West Point earns 4-3 victory in highly entertaining penalty free game
*** MORE photos here West Point earns 4-3 victory in highly entertaining penalty free game By CLAUDE SCILLEY Too many times over too many years, hockey teams from Royal Military College would be scrapping to stay in a hockey game, only to give up a questionable goal, the kind that causes shoulders on the bench…
13706 Larry Aitken: Embracing challenge in a distinguished career
13706 Larry Aitken: Embracing challenge in a distinguished career By CLAUDE SCILLEY In just a brief conversation you get the idea that the most difficult assignments Larry Aitken was handed in a 31-year military career were the ones he cherished the most: Deputy commander with a United Nations force in the Congo, commander of the…
12203 Ray Mackley and Claude Scilley nostalgic talking about the old days
12203 Ray Mackley and Claude Scilley nostalgic talking about the old days By CLAUDE SCILLEY Within the branches of the Canadian Forces, the functions of a military logistics officer are fairly homogeneous and transferable. “The procurement, the contracting, the supply chain types of things are very similar,” 12203 Ray Mackley says. A career Air Force…
From tracking opposing linemen to tracking enemy aircraft, 13846 Kevin Bryski has had an interesting career
From tracking opposing linemen to tracking enemy aircraft, 13846 Kevin Bryski has had an interesting career By: Claude Scilley They don’t play a lot of football in Rokeby, Sask. In its heyday, the small farming hamlet near the Manitoba border—where they call Yorkton the big city—had a grain elevator, a post office, a general store…
Jim Hulton enjoying gig in the USHL
Former Paladins coach, Jim Hulton enjoying gig in the USHL By CLAUDE SCILLEY Nebraska, it seems, agrees with Jim Hulton. “I like to describe it as Napanee on steroids,” said Hulton, the Wolfe Island ex-pat hockey coach who plies his trade in the town of Kearney, in the south end of a prairie state where…
A career with many twists and turns
A career with many twists and turns By CLAUDE SCILLEY Not everyone who graduates from Royal Military College gets to command a tank, or a warship, or a fighter squadron. 12215 Dave Mowat never got to do any of those things, but, then again, very few officers have a chance to impact the lives of…
Joely Christian-Macfarlane weathers eye opening first season and looks to future success
Joely Christian-Macfarlane weathers eye opening first season looks to future success By CLAUDE SCILLEY She readily admits it. “I’m a sucker for challenges,” says Joely Christian-Macfarlane. Boy, did she come to the right place. There is probably no other school in the land where the challenge of establishing a successful athletic program is greater than…
6162 Al Buchanan did much more than tweak the bear while at RMC
6162 Al Buchanan did much more than tweak the bear while at RMC By CLAUDE SCILLEY Al Buchanan was many things in his days at Royal Military College. He was an accomplished gymnast; he played varsity soccer for four years, and he sang in the choir. Oh, yeah. He was a bit of a scalawag,…
Rugby parallels the life of 16598 Scott Stevenson – ‘a proud pure-blood Roadent’
Rugby parallels the life of 16598 Scott Stevenson – ‘a proud pure-blood Roadent’ By CLAUDE SCILLEY Scott Stevenson admits it’s not something that is universally applicable. “You can’t equate rugby as a metaphor for all of life,” he said, “but I think it does work in a lot of leadership situations.” Certainly Stevenson has seen…
Need to change the culture? 6508 John Adams became the go-to guy
Need to change the culture? 6508 John Adams became the go-to guy By CLAUDE SCILLEY Danny McLeod could spot a hockey player a mile away. Even, John Adams discovered one day, if that hockey player was on a running track. McLeod, then the athletic director and hockey coach at Royal Military College, happened to be…
It was never about outcomes, but the process, for 22323 Ryan Slate
It was never about outcomes, but the process, for 22323 Ryan Slate By CLAUDE SCILLEY The man who was undoubtedly the greatest rower ever to represent Royal Military College says it was never so much about outcomes. “I don’t like saying, ‘I won this’ and, ‘I won that,’” Ryan Slate says. “That doesn’t matter to…
Lucy Cerantola never saw herself as a top bodybuilder
Lucy Cerantola never saw herself as a top bodybuilder By CLAUDE SCILLEY Interested in sports and fitness since her high school days and her years at Royal Military College, 17383 Lucy Cerantola (Class of 1990) got into the personal training business when she moved to Oakville, Ont., six years ago. She was just looking for…