In This Issue 14
Political Correctness Gone Too Far: Parade Square to become year round parking lot! Grad parade to be moved to Hogan’s Alley & Ridout Row Senior sources from within DND have told e-Veritas that the RMC Parade Square will become a year round parking lot. The decision was made at the highest levels in Ottawa. Currently…
Varsity Sports Award Ceremony
AIR FORCE BIRTHDAY The 1st of April 2009 signals the 85th birthday of Canada’s air force Current and former RCAF types – please consider joining (rejoining) the ‘Air Force family’ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Varsity Sports Award Ceremony – Athletes Front & Center! By: WJO BGen Tom Lawson, Commandant and LCol Tony O’Keeffe, Director of Cadets were the…
What’s Happening At RMC
RMC Debate Club Compete at National Debate Championships Article by 24445 Dan Powell (IV) This past weekend, RMC was represented by OCdt (IV) Dan Powell and NCdt (I) David Reid, at the Canadian University Society for Inter-Collegiate Debate National Championships, held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The two debated extraordinarily well finishing the tournament in the top…
Qu’est-ce qui se passe au CMR Saint-Jean
100 ans d’envolée: toujours plus haut! Article par 25253 Élof Spencer Charest S’assoir dans le local 2037 du pavillon De Lery est souvent l’occasion pour plusieurs élèves-officiers de discuter avec des camarades et de se mettre au courant de leur quotidien. Cependant, le 26 février dernier, ce bavardage a été écourté par l’arrivée d’un homme…
Where are they now?
7151 RAdm (Ret’d) Russell D. Moore CMM CD (CMR 1962-64, RMC 1964-67) is a consultant with RDM Solutions. His role is to support past, present and future learners and provide resources to further the interests of the CF and DND within Royal Roads University. His duties include base Education Fair presence across the country (hope…
Catching Up With the News
Flag honours soldiers killed by friendly fire Article by By Tamas Virag, The Canadian Press EDMONTON – A flag bearing the signatures of most of the Canadian soldiers stationed in Afghanistan when four of their colleagues died in a 2002 friendly-fire incident is on its way home to Edmonton Garrison. In an emotional ceremony Tuesday…
The “First 32”
14451 Theresa Towns (RMC 1984) “Basic training wasn’t bad; it was more of an eye-opener for me as to what I could really do for myself and how I could rise to challenges never before considered.” The “First 32” By 15566 Helga Grodzinski (RMC 1986) 14451 Theresa Towns works as the circulation clerk for the…
Ex-Cadets in the News
Former Spartan among military’s top brass: 14378 Denis Thompson Article by Joanne Saunders 14378 Brig.-Gen. Denis Thompson (CMR RMC 1984), who was commander-in-chief of the Canadian joint task force in Afghanistan from May 2008 to February 2009, recounted with great candor and humour the challenges soldiers face in Kandahar province to about 800 people at…
CMC Athletic Dep’t – Faces & Voices from the past: Ken Harvey, Roy Kemp, Wally Travis
“My greatest memory was beating Queens at home and at Queens as the new head coach of the basketball team! I really enjoyed the fast pace that the Royal Military College provided.” Ken Harvey e-veritas: At which military college did you serve? Ken Harvey: I served at Royal Military College in Kingston as Athletic Administration…
Oral interviews of Military Colleges alumni
x e-veritas has been given permission to publish excerpts of 5105 Doctor J. L. Granatstein’s (CMR RMC 1961) interviews (1991-1993) for “The Generals: the Canadian Army’s Senior Commanders in the Second World War”. 5105 Doctor J.L. Granatstein fonds are at the National Defence HQ Directorate of History and Heritage. x x ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2297 Major General…
Who Am I?
Who am I? By E3161 Victoria Edwards (RMC ‘03) My father co-founded St. Marys Cement in St Marys Ontario in 1912. During the depression, my father rehabilitated an old garbage dump using workers from the St. Marys Cement Company. The park in downtown St. Marys just a block south of the Town Hall on Church…
Commandant Series: VAdm Rayner & MGen Kitson
III Commandant RRMC: 1948 – 1949 Researched by E3161 Victoria Edwards (RMC ‘03) Vice Admiral Herbert (Herbie) Sharples Rayner, D.S.C. and bar, C.D., was the third Commandant of Royal Roads from 1948-9. Herbert Rayner was born on 16 January 1911, at Clinton, Ontario. He joined the navy as a Paymaster Cadet in 1928 and was…