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Numéro 018/2005 |
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In This Issue - Dans ce numéro
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Quotation of the week To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. Confucious |
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Trivia
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We recently received word that Ex Cadet 10246 – Colonel Ron Howard (RMC ’74) passed away unexpectedly Monday 9 May. A military funeral took place at the Chapel at the CFSU(O) Uplands site this past Monday 16 May. Press HERE for bio on Colonel Ron Howard.
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Update
Joe Grozelle Case
Kingston
Whig Standard - By Tamsin McMahon |
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Local News - A mystery man whose photo police released in hopes that he might have information about the death of RMC cadet Joe Grozelle hired a lawyer and contacted police yesterday. “The man has been identified and has come forward and has co-operated fully with police and has given them a statement and the police are not looking for him any further,” said the man’s lawyer, Chris Ecclestone said. |
Police had
wanted to talk to the man, who they said took down a
missing-person poster about Grozelle from a Canadian Tire store a
week after the third-year cadet went missing.
Press HERE for more |
Garden Party - Hamilton Branch of the RMC Club of Canada |
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Date:
June 23rd Special Guest; Mr. Garth Webb, founder of Juno Beach Memorial $50.00 per person. Make cheques payable to "RMC Club of Hamilton c/o Paul Southall. Mail cheques to Paul at 4476 Tremineer Ave, Burlington, ON, L7L 1H7 |
Telephone; 905 632-1392, (after 1000hrs please as he is a late riser) Due to the time involved in obtaining the lobster the cut off date is June 9. If you desire steak then let Paul know by June 20. Bibs/aprons are highly recommended for those having lobster. The most colourful bib/apron will win a prize. Press HERE for map to the Garden Party |
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RMC Cadet & Staff Visit to Calgary, Big Success
Arthur Smith, life long national/international & community leader from Calgary is the first recipient of The Birchall Leadership Award. This Award recognized exemplary leadership among Canadians and named in honour of the late 2364 Air Commodore Leonard J. Birchall, CM, OBE, DFC, OO, CD, (1915 - 2004). Presenting the Award to Mr. Smith was the Honourable Ralph Klein - Premier of Alberta and Mrs. Kay Birchall, widow of Air Commodore Leonard J. Birchall. In attendance at the Black Tie Dinner were a contingent of staff & cadets from RMC; leaders from both the RMC Club & Foundation; business & civic leaders from the Calgary area; and a number of recently recruited cadets and their families. |
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A contingent of 25 cadets & ten staffers visited Calgary last week. The aim of the visit was to raise the profile of the College and help westerners understand what a terrific military university the country has. Western
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Canada represents roughly 30 % of Canada’s population but only 20 % of the cadet body. From all reports, the cadets were wonderful ambassadors, ably supported by the College senior staff. Press HERE for more |
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What's Happening Around the College? |
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RMC led, CF Lifesaving Team Wins Bronze at National Lifesaving Championships
From Left to right: NCdt Teri Share, OCdt Nathan MacDonald, 2Lt Michelle Whitty (Team Manager), Pte Marc Prud’homme, OCdt Alex Bronson, OCdt Vicki Ménard, Cpl Issa Paré. Missing from the photo: Lt(N) Tony Zezza |
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The CF lifesaving team
performed exceptionally well at National Lifesaving Championships in
Kamloops, BC from May 4th to 7th. The team consisted
of 4 OCdt’s from RMC (24041 Vicki Menard, 23677 Teri Share, 23349 Nathan
MacDonald and 23422 Alex Bronson) as well as 2Lt Michelle Whitty (22807) who
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doing a Master's degree. Pte Marc Prud'homme, Cpl Issa Pare and and Lt(N) Tony Zezza were the three other members, forming an eight person team. Press HERE for more and a photo of the two new national team members. |
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Canada (CF) hosted the CISM Men’s & Women’s Volleyball Championships last June. A team photo of the Women’s team illustrates the significant contribution of the RMC Sports program to CISM. The Ladies placed fourth and the Men sixth, in their schedules. This is the best showing in years in this World Level Competition!
