“THE TELECOMMUNCIATIONS HALL OF FAME”
By Lorne Abugov
Sponsored by the Friends of the Communications Research Centre
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Commencing at 1:00 pm in the CRC Auditorium
Canada’s Telecommunications Hall of Fame is a national not-for-profit and charitable foundation to honour Canadian telecom leaders and to educate Canadians about the significance of telecommunications and Canadian technological achievements. Mr Abugov will speak to us about the goals and operation of the Telecommunications Hall of Fame and in particular its Laureate Program. His talk will include some videos concerning last year’s inductees in connection with which some CRC Friends were interviewed. Amongst the first inductees was Dr John Chapman, latterly ADM for Research, who sadly passed away while on a business trip in 1979. Dr Chapman’s wife Marian will be with us at our meeting. She will have with her Dr Chapman’s Hall of Fame award which she will be presenting to the Canada Science and Technology Museum as part of their permanent collection. It is anticipated that it will eventually be displayed, along with the other Dr Chapman awards, in the Building 74 lobby.
Mr Abugov, who at one time worked at DOC, is a partner with Osler, Hoskins & Harcourt LLP and the Founder of the Telecommunications Hall of Fame.
All Friends of CRC, their spouses and friends and employees at the Shirley’s Bay site are cordially invited.
FRIENDS OF CRC NEWSLETTER February 13, 2006.
Friends,
The draft version of the 2004/2005 Annual Report has been completed and corrections, omissions and additions are now being implemented, so it should soon be ready for final printing and distribution.
The new President of CRC is Dr. Veena Rawat.
At the last Board Meeting the newsletter was discussed to see how it could be made more interesting and informative. It was suggested that we start a new section, yet to be named, that would include names of web sites and the kind of information they contain. Many members use unique web sites to download information which many of us would find very useful. We are looking for members to send us this information so we could pass it along in the new column.
Another area which I would like to see addressed is one that would describe the work that is ongoing at CRC these days. I haven’t had the time to pursue this but if someone would volunteer to visit personnel working in various sections at CRC, and ask them to write a short description for the newsletter of the projects in their area. This could be ongoing and we would welcome the volunteer as a board member if they so desired.
Jim
Friends Web Site:
Stu McCormick says, with a lot of hard work the web site has been given a new look -- hopefully it will be easier on the eyes. As well, a new menu item has been added: Bits and Pieces. I n this section we intend to keep variouis interesting "bits and pieces" from DRTE's and CRC's past. Contributions from members will be greatly appreciated.
Future Events:
Thursday, February 23, 2006. “The Telecommunications Hall of Fame” presentation by Mr. Lorne Abugov, Partner, Osler, Hoskins & Harcourt LLP & Founder, Telecommunications Hall of Fame.
Dr. Chapman was one of the first to be inducted to the Hall of Fame. At this meeting, Mrs. Chapman will be presenting Dr. Chapman’s Hall of Fame Award to the Museum of Science and Technology. Please see the enclosed flyer for details.
Friends of CRC and their spouses are invited to meet with Mrs. Chapman and Mr. Abugov, who will be accompanied by his Associate Mr. Kris Robillard, and Dr. Veena Rawat, CRC President, in the CRC Private Dinning Room at 12:00 noon for our usual cafeteria lunch.
The following tour submitted by Hugh Reekie:
Here are details for the "repeat run" of the IEE-UK Cdn Lib & Arch audio tour. Space is available for some Friends. If oversubscribed, a repeat can be arranged.
A guided tour: The Music Studio, Library & Archives Canada
Date: Tues 28th February 2006 Time: 10.15 am
Place: Library and Archives Canada.
(Located west of Supreme Court. There is no adjacent parking. There is commercial parking on south side Wellington near Bay St, Cathedral).
Introduction: The tour includes a visit to the 33/45/78 rpm record review studio. Various sophisticated record players are used - one laser operated. The editing equipment will also be shown. Afterwards there will be a short tour of the sound archives, with rare old 78 rpm records. Our host is Gilles St Laurent. This is a repeat of the over-subscribed Jan 2006 IEE tour.
By reservation only - limited to 6 IEE members and 6 Friends of CRC.
Meet in the Library and archives lobby at 10.15 am; coat check available.
Tour ends about 11.30 am. An informal lunch at a nearby Bistro is optionally available after the tour.
By pre-registration only; reservations end 26 Feb. Contact Hugh Reekie 728-5343
max-com@allstream.net
Thursday, March 30, 2006. “Sovereignty and the Northwest Passage”, a presentation by Dr. George Hobson, formerly Director of the Continental Shelf Project in the then Department of Energy, Mines and Resources.
Thursday, April 27, 2006. Topic as yet to be determined. We have a number of interesting possibilities.
Thursday, April 20, 2006. “The annual luncheon of the Friends of CRC. We are hoping to get the Britannia Yach Club again this year with a price of less than $20.00 per person.
Watch for the next News letter for further details.
Hope to see all of the Friends out to celebrate the coming of spring in the Ottawa Valley.
Deaths:
We regret to report the death of Ron Cretchley, ex DRTE/EL. Graham Booth writes:
Ron Cretchley died on January 21st, 2006, at his home in High Wycombe in the United Kingdom at the age of 82 following a two year battle with cancer. After some years at DRTE/EL, Montreal Road, Ron returned to the U.K. in the late 1950’s. In his 2005 Christmas letter, Ron wrote that he had seen where he appeared in a poem about the history of the DRTE computer on the Friends’ Website. He wrote, and I quote, “we have a print-out of D.Florida, G.Lake, & Grant Duff, all of whom I remember well & with affection”. Those who remember Ron will recall that he had a philosophic turn of mind and a love of poetry. In order to share his poems, essays and daily thoughts, his wife Irene writes that their son set up a website appropriately titled www.thinkingpoet.co.uk. The family plan to continue to build the site. Those wishing to make a contribution to charity in commemoration of Ron’s life may send it to the funeral directors, Heritage & Sons, 33-35 Hill Avenue, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, U.K., HP6 5BX. Donations will be shared equally between the Children’s Society, the Salvation Army, VSO and Help the Aged.
Don Henderson and Brian Jones, both ex DRTE/EL, have also communicated with the news of Ron's passing.
That’s all for another month,
