Royal Military College of Canada - Review Yearbook (Kingston, Ontario Canada)

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CONTENTS Editorial . .,,, ,,.,. ,i . .... .A ..,, Hon. Paul T. Hellyer, Minister of National Defence Address to Convocation . ..,. .. H , Senior Class Biographies jack Mozell . , . or Sports Section Military Section c....., Graduation Parade Gordon Currie .ici . . Social Section as ..,., .. West Point Weekend . .. , Academic Section . ..c. ,. Prize winners and Scholarships i.., R.M.C. Club of Canada - Officers .... Births, Marriages and Deaths M , Old Brigade Dinner ,,...... C.M.G. .... . Commissioner Stuart Taylor Wood, Lieut. General john Carl Murchie Random Notes i..,...,ic, . ..,, ic,c ..,iii . Branch Club Reports ..i,.,..,.s.s...,.,,,s,i..i.........,.....ii. R.M.C. Club, Minutes of the Annual Meeting .,.,.i.. Trophies ,.., ......,. A 4, ri..,.,...,r..,.......,,.,.,.ri..,,,......... Athlone Fellowships A C .i.., Western Ex-Cadet Weekend ,.........,..,.,...,i.....,...,...... R.M.C. Club of Canada Foundation - Scholarship ..,... Our Advertisers . .,.,,....ir.ra..a.....i..,,,a.. ........,....,i..r....r.,.. .

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ADDRESS T 0 ON VOC A TI ON HONORARY GRADUATES, 1966 Q Left to Right: Col. W. R. Sawyer, Vice Commandant and Director of Studies, Dr. O. M. Solandt, the Honourable P. T. Hellyer, Chancellor and President, Dr. Gustave Lanctot, Vice Admiral H. G. DeWolf, Air Commodore L. J. Birchall, Commandant. ADDRESS TO CONVOCATION May 27, 1966 Dr. O. M. Solandt, OBE, MA, MD, DSC, LLD, MRCP, FRCS Dr. O. M. Solandt, born in Winnipeg in 1909, obtained his B.A. degree from the University of Toronto in 1931. Since that time, he has fashioned an outstanding career as a research scientist and plan- ner. In 1944 he became Superintendent of the Army Operational Research Group, after the war, in 1947, he became the first Chairman of the Defence Research Board, a post he relinquished in 1956. He has since held many responsible positions in the government service and in industry. This outstanding Canadian has received eight honorary degrees and numerous ADDRESS T0 Mr. Chancellor, Commandant, members of the staff, ladies and gentlemen: I am greatly honoured by your invitation to come to R.M.C. today to receive an honorary degree. I am doubly honoured by being given the opportunity to address you. I shall begin by expressing the most sincere thanks, both personally and on behalf of Admiral de Wolfe and Dr. Lanctot, for the honour that you have done us today. other awards in recognition of his accomplishments in research and scholarship and for his service to his country in both peace and war. He was a Governor of Sir George Williams University from 1957 to 1963 and is at present a Governor of the University of Toronto, being elected Chancellor of that university for the period 1965 to 1967. just prior to the delivering of the Convoca- tion Address, the Chancellor of R.M.C. announced the Prime Minister's appointment of Dr. Solandt as Chairman of the newly constituted Science Council CUNVOCA TION I was particularly pleased to be invited to receive a degree at R.M.C. because of my very high opinion of the past record and the present quality of the institution. It is a university of which all Canadians can well be proud. My pleasure today is completed by your choice of the other two honorary graduate s. Dr. Gustave Lanctot is a young man of 83 years who has had several careers. He is known to many as a former Dominion Archivist, but will probably be