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2857 Thomson MOG 2862 Franklin H 2880 Mills EM (Ted) 2898 Ironside RA (Robbie) 2899 Ferguson WB (Bill) 2908 Pickering Alan (Al) 2919 Simpson RE (Bob) 2935 McPherson DB (Dave) 2936 Bone RM (Dick) 2940 Botly Phil 2944 Reid Jon D (Speed) 2950 MacLachlan JR(Big John) 2974 Jones RG (Glenn) 3004 Dowsley JJ (John) 3015 Adams Robert J (Bob) 3019 Boyd Bruce Howard 3021 Burry James C 3026 Conrad WL (Walt) 3028 Day RF (Dick) 3031 Denman Robin (Denny) 3032 Derrick AS (Alan) 3035 Donahue JJ (Jerry) 3036 Dowsley BP (Tad) 3039 Engman TE (Ted) 3045 Furter WF (Bill) 3046 Gagnon Yves 3049 Gilbert FND (Fred) 3053 Green DB (Don) 3055 Hampson A (Tony) 3056 Hercus BB) 3057 Hull R (Rodney) 3058 Hunter Peter W 3059 Joyce FJ (Fred) 3061 Kaduck RM (Ray) 3062 Kear AR (Allen) 3067 Lafrance JJE (Jules) 3069 McColl William (Bill) 3071 McLellan A (Al) 3075 Morewood HW (Harry) 3076 Mundell DE (Ned) 3078 Murray Walter C (Walt) 3079 Palmer J (Jim) 3080 Preville P (Paul) 3081 Price Peter Malcolm (Pete) 3082 Quinn C 3085 Rice EJ (Woody) 30879 Roe Ronald V (Ron) 3088 Ross FE (Fred) 3095 Tetreault Jean 3097 Thomson JAG (Garth) 3100 Ward Peter 3104 Zatychec W (Bill) 3106 Armstrong WB (Bill) 3108 Beemer Arthur (Art) 3109 Bigelow RS (Bob) 3110 Black Russ 3111 Bohne RR (Dick) 3112 Campbell JD (Soupy) 3113 Campbell JM (Scotty) 3114 Chalmers JD (Dave) 3115 Clark JN (Tony) 3116 Cressey Norman E (Norm) 3117 Cumming AR (Allen) 3118 Dillistone E G (Dilly) 3119 Dzioba LA (Larry) 3121 Ernst VG (Gary) 3122 Fitzpatrick James E (Fitz) 3123 Foreman Edward G (Ted) 3125 Gibbons A (Bob) 3129 Gross RD (Bob) 3133 Houston RM (Rod) 3134 Hudson JR (John) 3135 Jefferies John R (Jeff) 3137 Keen RD (Ralph) 3138 Kerr Norman S (Nails) 3139 Kolber TS (Ted) 3142 Lambert Marshall 3145 Lundlie Marshall O 3146 McCrimmon KG (Ken) 3150 McMillan KW (Ken) 3155 Miller DS (Dusty) 3156 Morris Norman D (Norm) 3157 Orme RC (Bob) 3163 Rowse AW (Art) 3164 Ruck Paul George (PG)) 3165 Rundle JR (John) 3168 Simmons TG (Tom) 3169 Smallwood Joseph W Bill) 3171 Sosnkowski Joseph (Joe) 3172 Soule Marshall M (Marc) 3173 Stewart JA (Stew) 3174 Traves PJ (Pete) 3178 Walker Keith W) 3179 White AJ (Morley) 3180 Whitworth Brian 3181 Willsher JM (John) 3182 Young JD (Derrick) 3184 Bolger LF (Len) Devooght OV (Val) McConnell Fred |
2857 Thomson MOG (Mog) Murray Thomson was born in Victoria, BC, grew up in Glengarry County, Ontario and entered RMC in 1948 as one of the New One Hundred. After graduation, I took off to Europe, and in France received an offer to take a yacht back to the Caribbean. After this momentous trip, I began as a reporter at The Standard in St Catharines, Ontario. In 1980, I was appointed Managing Editor of The Standard. When I took over, it was said that the paper "was a little parochial, more cracks-in-the-sidewalk coverage". I tried to change the paper's approach to reporting, making it more investigative and trying to change policies which did not seem to be in the interest of the citizens. Obviously, I met with some success during my 14 years as Managing Editor; at my retirement party in January 1994, my successor said about the paper: "He transformed this thing through the '80s, single-handedly, without any kind of assistance from any direction. He really changed its complexion and its meaning." Outside the newsroom, I was a Wolf Cub leader, and taught Junior Achievers about newspapers. I married Helen in St Catharines and we have three children: Murray Jr, Jennie and Sarah. We now live in a one hundred and seventy-something- year old Mennonite farmhouse in Niagara horse and wine country. The house, three acres of trees, grass and garden volunteering, and (for my part) advising on the birth of a weekly newspaper make up the present. 2862 Franklin H (Hugh) After graduating from RMC in 1953, I completed the Bsc (Mech Eng)at U of Toronto. (Followed by a BSc from RMC in 1994..a party that will be remembered for a long time!) My trail:
2880 Mills, EM (Ted) Personal:Age:67, Retired Married to Judy . Four offspring (all married) Seven grandchildren Interests: hiking, skiing, canoeing, travel
Born at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan 23 April 1930.
