Kipling’s Ultraman
Rudyard Kipling said it all: ” If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two Impostors just the same; Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.” KAILUA-KONA- Hawaii – Lieutenant Colonel Tony O’Keefe is in charge of 1,054 cadets at Canada’s version of West Point. It is his job to…
Insider’s View: Major Geneviève Lehoux
20633 Major Geneviève Lehoux (CMR RMC ’97) enrolled in the CF in June 1992 in Trois-Rivières (QC). She completed three years at CMR St-Jean and graduated from RMC in May 1997 with a bachelor degree in Civil Engineering. While at CMR and RMC, she was a member of the varsity women soccer team. She completed…
Aboriginal Leadership Opportunity Year – Interview
Sgt. Curtis White is the program staff of the Aboriginal Leadership Opportunity Year (ALOY) at CFB Kingston. He is also the National Military Chair of the Defence Aboriginal Advisory Group (DAAG). Before joining the staff of the ALOY program, he served as a Canadian Forces recruiter. Interview by E3161 Victoria Edwards (RMC ‘03) e-veritas: What…
Dîner Vimy 2008
Dîner Vimy 2008 Article par élof Nicolas Plourde-Fleury Vendredi le 14 novembre dernier, huit élofs du CMR St-Jean avons eu la chance d’assister au dîner Vimy qui a eu lieu au Musée canadien de la guerre à Ottawa. La réception eut lieu dans la Gallerie LeBreton, endroit où des véhicules blindés et canons de toutes…
Where are they now?
2444 RAdm (Ret`d) John A Charles (RMC ’35) CMM, CD, MID RCN Born in Rouleau Saskatchewan 27 Mar 1918, John Charles joined the R.C.N. directly from the Royal Military College on 1 September 1937. He was immediately sent to the Royal Navy for cadet, mid-shipmen and Sub-Lieutenant training. At the start of war of WWII,…
An Officer, A Gentleman, And Then A CISM TKD Competitor
23179 Captain John Kim Written by: 25057 Ocdt (II) Nalae Yang The weekend of November 15th and 16th was one of the biggest annual Tae Kwon Do (TKD) competitions in Toronto. When I arrived at the site to get registered as a competitor on early Saturday morning, a member from my team tapped on my…
Ex-Cadets in the News
Before a large crowd of spectators and invited guests, the last graduating class of “Air Navigators”, comprised of three members each from the Canadian and Portuguese Air Forces received their navigator’s wings from 11330 MGen Angus W Watt (CMR ’77), Chief of the Air Staff. With rapid technological advancements and the introduction into the Air…
Catching Up With the News
Tributes pour in after oldest polar bear dies in Winnipeg The RMC Polar Bear Connection Tributes and remembrances of Debby, who was the world’s oldest living polar bear, flooded into the Winnipeg zoo on Tuesday after officials announced the bear was dead. The 42-year-old polar bear was born in the Russian Arctic in 1966 and…
Commandant Series
IX Commandant RRMC: 1963 – 1965 / XXVI Commandant RMC: 1967 – 1970 (Researched by E3161 Victoria Edwards) 2576 Commodore William “Willy” Prine Hayes (RMC ’37) was the 26th Commandant of RMC and the 9th Commandant of RRMC. He was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in December 1919. He was an Officer Cadet at Royal…
Who Am I?
Who am I? By E3161 Victoria Edwards (RMC ‘03) I was born on May 28, 1871, in St. Catherines, Ontario. I moved out to Victoria with my family where I was educated and then I attended the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario where I graduated with honours. My father served as a Colonel. Returning…
Notices / Avis
___________________________________________________________________________________ www.rmcclubfoundation.ca A Tax Tip…. Consider a Gift of Stock to the RMC Foundation If you hold appreciated stocks you may give a gift of securities to the RMC Foundation that is completely free of capital gains. You may obtain a tax-receipt for the full market value of the gift. As a rule of thumb,…
Deaths / Décès
BIRCH-JONES, Sonia (nee Rubenstein) Sonia left us on November 27, 2008 in her home in Qualicum Beach after a brief illness and battle with her returning cancer. She died peacefully, surrounded by her loving family. Sonia was predeceased by her first husband, Squadron Leader Houlston, a wartime RAF hero who was shot down in his…