In 1985 he left the Press Gallery and formed a communications training company, teaching executives how to speak to the media, or testify before regulatory bodies. That company is now in the hands of son Tim, who lives just outside Washington D.C.

Peter is semi-retired, golfing, doing the Ottawa Citizen's wine column, and happily working cheap overtime tasting wine. It's a terrible thing when your kids turn 40 -- the age you still think you are. (Ed note: You are only as old as you think you are!)

3104 Zatychec, W (Bill)
Graduating from RMC im 1953 and Queen's in 1 954 with a B Sc. In Electrical Engineering, he joined the Regular Force and was soon posted to North Bay as a CF- 100 pilot until his release m 1957. He married in 1956 and became the father of four. The daughters Carrie and Laurie, achieved a commission in the Navy Reserve. The surviving twin son, Paul, graduated from RMC in 1983.

He held technical positions with Honeywell, Grumman Aircraft and Leigh Instruments. These involved development and flight test programs in aircraft avionics, automatic flight control systems and crash positioning systems on the Avro Arrow, F- 104G, and C5A. He held technical management positions related to the spacecraft stabilization and control systems on the Apollo, Manned Orbiting Laboratory and Orbiting Astronomical Observatory programs.

He joined Telesat Canada in 1969 and as Manager, Spacecraft Group, he managed the acquisition and launch programs for the initial Anik A series spacecraft and Delta launch services. This was followed by the Anik B, C, and D series spacecraft programs which also included defining and implementing the system for launching spacecraft on the NASA Shuttle. He directed the launch of the first seven satellites, two of which were on the Shuttle. He held the position of Director, Satellite Systems Division until 1984.

He then formed Ins own company, W. Zatychec and Associates Ltd. to offer project management services. He acted as Project Manager for AES, Environment Canad to upgrade and develop ice reconnaissance systems using Electra, Dash-7, and Challenger aircraft. This included SLAR and Synthetic A Radar, and systems to compress and store radar data, downlink to special satellite earth stations and relay the radar image data via Anik satellite to the Ottawa Ice Centre prior to landing. Other assignments included providing assistance to DND related to the Space Based Radar project, and CF- 18 engine test cell facility upgrade.

He retired in 1994 with his wife, Jean, to a rural home in Greely, just minutes south of Ottawa.

3106 Armstrong, WB (Army)
Following graduation in 1954, I spent short tours in Trenton, Winnipeg and Gander. While I was stationed in Gander, I took a short leave in Montreal where on the 30th of June in 1956, I married a Queen's graduate named Marion Roberts whom I had met in 1953 at a dance in Kingston. After Gander we went to Vancouver where our oldest son was born and then to Comox where the second son was came along .In 1961 I returned to Trenton where the two youngest (and last, both males) joined us and where I left the good life on Air Force stations to become a bureaucrat at Air Transport Command Headquarters. I didn't know it then, but I was to remain a bureaucrat for the rest of my working life.

The final part of my military career involved two tours at the various manifestations of national headquarters (AFHQ, NDHQ, AMC.ETC), one at Air Defence Command Headquarters and one in Germany. I returned to Ottawa in 1978 ostensibly for another tour in the national Headquarters, my third. I had by this time been a senior officer (major and LCol) for the better part of 13 years and it was becoming obvious that I was not terribly good at it. I therefore decided to retire from military service which I did on 8th of December in 1979.

After military service, I joined the naval procurement directorate and spent 11 years as a civilian project officer on various small and medium sized capital procurement projects. These were interesting times which, for most of the time, were quite enjoyable. By the middle of 1990, many of the original staff had left and it was clear that a major re-organization was imminent. In addition, since I had taken up cross-country skiing, hiking and cycling, having to go to work five days a week was interfering with these pursuits. I therefore decided that I would not continue past my 60th birthday which was 29 May 1991. Fortunately, this coincided with the first of the major downsizing programs.

The past eight years have been generally leisurely and for the most part very interesting. Marion and I have hiked the Cotswolds, the Norfolk coast, Offa's dike and Peddar's Way paths in U.K. On this side of the ocean we have done the Rideau Trail, about 150 Km of the Appalachian Trail and many trails in Gatineau Park. We have also enjoyed excellent cross country skiing in various parts of Ontario, Quebec and northern New England. I have cycled almost across Canada (Vancouver-St.John's), in Ireland, Cuba and around Lake Ontario. At this point I would like to thank all of you around the country who pay taxes to support the many excellent hiking, skiing and cycling trails in the Ottawa area, but never get to use them !