On 24 Oct 1997 Bill died of heart failure. He had fought a long and valiant campaign against cancer complicated by asthma and diabetes and a quintuple heart bypass two years before. Bill was born in Saskatoon in 1928 and moved to London, Ont where he received his primary and secondary school education. Bill began the first of three careers when he enlisted as a cadet in the Middlesex and Huron Regt and then joined The Royal Canadian Signals in 1946.One of his instructors was S/Sgt Fred McConnell (later a member of the RMC staff) who encouraged Bill to apply for RMC. "Goos"(as he was affectionately known then) joined the RMC with the New One Hundred in 1948.He was one of only three serving soldiers to enter the College and as such was considered to be wise and experienced by the raw recruits. He entered the general course and played varsity football and volleyball during his first two years. A serious knee injury precluded further active participation but his love of football led him into a new career as the announcer for all the games and as the assistant coach of the junior football team. Tea was always available at Goos's canteen and the world's problems were sorted out many times. He spent his first summer with Signals and then switched to the RCAC. Goos enjoyed life at the College so much that he chose to spend an extra year and graduated with the Class of '53. Bill was commissioned in the Lord Strathcona's Horse and posted to Korea where he spent a year along with many of his classmates. On return to Canada he held several regimental appointments in Calgary. He left the Services in 1957 to return to Western U, graduating with a BA in 1959. Bill's second career began when he joined the City of London as a planner in 1958. He subsequently worked in Sarnia and with Municipal Planning Consultants and Totten, Sims, Hubicki during the '60s and early '70s where he founded and was Director of the Planning Department. During this period, Bill was preparing for his third and certainly most rewarding career with the Church. He took courses at the U of Toronto in theology and was ordained in the Anglican Church in 1967. Reverend Bill served in parishes in the dioceses of Toronto, Edmonton and Cariboo. He was also National Director of SOMA (Sharing of Ministries Abroad) with short term missions to Korea(2), Japan(2), Burma(2), Sabah, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kenya(3) and Nigeria. He retired from the Church in 1988, but not from an active life in new directions. Bill went back to municipal planning with Totten Sims in 1989 and in 1993 formed his own consulting firm in the same field. He also continued his missionary work with the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church and undertook a further mission with Elizabeth to Tunisia in 1995. Bill was married to Elizabeth Anne (MacDonald), his friend and partner in all endeavours, on 3 June 1953. They have three children, Elizabeth married to Peter Regan with four daughters, Mark, married to Anne with two sons and Joel married to Joanne. "Grampie" took particular interest in his grandchildren and will be greatly missed them. He had been a great supporter of the Ex-Cadet club and the College. He served as Associate Chaplain of the Club from '73 to '82 and as Chaplain from then to the present. Although in considerable pain, he insisted on conducting the Service at the Arch for the last Weekend in October 1996. Bill particularly enjoyed the lunches with theKingston Nine (nine local members of the Class of '53) and had great fun concocting part of the half time entertainment for our last reunion. We will miss his presence and opening prayer and will keep a place at the table for him. The funeral was held at the Alliance Church in Kingston. An overflow crowd attended from his family, business, Church, ex-cadets, and friends, including the President and Executive Director of the Club and the Class President of the Class of '53. Six cadets were pallbearers and a piper was present to play a lament. The honourary pallbearers were from the Classes of '52 and '53. The final hymn was "Onward Christian Soldiers" which raised the rafters of the Church. The Review at his graduation noted that he would be a success in his chosen field. He was a success in all of them and it is fitting that it was in the church and his missionary work that his empathy and compassion were best used to serve humanity. "Well done thou good and faithful servant Enter into the joy of the Lord." |
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