11002 Bill Sergeant: From Skeptic to Helping Needy Children Around the World

11002 Bill Sergeant: From Skeptic to Helping Needy Children Around the World By CLAUDE SCILLEY More

Destined to attend RMC, Leah West Sherriff excelled in all four components

Destined to attend RMC, Leah West Sherriff excelled in all four components By CLAUDE SCILLEY More

13068 Pete Atkinson: Majored in football and minored in history

13068 Pete Atkinson: Majored in football and minored in history By CLAUDE SCILLEY More

Claude Scilley: Marc Granlund found a career to combine both elements of his years at RMC

21974 Marc Granlund found a career to combine both elements of his years at RMC By CLAUDE SCILLEY It’s strange, sometimes, how things work out. After a few years of searching for the right vocation, Marc Granlund today finds himself in a position that combines the chemistry he studied at Royal Military College with a…

Claude Scilley: Close brush with championship still haunts 8469 Jim Simpson

Close brush with championship still haunts 8469 Jim Simpson By CLAUDE SCILLEY It wasn’t quite where Jim Simpson expected to find himself in the summer of 1972, but there he was, the navigator in a CFB Trenton-based air crew on the first Canadian Forces C-130 aircraft to fly into Vietnam with supplies for Canada’s peacekeeping…

Claude Scilley: Buddy convinces 15950 Brian Collict to give RMC a try

Buddy convinces 15950 Brian Collict to give RMC a try By CLAUDE SCILLEY Brian Collict’s father couldn’t figure it out. In a University of Toronto-centric household in suburban Scarborough, what would possess the youngest of his four children to want to attend some place called Royal Military College? “I have brothers and sisters, they all…

Lure of coaching keeps Earle Morris active in the game he loves

Lure of coaching keeps Earle Morris active in the game he loves By CLAUDE SCILLEY This was supposed to be a quiet winter for 7301 Earle Morris (Class of 1967). After coaching the Team Canada women’s curling team through a grueling Olympic year, the ex-cadet from Royal Military College was looking forward to stepping back…

Claude Scilley & 6772 Bob Mason

Fulfilling diplomatic career followed Bob Mason’s fine athletic days at RMC By CLAUDE SCILLEY It seemed a pretty innocuous request at the time. 6772 Bob Mason, 1996 Royal Military College graduate, was trade commissioner, the 2IC at the Canadian embassy in Kuwait that summer. “I was supposed to be in charge of the embassy in…

CLAUDE SCILLEY In conversation with 10903 Paul Amyotte

Cadet, player, coach and professor: Paul Amyotte did it all at RMC By CLAUDE SCILLEY It was more by chance than by design that 10903 Paul Amyotte found himself at Royal Military College. Twice. The first time arose after Amyotte had finished his senior football season at Dartmouth High School in Nova Scotia. “Most of…

CLAUDE SCILLEY In Conversation With 17324 SHARON DONNELLY

After rising to the top of her athletic craft, 17324 Sharon Donnelly strives for success in the business world By CLAUDE SCILLEY The stars didn’t always align for Sharon Donnelly. At the recruiting centre, she picked the wrong branch of service. When she arrived at Royal Military College, she picked the wrong course of study.…

CLAUDE SCILLEY: Unique is the bond among members of a championship team

Unique is the bond among members of a championship team By CLAUDE SCILLEY Few things can rival the bond that arises from the shared experiences of those who are part of a sports team, but at Royal Military College there was a perk that went with being a varsity athlete that students on other campuses…

CLAUDE SCILLEY: Crusade brought rugby program back to life at RMC

Crusade brought rugby program back to life at RMC By CLAUDE SCILLEY As campaigns go, this one got pretty intense, Rob Parent recalls. “It got very interesting,” Parent said. “I made myself a huge pain in the ass.” Not even generals could elude the crusading Parent, who one day struck up a conversation with Rick…

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