National NEWSLETTER - Web Edition |
September 2006 |
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In Memoriam
HKVA
Geoffrey Marston, C66584, RRC died March 8, 2006
Maurice LaPointe, H6677, WG, died March 30, 2006
James Guthrie, E-29911, RRC, died April 10, 2006
Lionel Speller, K-83926, R.C.C.S died April 30, 2006
Jack Rose, K-34771, R.C.C.S, died May 18, 2006
Frederick Ryman, H6790, WG died May 29, 2006
Robert Jim Fleming, B38364,RRC, died June 07, 2006
Alfred Wagner, H77520, WG died July 11, 2006
Joseph N. LeBlanc, F-40741, RRC, died July 12, 2006
Peter Anthony Gelley, H6323, WG died August 3rd 2006
Bert Worthington, longtime friend of the HKVA died April 10, 2006
Edison Yeadon, QC Honorary Member, died May 10, 2006
HKVCA
Violet Mitchell wife of James Mitchell died in 2002
Margaret (Peggy) Wright wife of Stanley Wright RRC
Myrtle Inche, widow of Kenneth Inche, died May 2004
Aini Dissing, widow of Eric Dissing, died April 28, 2005
Pauline Sweet, widow of Royce 'Bud' Sweet, RRC died February 18, 2006
Margaret Trasiewick widow of Joseph F. Trasiewick, died March 30, 2006.
Carol Michelin, granddaughter of HKV Elmer Cole died May 31, 2006
Mary Hall, widow of William Hall, WG, is deceased
Bernadetta (Bea) Wilson, wife of Dick Wilson, WG died June 15, 2006
Rita T. Burton, widow of Keith Burton, died on July 7, 2006
Rhona Muir, wife of William (Bill) Muir (WG), died on July 13, 2006
Our thoughts and prayers are extended to all the families and friends as
we share in your grief.
We will remember them.
Membership Report - Jim Trick
If
you're reading this newsletter, chances are you are already a member of
HKVCA. As National Membership representative, I'd like to ask you a
favour. In the next month or two, could you find someone who has not
heard about us and what we do, and see if they would be willing to
become a member? Given who we are, that someone will probably be an
offspring of a Hong Kong vet, or perhaps a member of the younger
generation. Unlike many organizations, we have a finite group from which
to draw, and we know that many descendents of the Hong Kong vets do not
know of our existence. Anything that you can do to spread the word would
help.
Why not start by giving that someone this newsletter to read when you're
done with it.
Membership Report for July 06
| Regular | Veterans | Widows | Total | |
| Al/Sask | 60 | 15 | 13 | 88 |
| Atl | 92 | 3 | 6 | 101 |
| BC | 78 | 24 | 45 | 147 |
| MB | 188 | 29 | 72 | 289 |
| ON | 126 | 36 | 61 | 223 |
| QC | 73 | 34 | 67 | 174 |
| TOTAL | 617 | 141 | 264 | 1022 |
Editor: Sandi Cameron of Ontario Region has submitted the following item
as it was an important philosophy of her Father’s life.
YOUTH
By: Sanyek Ullman
‘Dad’s Philosophy for Living’
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter
of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a
quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness
of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of
the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a
man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by living a
number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Worry, fear, self-doubt bows the heart and turns the spirit back to
dust.
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart, the lure of
wonder, the unfailing child-like curiosity of what’s next, and the joy
of the game of living. In the centre of your heart and mine, there is a
wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer
and courage, you are young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with the snows of
cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you have grown old, even at 20.
But so long as your aerials are up, to catch the optimism, there is hope
you may die young at 90.