Cadets and Ex Cadets pretty well make up the nucleus of most
CF CISM basketball, soccer & volleyball teams. |
(click on picture for larger view) |
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Graduation Weekend at RMC |
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| The convocation will take place this Friday, 20 May in the Athletic Center Complex. In addition to the 200 or so undergraduate degrees being handed out to ROTP & RETP cadets there are a number of Ex Cadets receiving postgraduate degrees. |
Press
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to find out who they are and what they are receiving. |
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Gloria Sellar of Kingston writes about her husband (Ex Cadet 2805) Brigadier General Gordon Sellar, whose obituary appeared on Dec. 17, 2004. She wrote the following in January of 1944 after returning from the CPR station in Calgary where she had gone to see then-Lieutenant Sellar and a contingent of Calgary Highlanders off to war. He was 20; she was 17. They had been married for about a month. I had been in my parents' big wooden bed many times in my young life -- early mornings; thunderstorms; earaches. To lie there now in the arms of my brand-new husband made me vaguely uncomfortable. No need -- the passion was spent and the serious lovemaking over. Fully clothed, we lay clinging to each other with a desperate tenderness as if somehow we could each keep forever a small part of the other. This was the last afternoon. January ice on the bedroom window filled the darkening room with a grey |
light. The house was quiet; my parents and grandmother had gone for the day to give us this last time alone. Baggage is at the station, the train goes at 8:15 p.m. It's time to get up; no thought of supper now. Hands run lovingly over the old labrador. They will not meet again. Oh God, how I love those square hands, strong hands but gentle enough to calm a half-wild horse. No smell of horse today -- just wool and shoe polish. He stands by the kitchen door, so young and handsome in the uniform covering that body I know every part of.
Suddenly, it's all a blur of khaki, tartan and engine steam; soldiers
move all around us. Those hands have brown leather gloves on them,
now. Where are you my love? I can't feel you any more, only the brass
buttons on your great coat pressing into my body as you hold me for
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Feds admit Agent Orange death
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Forty
years after the American military was allowed to test-bomb a New
Brunswick army base with deadly Agent Orange herbicide, the Canadian
government is finally admitting veterans are dying as a result of
being poisoned.
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Department of National Defence has confirmed that in 1966, U.S. forces
doused forested areas of theGagetown
base with the infamous chemical defoliant, testing it for clearing
jungle during the Vietnam War. |
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then, Agent Orange has been linked to a horrifying array of cancers,
diabetes, respiratory diseases and blindness among U.S. veterans --
not to mention two generations of sick Vietnamese -- and even birth
defects in children of vets.
For decades, the Canadian military refused to acknowledge the Gagetown horror ever happened, much less any connection between Agent Orange and sick vets. Press HERE for more on 2805 Ex Cadet Gordon Sellar |
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The South Alberta Light Horse,
Alberta's Senior Militia, |
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The South Alberta Light Horse militia regiment, like the province for which it is named, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, commemorating the two kinds of battles it has waged throughout its history. In wartime, it had to contend with everything from the aboriginal and Metis fighters of the North West Rebellion to the awesome German panzers in the Second World War. In peace-time, it had another kind of enemy, the |
politicians and bureaucrats in Ottawa, some of whom,through neglect, seemed just as intent upon its destruction. The military historian Donald E. Graves, in a superb history of the “Sally Horse,” published to mark its centennial, thoroughly covers both struggles – against the enemy on the field, and the enemy in Ottawa. Press HERE for more |
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Catching Up With the News! |
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Officer Cadet Wales reported for
duty at Britain's elite military academy
Press HERE for more on Officer Cadet Wales |
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S109 Major (ret’d) WJ
(Danny) McLeod, MC, CD WJO |
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son Doug, and the Mayor in Bergen op Zoom HollandBy now we are all aware that the 60th anniversary of VE was last week 8th May. Major (Ret’d) Danny McLeod led a group of vets, wives and other family members and friends on a three-week tour. The vets were originally from the South Alberta Regiment and are now living all the way from British Columbia to Newfoundland and most provinces in between. The Mcleod led tour group of 53 started on the beaches in France and followed all the Canadian battle sites through southern France; Normandy; northern France; Belgium; Scheldt; all of Holland; including the taking of the Rhine; into north east Germany and ended up in Oldenburg, Germany where the war ended. And what a three weeks it was! |
This was one of the most ambitious and challenging battlefield tours
organized by any group, any age, from anywhere in the world. “It
exceeded my expectations, by far”, stated the former RMC Director of
Athletics (’60 to ’71) on his return. “ The receptions we received
everywhere were beyond our wildest dreams,” Major McLeod, went on to
say. “ Every house leading in & out of the towns in Holland were
decorated with Canadian flags, our bus was continually stopped and
the local folks wouldn’t let us move on unless we accepted their
hospitality of a light refreshments & goodies.” The moisture and look
in the eyes of this RMC icon when recalling all the details of the
three week trip said it all.
