3069 W.A. McColl’s – III Year – 1951: “No. 1 squadron is really keen this year!”
1 Dec 51 We finally got the obstacle course finished this morning and the race itself was run at 1130 hours. Our recruits were very keen; they had a meeting to decide on how they would run the course. The net result was that it paid off because they won for the squadrons. There was…
Deaths | Décès
AVIS DE DÉCÈS 6043 Henri-Paul Martel 1942 – 2013 Henri-Paul Martel est entré au Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean en 1959 et il a obtenu son diplôme d’ingénieur en électricité du Collège militaire royal du Canada en 1964. Il est détenteur d’une maîtrise en ingénierie avec option bâtiment et gestion de projets de construction en…
In This Issue 44
Click, click on poster for better viewing A tip of the hat to the following members who just recently updated their Club membership status: Chapeau aux membres suivants qui ont tout récemment mis à jour leur adhésion au Club: 3487 Ervin Sande; 3786 Douglas W Tufts; 3859 David E Wright; 12163 Michael E Diebel.…
Dr Harry Kowal Installed as Principal
xx INSTALLATION OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA By: WJO Dr Harry Kowal was installed as the Principal of Royal Military College of Canada Friday 22 November in a ceremony at Currie Hall. An overflow crowd consisting of staff, alumni, guests and members of the public gathered in the 92…
XCVIII Convocation – PRETTY SPECIAL
2013 FALL CONVOCATION – PRETTY SPECIAL FOR A WHOLE LOT OF FOLKS By: WJO Convocation ceremonies on the grounds of Royal Military College of Canada are held typically in Spring (May) and Fall (Nov). Without question, the high profile event is in the Spring. However, don’t tell any of the 22 undergraduate, 50 graduate students two…
The Week That Was & More
A lot happened over the past seven days at RMCC. We were able to capture and record most of the events but not all. An important one which slipped under our radar was The Board of Governors Meeting. Although it was a busy week, 1 Squadron found time to pull off a skylark. Too bad…
Top 5 Sees Light at the End of the Tunnel
Caption: (L-R) Top 5 for Fall Term 2013 are all smiles as their term comes to an end. 25832 OCdt Kyle Nielsen – CWC; 26033 OCdt Stéphanie Blais – D/CWC; 25952 OCdt Alex Frey – CWTO; 25936 Élof Sarah Labrecque – ADA; and 26186 OCdt Ross Nevile – CWOpsO Changing of the Guard Transition…
Popular RMCSJ Academic Director Pays a Visit to His Former Students…
Popular RMCSJ Academic Director Pays a Visit to His Former Students… By: WJO Royal Military College Saint-Jean (RMC Saint-Jean) was inaugurated in 2008. They offer college-level and first-year university programmes in Science and Social Sciences. In short, on the ground during the school year, RMCSJ has two different years of officer-cadets – prep & first…
Qu’est-ce qui se passe au CMR Saint-Jean
Caption: Le 19 novembre dernier, certains élèves-officiers, ainsi que des membres du corps professoral, ont eu la chance de participer à une présentation du club de sciences et mathématiques. Présentation du club de sciences et mathématique du 19 novembre Une présentation ensoleillée -un article écrit par l’Élève-Officier James Diamond Le 19 novembre dernier, certains élèves-officiers,…
Class Notes…
7301 Earle Morris (Class of 1967) is this year’s worthy recipient of the Brian Kilrea Award for Excellence in Coaching and has made significant contributions to curling as an athlete, builder, and coach. As a player, Mr. Morris is part of the only three-generation family to skip in the Tim Horton’s Brier, the annual Canadian…
Ex-Cadets in the News
A lighter side to Chris Hadfield – An Astronaut’s Guide to Movember Sense of humour – 1:08 video Former army boss 12320 Walt Natynczyk working on 10-year plan for Canadian Space Agency Read more: Australian 60 Minutes 17 November 2013 – Chris Hadfield Segment Here Canadian Armed Forces deploy additional resources to Philippines “Canadians can…
What are these 24 up to these days…?
Look for his “book review” – Dr. David Baird’s, Physics at RMC, The First 125 Years. (1876 to 2001) in the soon to be available Veritas magazine Vice President at Bombardier Transportation Chief Instructor and Management Consultant Build The Vision Inc. Engineering Consultant, Adjunct Assistant Professor Aerospace Professional Partner at BluEra Managing Partner, Novo Energy…