Notices | Avis
RRMC Class of 68/RMC 70 Homecoming Here is the registration site at RRU https://www.royalroads.ca/about-rru/the-university/rru-alumni/forms/homecoming-form.htm. Can you please update our announcement and run it for a bit longer. Cheers, 8501 Doug Foreman 8501 (RRMC RMC ’70) Royal Military Colleges Club of Canada Ottawa Branch Annual Golf Tournament -Friday 11 July 2008 -Hylands Golf Club * Scramble…
In This Issue 16
Did “Brucie” jump off the proverbial bandwagon? Royal Military College Officer Cadet Guillaume Hebert poses for a friend’s camera next to “Brucie,” the statue by the RMC parade square, after it was decorated to celebrate the Montreal Canadiens’ win in Stanley Cup first round playoff action the previous night against the Boston Bruins. At press…
Top Headlines
(Click for larger view) RMC gunning for fourth win at Sandhurst competition This Weekend at West Point by Capt Paule Poulin – RMC PAO Royal Military College (RMC) of Canada’s Sandhurst team members are putting the finishing touches on their training to defend their title at the Sandhurst military skills competition on May 3 at…
What’s Happening At RMC
Photo by: Steve McQuaid (Click for larger view) Model ship docks at RMC; HMS St. Lawrence was built at site of college and sunk nearby By Ian Elliot – Kingston Whig Standard The largest warship ever built to sail the Great Lakes returned home to where it was built yesterday, just a few kilometres from…
Extra Innings
x Nine Paladins Moving On The RMC hockey Paladins officially put a close to their 2007-08 season with a year end team party last week at the Senior Staff Mess. Coach Adam Shell was the MC for the evening. By: WJO xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Four photos (L – R) Richard Lim – Top Rookie; Jeff…
Misc
The Class of 1969 with – The Major. Front Row – L-R Jack Reid; Doug Smith; The Major, Danny McLeod; Robert Bradshaw; Al Leonard; Brian Barrie; Fletcher Thomson. Back Row L-R Mike Johnson; John Carlson; Gerry Poffenroth; Michael Gainer; John (Pole) McCormick; Gary Stewart; Paul Hession; and Derrick Sloan. “It was a real pleasure for…
Quotation | Citation
“We’ve produced a whole generation of officers who have an operational background in the field. The only question is what personality does the government want?” Maj.-Gen. (ret’d) Lewis MacKenzie
Ex-Cadets in the News
New Speakers Bureau: Everest climber offers tips for fulfilling your dream 21678 Meagan McGrath (RMC ’00) Air Force Officer working hard to bring scouting to Afghan children M0293 David Ross (RMC ’84) Four ships depart West Coast on maritime security missions 11712 Drew Robertson (CMR RMC ’78) Flying the half-million pounder N.S. pilot at…
Where are they now?
3169 Bill Smallwood (RRMC RMC ’53); 4848 Dr. Kenneth Graham (RMC ’61); 7415 John Orr (RRMC RMC ’67); 8676 Roberto Gonzales (CMR RMC ’71); 9319 Dr. William (Bill) Blake (RRMC RMC ’72); 9473 Dr. Dale Carl (CMR RMC ’73); 10238 Ronald (Ron) Guidinger (RRMC RMC ’74); 10420 Charles Kaszap (CMR RMC ’75); 11027 Brigadier-General Kenneth…
Catching Up With the News
1 APR 2008 – RCAF 84TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION IN NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA, GERMANY By 21405 Luc Vermette (RMC ’99) (Click for larger view) To live in an area so very rich in military history there was a desire to host an event where local Canadians could share some of the cherished traditions and history with the…
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Click for better view Bill, as a military enthusiast you might find this a good read….’One who almost made it back’ by Peter Celis. We were fortunate to get forwards by AM Larry Dunlap (our last CAS air marshal) and renowned pathfinder, LGen Reg Lane….both in Canada’s Aviation Hall of Famee. Veritas readers might also…
Flashback | Rétrospective
“We are the gentlemen cadets of RMC We have sworn to love and serve Her Majesty…” So opens the famous RMC march, Precision – composed by my maternal grandmother, Denise Chabot. I spent a rainy, grey Easter Monday this year curled up on the couch, my cat on my lap, re-reading her fascinating memoirs, written…