Less than 24 hours following the three-week trip, Major McLeod attended a ceremony in a local church in Kingston. Following is an article on this ceremony. Ed note: S109 Major WJ (Danny) McLeod (retired) M.C., C.D., received a DOCTOR OF MILITARY SCIENCE, HONORIS CAUSA FROM RMC in 2004. He is also an Honourary member of the RMC Club of Canada. Press HERE for more photos of the Danny McLeod led three-week tour through Europe. |
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Memories of victory
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Sixty years after the guns in Europe fell silent, a
small group of Kingston veterans who were there to hear them
remembered the end of the Second World War. |
around the world on the anniversary of VE-Day, the dwindling number of veterans of the European campaign remembered the war and, just as importantly, its end. Press HERE for more |
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60th anniversary of
Liberation of Holland coincides with visit by ’42 grad |
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Return to RMC revitalizes author
When Ex Cadet, 2761, Colonel Sydney Frost returned to RMC last week to promote his new book Always a Patricia he was treated with the respect and dignity afforded a man who served his country in Italy and The Netherlands. The added bonus for the 83 year-old Frost was the sense of revitalization and renewed strength he was able to draw from the familiar surroundings. |
“I’ve haven’t been too well and haven’t been back [to RMC] for a while,” said Frost in an interview with The Heritage. “I get energized when I see those young cadets. I automatically go back 65 years and there I am marching on the square again.” Frost recalls his days at RMC with the smile of a man recalling the fondest memories of his youth. He was a member of the final graduating class in 1942 before the campus was turned over to the military to train officers for World War II. Frost describes the last time they stood as a class in front of the commandant as an emotional roller coaster. “It was the first time the college had been shut down since 1876 when it was formed,” said Frost. “The Commandant dismissed us that day and there wasn’t a dry eye in the place.” Press HERE for more . . . |
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1. Arrived at RMC in 1980 as part of the first class with lady cadets.
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Spent four years in Mackenzie Squadron in Fort Haldemand and graduated
in Fuels and Materials 3. Played on the representative football, cross-country running and cross-country ski teams.
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Was originally ear-marked for a career in the Air Force. He was lured
to the Armour Corps by Capt
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His late father was 3515 (RMC 1957). 14434 is now a civilian Account
Executive and a Light Who Is It? Press HERE to find out more. |
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 Captain Gavin Crouch, 29, from Comox, British Columbia, is in his second year with the Snowbirds and flies the No. 11 jet. His responsibilities as a Team Coordinator include scheduling and air-show coordination, performing media and photo flights, as well as narrating/commenting the team’s performances. Capt. Crouch joined the military in 1993 under the |
Regular Officer Training Plan. After receiving his wings in 1998, he was posted to 440 (T) Squadron Yellowknife, where he flew the CC-138 Twin Otter on floats, skis and tundra tires. He was then posted to 2 Canadian Forces Flying Training School (2 CFFTS) in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, in 2001 as a flight instructor on the CT-156 Harvard II, where he accumulated 450 hours of instructional experience. Capt. Crouch brings 2,400 hours of military flying experience to the 2005 Snowbirds team.
