You May Know These 24…But Do You Really Know Them?
Match up the photo with the clue: Saint John, N.B. native; according to Facebook – in the minds of many, the best professor to ever grace the halls of Sawyer building. played Ball Hockey for 1 Sqn; guest of the Ottawa Branch at the 2008 Legacy Dinner; his Squadron won the commandants inspection when he…
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Sandhurst Military Skills Competition at West Point
Fight for the sword By IAN ELLIOT, THE WHIG-STANDARD This will be one of the biggest sporting weeks of the year for Royal Military College. At stake are bragging rights in one of the largest — and toughest — competitions for military cadets around the world. The RMC team goes into the Sandhurst Military Skills…
Principal & Commandant Still Paying Visits
Visits to Departments continue… Last Wednesday morning, the Principal, Dr. Joel Sokolsky and Commandant, Commodore William S. Truelove paid a visit to the Department of Business Administration. Under the leadership of Dr. WJ (Bill) Graham, the Bus Admin department provides a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses and continues to grow. The visit provided…
Athletic Department – Update
Darren Cates, (front row, first left) RMC-C. Director of Athletics and his staff hosted the Commandant, Commodore William S. Truelove last week. The Commandant spent some time with the Athletic department at the Field House. During the visit, the Athletic Staff raised a broad range of issues for discussion prior to many of the group…
IM II Term Wrap-up
xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx As the snow and frost slowly disappears from the peninsula, so too does the final intramural season at RMC, giving a select few squadrons one last chance to make up for the empty pizza box and the two-day scruff during a botched Commandant’s Inspection. This year’s finals showed a strong display from…
Educator of a New Generation
An educator of a new generation A/SLt 24498 Noelani Shore (RMC 2009) After 24 years at the Royal Military College, Dr. Joel Sokolsky has had the opportunity to teach and influence countless cadets and students. “I started as a professor in Political Science. I taught mainly Canadian and American Foreign Defence Policy,” he said. Dr.…
Canadian Defence Academy Site of Meeting
Commandant RMCC, Commodore William S. Truelove and Principal Dr. Joel Sokolsky, were joined by the senior brass from RMCSJ, Commandant, Colonel J.U.F. Pion and Lieutenant-General (ret) Michel Maisonneuve – Academic Director of Royal Military College Saint-Jean at a meeting at Canadian Defence Academy last week in Kingston. All four gentlemen participated in the Strategic Military…
John Torode; Alain Pellerin; John de Chastelain; Eric Tremblay; & Sean Henry – In the news
How Torode was bucked off Calgary’s real estate bull “I invested in all the deals also, which was a good litmus test to make sure I wasn’t just putting deals together for the sake of doing it,” Torode says. “Often I was the largest investor.” 8993 John Torode (RRMC RMC 1971) READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE…
Trevor Kraus – RMC class secretary for 1992
18360 Captain (Ret’d) Trevor Kraus (RMC 1992), MSc, CD, PMP has been Director General, Corporate Planning at Veterans Affairs Canada in Charlottetown since December 2008. He was Director, Soldier Systems Program Management at Department of National Defence 2007 – 2008 (1 year). He was Director, Project Management Department of National Defence 2006 -2007 (1 year).…
Catching Up With the News
Cadets Do It Again! The annual Regional Undergraduate Student Paper Competition of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) was held last Tuesday night at the University of Ottawa. Five teams competed that night, representing the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Algonquin College, Queen’s University, and RMC. I am pleased to report that OCdt…
Opinion: Continued deployment of Cdn military in Afghanistan
A statement by S151 Senator Hugh Segal on the Afghan mission – Honourary Member RMC Club Colleagues, I rise to express the profound hope that the Parliament of Canada, most notably the House of Commons, will see its way clear to modify its resolution of March 13, 2008 and agree to the continued deployment of…