We have enjoyed visiting our sons and only grandson in various locations around the country, but mainly in Winnipeg where the two oldest live. One is an engineer working for a steel company and one a senior director in the Manitoba Workman's Compensation headquarters (and the father of the only grandchild). The two youngest have settled in Ottawa, one works for a transportation firm and the other is on a leave of absence to complete a masters in health administration.

3108 Beemer, Arthur (Art)
After my first overseas military posting in Korea, I got my Mechanical Engineering degree at Queens and started my Signals Army life. I was lucky to serve in Kingston, Borden, and Ottawa in Ontario; Gagetown, New Brunswick and St. Hubert, Quebec. My family was with me in Soest, Germany; Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; and our daughters visited us in Brunssum The Netherlands.

After my final two years in Ottawa, I retired to Kingston, where I have dabbled in preparation of training manuals on contract for the military; Frequency Spectrum Management work with a small company that got me a trip to China; and Income Tax Preparation which occupies my spare time each spring as a Volunteer.

Our eldest daughter, Barbara, is a Defence Scientist at DREO. She and husband Glen Ford, in Kanata, have two very busy daughters. Sandra, our other daughter is a busy, stay at home mom She and husband Don McLauchlan, in Oakville, have a son who never stops, and a very delightful four year old daughter. Janet and I are enjoying spending our savings, visiting our grandkids, and travelling, as well as golf, curling, bowling, bridge, or whatever pleases us at any one time.

3109 Bigelow, R. S. (Bob)
1953-63 -graduated from RMC in 1953

• married Myrtle Hantke, from Victoria, B. C.
• three children, Thomas, William & Ronald.
• qualified as a Chartered Accountant articling with Price Waterhouse & Co. Toronto.
• moved to B.C. & completed the UBC program leading to a secondary school teaching. certificate.
• taught one year in North Vancouver, B.C.
• moved to Cobourg, Ontario. 1963-73 -taught in Cobourg Collegiate for four years.
• moved to London, Ontario & taught at Fanshawe College. moved to the Niagara Peninsula and became Treasurer of the newly opened, Niagara College of Applied Arts & Technology. 1973-83 -Returned to teaching and moved to Burlington, Ont., where I taught at Nelson High School as an employee of the Halton Board of Education. 1983-93 -While still a teacher with Halton Board of Education, took a two year leave of absence to teach at the Gulf Polytechnic on the island of Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf. This island Kingdom lies just off the East coast of Saudi Arabia but within sight of the mainland.
• Returned to Burlington & taught until 1988 when I took early retirement.
• Obtained my stockbrokers licence & worked with Midland Doherty, Brokers until they closed their Hamilton office & merged with Midland Walwyn, Brokers. 1993-98 -Obtained the X drivers licence. This entitled me to drive a truck up to tractor-trailer size. Obtained employment with Schneider National Carriers and began a career as a long distance 18-wheel truck driver. This lasted for about six months and was interrupted by winter with all its driving hazards and discomforts.
• Settled down to a life of rose-growing, gardening, computing, travelling, watching sports activities on TV & generally enjoying the good life.

3110 Black, Russ
After RMC, the first priority was to complete Civil engineering and University of Toronto provided my B.A.Sc. Great years on heavy construction projects followed; the Trent Canal, an uranium mine at Elliot Lake, an alumina plant in Jamaica, a hydroelectric generating station on the Nelson river, a subway project in Toronto, an iron ore dock at Sept Iles. During this time there were two events of note; first I met Audrey on the Nelson river and we were married in Winnipeg. Second, legal interpretations of heavy construction contracts were frustrating so Audrey and I went to Queens where I obtained an L.L.B. and was called to the Ontario Bar.

A year in the Head Office of a large construction company was not to my liking. But this time daughter Susan had arrived and we three changed direction moving to Muskoka where I joined a general law practice. Next year Amelia arrived completing our family. Muskoka provided the background for a family lifestyle which the four of us enjoyed together. My law practice increasingly focused on municipal law. For more than a dozen years I was a full time bureaucrat as Solicitor for the District Municipality before returning to private law practice.

Having been critical of politicians for 30 years, I got together with six other ratepayers and we all ran for town council. Thus for a three year term I was Mayor of Bracebridge. We had an agenda. We accomplished it. I walked away. My law office is now closed but I continue to act as a 'junior' lawyer for Susan's husband Bill in his law practice. Amelia, our computer expert is upgrading her father so he can go on line.

Audrey and I now reside on Eilean Gowan in the middle of Lake Muskoka, a 350 acre island in the centre of which is a 260 acre nature reserve. Being a director of the Muskoka Heritage Foundation, I keep a custodial watch over the nature reserve. (Sounds like Valhalla, Russ. Ed)