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Note: Last week in e-Veritas 017 we ran an article about the 2005
Snowbirds and the Ex Cadet connection. We are now aware of another Ex
Cadet with this world famous aerial display team, 20948 – Ex Cadet
Captain Gavin Crouch (RMC ’97). Our apologies to Gavin and the entire
Snowbird team for the omission last week . |
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Ex Cadets in the News! We pick-up our news sources from wherever we can. Readers are encouraged to forward any item on an Ex Cadet, former staff member from any of the three military colleges. College number & photo will make our life a lot easier. William.oliver@rmc.ca |
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A new Canadian Forces (CF) Provost Marshal, the
military's chief of police, has been appointed and will
assume his new role as the department's "top cop"
June 15. Ex Cadet, 16327 Cmdr. Steve Moore, currently deputy provost marshal for the National Investigation Service (NIS), will assume responsibility for policing and coordinating security and force protection at CF bases and Defence establishments around the world. He will be promoted to the rank of captain (navy) June 1
succeeding Col. Dorothy Cooper, who is leaving the
post after four years to complete French language
training.
"Cmdr. Moore is an honest and dedicated individual
who will serve the CF well," said Col. Cooper. "I am
confident that he will continue to build upon the
organization's reputation of professionalism and
competence among military members and the wider
police community."
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The appointment comes after a careful selection
process designed to safeguard the integrity of the
military police as an independent organization.
A selection board consisting of both military and
civilian members including an RCMP deputy
commissioner, a Carleton University School of
Business professor, the vice-chief of defence
staff and the chief of the land staff conducted the
process.
"On behalf of all members of the CF, I wish to
extend my congratulations to Cmdr. Moore and
my appreciation to the selection board and all
participants in the process," said Gen. Rick Hillier,
Chief of Defence Staff.
Press HERE for photo & Bio
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Change of Command for Canada’s Air Force
Two Ex Cadets Involved |
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Command of Canada’s Air Force officially changed during a ceremony held at the Canada Aviation Museum this past Monday, May 16. 9806 Lieutenant-General Steve Lucas,(RMC ’73) who was born in Toronto and grew up in Winnipeg, succeeded 8565 Lieutenant-General Ken Pennie (RMC ’70) as the Commander of Air Command and Chief of the Air Staff. Lt.-Gen. Pennie had held this appointment since July 18, 2003, and is retiring after nearly 39 years of distinguished service to Canada. General Rick Hillier, Chief of the Defence Staff, presided over the transfer of leadership. |
A 50-person Honour Guard and Colour Party provided by 8 Wing Trenton, with music from the Canadian Forces Central Band and a Pipe Major from the Air Command Pipes and Drums. In recognition of Lt.-Gen. Pennie’s close affiliation with helicopters and Army aviation during his career, a flypast was carried out by four CH-146 Griffon Helicopters from 438 Squadron St. Hubert, 400 Squadron Borden, and 403 Squadron Gagetown. Press HERE for bio on; LIEUTENANT- GENERAL J.S. LUCAS, CMM, CD CHIEF OF THE AIR STAFF
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Ex Cadet, 11557
Colonel Christopher Shelley, 1 Wing Commander,
Posing with one of the
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Staff and students of
the Air Command Academy (ACA) at 16 Wing Borden gathered in Spooner
Hall on 12 April for a special presentation from 1 Wing Kingston.
