. He will be staying within the material group as he has accepted an engineering position within DGMSSC / DMPP. Well wishes, anecdotes and salty dips and downright lies may STILL be forwarded to lynch.dj@forces.gc.ca

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The RMC Physical Performance Test (RMCPPT) is a College related requirement that is part of military college training, but is not part of the CF (MPFS).The CF EXPRES evaluation is a fitness test, which predicts the member’s ability to meet how many common military tasks?
a   2
b   3
c   4  or
d   5

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”For all of us, this experience [of winning the Great Northern
Concrete Toboggan Race of 2006] reminded us how little the general
public knows about the military and RMC. I was surprised by the
reaction of others when we were in uniform. It was a humble reminder
how the public views our uniformed image apart from our personal one.
We went from being the unknown underdog to the crowd favourite.”

23381 Joel Rubletz (RMC ‘06)

http://www.rmcclub.ca/eVeritas/2006/Issue05/200605.htm

Paladins Win 2 of 3 - Three Games Remaining
Play-offs – First Place Possible                                                                   

RMC Paladins had one of their most challenging periods in the long history of the team last week during OUA action. Fighting for their play-offs lives, they had to play three games in four nights. Each encounter had tremendous consequences. In the first game, they lost a close 3-2 match against Queen’s; in Toronto they downed a much improved Ryerson team by a 4-1 count. Less than 24 hours they had to return home and compete against a very strong McGill Redmen team and prevailed 2-1. Read the rest of this entry »

Recent Articles From – PRECISION – Le journaldu CMR – The RMC Newspaper

Ed: Over the past year RMC cadets have been producing their own PRECISION – a modern day high quality and very professional version of “The Marker” and “The Arch” – RMC cadet newspapers from the past.

PRECISION – Le journaldu CMR – The RMC Newspaper is only available internally at RMC. With the kind permission of the PRECISION Editor, 24369 III Nicolas St-Amant,
from time-to-time, we will reprint some of the articles that we feel would be of interest to Ex cadets..

This week we have chosen three excellent articles written by cadets from recent editions, during first term: Read the rest of this entry »

Live & Learn: 11721 Larry Stevenson (CMR RMC ’78)

I went to Royal Military College in Kingston to become a pilot. I didn’t apply anywhere else. I found out for that I needed glasses. …
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/managing/ceo_interviews/article.jsp?content=20080123_198726_198726

Natynczyk family faceoff @ Centre Ice -

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 7290 Juri JT Kasemets (RMC 1967); 11104 Douglas P Konkin (RMC 1976); 11507 Stephen L. James, (RRMC 1977); 11731 Dennis Weiss (CMR RMC 1978); 12110 Christian M. Paupe (CMR 1979); 12259 Kevin W Biggar (RRMC RMC 1979); 15833 Claude François Lemasson (CMR RMC 1987);

• 7290 Juri JT Kasemets (RMC 1967) is an Adjunct
  Professor of Mineral Resource Engineering at Dalhousie University. He
  earned a Bachelor of Eng (Royal Military College), a Masters of Eng
  (Alberta), and a MBA (Ottawa). His research interests include
  blasting, explosives, and rock breaking. Juri worked as a bomb
  disposal officer in the military, and as a federal explosives
  inspector at Natural Resources Canada. He is a member of the
  International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators
  (IABTI), ASIS International, the National Defense Industrial
  Association (NDIA) and the Federal Association of Security Officials
  (FASO). j.kasemets@ns.sympatico.ca  

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M0952 NCdt Sean Stadnisky and M0916 OCdt Greg Fleming from Otter Sqn speak with H7543 Senator Joseph Day (CMR / RMC ’68) in the VIP Lounge before the Toronto Leadership Dinner.

Toronto Leadership Dinner
By: M0916 OCdt Greg Fleming

The Annual Leadership Dinner is always eagerly anticipated by the Cadets at RMC. This year was no different as members of the Drum Line and other select cadets boarded the bus for the first leg of the trip. Ably led by Commander Rich, we headed off to HMCS York were we could change into our Sunday best before attending the dinner. This step was done so we could travel in relative comfort which would in turn allow us to be more open to Commander Rich’s professional development efforts as we travelled (which was done, by the way, through examining the different leadership styles present in the excellent film “Zulu!” the 1964 film with Michael Caine and Stanley Baker). Read the rest of this entry »

CF Triathlon Needs You! The mission of the CF Triathlon program is to provide support and opportunities for military members to participate in the sport of triathlon and promote triathlon sport throughout the CF.

The objective for 2008 is to revitalize the sport of triathlon in the CF. To this end; the CF triathlon program will be conducting an Introduction Triathlon Training Camp. Details below: Read the rest of this entry »

This restored 1947 VINCENT-HRD ‘RAPIDE’ motorcycle was adjudged sufficiently opulent to be awarded First Prize for Series ‘B’ machines at the Vincent Owners’ Club North American Rally, Putney, Vermont, 22 September. The machine was brought to Read the rest of this entry »

SOME REACTION TO MANLEY REPORT

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Ex cadets / PG & CFC Papers

Want a CFC paper? Do a quick search for CFC papers below. Papers are retrievable by keyword in the title, author’s last name or you can search for papers from a particular course or year. CFC papers are also indexed by author, title, subject, and keyword for more detailed searching.

http://wps.cfc.forces.gc.ca/en/cfcpapers/index.php

15474 LCol Daniel J.D. Villeneuve, CD  (CMR 1984) wrote “Guessing what is on the other side of the hill: a review of Canada’s experience withe IPB” at Canadian Forces College in 2005. Villeneuve.JD@forces.gc.ca

 For 28 more

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Victoria Edwards continues to send us great articles which we do our best to put to good use.

The support and understanding of all readers is much appreciated as we wade through these technical challenges in the layout.

Bill & Rolande Oliver