What Ever Happened To ?

  7982 Lea Vachon                                                                                                                               The Review 1969                                                                                                                        Le Défilé      ...

  8104   David “Glen” Carruthers   Royal   Roads I was accepted for evaluation at Centralia and somehow passed the evaluation to attend Royal Roads. Wil Bush was my lower bunk mate. I had hoped to graduate Chemical Engineering. I was not a good swimmer when I arrived at Roads and had to attend swimming classes every night for several weeks. I found this really had a bearing on my studies, as I would get back from swimming, Wil would be done his kit and studying, whereas I had to start the routine. That time really affected my course load in studies. I failed Physics Mechanics (Honics we called it by Dr Hone), as did most of the cadets in his class. I wrote the second time and just missed passing the course. Looked like I would have to repeat the year. We went to Summer training in Centralia Ontario on radar systems and flight control. When I came up for evaluation by the review board, I had two choices, repeat the year, or get out of the service. I was prepared...

  7762 GD (Garth) Jonah                                                                         Born: Saint John, New Brunswick (1944). Married in 1971 to Mary McHarg, a Kingston girl that was my date on CanSerCol weekend in February 1967.   We are approaching our 53 rd wedding anniversary at the time of writing this document.   She graduated from the Kingston Psychiatric Hospital School of Nursing in 1970 and some of her classmates are/were married to 1969’ers. Currently living in Welland, Ontario where we moved to in 2017 to be closer to our son, Gregory, his wife, Heather and our grand daughters Lauren, Ashley and Taylor Pre-CMC Moves: Peterborough (1948), Toronto (1951), Hamilton (1955), Ottawa (1961), Winnipeg (1963), and Toronto (1964). Attended Royal Roads: 1964 – 1967 (the 3-y...

  8078                KIRK & MARIE-FRANCE THORNTON   Carr-Harris Cup 2024 1 Buckingham Court                                                                                       Kingston, Ontario                                                               ...

  7988 Gordon Burns Hamilton   Following graduation in civil engineering, I married Ann Clifford the day after grad parade. We have two sons – Sean and Ian. The summer of ’69 was spent in Chilliwack on the Young Officers course. My first posting in September ’69 was to the base engineering staff at 1 Division in Soest, Germany. The day that I was flying to my posting in Germany, the government announced huge cutbacks in the Canadian military (about 30%), including the closing of the army bases in Northern Germany (5000 personnel) where I was headed. It would take more than a year to close these bases, so I was at Soest for a year before they posted me to CFB Baden in the South. In Baden, I was in the base engineering staff, looking after maintenance, construction and airport firefighting (It was here that I became interested in airports).   Baden was a nuclear weapon base with CF104 strike aircraft. In 1972, I was posted to teaching post at RMC and completed a m...