Colonel Christopher Shelley, 1 Wing Commander, and Chief Warrant
Officer Jean-Guy Trudel, 1 Wing CWO, presented three large photos to
representatives of Griffon Flight, one of four Primary Leadership
Qualification training flights at the ACA. |
The photos will decorate with pride the walls of the Griffon Flight classroom at the ACA. The gift from 1 Wing was in response to a request issued to all Wing CWO’s to provide mementos to grace the hallways and classrooms of the Academy. 1 Wing has responded to this request several times and is a steadfast supporter of the important leadership training that junior NCM’s receive during their stay at 16 Wing Borden. |
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RMC Museum receives funding from Community Foundation of Greater Kingston. |
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On Wednesday May 11, 2005 the Community Foundation of Greater Kingston presented the RMC |
Club of Canada Foundation with a grant for $1,845, it will go directly towards the RMC Museum. In 2004 the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company donated $5,000 and the RMC Foundation contributed $10,000 from undesignated funds for a total of $16,845. More money is needed if the RMC Museum is to represent RMC with the excellence it deserves. Press HERE for more |
It’s
a National Treasure that needs upgrading if it is to represent past,
present and future cadets with the excellence they deserve. |
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I was delighted to hear that rugby was back in the college. I attended Royal Roads 1962 to 1964 and in 1964 was fortunate enough to play with the all star Victoria Crimson Tide I continued to play the game and now after 48 years achieving a level 2 coaches status and a level 1 referee, I am coaching under 16 boys in the Comox Valley. Last June, I organized a 40th reunion game at Royal Roads in Victoria between the Victoria Ebb Tide (over 40's) and a select Barbarian team including many ex Canada players like Hans DeGoede. The college was kind enough to sponsor us and help us get the game off to a good start. At 62, I will be attending the World Masters Games in Edmonton July 22 to 31and will play with a Barbarian Team (mixed guys) from Vancouver and the Island. 6998 Dennis Guelpa P.Eng. RMC ‘66 Civil Engineering |
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"Many Hands - make the burden light". « L’aide de plusieurs rend la tâche facile » S125 Bill & S134 Rolande Oliver |
| The eVERITAS electronic Newsletter reaches over 5,000 readers . It is a service provided by the RMC Club for Members in good standing with current addresses in the data base. It is designed to provide timely information on current events at RMC and to keep Members "connected". Occasionally, it will be distributed to non-members to entice them to join or renew their membership. Membership information is available at www.rmcclub.ca Newsworthy articles from national or local papers that may not have been available to the majority of our readers may be reproduced in e-VERITAS. We will also publish articles in either official language as submitted by Cadets and Staff, on "current life" at RMC. Other short “human interest stories" about Cadets, Ex-Cadets, Alumni and current and former Staff at the College will appear from time-to-time. Readers of e-VERITAS are encouraged to submit articles in either official language to william.oliver@rmc.ca. In particular, up-to-date “Where are they now?” articles on Ex-Cadets, Alumni and current and former Staff would be most welcome.
eVERITAS
is intended as a supplement and not a replacement of Veritas, the
highly popular magazine of the RMC Club printed and distributed three
times a year to Members by mail.
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Chaque édition du bulletin électronique e-VERITAS rejoint plus de 5,000 lecteurs. C’est un service fourni, par le Club des CMR, aux membres dont les adresses sont à jour dans notre base de données. Son but est de fournir des renseignements à point nommé sur les actualités au CMR et de garder en communication les membres du Club. Occasionnellement, il sera distribué aux membres qui ne sont plus en règle espérant qu’ils renouvelleront leur carte de membre annuelle ou qu’ils deviendront membres à vie. Les renseignements sur l’adhésion au Club sont disponibles au www.rmcclub.ca. Articles d’intérêt national ou local qui ne sont pas disponibles à la majorité de nos lecteurs seront reproduits dans e-VERITAS. Nous produirons aussi des articles dans l’une des deux langues officielles soumis par les élèves officiers et le personnel du Collège sur la vie actuelle au CMR. Nous offrirons de temps à autre de courtes anecdotes sur les élèves officiers, les Anciens et les membres du personnel d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. Nous encourageons les lecteurs de e-VERITAS à soumettre des articles dans l’une ou l’autre des deux langues officielles à Rolande.Oliver@rmc.ca. En particulier des articles récents sur « Où sont-ils présentement? » seraient grandement appréciés. e-VERITAS est un supplément et NON une substitution pour VERITAS la revue populaire du Club des CMR imprimée et distribuée aux membres en règle, par la poste, trois fois par année. |