What Ever Happened To ?

  8027 Ron Dickenson 1969 Review         Military After grad I was posted to 1 RCR London, where my first position was Infantry platoon commander. We first spent the summer on the Petawawa plains training Militia units (my trainees won the top regiment award). In 1970 we spent seven months under UNFICYP on peacekeeping duties. Days after repatriation to Canada we were called out to Quebec for the FLQ crisis (the wives were not happy.)   In Jan 1973 in Edmonton I took my second parachutist course where I seriously injured my lower back and right hip during the ground phase of training. Being young, physically fit, determined and heeding Chief Pitt’s advice “Shit or Bust, gentlemen,” I completed the course, with my “Wings” and a total of eleven certified jumps.   In March my pain became so unmanageable, I was taken to London veterans’ hospital, where they found I had ruptured two discs in my lower back on the course. Immediate surgery fol...

  8052  GEORGE MADAY 1969 Review 1969 - 1973 - Posted to 1 st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, - Wolseley Barracks, London, Ontario - Rifle company Platoon commander - CFB Rivers, Manitoba – Parachute wings - Cyprus. UN peacekeeping tour on the Green Line - Ottawa – FLQ Crisis - Battalion HQ - Petawawa - ADC to Brigade Commander, BGen SV Radley Walters - Promoted to Captain - London - Reconnaissance Platoon commander - Baden Soellingen - Germany – 3 Mech Commando, Canadian Airborne Regiment     * Rifle Platoon and Anti-Tank Platoon commander - Paris - at the French Open when the Tupolev crashed in June ‘73   1973 – 1980 - Ottawa - Commerce Officer, Department of Industry Trade and Commerce.  Worked for two ADM’s. - Ottawa - President, RMC Ex Cadet Club – Ottawa Branch. Member of National Committee,   * Hosted Governor General Ed Schreyer at the annual Ottawa Branch Mess Dinner - Ottawa - Son, Michael born in 1979 - Yukon – Climbed to summit of...

  8185   William (Bill) St Jean    1969  Review                 Military Life Joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1965 under the Regular Officer Training Plan and after two years at Royal Roads later graduated from Royal Military College in Kingston, in 19 69 with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree. Married right after Grad to Christine MacKay from Belleville and later while in Winnipeg we were blessed with two sons Scott (1974) and Brad (1975). Throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s I held a wide variety of air force operational and staff appointments in the aerospace engineering and maintenance environment. These tours of duty included management responsibilities for flight line servicing, base level maintenance inspection and repair, weapon system management and airworthiness of a variety of military aircraft including transports, fighters and helicopters. My military career was co...

  8069 WJ (Warwick/Jack) Reid Jack, Bob Morton, Dennis Dart May 1968 – Left RMC after third year leaving behind a disappointed Major and two crushed members of the ‘Gold Line’ (Mort and Pole) “we could have been contenders”.  1968 – Returned to parent’s house in Penticton BC and to my high school sweetheart – Lyn Riley Fall 1968 – Began third year of Mechanical Engineering at University of British Columbia and become a member of the UBC Thunderbirds Junior Varsity team hockey.   Once again Fluid Mechanics and Hockey does me in! Summer 69 - I returned to Penticton and began working as a surveyor at Brenda Mines (note, I was the only sup writer in Surveying in 2nd Year) laying out concrete pipe for the tailings pond at the mine. Fall 69 - I wisely remuster to Physical Education. November of 70 – I married Lyn Riley -My friends have told me several times – marrying Lyn – was by far and away the best decision I ever made. 1971- Become a member of the UBC Thunderbi...

  8145 Kenneth (Ken) B. LAIT   1969  Review     Ottawa ON - Executive Director - Naval Association of Canada 2010 – 2017 ·          responsible nationally for o    oversight of 13 branches across Canada o    production of Starshell, a quarterly magazine o    membership database o    Honors and Awards o    rewrite of bylaws and administrative guidance to comply with new CRA and Industry Canada rules and regulations for non-profit organizations   Ottawa ON - Team Leader, Directorate of Quality of Life (2002 – 2006) ·          formulated advice for the CDS and MND and provided counsel to the ADM (Human Resources – Military) and the ADM (Infrastructure and Environment) for the development of the Designated Residence Interim Guidance, the Functional Accommodation Standards Guidance and the Accommodati...